Reunite the family

Silas moves around them while taking in the surrounding that isn't filled with the twelve dead witches that he was expecting. He never thought that anyone in Mystic Falls would be strong enough to destroy his plans.

He still has a creepy smile on his face, which is making Caroline feel uncomfortable. Someone looking like her best guy friend shouldn't have that smile. "Considering that you got in the way of my plans, I think is fair if you deliver the cure to me."

"Sorry, but we don't have it." Klaus moves to stand before Caroline, she doesn't really understand why, considering she's the one that can't die here, but it's nice to know that Klaus will protect her.

"But you know who does, and the last thing you want is for that cure to be used on you." Silas points at Klaus.

"If you think we're going to let you destroy the other side, think again." Caroline tries to get by Klaus, but his superior strength is keeping her behind him.

But Silas only seems to find her words amusing. "Would you say that if his life was in danger." He moves his hand behind his back and Caroline can feel Klaus tense up when it's brought in to view again.

"Where did you get that?" he asks with worry in his voice.

All Caroline can see is Silas standing like he is holding something in his hand that doesn't exist, but she understands that Klaus is seeing something that scares him and the only thing she can think of would be the white oak stake.

She grabs Klaus hand, drawing his attention to her. "There's nothing in his hand." Then she turns to Silas. "Your power doesn't work on me." Silas starts to look angry at the fact that she seems immune to all his tricks.

When Silas moves closer she places herself in front of Klaus. "Leave us alone!" but he keeps moving closer.

She can feel the energy of nature moving around her and the whispers of the spirits from the other side that wishes Silas stopped. It seems that Silas to can feel it because he stops moving and looks around.

Caroline lifts her hand up, pointing them towards him and Silas is forced back. Like a strong wind blows through the area he is being hurled backwards vanishing deeper into the forest.

He doesn't know how she does it. After what they just went through he would have expected Caroline to rest or at least take it easy for a while, but no she went home for a shower and change of clothes before she had to be at school to plan a prom. If he had a say in it, that could have waited for a while.

He, on the other hand, is trying to figure out how to contact his sibling when both Elijah and Rebekah is refusing to answer their phones. If his sister gets her hand on the cure first, she will most likely take it the second it's in her hand.

No matter what, they can't let that happen. The only thing that can go wrong right now is if they lose the cure before they can get it into Silas, making it so much harder, if not impossible, to defeat him.

When the door opens to the mansion he's quickly there to see who has made their way home. While he's glad to see his younger brother, he would have preferred it to be someone that could actually help contact the rest of the family.

And it seems like Kol notices his annoyance. "Nice to see you too, Nik. Isn't the world moving your way?"

Klaus rolls his eyes, trying not to let Kol's quips get to him. "We meet Silas." He informs his brother instead. "Caroline sent him away for now." How long that will last, they can't know.

They leave the foyer to settle in the living room. "Are you both okay?" Kol asks while Klaus pours them a drink each.

Klaus lets himself think on the question for a while, uncertain of how to answer. Sure, they are okay, physically. He would like to know more about what is happening to Caroline, but it seems like Cyrena prefers keeping them in the dark about most things.

He sighs as he sits down in an armchair. "I think so." He answers his brother. "We learned that there exists to lines of doppelgängers." Kol looks questioning at him. "Silas looks exactly like Stefan."

"The younger Salvatore brother?" Klaus nods. "Interesting." Is all Kol has to comment. "And the Bennett witch, how did it go with her?"

"According to Caroline, who talked with Stefan, she has some memory problems." He hadn't really listened to the information Caroline was giving him. "She is trying to hide from Silas, I think."

Kol nods understanding, he is going to see if he can help, if she will allow it. But for now, they have to focus on taking down Silas, which begins with getting the cure.

He had kept an eye on Rebekah's hunt for it and figured out that Elijah was trying to help the doppelgänger get her deal with Klaus. "Are you going to give her, her freedom?"

"Who are we talking about." Klaus wonders.

