Baby Mikaelson Chapter 26: Reality Sets In, a vampire diaries fanfic

READ FIRST - This was a very interesting chapter for me to write. I didn't want to write your typical fanfiction happy turn of events and I know some of you will have a lot to say about this chapter by the end but you have all enjoyed my style of writing so far because I keep things level and real. This chapter will involve our characters having to face a lot of personal hardships and I want to shine a light on their issues. I want to keep my story as real as possible so please do read on and I do hope you all enjoy. It's a heavy chapter.

ATTENTION READERS - FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ENJOY ELENA/KLAUS TOGETHER I'VE JUST PUBLISHED A NEW STORY TITLED SELFISH DESIRES! IN WHICH A NEW VAMPIRE ELENA HAS A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH KLAUS! BOTH OF THEM WEAR MASKS SO NEITHER OF THEM KNOWS WHO THEY'RE GIVING THEMSELVES OVER TOO! DELICIOUS!

Baby Mikaelson

Chapter Twenty Six - Reality Sets In

Klaus Mikaelson P.O.V

Beside me Caroline slept comfortably, her heavy head lay against the thick and heavy pillow to give her the comfort she deserved, her beautiful blonde delicate to the touch hair spread around the pillow unevenly yet perfectly. Even in the gentle ease of her sleep her hand still rested upon her ever growing bump beneath the cover, for even in rest her first and primary instinct was to protect the baby. Unknown to her I had taken her other hand in mine leaning it against my chest as I stared up at the ceiling, a wave of uncertainty washing over me like an incoming wave with no escape in sight. This would be my forth night in a row with little to no sleep at all, this growing guilt had hung heavy on me these past four months, these four months that should have been so joyful had been anything but. I should have rested easy at night, Caroline was living with me, Rebekah surprising yet blessed pregnancy was going well, family life was starting to find some level of tolerance and the girl I loved more each day was pregnant with my child. Yet each night sleep came harder and my thoughts became darker.

For no matter how hard I tried I couldn't escape my guilt.

It all began four months ago on the very night we had returned home from Africa. I remember that night like it was yesterday, what little dreams I had from that night to this had reminded of it every single night. I could still smell her blood, see it on the floor, on the walls and the bed. I remember how tired I felt getting off the plane, I remembered keeping Caroline against my chest in an effort to keep her warm from the cold night air. My siblings had taken a separate car from us and headed home immediately to rest after our long flight, I had wanted to take Caroline home and see her to the door, she was as tired as I was if not more. I didn't even recall seeing Elena leave the airstrip, I just knew that Caroline and I were the last to leave.

The events that followed that night were almost indescribable. I'd seen so many horrors throughout my thousands of years upon this earth but what I witnessed that night will haunt me until the end of time. How Elena Gilbert survived that night was nothing short of a miracle.

After leaving the airstrip Elena had returned home to find both Damon and Stefan Salvatore had left town for a few days leaving her alone in the boarding house without protection. She told me the house was freezing upon her return, she recalls how cold she felt, like she'd never feel warm again. She was so tired from the flight she barely had the strength to light herself a fire. She had sought warmth from a hair dryer instead and that's why she didn't hear Professor Shane or his compelled human break in downstairs. She told me she was upstairs in Damon's bathroom trying to get warm when she felt something shoot into the side of her neck, she recalls seeing Shane smirking at her and challenging her to try and escape him.

Elena told me she couldn't tell what he had poisoned her with exactly, only that it made her very weak and almost numb, but despite it she did try and escape him. She told me through sobbing that she had attempted to escape him, he had followed her all around the upstairs rooms breaking down every door she attempted to hide behind, he had kicked her to the ground countless times and eventually even thrown her down the stairs. She said the woman with him had even been encouraged to hurt her too. Elena said she lay on the ground defenceless as this woman had kicked and punched her until she could no longer feel her doing it, whatever was in her bloodstream had finally kicked in and she was numb.

She wasn't out cold for anything that came next she told me. She recalled Shane carrying her upstairs to Damon's bed, how he had let the nurse set up all the necessary equipment to her horror, while Shane had sat at her bedside and kissed her hand telling her how much he loved her and that this was an act of love. When the poison began to wear thin Shane and the human had then binded her hands in vervain soaked ropes so she would remain awake but weak. She told me she pleaded with Shane to stop but he wouldn't, he just kept talking about how they were in love and that he was going to enjoy being with her after the insemination. He wanted to prove he was a better man than Damon for taking care of her even though she'd be carrying another man's baby, it didn't matter to him, he had gone on and on about how he was sent to her, he was sent to love her, that their desire for each other was stronger than anything she may have once felt for Stefan and Damon, that their desire was that of a primal level, that it was more than the passion between even myself and Caroline.

