Chapter Thirteen
"Do you see or hear her anywhere?" Stefan asked Rebekah. Rebekah shook her head, she and Stefan had arrived at the bayou twenty minutes after they received Katherine's text. But the entire place was deserted.
"I've tried calling her, but she's not answering her phone," she mumbled, trying to hide the nervousness in her voice. If Nik found out that she and Stefan had lost sight of the pregnant she-devil they might as well be dead themselves.
"Katherine!" Stefan shouted. "Katherine! It's no use, I'll call Klaus-"
"No, I'll do it," Rebekah said as she picked up her phone, she was more used to dealing with an angry Nik than he was. It didn't take long for Klaus to answer.
"What is it, little sister?" Klaus sounded annoyed at the other end. "I'm dealing with something important, involving our little witch and her sweetheart, Timothy. Tell Stefan, he's missing all the fun perhaps Damon should have tagged along with me instead."
"Well, if you could abandoned your quest for power for at least five minutes I'm sure all of us would appreciate it," she said dryly before she said the last words. "Katherine is missing."
"There she is," one of the men that had been following Katherine said to his partner. Who nodded. "I'll grab her."
"Gentlemen," Sabine smirked as she approached them. "Nice work." She stared at Katherine's unconscious body at the bottom of the ditch. "I'll take it from here."
One of the men scowled. "No way, lady we ran into all that trouble, we're going to kill her ourselves."
Sabine sighed. "Over two hundred years and men are still complete idiots," she narrowed her eyes as them and they began coughing up blood until they fell dead. Sabine kicked them and approached Katherine. She smiled. "Hello, Katherine we haven't officially meet, I'm Celeste. Sorry, about this darling, but you're not going to be throwing baby showers any time soon." Her ears perked up when she heard voices.
"Honestly, I can't believe you two idiots can't take care of a pregnant, human Katerina no wonder she outsmarted all of you at least once." Klaus barked at Stefan and Rebekah who were closed at his heels.
"Well, maybe if you could take a break from torturing the local witches taking care of Katherine wouldn't be such a difficult task." Stefan snapped back. "And besides she was going with Agnes."
"Yes, because witches are so reliable!"
Rebekah stopped short. "Hey, do you smell that . . . it's her blood."
Sabine sighed. Another ruined opportunity. If she wanted something done, she had to do it herself and not rely on others. Oh, well. "We'll meet soon, Katherine don't you worry."
"Nik, I found her!" Rebekah yelled over her shoulder as Stefan and Klaus hurried behind her, "She must have run away and tripped or something."
Stefan knelled besides her and started checking for broken bones, there didn't seem to be any. He gave her face little slaps. "Hey, Katherine, hey wake up-"
". . fan." Katherine murmured before she lost conciseness again.
Klaus bended down and picked her up, settling her head in his arms. "I got you sweetheart," he mumbled. "You're safe now."
Katherine nodded slightly, before falling asleep again.
When Katherine woke up again the sun was hitting her face. She tried to stand up from her bed, but found out she couldn't her arms were restrained by two of her belts. A gold one and a turquoise one. "KLAUS!"
"Oh, how I've missed your sweet and dulcet tones, Katerina." Klaus said sarcastically as she entered the room.
"Why the hell am I tied up?"
"You kept trying to punch something in your sleep, sweetheart I was merely taking precautions," he ripped the belts. "I shouldn't have though, I would like to have known how long it would have taken you to strangle yourself."
"You're an ass." She hissed as she looked at her bloody, throbbing fist that had been wrapped in bandages. "I punched a window." She admitted.
Klaus looked impressed. "Well, I'm happy to know that your injuries didn't just happen because of your inability to run."
"Shut up," she snapped. "You would have tripped if you had been followed by a bunch of psychopaths who think our babies are worse than the devil himself."
Klaus stopped short. "I think that fall might have affected your head. We're having a baby not babies."
"No, I think you need to have your head check." Katherine shot back. "I found out that we're having twins."
Klaus stared at her as if wondering if she was lying. Twins? He had thought that there would only be one baby, but twins that was impossible-He was drifted off his thoughts when Katherine's stomach started grumbling. He stood up. "You're hungry. I'll tell the maid to bring you something."
"I can walk, Klaus!" she shot back.
Klaus smirked at her. "Take it easy, love we wouldn't want you falling down the stairs."
