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Baby Mikaelson
Chapter Twenty One - The Attention of Two Women
Caroline Forbes P.O.V
The decision to go away for a few weeks had not exactly been an easy one. Rebekah and I had sat beneath our shared blanket and continued to watch Pretty Woman for the rest of the morning. At noon I had cleared up our soup bowls and plate of breadcrumbs and to my surprise Rebekah offered to make us some lunch. It was a sight for sure, the both of us working together, not a lot of conversation but no longer feeling awkward with the other.
We spent the rest of the day together, no make up, no barriers and nothing but the truth.
I didn't know what I expected by inviting Rebekah here but I didn't regret my decision to reach out to her. I was so worried there would be awkward silences, uncomfortable subjects she wouldn't be sensitive about but none of that was the case at all.
In fact Rebekah had been the first person to open up, we continued with my Julia Robert's DVD collection and as it played in the background at a comfortable volume for us to talk Rebekah began to share with me.
She had been seeing someone, he was a hybrid and his name was Jake. She had been seeing him up until a few days ago when she broke up with him. The second I heard the name I knew exactly who she was talking about. There were only a few hybrids, I didn't know them all but if Rebekah had been dating one then he had to have lived close enough to Mystic Falls. It had to be the guy who was planning to help Elena by donating his sperm in the future.
I brought a heavy blanket out from the linen closet out in the hall and brought it around both mine and Rebekah's legs before I began to confess the truth of Jake's actions.
Rebekah took the news surprisingly well, she told me she and Jake had been a bit serious at the time of their break up and she was rather surprised he had gone behind her back. She was more than a little surprised, we went back to watching the film for a little while before she found she was ready to talk about it again. She liked Jake and now knowing the truth she felt better about the break up. Of course Rebekah being Rebekah didn't say it like that word for word.
She had a few choice things to say about Elena and I didn't confront her over one single comment she had to say about her. I gave Rebekah the floor for a good thirty minutes on that particular shocking and sore subject.
I knew Rebekah was responsible for Elena's transformation into a vampire there was no argument but still, I wasn't about to let one sad subject make up for all the horrible acts of Elena Gilbert's life before and after she became a vampire.
When Rebekah had asked me point blank:
"Do you hate Elena?"
I looked her in the eye and I nodded my head without thought of judgement of myself. I had kept silent for so long that it felt good to have someone on my side who saw this girl as she was and I didn't have to pretend I was alright with her actions. I didn't see Rebekah and I ever hugging each other, wiping each other's tears or laughing over some cheesy movie. That was never ever going to be us and that was ok, I was ready for that next level, we weren't friends we were sisters.
As Rebekah had continued to talk about Elena and Jake I had sat comfortable watching her knowing as cheesy and cringey as it may sound, I didn't care, I was her sister now.
The decision to leave Mystic Falls for a while had been mine.
I told Rebekah about my mum's move and how I felt stronger away from the town like I did in Vegas. Rebekah said what we needed was white sands and I agreed.
We didn't pack a thing, Rebekah had her passport still in her bag from Vegas and I grabbed mine along with my jacket and nothing more.
Rebekah knew a place we could go, it was a hotel with private villas along the beach, you could walk from your private deck right down to the water. I couldn't imagine anywhere I'd rather be so we left the house fairly quickly.
On our first day, both of us slept until noon. We have arrived in the middle of the night, we were shown to our villa and we both crashed out onto the first sofa we could find, not even having the strength to go find one of our five bedrooms.
I was the first to wake up, I ordered us room service which consisted of strong coffee, two tropical fruit juices, two omelettes and a side of toast.
We both ate ugly, we agreed zero judgements, we were so hungry.
After that we went shopping, just a few comfortable clothes for the first couple of days, no designer stores at all. We wanted cotton and we wanted comfort.
Rebekah called home that night, she called Elijah right before our room service dinner arrived. She told him where we were and that we were there together, no one was allowed to visit, when asked how long we planned to stay here Rebekah had looked my way and with a soft smile from her to me she told Elijah it would be a few weeks at least.
Then before we knew it four weeks had gone by like it was nothing. Every morning we ate breakfast together, did our own thing for the next few hours and then come noon we would sit down together at the beach and we would talk.
Rebekah was very honest about how she felt I was around my friends, she shared with me her thoughts on my weaknesses, she was open about the way I was when I was around Elena alone, how deep down Elena may have come across as even bullying me at times. We might be immortal and beyond our years in maturity but bullying can happen to anyone-anytime and any age.
Whenever we talked about Elena and me, it made me cry, but not from sadness about the way our friendship use to be and all the good times but the reality of it. Rebekah never comforted me, she did what I asked her to do, whenever I cried she would look out at the water and she wouldn't look at me until I calmed down again. Childish? Maybe. But it worked for me and my personality.
Day by day Rebekah was teaching me more, it didn't feel like lessons, it didn't feel like work and none of it once hurt my feelings. Rebekah paid more attention then people gave her credit for, she had saw the damaging effect Elena had on all of her friends.
