Chapter 4

When Caroline woke up the next day, she was shocked of where she was but then she quickly remembered yesterday's events and how she saw Klaus again. She saw the shocked expressions of everyone in the room and she wondered why that was, but the only expression she could truly remember was his. She could remember the smile on his face and the way her said her nickname love. She had truly missed him. As she rubs her eyes from sleep she could feel something on her wrist and when she looked down she could see a bracelet made out of coloured strings and beads. The string had different colours and was formed into a plat while the beads went through them. She could tell a child made this and her question was answered when she sat up and saw a child with light-brown hair sat on the chair next to her bed. She saw the child drawing and from what she could see she was quite talented.

She then looked at Caroline and said "you're awake" she put her drawing down and sat on the bed.

"Yeah um...did you do this?" she pointed to her wrist.

Kiara looked down then back to Caroline and said "yeah I put it on you before I went to bed last night; I thought you might need it for luck". She smiled even more and said "although my daddy healed you, so you won't die".

"Your dad?" Caroline narrowed her eyes.

"Yeah. I'm sorry where are my manners? Uncle Elijah always told me about manner" she stood then said "hello, I'm Kiara-Abigail Mikaelson, but most people just call me Kiara".

"Caroline Forbs" it then all clicked to her "your Klaus' daughter".

She nods then says "what's so special about you?"

A million questions ran through Caroline's mind when the little girl confirmed it that she barely heard her question "what?"

"What's so special about you?"

She heard what she said the first time but she needed to hear it again "what makes you think I'm special?"

"My daddy saved you" Kiara narrowed her eyes.

"Doesn't you dad save other vampires?"

Kiara thought for a moment before saying "sometimes but he saved you from giving you blood from the wrist, he never does that. He always puts his blood in a cup and hands it to the person who is injured" Caroline thought about all the times that Klaus had healed somebody (which wasn't many) that apart from her, he never let anyone drink from the wrist. "Besides, when the man with pointy hair called Stefan said your name, my daddy froze".

Caroline found it hard not to smile at not just the description of Stefan but Klaus' reaction. She scanned Kiara quickly and could guess that she was about 7 years old. She then said "where is everyone?"

"They are all downstairs having breakfast. Their waiting for me but I just wanted to sit with you first, so you weren't alone".

Caroline stood up with a smile on her face and said "well every kid has to have breakfast. How else do you expect to grow?" she giggled as Caroline picked her up and placed her at her hip. She then picked up the sketch pad and gave it to Kiara.

~~~~~~~~~~~~It's Complicated~~~~~~~~~~~

As soon as they walked into the kitchen they could see Matt and Rebekah being all loved up, Elijah talking to Bonnie and Klaus talking to Stefan while he cooked. Kiara jumped out of Caroline arms but not before Klaus caught sight of the woman he loves holding his child. As soon as Kiara ran towards him he stopped making breakfast and picked her up. He kissed her forehead and said "morning princess".

"Morning daddy" she jumped down and ran to Elijah and said "Morning Uncle Elijah".

"Morning Kiara-Abigail" he said as he kissed her forehead like Klaus. Kiara rolled her eyes as her Uncle Elijah was one of the only people who called her by her full name.

She then ran to Rebekah who was talking to Matt and said "morning Auntie Rebekah".

Rebekah picked her up and put her on her lap then said "morning princess. Now what are you doing today?" she shrugged "I want you to meet someone, this is Matt. Matt this is Kiara my favourite niece" Rebekah wrapped her arms around Kiara tighter and pulled her closer.

Kiara laughed and said "I'm your only niece".

"And that's why you're my favourite".

"It's nice to meet you Matt".

"And it's a pleasure to meet you Kiara" Matt said.

She then jumped off Rebekah lap and ran to Caroline. She dragged Caroline over to the table and they sat down next to each other. Kiara placed her drawing book at the side of her food mat. Everyone grabbed the food that Klaus made at the stove and Klaus brought Caroline's and Kiara over. Everyone was having coffee, tea or orange juice but when Klaus said "Kiara, what do you want to drink?"

"Err" Kiara thought for a moment before saying "B+ please" Caroline could see this was what it was like every morning and Bonnie, Stefan, Matt and she all shared the same expression of wonder. Wonder of what the child is. Klaus brought some blood over but placed it in a cup for Kiara before he sat down at the head of the table. As Klaus was sat at the head to his right went Kiara, Caroline, Stefan then Elijah at the other end, then Bonnie, Matt and Rebekah.

Rebekah leaned over and kissed Matt and Kiara went "ewww, Aunt Rebekah".

Rebekah smirked and said "one day you'll feel like this about someone".

Klaus picked up his tea but before he drank any of it he said "she bloody well wont". Everyone smirked as they could see that Klaus was the protective father.

Kiara shook her head and said "I don't think I would fall in love with the high school quarterback".

Matt narrowed his eyes and said "how did you know I was the quarterback?"

"From the stories I'm told. You're the quarterback who went away from three months with Auntie Rebekah" she looked to Bonnie "you're the Bennett witch that would sacrifice herself for her friends and family". She looked to Stefan and said "your the ripper but is now, on what they call a bunny diet and Caroline is the beautiful angel that is full of light and-"

Klaus placed a hand over her mouth and said "I think that's enough sharing" everyone smiled and so did Kiara when he removed his hand.

Kiara looked at Caroline as Caroline placed a hand on her head and started to brush some of her hair back. She said "I wonder who told you that". They all laughed and Klaus started to turn red from embarrassment.

Throughout the rest of breakfast the conversations continued but the conversation that Caroline wanted to talk about never came up. When Klaus stood up to take his and Kiara plate to the sink she took hers. As they both put it on the side she touched his arm and whispered "we need to talk".

He gave her a nod and then they walked out of the kitchen. They could both tell that although everyone else was talking all eyes were on them.

They stood in the living room, in front of each other and Caroline said "so who's the mother?" he could tell from her voice that it hurt her, not that he had a child but how it was with someone else.

"Caroline" he took one of her hands in his and placed his other hand on her cheek and said "before I tell you, you have to promise not to treat Kiara differently".

She shook her head slightly and said "why would I treat her differently? She's just a child she can't help who her parents are...I promise".

Klaus sighed as he knew that Caroline would probably hate him forever. He held her hand a little tighter and brushed his thumb over her cheekbone as if this was the last time he was going to touch her "her mother is...Hayley".

AN: Soooo...what do you think? Leave me a review. Please have a look at my story, Forgotten Original (its Klaroline). Also, happy Valentines Day and for those of you who don't have anyone to spend it with, I will be placing another chapter up just for you guys.