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Caroline's blue eyes opened as she looked around and she frowned when she didn't recognize her surroundings. Expensive furniture, designer shoes, her own heels, a pair of black lace panties, and boxers that were definitely not hers.

She turned to her side and saw Klaus sleeping next to her, completely naked as well. She let out a small yelp as she got out of the bed and wrapped her body with a sheet. "Klaus!"

What had happed last night? She honestly didn't know if she had attended the reception, she and Klaus had been at that bar all night and then he had hinted that he had rented a hotel room, Caroline could probably guess the rest.

"No need to shout, love." Klaus said lazily. "Go back to sleep."

Caroline slapped his shoulder. "Don't love me. What happened?" she shook her head. "Oh crap, crap!"

"You already said that," Klaus pointed out amused.

"This is all your fault!"

"My fault?" Klaus' eyes widened in innocence. "I beg to differ sweetheart, I offer you this hotel room after I saw that you were too drunk to drive, you were the one that started stripping the minute I-"

"Stop." She raised her hand. "I don't want to know. Where's my dress?"

"Here you go." Klaus said handing her the silky material and Caroline put on her underwear and dress. "And I was just about to invite you to breakfast."

"Thanks, but no thanks." Caroline said sarcastically as she finished dressing. "No offense but I already want to throw up and I don't need food to go along with it."

"It was pleasant for me, love." Klaus said.

"Well, it wasn't for me." She pointed her clutch in his direction. "And you, not a word to anyone or I swear I will hunt you down and make you regret it."

Klaus rested his head back on the fluffy pillow. "My lips are sealed."

Caroline heard her cell phone ringing as she entered her apartment, the ringing did not help her hangover in the slightest. "Please shut up." She groaned as she answered it. "Hello."

"Morning Care. Are you at the store?" Katherine sounded equally sleepy, she had probably just woken up. In her own bed with a man that was actually her significant other.

"No. . . I took the day off." She lied. "I was too tired after the wedding."

"So how did it go with you and Klaus? I saw you two talking."

"I wished we had just stick to talking."

"Why? What did you do? Something scandalous?" Katherine teased.

Caroline groaned. "More like something repulsive." She groaned. "Would it be totally bad to say that I slept with him?"

Katherine squealed. "Nice Forbes! Finally you do something bad for once, now you're slutty bitch like me."

"I don't think having sex with your successful boyfriend makes you a slutty bitch, Katherine."

"Well, I'm a bitch and I can be pretty slutty." She smirked. "Just ask Elijah."

Caroline shook her head as she stated heating up water for coffee. "Ew, too much information. The point is I slept with him, I slept with the man whose greatest joy in life is to torture me. Tell me how does that not make me insane?"

"It was a one night stand, Care chill." Katherine said. "Besides Klaus is a man-slut, he hits on anything with a pair of boobs."

"Great way to make me feel better, Kat."

"Hey, I got you to laugh didn't I?"

"Morning, Kat." Lexi Branson a nurse and one of Katherine's few friends at the hospital greeted her in her six am shift, the Monday following the wedding. "How was the wedding? I heard it was the event of the season."

"Well, you know Rebekah." Katherine said faintly. Her stomach was even more upset than usual and her head was pounding.

Lexi noticed this. "Hey, are you ok? You look like of pale."

"I'm fine-"the words had barely slipped out of her mouth as she felt her grip slipping and everything became dark.

"Mr. Mikaelson," Genevieve, both the Mikaelsons secretary said. "You have a call coming from Mystic Falls General hospital, should I put you on the line?"

"Yes, please." Elijah said. It was probably Katherine, but she usually called him on her cell phone. "Hello, Katherine?"

"Actually no, Lexi." Lexi said on the other end. Lexi and Elijah had only meet a few times. "Do you remember me? I'm a nurse, I work at the hospital with Katherine."

"Yes, of course, Lexi how are you?" Elijah sounded a bit confuse, he and Lexi didn't have anything in common other than their relationship with Katherine.

"I'm fine, but can you get away."

"I think so, why?"

Lexi hesitated. "Look, don't get alarmed, but Katherine fainted during her shift." She said hurriedly. "She's fine, she wasn't hurt, she is in the hospital resting. I know you must be busy, but you're the only one she's close too-"

"I'll be right there." Elijah interrupted as he hung up. He exited his office, his mind racing and he almost knock down Klaus who had just entered the building looking half asleep, and half pissed.