Elena even said Shane had described how differently she was to Caroline, how she had better standards, held more beauty within her heart than Caroline ever could, how she was more compassionate, fearless and even sexier.

How Shane couldn't understand why Klaus would rather be with her than with Elena if given the chance.

Despite Elena's attempts to kick at the compelled human in an effort to stop her, she recalled her entire insemination she even confessed she found herself even calling out for my help during the horror. She thought maybe a miracle would happen and that I'd show up and save her. Elena said she wouldn't have even batted an eye if I had killed them both right there on the spot. She recalls sobbing and pleading for my help despite having next to no voice after her screaming. She explains after the insemination was done she had watched through tears as the human had killed themselves by striking themselves in the head with the shower head until they bled out on the floor, she knew they had been compelled to do it, there was such emptiness in their eyes.

Shane had propped her legs up with pillows to give the insemination a stronger chance at success. Elena doesn't recall how she managed to find the strength but she gave Shane a firm kick sending him crashing to the nearest wall and accidently he caught his head on the corner of the set of drawers which caused his neck to snap on impact. Elena explains for almost an hour she couldn't move, she had just lay there screaming and screaming for help and no one had came.

In the end she had no choice but to use her teeth on the ropes in the effort to free herself and by the end her chin and lips were unrecognisable. But somehow she managed to free herself, she had no strength within her but she had no choice but to live. She had got herself out of the bed, crashed to the floor and in doing so had broken four of her toes from the impact, she had pulled herself on her stomach and elbows. She somehow made it all the way down to the Salvatore's basement where apparently they keep all of their blood bag supplies in a chest fridge, Elena says it took twenty bags for her to heal and regain her strength.

She had told me she wanted to call Damon but she didn't know exactly where he and Stefan had gone off to and she needed someone with her now. She told me through sobs that she was sure Caroline wouldn't answer her call despite her wanting her to be the one to help her so in a desperate effort she had reached out for me instead.

Elijah and I arrived at the house within twenty minutes, even Elijah had covered his mouth and nose from the scent of all the blood, a thing I hadn't seen him do in over a hundred years. Elena had locked herself in one of the downstairs bathrooms and despite my brother's efforts to get her to come out she wouldn't let us see her, instead she had begged and begged us to go upstairs and get rid of Shane's body. She couldn't come out until she knew for certain that it was gone and she wouldn't have to see it.

When we arrived at the door of Damon Salvatore's bedroom Elijah had turned to look my way after taking in the scene before him. I was lost for words myself, I had wished a great many things for the pain and suffering of Elena Gilbert but this was beyond even my imagining. There were nail marks on the floor from where she'd plainly been dragged to the bed, there were broken windows from where she was either thrown into them or tried to escape from, there was blood all over the bed from where I would later find out what had happened to her.

Elijah and I had gone to work on cleaning up the mess which wasn't easy considering how exhausted we both felt at the time. I had never felt more human than I did that night, every effort felt like climbing a mountain. We had gotten rid of the bodies first, taken them a mile from the house and buried them deep in the woods, we returned back to the house and it was Elijah who insisted we make the effort to get rid of the evidence of the attack.

So we did, two original creatures, arguably the strongest brothers in the world had filled up buckets of hot soapy water, gotten scrubbing brushing and rags and cleaned Damon and Stefan Salvatore's house top to bottom. It took nine hours in total to get rid of the mess and air out the house until it was as if it never even happened, Elijah had even fixed the front door so it was once again lockable for her.

Elijah had to get rid of all the used cleaning materials and he wasn't sure he could take in the sight of Elena with how exhausted he had become already. I had instead chosen to stay behind until she finally agreed to come out from the bathroom. When she came out she was a sight. She was in her underwear, a rather odd choice of bra for her, it was black laced and did something rather remarkable with her cup size, she was also wearing a matching black lace thong. She had immediately apologised to me that she didn't cover up but there were no towels in there for her to use.

Her hair was matted, there was dry blood all over her body from healed wounds and her mascara had flaked around her eyes from crying. She had tucked her hair behind her ear and asked if I'd help her, she needed a bath. I had agreed for in that moment there was no history to us, she was an attacked woman and I was but an able man. Elena did surprise me when she did lean against me to help her upstairs to Damon's room but I chocked it down to exhaustion.

After seeing the room had returned to it's normal state I had left her alone to bathe and I returned downstairs. When she as done cleaning herself up she had come downstairs to find me in the parlour. She had changed into a set of white satin pjs and had washed and dried her hair. I poured her a glass of bourbon and Elena had shared the events of the night with me. Five bourbons down for me I was standing behind her shaking like a leaf with the knowledge that the man I had secretly sent to seduce her, had not only become obsessed with her, driven her to complete despair he had even gone and inseminated her with the remaining sample of my sperm.

