CHAPTER 15: HELLO BABY
Caroline stared at the little bundle in her arms. It has been three months since her little girl was born and she still marveled at every little detail of her daughter.
After she gave birth, she and the gang decided to stay in Texas to wait for Bonnie, Damon and Enzo to return. Her mother had traveled to Texas to be with her daughter and grand daughter.
"She's beautiful sweetheart." Caroline heard her mother's voice.
Turning around, she smiled, "Yes, she is." Caroline said.
Her daughter truly was a marvel, she had a thick tuft of blonde hair which was starting to grow a bit wavy, it seemed she was a miniature copy of Caroline, except when she opens her eyes, it was a deep dark blue instead of the light blue ones of Caroline. The only trait her daughter seemed to have gotten from her hybrid father.
"How are you feeling?" Her mother asked as she took her grand child from her mother and placed the child in her crib.
"I feel fine." Caroline said. Ever since she gave birth, her vampire senses seemed to have been returning slowly. She still didn't crave blood, but her hearing and sight and senses have begun to heighten slowly.
"Are you sure? You're not.. craving for anything?" Liz asked.
Rolling her eyes, "Mom, I am not craving for anything.. Except maybe your chicken pasta." she said.
Sighing, Liz smiled and said, "Alright, I'll make one for dinner." As she made her way out of her grand daughter's nursery, "Sweetheart, tell me when you feel the cravings return alright? I wasn't there for you when you turned the first time and if you do turn again, I'd like to be there for you." she said as she turned and closed the door.
Caroline smiled, her mother had never wanted her to become a vampire, but her turning brought them closer than ever.
Standing up, she checks to see if her daughter had fallen asleep and kissed her forehead one last time before heading out, she whispers "sleep well my Ellie."
It has been over three months since they all saw his son. When the witches had taken Hayley, Klaus and the others had decided that it would be safer to have the world believe that his child had died.
He'd given him to Rebekah to take care immediately after he was born and the fire that staged his death had been completed.
It broke his heart not to have his son in his arms and yet he knew it was for the best.
Hayley had married her werewolf partner, Jackson, and was now living in the bayou.
Elijah still ran the quarter on his behalf along with Marcel.
However it was the presence of his long lost eldest sister that had him in quite vigilant. She'd come at the proper time when they needed a witch to conceal Rebekah and his little Henrik and now she was living with him and Elijah in the compound.
She'd told them about her past, about the curse that their aunt Dahlia had placed on the family, that every first born female child of the generation will be handed over to her. It was what happened to her and so when little Henrik was born, they were all relieved. However, it meant that Freya was still the first female of a generation and that meant that now that she had once more awoken from the curse her Aunt had placed on herself, she will be looking for her.
Elijah and Klaus naturally promised her that they would protect her, that they will not let her leave them: Family above all, was their family motto after all.
After that, he had accepted her into the family more, he'd let her roam around New Orleans, live the life she had missed because of her curse and watched her be a bit more sensible than Rebekah when it comes to making mistakes with her partners.
However lately, he'd noticed the changes in Freya, the wariness had begun to return, she'd become more silent once more and she'd started looking around her surroundings as if she was waiting for someone to attack or take her.
Something was about to happen, he knew it. And he was going to get to the bottom of it.
"Look, Enzo, I'm on my way to the airport, okay? Just chill!" Liv said as she locked the door to the house and turned around to head to her car to head to the airport.
As she walked to her car, she'd noticed it. One by one, crows were appearing around the area, at first there were only a few flying around, but than, as each of them landed on the ground, it appeared that there were more of them.
Liv would have thought that there must have been a dead animal near but the crows merely stared at her…. Or at the house.
"This is creeping me out." Liv said as she made her way to her car and drove off. She needed to pick up Bonnie, Enzo and Damon at the airport after all and she hated being late. Enzo would never let her hear the end of it.
"Klaus" Freya said. She had been staring outside her room's window as it overlooked the main street. She watched says vampires, witches and werewolves blended with unsuspecting tourists and locals.
"Freya." Klaus said as he entered her room and sat on the lounge chair in the corner. "Is something wrong?" he asked.
For a while, Freya didn't look at him than she turned and headed to her vanity. She took something on top of it and made her way to where her brother was.
