Chapter 6.

3 month later.

"No, no this can't be," Caroline said to herself as she was utterly shocked to see the result of a home pregnancy test. She had decided to do it as she went through the same symptoms as with the twins. Growing appetite, boobs getting bigger and vomiting a lot. She thought that no way could she be pregnant, she decided to do the test anyway and when there appeared to be two lines on the test, she panicked.

She made a doctor's appointment, but in the meantime she was going to kill Alaric.

"What did you do?" she asked as she stormed his office.

"Nothing. Why, what's wrong?"

"I'm pregnant. Again."

"You're WHAT?" Alaric asked, utterly shocked. "You can't be pregnant. The twins were a one time thing, when the coven of witches put them in your womb. But you can't reproduce, vampires can't do that."

"I know that, thank you very much. But I know my body and I'm pregnant again."

Alaric was silent for a minute. Thinking. "Okay, then we need a witch who can maybe trace it back to it's source. Bonnie's in town, ask her."

"Okay, but what if she can't help?"

"We'll cross that bridge then".


"I think that I can help. I need the baby's blood, meaning your blood and maybe I can even see the biological parents faces when I do the spell. But I'm not sure that you are ready for that."

"I will never be ready, but I need to know what the hell is going on and who is to blame."

So Bonnie did the spell. It wasn't really difficult, but she fell down during it's most powerful moment when Bonnie saw who was the father.

"Bonnie, are you alright?"

"I am. But you are not," Bonnie sighed. "It's of course a result of a spell. A powerful spell. Caroline, I didn't recognize the mother but the father is… uh I can't even say it out loud…"

"Spit it out Bonnie."

"The father is Klaus Mikaelson. What have you done, Caroline?"

Caroline's mouth fell open upon hearing His name. "Me, I haven't done anything." She said with a trembling voice.

"Caroline, this kind of spell is difficult. Although you can't reproduce yourself, for that spell to work you had to share your blood with him or…have sex with him in the recent past before the spell was done. Caroline, it appears that the biological mother is again someone else. Basically, Klaus had sex with a woman, human, she got pregnant but the embryo was soon put from her to you. I don't know why the New Orleans' witches did that. It's complicated, but you are pregnant with Klaus Mikaelson's baby. Did you have sex with him?."

"You can't say anything to anyone, but yes."

"Caroline!" Bonnie whined. "Why?"

"You know why. Because after all these years I'm still in love with him. Okay, I'm going to show you a picture, please tell me that it isn't her who's the mother?"

Bonnie looked at the picture for a second, "It's her."

Caroline let out a deep breath, "Please, kill me now."

Klaus was at home drawing with Hope and Camille in Hope's playroom when there was a loud banging on the front door.

"I'll get it, you keep on drawing." Klaus said to Camille and Hope.

"Caroline, what are-" Klaus started to ask when he found himself face to face with Caroline of all people.

"Have you pissed off any witches lately, Klaus?"

"Maybe, but what does it have to do with you?" Klaus asked, confused.

"I'll tell you what it has to do with me!" and he threw a paper and a home pregnancy test at him.

As Klaus looked at the results of the pregnancy test done in the clinic, Caroline continued, "you have ruined my life!"

Now it was Caroline's time to watch as his eyeballs wanted to jump out of his sockets.

"It's impossible," then he continued, asking quietly "It's a spell?"

"Yes. A powerful one. New Orleans witches wouldn't do that to you unless you have done something huge."

"They threatened my family, I had to do something." He almost yelled.

"And you destoryed them?"

"I had to."

"I bet"

"Ok, let's get to the pregnancy please. Tell me everything you know. I am the father?" He voice was almost a whisper during the last sentence.

"Yes, you are the father and your nice girlfriend is the mother of the child that's now in my womb."

"Cami is the mother? What are you talking about?"

So Caroline told Klaus everything she learned from Bonnie about it being the witches' revenge on him.

"So they put mine's and Cami's child in you. But why? To what end?"

"I don't know. I guess they know about our complicated relationship and they knew it would complicate things even more for you and they wanted to make you suffer."

"Okay, we need a second opinion. Come with me to talk to Freya."


Freya was in the bell tower at the time. She was seeing this guy Fredrick, but wanted to have time for herself, trying to find a solution to the family's huge problem of being separated. Just then Klaus blew in with Caroline in tow.

Klaus told Freya everything.

