Chapter Five

"Katherine," Stefan paused a few feet away from where Katherine watched Elijah's retreating figure. "Are you ok?"

Katherine gave him a fake smile. "Just peachy, let's get the hell out of here before Klaus actually does the killing part."

"Fine. We'll rent a room and head back home tomorrow morning."

"I told you this was a waste of time," Katherine said frustrated as she sat on top of a grave and hugged her knees together. "Did you really think that Klaus and I were going to start a big, happy life together? And Elijah is so disgusted by me that he won't even look at me, and now you expect me to go back to Mystic Falls where everyone hates me including your brother and my doppelganger. No way." She began walking away.

Stefan easily catch up next to her. "Katherine, you can't just leave."

She scoffed. "Watch me."

"Fine, where are you going to go?" he protested. "You don't have any money and I'm not going on some wild goose chase all around the world."

Katherine hesitated. "Fine, you can ditch me and got back to your precious Elena, just do me one favor first."

Stefan sighed. "Ok, what?"

"Take me to the hospital. I want an abortion and I want to get rid of this baby as soon as possible. Being human officially sucks, I don't need to add single mom to the list."

Stefan groaned.

Katherine widened her eyes. "Please, please Stefan."

Before either of them could argue more on the subject, Sophie stood behind them looking at them suspiciously. "You can't leave."

Katherine crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Sophie. "Oh, I'm sorry did you really think I was going to stick around? Oh, honey then you're in for a real disappointment. Didn't you hear, Klaus he wants nothing to do with the baby and neither do I."

Sophie pricked her finger with a safety pin.

"Ow!" Katherine yelped as her own hand started bleeding.

Stefan grabbed her hand and noticed the blood. "What the hell did you do?"

"The spell that my sister did before she was killed, wasn't just to confirm her pregnancy, but it also linked me to Katherine. So if anything happens to me it happens to Katherine as well. You can't leave the quarter." She looked at her watch. "I'm not afraid of dying and you have until midnight to change Klaus' mind."

Klaus was so angry that he felt like he could kill the entire town in under ten minutes. But he won't. Yet anyway. He closed his eyes, he had heard the baby's heartbeat. How the hell had he managed to get Katerina pregnant? Their night had been a simple one night stand and now a month later she comes, claiming that she was carrying his child with Stefan Salvatore acting like her damn bodyguard.

"I'm in no mood to talk," Klaus said moodily. "How many times do I have to tell you to leave me alone?"

"Your words no longer have any effect," Elijah said sharply. "Tell me Niklaus, I know that werewolves can reproduce, so is there the slightest possibly that this child might be yours?"

Klaus looked at his brother mockingly. "And if it is, so what? You are so transparent, Elijah jealous that I spent the night with your beloved Katerina? If you weren't half the fool that I know you are you wouldn't have broken up with her in the first place."

"I did it for my family."

"And look how that turned out." Klaus said sarcastically. "Katerina is about to become family. If it's any consolation I know why you didn't kill her sooner. She is a Goodness in bed, these 500 years have been good to her."

Elijah let out a hiss as he pressed Klaus against the wall. "Don't talk about her like that!"

"It's not my fault that you weren't man enough to ask her to stick around." He pushed Elijah. "But hey, she's knocked up. She'll all yours, you two can start a happy little family. On second thought the witches have probably killed her by now. Sorry, mate."

Elijah grabbed one of the iron bars from the fence and used it to hit Klaus across the face. "I will not let you walk away from this, despite my displeasure of the situation. This is the best thing that ever happened to you."

"Is that so?" Klaus grabbed the iron bar from Elijah and whacked him to the ground. "You're a sentimental fool, Elijah."

"Perhaps," Elijah said. "But I've lasted this long, haven't if?"

"What are you two idiots doing here?" Klaus growled because when he reached his house he found Stefan and Katherine sitting in front of the entrance. Stefan looked stressed as he fiddled with his phone and Katherine looked grouchy and was clutching Elijah's jacket like a security blanket.

Katherine stood up and glared at Klaus. "We need to talk."

"I don't think so, love."

"Klaus, listen," Stefan said irritably.

"Sophie linked herself to me and the baby," Katherine blurted out. "And I know you hate my guts, but if you're not willing to do it for me then do it for the baby. And if you don't want it, then I'll leave first thing tomorrow morning and end this pregnancy by myself."

"Katherine!"

"Well, I'm not going to beg him to reconsider!"

Klaus ignored their bickering as he heard the faint heartbeat from Katherine's midsection. A baby's heartbeat. His baby's heartbeat. He straightened up, he could care less about Katerina, but the baby in her womb was his family. It was his and no one could take it away. "Where is Sophie?"

"At the cemetery." Stefan replied.

"Good, Stefan you're coming with me." He eyed Katherine. "And you, go inside the last thing I want is for you to get pneumonia and die, and make this whole ordeal a big waste."

"I appreciate the concern." Katherine said sarcastically.

"Elijah."

Elijah closed his eyes and forced himself to turn around. He was glad that Klaus was slowly accepting his child, but that did not mean that he was at all happy that his pregnant former lover was staying here.

"We need to talk," Katherine was also avoiding his eyes. "Please."

"I believe we have said everything that we need to say to each other-"

"Stop, ok?" she snapped. "Stop shutting me out. I know that you don't want to be near me and that me sleeping with Klaus screwed up everything. Elijah, you need to know that I'm sorry and that the last thing I wanted is for any of this to happen-"

"I believe you," Elijah said curtly. "I'm sorry, Katherine, but that doesn't really change much."

"So, we're back to Katherine now, huh?" she rested her hand on an object. Their conversation wasn't much, but at least they were talking. She removed the sheet and found out that it was a crib.

"You're a part of this family now, Katherine." He said. "And you will have my protection and my respect, but whatever we had . . . you must know that it cannot go on."

Katherine let out a little scoff of disbelief. "One night of expensive whisky and bad choices puts you on the forbidden list. I get it."

"You're Klaus' now-"

"I am not Klaus' anything," she growled. "I am a human being and even if he got me knocked up, that does not mean that I'm going to do everything he says. Thought me being human kind of limits the situation."

Elijah held back a smile at her determination. "I will protect you, I swear."

"This may be hard for to believe, Elijah but I've been taking care of myself for the past 500 years without anyone helping me." She patted his shoulder before she left.

-End of Chapter Five-

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