The most important lesson she taught me one day was Elena's reactions. Rebekah explained Elena had her arsenal and when confronted she would use the following excuses. She was a new vampire, she had no control of her emotions, how could she control her feelings when we never ever ever ever ever ever knew how she felt about anything, ever. She would remind everyone that she didn't want to lose anyone, which Rebekah pointed out is true, no one ever wants to lose anyone but we cant allow our feelings to take control over others. As Rebekah pointed out to me...
If Tyler had wanted to leave Mystic Falls and you told him you didn't want him to leave. Would he stay?
Then
If Tyler wanted to leave Mystic Falls and Elena had told him she didn't want him to go because she would be so worried about him and she didn't want to lose him.
Who would Tyler have listened to?
Rebekah explained that when we finally returned to Mystic Falls it was up to me how I handled my life from there. She even told me that we could even go back to the way things were before, she was giving me the choice. She told me everything that happened next was up to me and no one else.
I appreciated that because the idea of returning to Mystic Falls wasn't top of my list right now. But I knew one thing, something I held back from Rebekah.
I missed Klaus.
It had been four weeks and he hadn't called once.
It only left me wondering what else could have his attention back home?
Elena Gilbert P.O.V
"Ah, yeah uhhmmhhh, oh god" I moaned into his ear before kissing his earlobe and running my tongue across it.
Klaus kept his face buried in my neck, his groans made my bare chest tremble against his.
My eyes were shut beneath the white blind fold we'd made up from a pillow case. It didn't matter that I couldn't see him, my imagination was working just fine.
When he collapsed down on top of me I chuckled at the weight of him, though my smile quickly disappeared when I felt the tug on my blind fold removing it. Bringing me back to reality and the sickness I had allowed into me yet again.
Damon smiled down at me and brought his lips against mine.
"Didn't beg you for the blind fold type" He said removing it fully from my eyes just as removed himself from me.
I brought my hands beneath the covers so he wouldn't see them trembling.
I watched Damon walk to the bathroom and disappear from my sight.
He had no idea what had just happened. He had made love to me but I didn't make love to him. I had sex with Klaus.
When Damon and I made love it felt different, there was affection, no barriers just pure intimacy.
But today, I insisted he blind fold me and in doing so my imagination had taken over.
I'd never even had a sex dream about Klaus before and yet, the second the blind fold went on I had become an entirely different person, the type of girl who has sex with someone she hates.
Why did it have to be Klaus? Why not Shane?
I mean did this mean I was more attracted to Klaus than I was to Shane?
The second I heard myself, I felt myself ready to vomit, I had to sit upright immediately. I looked around the room, our clothes were everywhere and not for the first time I knew that. But there was something different about me, I didn't feel like myself, I didn't even like the smell of me right now.
I could not be attracted to Klaus Mikaelson. It was simply impossible.
But the idea of him liking Caroline didn't sit right with me, for the last few weeks, she's been out of town helping her mum with a few things and no one had heard from her since. She had been gone and since she had I had saw Klaus around town, sometimes with his brothers sometimes without, but every time I did he looked grumpy, which wasn't out of the ordinary for him I mean come on he was Klaus. He made espresso nervous.
So maybe I was a little jealous of Caroline, just a little bit but that was normal in all friendships. But because it was Caroline it just felt different, all my life she seemed to get things that I wanted. She ran so many of the charities that my mum had told me time and time again she wanted to see me run. Caroline didn't care about that of course, she still had her mum so she didn't understand the pain of not being able to follow my mum's wishes. She was gone and I was still here disappointing her.
Klaus saw Caroline the way most guys around town did, she was beautiful, smart and sometimes she was an amazing person. But sometimes she wouldn't think things through, she wouldn't think of others feelings before she spoke and sometimes she'd think you didn't see it but she'd be giving you such dirt looks. Klaus didn't see all of this, I could probably count a handful of times Klaus has seen her and every single time she's been all down up and hiding all those little flaws that really got under your skin.
Maybe it was time I admit to myself that despite everything he had done to make my life miserable and those I love. I believe there was a small part of me that was attracted to Klaus. Was it only physically?
...maybe not anymore.
Damon returned from the bathroom then freshly showered, a black towel wrapped low around his hips, he climbed back into bed with me, sliding me under him as we kissed. I brought my hands into his hair as his hands found their way to my thighs.
We stopped and I smiled up at him before I looked to the side and reached for the pillow case blind fold once again.
Klaus Mikaelson P.O.V
It was just after nine that night as I made my way out of The Grill and across the town square, listening to the gentle hum of the streets lights as I made my way towards my car. I paused when I reached the bench I had sat on with Caroline and I sighed, bringing my phone out from the inner pocket of my jacket. I brought the phone up to my ear and waited.
"Hi" Caroline answered on the forth ring.
I sat down on the bench at the sound of her voice and a smile formed across my lips beyond my control.