"Katerina." Kol clarifies. "If she gives us the cure, will you let her go?"

Klaus sighs. "We need the cure, and it might be a good idea to make peace with those I can."

"And what has caused this change?" Klaus has never really cared how many enemies he's had, to be fair, none of them has rarely cared, they haven't had any reasons to.

Before Klaus answers he takes a deep breath and locks eyes with his brother, there is every chance that Kol is going to believe he is messing with him. "Caroline is pregnant." As expected Kol starts to laugh.

Once Kol manages to stop he notice the serious look on Klaus' face. "You're not joking?"

"No, I'm not."

"Cyrena?" Klaus nods. "Wow." Is all Kol can say.

It's been a relaxing time to focus on prom instead of every crazy thing that happens in Mystic Falls right now. But she did expect something to get in her way, so when it hasn't, well, it's a weird feeling to get to plan something from the beginning to end without a problem.

She has been thinking of calling Bonnie, to see how her friend is doing. It's just that she isn't ready to explain everything that has happened yet. Bonnie is her friend and normally if she had gotten pregnant her friends would have been the first to know.

A part of her misses that, sitting with Bonnie and Elena just talking about things they are happy about or annoyed over, complaining about teachers and discussing the guys they like. She does miss those human days sometimes.

Instead, she's now worried about the reaction Bonnie will have when she tells her about Klaus and that she's pregnant, and she hasn't even started to think about Elena's reaction if she ever turns her humanity back on.

When did their life get so messed up that they started to be afraid of telling each other things, it shouldn't be that way and still, Caroline can't think of another way to handle this than keeping it a secret.

She would never have fought that the day would come that she feels safer around Klaus than her friends, or that she happily makes her way towards the Mikaelson mansion after a day in school.

To think that half a year ago she would have refused to go to the ball the Mikaelson was hosting if Rebekah hadn't invited Matt right in front of her and Elena and now she's almost family. It surprises her how much can change in so little time.

She could throw up right about now, there must be something wrong in her brother's brains considering who they choose to care about. To see with Katherine is something she could do without, that he actually falls for her hollow charms is something she will never understand.

When leaves the doppelgängers side, Rebekah jumps down from the car. "And here I thought you were the smart brother."

"You don't have a smart brother." He answers her. "It turns out I'm just as stupid as the rest of you." At least she admits it, she thinks.

Needing this to go her way, she tries to relax and find a way to convince Elijah to give her what she wants. "Why don't you just give me the cure so I can judge you silently elsewhere?"

Confusion spreads over Elijah's face. "And what could you possibly want with the cure?"

"I want to be human again." That should be obvious considering that it's the only thing she could do with the cure.

She hopes he understands how important this is for her and even if he doesn't, there is no reason for him to keep the cure. She can't imagine that he would just hand it over to the Salvatore brothers and there is no possibility that Klaus is going to give Katherine her freedom.

He seems to at least think about it because it takes him a while to find the right words. "How do you know that being human is the answer you're looking for?" apparently, he isn't seeing it her way. "I mean, it's nothing but a romantic notion. The grass won't necessarily be greener, Rebekah."

It's not that she isn't aware that, that is a possibility, but this is her life, and this is the way she chooses to live it. "I want to live a simple life as a normal person. And when it ends, it ends. We've had 20 lifetimes together, Elijah. Isn't that enough?"

He shakes his head lightly. "I just don't understand." She doesn't need him to understand just respect and accept her decision. "I mean, why must you always consider our family a burden? Always and forever. I mean, those words are as important to me today as they ever were."

She sighs and places a hand on his arm. She needs to make sure these words reach him, this is Elijah after all and he has a need to understand and logic has always been the thing that works best with him.

"You will always be my brother. And I will never stop loving you." She gives him a slight smile. "But now it's time for me to live and die the way that I choose, not the way you and Nik want me to. Please. Please just give me the cure."

