Hey guys! I meant for this to be up two weeks ago, but I only had half of it written! Again, sorry for the delay- I've just been trying to read as many books before I got more for Christmas (which I did so I feel very accomplished!) and then I binge watched HTGAWM (great show btw, anyone else watch it?) and baked vegan cookies and pancakes on my days off so far this break. Speaking of... How was everyone's holidays? Mine was okay, pretty low-key. Not the same without my dog or my nieces. BUT I GOT A BREADMAKER! I'm just very excited about my breadmaker... I'm such a hippy- more proof? I'm in my school's horticulture club and I am already so proud of my sprouted crops as if they are my children.
Anyway... I have not seen the latest two episodes of TVD yet, but I did watch TO and can I just say: I. Hate. Klamille. But. That. Does. Not. Mean. I. Hate. Cami. That is all. Oh, and I miss Kol and Rebekah (again!). But did anyone else get the nice Mikaelson family feels during that Christmas scene? Dudeeeee, that was seriously all I wanted in life.
Okay, so this is another little happy, fluffy, family chapter! I am going to update the next chapter very soon because it is already planned out and mostly written (and I have time this week to write!) so be tuned for that!
Disclaimer: I do not own 85% of these characters.
"Is everyone okay?" Elijah asked, his voice echoing off the darkness.
A chorus of "yes" and "I guess so" surrounded the basement.
"What was that?" A tiny voice that everyone recognized as Emma asked.
"I think the storm snapped a tree branch that crashed into the power poll," Finn answered. "It cut the electricity and shortened all of the fuses."
"What does that mean?" Caroline asked. She inched closer to whomever human being was two feet away. "Will we freeze down here?"
"We shouldn't," Matt said as he flipped on the generator. Lights illuminated the dark basement, and the click of the heater being turned on filled the room.
"Oh, that's good," Rebekah sighed in relief.
"How long are we going to be down here?" Bonnie asked.
"As long as we need to, I guess," Elijah answered.
"Sorry your birthday didn't turn out quite like you planned," Finn said to his youngest sister. Freya sat upon the big box in the corner of the room. She shrugged.
"It's fine. All I've wanted for the past four years was a family... I don't care what we do, as long as we're together. This is by far the best birthday I've had in a while."
The Mikaelson siblings all shared a smile. They were glad they could make their newfound sister's birthday special. They knew firsthand from their childhood that while they couldn't always give the most extravagant gifts, they always had each other. Now, they had more than each other, but the lesson is still there. Being surrounded by the ones you love means more than anything materialistic could ever mean.
"I'm not gonna cry," Rebekah said somewhat sarcastically as she hopped onto the box next to her sister. She wrapped the younger blonde in a tight embrace. She could feel tears of merriment pool her eyes. "I'm so emotional, I'm sorry, but I love you. That was so sweet."
"Are you okay, Rebekah?" Freya laughed as she patter her sister's shoulder.
Rebekah didn't let go, but nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine."
Kol laughed. "So while they're hugging, what shall we do now? We can't just sit here."
"I brought games!" Hope cheered. "I brought Monopoly, Sorry, Connect Four, Life-"
"What is this, throwback to the nineties?" Katherine asked.
"I miss the nineties," Bonnie said sadly.
"Hey, I'm listing the games here!" Hope scolded the two adults. She finished listing the fifteen games she had Klaus and Caroline help her drag down. "I don't care what we play as long as Daddy and Caroline are on my team."
Caroline grinned as Klaus hooked an arm around her shoulders. He kissed her hair.
"I vote on playing Twister," Kol announced.
"Noo, that's too dangerous," Sage argued.
"It's fun!" Tate agreed with his Uncle Kol.
"You don't have to play, Sage," Rebekah said. "I'm going to sit this one out."
"Why?" Klaus asked his sister. "Afraid of losing?" He raised his eyebrow.
"I never lose," Rebekah glared at her brother. "I always kick your ass." She turned to Kol. "And yours, too."
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that, darling," Kol smirked.
Rebekah rolled her eyes.
"So we should make four teams of three, then?" Bonnie asked. "If Sage is sitting out with Rebekah?"
"Oh, I'll play. I just don't want Tate getting hurt."
"He'll be fine if he plays the kids' round," Bonnie assured her.
"I don't like being in close body spaces," Katherine said.
