Part II

"Well, we're off!" Rebekah said cheerfully, hoping to get away as soon as possible before either of her brothers decided to ruin their fun. Besides a five year old Katherine was sure as hell more fun that the vindictive, conniving bitch that Rebekah knew she was.

"Bekah, where are we going?" Katherine asked. She was wearing once again the pink dress that Rebekah had bought her yesterday, but since she didn't know for how long she would be stuck like this she definitely needed new clothes.

Rebekah had taught her all of their names, but she had a hard time pronouncing them, so she resulted in calling Elijah "lijah", Rebekah "Bekah, and Klaus "Nik" much to his displeasure.

"Where do you think you're going?" Klaus snarled, ignoring Katherine's weak attempts at a hello (which for her was waving her hands until someone notice her)

"Shopwing!" Katherine said cheerfully.

Klaus had a sour expression on his face. "You certainly are not."

"Oh, come on Nik," Rebekah said disgusted. "Katherine needs clothes."

"That's why they invented internet shopping."

"She needs clothes now."

"Niklaus, sister please both of you don't be difficult," Elijah picked Katherine up who gleefully pressed both hands against his cheek. "Now, Katherine do you promise to behave?"

"Yes, Lijah," she replied.

Elijah kissed her forehead. "Good."

"Don't come crying to me when our sister ditches her at the mall because an imbecile called her pretty." Klaus hissed as he stormed out of the room.

"Keep an eye on her, Rebekah." Elijah warned as he put Katherine down. "Taking care of a child isn't easy."

"Don't worry, I can handle it."

Half an hour later Rebekah, grasping Katherine's hand took her to a children's store. She leaned down and whispered. "See anything you like?"

Katherine's eyebrows furrowed as she concentrated. "That one!" she pointed to a fluffy, blue one. "It's like Cinderella."

Rebekah frowned. "They only have larger sizes."

Katherine pouted. "But I want it!"

"Ok, stay here I'll go ask the saleslady."

As Katherine waited for Rebekah to come back Katherine glance towards the exit, seemly bored by the view until she watched an elderly couple walk by with a golden retriever puppy. Katherine's lips pulled into a grin as she pointed. "Puppy!" and hurried out of the store to chase it.

"Katherine," Rebekah turned around, finally annoyed by the incompetent saleslady. "Which one do you-"her blue eyes widened. Where was she? The store was completely empty except for a middle age mom or two. Crap, crap. Her brothers were going to kill her.

Elijah was quietly sipping his tea and going over one of his mother's grimore, hoping to come up with a solution to their "little Kat" problem, because all though Katherine was adorable as a five year old, he preferred the older version.

His cell phone started ringing. His sister. Even though the spell was only temporarily, she probably wanted to buy Katherine a pony or something.

Elijah didn't even have a chance to say hello, before Rebekah shouted in his ear. "I LOST HER!"

Elijah nearly chocked on his tea. "You did what?" he hissed. "Didn't I specifically told you to keep an eye on her?"

"I did, I swear." Rebekah sounded near tears. "I only took my eye off her for five minutes. I already compelled a few people to look out for her-but can you and Nik please get here?"

Elijah hanged up and headed to his brother's study, where he was working on a new painting."I got a call from Rebekah, we need to go."

Klaus didn't even bother glancing from his drawing pad. "She lost her, didn't she?"

"Yes. You don't seem surprise."

"Well, after your little speech it wasn't totally unexpected. You practically jinxed it." He slapped the pencil down. "Nice work, brother."

"What if she was kidnapped?" Elijah asked Klaus worriedly once they entered the mall. "What if they are planning on selling her overseas for enslavement, what if-"

"Thanks for thinking positively, brother." Klaus replied sarcastically. He narrowed his eyes when he saw Rebekah running towards them. "And there she is the cause of all our troubles." He pinned her against the wall. "What part of take care of Katerina was so difficult for you to understand?"

"I told you it wasn't my fault!"

"I can't believe you want that stupid cure! If you can't take care of a simple minded five year old what hope is there for you?"

Elijah pushed his siblings apart trying to control his temper. "Calm down both of you, she couldn't have gotten far. Let's split up and look for her."

The siblings exchanged looks as they vamped off in search for her, every once in a while compelling a random human to help in their search. Two hours later they were no closer than ever.

"Where the hell is she?" Klaus growled.

Rebekah looked immensely guilty. "I have no idea."

"No, honey don't feed the doggy ice cream."

"Doggy doesn't like ice cream?"

The Originals twirled their heads around, to what seem like the most obvious place. They were at the children's play place at the mall. Sitting in one the benches was an elderly couple, at their feet was an overly eager puppy and Katherine was kneeling besides it trying to feed it strawberry ice cream.

"Katherine!" Elijah scolded as he picked her up. "We've been looking for you everywhere."

"Puppy." Katherine pointed to the dog who was now chewing on Elijah's pant leg.

"Katherine, I told you stay there. Do you know how worried we were?" Rebekah continued.

"Oh, don't be too hard on the girl, dear." The old man wheezed. "Just wanted to play with old Fido here. She was a great little companion."

"Is she your daughter?" the old woman asked Elijah. "She's a cutie pie."

"Uh-"

"Yeah," Klaus said with obvious sarcasm as he pulled his siblings away. "Adorable."

Klaus was gripping Katherine so hard by the waist as he stormed inside their house half an hour later that Katherine started to whimper. Even she knew was in trouble. He placed her on the couch. "Would you mind explaining what was going on through your thick head, Katerina?"

Katherine's eyes started to water. "I'm sorry."

"Sorry? I had to run around the mall for hours like an idiot!"

Katherine burst into tears.

"Klaus." Elijah snapped, obviously disgusted.

"Oh, please don't fall for it. She bats her eyelashes and lets out a few tears and you cuddle her, if I fell for that, Rebekah would never be daggered!"

Katherine started to wail.

"I had enough out of you." Klaus compelled her. "Shut up and go to sleep!"

Katherine closed her eyes and rolled on her side.

"Lijah, read me a story." Katherine pouted as she placed a National Geographic on his lap. "Now."

Elijah stifled a laugh as he put the magazine away. "You're feeling bossy again, you could give Klaus a run for his money."

She wrinkled her nose. Apparently she was still pissed at Klaus.

"What if I tell you a story?" he pulled her on his lap and started retelling her one of Finn's old stories. "Once upon time in a tiny little village where a fisherman lived-"

Elijah barely finished that sentence before Katherine's eyes started to close.

-End of Part II-

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