There was a very strong possibility that Elena Gilbert was pregnant with my child.

Damon and Stefan returned within the next few hours but Elena seemed to lose sense of herself and go into a state of shock. She refused to speak with or see Damon and told Stefan she couldn't stay in the house anymore, she packed a bag and told them she didn't feel safe there anymore. I had been leaving when she got into my car with me and pleaded to let her stay with me if only for a few days until she felt safe again, she could have gone to Bonnie's but the second she knew about what Shane had done to her, she knew she'd look at her differently. Elena said the only one who could understand the horror of her situation was me.

Regardless I had driven her to my house and explained we had a pool house on the grounds and she could stay there. While Elena had gotten herself settled inside I had walked back over to the main house and gone upstairs to shower and get the blood off of me finally. Only I stopped dead finding a teary Caroline in my room sitting on the side of my bed. I could still remember her smile, it was as if I'd never seen her smile until that second as she revealed the pregnancy test in her hands.

She was pregnant.

I wanted to kiss her, despite the lack of sleep and reek from my skin I wanted her in my bed right there. Without even attempting to try, Caroline and I had made an impossible pregnancy happen together. Instead of holding onto the happiness ripping through me like fresh blood, I had kneeled down before her and watched the happiness fade from her eyes as she saw my uneasiness. She had taken my hand in hers and within the moments that followed her hand had left mine. There was no possible way I could have hidden the news from her, time would have just made it worse and in that moment it felt like nothing could make this nightmare worse.

When the girls came face to face with each other Caroline had asked if she should call Damon to come and be with her and Elena still exhausted and in shock had snapped at Caroline in front of me. Telling her that she didn't have the strength to see him, not everyone could be so put together all the time like Caroline was. Caroline had apologised and even attempted to reach out for Elena when Elena had screamed at her not to touch her, that enough people had touched her already. With that I watched Caroline look down at Elena's stomach and watch Elena cover it with her hand as if Caroline were also a threat to her.

Within the weeks that followed Elena's horror continued when she returned home from the doctor and confirmed her pregnancy to me. For almost a week she couldn't look me in the eye. I spent most of that week trying to reconcile things with Caroline who was also dodging me every chance she got. Then the night before Caroline was due to go for her first scan she had finally agreed to see me, when I say finally agreed I mean she took pity on me after I spent hours freezing to death on her front porch.

It was a long night.

Caroline didn't want anything sugar coated about what had happened and what was to come next and I had agreed to tell her the truth and not hold back.

I explained to her that Elena was planning to go ahead with her pregnancy, that she had told me despite how the baby had come to be that it was still part of her and she wanted to keep it. I told Caroline that I had lost it, caused Elena to go running in fear as both Elijah and Kol had to restrain me. I didn't want her to have my child, I didn't want to have a child that wasn't Caroline's and I had made that clear to Elena. Caroline had taken my hand in hers and told me that despite everything in the past what mattered was the future and if I hid away from Elena's baby, from my responsibilities that it would haunt me harder than any memory of every action I'd regretted over the last a thousand years.

That Elena's baby was as innocent as hers and didn't deserve to be born into a world where it was only wanted by one parent. She knew first hand what it was like to have a parent who wasn't prepared for parenthood and the responsibilities of it and it had effected their relationship her entire childhood. Besides she said despite everything I would fall in love with both my babies and I wouldn't be able to stop myself, that the second I allowed my instincts to kick in that there would be no controlling them.

I hadn't gone out and bought any pregnancy books nor any items for a baby of any stage in it's development. I hadn't done anything over those first few weeks than worry for Caroline and recall the horror show at the boarding house. Yet somehow she was right about instinct, some people believe it's only the mother that develops them through pregnancy but they were wrong.

My unborn child with Caroline was on my mind night and day. It's bizarre the things you think of, if her trousers are too tight for the little one to handle, is she eating enough, is she eating what the baby likes, is the baby growing, is the baby feeling her stress, if she gets a fright will the baby get a fright too. This little person, was so delicate, so tiny and all alone and it needed me. My child wasn't even born yet and already I was a father.

I needed Caroline close by and she agreed to move in finally and this was just one of many things that came about in the last four months.

Doing the right thing I had apologised to Elena and agreed to take care of both her and the baby. So from that moment I had continued to do what was right for both of them.

Since their pregnancies were progressing so closely in weeks I had been with them both when they decided on the same midwife for their pregnancies. However both of them wanted separate appointments and to every medical professional dealing with our situation the story was that I was the father of both babies but merely a sperm donor in Elena's case.

I had attended every single scan, every appointment, every check up and every class over these four months. Wanting to keep all the women in my life happy I had agreed to a total of three different extensions to my property. The pool house was to be extended with a larger bedroom put in for Elena so that she could have the baby in with her until it was ready to move it to the nursery, she also wanted a larger bathroom en suite for her comfort and extra air conditioning brought in as she got warm at night.