"That's hard to believe," Kol teased.
"Brother," Elijah glared at his youngest brother.
"Joke," Kol held his hands in defense.
"Not funny," Bonnie and Katherine both said.
"Sorry," Kol apologized.
"Anyway," Katherine said as she hopped onto the box next to Rebekah. "I'll sit out with ole' Bex here."
"You're older than me," Rebekah pointed out.
"Shut up," Katherine stuck her tongue out.
"Okay so whose on whose team?" Caroline asked.
"You, me, and Hope are obviously one team," Klaus announced as he pulled his two girls to his side. "My girls are going to win."
"Offended!" Rebekah and Freya shouted. Klaus rolled his eyes.
"Sage, Tate, and I will be a team," Finn said.
"Kol, Emma, and I will be one, too," Bonnie added.
"So that leaves Elijah and me with the birthday girl," Matt finished.
"I'll be the spinner!" Rebekah said. She told Katherine, "You can be the caller. Like, calling if someone is off the dot or whatever."
Katherine shrugged and examined her nails. "As long as I don't break a nail."
Rebekah chuckled as she took the spinning wheel from Hope. "Okay. You guys ready?" Everyone got into their teams. "Freya's team goes first, and this can be the kids' round because she's the smallest on her team."
Freya laughed and nodded. "I'm going to win."
"We'll see about that!" Hope exclaimed.
"Yeah, you're going down!" Emma yelled aggressively.
"I don't care if it's your birthday, you're gonna lose," Tate grinned evilly.
"Jesus, these kids have a dark side," Freya remarked. "I'm so scared," she feigned being scared for the kids.
"Freya, left hand on blue," Rebekah announced.
Freya put her left hand on blue.
It was Hope's turn next. Right foot on yellow.
Emma. Left foot on yellow.
Tate. Left hand on red.
Freya. Right hand on green.
Hope. Left foot on green. This put Hope squatting over Freya.
Emma. Right hand on blue. As she tried to bend over Freya and Hope, she lost her balance and fell.
"Aww, come on! No fair! I demand a recount!" Kol shouted. Bonnie patted his shoulder gently.
Emma shook off her loss and skipped back to her team. "I'm fine. I know Kol will beat them next time." Kol grinned as he plotted an evil way to win his round.
Bonnie smiled and picked up her daughter. "She's such a good sport." She kissed her daughter's hair.
"Tate. Right foot on red," Rebekah called. Tate followed suit.
Freya was to put her left foot on red.
Hope was to put her right hand on green, putting her in an awkward bridge above Freya's elbow.
Tate was to put his left hand on green, but since his right foot was all the way across the mat on red, he was too small to reach, so he collapsed and lost. "Aww, man!" He pouted as he rubbed where he fell on his butt. "I lost."
"Next time you'll get them, honey," Sage opened her arms for her son.
"It's all down to Freya and Hope," Katherine announced.
"Come on, Hope!" Caroline cheered. "You can do it!"
"If you don't win, I am shipping you back to your mother," Klaus teased.
"Oh, no you won't!" Hope screamed. "Auntie Bex, spin the wheel!"
Rebekah spun the wheel for Freya's turn. "Right foot on green."
"Are you kidding me? That's impossible," Freya muttered. She attempted to place her right foot on green, but it caused an uncomfortable cramp in her leg so she slid her arms from under Hope and surrendered. "I give up. Hope wins."
Hope jumped up and cheered, "Yay, I win!" She ran back to her team and high fived Klaus and Caroline.
"I knew you could do it," Klaus hugged his daughter.
"How could you?" Matt pretended to be upset about his team losing. "You could have made that."
Freya shook her head. "No, I couldn't have."
"You did your best," Elijah patted her shoulder.
"She lost to an eight year old!" Matt cried.
Kol burst out into laughter. "You lost to an eight year old!"
"Shut up, Kol. Like you could do better," Freya challenged.
"Oh I could," Kol accepted. "Brothers, it's our round."
"Why do you guys get to go?" Caroline asked.
"Because we're having a rematch from a game-"
"That happened fourteen years ago, get over it!" Finn shouted at his youngest brother.
"I will never get over it," Kol said with all seriousness.
Finn sighed. "You're twenty-five. You need to get over it. It happened when you were eleven."
"You're the eighteen year old that tripped me."
