Sixteen

Caroline had somehow managed to drag Klaus away from Sophie's café and far away enough that they wouldn't be overheard, but now here they were standing alone and staring awkwardly at each other that Caroline didn't know what to tell him. Hey, Klaus the baby that that backstabbing werewolf slut is carrying isn't your baby, but Tyler's?

Caroline was known for blurting things out, especially when people deserve to know the truth, but now that she was standing in front of Klaus she didn't know what to say. She couldn't exactly blurt out the news, now could she?

"Caroline," Klaus said after a while. "Might I remind you that you were the one that wanted to talk to me? I don't mind standing here and staring at your beautiful face, but I suspect that you might get bored after a while."

Caroline giggled nervously. "Of course-"

"Caroline," Klaus interrupted her. "I know that you're not upset about the baby, that you don't think that there can be anything between us-"

"Klaus-"

"Let me finish." Klaus said. "Caroline, never in a 1000 years did I think I was going to be a father, to be truthful I still can't believe it. I'm not sure that I will be a good father, but I will try. I just feel that this baby . . . that the baby can be a chance to change. I love my baby, I love my family, and I understand your position, but I also don't want to lose you."

And just like that, Caroline lost her will power Klaus looked so sincere, so thoughtful and generally happy about the baby. He even looked eager about becoming a father. Caroline couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

Klaus already loved Hayley's unborn baby like his own baby. Would it really be that bad if Caroline didn't tell him, at least for now?

"Now what did you want to tell me?" Klaus raised his head. "I'm all ears."

Caroline's lip wobbled as she forced a smile. "Oh, nothing."

Katherine had been standing with her arms across her chest and glaring at Elijah for the past five minutes, reminding Elijah of a pit bull. Or a very angry Chihuahua. In any case he had never seen her so angry.

The problem was that Elijah wasn't quite sure what to do. Should he apologize? Seduce her? Shake her until she understood?

They all sounded like bad ideas. Katherine may be a baby vampire, but Elijah knew that Original or not, she wouldn't hesitate to kick his ass, because she knew that Elijah wouldn't dare do something to hurt her.

"Well?" Katherine cocked an eyebrow. "Aren't you going to say anything? You were the one that wanted to meet me?"

Elijah's mouth opened, but the words didn't quite come out. Katherine gave an irritated sigh.

"Stop that." He hissed at her. "You're going to listen to my side of the story."

"And what's that?" Katherine hissed back at him, all the anger that she had kept inside seem to explode. "That you were too busy playing white knight to Hayley to send me a simple text message, that you wanted some pure, innocent girl too-"

Elijah broke off her speech by kissing her rather unexpectedly and pressing her against the wall. "Katerina." He said as he held her against the wall. "For once in your life listen."

Katherine glared at him. She knew he was using one of his many charms against her, but this time she wouldn't let him. "Fine, I'm listening."

Elijah pulled back satisfied. "I had no idea that you were dying." He said calmly. "If I would then rest assure that I would have come over immediately to assist you in any way that I could have. Rebekah and Klaus kept from me the fact that you were dying."

Katherine's mood darkened. "Of course." She bit her lip. "But that still doesn't explain why you were kissing Hayley. I'm serious, Elijah what do you see in that hillbilly werewolf princess, I lost respect for Klaus just because he slept with her!"

Elijah groaned. "Katerina, I did not kiss Hayley. She kissed me."

Katherine snorted. "Likely story. You men always playing the victim card."

"I'm not playing anything." Elijah growled, before his tone softened and he looked at Katherine with amusement. "Are you actually jealous of Hayley, Katerina?"

Now it was Katherine's turn to blush. "Please, I was just worried that you would catch werewolf germs, that's all."

Elijah chuckled as he pressed a hand against her cheek. "Jealousy doesn't suit you."

Katherine huffed, there was still a trace of insecurity flashing in Katherine's eyes. "So there's nothing going on between you and Hayley?"

Elijah shook his head. "I apologize for the misunderstanding and for all the suffering that you had to endure because of me." He murmured as he kissed her. "I will spend all of my eternity trying to make up for it."

Bonnie was walking through what seemed like a very long and dark forest. Bonnie stopped short when she saw a very familiar woman standing there, as if waiting for her. "Grams?"

"There's something wrong over here, Bonnie." Grams said. "You need to get away, you need to get away, you shouldn't have become the anchor."

"What are you-"

Bonnie woke up with a start as she looked at her empty room, neither Caroline nor Katherine were back yet.

"Are you're ok, little witch?" Kol asked. "Bad dream?"

"My grams," she said. "She talked to me, she told me in a way that there's something bad going on the other side. That I should have never become the anchor-"she trailed off when saw Kol staring at her. "What's going to happen to me, Kol?"

-End of Chapter Sixteen-