Hello my dears! I am sorry for not updating this story sooner. I've been so busy with uni work, theatre production stuff, family life etc., so I've had hardly any time on my hands.

A/N: Starting from chapter 7, there will be plenty of in-depth chapters on their jobs in the defence force. These first few chapters have mainly focussed on introducing the new storylines, development of characters etc. so just trust me with where it's going. And yes, we will be getting more of Klaus' POV in this fic, especially from the work side of things. He will be the go-to character for all things bad ass and crime-fighting. Let's face it, who doesn't like the idea of Klaus in a cop uniform looking sexy with a gun in hand? ;)

Anyway, thank you to everyone for the lovely reviews so far! They warm my heart *hugs you all tightly*

Chapter 5: Double Whammy

Caroline's morning sickness hadn't gotten better over the past two weeks. In fact, it had just gotten worse. People always went on about pregnancy giving women a beautiful glow but she begged to differ. All she was getting was morning sickness, mood swings and an obsession with bacon and salt. Where was her glow?

She rolled off of her stomach and onto her back, feeling sick and put a hand over her stomach. "Oh God, I feel sick." She mumbled and Klaus stirred next to her.

"What is it, love?"

She rubbed her stomach, then put a hand over her mouth. "Klaus I feel sick." She said then started gagging. "Oh God…" she quickly grabbed for the bucket she had pre-set next to the bed the past two weeks and threw up into it. Between her coughing and spluttering, she cried, hating having to deal with this the past few weeks.

Where is my fucking glow?!

Klaus sighed deeply and rubbed her back as she coughed into the bucket, holding her hair back with his other hand.

"Alright, okay, let it all out." he said and tried to keep himself from gagging because of the smell.

"Easy for you to say." She sobbed into the bucket. "It's not you that throws up most mornings."

"No, but I still need to smell it."

"Well I need to fucking taste it."

"You ate the food, not me."

"Don't try to justify it!" she snapped, her voice echoing because of the bucket. "Do you want me to starve?"

"No." he replied with a shake of his head. "But maybe you should eat less? Maybe that's what makes you vomit?"

"I am eating for two people here, not one. I can eat as much as I want, thank you very much. And it's not the amount of food that makes me throw up, genius. It's because my body isn't used to carrying another human being inside of me yet."

She reached for the box of tissues nearby and wiped her mouth with it before getting up and picking up the bucket with a disgusted look on her face. "I need to go clean up." She said and started heading for the door. Klaus sighed and got out of the bed.

"Go shower and I'll clean it up." He said and took the bucket from her.

"Are you sure? It's gross." She warned him but he only shrugged it off and nudged her towards the bathroom door.

"Yes, I'm sure. Now go shower. You smell."

Her mouth fell open and she slapped his arm. "No need to be so mean!" she squealed before turning on her heels and heading to the bathroom. Before she locked the door, she poked her head around the doorway. "Oh, and by the way, we've got an appointment at nine-thirty at the doctors for the first ultrasound. I booked it in early because I knew we didn't start work until twelve, so be ready to leave by nine."

Klaus furrowed his brow and frowned. "Are you sure you should even be going to work right now, Caroline? The stress isn't good for you."

"I'm fine." She said and waved off his concern. "I'm clearly not that far along since I've barely even got a bump yet. Don't worry. I know what I'm doing." She said then headed back into the bathroom, only to poke her head out the door again. "Oh, and Klaus?"

"Yes?"

"Can you pretty please make me so–"

"Make you some bacon? Yeah, I know." He cut her off, already knowing what she was going to ask just from the tone of her voice. "I'm on it."

"Thank you." She beamed and moved to kiss him but he backed away from her.

"Brush your teeth first, then I'll kiss you." He said and she pouted. He pressed a kiss to her forehead then nodded towards the shower. "Now go clean up while I clean your mess."

"Fiiine." She grumbled and shut the door behind her, leaving him standing there with her puke bucket in hand and a grossed out look on his face. Safe to say, mornings weren't currently his favourite thing.