"Finn played dirty?" Sage gasped.
Finn gave a look to his wife. "We don't speak of it."
"Yes, we do!" Kol shouted. "He was an unfair child. I demand a rematch."
"Then you'll get one, brother," Finn gave in.
"Kol, you realize that you won't win, right?" Klaus asked.
"Here we go again..." Elijah muttered.
"Oh, I believe I will.." Kol smirked to himself.
As the four Mikaelson brothers started their game, Bonnie started chewing her nails in apprehension of what Kol will do to win. She saw the look on his face and knew he had been scheming a diabolical plan to beat his brothers. When the time came, she could only hope that Klaus won't bite his head off. She would never understand how competitive this family could get, and that it's already reached the next generation.
"Kiyah!" Kol battle called as he swept his right leg from the green dot to the red, swiping all of his brothers off of their feet.
"Kol!" Finn, Elijah, and Klaus all whined as they land in uncomfortable, awkward positions.
Rebekah and Freya broke out laughing, while Katherine and Sage tried to stifle a chuckle. Caroline gasped, and the kids just giggled. Bonnie sighed and put her hand on her forehead in shame at her boyfriend's cheating.
"I win!" Kol cheered.
"That's not winning. That's cheating," Finn said.
"I'm too old to be knocked off my feet," Elijah groaned.
"You're twenty-nine and just had twins you're going to be chasing around for the next 18 years. You're not old yet," Klaus said as he stood up. "And Kol... I should have known you would've done something like this."
"I learned from the best," Kol grinned down at his eldest brother. "It took me fourteen years of planning, but I got my revenge."
"And you took Niklaus and I down with him? That's nice," Elijah glared at Kol.
Kol shrugged. The brunette then pumped his fist in the air for victory.
"I think this game is getting too competitive..." Caroline started.
"Yeah, why don't we choose a new game?" Matt suggested.
"We should do karaoke!" Caroline encouraged.
"Yes!" Bonnie agreed.
"Hate to break it to you, but we don't have the machine. Or music," Katherine pointed out.
"We don't need it," Caroline said.
"Of course you don't," Rebekah smiled.
"Can we have a dance party, too?" Emma asked.
"I'm hungry!" Tate cried as he rubbed his stomach.
"Woah woah, one thing at a time," Bonnie shushed. "First: has everyone had breakfast?"
More than half of the room said no.
"Okay, so why don't we have breakfast for those who haven't eaten yet, and then afterwards we can have people provide the music for the dance party?"
"Dance party during karaoke, I like the way you think," Freya grinned as she rummage through the pile of food Bonnie and Sage gathered from the kitchen. She picked up a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread. "I'm in the mood for a peanut butter sandwich. Anyone else?"
A few minutes later, everyone was sitting in a circle occupied with their peanut butter sandwiches. They sat in silence, except for the kids blabbering about anything.
Matt gently touched Rebekah's knee. She stopped picking at her sandwich and glanced at him through her eyelashes. She raised her eyebrow, questioning what he wants.
He mouthed we should say something.
She mouthed back no.
Why not?
Because...
Because why?
I don't know.
Matt sighed exasperated.
"That was a very dramatic sigh, Matthew," Caroline teased.
"Well, this day is very dramatic," Matt answered. "Do you guys think the storm will cause too much damage? How long do you think we'll have to stay here?"
"I hope not too much longer. The forecast said we'd only be in the center for a few hours. I'd say by mid afternoon someone could head upstairs and check," Kol said.
"What time is it?" Katherine asked.
"10:30," Finn responded.
"As much as this vacation has been nice," Katherine started. "I miss being home.."
"You miss your babies, we know," Klaus tried to say it in an annoyed way, but he ended up smiling at Katherine. "Now that I'm a dad, I know what you mean. It's so weird... but so great." Caroline reached for his hand and smiled.
"I hope we can have our own bundle of joy one day." Caroline leaned her head against her fiancé's shoulder. "I also just hope my mom is there to see it. And our wedding."
"Oh, yeah, how's your mom doing, Care?" Bonnie asked her best friend.
"Not well."
"Then that baby and wedding better come fast," Kol joked. Caroline threw a paper plate at him.
"I'm just sad. I miss her so much already." The usually so bubbly blonde could feel a waterfall of sadness rushing through her body.