"Hello love"
A comfortable silence drifted between us, as a soft wind past through the tree above my head rustling the branches ever so slightly.
"How are you?" I asked
"I'm sitting on a beach watching a roaring fire, I can't imagine life getting any better"
"Are you alone?"
"Not anymore" She said softly.
"I miss you" Caroline broke the silence that followed
I closed my eyes feeling a tightening in my chest, sometimes I forgot how innocent she was and how easily she find her way to her heart, like a road map was left out for her.
"I think you know where to find me, love"
I got up from the bench pushing one hand into the pocket of my jeans whilst the other continued to clasp the phone.
"Are you coming back?" I asked
Silence quickly followed on the other side.
"I just, I wanted to tell you that I was sorry about what happened in Vegas" Caroline told me.
I looked up at the sky.
"I'd imagine it's a miracle to you. To know you can have children"
"Just like it must be for you"
I shook my head at that, she'd never know it of course. Every time I thought of any child of mine I'd hear Mikael's voice in my mind. Even now, when there was no one else but Caroline and I, he still found his way though.
"If you're uncomfortable-"
"Don't hang up" I said to her calmly never taking my eyes off the stars.
"Where are you right now?" Caroline asked
"Not where I want to be"
"Me too"
I wasn't sure she wanted me to hear that part or not be either way it had happened.
I closed my eyes "Goodnight Caroline"
"Goodnight"
After we hung up I made my way over to my car, tucking my phone back into my pocket whilst fixing my attention on the flyer left for me upon my car just like on all the other cars lining the street.
I opened it up to reveal its contents.
Tomorrow evening was the crowning for the next Miss Mystic Falls.
Caroline Forbes P.O.V
I made my way back towards the villa seeing Rebekah sitting in the sitting room through the large glass panel windows. We were both dressed in white and had been through a large part of our trip. I removed my beach flip flops at the door and headed inside.
"Do you want to do anything tonight?" I asked her.
Rebekah sat upright and nodded.
"Go ahead" I flumped down onto the world's most comfortable sofa ever
"Well if we're going to continue with our no judgement, anything goes then I'm going to suggest-" She pauses
She did this from time to time she tried to get out of her comfort zone but never fully got there. I think sometimes she still worried she was on camera and we were all laughing at her.
"Do I have to fart or something to make you feel at ease?"
Rebekah fought a smile but not for long, she eventually laughed and shook her head "I don't think that would put me at ease, it might send me running in the next room"
I tossed a pillow her way before she looked my way again.
"No judgements. No agendas. Just you and me"
Hearing that she began to nod her head ever so slightly.
"We're going to go out, buy nail polishes, facial packs. Then order milkshakes and fried chicken from room service. Go on to Netflix and watch a movie about motherhood" Rebekah said without taking a breath
"There you said it, you said it and nothing happened" I tossed my arms up in the air "Still here, non laughing me"
Rebekah cleared her throat and got up from the sofa heading towards her room "Then as the movie plays I'm going to tell you about the hidden sperm I have stored for me back in Mystic Falls" she said shutting the door behind her.
"What?"
Elena Gilbert P.O.V
Damon and I were making our way towards the town hall, Damon was carrying most of the stuff I needed for Miss Mystic Falls including all my dress choices that we'd been talking about for the past five minutes.
"I'm just saying you looked good in blue last time"
"But I didn't win may I remind you" I said before placing a kiss on his cheek as we headed inside.
Damon turned to me "Where am I going with all of this anyway?"
"Upstairs forth door on the right"
Damon smirked and stepped towards me kissing me once before leaning in and placing another. I watched him head up the large staircase, keeping a tight hold on all the items I insisted I needed.
"Wear the blue" Damon called when he was out of sight.
I rolled my eyes and turned around only to go right into the hard chest of Klaus who was standing directly behind me.
"Klaus"
"Elena"
"What are you doing here?"
"Well if you must know, I received a telephone call this morning insisting that I be one of the judges for this evening's events"
"Why would they want you?"
"I paid for the new roof and the garden. Money does a lot for you, if you know how to use it"
"Hold onto it, it's all you have"
"I think you'll find I have more jewels then in my life than paper"
"Like what?"
"You always were such a curious snake, Elena. If I didn't know any better I'd swear you were Katherine's twin and not descendant"
"You shouldn't be here. This is a town event and you are nothing but a danger to it's people"
Klaus brought his hand up to my face then brushing his thump beneath my eyes where my dark veins dared to form below his touch.
"I'm not the only danger now, sweetheart"
He dropped his hand back to his side and returned into the trouser pocket of his black suit. He walked around me before turning to whisper in my ear.
"Some girls might go for the reliable blue, but a vampire should only listen to their own desires"
I shuttered slightly as I listened to him walk away.
I was in completely over my head.
What colour of dress will Elena wear now?
Does Klaus want Elena physically or is he simply missing Caroline?
What are Rebekah's plans for returning back to Mystic Falls?
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