Hey Everyone! Thank-you for your reviews! So here is the next chapter! This is the point when the story is starting up again so bear with me. There are a lot of facts that are revealed in this chapter to progress further with the story.
After finishing her breakfast, Caroline went to take a shower. Klaus was still trying to wrap his head around everything. He was going to be a father to three kids; never in his thousand years did he think that he would come across a day like this. It was hard to take in but he couldn't ignore everything. One thing he was sure of was that Rebekah would never pull a thing kind of thing against him. When she spoke to him, her eyes shone honesty. Usually, it was Rebekah who could tell if someone was lying but he was the only one who could tell if she was lying. It was the thousand years they spent together.
Klaus came into the living room and sat down on the couch. He pulled the album towards him and opened it. He had a strange feeling as he looked through the sketches. Everyone looked so happy and content. There was even one of Esther, Mikael and Henrik. He flipped through the pages and found one of him and Caroline. They looked so happy together. He went on and found one of Henrik playing with the twins. He couldn't help it but smile to Henrik's playful smile as he looked at the babies. Klaus wished he could remember. Even though the method of getting his memories back appealed to him more than ever, he was not known for his patience. However, he couldn't hurt Caroline. He had to figure out another way. He placed the album on the table in front of him and looked into the bag. He pulled out a carved portrait. It was of Caroline and Henrik laughing and cheering. He wished he could remember the tiniest memories that went with this portrait. He heard the door open and close so he placed the carved portrait back into the bag. Rebekah and Stefan walked in with the babies.
"Nik, you're still here," Rebekah said.
"Yes, like I said I would be," he replied. Rebekah came and sat down in front of him with one of the twins. It was strange watching Rebekah with babies.
"Where's Caroline?" she asked.
"Gone to take a shower," Klaus said. Rebekah took a bottle from her bag and started feeding the baby. Stefan did the same with the other. Klaus looked at Stefan feed the baby. He desperately wanted to ask him what it was like to be a father. He seemed to be doing pretty well. But then he decided not to with Rebekah there.
Caroline walked in. She was wearing jeans and a top that fit tightly around the bust area and then flowed out.
"Hey you guys are back!" Caroline said as she walked towards them. "How are my two angels doing?"
"Just fine, we're just feeding them and then it will be nap time," Rebekah said. Caroline smiled as she admired the infants.
"Can I hold her?" Caroline asked after Arianna was fed and burped.
"Sure, here. I sure she'll dose off soon," Rebekah said. Caroline took Arianna from her hands a held her close to her.
"I'm going to call her Care Bear!" Caroline announced. Stefan laughed and Rebekah smiled. Caroline came and sat down beside Klaus. Klaus closely looked at the child. She had Stefan's hair and of course, Rebekah's eyes. She had also inherited Rebekah's cheeks and Stefan's nose. She was the perfect combination.
"What about Aden?" Rebekah said.
"He'll be my Kola Bear!" Caroline said. Rebekah laughed.
"I wonder what Kol would think about that!" Rebekah said. Klaus continued to look at Arianna.
"Do you want to hold her?" Caroline asked.
"I don't think that's a good idea," Klaus said.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine," she encouraged him.
"Seriously, I…" before he could finish he found a baby girl placed in his arms. He positioned his arm how Stefan had it holding the child.
"See it wasn't so bad," Rebekah said and then smiled.
Klaus felt weird, he had never held something so fragile in his hands like this before. Emotions that he had not felt for the longest time started to rise. He swallowed, he had to get used to this. It scared him thinking about the future when his own children were there. Then he was interrupted from his thoughts.
"I have an idea!" Rebekah chimed and sped out of the room. She came back with a camera.
"We don't have to get Nik to sketch everything. We have a camera now," Rebekah said as she snapped a picture of Caroline, Klaus and Arianna.
The rest of the afternoon went by as Rebekah continued to take pictures with her digital camera. In the midst of all the photography, Stefan's phone rang and he answered. Everyone heard the clear words Damon spoke,
"Jeremy is dead. He was killed by Silas. Found out that Silas is hunting down all the hunters."
"I'm coming," Stefan said.
"I'll come as well," Klaus said. Stefan nodded and they left through the main doors on their way to the Gilbert house.
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Few hours later, Damon stepped into the house with Elena by his side followed by Klaus, Stefan and Bonnie. Caroline went and hugged Elena as she cried.
"I'm so sorry Elena," Caroline said. Elena continued to cry. They all sat down. Rebekah handed Elena a blood bag and went to sit down beside Stefan.
"What's going on?" Rebekah asked.
"They burnt the Gilbert house down as a cover story. And from what we found out, Silas is hunting down Hunters," Bonnie said.
"Why?" Caroline asked.
"According to the book I got from Shane, if Silas kills all the hunters, he can gain some magical energy from the mystical energy of the expression triangle," Bonnie said. Then she took out what looked like a small brass emblem with five stones on it. One was crimson red but the others were pure white. "From what I found out, the five stones represent the five hunters. When the stone goes crimson, that hunter has died. It won't return to the pure white until another hunter has taken the place," Bonnie explained.