After what Caroline considered an appropriate amount of bacon and a fifteen minute drive to the hospital, they were sitting in the waiting room outside Doctor Fell's office. Caroline had her hands clasped together and twiddling her thumbs nervously. She was tapping her feet impatiently against the chair leg as she looked around the room. She was a mixture of both nerves and eagerness. Klaus frowned at her behaviour and put a hand on her thigh and squeezed it lightly. She just grabbed onto his hand and squeezed the life out of it.

"Calm down, Caroline."

"I can't calm down." She snapped, then let out a resigned sigh. "I'm sorry. It's the nerves."

"You were excited all morning and now that we're here, you're freaking out. Calm down. There's nothing to be nervous about and you know that."

Caroline turned to look at him and furrowed her brows. "Since when did you become the logical one?"

"Since you became the hormonal one." He replied. She opened her mouth to say something in return but stopped when she heard the words she had been anticipating all morning.

"Caroline Forbes? You may come in now."

Her head spun in the direction of the voice and she shrunk back into her seat momentarily before Klaus got up and offered his hand to her. She took it and let him lead her down the corridor, following Doctor Fell to her office. Doctor Fell held the door open for them with a smile on her face and Caroline felt a little more at ease just from the sight of it.

"Good morning. It's lovely to see you two again after such a long time." Meredith said and Caroline laughed lightly.

"Well it's for nicer reasons now than what it was at the time." Caroline said. Last time they had seen Meredith was three years ago when Klaus had been shot during their mission against the Salvatore brothers. Both Caroline and Klaus remembered it way more clearly than what they liked.

"Indeed it is." Meredith said and went about setting up the equipment for Caroline's ultrasound. "So how have you both been?"

"Great."

"Sick." Klaus looked at Caroline with concern etched into his face and she rolled her eyes. "Hello? Morning sickness."

"Right. Sorry, love."

"Well, that is why you're here this morning." Meredith said and patted the bed for Caroline to go sit down on. She did so and held her arm out for Meredith to wrap the cuff around her upper arm to check her blood pressure. "I'm going to do a check up on both you and the baby and let you know how everything is going health-wise."

Klaus took a seat in a chair opposite Meredith's desk as she went about giving Caroline her attention. Meredith and Caroline became engrossed in a conversation about healthy diets during pregnancy and Klaus found himself sinking further into boredom from their conversation. He resorted to checking his emails on his phone, then eventually downloaded an app called Flappy Bird to keep himself entertained.

About ten minutes later, he was already getting annoyed by the stupid game, but it didn't mean it wasn't addictive. He growled lowly every time the stupid bird hit a stupid pipe. He was so fixated on the game that he kept missing the weird looks Caroline was giving him.

"What are you doing?" she asked but he didn't hear her. "What are you doing, Klaus?" Still nothing. "Niklaus Mikaelson, are you ignoring me?" she said harshly and he finally looked up from his phone. He gave her a puzzled look.

"Wait, what? What was that?"

Caroline clenched her hands into fists and her expression set into one of silent fury. He was certain that if this was a cartoon, he would be able to see the vein in her forehead pulsing and steam coming out of her ears. Her blood was boiling.

"Have you been playing games on your phone the entire appointment?"

"No." he said with a shake of his head, easily lying. "I was checking my emails for work."

"For ten minutes?"

"I've got a lot of emails."

"No you don't and I know that for a fact considering I'm the one who sends you most of them for work."

Well fuck.

"So how is she, Meredith?" Klaus said, turning his attention to Meredith to avoid the topic and the furious look his wife was giving him. Meredith looked as if she were trying to not laugh.

"Caroline is healthy, but her blood pressure is rather high."

"Gee, I wonder why?" Caroline said sarcastically and glared at Klaus. He held his hands up.

"Now, love. Calm down."

"It can be because of stress." Meredith cut in before an argument could erupt between the two. "Have you ben stressed lately Caroline? Possibly from work? I know that you have quite a demanding job as Lieutenant."

"I'm always stressed at work." She said with a shrug of her shoulders and a duh expression.

"Well I suggest you take it easy. The stress isn't good for you or the baby."

Klaus pointed at Meredith and looked at Caroline. "I told you. You shouldn't be going to work in your condition, Caroline, but you never listen. Tell Alaric. I'm sure he will understand if you take several months off work."

