Chapter 11: Claire
Previously in New Order:
Forbes' house, Mystic Falls, Other Side:
Fulminating, he vamped to Caroline's place where the two demons had settled.
-"Get out of this house now!" he screams outraged after he went through the door;
-"And why that? Because you say so? I will not, this is my house." Claire responds without faltering.
Now:
-"I will not say it again! I really don't care where you go as long as it is not here; you have no right to be here!" Nicklaus yells throwing a chair across the room. He did not fully understand himself why he could not stand seeing them in Caroline's house but he did. He felt like they were desecrated the place.
-"I have every right! William, my husband, started building this house once he knew I was pregnant with our son although it's not of your concern!" Claire shouts very emotional, "Now you get out of our house!" She adds through clenched teeth;
-"William?" the hybrid repeats a bit lost.
-"William Forbes. A sorry excuse for a man if you ask me, but my daughter fell in love with him after my death so... " Theresa intervenes bitterly;
-"Mom! " Claire exclaims.
Forbes' house, Mystic Falls, Living word:
As soon as the record ended, Caroline vamped to some cupboard from where she retrieved an old photo album which she browsed until she founded what she wanted. It was an old black and white picture of her grand-parent taken in front of her house. Her grandpa was very elegant in his classic suits and fedora. He was smiling widely at the photographer, holding his very pregnant wife by the waist. She had a bob cut curled in a very retro way and was wearing a long black coat opened into her large shirt dress showing her belly. They made a handsome couple.
-"Mom?" Josie called from the living room. Caroline went to her daughters with the photo album between her hands.
-"This is my grandparent on my father side." The twin's mother says as she points at the old picture. She removed the photo from the album and turned it around.
-"William and Claire Forbes, 1958, Mystic Falls" Josie reads, "Wait. Your grandma, our great-grandmother wrote the journals we found?!" she exclaims;
-"It's the most logical explanation considering the place where it was hidden."Her mother reasons;
-"She was pregnant with Grandpa Bill right?" Lizzy demands;
-"Yes."Caroline simply answers ;
-"In her journal, she said she was human a long time ago but wasn't one anymore, does it mean that your father wasn't human? That you wasn't even human before you turned into a vampire?" Josie asks starting to connect the dots;
-"I don't know...my father and I seemed to be very human in my opinion...perhaps what she was could not be passed to the next generation like vampirism or needed to be activated like lycanthropy...Although, now that I think about it, my father could not be compelled and was very strong for a man..." Her mother trails off, lost in her own thoughts;
-"Why did she write in Japanese? Was she Japanese? " Lizzy points out arching an eyebrow;
-"I don't think so. I believe it was another security measure and she was right to do so considering her husband came from a famous family of hunters.";
-"The spell which hid the books was very strange nothing I have siphoned before." Josie says to no one in particular;
-"Did you know your grandparent? I mean do you think William or his family killed her, perhaps they had discovered what she was..." Lizzy asks most naturally. Her mother gasped, she forgot sometimes how much her girls had been trough, how they world had been surrounded by darkness from time to time despite her best effort.
-"My grandmother died before I was born -I don't know how- and when my grandfather died from a heart attack I was still a child but let's hope it is not what happened." Caroline answers as best she can. They sat in silence for some time until Josie stroke the picture of her great grandmother:
-"She is very pretty. You look a bit like her Mom."
Forbes' house, Mystic Falls, Other Side:
-"You are Caroline's Grandmother." He says doubtfully;
-"I am." She confirms;
-"How can I believe anything you say?" Nicklaus points out led by his suspicious nature;
-"If I care I would have show you some pictures or some memory of mine but I really don't." Claire responds standing her ground. Now he understood what had stroked him at the 'lake', he realised smiling. Indeed Claire was quieter and she had this constant sadness in her eyes but in her emotional outburst he could find his Caroline again. It was mostly in the little things like the way she carried herself as she was waiting for someone to fight her.
Ending song: The Handsome Family – Far from any road
AN: Hope you enjoyed it! Love and peace! For the next chapter I want to do a piece about how the girls see the relationship between K and C, but I hesitate between a Caroline/Hope conversation or a twin/Caroline conversation or even a twins/Hope conversation, what do you think?
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