"I don't know what to say, Niklaus."

"Say that you'll do a spell finding out everything about this baby. Like Bonnie did."

"Okay,"

So with Caroline's blood Freya did her own spell to track the origin of Caroline's pregnancy down.

"I'm sorry but everything that Bonnie Bennet said about this pregnancy is true." Freya told them.

"I'm going to kill some witches now." Klaus declared.

"Klaus, stop, think. Don't you think you have angered them enough? Maybe we'll deal with the other problem. How to break it to Camille. She needs to know about this, Klaus." Caroline pleaded with him.

"I'll talk to her. Will you stay in town?"

"Yeah, I will find a hotel."

"That would be best for the time being. I'll put you in the best hotel of the city. An no protesting, okay?"

Caroline just nodded.


Camille was playing with Hope when Klaus appeared to the doorway.

"Camille, honey, we have to talk. Hope can play alone for a little while."

When they sat down in their bedroom, Klaus said, "I don't know how begin."

"Just start from the beginning."

"I have good news and some bad news. The good news is that we will have a baby, but you are not pregnant. I mean you were, but not anymore."

"What are you talking about? You are not making any sense."

"Okay, um, the witches of New Orleans wanted to avenge me for killing all those witches so when you got pregnant, they put the baby to…somebody else's womb."

"Who's?" Camille asked, afraid that she already knew the answer.

"In Caroline Forbes' womb."

"No, no, no, no. This is a nightmare. This can't be happening. Our child in your ex-s womb." She started to ramble.

"Cami, there's more."

Camille turned to look at him in confusion.

"In order for the spell to work there had to be some sort of exchange of body fluids. Like exchange of blood between me and Caroline or…"

Camille started at him as the realization hit her like thousand knives, "You slept with her! While we were together?"

"Yes." He's voice was almost a whisper.

"When?" She demanded to know.

"Three months ago when I visited Mystic Falls."

"Klaus, how could you do this to me?" Camille cried.

"What do you want me to say? I'm a bastard. Maybe I'm not so good of a person as you like to see me. Maybe I'm really a monster."

Camille just stared at him for a while, anger growing inside of her. "I don't want to talk to you. I'm going to go and stay at Vincent's. I can't be with you in this house. "

"Camille, please forgive me!" was all he could say before she was gone.


"So, how did she take it? Not good I gather?"

Klaus was on the phone with Caroline.

"It went how I thought it would go. She's very upset with me."

"And you told everything?"

"I did."

"Look, I know everything seems like a nightmare right now, but having a baby, it's a good thing. Remember Hope, at first you had many issues but it turned out great for you." Caroline tried to comfort him.

"I'm not worried about me. I'm thrilled to be a father again. I'm worried about you and Camille. I'm worried that you are going to fight to the death for the baby." He chuckled.

"Why, it's your and Camille's baby. After it's born, you two are gonna raise it."

"And you are going to hand it over just like that. Like you did with the twins."

"That was…a different situation. Their mother was dead. I had to step in. "

"Okay, if you say so. But we three will be connected through this baby forever. I mean I'm sure you want visitation rights?"

"A little yes, but it's not going to be a every-other-weekend-with-me kind of thing. Don't worry."

"Okay, good night then."

"Good night, Klaus."


The next day, Camille was at Vincent's when she got a text that Caroline wants to talk to her. Although for Camille she was the last person she wanted to see, she also knew that they had to have that talk sooner than later. So she texted back for Caroline to meet her at Rousseau's in half an hour.

"Hey, I'm glad you came." Caroline said to Camille when she had sat down at the table with her.

"Well, I didn't have a choice. You are carrying my child." Camille say bitterly.

"I'm sorry about how it happened."

"You are talking about the witches or the fact that It hadn't happened if you hadn't slept with Klaus."

"Both, actually."

"And you came here wanting to talk to me on Klaus' behalf."

"I came to say I'm sorry that we hurt you like that. That Klaus has tried to do right by you but that night emotions ran high and it just happened."

"What happened? That you couldn't keep your hands away from my boyfriend?"

Caroline was silent for a minute, overwhelmed with guilt.

"Forgive him please, Camille. What happened between us, will never happen again."

"You really are delusional, Caroline, aren't you? What happened, will happen again, especially now with the baby, you are still in love with Klaus and Klaus still has feelings for you."

"What are you saying"

"I'm saying that me and Klaus are going to raise the baby but not as a couple. And you will have to stay far away."