Rebekah moved out of her bedroom and downstairs into the east wing which also was being extended so that she would have more room for when her baby arrived. Caroline and I were knocking my bedroom through to Rebekah's old room and putting on an extension to the side of the house for the nursery. There had been workmen around the house for a month now with still no end in sight. Each of the girls liked different decorators so that was another handful of cash away.

Rebekah and Caroline were as close as ever and it brought new light to the house. All three girls had dropped out of high school despite my objections to it. Each of them were fearful of the bumping in the hallways and possible accidents. But that wasn't close to the rest of the drama that had followed.

Caroline's mom wasn't returning to Mystic Falls, she had called Caroline's cell and Elena had answered and told her about the pregnancies. Liz had refused to speak to Caroline since, I had even flown to New York with Elijah to see her in person but she refused to hear a word about any of it. Caroline never got out of bed for a week after that and it only made matters worse between her and Elena.

Elena had her own drama going on, she insisted on twice the amount of necessary check ups and scans given how her pregnancy had came to be. She would get emotional very quickly and would need reassurance often. When Damon heard about the insemination and pregnancy he had lost it, he almost burned down the boarding house and would have done if Stefan hadn't stopped him. Every day he had come to the house and no one had stopped him in his efforts to get Elena to move back home but she refused. When she did eventually agree to see him she had told him she couldn't trust him around her baby given his temper and she didn't feel safe around him, he was too quick to react and she had a high risk pregnancy. She explained she did love him and would always love him, that she would rather him be the father than me but despite it all she loved her baby more than anyone else in this world like any mother should for their baby.

Damon and Stefan packed up and left town only a week ago.

Despite Elena's recovery from the attack I found myself unable to ease my guilt over the situation. Shane's efforts to seduce Elena had left me with two pregnant women under my care and two future children. Elena would have taken the child from me if she knew it was due to my scheme to have Shane break through her sainthood and seduce her that she had landed up in this mess, pregnant with a baby she didn't ask for and living in a house with people she knew didn't want her there.

Four months had felt like four years and every day I felt myself growing all the more insane.

I kissed Caroline's cheek and collected my shirt and boxers from the floor that she had taken off hours earlier. I dressed and made my way downstairs in the dark, all the way down the hallway to my study. I entered the room and made my way over to the desk taking a seat and switching on the small lamp at my side giving the room a small glow.

Although I felt above the average man even in my human days I had bitten the bullet finally yesterday and compelled my way into a private doctor's practise in the next town over while Caroline was out shopping. I had sat with a doctor who I didn't even get the name of and described all my symptoms to him over these many months. The insomnia, the ache in my neck, my shoulders and stomach. He could have blown me over like a feather when he explained my symptoms were that of stress and a very high level of anxiety. My blood pressure was apparently through the roof and I was in desperate need of rest, to the point where he even suggested a rest in a hospital. It wasn't the alpha within me that just shrugged him off it was the reality that I couldn't be away from home and away from the girls for any length of time.

But there it was, me a able bodied man, the strongest creature on the planet and my eyes pricked tears from physical stress.

I'd sooner see a stake through my own heart than let Caroline know my struggles. It was primal within me, I came from a different time, a time where men just got on with the matters of life despite the struggles. If Mikael were alive he would laughed himself to death again if he saw me like this, filled with guilt for my doppelganger and my actions leading to her pregnancy, my guilt over trapping Caroline for the rest of her life with a friend turned enemy, who was also the mother of my child and the child to be, a half brother or sister to our own baby.

The door crept open across from me and I turned my chair towards it. Elena stood in a sheer light blue maternity nightie with a plunged neckline and a trim that cut just below her ass. She had her hand resting on her bump as she looked across the room to me.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Can you make me some hot milk?"

I looked away from her and nodded my head lifting myself up from the seat like it was a challenge. I followed her down the hall to the kitchen where I proceeded to make her some hot milk while she took a seat on one of the stools on the other side of the kitchen island keeping my back to her as I stood at the stove feeling tears prick my eyes from the strain of picking up a god damn wooden spoon.

"Why aren't you asleep?" Elena asked behind me.

"I'm going to make you this and go back up" I explained to her feeling my tears begin to fade.

"If you can't sleep how about you talk to the baby for a little while?"

"I'm tired" I said hearing the tiredness in my own voice then.

"But-"

I ignored her I had too. I wasn't about to share a first time moment with her before I had shared it with Caroline and I wasn't going to do anything without Caroline or someone else in the room. I wasn't going to give Elena any impression that she had higher priority than Caroline. I couldn't stand the tension between the two already and I wasn't going to add to it.

