A/N – All I can say is wow! Thank you all for the reviews – I think that last chapter had the most reviews ever! So awesome. Plus you guys were pissed! Remember we are dealing with the big bad hybrid here. Klaroline is still the end game.

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Well here it is – the chapter that started it all - hope you guys like it – took me awhile to find my mojo for it.

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It had been a month since Stefan had left. She had only gotten two texts from him letting her know that he was ok, both from different cell phone numbers, for which she was grateful. Stefan was alive and well and that was all that mattered. She even managed to deal with the increase communications with Damon as a result of his disappearance. Luckily Stefan had spouted off some nonsense about finding himself to Damon so it sounded more like a sabbatical rather than I am running in fear of my life from a crime lord.

Of course Damon felt like it was his fault his brother had to go find himself connecting the sudden sabbatical to Katherine's visit to London and he appeased his guilt by talking to Caroline. It annoyed the hell out of her but it gave her another thing to focus on other than her broken heart which she was reluctantly thankful for.

The strange thing though was that with her conversations with Damon he didn't crack any jokes about Klaus (or should she say Ken) at all. Caroline took it to mean that Katherine must have told him about her break up with Klaus and then threatened to rain down hell if he said anything to Caroline. And if there was one person Damon Salvatore was afraid of it was Katherine Pierce, although he would never admit it.

Caroline had spent most of the month watching romance movies, eating gallons of ice cream and metric tons of Chinese food. Katherine had talked to her almost every other day, keeping her grounded and keeping her from getting too depressed.

Caroline's thoughts drifted to Klaus more than she wanted to. His voice, his dimples and the way he touched her. It was hard to shake, especially since she had been so in love with him. The humiliation she felt at his hands and the fact that he had run Stefan out of town was quick in diminishing any lingering regret at the path that their relationship had taken.

It was in the middle of one of her movie marathons that had gotten her up at the crack of dawn that she felt nauseous. She barely made it to the bathroom before she was tossing up what was left of last night's dinner. She puked until it was nothing but dry heaves. Fuck, she hadn't felt this bad since her little drunken shot fest with Katherine last month and unfortunately this time she didn't have the pleasure of at least being drunk as a skunk before she was subject to feeling as sick as dog.

Well that was just fucking great. Let's just add the flu to the worse fucking month of her life. Guy that you fell in love with just uses you just for sex. Your best friend forever gets run out of town by said love of your life that used you for sex. Now let's make you puke your guts out because life is super duper that way.

Spitting into the toilet one last time she flush and moved to the sink to wash her hands only to find the soap dispenser empty. Rolling her eyes she dropped to her knees to open the cabinet under the sink to fetch the giant bottle of soap that she used as a refill only to freeze as she caught sight of the box of tampons that set next to the soap refill.

Tampons. Tampons. Her period. She didn't remember having her period recently. She couldn't remember the last time she had her period. She was so preoccupied with her broken heart she hadn't even thought about her period. When the fuck did she have her period last? She couldn't remember. Glancing at the trash can and finding it clean she wracked her brain as to when she bled last. Scrambling up onto her feet she ran to look at her birth control pills. Her sugar pills were done two weeks ago, yet she didn't bleed. She had been so caught up in her sadness that she hadn't realized she was supposed to of had her period.

She missed her fucking period.

No.

No.

This was not happening. Her luck wasn't this bad. There was no fucking way her luck was this bad.

Gasping for air she pressed a hand to her stomach, closed her eyes and prayed. She may not have been religious, but she was willing to beg to any God that would listen to her. Please please please God don't let this happen. Not with him. Anything but him. With a burst of energy she pulled on a sweater over her pajama tank top, slipped on a pair of trainers and grabbed her purse and was out the front door like a shot.

It only took her a few minutes to get to the 24 hour drug store that was around the corner from her place. Running to the feminine hygiene aisle she paused at the area with all the pregnancy tests. Grabbing one of each she made her way to the front of the store and dropped all six boxes onto the counter waiting to be checked out.

The old man at the checkout stand was far too apathetic to his job to give Caroline any sort of judgment for her purchase, checking her out quickly and efficiently for which she was eternally grateful.

