Hey Everyone! I'm extremely sorry for taking so long to update. I have a little confused about whether I want the original parents to be bad or not. Anyways here's my next chapter!
Klaus looked at each one of the wolves. The wolves raging powerful eyes looked at him with pure hatred. The first time in many years Klaus felt shaken. If it was just him, he couldn't have cared less but now with Caroline and the kids, things were different. He would do anything to protect him. The wolves growled at him. The wolves were unable to get into the house, which was a relief.
"What's happening?" Stefan walked up to stand beside him.
"The hybrids," Klaus said.
"Can we just kill them?" Damon said joining them by the window.
"No, I don't think that would be wise," Bonnie said from behind. They turned around to look at her.
"Why is that?" Klaus said. Everyone wanted to know the same thing.
"Because they will come right back to life. The veil has to go up before you can kill them," Bonnie said.
"What if we don't kill them?" Elijah asked. "Will they just live on after the veil as been put up?" He wasn't asking just for the hybrids but also for his brother.
"Yes," Bonnie said. "They are just like they were before they died. Even after the veil is put up again, they will stay as long as they aren't killed again."
"So I can't kill the hybrids right now?" Klaus said his hands going into a fist. He wanted it to be done with. He hated leaving his enemies alive.
"Nik," Caroline called. Her voice brought him out of his thoughts and he walked back to her. He sat down on the other side of the bed and the three babies were in between asleep. Everyone made their way out of the room.
"What is it sweetheart?" Klaus asked as he glanced back at the window.
"Let them go for now, Nik. They can't get into the house," Caroline said.
"I know, but I feel restless knowing they are alive and a threat to my family," Klaus said. Caroline reached over and held his hand.
"Nik, we trust you. We know you would never let anything happen to any of us," Caroline said as she looked down at the three sleeping infants. Nik followed her gazed and also watched the babies sleep. Caroline smiled.
"I can't believe they're already here," Caroline said. "It was only yesterday I was complaining about them coming already." Klaus smirked.
"She looks just like you," Klaus said as he looked down at his daughter. "My little princess."
"Oh so that's how we are going to have it. Daddy and his princess versus me and my princes. Let me remind you that there are more of us," Caroline said.
"We're stronger," Klaus smirked.
"We'll see," Caroline said.
"I'll be on Caroline's team," they heard Kol say from downstairs.
"I'm on my niece's team!" Rebekah said.
Caroline and Klaus laughed. Just then Eliza started crying followed by Zane and Noah.
"I think they're hungry," Caroline said. "But I can't nurse."
"Not to worry," Rebekah said as she walked in with three bottles of formula. "I made sure we had everything ready just in case the babies came early."
"Thanks, Bekah," Klaus said.
Rebekah picked up Zane and sat down on the arm chair. She started feeding him. Klaus took Eliza and Caroline took Noah and they started feeding them. Once the babies were fed and burped, they fell asleep. They gently placed them on the bed beside one another. Caroline lied down and fell asleep as well. Klaus and Rebekah left the room and closed the door behind them.
"What is it Nik? There's definitely something on your mind," Rebekah said.
"Let's go downstairs, we need to do something," Klaus said.
They walked in the living room to find everyone there.
"Listen everyone, we need make a list of all the supernaturals that died in chronological order," Klaus said.
"Well your spitefully slaughtered hybrids are back," Damon said.
"Let me remind you that I'm no mood to joke around Damon," Klaus growled.
"That won't be problem, I started it once I saw that Jeremy came back," Bonnie said. "Right before the veil was dropped; the twelve witches were killed so I assume they are back."
"Is there any way we can recruit them? I mean it would make killing Silas and everything else so much easier," Damon said.
"That's the problem, we don't know where they are. I mean from what Bonnie told me, Jeremy was the first person you saw come back," Tasha said.
"Okay, so the next was obviously Jeremy, followed by Kol and now the twelve hybrids are also back," Elena said. "I think Connor, the hunter, comes next."
"No, it would be the hybrid," Jeremy said.
"What hybrid?" Damon said.
"The one you got me to kill to get rid of Elena's hunter's curse," Jeremy said.
"Oh right," Damon said.
