Ten

Katherine let out a low whistle as she stared at the lavish Mikaelson home (she had stolen the address from Caroline's address book.) Klaus may be a psychopath, but he was a psychopath with good taste.

She walked towards the double doors silently praying that Klaus or his blond sister wasn't there. She should have waited for Caroline after all. Cursing herself for being a coward she knocked on the door.

"Coming!" a very familiar voice said.

Katherine blinked. Wait was that-

Hayley opened the door and blinked twice. Katherine managed to wipe off the surprise look from her face. Well, it seemed that Hayley Marshall was still alive. Oh, joy. She didn't know what had happened to the wolf after Katherine had stopped finding her useful, she had only known that Hayley had something to do with the dead witch named Jane Ann, and then Katherine and Elijah had broken up and Katherine could have care less about her.

Though it seemed that she was still alive, but what was she doing with the Mikaelsons and wait, she was pregnant? Her brown eyes widened at Hayley's pregnant belly, she doubted that Klaus was the type to give a home to a pregnant wolf tramp.

"I would have let myself in," Katherine crossed her arms over her chest. "Though it seems ownership has changed."

Hayley squinted. "Elena?"

"Try again, sweetie."

Hayley's mood quickly darkened. "Katherine, I thought you would be long dead and on your way to hell where you deserve to be."

"Likewise." Katherine said without missing a beat. "Can I come in?"

"Hayley, who-"Rebekah paused when she saw Katherine. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"I came for Elijah," Katherine replied, feeling more confused than ever. Clearly she was out of the loop. "Which brings me to my next point what the hell is Hayley doing here? And since when did Klaus open a home for unwed mothers?"

Hayley pressed a hand on her belly. "Haven't you heard? I'm carrying Klaus' miracle baby."

Well, Caroline definitely wasn't going to like that. Katherine started blinking at rapid speed trying not to lose her cool, but failing. "Actually is Elijah here, because I really need to speak to him."

"Actually no," Hayley raised her chin defiantly, her hand on the door. "And you can't come in, I don't trust you especially when I'm pregnant. I don't want you here so you're most definitely not welcome. As for Elijah, I'm sure an honorable man like him doesn't want to spend time with a liar like you."

"Well, played little wolf, but Elijah is not as honorable as he appears to be," she smirked. "I'm not stupid enough to touch you while you're carrying Klaus' evil spawn, but trust me you don't want to mess with me and stay away from Elijah or I will rip your eyeballs out."

"Insecure much?"

Katherine ignored her as she looked over her shoulder. "Bye, Bex."

"Bye, Katherine." Rebekah said flatly.

"Ok, when I said sightseeing I did not mean a bar," Bonnie said to Caroline as the two girls entered a bar in the French Quarter. "Care, there are so many cool museums and old witch hunts and sacred grounds."

"Well see everything I promise." Caroline said chirpily. "And why do you want to visit the sacred grounds, you're not a witch anymore."

Bonnie glared at her.

"Sorry, I'm being insensitive." Caroline led her to a nearby table. "I just really need a pick me up, I'm not sure I can face Klaus and Katherine is a lot brave than I am when it comes to facing Elijah."

"More like in denial." Bonnie pointed out. "She's scared, she's just too proud to admit it."

"We need more gumbo, Sophie," the blond bartender said towards a dark hair girl.

"That's Cami, the blond bartender my brother is currently obsess with."

Bonnie jumped in her seat, Kol was sitting across from Caroline. "Kol, don't scare me like that." She hissed. "And how do you know that? Have you've been spying on your siblings as well?"

Caroline was now checking her lip gloss, apparently she had quickly gotten used to the idea that Bonnie preferred to spend some time talking with ghosts from the other side.

"Well, there's not a lot to do on the Other Side." Kol defended himself. "Unless you want me to bother you all day, which I don't mind doing, but still-"

"What do you know about her? Is she anyone special?"

"Well, I don't know about special, but she can certainly give sweet old Caroline a run for her money." Kol smirked in Caroline's direction. "From what I know her name is Cami O' Connell her uncle in the priest and she and Klaus have grown very ahem, close. I find it very amusing that my brother seems to fall for every blond that is a damsel in distress. It might be a fetish of his, though from what I've seen Cami is about as interesting as a cardboard box."

"Be nice." Bonnie scolded.

At that precise moment Katherine came running into the bar looking like she wanted to vomit or throw someone on the floor. "What's wrong?" Caroline frowned. "You have your I know something you don't know face."

"I don't have a face." Katherine snapped. In any other situation she would rub it in Caroline's face that wolf girl had stolen and got pregnant by Klaus, but she and Caroline had become friends and she had to admit that Caroline was her only hope of earning Klaus' forgiveness.

"Katherine, just spit it out!" Bonnie declared.

"Well I just went to the Mikaelson house and the wolf girl, Hayley Marshall answered the door." She blurted out the rest. "Well apparently Hayley is pregnant and the baby's father is Klaus. So now Klaus is an expected daddy."

Bonnie gaped, even Kol seemed surprise, and apparently he hadn't caught up on all the gossip.

Caroline's face went pale and she bit her lip, but didn't offer any other reaction other than a bland. "Of course Klaus is the father."

Bonnie and Katherine exchanged looks. "And you're ok?"

"I'm fine." Caroline forced a smile. "Don't worry, that news just kind of made this whole trip worthless, but I'm fine, kind of want to throw Hayley under a bus and hang Klaus from a tree, but otherwise I'm perfectly fine."

"Right, ok," Katherine obviously didn't believe her. "But if it makes you feel better after Hayley has the brat, I'm totally in on the plan of throwing her under the bus, I have an inking suspicious that the little whore fell for Elijah's whole prince charming-protector routine and I want her disgusting claws far away from him as possible. Deal?"

Caroline's lip quivered. "Deal." Klaus a father? He had left New Orleans months ago and yet he didn't bother telling Caroline when he had come back a few month ago. She knew that Katherine wasn't lying to her, but it still came as a shock.

"How about we have a drink?" Bonnie offered. "My treat."

"Hi, what can I get you girls?" Cami asked as the three girls sat at the bar.

Caroline rummage a hand through her blond hair. "How about the whole bar?"

"Yeah, we can totally tell you're ok." Bonnie mumbled as she smiled at Cami. "We'll have three shots please, rough day."

Katherine cocked her at Caroline. "Please tell me you're not running home with your tail between your legs and giving Hayley the satisfaction."

"I'm not." Caroline replied. "I'm going to talk to Klaus, but I must admit that the whole baby thing threw me off guard especially since he kept it a secret."

"I'm sorry to eavesdrop." Cami raised her head. "But are you talking about Klaus Mikaelson?"

"Yeah, do you know him?"

"More than I wish to, yeah. He and his brother come in from time to time."

"Where can we find them?" Katherine inquired.

"I haven't seen them in a while." Cami offered. "But Marcel may know where he is. But trust me you don't want to get involved with Klaus."

"Believe me I can handle Klaus." Caroline narrowed her eyes. "Now tell me, where can I find this Marcel?"

-End of Chapter Ten-