Caroline made it back to her flat in record time, dropping her bag of tests on the counter as she bolted to the fridge and pulled out a couple of water bottles, opening them up and drowning the contents in large gulps in effort to fill her bladder.

An hour later she couldn't help but face the results. Every line in each pregnancy test stated that she was very much pregnant. All she could do was cry at the unfairness of the whole thing. The very man she loved who humiliated her in the most horrific manner was the father of her child. Her hand went to her sill flat belly as she staggered back to her bed to lay down, the very bed that consummated their relationship and singlehandedly brought about the conception of their child.

Could life really be that unfair? She was on the god damn pill and she was pregnant with his child. What the hell was she going to do?

Oh God Oh God Oh God! This can't be happening. Maybe it is a false positive. Stress causes women to miss their periods all the time. Maybe it was just stress. Yes. And this month had been beyond stressful. And stress leads to false positives and missed periods. Yeah, the tests had to be a false positive, because she couldn't be pregnant. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

And that morning sickness was food poisoning. Or the flu. Although she didn't feel sick at the moment, which just meant it was food poisoning because she threw up what made her sick. Yeah. She had ice cream for dinner and that was what made her sick. Yeah. People ate bad ice cream all the time. It's like an epidemic. She should totally call Haagen-Dazs and inform them of the bad ice cream she ate.

And also go to the doctor just to make sure she was over the food poisoning and then why not check to make sure she wasn't pregnant? Just to make sure it really was a false positive. Because why not be sure, right? Right.

Caroline moved to her laptop and looked up the nearest clinic, her nails clicking a frenzied beat on the table as she chewed on her bottom lip as she waited for the results to come up. Once she had the clinic looked up she called them up and asked if they had any openings for today. They had one in an hour. Great! She would save her full on neurotic melt down for after the appointment.

She arrived 30 minutes early to the clinic for her appointment. After she checked in she just paced around the room chewing on her lip and wringing her hands as she tried to assure herself that she wasn't pregnant and that it was just food poisoning.

"Caroline?"

She nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard her named being called. Turning on her heel she went with the nurse who stood in the doorway and followed her to an exam room and sat down on the exam table.

"So what are we seeing you for today?"

"I think I have food poisoning and I need to make sure I am not pregnant. Because being pregnant would be really bad right now and especially with who could have gotten me pregnant would be really really bad and I really need this to be food poisoning. I can't be pregnant, because if I am pregnant my best friend is going to kill the father. She is going to fly over here and strangle him and then I am going to have to cover it up somehow so she doesn't go to jail and then my child will be fatherless. Not that I really want him to be the father of my child, but it is the principal of the thing." Caroline rambled as she nervously shook her leg up and down as she looked the nurse.

The nurse just arched an eyebrow at her totally nonplussed by her explanation before standing up and quickly checking her vitals before she led Caroline to another room to get her blood drawn. Once that was done the nurse escorted her back into the exam room and told her that the doctor would be in to see her once the blood test was done.

Caroline tried to sit still but she was too anxious for that. Standing once more she paced the small exam room, her eyes looking listlessly at the objects in the room without really seeing them. Her mind kept up the constant mantra of please don't be pregnant again and again in hopes that just thinking it would make it true.

"Hello Caroline I'm Dr. Baht." The pretty doctor smiled softly at the blonde as she came into the room.

Caroline smiled in return hesitantly. "Hello." She said politely as she quickly moved to sit back on the exam table as the doctor closed the door. Caroline interlaced her fingers together as if in silent prayer, hoping that the doctor would tell her that the test was negative.

The doctor moved to sit on the little stool setting her laptop and folder down on the counter, moving to shuffle some papers around before looking at Caroline.

"Well your blood test came back. Congratulations, you are pregnant. I am going to prescribe you some prenatal vitamins and I can recommend an OBGYN for you. Maker sure you make the appointment soon so you and the baby can get checked out."

Caroline just sat there stunned at her words. She was pregnant. She was pregnant. She felt her heart constrict before it fell into her stomach. No no no no no no no.