"We all do," Elijah said quietly.
"Well... Things got depressing..." Rebekah stated. She looked at Matt, who nodded and smiled. "Matt and I have, well, exciting news."
"You guys are moving far far away?" Kol said hopefully.
"No," The blonde spat at her brother.
"We hope this news can brighten the dark mood we've set for ourselves here," Matt began. "And I'm sure this isn't the way Rebekah wanted to say this but-"
"I'm pregnant!" Rebekah exclaimed.
Caroline and Freya squealed, Bonnie and Sage clapped and grinned, and Katherine declared, "I knew it!"
"What does preg-nate mean?" Tate asked.
"It means Auntie Bex is having a baby!" Emma squealed.
"Another cousin?" Tate clarified.
"Yes," Hope said.
"Yay!" Tate sounded excited before shoving a bite of his sandwich into his mouth.
Freya was hugging her sister, while the Mikaelson brothers just stared at Rebekah for a moment.
"You're having a baby?" Finn asked. Rebekah nodded.
"Wow, that's wonderful news!" Elijah smiled. "Congratulations, sister, Matt."
"Congrats," Finn agreed as he hugged Rebekah and shook Matt's hand.
"Y-you're having a baby?" Klaus repeated.
"Yes," Rebekah laughed.
"But you're my little sister, you can't grow up." Klaus was shocked at the pout on his own face.
Rebekah chuckled. "Oh, dear brother, I'm already a grown-up. We all are."
"Yeah, yeah," Klaus shook his head and picked a piece of crust off his bread and threw it at her. "Congrats, guys," he smiled.
"Kol?" Matt asked the youngest Mikaelson brother.
"You? A mom? That's scary," Kol finally said. Rebekah threw something at him. "What is with people throwing things at me today?"
"You're an idiot," Bonnie said simply.
Kol rolled his eyes. He looked at his sister and her husband. "I took so long to answer because my brain somehow hadn't registered that you two are married and have been together for seven years. I was almost prepared to kill Matt for knocking up my sister," he explained.
"Well, thanks, I feel so welcomed," Matt said sarcastically.
"No problem," Kol grinned.
"This is so exciting!" Caroline exclaimed. "Another little miracle joining our family."
Klaus beamed at his fiancé calling his family ours. Rebekah shot her brother's fiancé a smile.
"When did you guys find out?" Elijah asked.
"Last night," Matt answered.
"After our input, of course. They can't take all of the credit," Katherine announced.
All of the guys plus Caroline and Freya gave Katherine incredulous looks.
"Kat, Bonnie, and I have been pregnant before so we noticed Rebekah's symptoms before she did," Sage explained.
Rebekah rolled her eyes. "I would have figured it out on my own, thanks."
"Have you guys started planning anything, or are you just too excited to think? Wait, you guys are excited, right?" Finn asked.
Rebekah laughed at her eldest brother. "Of course we're excited, dumbass. And I have a little picture in my head.. If that doesn't sound too cheesy."
Matt patted her knee and told her, "It's not too cheesy."
"You've gone soft!" Kol accused his sister.
"Don't start this again," Rebekah groaned. "Can we change the subject?"
"How about that dance party now?" Bonnie suggested.
"I need some exercise to burn off those peanut butter sandwiches now that I'm not playing baseball," Kol said as he stood up. "Emma! Wanna be on my team?"
Emma jumped up and threw her half-eaten sandwich on her cousin. "Yay!" She ran to Kol and he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, leaving her hanging upside down. She giggled and pounded on his back, shouting at him to let her down.
Bonnie smiled and rolled her eyes at her boyfriend and daughter. She turned her head and asked her best friend, "Caroline?"
The blonde turned to her brunette friend and grinned. "Three-year-champs back again." The two girls fist pumped then stood up.
"Guys, you're all going to lose," Matt announced. "Caroline and Bonnie will sweep all of your asses to Canada."
"I'd like to see them try," Klaus grinned. "Beks, you up for being my teammate?"
Rebekah pretended to be exasperated. "God, Nik. Can't you do anything by yourself?"
"Matty Blue-Blue!" Katherine exclaimed. "You can be on my team! Hope already claimed my husband."
Matt's eyes widened. "Freya?"
"Taken," Finn answered.
"And I'm with my little fireball," Sage added.
