XVII

Elijah frowned when her heard grunts comings from Katherine's walk in closet, it sounded as if Katherine was wrestling with a polar bear. He knocked on the door. "Kat, you ok?"

"Fine," Katherine said between grunts. "Just don't come in here!"

Elijah ignored her request as he pushed the door open and it took all of his will power not to laugh. Katherine was on the floor of the closet, wiggling and trying to zip up her favorite, black skinny jeans that were obviously too small for her, now that she had entered her fifth month of pregnancy.

"Don't laugh!" Katherine scowled as she kicked the jeans off and frowned. "I'm so fat!" she whined. "I just want to crawl into a hole and die!"

"Now you're exaggerating," Elijah let out a small laugh as he helped her up and put a hand around her shoulder. "And you're not fat, gaining baby weight is perfectly normal. You're still cute."

It was obvious that Katherine was not amused. Elijah sighed, he should have known that it wouldn't be that easy to convince Katherine. "Look, why don't you go maternity shopping with Caroline, I'm guessing her clothes don't fit much either." Though the blond didn't wear super tight clothes like Katherine was used to.

"All right, I'll call her," she admitted grudgingly as she gave him a small peck on the lips. "I love you, I'm sorry that I'm such a drama queen."

Elijah smiled as he kissed her forehead. "Honey, that's the reason I fell in love with you."

"Klaus, I thought you left already," Caroline was surprised when she entered the kitchen for a glass of orange juice and found Klaus looking at his phone. Over the course of a few days, she had gotten over the mini heart attacks she received at remembering that she and Klaus actually lived in the same apartment, and besides his condescending tone, he was actually a decent roommate. At least he didn't leave his socks all over the place.

"My meeting doesn't start until ten," he noticed Caroline's purse. "Where are you going?"

"Katherine and I are going maternity clothes shopping," Caroline said feeling a little embarrassed, she barely managed to button her jeans most of the time, but she had been so focused on the store that she had put off clothes shopping, though she thought she better hurry unless she wanted to be in sweatpants all day.

Klaus nodded as he pulled out his wallet and handed her his credit card as if were no big deal. "Here, buy whatever you need, my pin is-"

"Klaus," she said. "I have my own money." That was a big lie of course, whatever little money she had won through the store she was already using it to pay for the renovations.

Klaus didn't move. "I insist, Caroline. You haven't been so unpleasant. It's the least I could do."

"Gee, thanks," knowing that Klaus wasn't going to budge, she took the card from him. "Thanks, Klaus." She sounded more sincere. "But next time, I'm paying for my own crap."

Klaus smirked, he leaned forward and for a second Caroline felt that he was going to kiss her, but he simply pulled back and cleared his throat. "Well, I'll leave you to your shopping then."

"Ugly, ugly hideous," Katherine was moving through the clothes rack so fast that Caroline doubted that she even looked at the clothes.

Caroline sighed and tried to be patient, but with Katherine it was hard, they had been shopping for over two hours and Katherine had yet to find something that she liked. Caroline had already picked out two jeans and a nice dress from a previous store, but it was no secret that Katherine was picky.

"What did you expect to find, leather jeans?" she plucked an emerald green blouse. "How about this?"

Katherine narrowed her eyes as she glanced at the blouse suspiciously. "It's pretty."

Caroline gave a hollow laugh. "It's not going to bite you, Kat just try it on." Katherine still didn't look convince. "That is unless you want to destroy all your clothes back home."

Katherine immediately grabbed another blouse and a dress. "Be right back."

The following week both girls planned their ultrasounds to find out the gender of their babies and they were both nervous to say the least. Both of the Mikaelson boys had insisted on accompanying them.

Katherine watched the clock in front of her, barely noticing as Dr. Rogers put the cold, blue gel on her belly. Katherine was biting her lip so hard out of nervousness that she was sure that it would bleed.

Elijah was rubbing her shoulder. "Just breathe, sweetheart."

"This one has always been twitchy," Dr. Rogers gave an exaggerated sigh.

Katherine glared at her, of all the doctors they had to stick her with this one again? But her anger left when Dr. Rogers finally smiled. "There it is, now you two are going to be the proud parents of twin baby girls, identical by the looks of it."

There was a big smile on Elijah's face as he kissed Katherine's cheek. "Little girls!"

"Our own little girls," Katherine whispered as her eyes never left the screen.

"Klaus will you stop moving your feet?" Caroline said exasperated as she laid back down on the small bed waiting for the doctor. "I'm sure Dr. Fell will be here any minute."

Klaus glared. She was already regretting it, letting him come with her, but she had no idea that he would be this nervous, I mean she was the one that was going to have the baby.

"Sorry, to keep you waiting," Dr. Fell said. She looked surprised to see Klaus. "Hello, Mr.-"

"Mikaelson." Klaus said curtly. "The baby's father, now will you hurry up?"

"Klaus!" she scolded as she laughed nervously. "Sorry about that, he's nervous."

"Not to worry," Dr. Fell placed the blue gel on Caroline's stomach and smiled. "How have you've been feeling, Caroline?"

"Perfect, just a few cravings and my jeans don't fit like they used to."

She laughed. "That's normal. Are you ready to find out the gender of your baby?"

She nodded as she searched for Klaus' hand and much to her surprise he squeezed it back.

"You're going to have a baby boy."

-End of Chapter Seventeen-