"What? No, I can't be pregnant. I'm on the pill."Caroline said, her voice shaking as she tried to tried to come to grips with the fact that she was not only pregnant but she was pregnant with Klaus's child.

"Well it isn't 100% effective. Also if you are not consistent with the dosage it can lose some of its effectiveness. Did you take it at the same time every day? Did you ever miss a dose?" The doctor said absently as she was busy typing her notes into her lap top before taking out her prescription pad and writing an order for prenatal vitamins.

"Yea-" Carline was about to answer automatically about always being consistent but she paused. When Katherine had come for her visit they had kept such crazy hours that Caroline had never taken her pill at the same time every day. Plus she was pretty sure she had thrown up one of the pills when they had gotten crazy drunk that one night.

Caroline felt the tears well in her eyes as she realized there was no way out of this. She was pregnant. Her luck really was this bad. She blinked them back as best as she could, taking the prescription that the doctor gave her and made her way out the clinic as quickly as possible.

When she got home she fell the pieces. Curling into a ball on her couch she just cried, her hand resting over her flat stomach trying to accept the fact that she had a baby growing inside of her.

It was a week before she was able to pull herself together. Most of it was spent in tears and panic. She was alone in another country and she was going to have a baby. The baby's father was a freaking crime lord who only used her for sex AND ran her best friend out of town. Her best friend was missing. How the hell was she supposed to do this without Stefan to keep her grounded?

How the hell was she going to raise a baby? She wasn't ready to be a parent. She wanted to at least be married first and then start a family. She was only 25. This was not part of the plan! The plan was to get married, settle down and then have a baby when she was 30. And how was she going to have a baby with Klaus? That was if he would even acknowledge her so she could at least tell him he was going to be a father.

Why why why why did it have to be him? Of all the people to get her pregnant it had to be the man that broke her heart. She had vacillated between never wanting to see him again to wanting to see him again if only to give him a piece of her mind and then slap him. Now they would forever be connected and she hated it.

These thoughts were what kept her company throughout the week as she slowly came to accept her pregnancy and was able to ease some of the panic that had kept her almost immobile. Once she was able to think a little more clearly she realized she was going to have to start telling people. Well at least one person in particular needed to know.

She had managed to go back to Klaus's building to try and see him to tell him, but the guards were having none of it much to her dismay, so she just left a message at the desk for him to contact her. It crossed her mind to ask them to give the message to Klaus that she was pregnant, but crossed it off just as quickly. She didn't know how many of his one night stands had tried something like that in order to see him again and she did not want to be part of that number. Caroline would just have to wait to see if he would contact her because at that point there was nothing she could do until he decided to talk with her again.

Caroline wanted to tell Stefan and she wanted to not tell Stefan. She was afraid that if she told him he would come back in a rage and kill Klaus and end up getting himself killed at the same time which she wanted to avoid at all costs. Luckily he was saved from having to make that choice since she couldn't get in contact with him anyway, as his communications to her had all been one way.

Next came the dreaded part of having to tell her mother and Katherine. Out of the two of them she was more afraid of telling Katherine. Damon was afraid of Katherine for a reason, because truth be told anyone who knew Katherine was afraid of her. Caroline could handle the disappointment from her mother more than she could handle however Katherine was going to react to this news, which wasn't going to be pretty.

Caroline stared at her cell phone knowing she had to make the phone call but was just too scared to actually do it. She was saved from having to call because her cell phone started ringing startling from her little pep talk of encouragement, Katherine's name flashing across the screen. It was as if the universe was taking matters into its own hands.

"Hi, BFF." Caroline said weakly her hand shaking as she held the phone to her ear.

"Don't BFF me bitch. You have been avoiding me all week. What the fuck is going on?"

Well there was no point in pretending nothing was wrong, she had to tell her sooner or later. "Kat, you have to promise me that you are not going to go crazy when I tell you what's happened."

"What the fuck do you mean don't go crazy. What the fuck did you do? You better have not gotten back with Nik because I will fucking kill you if you did."

"No. I didn't get back with Nik. Please. You have to promise me to keep calm after I tell you what has been going on."

"Fine, just as long as you didn't get back with that fucking low life piece of shit."