"No." she deadpanned.

"Caroline," Klaus said with a warning tone. "Don't do this to yourself. Think about yourself for a change, and the child. I can't have both of you with your health at risk."

"He has a point Caroline." Meredith cut in, seeing as Caroline was about to protest again. "You need to take it easy at work until you go on maternity leave. And with your job, I suggest you go on maternity leave very soon." Caroline frowned at Meredith but Meredith only pushed her gently into lying down on the bed. "If you could lift your shirt up please, Caroline, we can check how your baby is going now." Caroline did as she was told and Meredith gave her an encouraging smile. "Now I'm going to put some gel on your stomach. It might be a bit cold at first."

Caroline nodded before looking over at Klaus and reaching her hand out to him. He got up from his chair and went over to her side and squeezed her hand in a reassuring manner. She clutched onto his hand tightly as she felt the cold gel on her stomach and Meredith spread it about her stomach with the transducer and looked over at the display screen on the machine. He rubbed soothing patterns on her hand with his thumb as the two of them looked at the screen confused. They didn't know what Meredith was looking at.

Not understanding what was going on on the screen, Klaus turned to Meredith. "What can you tell us so far?"

Meredith squinted at the display screen as she tried to distinguish what was going on with the scan before a ghost of a smile crossed her face. "Well that's interesting."

Both Caroline and Klaus looked at each other confused before turning back to Meredith. "What's interesting?" they both said in unison.

"You're not just having a baby." She said, making the couple feel confused as Hell.

"Um, what?" Caroline said. "What are you going on about? Of course I'm having a baby. You even told me yourself. I've got the morning sickness and cravings to prove it."

Meredith laughed. "You're not having a baby. You're having twins."

The room went dead silent as the two of them processed what Meredith just told them. Caroline was busy thinking about the fact that she was eating for three people instead of two while Klaus stood there frozen from shock. Holy fuck.

"Bloody Hell." Was all he could get out. Caroline had others things on her mind.

"I'm going to be so fat."

After another ten minutes, Meredith was able to determine everything to be going perfectly well and told them that Caroline was ten weeks along. Klaus and Caroline then received a picture of the scan, filled out some paperwork at the front desk and headed back to the car. They sat in the car in silence for a long moment, still processing it all. Caroline swallowed the lump in her throat.

"Well… that was a surprise."

Klaus nodded his head slowly. "Yeah."

"How are you feeling?"

"Shocked. You?"

"Shocked."

The fell into silence again, too stunned by the news to do anything else. After a long moment though, Caroline found herself biting back a smile, but couldn't withhold the excited squeal that escaped her.

"We're having twins, Klaus! Twins!" she said and threw her arms around him. He wrapped his arms around her and felt the tension and shock leave his body. Her happiness was contagious. He placed a kiss on the top of her head and brushed her hair out of her face.

"Put your seatbelt on, love. We can celebrate properly later."

She grinned and climbed back into her seat, the smile never leaving her face. She was all giddy now. She knew she was going to have a great day.

"Bow down to the King of poker, ladies and gentlemen." Klaus said triumphantly as he took all the chips from the centre of the table that he had just won yet again. "I cannot be beaten."

"Screw you." Matt said with a frown on his face.

"Nah, he's got Caroline for that." Kol joked.

Klaus smirked, containing the urge to laugh at Kol's comment as Jeremy dealt the next round of cards. "You have no idea." He said and Kol laughed, while Matt and Jeremy just shook their heads at him. Klaus leaned back in his chair with a smirk on his face and folded his arms. "Life is good, gentlemen. Life is bloody good."

"And why the Hell are you so chirpy today, Nik?" Kol asked. "You've usually got that irritated scowl on your face."

Klaus frowned at his brothers words, doing exactly what Kol was talking about unintentionally. "No I don't."

"Yes you do. You're doing it right now, brother."

"Shut up, Kol. Can't a guy have a good day?"

"Why? Did you have a good morning with the misses?" Kol asked and wiggled his brows. Klaus chucked a poker chip at his brother but Kol caught it and smiled victoriously. "Thanks, Nik!"

