Chapter Three

"Katherine, you ok?" Stefan knocked on the door.

"I'm fine!" Katherine called out trying to keep her voice from trembling. She was sitting on the toilet, glancing at the pregnancy stick that she had been forced to buy to keep herself from going insane. By this time tomorrow the whole town of Mystic Falls would probably think that Elena Gilbert was pregnant.

No, but it wasn't Elena, the lucky immortal bitch that had gotten stupidly knocked up. It had been her. By Klaus. That was the only other explanation, he had been the only person she had, had sex with ever since she became human. And apparently his super hybrid sperm and her overexcited ovaries had thought it would be the perfect time to have a baby. Yippee!

She kept staring at the stupid pink plus sign hoping it would disappear, but it was still there.

Katherine groaned.

"Katherine?"

"I said I'm fine." Katherine kicked the door in response.

"Will you just leave her alone?" Damon told his baby brother. "She's probably glancing at herself in the mirror counting down the days she has left of being bitchy and beautiful."

"Shut up, Damon!" Katherine yelled from the bathroom.

Stefan sighed. "Will you please stop antagonizing her?"

Damon shrugged as he left the hall. "If she didn't want me around, she shouldn't have turned me."

"Believe me, I regret it every day." Katherine mumbled. She waited a few seconds before she opened the door and slightly gave Stefan a come here sign. Confused, Stefan stepped into the bathroom. "I'm pregnant." She blurted out.

Stefan sighed, he didn't look surprise, more like he expected it. She felt like a sixteen year old girl telling her father she was pregnant. "Who's the father? Is it someone here in town?"

Katherine bit her lip. "Something like that."

"Katherine, spit it out."

Katherine lowered her head. "I think, it's Klaus's."

Stefan looked at her as if she were crazy. "Katherine, stop fooling around Klaus can't have children and I seriously doubt you will sleep with the man that made your life miserable for the past 500 years."

She flushed. "Well-"

Stefan groaned and knocked his head against the tile wall. "Please tell me you didn't sleep with him."

"It was only one time." She said defensively. "It was the night of graduation, I was sad and miserable and drunk and Klaus being Klaus offered me a little deal. He offered me a place to stay and a life card if we had a . . . night of passion."

"Ok, let's say you're right," Stefan closed his eyes and forced himself to think. "Can Klaus even reproduce?"

"I don't know! He's a hybrid, doesn't that make him super human or something? He's half wolf so maybe he can reproduce. Oh God, I'm pregnant with Klaus' baby, I rather be in hell!" she practically shrieked like a maniac.

Stefan placed both hands on Katherine's shoulders and steadied her. "Katherine, calm down. We'll figure something out."

Katherine let out a little whimper. "What do you suggest we do?"

"Go to New Orleans."

Elena had to blink several times before the news finally got through her head. Katherine was pregnant. Expecting a child. At some point in her life, she would have thought that she would be the one pregnant, but instead it was her doppelganger. Oh, the irony.

Stefan switched his gaze from Caroline, Damon, and Elena. He had decided to tell these three first since Damon and Elena had been forced to room with Katherine and he had heard that Klaus had a crush on Caroline. "Did you guys hear what I said?"

"You mean about Katherine getting knocked up by the Original hybrid?" Damon took a sip of his bottle of whisky. "Believe me, we heard."

Elena raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure, its Klaus though . . . all of us know how friendly Katherine can be when she really wants too."

Stefan gave her a disapproving look. "She claims that she hasn't slept with anyone else and I choose to believe her. The baby was conceive during graduation, so she's roughly one month pregnant."

"They slept together the night of graduation?" Caroline shrieked.

"How is that significant, Blondie?" Damon demanded.

Caroline flushed and turned away, lost in her own world.

Elena looked up at Stefan. "So what is she going to do now?"

"More importantly why are we the ones that are forming Katherine's pregnancy council," Caroline looked around. "Where is the Mommy to be?"

"Uh, sleeping." He said.

"Oh, please," Damon frowned. "She's probably trying to drown herself in the tub, I know I would if I were carrying the devil's spawn."

"Does Klaus know?" Elena asked. "Is she going to tell him?"

"How exactly do you want to tell the most powerful Original vampire that he knocked up the now human girl Katherine Pierce that he has been chasing for 500 years?" Damon said sarcastically. "Via text message?"

Stefan raised an eyebrow. "I'm actually taking her to New Orleans to tell Klaus himself."

"Come on, you need to eat," Stefan crossed his arms over his chest and watched as Katherine played with leftover pancakes and maple syrup. "Especially-"

"Especially now, that I'm pregnant?" she replied moodily. She glanced longely at the lively, streets of New Orleans. She should be there dancing, drinking, and having fun. Not being in a small café with Stefan trying not to worry if she was going to get morning sickness again. "I don't even know why I should bother, because we know what Klaus will do, he'll tell me to get rid of it or if I'm lucky he'll break my neck."

Stefan smiled at her with pity. "You never know."

Katherine let out a frustrated sigh. "I know Klaus better than you do, and besides he's not exactly the warm, fuzzy type. Can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"Why did you bring me here?" Katherine asked. "I mean you could have just dumped me into the first plane towards New Orleans, but instead you came all this way with me. Why?"

Stefan sighed and looked at her strangely. "Because you're human now and pregnant and alone and scared. Besides it wasn't like I had anything better to do in Mystic Falls, I'd like a change of scenery."

"And you'll worry that Klaus will throw my body in a river and call it an accident," she said flatly.

Stefan gave a small smile. "And that too."

Katherine started holding her hands nervously. "How about we just send him an email or something? He can't kill us through a computer screen."

"Katherine," Stefan replied in a teasing sort of voice. "It was hard enough running from Klaus for 500 years, I think it's going to be harder now as a pregnant human and wearing heels."

She rolled her eyes.

Stefan patted her hand and excused himself to pay the check. She slightly turned around and when she saw Stefan busying himself she ran through the back door of the café.

Sorry, Stefan, she mused. But I'm a sitting duck in there.

She had barely walked two steps when a curly hair woman smiled at her. "Miss Pierce?"

Katherine looked at her quizzically. "Yes?"

"I need you to come with me."

Katherine scoffed. "You've got to be kidding me."

The woman sighed. "I thought you might say that."

Katherine felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck as she drifted into unconsciousness.

-End of Chapter Three-

I know I promised Elijah and Rebekah in this chapter, but I decided to place that scene in the next chapter instead. Thanks for your reviews!