I poured Elena's hot milk into a tall mug and added some coco powder sprinkle to the top of it before placing it down in front of her and shutting off the stove. I met her eyes then.

"Goodnight" I said before leaving the room to return upstairs to Caroline.

She was asleep when I returned and I took off my top before sliding back into bed with her. I tucked the sheet around my waist and looked down at the bump reaching out my hand placing my hand over it.

I checked to see Caroline was still asleep before I began.

"Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band" I sang softly checking Caroline once again before continuing.

"Pretty-eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man, ballerina, you must've seen her, dancing in the sand"

I smiled and my eyes filled with tears then.

"And now she's in me, always with me tiny dancer in my hand"

I leaned in and kissed the bump.

The way I was feeling was very real, very powerful and becoming uncontrollable. At this rate I wasn't going to last the next five months, at this rate I wasn't going to last the next five days.

Caroline Forbes P.O.V

Since the workmen were going to be making a lot of noise that day at the house we all decided early in the morning to go shopping for the nurseries. It had been four months and none of us had even began to look into getting supplies yet, we'd all been busy dealing with the aftermath of Elena's attack and all the pregnancies. Now that the three of us no longer required a bucket every time we moved we all decided we would shop together. Of course Rebekah didn't want to travel with Elena and wanted the two of us to have breakfast alone before we began shopping. So we had headed off extra early and gone to a near by mall to the large baby store outside of Mystic Falls.

"Don't judge me" I said over a mouthful of bacon as Rebekah eyeballed me.

"Eight slices" Rebekah groaned and continued to tuck into her eggs.

"Say what you want about me. You eat one more of those and the chickens will hunt you down"

"Least I'll out run them lard ass"

"Hey" I hissed

Rebekah rolled her eyes "It was a joke. You've gained a little weight who gives" she said and took a sip of her cup of orange juice.

I had put on twenty pounds over the last four months on top of the average weight for my stage in pregnancy. We had the doctor check multiple times for any signs of twins but there was just one little monster eating all my food.

"You know it's stress eating anyway" Rebekah said into her glass

I met her eyes "I'm fine"

"Your boyfriend is having a baby with a girl you despise you're not fine"

I put down my fork and looked away from her hearing Rebekah sigh.

"Look what happened to her was horrible. It was really messed up but don't think that happening to her allows her to look at you like she does"

"Like what?"

"Like you are her problem"

I looked at Rebekah "But at the same time I'm having a baby with the father of her baby. I'm not making excuses but you do see what I mean right?"

Rebekah huffed but nodded in agreement.

"I just can't stop myself from wondering if he still likes her"

"What if he does?"

I sighed "I guess it's normal for him to feel a connection now she's pregnant but-" I shook my head.

"Say it"

"Sometimes I'm just so mad" I hissed feeling my face glow red.

"Go on"

"I just want to scream in her face to leave, to just move out and stop being part of our life. That it's mine and her being there is just making me feel stressed and ill and-" I stopped my tears "I can't help but think he might love her a little bit"

Rebekah stared back at me just letting me hash it out.

Tears fell from my eyes "It's ok if he loves her" I said and meant it "He can love her but-" I wiped them away "I need to know that he loves me more"

"I'm not sure I understand"

"She's pregnant, he's going to feel something for her and after the babies are born it will feel even stronger. I know he's not attracted to her like he use to be, if he loved her loved her I would feel it in my bones I know I would. What I'm saying is, he needs to know it's okay to love her" I nodded hearing myself "It's okay but, I still have to be his first priority"

"You don't feel like you are anymore?"

"He cried Rebekah. That night when he and I sat down and talked it out. He was upset. He was truly lost about this whole thing and trust me when I tell you he really didn't want Elena to have the baby then. But you've seen him since he's been amazing. He's done the right thing by everyone but there's something off with him still to this day. He's keeping something from me"

"What would he keep from you?"

"I don't know. But whatever it is, it's taking him from me"

"Are you planning on talking to him about it anytime soon? Or are you just planning to solve it with bacon?"

I smiled at her efforts to ease the tension in that moment.

"Well the bacon helps sometimes but not as much as it use to"

"Caroline"

I looked at her then.

"He's not in love with her"

"I know. I'm not worried about that I'm really not. I know he loves me and I know he loves this little bean sprout" I said touching my bump "I just wish I knew what he was thinking"

"I'm going to ask you something" Rebekah sat upright in her chair "And as cringe worthy as it is to say it, I want you to answer me-" she pauses "As my sister"

I nodded.

"What do you want?"

I looked her in the eye and let the walls down once and for all, answering her like the sister she was to me.