"She's coming." she said, as she placed a black Dahlia in his palm.
"Blondie! You're not pregnant anymore!" Enzo said as he dropped his bags on the floor and spread his arms as if waiting for someone to hug him.
"Don't be so loud Enzo, you'll wake Ellie." Caroline said as she stared him down.
"What, I haven't seen any of you in months and I don't get a hug?" Enzo asked.
"Move over, Augustine, heavy bags here!" Damon said as he pushed Enzo further inside the room as he was blocking the doorway.
"Really, its not as if we actually care how heavy anything is, vampire super strength, remember?" Enzo said as he leaned on the wall nearest him.
"Damon! Not so loud, please!" Caroline said. "Ellie, is still adjusting to her sleeping pattern! If you wake her up now, it will ruin her routine and we'll have to start all over again!" Caroline said, not as loudly.
The two men merely looked at her as if to say, "We aren't too loud. What are you talking about?"
Suddenly, they hear a cry coming from upstairs.
"Great. Thanks you two!" Caroline said as she made her way up.
As Caroline had finally put her daughter back to sleep, she felt a presence behind her.
"Hey Care." the voice said.
Turning around, Caroline immediately smiled. "Bonnie!" she said as he hugged her friend.
"I missed you!" Bonnie said as she returned Caroline's hug.
After Caroline had given birth, Enzo gave them a call and said that they had found the secret community of wizards and had gotten a ministry official called an 'unspeakable' to perform the restructuring of the veil. The only problem was, they needed Bonnie to be there for the procedure and so, Bonnie reluctantly left Caroline's side to head to England.
"How are you? What happened? Is the veil back up?" Caroline asked as she sat down on the bed she placed in the nursery for when she didn't want to be away from Ellie.
"I'm fine. everything went well. they took us to where their veil was.. Oh my God Care, you should have seen it! It's so different from what he had." Bonnie said, "Anyway, the only way to get the veil back up was to restructure our veil and join it to their own veil." she added.
"So.. You're no longer the anchor?" Caroline asked.
"No" Bonnie said sadly.
"Why are you sad then? Caroline asked. She should be thrilled that no more dead supernatural should would be touching her.
"Care, for it to work, they needed to restructure our veil to match theirs. Their veil.. They don't bring back the dead." Bonnie said sadly.
Caroline took a moment to analyze this and said, "So, Stefan… he's gone?" tears started to well up in her eyes when Bonnie merely nodded.
"I'm so sorry Care. We tried to talk to them to allow us to try but not only is it impossible but their own laws prohibits anyone to mess with the veil. Their kind is too powerful for my magic, and I barely even have mine." Bonnie said.
It had taken them weeks before they got Damon to agree to it, he didn't want to accept the fact that they would be able to fix the veil but he would no longer be able to get his brother back. Bonnie had consoled him in the end by saying that she hadn't seen Stefan since that day he warned them and that she had not encountered any other dead spirit since. It was most likely that Stefan along with all the other souls- her grams included- were gone for good as the veil had not only crumbled, but vanished too.
Slowly, Damon finally saw sense and had allowed for the procedure to go through.
"Poor Damon." Caroline said, she truly felt bad for Damon, Elena had left him
because she couldn't deal with her emotions between Damon and Stefan and ow Stefan is gone for good. Stefan was always the one who kept Damon in touch with his humanity, well, him and Elena except Elena's gone too.
Bonnie tried to shake the melancholy away, "Anyway how' the little one?" she asked.
Caroline immediately perked up, "She's wonderful. She's so sweet and she doesn't cry much. I'm starting her on her sleeping routine and Enzo and Damon just had to be so loud." Caroline annoyingly said the last part.
"Can I see her?" Bonnie asked, "I promise not to wake her." she added.
"Of course, Bonnie! You are her godmother after all!" Caroline said. as she stood and led Bonnie to the sleeping child.
They didn't notice the single Black Dahlia that fell on the floor as little Ellie was crying earlier.
AN: Yaasss! I got another chapter out! I'm starting on Chapter 17 soon so I still have an extra chapter ready for publishing! How do you feel about this chapter? I've decided to make a switch! Hayley's got a baby boy and Caroline's got a girl!
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