Caroline was quiet for a moment contemplating how best to tell Katherine and then just decided it was better to just blurt it out, kind of like ripping off a band-aid.

"I'm pregnant. And it's Nik's baby."

Katherine was silent and this scared her more than having Katherine flip out.

Caroline wanted to fill the silence but she couldn't bring herself to do so.

"Are you sure?"

Katherine's voice was terrifyingly even and quiet which only added to Caroline's fear.

"Yes. I went to the doctor and they confirmed it." Caroline said, keeping her voice as steady as possible.

Silence.

"How did this happen?"

"Apparently I wasn't consistent enough with my pills."

Silence.

"Have you told him?"

"I tried. The front desk would not let me see him. I left a message with them for him to contact me." Caroline's shaking voice started to crack as she said answered Katherine's question. All her fears about having to deal with Klaus or in this case him never talking to her again and never knowing he was going to have a child coming to the forefront.

"Oh hon." Katherine's voice becoming soft and sympathetic, pushing aside how selfishly angry she was and focusing on the fact that her best friend was falling to pieces.

It was those soft caring words that Caroline finally lost it, bursting into tears and every thought, feeling and fear about her pregnancy came tumbling out of her mouth. Katherine listened patiently, her heart aching that her friend had to face something like this. Katherine wasn't the overly emotional friend, that was what Stefan was for, but given that he was gone she knew she had to fill that role for Caroline, especially now.

Caroline had calmed once she had emptied out her thoughts, not realizing how much she had needed to get everything out. They talked then, discussing what the future held, options, everything they could think of in terms of the baby and it ended with Katherine promising to do anything she could to help out.

The talk left Caroline feeling slight better than she had been in days.

"You do realize I am going to castrate that son of a bitch, right?"

"Have at it, just as long as you don't kill him. My baby kind of need's a father."

Her eyes went wide as soon as she spotted him, her hand moving protectively over her protruding belly as if to shield her child from the dangerous man who stood before her. Biting her lip she watched him move from the shadows and stalk towards her like a wolf hunting its prey. His movements graceful, controlled. With every step Klaus took towards her, she took one back until she hit the wall of dryers in the dilapidated little laundry mat near that was near her flat. Before Caroline could even consider thinking of a way to escape he was on her, his hands going up to either side of her head, caging her between his arms.

"Hello, Love." He practically purred in her ear as he leaned in, his stubble scratching delightfully against the skin of her cheek. Caroline lost her breath in that moment, she had not seen him in four months and even if he was a douch bag who slept with her once and left, she still found herself incredibly attracted to him. She blamed her freaking hormones. No one ever said that when you got pregnant one of the symptoms was wanting to have sex 24/7.

His scent filled her head, making her almost dizzy with want. She bit her lip harder, scolding herself internally for even feeling like that. He slept with her and left her pregnant and not to mention humiliated her. Now is not really a good time to get all hot and bothered, especially over him. That ass hole.

Klaus leaned back to get a better look at the blonde goddess. He had thought about nothing other than her for the past four months. It drove him mad how he couldn't get her out of his head. He tried to sleep with other women in order to drive the thought of her away, but the moment their lips touched he felt nothing. He never went past a kiss because he wasn't even able to get himself up, Caroline had ruined him. Those other women didn't hold a candle to her. He missed her.

When Klaus found out that his little blonde distraction was pregnant – with a child that could only be his (despite his self imposed exile from her arms, he still kept tabs on her), Klaus was thrilled. It was a god send, a reason he could have Caroline back without looking weak. Not to mention the thought of Caroline heavy with his child pleased him to no end for reasons he could not fathom.

"Did you planning on telling me about this, sweetheart?" His hand falling away from the wall of dryers to rest against her stomach, a faint smile on his lips as he took in the wonder of what he and Caroline had created as his fingers wandered the curve of her belly. Caroline could feel the heat of his hand through the thin fabric of her shirt, her breath catching as he moved his hand so intimately against her body, his fingertips lazily stroking the prominent curve of her stomach, a shiver racing through her that he could not help but notice. Her brows pulled together as she registered his words, dark lashes lifting to looked up at him, her soft pink lips pulling into a scowl.