"I want Klaus to myself again. I want Elena out of my life. I don't want to help her raise her baby. I don't want her living in the pool house I want her across town in the boarding house. I can't even bare the thought of seeing her baby. I hate Shane for doing this to her I do. It was just pure evil, like down to the core, evil and yet. I hate that she's treating Klaus like her only life raft. I'm so sorry for what she went through I am so so so so sorry. But this isn't her life, this is mine"

After we finished up with breakfast Rebekah and I made our way over to the baby store together taking my new car, one of my many gifts from Klaus since announcing my pregnancy. He had gone out and bought me a brand new white jeep with cream leather interior, it still had that new car smell to it which I loved. Rebekah and I pulled up in front of the store and re-applied some perfume and lipstick before heading inside. We got a cart between us knowing we'd probably need more than one by the time we were done.

"Have you thought anymore about breast or bottle?" I asked Rebekah as we arrived at the bottles

"Have you?"

"Bex"

Rebekah had struggled over the idea over if she wanted to breast or bottle feed her baby in the future. Rebekah had made the mistake of reading about all the women who struggled with breast feeding their babies and let her mind begin to wonder to the what ifs which for her was a big mistake. Not being able to breast feed would not make her a bad mother, there were all manner of reasons that women were unable to breastfeed their babies. Some could not handle the physicality of which breastfeeding demanded, others did not develop the level of milk required for their babies and without say there were women who did not feel the need to breastfeed at all.

"Hey" I leaned over and kissed her hair.

"But really have you thought about it?" Rebekah asked as we began to read about the bottles in front of us.

"Klaus and I talked about it, we're gonna discuss it some more with Dr Henderson when I have my next scan"

Dr Megan Henderson was a midwife all three of us have met with, along with about ten other midwives in the space of a month. In the end we all agreed Dr Henderson would be the midwife for all of us since our pregnancies were all a few weeks apart. She would be able to be with each of us when needed. Klaus was paying for all of us to have private medical care in an effort to put all of us at ease as our due dates edged closer.

She was very supportive of our situation and showed equal devotion to each of us. She did her best to make sure Klaus would be able to be at my appointments but also Elena's too which wasn't always easy. Sometimes he'd run late to mine or Elena's and spend the rest of the day feeling guilty about it.

Dr Henderson was the type of doctor I appreciated, she never rushed appointments and there was never any stupid questions she wasn't happy to answer. I had spoken with Klaus already about giving her a generous cheque after the babies were born.

"I thought Elena's scan was next week?" Rebekah asked beside me.

"No, Elena has her scan today. That's why Klaus couldn't join us for breakfast"

"We're here" Kol announced appearing behind us then with Elijah.

Elijah kissed Rebekah's cheek and offered to push her cart as Kol proceeded to put a baby hat on his head.

"Has anyone heard from Nicklaus?"

"Not yet" Rebekah replied

Elijah had jumped into all the necessary baby information to help Rebekah through her pregnancy, considered himself a bit of an expert on all matters at this point. While the three of them disappeared around the very large store I began to shop alone for all the little things we would need for the baby. I bought a sterilizer for the bottles I had picked out, burping cloths and a changing matt by the time I saw Klaus and Elena enter the store.

Elena was of course the vision every pregnant woman hoped they would look like. Elena had began wearing heels and a lot of dresses that seemed to highlight her growing chest and round belly perfectly. If you asked me she had them taken in but my thoughts weren't to be trusted when I was this hormonal. She was wearing a white floral dress with black leather pumps, a black Prada hand bag over her arm and matching Prada sunglasses on her head.

Klaus had given her credit cards to use to her comfort. She hadn't gone crazy and bought a new wardrobe or anything, she just bought a few items that stood out in moments such as these. Especially with my boyfriend beside her looking scrubbed up for the appointment, her was wearing a dark blue polo neck with black bottoms, he took off his shades seeing me and made his way towards me as Elena and I locked eyes.

"Sweetheart" Klaus greeted before kissing me

"Everything ok?"

"Everything went fine" Elena answered his question joining his side.

"Fine" Klaus agreed

"The baby looks good, the doctor had only good things to say"

Klaus looked her way then and she looked his making me uncomfortable and out of the loop.

"I've seen a few car seats that-"

"Actually Klaus said he'd come help push my cart for me. The doctor doesn't want me doing too much" Elena said rubbing her belly "You don't mind do you Caroline?"

"Go ahead" I said turning my back to them

"Caroline" Klaus called after me but I waved him off.

Ten minutes later I had made the mistake of sitting down in a low chair, people think women only feel this weight when they get near the end but it really did pull you down at times. Klaus found me of course equipped with a peace offering of my favourite Starbucks order with extra cream and a long straw. He kneeled down in front of me and kissed me before handing me the drink.

"I'm sorry"

"Baby" Klaus said placing his hands over my sore knees rubbing them.