"Where did you get that?" Caroline said as she looked at the brass piece. The designs replicated the hunters mark.
"I did some snooping in Shane's office," Bonnie said.
"What happens if all the stones go crimson?" Rebekah asked.
"That means the brotherhood of the five is over," Bonnie said. "Silas doesn't need a witch to drop the veil for him because he can do it himself," Bonnie said.
"So Silas is going around looking for hunters right now and from this it seems like he's only found one," Damon said.
"There is something else; he needs something to unveil the cure," Bonnie said as she stood up. "The spirits were trying to tell me about Stefan and Caroline which led me to the caves. There I saw my Gram, she said something like 'drop of five will unveil the cure'. I have been trying to figure it out but nothing seems to fit."
"The drop of five will unveil the cure. Could it be like, once all five 'drop dead', the cure is unveiled?" Damon said.
"I don't think it's that literal," Rebekah said.
"I agree," said Bonnie. "The five here don't seem the same as Quetziah's Five hunters."
"We can figure that out later. I think our first priority should be to find the cure and the hunters before Silas does," Klaus said.
"I agree," Stefan said.
"When Damon and I were on the island looking for Bonnie, Vaughn, the hunter, told me something. He said if we don't use the cure to kill Silas, it doesn't matter whether we're human or vampire, we're doomed," Rebekah said.
"We can't use the cure on any of us," Stefan said implying Elena.
"I don't want the cure anymore. I just want Silas to die," Elena said.
"Well that's decided. So what happened to this Vaughn?" Klaus said.
"We left him there in the well," Damon said with an uneasy look on his face.
"Not the best choice," Stefan said.
"Well we didn't know at the time," Damon said.
"Okay, what's done is done. I suggest we go look for the four hunters and hide them. We also need to find the cure. Nik don't rely on Katarina to come begging for her life with it. We need to find her and take it from her," Rebekah said.
"Bekah's right," Caroline said. "Once we have everything, we need to make a plan to kill Silas."
Klaus smiled listening to Caroline's thoughts. They were so alike in some ways.
"Well let's get the search party started," Damon said.
"I'm coming too," Elena stood up.
"I'm coming. It's been long since I've seen Katarina, I still have old debts to collect," Klaus said.
"I'm in," Stefan said.
"I don't think its good idea for all of you to go," Rebekah said. "I mean we need people here, just in case. I have the twins to look after and Caroline, isn't in the position to be fighting."
Just as Klaus about to say something his phone rang. He looked at the caller id, it was Elijah.
"Big brother, how did I come into your thoughts today?" Klaus said. Everyone heard Elijah answer.
"I'm on my way to Mystic Falls and I have something of great importance," Elijah said.
"What is it?" Klaus asked.
"I'll talk to you when I get there. See you in a few hours," Elijah said and hung up.
"We'll how about we do this. Stefan and I can stay here with Rebekah and Caroline. Elijah will join you on this expedition," Klaus said.
"That's perfect," Rebekah said.
"Okay, now that's settled. I'm going to do the protection spell over this house," Bonnie said. "Everyone has to stay inside because after I'm done, no other supernatural beings other than everyone here, will be able to enter the house.
"Wait. We should wait for Elijah," Rebekah said. Everyone agreed.
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They all heard the car pull up to the curb in front of the house. Elijah had finally arrived. They heard a set of footsteps walking towards the house followed by another.
"He brought someone with him," Damon said.
Damon went and opened the door and walked back to the living room with Elijah followed by none other than Katherine.
"What is she doing here?" Elena and Caroline asked together.
"Elena, Caroline please, give us a chance to explain," Elijah said.
"Well brother, I prefer the explaining to be done as fast as possibly so I can finally yank her heart out," Klaus said as he sat down and started playing with emblem.
"Where's Rebekah?" Elijah asked. Right then Rebekah and Stefan walked out of the nursery together slowly closing the door behind them.
"Elijah!" Rebekah greeted.
"Rebekah..." before he could say anymore he held his head in pain and knelt down onto the floor.
"Elijah!" Rebekah and Klaus ran over to their brother picking him up onto his feet. They sat him down onto the sofa. After a while he looked up at Rebekah and Stefan.
"I remember! You came to our home," he said to Stefan. "And you too," he said to Caroline.
"You got your memories back?" Rebekah said. "What else do you remember?"
Elijah mentioned everything that had happened in the past up to Caroline and Klaus's wedding announcement.
Klaus was furious. It wasn't fair that Elijah got his memories back and he didn't. He walked out of the house and into the garden. He could hear Elijah talking to all of them and wanting to see the babies. He heard Rebekah tell him how Caroline was pregnant and the fact that he hadn't gotten his memories yet. He heard footsteps behind him.
"Klaus," he heard Caroline's voice. He didn't want to turn around to her charismatic voice. "Why are you out here alone?"
"Because I want to be," he said. The way I've been for the last millennia, he thought.
"What did you say?" Caroline said. Klaus rolled his eyes.
"I said because I want to be," he said again.
"No, after that?" she pressed.
"Nothing," he said.