"I did try. Your stupid men wouldn't let me near you." She huffed softly.

His brow lifted as he gazed down at the vixen, his head tilting to the side as he considered his words. "I think telling them you were pregnant with my child would have been an extenuating circumstance." It was true; he had ordered them to keep her away from him. He didn't trust himself to see her again and not cave in on his promise to walk away and stay away. But they always told him that she had been by and any messages she left. When she had left that message three months ago for him to contact her he should have known that this was the reason.

"Seriously? I am going to tell some stranger I am having your baby?! And you honestly think that one of your little tramps hasn't tried that exact same line to try to get past them before?" Rolling her eyes at that thought. "And you think they would somehow buy that line from me? Ridiculous Nik, absolutely ridiculous. " Caroline practically growled at him. Klaus gave a slight shrug of his shoulder, blue green eyes completely focused on Caroline's belly.

"When are you due?" Klaus murmured, his hand moving higher against her stomach, lightly grazing the undersides of her breasts with the back of his hand, a satisfied smirk pulling at his lips as he listened to her breathing hitch.

Caroline took a moment to calm her breathing, yet it was a useless exercise. He was too close, his woodsy scent filling her senses. The warm's of Klaus' body so near to hers, the heat of his hand causing her heart to race so fast she was sure that he would hear it pounding in her chest. "August." Caroline's voice equally soft as she caressed her stomach lovingly.

It was at that point that Klaus lost his breath. The soft look that spread across her face as she thought of their child, bright blue eyes shining as her perfect pink lips pulled into a sweet smile. God damn, she was beautiful. And with that, he lifted her chin up with the tips of his fingers and kissed her. Klaus had thought of nothing but kissing her again the moment he left her bed, and now that she was pregnant with his child there was no use denying himself any longer. Caroline was his now.

Long elegant fingers always dirty with some kind of paint or graphite marking him as an artist buried themselves in her golden curls, pulling her closer to him. His other hand snaked around her hips, caressing the bare skin that revealed itself as Caroline lifted her arms to curl around his neck as she gave into the kiss.

Jesus, what was she doing? But that thought was quickly pushed away as Klaus pulled her closer. His soft lips hungry as they devoured her own. His tongue flicking across her bottom lip, urging her to allow him entry and Caroline could not help but acquiesce. Her lips parted with a soft moan and he plunged his tongue into her mouth, exploring, tasting, dominating. Caroline was his now, and he wanted to make sure she knew it. Their kiss was also filled with a longing that left both parties fully cognizant of the fact that they yearned for each other.

Gasping for breath, Caroline pulled back from him, her heart pounding loudly in her ears. Her hands sliding down from his neck to the hard planes of his chest, Caroline's fingers absently playing with the necklaces that hung down from around his neck as Klaus leaned back down again, placing light kisses against her lips, nibbling gently at the bottom lip she was so fond of biting. His hands roaming her body lightly, slowly becoming reacquainted with the blonde beauty. They stood like that for who knows how long. Touching and kissing one another as if they were long lost lovers. It was at some point that Caroline finally came back to her senses. Her hands falling from the stubble of his cheeks she was so fond of caressing and came to rest on his chest as she pushed him away. Klaus stumbling back from the unexpected moment, his handsome face a mask of confusion.

"I can't believe I just did that!" Her fingers pulling angrily through her curls as she glared at him. "How do you even think that it is remotely ok that you can just waltz in here and kiss me like that? Huh? You slept with me and then left like some thief in the night. After four damn months of dating! I finally let you into my bed and not only do you leave you completely ignore me. AND you had your freaking door man break up with me, which was a total dick move. Oh and let's not forget you got me pregnant!" Caroline was fuming at that point, unsure if she was angry about what he did or what she just allowed herself to do given the list of current grievances against him.

"I should have listened to Stefan when he warned me about you." Caroline was rambling, but honestly, how could she not. The man who slept with her 4 months ago, which was arguably the most amazing sex she ever had in her life, comes back out of nowhere after doing everything he could to ignore her and kisses her? Seriously?