"Give it back, Kol." He growled.

"You threw it at me. I think it's only fair I get to keep it now."

"Bloody Hell, Kol. Just give me the damn chip back!"

"Shut up!" Matt yelled. Jeremy and Kol were too busy laughing. Klaus just glared at his brother. Kol looked at his brother mischievously and waved the poker chip in front of his face.

"Life is good, brother. Life is good."

Caroline sat in her office at the department organising her papers while chewing on a piece of bubble gum. Since she couldn't drink coffee, she has tried to satiate her desire for caffeine with an apple flavoured gum. She had tried every flavour in the range but the apple one was the only one she liked. It had the right amount of sweetness and sourness in one hit. Once her gum lost its flavour, she threw it out and popped a new one into her mouth.

She blew and bubble and popped it just as her phone started ringing. She looked at the caller ID and saw it was her sister-in-law Rebekah. She picked it up and held the phone to her ear.

"Hey Bekah."

"What were the ultrasound results?"

"Yeah, I'm great. Thanks for asking." Caroline said with a roll of her eyes. She heard Rebekah let out a dramatic sigh on the other end of the phone.

"You know I love you, but seriously, Caroline. What are the results? An auntie needs to know how her little niece or nephew is going."

Caroline smiled into the phone. "Well we haven't got a gender yet, but there is a chance there will be one of each."

Caroline waited to hear Rebekah's response. The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, Rebekah probably trying to work out what Caroline meant. Finally, Caroline heard a gasp.

"Oh my God, are you having twins?!"

"Yes!" Caroline squealed excitedly and bounced up and down in her chair as Rebekah squealed along with her.

"Oh my God. I need to buy double the amount of everything now! Oh this is great, Caroline! Oh my God, I hope they're both a girl and a boy! I want a niece and a nephew! I want one of each!"

Caroline laughed. "Well there's a chance we might have both, but we don't know yet, so calm down."

"How far along are you?"

"Ten weeks."

"TEN WEEKS?! BLOODY HELL, CAROLINE!"

Caroline held the phone away from her ear, Rebekah's excitement deafening her. "Calm down, Bekah. You're more excited than Klaus and I put together." She teased and Rebekah laughed.

"How can you not be as excited as me?! You're having bloody twins, for Christ's sake!"

"We are, but you just make it known more than what we do."

"Anyway, enough about my excitement. I've got a little evening for you all to come to."

Caroline picked up her pen and tried to click down all the pen colours at the same time. "Yeah? What's up?"

"Well Matt and I wanted to have a little get together for everyone to catch up outside of work and such. We are going to organise it for this weekend. Are you and Nik keen?"

Caroline smiled. "I'm sure I can persuade him into socialising for a few hours."

"Great!" Rebekah beamed. "And you can announce your exciting news to everyone that night too! Make a big deal out of it."

Caroline laughed lightly and sighed. "Bekah –"

"Don't 'Bekah' me." Rebekah scolded her. "It is a big deal whether you want to admit it or not. You are having twins. This is going to be the first Mikaelson and Forbes baby ever, so these children need a great grand introduction to the world! I'm going to make sure of it. What kind of auntie would I be if I didn't make the evening extravagant for you two and your little bundles of joy? Not to mention, they are my bundles of joy, too – me being their one and only auntie, after all."

Caroline sighed, knowing that her sister-in-law wasn't going to let this one slide. Caroline would be lying though if she said she wasn't excited about having a big party where she could tell everyone the great news.

"Okay. Go nuts."

Rebekah squealed. "It's going to be amazing, Caroline. Believe me. You're going to love it!"

Caroline smiled broadly. "I'm sure I will."

I really missed writing about the guys' poker games and Kol's witty comments. I love the humour between the guys.

I went back and looked through my Child Studies textbook from high school and my uni textbooks from my teaching and psych units to find research of pregnancy and development of the foetus and such, so hopefully the information isn't out-dated, but I doubt it is.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! It was a bit hard to get into and to write (probably because I'm pretty stressed from all of this work I have to do lately and my theatre production stuck on my mind) but I wanted to get it out to you guys as soon as possible.

Please review! They make my day :)

Celeste xoxo