Before Elijah can answer her, her phone rings. Klaus has tried to reach her the entire day, but she has ignored him every time. If she does the same now and continues to have this discussion with Elijah, maybe she can get what she wants but she also knows that there is every chance that her brother won't hand the cure over until he is certain that Klaus won't give Katherine her freedom.

At least he will stop calling if she answers now. "What do you want, Nik?"

"An update on our search for the elusive cure."

Of course, that is the only thing of interest to anyone these days. "Let's just say that things have gotten complicated. In fact, why don't you speak to one of those complications?" she holds her phone out to Elijah.

He takes it from her hand and they make their way to get in the car, there is no way they're not returning to Mystic Falls now. To her annoyance, that means that she will have to convince Klaus that becoming human is something she should be allowed to do.

"Complication speaking." She listens in on her brother's conversation.

It seems like Klaus wasn't expecting Elijah because he becomes quiet for a while. "Big brother. At last, you join the fray." He finally says.

"Somebody had to take charge." That's his opinion, Rebekah thinks. According to her, they were doing just fine. "And now that I have, I've got the cure and I'm bringing it back to Mystic Falls." It sounds like Klaus breathes a sigh of relief.

"With a long list of demands, I assume."

"Not that long." She is quite sure that Klaus already knows that the only demand Elijah will have is about Katherine.

"Come home, brother. We'll settle this like family." Is the last thing Klaus says before he hangs up.

The first one she meets when she enters the mansion is Kol, it didn't take him long to make it to town, she thinks. Not that she had any idea of where he was, but she would have expected it to take him a bit longer to reach Mystic Falls.

At first, he just stands there, leaning against the stairs and she is starting to feel a bit uncomfortable by his gaze. "Is something wrong?"

Her voice seems to draw him from his thoughts. "It's not showing."

That didn't explain anything. "What isn't showing?"

He points to her stomach. "That you're pregnant, I expected to see something since Nik didn't keep it a secret."

Ooh, so Klaus is already telling his siblings. It's not that she expected them to keep it a secret but maybe he could have talked to her first so that they were on the same page.

But that isn't something she is going to take out on Kol. "It will sooner or later." She says to him placing a hand on her growing belly. "Is Klaus around?"

Kol nods and leads her through the many rooms of the mansion. She will never get used to their lifestyle, she never truly got used to the size of Tyler's home and that is nothing to the Mikaelson mansion.

"Nik, Caroline is here." Kol suddenly calls out when they entered what looks like a living room. Directly after Kol throws himself on the couch and starts to look through a book that was laying on the table.

It doesn't take long for Klaus to join them. "Hi." He says when he sees her. "Is everything okay."

She nods and lets him embrace her. "I'm fine, though I would have preferred a warning that you were telling your siblings that I'm pregnant."

"I didn't think you would mind." He says apologetically.

She takes a deep breath. "I don't, it's just a matter of time before people can see that I'm pregnant so we have to let people know, but we are in this together and should talk about these things."

"Understood, I'm planning on telling Elijah and Rebekah when they get here." he tells her and that makes her laugh. "Are you planning on telling your friends?" he wonders.

A question she doesn't have a real answer to. "I want to." She says and sighs. "But I'm worried about how they will react."

"Aren't they supposed to be the good guys, they should be happy," Kol says drawing their attention. "No wait, they killed me, no one can be classified as good if they kill me."

"To be fair, you were planning to cut off Jeremy's arms," Caroline says and Kol makes a face pretending to be hurt. "But I do agree that that wasn't the brightest idea my friends ever had."

"Good to know that you don't agree with them." He says with a smile. "To more important things, how are we planning to convince Rebekah that she can't have the cure?"

"Why do we have to convince her, all we have to do is keep it from her." Klaus says.

Caroline guesses that that's the way he usually does things, but there must be a better way. "Do you want her to keep hating you?" she asks him. "Maybe we can try to explain to her way her taking it is a bad idea."

"Or Nik can just put her in a box." Kol says and Caroline feels that they are going to have a hard enough time agreeing on a way to convince Rebekah, this isn't going to be easy.