"Okay then comes Connor, which is actually a good thing because that would mean we have five hunters now," Stefan said. "So Silas can be killed."
"Before Connor was Alaric and before Alaric was…" Damon said.
"Esther," Klaus finished off.
"What?" Kol said. "We have to get that veil up before Mother comes back to life. She's going to try to kill us again."
"I agree Nik. What do you say Elijah?" Rebekah said.
"I agree with Kol. Let us say that our relationship with our Mother is beyond repair and now with the young ones, we can't risk it," Elijah said.
"And before Mother was Sage and Finn and their entire lineage," Kol said.
"Not exactly their entire lineage Kol," Tasha said. "Only ones who can come back are the ones who died within the boundaries of the expression triangle."
"Okay so Finn and Sage. I don't think they'll be that bad as long as they have each other," Rebekah said.
"And then I think there would be couple of hybrids who died in the middle," Damon said.
"Then there's…" Stefan didn't finish.
"Mikael," Klaus said. All the originals looked at each other especially Klaus. "I'm not letting him come back. Esther, we can manage but Mikael can't come back. Call all the witches we know I don't care just make sure this veil goes up before Mikael comes back."
Along with the joy of the new born babies, the Salvatore house was frantic about putting the veil back up. Bonnie and Tasha spent longer hours looking for a way to put the veil up. Elijah and Kol called every witch they knew. Damon and Stefan tried to figure out what they were going to do about Silas. It was evident that Silas had accomplished dropping the veil and had another Bennett witch. Now all he needed was the cure. They also had to find a way to convince Connor, when he would come back, to join the rest of the hunters who were under protection before Silas found him.
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Stefan walked into the room to find Rebekah curled up on their bed with the twins beside her. He couldn't help but smile. They all had the same expression on their faces. Rebekah was starting to panic a little about the safety of the twins. She didn't want them out of her sight. He noticed the same thing with Caroline. It had only been a day but Caroline wouldn't take her eyes off them no matter who said they would watch them so she could have a break.
Stefan bent over and kissed the twins on the head. It seemed like Rebekah heard him and she suddenly snapped up.
"Oh it's just you," Rebekah said. Stefan came around and sat down beside her. He put his arms around her and pulled her into a hug.
"Bekah, it's going to be okay," Stefan said.
"I know, but I just can't help it," Rebekah said. "It's like we're the verge of war. I mean Nik and I spent most of our life running away from Mikael."
"I know but we're all fine inside this house, it's protected," Stefan said.
"I know but I can't help it," Rebekah said.
"It's fine. Do what you need to do," Stefan said. "Caroline's the same and I feel it's because of this craze about putting up the veil before Mikael comes. The house is full of that tense atmosphere."
Rebekah nodded. She kept her head rested against his chest. She felt safe with him. It wasn't just the babies; she constantly needed to see him as well. She couldn't lose her family and Stefan and her babies were the most important to her. She would do anything to protect them.
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Caroline sat in her room feeding Eliza and Zane at the same time. They had awoken and were hungry. Noah was still asleep but he would soon be awake too. The environment in the house was tense. She hated it. It made her feel uneasy and constantly having the need to check on the babies making sure they were okay. The worst part was that Nik was going overboard especially after they had figured out the there was a possibility of Mikael returning.
Before the babies came, she had this perfect image of all of them spending time together as a family after the babies were born. Nik would be helping her take care of the triplets. They would sit together and enjoy time together while the babies slept. However, it wasn't like that. It's not like he didn't help at all, he did. He would get up in the middle of the night and help feed them but those moments felt so strained. He had transferred all his attention towards putting up the veil. He barely said anything and would constantly sit around enveloped in his own thoughts.
Caroline put the bottles down on the side table and took turns burping the two babies. Once they were burped she put them both in their cradles. They had gotten three cradles that were in their room right now. The Mikaelson mansion was still in progress so the triplets didn't have a nursery and Aden and Arianna's nursery wouldn't fit the three cradles. Eliza and Zane had drifted off to sleep. Caroline walked over to Noah's cradle. He looked up at her. She smiled and picked him up.
"Aren't you hungry my little wolf?" Caroline said. Noah looked up at his mom. Out of the three, Noah was the most calm. He barely cried and slept peacefully. Caroline put the nipple of the bottle near his mouth and Noah hungrily sucked on it.