Katherine glared at him.
"Oh, yay food!" she clapped her hands silently together when a maid brought in a lunch tray. She began stuffing the sandwich in her mouth. She stopped when she noticed that Klaus was staring at her. "What?"
"I'm not feeding you enough," he said. His thoughts were all over the places.
Katherine shrugged. "The food is decent enough and thank god that Stefan is a decent cook and there's always take out. But, will you be a doll and bring me a huge bag of Hershey kisses I've been craving those."
"If you can keep yourself out of harm's way for one day, I'll buy you a year's worth." He said dryly.
"Well, that went well," Rebekah said sarcastically as she handed Stefan a glass of whisky. Stefan nodded his thanks. "Overall a pretty good day, don't you think I tried cotton candy for the first time, I'm nowhere near finding my good brother, and Katherine was attacked and fell in a ditch with resulted in Klaus almost murdering us."
Stefan clicked his glass against her's. "A typical day in New Orleans, huh?"
Rebekah took a sip.
"Can I ask you something?" Stefan asked her. "Why do you insist on staying in New Orleans? I know that you want to rescue Elijah, but is that you're only reason?"
Rebekah nodded. "Yes, my family and I have been together for 1000 years, in that time we have loved each other, hated each other, and made each other miserable. I think it's time that we took a break, I want to make my own life, my own friends without Nik's selfishness getting in the way."
"What about Always and Forever?"
"I've been thinking of getting a new motto," she looked at her nearly empty glass. "So what's keeping you here? Klaus doesn't consider you much of a friend if you don't participate in his murderers activities and please don't tell me it's to protect, Katherine. Because it's obvious that Klaus won't touch her as long as she's pregnant. So let's save the lame excuses, shall we?"
Stefan chuckled nervously. "Truthfully, as selfish as it sounds I came here to get away from everything that happened in Mystic Falls. I'm glad that Elena and my brother are happy, but I can't stand being in the same room as them-"
Rebekah rested her hand on her chin. "Do you still love Elena?"
Stefan shook his head. "No, we've hurt each other too much. I will always care for her of course, but I feel that she and Damon belong together-"
"Then," Rebekah murmured as she kissed him slowly. "Stop caring about the past and start thinking about the future."
Katherine sat in a chair in front of the pool admiring the crystal blue water. After she had eaten she had been feeling much better and she had grabbed another one of Elijah's diaries and Belle and had gone outside to read.
The throbbing in her hand had almost completely disappeared and she guessed that the twins were helping her out since their Mommy couldn't drink vampire blood. An unexpected smile spread on her face. She couldn't believe it, twins. Even her who had been so anti-baby at first couldn't help, but be a little excited.
"Ok, Belle time to find out more things that I don't want to know." She mumbled as she opened the diary and a bunch of unattached papers poured out. She picked one up and unfolded it, it was so old and worn out that she could barely read it, but it was definitely girl handwriting.
Dearest, Dearest Elijah,
It seems you are the sweeter of the two. Oh, how I love your poems and the flowers you give me. To quote you, "you're eyes are the color of chocolate, your lips are as red as roses." You my dearest Elijah is why I have such a difficult time choosing.
My love always,
Tatia
Rebekah was smiling to herself as she poured herself another drink. She gently touched her lips. She could still feel Stefan's kiss. She heard the door open. "Nik, finally your baby mama has been behaving finally-"she trailed off when she saw Elijah and she immediately hugged him. "You're home."
Elijah noticed that the door leading to the pool was open. He kissed his sister on the cheek. "Excuse me, please."
Elijah exited the house and walked towards the pool. He saw Katherine sleeping soundly in a chair with a bunch of books. A puppy was sitting next to her, growling at Elijah already protecting her new mistress.
Elijah patted Belle on the head and Belle licked his hand. He smiled when he saw Katherine. He hadn't seen her in three long months and she looked more beautiful than ever. He kissed her forehead. "Katerina."
Katherine's brown eyes flew open and she looked surprised to see him. "Elijah." But instead of feeling happy, she could feel her blood boiling. When Elijah looked at her, was he seeing Tatia instead?
Katherine slammed the diary against his chest. "Welcome home." She said coldly as she walked up the stairs, Belle following at her heels leaving a confused Elijah behind.
-End of Chapter Thirteen-