XIII

The weeks passed before they could even blink and now Katherine and Caroline were sitting side by side at a small clinic in Mystic Falls waiting to be called for their checkups and sonograms.

Katherine was in the middle of her third month of pregnancy and Elijah had insisted that she get a routine check and she had dragged Caroline along with her who had also entered her third month to accompany her.

It made Katherine glad that their due dates were only a few weeks apart, but still a part of her wanted Caroline to have her baby first and then tell Katherine how the birth was. The pregnancy books were only freaking her out more and honestly she didn't find anything "beautiful" about birth.

"God, what is taking them forever?" Katherine grumble as she closed her fashion magazine. "I can barely breathe in these jeans."

"At least you're still fitting into your jeans." Caroline pointed out. "How could I have gained weight so fast?"

"Well, if your breakfast didn't consist of deep fried Twinkies-"

"Says the girl that ate a whole package of cupcakes!" Caroline interrupted.

Katherine shrugged. "I was hungry, I'm eating for two we have an excuses." She looked over her shoulder. "Now where is that damn nurse? Does Klaus know you were coming?"

"Nope." Caroline said irritably as she flipped over a parenting magazine. "Why should I even bother telling him? I and the baby are just another financial responsibility, I think he's just doing it so Elijah doesn't nag him."

"Or your mom shoots him." Katherine gave her a small smile. "Well, he can't be worse than Elijah, I rather be ignored than over coddled, I'm serious the man thinks I'm about to have the baby any day now."

"Aw, that's so cute." Caroline cooed. "He's excited."

Katherine rolled her eyes. "Believe me, it's not cute when he starts following you around everywhere."

Caroline stop mid laugh when a middle age nurse appeared. "Miss Caroline Forbes, follow me I'm going to take you to Dr. Fell. Miss Pierce, please wait here Dr. Rogers will be with you in just a moment."

"Perfect." Katherine said dryly, obviously not eager to be kept waiting.

The nurse led Caroline to a small room where a dark hair doctor was waiting for them. "Thank you, Cindy. I'm Dr. Meredith Fell, Miss Caroline."

"Hi," she shook the doctor's hand feeling butterflies in her stomach, she couldn't believe how nervous she felt. "So should we get started?"

"Lie down, please." Caroline lied down on a small bed as Meredith lifted up her blouse and spread a cold, blue gel on her stomach. "How far along are you?"

"I just entered my third month last Tuesday." Caroline said trying to look at the small screen, but she couldn't really depict it. "Is everything ok?"

"Everything is perfect," Dr. Fell said. "Your baby is growing strong and it's healthy, there's nothing more that I can say at this point." She started drying off the gel.

"When can I find out if the baby is a girl or a boy?"

"Not for another month or two." Dr. Fell handed her a small picture of her sonogram. "Here your, your first sonogram picture."

Caroline smile. "Thank you."

Katherine flinched when the cool gel touched her stomach, "Sorry, honey." Dr. Rogers, a fifty something year old doctor with bright red hair said. "Now what do we have here?"

Katherine waited for the woman to say something, but when she didn't she snapped. "Well?"

"My, do I have a surprise for you." She said which only annoyed Kat even more. Dr. Rogers noticed the murder-y look on Katherine's face and continued. "You're having twins, baby doll."

Katherine froze, was this women serious or was she going senile? "What?" she squeaked.

"You heard me," Dr. Rogers scoffed. "You're carrying two little angels." She saw how pale she looked. "Honey you ok."

"I'm fine." Katherine said as she stood up, not bothering to take off the gel from her stomach. "I just really wasn't expecting this."

She was barely getting used to the idea of one baby, now she had to get used to two?

Elijah was there as soon as Katherine came walking through the door. "Elijah, you scared me. What are you doing here, I thought you were at work."

"It's my lunch break." Elijah said, he studied her face. "Are you ok? You look sick."

"I'm fine." She fumbled as she pulled out the sonogram and handed it to him. "I just got some unexpected news."

Elijah frowned. "Is everything ok with you and the baby-"

"Everything is fine." She gulped. "Elijah, I'm having twins."

A look of relief spread across his face. "Thank god, I thought something bad happened-I-"he studied her face. "Are you ok?"

She nodded. "I'm fine, a little overwhelmed, actually a little excited."

"Really?"

"Really, I guess you're excitement can be contagious."

Elijah wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her. "I love you so much."

"I love you too."

Klaus heard the doorbell ring and he frowned as he stood up, he usually didn't get many visitors. He stood up and was surprised when he saw Caroline. "You know where I live?" he blurted out.

Caroline scoffed. "Nice to see you too," but her anger quickly evaporated when she raised a black and white picture. "Look, I have a surprise, I wasn't going to show it to you but then I thought why not-"

Klaus snatched the picture from her. "What is this?"

"It's my sonogram silly. Dr. Fell told me how to read it." She pointed to the picture. "See, that's my-our baby's head. Can I come in?"

"Oh, yeah sure," he waved her in trying to depict the picture. "You had an appointment today?"

"Yeah, me and Katherine oh, and guess what Katherine is having twins-"

"Why didn't you tell me?" he interrupted again, he didn't care that the she-devil and his brother were having twins.

"Will you stop interrupting me," she huffed. "Well, I didn't know you cared, I figured I just tell you afterwards."

"Of course I care," he snapped as he looked at the picture again. "You should have told me."

"I'll tell you next time." Caroline said feeling perplexed, why was Klaus so worked up about this?

Klaus didn't speak for a moment. "I've been thinking about what your mother said and would you like to get married Caroline? I would be willing too . . . to some extent and it would restore your honor."

"You don't have too, really my honor or whatever is fine." She softened. "But thanks for offering."

Tyler was helping his mother clear up some old boxes in her basement because his parents wanted to turn it into a home gym which meant that he had to get rid of his junk. He stopped short when he saw a box labeled, high school memories.

He gave a small smile when he opened it, inside was a picture of his old football team, his high school diploma, and a picture of him and Caroline at a random football game. He smiled a sad smile, poor Care impregnated with another's man baby, a man that she didn't even like, but he admired her bravery.

He put down the picture, he wished that things could have gone as planned.

-End of Chapter Thirteen-