"So you were hungry," Caroline said. Noah continued to look at her as he drank his milk. His small fist held onto her small finger. Once he was done, Caroline burped him and put him back in her lap. Unlike his sibling Noah didn't want sleep. He just continued to stare up at him mom.
"You don't look sleepy," Caroline said. Noah just stared at his mom.
"You want talk?' Caroline baby talked. "Okay little wolf, we can stay up and talk." She smiled. Just then she heard the door open and close. She looked up to find Klaus walking in. He quickly went to the drawer to get something.
"What are you looking for?" Caroline asked.
"The map love," Klaus said.
"For?" Caroline said.
"The underground tunnels, Elijah and I drew them out the other day," Klaus said.
"And you need them right now because?" Caroline said.
"So I can check them for errors sweetheart," Klaus said as he continued to shuffle through the drawers.
"Klaus they are fine! You went through them yesterday night as well!" Caroline said.
"You can never be too sure," Klaus said.
"Nik stop it!" Caroline said as she got up with Noah. "You're becoming overly obsessed with this."
"You don't understand love, its necessary I do this. It's for all of us," Klaus said.
"I have had enough of this. The babies are barely a day old and all you seem to be interested in is this veil," Caroline said on the verge of tears. Klaus closed the drawer he was searching and walked towards Caroline. He held her face in his hands and looked into her green eyes.
"Caroline I'm doing this for us. I can't have Mikael coming back," Klaus said.
"Nik, you have done everything you could. Now all you can do it wait. Why don't you spend that time with our babies? You don't want to miss this moment," Caroline said. Klaus dropped his hands. He would never miss out on his children just because of Mikael. He had been staying up at night watching them. He walked to the table and picked up his sketch book. He handed it over to Caroline.
"Take a look love," Klaus said. Caroline carefully put Noah back in his cradle and took the sketch book from Klaus. She opened it to find sketches of her, the babies, and all of them together. She walked to the bed and sat down. The first few sketches were of her during different stages of her pregnancy. There was also one of her and Rebekah, one of her and Kol, one of her with both Kol and Rebekah. The sketches surrounded her. She was on every page. There was one of her and Stefan. She flipped through the pages to find one of her and him together. It was of them outside during that full moon night. Near the end of his sketch book she saw drawings of the babies. One of all three of them together, their individual sketches and the last one was of all five of them together. Caroline had tears in her eyes as she closed the sketch book and looked at Klaus.
"When did you do these? I mean I haven't seen you draw at all lately," Caroline said.
"I draw at night love. I haven't been able sleep," Klaus said.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bombard you like that. Everything feels so tense in this house right now. This was supposed to be a happy moment in our lives," Caroline said.
"I know sweetheart, but it will soon be over and our house is almost done. We'll be able to move and Zane, Eliza and Noah will have their own nursery," Klaus said and he kissed her on her forehead.
"I hope so and we have a wedding to plan," Caroline smiled. Klaus smiled back. He leaned in and gently kissed her.
Caroline responded to his lips moving against her deepening the kiss. Her lips parted giving him access and their tongues tangoed for control. Klaus slowly pushed her back onto the bed with their lips still intact. His hands slid over her sides and she let out a moan against his lips. 'I want you to make love to me' she thought. 'My pleasure love' his thoughts responded. He loved having that mind connection with her. They didn't have to break away to physically talk. It felt like it had been too long and perhaps this time they could share their blood so Klaus could get all his memories back. Her hands were in his hair and the other around his neck as she held him there. He kissed down her neck, collar and further down her V-neck top. She loved the feeling of his body against hers. All these months they had to be careful because of the babies but now it was just them. She pulled his lips back to hers and she slid her hand under his shirt feeling his perfect built. Just then they broke apart when they heard one of the babies started to cry. They smiled at each other.
"I guess it's time for a diaper change," Caroline said as Klaus got off the bed and helped her up.