Caroline didn't want to discuss this telepathic mate thing right now, so she said,
"I know it seems unfair that Elijah got his memories before you but there's a reason."
"And what could that reason be?" he asked as he folded his arms across his chest.
"It's just that you three are siblings bound by blood and because one of you got it, the other received them too," Caroline said. "But, there is a separate bond here; between you and me that separates you from your blood bond to your siblings. Our bond is much stronger which requires you to get the memories on your own."
It made sense to him but it was really testing his patience.
"I mean it makes sense, we have our own memories that not everyone is a part of," Caroline said and blushed. Klaus smiled. He loved seeing her like this. It made his heart swell. He raised his fingers to touch her cheeks. Her bright green eyes gazed back into his.
"I promise, it'll be worth the wait," she said.
"I bet it will," he said. "By the way, how did you figure this out?"
"Bonnie," she said. Well that explained a lot.
"I think it's time for us to go back inside," Klaus said. They walked back into the Salvatore house.
"So brother, please explain why Katarina is here," Klaus said.
"Let me get straight to the point, you can have the cure in return for Katarina's freedom," Elijah said.
"Brother, why don't you just give us the cure and I'll give Katarina five seconds to run," Klaus said.
"No Klaus, the deal stands as is, Katarina's freedom for the cure," Elijah said.
"Just accept it Klaus. That's one less worry for us!" Damon said.
"Damon's right," Stefan said. "Now we only have to focus on the hunters."
"Come on Nik, hasn't five hundred years been enough?" Rebekah said. Everyone tried to convince him with different reasons over and over again except for Caroline. She just sat there on the sofa beside him not saying anything. He wanted to hear what she thought. He looked at her and she looked back. She put her hand on his hand in a way it wasn't too obvious and squeezed it. He wanted to know what she thought when he heard loud and clear words in his head. It was Caroline's voice. "Let her go Klaus, it'll be for all of us. She might be useful because she knows where to look for people in hiding."
He was shocked. How did that happen? He wanted to ask her but not in front of so many people. So instead he announced his decision.
"Fine. I shall grant Katarina her freedom in return for the cure. However, if she decides to step out of line in anyway, this deal is void," he said.
Elijah looked at him for a bit and then at Katherine who nodded in agreement.
"We accept," Elijah said and passed a small box over to Klaus. It was like a ring box. Klaus opened it to find a small vial that looked like it had solid blood in it.
They all talked about how they were going to protect the cure. At the end, it was decided that after Bonnie was done the protection spell over the house. She would put a separate spell on a small closet where the cure would be stored. Damon, Elena, Elijah and Katherine were all going to look for hunters while Klaus, Stefan, Rebekah, Caroline and Bonnie stayed back to keep an eye out for events in Mystic Falls. Klaus was going to live at the Salvatore house for now because the Mikaelson mansion was still being built and that way he'd be in reach when needed.
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Caroline woke up the next morning the sun shining into her room at the Salvatore house. She wished she could have had Klaus beside her but she didn't want to push him into anything. It would kind of be weird if she asked him to stay with her when they had technically just started going out. She went to the bathroom and made her way down to the kitchen. Stefan and Rebekah were there cooking while Klaus sat on a stood at the breakfast bar going through his phone. Rebekah turned around when Caroline walked in.
"Good morning! Hungry?" Rebekah said.
"Starving!" Caroline smiled. She looked at Klaus who smiled back. Everything felt so natural. It was just like it was in the past. "But I want a blood bag first," before she could finish Klaus had gotten a bag from the fridge and placed it in front of her.
"Thanks," she said as she pulled the tab off and sipped at it.
"No problem, love," he said and took his seat. She knew they had so much to talk about. He was probably wondering how her thoughts got into his head. They didn't get to chat last night with all the planning and stuff. She had dozed off on the couch. She knew he had definitely heard her. She could see it in his eyes. At that point she just wanted to try it out to see if it worked. From what she had experienced so far, she could conclude that when she directed her thoughts to him, he heard them but they weren't clear. However, if was there was any skin contact, the words were clear. It wasn't like all their thoughts were open to each other, only the ones directed to one and another.
"Here you go," Rebekah broke her train of thought when she put a plate of omelette, hash browns and a bowl of fruits in front of her. "Eat up," she said.
"Thanks," Caroline said.
"So Nik, you're taking Caroline to her appointment today right?" Rebekah said.
"Yes," he said without looking up from his phone.
"Perfect. What time will you guys be back?" Rebekah asked.
"After lunch," Caroline said before Klaus could say anything.
"Okay, can you watch the twins for a few hours?" Rebekah said.
"Sure, what's going on?" Caroline asked.
"We're going to look at cars," Stefan said sarcastically. Rebekah nudged him with her elbow. "Ow."
"Yah, car shopping, and then I was thinking that we could possibly go prom dress shopping," Rebekah said.
"Yah that would be great!" Caroline said. From Klaus and Stefan's face, it was clear that they didn't want to go but they were stuck.
I hope that wasn't too boring. Let me know what you think by leaving a review! Thank-you! :)