"Where are you going?" he asked annoyed.

"Katherine . . . hospital." he said between breaths, not bothering to explain, not that Klaus cared. It seemed his brother ran a never ending chase with Katherine.

Katherine's eyes opened slowly, she could see that the room was dark and she could hear the beeping of a machine that was coming from an IV that she was hooked up too. Someone had wrapped a thick blanket around her.

"Hey, baby." Elijah whispered, and Katherine had barely noticed that he was here.

"Elijah?" she croaked.

"Do you remember what happened?" he prompted.

She nodded. "Why though?"

"Dehydration and stress, at first I thought it was probably the flu since you had been feeling sick lately. But Lexi ran a blood test when you were unconscious." His face broke into a grin. "Katherine you came back positive?"

"Positive?" she sounded confused. "Positive for what?"

Elijah gently squeezed her hand. "You're going to have a baby, sweetheart. Our baby."

"Baby?" Katherine croaked in horror.

Elijah didn't noticed her discomfort as he hugged her. "I'm so proud of you, Katherine."

Proud of what? Being fertile? She wanted to spat, but she didn't, instead she simply froze.

A few days later Caroline and Katherine were sitting in Caroline's kitchen and Caroline couldn't help, but noticed that her friend looked upset and rather jumpy. "What's wrong, Kat?"

"Nothing," she snapped. Then sighed. "Sorry, I'm a little tense, can you keep a secret?"

Caroline nodded as she took a sip of her tea. "Of course."

Katherine closed her eyes tightly as she looked back and forth. "I'm pregnant. I'm expecting a baby, I found out a few days ago that's why I'm so tired all of the time and I've been feeling sick."

Caroline gaped she was not expecting that, no wonder Katherine was so upset she had always been kind of anti-baby. "Weren't you on the pill?"

Katherine shook her head. "It made me sick and I was so stupid that I never thought of another birth control method and you know how Elijah and I am we can get. . .very excited and we didn't always use protection." She bit her lip, tears crowning her eyes. "I'm one month pregnant, what am I going to do Care?"

Caroline squeezed her shoulder. "It's going to be ok, Kat trust me. Does Elijah know?"

She nodded.

"How did he react?"

"He was happy," Katherine responded with almost bitter resent, "he was practically bouncing out of joy. It was no secret that he had wanted a baby and to settle down, I was the boulder that stood in the way. Well, I guess not anymore."

Caroline peered at her curiously, she guessed there was more to the story. "But you don't want the baby, do you?"

Katherine shook her head. "What am I going to do with a baby, Care? Give up my career? My medical studies? I know Elijah will be thrilled with a baby and a stay at home wife, but what about me? Don't I get a choice?"

"Of course you have a choice," Caroline said. "But you can always post pone your studies for a few years . . . or get a babysitter. You don't have to do it alone, Katherine and besides it's Elijah's baby too."

Katherine stubbornly crossed her arms over her chest, it was obvious that she had made up her mind.

"I want to have an abortion." Katherine blurted out, and even Caroline looked surprise.

"An abortion, Katherine isn't that a little extreme? I mean you have time and Elijah should have a choice-"

"I don't care what Elijah wants," Katherine said furiously. "He knew perfectly well that I didn't want to have a baby, so he shouldn't question why I would want an abortion." Katherine burst into tears. "I just don't want him to hate me."

"He won't hate you." Caroline said soothingly. "He loves you. Just talk to him, Kat it's going to be ok,"

Caroline waved at Katherine as she pulled out of the driveway and then pulled down the curtain and sighed. She couldn't believe that her high achieving friend was pregnant, she couldn't exactly picture Katherine with a baby. She could picture Elijah, but Katherine on the other hand wasn't exactly what you called motherly.

She'll do fine, Caroline reminded herself, Katherine may be cold at times, but she wasn't cruel and Caroline knew that she had a good heart.

Caroline glanced at the calendar that was hanging in her kitchen wall, Bonnie had brought it back from New Orleans when she went to visit her grandparents. It was a calendar that was covered with pictures of shoes.

Caroline frowned as she took a closer look. On the first there was a bright red ink spot to represent her period, but that day was almost two weeks ago. She had never been late before.

Caroline shook her head, not it wasn't possible. Everyone was late sometimes right? Except she never was, her period always came on the first like clockwork. Caroline grabbed her keys and purse, she needed to go to the pharmacy.

-End of Chapter Five-

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