"I was just another notch on your belt buckle. Wined, dined, impregnated and abandoned. God, it sounds just like a lifetime movie." Caroline groaned, her hand coming to cover her eyes suddenly wanting to cry. Stupid freaking hormones.

Klaus had watched all of this unfold with a slightly amused look and an arched eye brow, his hands coming to rest behind his back as he waited for her to wind down, having been subject to a few of these outburst before. Although the amusement quickly faded from his face as soon as he saw that Caroline was about to cry. With a few short steps he gathered her into his arms, running his hands soothingly over her back as Caroline buried her face into his neck and released a flooded gate of emotion. Her fingers curling into his Henley shirt as her slender shoulders were wracked with her sobs.

He murmured quietly in her ear, trying to calm her as best as he could, his head resting against hers, just holding her against him. Klaus moved his hands gently across her back trying to sooth away her tears. He hated that he caused her to fall apart like this. Her tears were tugging at his heart, for reasons he still didn't want to admit to himself.

He was only allowing himself to have her because she was carrying his child. He knew it was a lie, but it was the only way he could have her. An excuse to get what he wanted, yet he could not admit the truth to himself about why he wanted her. Caroline was a light the eased some of the darkness of his soul. She was a constant thought that followed him relentlessly.

Klaus would not face the truth so he pushed the thoughts away, trying to focus on Caroline whose sobs had finally quieted and she was just resting against his chest. Her fingers once again tugging absently at his necklaces while he stroked the sun kissed curls away from her lovely face that was red from the tears that had seemed to have finally dried up.

"I won't leave you again. I won't leave you or our child." The softly lit British accent whispered against her hair.

Again he was using the child as an excuse to get her. Niklaus Mikaelson – King of London's underworld – hiding his love of a woman behind a child. Family above all was after all the Mikaelson motto, and no one would question Klaus taking the mother of his child under his roof.

"No, you won't get the chance to leave me again because you are not going to be with me." She pulled herself out of his arms, her hands shaking as she wiped away the tears on her cheeks as she glared at him. "You broke my heart, Nik. I won't give you the chance to do it again."

"Caroline." He pleaded quietly taking a step towards her.

"No. Stay away from me. I don't want to see you until this baby is born."

She was ashamed that she had cried in his arms like that, but it had felt so good to have him hold her. And his kisses were better than she remembered, although that kiss shouldn't have even happened. Hormones. She would blame it on the hormones because after what he had done to her she shouldn't even be giving him the time of day.

"Please sweetheart, allow me to acquit myself."

"Just like you did last time? Not happening. You pretended to date me so you could sleep with me and then you had the doorman break up with me. There is no room for forgiveness anywhere in there. The only reason I am even bothering to talk to you right now is because you got me pregnant. You are the father to my child. But don't even think that means we are going to have any sort of relationship together." Caroline crossed her arms and glared at him.

Klaus just looked at her helplessly. He couldn't explain himself because then he would have to admit to himself the real reason why he left her. So he said the only thing he could say.

"I'm sorry."

Caroline just shook her head, unmoved by his words.

"Too little, too late. Now please leave. I have laundry to finish." Caroline said as she turned away from and started loading the washer with her dirty clothes.

Klaus could say nothing, however it did not stop him from making a promise to himself that he was going to win her back. She was his, she was carrying his child and he needed her. At least he had a small hope that she at least still had some sort of feelings for him, the way she kissed him had confirmed that at least.

"Call me if you need anything, love."

"Oh, are you actually going to unblock my number?" She quipped sarcastically as she closed the washer door and started to add the detergent.

Klaus sighed and looked down at the floor; blocking her number wasn't exactly his proudest moment. Seeing as she was pretty much impossible to talk to, he decided to leave her be for the moment.

"I'll contact you soon, sweetheart."

"I'd rather you not." Caroline said with a frown as she turned to shoot him a glare before turning back to her laundry.

Klaus sighed again, giving her one last look before leaving the laundry mat. Once Caroline heard the door closed she turned to watch him get into his SUV and drive away, her shoulders slumping as she sat down in one of the chairs, her hand lifting to rest against her belly bump as she tried to process that Klaus was back in her life again.

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