"You are going to raise him like Klaus did with Hayley? Why, Camille, if you are both in love with each other."

"Look, Caroline, he may love me, but he has deeper feelings for you. Otherwise he would have been able to stay faithful to me. But I can't live in that house if he is with you at the same time. So please promise me that you won't start a relationship with him. At least not in my lifetime."

Caroline didn't know if it was guilt or being afraid of getting hurt by Klaus the same way but Caroline promised her that she wouldn't.

'Besides, it's just one lifetime' Caroline thought, ' Sure I can stay away for…the next 50 or 60 years.'

After Caroline left Rousseau's, she decided to leave and go back to New Orleans.

So she got back to her enormously big and luxurious hotel room and started packing.

After a minute or so, she felt someone in the room with her. She turned around to face Him.

"Where are you going?"

"Back to Mystic Falls, to my girls, Klaus."

"Okay, but first let's talk."

"What do you want to talk about?" She played coy.

"You really shouldn't have made that promise, Caroline."

"She already told you."

"No, but I have eyes and ears everywhere. Especially in Rousseau's."

"Okay, so you know."

"I do, but I am not okay with it."

"Why, Klaus?" she asked him with confusion.

"Because I can live with being just a parent with Camille but I can't live the next 50 or 60 years with out you."

"Wow, that's quite the sentiment but too bad, I won't break my promise."

Klaus closed the distance between them to cradle her face.

"You will. I can't live without you anymore." And he kissed her on the lips. At first she kissed her back but then she started to think that if it was so easy for Klaus to cheat on Camille then what chance did she have.

"No, Klaus, don't" And she stepped away from him. Going to the balcony to watch over the city.

Klaus followed her there.

"Remember three months ago when you killed whose kids for me? I was so moved by that and then I understood that I still loved you. So I went to Rousseau's that night to talk to Camille, to tell her the truth about us, about my feelings for you. But then other things happened and I couldn't do it anymore."

"Until now, that you were forced to do so, right?"

"Yes. And I'm glad that I did. I can't live a lie."

"Klaus, look, I understand, but if it was so easy for you two cheat on her with me. Then the same would happened to me too if I started a relationship with you."

"You think I would cheat on you with her? Or with someone else?" he asked, incredulous.

"Yes, I do." Her answer was almost a whisper.

"Caroline, hey, look at me!" he said to her, grabbing her arms to make her turn towards him.

"I want to be with you. Not because of the baby or because Camille broke up with me but because I love you, I am still very much in love with you. I love her, but I love you more. Cami, was right, my feelings for you run deeper then for anyone else, except for Hope, of course. It's wild and untamable. It's something that I feel at the core of my body every time I see you. When I see you, every cell in my body aches for you."

When he had finished, she was so surprised, she never knew how deep his feeling for her ran. At that moment she couldn't help herself, so she leaned in to kiss him and he answered by pulling her closer to him to deepen the kiss.

Then he flashed them to the bedroom and with no words necessary, they started to undress each other in between kisses.


In the morning, Caroline opened her eyes to see him staring at her.

"Good morning," she groaned.

"'morning." He answered, smiling at her.

Then he pulled her to his arms and after a minute or two of perfect contentment, she asked, "What now?"

"Now we go back to our lives. You will go back to Mystic Falls to you girls and I'll deal with Cami."

"So it was a one time thing?" Caroline asked, confused.

Klaus turned to look at her, "NO, of course not. What I meant to say is that I guess we can't live together as you have a life in Mystic Falls and I have responsibilities here in New Orleans. And even if I didn't, I couldn't come to Mystic Falls. I am prohibited from coming in there, remember? Hope goes there under false name so no one would know it's my child in that school."

"So where does it leave us then?"

"I don't know. I guess for the time being, we'll have to be okay with seeing each other less than we would want to. At least until the twins are older and you could at least partially live in New Orleans."

"So until then we will see each other once or twice a month when I visit new Orleans in secret so Cami doesn't find out?" She asked.

"Cami can know, I don't care. It's your deal. But the frequency of how much we will be able to see each other, is going to be that sparsely, unfortunately. Unless of course you will be ok coming to the city more often?"

"No, you are right. I have responsibilities and one of those is that I have to travel across the world a lot in the coming years."

"Travel, why?" he asked, eyes widened.

"For the girls. I have to learn everything I can about the Merge and how to stop it."