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It had been a week and the hybrid Jeremy had killed to initiate the hunter's mark had come back and joined the other twelve hybrids. Connor had come back yesterday and was staying with the other hunters. The brotherhood of the Hunters was complete now. All they needed to do was put up the veil, cram the cure down Silas's throat and get the hunters to fulfill their destiny. However, it wasn't as easy as it seemed. Silas had not come out. He was still in hiding and no one knew what he really looked like.
Damon paced around the living room. He was hoping the veil wouldn't go up until Alaric returned. But it was risky because Esther had only died a couple of days before him.
"Damon what's wrong?" Stefan asked.
"Alaric will be back in a few days," Damon said. Stefan came and placed a hand on Damon's shoulder.
"I know you miss him but they won't wait for him to come back if they've figured out how to put up the veil," Stefan said. "I mean, I wished we could wait for Lexi."
"I know, you probably want to show off my niece and nephew," Damon said and smiled.
"Yeah, I wish I could share that with her," Stefan said.
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Klaus and Elijah had rounded up all the hybrids in the Lockwood cellar. Even though he couldn't kill them yet, they were still a nuisance outside his window.
"You can't keep us here forever," one of the hybrids called from behind the cellar.
"I know, I'm just waiting for the appropriate time to rip your hearts out of your chest again," Klaus said.
Elijah and Klaus walked out of the cellar. Bonnie and Tasha were waiting there for them.
"Everything ready?" Klaus asked. Bonnie nodded and then she linked hands with Tasha. The two witches starting chanting in Latin. The wind started to blow heavily and the leaves were rustling. Soon everything settled down again.
"There, it's done," Bonnie said.
"No one can get out and no one will be able to get in," Tasha said.
Klaus, content for now, made his way to the Salvatore house with Elijah and the two witches. As they drove up to the front of the house, they saw Alaric sitting there with Damon.
"Alaric!" Bonnie said and ran over to give him a hug. "You're back."
"Yeah, but I have to say there's a line behind me up there," Alaric said.
"Let's take this inside," Tasha said and with that she lifted the barrier so Alaric could enter the house. Once they were all inside the house, Damon poured him and Alaric a drink and they sat down to listen to Alaric's story. Rebekah and Stefan walked in with the twins. Caroline walked in with Eliza while Elena and Katherine came walked in holding the boys. Klaus glared at Katherine and Elena especially Katherine. He didn't want either of them touching his children. But then he looked at Caroline who shook her head asking him to leave it.
"Wow! Why are there five babies here?" Alaric said.
"Long story short, Stefan and Caroline went back in time a thousand years and produced some babies with the Originals and brought them back," Damon said. Before Alaric could ask any questions,
"You said there's a line up there, what did you mean by that?" Elijah said.
"Well, as you know that we come back depending on the time we died before the veil was dropped. If you died with someone or close to the time someone else died, you see them there. I would just say that before I came down I saw the Original witch there waiting for her turn," Alaric said.
"Did she say something?" Kol asked.
"A lot of things I didn't quite understand, but she said something about coming to deal with some old, unfinished witch business. When I asked her to elaborate, she said that she was coming down for someone called Quetziah. When I asked her who Quetziah was, she told me that she was the oldest witch and after that refused to tell me anything. But she gave me a message for you, I mean her kids. She said to tell you guys that she was coming back whether you liked it or not, but this time it's for a different reason," Alaric said.
"What could her different reason be?" Rebekah said as she rocked Aden to sleep.
"I don't know but she will not be coming anywhere near us," Klaus said.
"Don't worry brother, we won't let our mother hurt us again," Elijah said.
"Well witches, how's the progress to put up the veil coming along?" Damon said as he looked to Bonnie and Tasha.
"We've got the first part of the ritual and spell ready which prevents anyone from that side to come over to this side," Bonnie said.
"We have the ritual to put up the veil figured out but we're still working on the spell," Tasha said.
"Well can't you just do the first part so no one else comes and then put up the veil whenever you figure it out?" Damon asked.
"No, they have to be done together or it could end badly. The veil could completely drop everywhere," Tasha said. "Plus we need a full coven of witches to do this spell."
"What happened to those witches you called Elijah?" Klaus asked.
"They all refused to come when they found out that it had something to do with Silas," Elijah said. Klaus grinded his teeth; how dare they refuse him. He was going to hunt them down and bring them here.