Matt groaned as Katherine grinned. She laughed at him and threw her arms around his shoulders. "Don't worry. I won't let you down."
Matt smiled. "Sure."
"To make things fair for everyone, Bon and I will sing during the first round," Caroline said.
"We're supposed to sing, too?" Kol asked.
"I thought we agreed on that?"
"Fine. What song?"
Caroline shared a look with Bonnie. The brunette answered, "I think you guys will know this song, if you have any taste in awesome early 2000's tv series."
Bonnie went through her phone to find a karaoke version of this specific song. The cell signal isn't the best in the basement, but she has barely used data on her phone that she might as well take advantage of. She let out a little squeal when she discovered the app had the song.
I Don't Want To Be by Gavin Degraw echoed through the basement. Soon Caroline and Bonnie's voices joined the karaoke music, but were soon underheard due to the stomps and steps of everyone else dancing.
Hours passed of bad karaoke and even worse dancing, laughter and fun, stress-free times. Tate was the first to be wiped out due to exhaustion, slowly followed by Emma, and then Rebekah. Hope laughed that her Aunt got tired before she did, but then continued to yawn. The eight-year old said she was just going to sit down and close her eyes for a minute, but then her snores echoed throughout the basement, making everyone laugh.
Katherine sighed. "Matty Blue-Blue, I'm going to collapse now, so catch me or I will hurt you when I wake up."
Matt held out his arms and Katherine fell into his arms trust-fall style. Katherine laughed and stepped away from the blonde. "Knew I could trust you."
Matt rolled his eyes and gently pushed her shoulder. "I think we won the dance-off," he said loudly.
"No way," Kol argued. "Emma and I did."
"I think even though I epically failed, Freya definitely won," Finn said.
"Nuh-uh, she can't get birthday votes," Klaus disagreed.
"It doesn't matter who won," Bonnie said as she wrapped her arms around Kol's waist. "We had fun, didn't we? And it distracted us for.." She checked the time on her phone. "Almost three hours."
"Are you serious?" Elijah's eyes widened. "We've been doing this for almost three hours?"
"Which means we've been down here for about five hours," Sage confirmed.
"Do you think the snow storm passed?" Freya asked.
"I don't know," Caroline shrugged. "Who wants to go check?"
"I will," Klaus volunteered.
"I'll come with you," Caroline said. She turned to her friends- family, "We'll be right back."
Caroline and Klaus disappeared up the staircase. Caroline reached forward to grab her fiancé's hand. They fingers laced together as Klaus's other hand turned the knob to the main floor. They stepped into the hallway of the lakehouse. Turning down the hallway into the living room, they looked out the windows.
"Woah," Caroline's breath hitched.
"Yeah, woah," Klaus agreed.
Outside was like a winter wonderland. The storm was either not as violent as they feared or it was and just left a beautiful disaster in its place. Five feet of sparkling white covered the previously crisp green ground. The lake had been frozen overnight, but was now nowhere in sight, buried deep beneath the thick earth cloud blanket. The lively trees were dusted in ivory snowflakes, only the tops being covered making it look like broccoli wearing marshmallow hats. The bright blue sky shimmered with the sun beating down on the earth, making the snow glitter like diamonds. A light fall of snowflakes was the only remaining evidence there was a storm, if it was even a storm.
If it was a dangerous storm, then it cleaned up beautifully. There was nothing more enchanting and magnificent than how the earth looks so soon after snow falls from the sky. It looks so cold and inviting most times, but this was just so captivating and alluring, like it was really a winter wonderland.
"Where was this during Christmas?" Caroline breathed.
"I have no idea.." Klaus blinked. "I need to paint this. It's beautiful."
Caroline smiled as her fiancé rushed to their room to gather his paints and canvas. She sighed and walked closer to the giant window. She was snapped out of her trance when Elijah shouted up the stairs.
"Is everything alright up there?"
"A tree didn't fall on your heads?" Katherine added.
Caroline laughed and yelled down the stairs. "All clear! It's beautiful!"
She heard distant shuffling of their items and their kids before she heard footsteps on the stairs. Bonnie and Kol were the first to materialize at the top of the stairs.
"What, are you a-" Kol started but stopped when he noticed the snow outside. "Bloody hell."
"What the hell? That wasn't a dangerous storm," Sage said.