"The Merge?"

"In Gemini coven, the twins are destined to merge at the age of 16 and only one of them survives it. It's some sort of a ritual how a leader is picked."

"So one of your girls is destined to be killed? That's awful."

"Yeah, that's why I have to start travelling when the baby in my womb has been born."

"Okay, but I'll help you anyway that I can with this issue, we can't let one of the twins die. It would destroy you."

"Thank you, Klaus. But now I really have to go. My plane leaves in a few hours."

"But before that, round four," he said, starting to kiss her.

"Klaus-" She laughed inbetween kisses.


When he got home, he found Camille in the courtyard with suitcases, waiting for him.

"Out all night. You were with her, weren't you?"

"No I wasn't, she left the city last night," he lied.

"Okay, I don't even care about your whereabouts. I was waiting for you to tell you that I'm moving out, at least until the baby is born. After that, maybe I'll be able to live here like Hayley does. But I won't make any promises."

"Okay. I'll help you with the bags. I assume you have taxi waiting for you outside."

"I do."

"Okay, let's go then."


"So how did it go? What did you find out about this pregnancy?" Alaric asked Caroline as she had gotten home and had greeted the girls who were now playing upstairs.

"That everything Bonnie said was the truth. Klaus pissed off some witches and it's their revenge."

"Should have know that the great Klaus Mikaelson was to blame."

"Rick, please don't. I'm so tired from the flight."

"Okay, so what happened?"

"Well, Klaus told Camille everything and they broke up and me and Klaus… kind of got together,"

"You what? You are in a relationship with him now? That's not happening. I don't want the twins anywhere near him."

"Relax, Rick. We wont live together and he won't come here. I'm going to have to go to New Orleans to be with him."

Alaric sighed in relief, "Well, that's nice of you I guess. So why won't you partially live there?"

"Because Cami can't know about it. I kind of promised that I wouldn't start a relationship with him."

"Really? Well, that's going to be hard, having a secret relationship…"

"Yeah, but what choice do I have. I just hope that eventually she could stand it."


In six months, Caroline gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Unlike with Hope and the twins, the delivery went without a hitch.

Camille hadn't seen Caroline all that time but was in the hospital with Klaus, Hope and rest of the family. Even Alaric was there.

After some resting Caroline was given the boy to hold and she asked Cami and Klaus to join him.

"Omg, he's so beautiful," Cami gushed. "Can I hold him?"

Caroline was reluctant but agreed to hand over the baby.

Klaus was also mesmerized by the baby, taking him in his arms after Cami had a little while with the baby.

"What now?" Cami asked.

"Shh, please don't ruin the moment." Klaus pleaded with her.

"I just want to know if Caroline is really ready to part ways with the baby and not see him ever again?"

Caroline and Klaus gave each other a knowing look.

"Cami, I kind of promised to give her visitation rights. She has bonded with the baby, she can't just hand him over for us to raise and never be able to see him again."

Silently Cami was seething in rage. All her hopes about getting rid of Caroline from their lives just dashed. She knew she couldn't debate this. If Klaus had decided to allow Caroline to see him than he just had to accept it.

"Okay," she said and left the room.

In a couple of days, Caroline was ready to leave the hospital and that entailed for the time being to separate herself from the baby.

"Take Care of him for me, please" Caroline told Klaus as they were alone in her room.

"I will, don't worry."

"Where's Cami?"

"She's waiting for at home."

"So she's moving back in."

"Only until he's just a baby. Until needs both of his parents to be close by."

"Okay, I'll let you bond with him for a couple of weeks. But I will want to see you both soon, okay?"

"Yes, thank you. We'll make it a regular thing that you would stay with us a couple of days."

"In the house?"

"Yes, there's no point for you to come see him, if you spend half the time in a hotel. We'll also have to tell her that we are together."

"Yeah, it makes sense. What about Cami?"

"Cami will just have to tolerate it. In time she will forgive us and it won't be so hard for her."

So Caroline took her bag and gave both of the guys a kiss before leaving.

"See you both very soon,"

"I love you, Caroline"

"Love you, too" she said and left.

It broke her heart to leave the baby like that, she had bonded with the child in those months and it was hard to leave him. But she had the twins to think about and she knew that Klaus would take good care of him.

Couple of months later Caroline went to Europe to search and get answers about the Merge and Klaus sometimes joined her on those trips.