Chapter Twelve

"Come here, Belle," Katherine cooed to her puppy (the only living thing that she would actually coo too) as she clapped her hands. "Come here, sweetie before Klaus drowns you in the swimming pool."

Belle ignored her and she started growling at the bushes and trees surrounding the estate. Katherine rolled her eyes, she loved her puppy, but sometimes dogs could be so stupid. She picked Belle up. "What are you growling at?"

She felt a chill go down her spine as she saw something move. Golden hair. She went further down, but Belle had finally stopped growling and was licking her chin. She shook her head, what the hell was that? She didn't know anyone in New Orleans, but she had felt someone's eyes on her all morning.

Someone had been definitely watching her.

"Kill the baby?" Agnes looked at Sabine as if she were insane. She looked over her shoulder to make sure that they weren't overheard. "Are you out of your mind? Sophie is connected to that baby's life and the Original family will murder us if we touch one hair on Katherine's head."

"It's a necessary precaution, Agnes," Sabine said soothingly. "I've been studying the stars, the charts. I recently had a vision." Sabine was famous for her visions. "Those babies will be the death of all witches and we must end the pregnancy as soon as possible."

"Those?" Agnes asked trembling.

"Yes, she's carrying twins."

"Someone is stalking you?" Rebekah finally looked up from her computer to stare at Katherine. "You haven't been pissing people off, have you?"

"Yeah, will all my free time." She snapped. "I'm not even sure that it was a person. Belle started barking, so I know it was in the bushes."

"Oh, please Belle barks every time that Nik enters the house, not that I blame her." She petted the puppy. "You're just being paranoid, no one can enter the house."

Katherine sighed, giving up. "Fine. Has your memory made any improvement?"

"No, the only thing I remember is that the room had these brown shutters."

Katherine snorted. "That's helpful," she looked up and saw Agnes enter the room. She looked at her quizzically. "You're one of the witches, aren't you?"

"Yes, Miss Katherine I just wanted to tell you that perhaps it's best if we go see a doctor, you're halfway through you third month of pregnancy and you should have a checkup. There's a really great doctor in the bayou."

Katherine frowned. "I'm not exactly a big fan of doctors."

"Are you afraid of a little needle?" Rebekah teased her, her eyes never leaving the computer screen. "Many woman would kill to be in your place, including me so stop being so stubborn and got to the doctor."

"Why are you making me trudge through the mud?" Katherine snapped at Agnes as they walked through the soggy, muddy path in route to the doctors. Her flats were completely covered in mud. "These cost over three hundred dollars, yeah Klaus paid for them, but they're still pretty good shoes."

"We're almost there, Miss Katherine," Agnes murmured, annoyed as she pushed open the small door. A smiling doctor greeted them. "Hello, you must be Miss Katherine Pierce."

"Hi," she blew a sigh. She was feeling uneasy already. "This won't take long, right?"

"Nope," Dr. Paige said. "Just a quick ultrasound."

Katherine nodded, but looked suspicious when she saw that Agnes had disappeared. "Where-"

"She went to get some fresh air, please dear," Dr. Paige led her to a small bed. She pulled up her shirt and she spread a blue jelly liked substance on her small, bulging belly. "Heartbeat seems perfect. Oh, we have a surprise here."

Katherine cocked her head to the side. "Really? Because I think I've had enough surprises to last me a lifetime."

Dr. Paige smiled at her. "This is a good surprise. You're having twins."

Katherine felt her heartbeat rise as she sat up and stared at Dr. Paige with a disbelief look on her face. "What? No, that's not-"she trailed off when she saw two men talking to Agnes. "Who are-"

Dr. Paige looked apologetic. "I'm sorry, Katherine, but we can't allow this."

"You bitch!" Katherine growled as she pushed Dr. Paige as hard as she could, knocking her against the cabinets. She saw the men coming towards her, she looked around, crap no weapon at all unless she wanted to throw cotton balls. Her brown eyes went to the window, her only chance of escaping. She tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge. "Come, come on." She could hear the voices approaching and closing her eyes and praying that it wouldn't hurt she punched the window as hard as she could and glass shattered.

"She's getting away!"

Katherine crawled through the window and started texting, ignoring the throbbing in her hand. She send a quick text to Rebekah, Help. Bayou. Hurry, K.

"Rebekah, you're wasting your time," Stefan sighed as he entered the living room a few hours later and found Rebekah clicking the keyboards angrily. "There are about a thousand brown shutters in the city."

"Well, I'm not just going to give up finding my brother if that's what you're implying." Rebekah snapped.

Stefan raised his hands up in mock surrender. "I just came to offer you a little break from your search."

Rebekah stared at him suspiciously. "What kind of break?"

"Well, there's the music festival right now and this is only my third time visiting New Orleans so I figured you would know your way around the streets." Rebekah hesitated. "Come on, I'm sure Elijah won't mind if you take a little break."

Rebekah closed her laptop, "But only a little one."

Stefan and Rebekah walked through the crowded streets of the festival, not really talking and instead just glancing at the various booths and entertainment. "Wow, I forgot how much fun these things used to be," she paused when she saw a cotton candy stand. "You know I've never tasted cotton candy."

"Never?" Stefan looked amazed. "You're a thousand years old."

"Well, it always looked a little bit too . . . pink." she wrinkled her nose. "And it's rude to mention a lady's age in public."

Stefan laughed as he told the woman. "One cotton candy, please."

"So what is Klaus up to?" Stefan asked as he took a piece of cotton candy.

"Probably terrorizing innocent schoolchildren." She said. "I'm surprise his sidekick doesn't know."

Stefan gave a small smile. "Well, I've spend the whole summer with Marcel and Klaus, truth be told I rather be spending it with you."

Rebekah gave a small smile and before she could respond her phone started buzzing. She frowned when she saw the text.

"What's wrong?"

"I think, Katherine is in trouble."

Katherine looked over her shoulder, wishing that they were gone, but they were still hot on her trail. Come on Stefan, Rebekah any day now, she really wished that she were still a vampire. She started running faster when she felt that she was losing them.

She felt herself trip and she started rolling fast paced down the hill. She felt a sharp pain in the back of her head and suddenly everything went black.

-End of Chapter Twelve-

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