"Maybe it was, but it left this masterpiece in it's wake. Sometime the most disastrous things can be beautiful," Elijah explained.
"It sure is beautiful," Bonnie breathed.
Freya smiled and placed her hand on the glass. "Can we go play out there?"
"After the kids wake up and we have lunch," Finn answered.
"Oh please, brother. We're big enough to go play on our own without lunch," Kol grinned.
"And who needs kids as an excuse to play in the snow?" Rebekah asked.
"No one's going outside yet!" Klaus shouted. "I need to pain this without anyone out there tampering with the landscape."
"Fine," Freya sighed. Her stomach growled. She perked up at the mention of food. "So, what are we having for lunch?"
...
"KOL!" Rebekah shouted after she was pelted with a snowball to her face. "I'm going to kill you!"
"Can't kill me if you can't catch me!" Kol stuck his tongue out at her.
"Oh yeah?!" Rebekah gathered an armful of snow and took off after her brother.
"Be careful, Bekah!" Matt worried about his pregnant wife.
"Oh shut up!" Rebekah threw a tiny ball at her husband before resuming to chase her brother.
Bonnie laughed and leaned her elbow on her childhood friend's shoulder. "We fell in love with crazy people," she stated.
Matt chuckled and rubbed his hands together to warm up from the bitter temperature. It might be beautiful outside with the sun shining and the glittery snow, but it was still freezing cold.
"Can't argue with you there."
A few feet away Katherine and Elijah were lying in the snow staring up at the clear, crisp, open sky. Despite having on heavy snowsuits, it still took a lot of convincing for Elijah to get Katherine to do snow angels with him. He eventually convinced her, and then she complained how cold and wet the ground was. As they made their angels, they began talking and haven't moved in minutes.
"I wish Hayden and Sophia could have been here," Katherine spoke.
"Me too. But they're too young to remember their first snow," Elijah pointed out.
"I know, but still. It's been such a nice weekend with our family, but it's not complete, you know?"
"It is your family's lakehouse. Why don't you, me, and the twins come back up in the summer, or even when the twins are a bit older to enjoy the experience?"
Katherine lifted her head to look at her husband. "Really?"
"Of course."
She smiled and closed her eyes, letting her head fall back into her snow pillow. She then muttered, "I can't wait to go home and fire my manager."
"You're going to take a stand?" Elijah asked.
"Duh. Have you met me?"
Elijah smiled, full of pride and love for the woman lying beside him. He reached his hand over to grab hers. "You will be fierce and wonderful."
"I know," she smirked.
"I love you."
Her smirk turned into a heartwarming smile. Her cool exterior, despite the frosty scenery and chill beneath her body, melted away. She ruined their snow angels as she turned on her side and pulled him onto his. Their lips crashed together, their bodies entwining in a snow-covered embrace.
"Ew," Klaus fake-gagged as he and Caroline sipped hot cocoa on the porch.
Caroline hit his shoulder. "I think they're sweet."
"Of course you do," he smiled. He then set down his cocoa, and took hers and set it down, too. He laced their hands together and pulled her toward him. "I didn't get to dance with you during our dance party," he whispered in her ear.
"It wasn't that kind of dancing," she answered as she locked her hands at the nape of his neck. Her fingers gently played with his hair. "This dancing requires a beautiful, wintry scenery. Or a ballroom. But I can handle the snow."
He laughed at her joke, and twirled her. He pulled her closer to him and breathed in her scent. She smelled like cocoa and cinnamon. He laced his fingers through her long, blonde hair. "Have I ever told you how much I love your hair?"
"My hair?" A bright smile appeared on the blonde's face. "What's so great about it?"
"It's golden, wavy, soft, like a waterfall... I don't know, I just love it."
"You're a sap," she grinned.
"Nah, I just love you."
He had twirled her once again, but in a more complicated move. He had pulled her back to him more abruptly this time, making her gasp in surprise. She then broke out into a smile, making him smile too. "I love you, too." She took charge and kissed him.
"Get a room!" Kol shouted as he jumped on the porch and used Klaus and Caroline as a shield against Rebekah's incoming snowball.
The snowball hit Nik right in the neck, making Caroline giggle.
"Sorry Nik!" Rebekah apologized. The split second she took to apologize to him, Kol used it to pelt her with another snowball. Her demeanor changed once again. "Kol!" She shouted as she took off running after him, again.