"I just-" my eyes filled with tears "I don't feel like me and she's just-" I shook my head "I've gained weight and"

"And what?" Klaus asked lowering his head to meet my eyes "I don't seem to recall any weight slowing you down last night"

I laughed and wiped my tears away.

"I'm afraid to get on top though" I joked making him kiss me.

"I'm only four months and already I feel huge and gross"

"Is this something we need to talk about?" Klaus placed his forehead against mine "Talk to me" he whispered gently

"I think, I think I might be losing it a little" I sobbed

"Ok" Klaus whispered into my ear before helping me up to my feet.

Klaus wiped my eyes for me and I took a few sips of my drink before he led us out of the store and into his car out front. He helped me into my seat and we took off out of the car park without a word to the others. An hour later Klaus and I were at home together alone, he made me chicken soup and locked us in his room with a sign out front of what would happen if anyone disturbed us.

Together we lay in bed side by side with the curtains drawn and the small candles on both our nightstands lit.

"I think you need a rest" Klaus said brushing his hand through my hair.

"We can't go on another vacation" I half smiled

"I don't mean the family. I think you need a rest" He paused "We never did talk about your mother"

"Klaus"

"No listen to me, love. You've dealt with a lot these past few months and I'm not talking about the bean sprout"

"I can't go away"

"Why not?"

Tears formed in my eyes and Klaus came over to my pillow at that.

I squeezed my eyes shut for a moment and the tears fell down my face.

"Say it" Klaus encouraged.

"I'm not happy"

"Nicklaus!" Elijah battered hard on the door startling me and causing me to cover my bump in instinct.

"Not now!" Klaus yelled

"Rebekah is in the hospital"

Klaus Mikaelson P.O.V

Rebekah had begun spotting on the car journey home from the store and Elijah had rushed her to the hospital. She was given a full examination and everything was looking just fine. To be on the safe side however Dr Henderson wanted to keep her in overnight to monitor the baby's heart rate to which Rebekah agreed. Dr Henderson had moved Rebekah to a private room so Caroline could spend the night with her and see to any of Rebekah's needs. Kol had gone home to rest he was exhausted and past his tolerance for the hospital coffee.

Elijah and I had walked around the hospital more times than we could count and finally settled in the stairwell by Rebekah's room. The girls were together but we didn't want to leave them alone.

After looking in on Rebekah and ensuring she was alright without her for a while Caroline and I had taken a walk outside. Caroline was lets say the brave one between us in that moment, she did what I could not do which was to confirm we needed time apart. Caroline didn't know it at the time but I was doing this for her safety and for the baby, I couldn't risk being around her anymore until I got my head on straight.

"She's not happy"

"Who? Nicklaus?"

"Caroline" I said staring blankly ahead.

Elijah was at my side, I could feel him staring at me just as lost for words as I was.

When I blinked a sudden tear from nowhere escaped my eye and fell down my cheek.

"She's bound to feel emotional about the current situation"

"She didn't ask for this, not the baby, not Elena's baby. She started off this year as a small town girl desperate for college and look at what my darkness has done to her"

"Caroline hasn't been walking around with a blindfold on. She's more than aware of who you are, brother"

"No" I shook my head

"What do you mean?"

"There are some things she doesn't know"

"Such as?"

It was time to confess. Elijah was the only one of my siblings I could trust to assist me on this matter. I left nothing out regarding the measure of pain and illness I had endured these many months, I told him everything like I should have done all along.

"When was the last time you slept?" Elijah asked

"I don't know anymore"

Silence fell between us as tears continued to stream down my face beyond control.

"What do you need?"

I turned to him and said the most difficult and yet the easiest thing I've ever had to say in my entire life.

"Help"

Elijah Mikaelson P.O.V

Finally my brother spoke the words he needed to in order to live with himself another day. I wasted very little time after that, I went upstairs to the nurse's desk and left a message for both my sister and Caroline to find in the morning. Klaus and I had been called away on some business, I explained any phone calls would be directed to me as Klaus had misplaced his phone in the hospital that night. After that I made a few phone calls and arranged a bed for Klaus at a private centre where he could get the rest he needed. Klaus needed sleep and that was what we had to take care of first, he needed to be put out and soon.

That night we flew out of the state.

Klaus needed my help but unknown to him I had been helping him this whole time.

My brother always thought he played his cards close to the chest but what he forgot was I was already standing over his shoulder. My brother wasn't sleeping because a plan he had made had gone sour. A plan he thought I had no idea about involving Professor Shane.

He thought I didn't know I've known the entire time of his efforts to reveal the darkness growing within Miss Elena Gilbert. For so long she had been so innocent, just like Katarina had when we first met, I was blinded by love and didn't see the girl behind it. Now my brother was blinded by the love he felt for the child growing in her belly.