"Crazy kids," Klaus shook his head.
Meanwhile, on the skirts of the woods, Finn and Sage were with the actual kids, helping them build snowmen. Freya's was certainly the most appealing, but the other kids' were adorable. Hope then wanted to make a snow reindeer, and that was a difficult task for everyone as they helped.
"Your brother needs to stop making your sister hurtle around the lake. She's not five, and she could hurt herself or her baby," Sage told Finn.
"She'll be fine. She's only a few weeks along, right?" He asked as he attempted to put the antlers on the snow reindeer.
"I got it," Freya volunteered. "Leave it to me." She stood up, pulling her sleeves up and cracking her knuckles. "Wish me luck." She then took off running after Kol and Rebekah. Freya quickly passed Rebekah and was catching up to Kol.
"What are you doing? Go away!" Kol shouted as Freya almost caught up to him. He steered her around, trying to throw her off his tracks, but she was too quick and too smart.
"Nope!" Freya shouted back.
He was leading her back to the snowmen. Kol made the mistake of looking behind him to see where she was, because then she jumped on his back. The shock of her weight caused him to lose his balance, and then they crashed on top of the snow reindeer.
"Kol!" The kids and Finn cried as Sage and Rebekah broke out laughing.
"Don't Kol! me!" Kol groaned. "Freya jumped me!"
Freya giggled as she rolled off her brother. "I didn't mean for that to happen. Sorry."
"It's okay, Kol probably deserved it," Finn admitted.
"Hey!" Kol sat up.
"Hey, kids, aren't you upset Uncle Kol ruined your snow reindeer?" Finn smirked.
Hope, Emma, and Tate grinned evilly.
"No." Kol held his hands out in surrender. "I'm sorry! Please, no more attacks on me. I'm a good person-" He was cut off as three young children jumped on him and attacked him back to the ground.
Freya, Finn, Rebekah, and Sage continued to laugh as Bonnie and Matt jogged up to them.
"What happened over here?" Bonnie asked.
"Kol-ey destroyed our snow reindeer!" Emma exclaimed.
"How could you, Kol?" Matt cried. "Bonnie, you're dating a monster."
"I don't even know who you are anymore," Bonnie tried to sound disappointed but then she broke out into a fit of giggles.
"It's Freya's fault!" Kol exclaimed.
"Yeah, blame the birthday girl," Freya accused.
"But it is your fault."
"Kol, just let it go," Rebekah patted her brother's shoulder. "I totally won our snowball fight. Thanks, sister." The older Mikaelson sister shot her younger sister a thankful smile.
"No problem," Freya smiled back.
Tate wrapped his arms around Kol's shoulders as Emma sat on his lap, and Hope stood up.
"What are we doing now? I'm getting kind of cold," Hope asked as she shivered from the cold. Her clothes being damp from the snow does not help the temperature problem.
"Should we make another campfire? To warm up?" Matt suggested. He raised his eyebrows at the birthday girl.
Freya nodded. "Sounds good."
As everyone started walking back towards the house, Hope grabbed Freya's hand and pulled her off to the side. "Are you having a good birthday weekend?" the little girl asked.
Freya smiled and nodded. "Can you keep a secret?"
The young blonde nodded eagerly.
"Only because you're here," Freya told her niece. Of course, Freya's birthday was special because everyone was here. She had a big family to spend special occasions like this with, which made her incredibly happy. But she felt some sort of pull towards Hope- both of them being a part of this family yet separated from them for a good chunk of their lives. They found the Mikaelsons later in their lives than they should have, but they were both immediately welcomed into the family.
Hope grinned and hugged her Aunt. "Happy Birthday, Auntie Freya."
Eh, I didn't know how to end this. But I hope you liked it! A nice wintry chapter :) not that I like snow, but I would have liked SOME for Christmas! Apparently Canada just got their first snowfall of the year today? And my region is supposed to get some on Tuesday. Whatever.
And please excuse the inaccuracies of a beautiful sunny day perfect for swimming one day and then a winter wonderland the next day. If anything, that'll probably happen this week in Massachusetts lmao.
And someone wanted a Klaroline scene, threw a little one in there for ya ;)
Okay, so I hope to have the next chapter up by tomorrow so stay tuned! More things happen, and yeah, I think you guys will like it :)