Not for much longer though.

Elena Gilbert had no place in my family and I was going to prove it.

Caroline Forbes P.O.V

With Rebekah back on her feet and back at home and with Klaus out of town I had decided to take a trip of my own. I had spoken with Klaus on the phone the night before and he explained he was going to be out of town for a few more weeks but he would be back in time for my next scan. He explained an old friend of both him and Elijah was in need of their help. I wanted to ask for more information but I thought it best not to push given our current status.

Instead I had packed myself a bag and taken the next plane out to New York.

I got myself settled in the hotel I had booked with my own money and wasted little time showering and getting dressed before I was out the door again.

Before I knew it I was half way across town.

The door in front of me opened and my mom came into view taking in the sight of me and my belly.

"Hi Mom"

Professor Atticus J. Shane P.O.V

I held the long lensed camera up to my eye as I leaned slightly out of the open car window and snapped pictures of Elena leaving her yoga class that morning. Using my free hand I reached down to the almost empty blood bag beside me and brought it up to my lips taking in my necessary fill. It hadn't been easy adjusting to life as a vampire but when you lived around these creatures, putting vampire blood in your system daily was as necessary as vitamins, so in the end it had saved my life and stopped Elena from putting an end to it. I'll admit waking up underground wasn't the best, I went a bit mad and lashed out at the first town person I came across but did a pretty decent job of covering up the body. Since then I'd only been on blood bags, besides who were the Scooby squad to judge me considering the list of victims under all of their belts.

I continued to take snaps at Elena as she arrived back at her car unaware of me just up the road from her.

Using my new vampire senses I listened in then as she brought her phone up to her ear and again got the voicemail of Klaus Mikaelson. She left another message for him reminding him of her upcoming scan and insisting he be there to support her. She reminded him that she had no one here to be there for her, Caroline wouldn't be back for another week and Rebekah never even spoke to her. She even went on about how his younger brother Kol hadn't even been at the house much these days and was always home late which meant she was always alone which according to her stressed the baby.

"I miss you" I mouthed watching her get into her car then.

Kol Mikaelson P.O.V

One month later...

I strung my fingers across the strings of my guitar as the crowd in The Grill that evening began to cheer to see I had returned to the stage again. The entire bar was lit by candle light that evening, giving the entire bar a gentle glow. The lights used to light the stage were orange and amber which set the tone of my song choice just right.

As the music began and I strung along to it, edging myself forward on my stool to the microphone, the crowd began to clap as I began to sing.

"I was crying over you, I am smiling, I think of you"

My eyes began to scan across The Grill and over the staff working around the crowds of people and surrounding busy tables

"Where your gardens have no walls. Breathe in the air if you care you compare don't say farewell"

I strung my fingers hard on the guitar and continued to sing "Nothing can compare to when you roll the dice and swear your loves for me. Nothing can compare to when you roll the dice and swear your loves for me"

I hummed softly which had a special effect on the surrounding ladies who cheered me on and then...

"I was crying over you, I am smiling..." With that a smile formed across my lips when someone in particular came into my mind

"I think of you"

I closed my eyes and continued to sing.

"Misty mornings and waterfalls. Breathe in the air if you care, you compare. Don't say farewell"

After the song was over I made my way through the gathered crowds and over to the bar where I waited for him to turn around and face me.

"Still ignoring me I see" I said to his back.

"Just trying to do my job if it's not obvious"

"As I am trying to do mine"

"And what's that?"

Matt turned around to finally look at me, this was the first time he had dared to meet my eyes since our little drunken encounter together a week earlier, right here in The Grill, right over there in that corner booth.

"To get your attention" I told him.

With that he turned and walked away from me, my eyes following him as he disappeared round the corner and out my sight.

Kol and Matt?! What do you all think about that? Will it turn out to be love? Who made the first move?

Were Caroline and Klaus right to take a break? (Don't worry I'll be bringing them back together very soon!)

How happy was everyone to see Klaus was doing the right thing for his mental health and getting himself help?

Elijah senses something is going on with Elena. Well isn't it about time someone did?

Yes Elena is pregnant and some of you won't like that. But the story is far from over. Remember this is Klaus/Caroline story after all.

Shane is alive! He's a vampire! Will Elena sleep with him? (PLSSS tell me your thoughts on Shane/Elena)

BTW! - Klaus and Elena are NOT going to sleep together. Unless there is a HUGE demand for it. Which there has not been so far. Don't worry Klaus/Caroline are the end game no matter what so don't you worry.

DON'T JUST ANSWER MY QUESTIONS PLEASEEEEE ASK ME YOUR OWN IN THE REVIEWS.

ALSO PLEASE DON'T SLAUGHTER MY STORY FOR INCLUDING ELENA. REMEMBER I'M A PERSON.

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