*Please don't throw stones at us*

We are so sorry for not updating in so long, We had a case of laziness.

Responses:

Bright645: Oh there will be a Hayley/Caroline showdown...just picture it...and interesting question...which will be answered in the next chapter.

tamzyummy: I'm slow burning their relationship because I don't want them to be together just because they're having a child together. That'll be like saying that Klaus should be with Hayley in TO because she's pregnant with his child, which is stupid.

klaroline-heart: Let me assure you this. Nothing, life threatening is going to happen to Caroline's child.

AvalonTheLadyKiller: Of course I'm doing time jumps. There's a adequate time jump in this chapter and let's just say, even though we don't see it, he's connected.

Kjsama: I wanted to stray from Klaroline a bit for now to bring in the epic klaroline scenes coming up, patience!

: I wouldn't hold your breath in regards with our least favorite doppelganger, she has a way of popping up unannounced.

hopeless637: Let's just say, Bonnie's focused as strayed to one ultimate goal, protecting Caroline is at the forefront but she's more focused on other matters as well.

Tina (Guest): Let's just say, it's pure evil of him but things won't go quite as planned.

Now, On with the chapter!

Chapter 10- The Game

Everyone in the entire house silently had this game they played with one another. It was strategic yet serious and fun but incredibly painful when you lose and no one liked to lose. Everyone hated to lose. There were only two people in the entire mansion that did not know of this game because it basically revolved around them. The rules of the game were very simple and very straight forward.

Caroline and Hayley avoided one another for the most part, and only ever came spoke when they had to. They hated one another.

Two months has passed and they've both sufficiently gained a little stomach, showing off their impending pregnancy. The only downside was that as soon as their stomach came, so did their raging hormones.

Hayley grew more whiny and irritating than usual, Rebekah's words, don't kill the messenger. She would constantly call Tyler. She would be in her room and she would call him for everyone to hear. The worst part would be the fact that she ate a lot more than Caroline. She cried more, she got angry more, she argued more and no one, not even Tyler could tolerate her.
Caroline was a bit different. She did eat as much as Hayley but her choice of food got more weird as the days went by. She argued occasionally, she never bothered at times to make something seem more than what it was, but when she did start, it was nearly impossible to get her to stop. She never cried much but when she did, it was far worse for everyone else. She would call them all names, saying things they didn't want to hear, like ever.

Klaus remembered one time when he found her trying to eat raw meat.

Yes, she tried to eat raw meat.

Well, let's just say it didn't end well.

"Sweetheart, wouldn't you prefer that cooked rather than raw?" he asked, his face scrunching up in disgust as the delicious pink meat stopped midway to her lips and her eyes glanced at him from the kitchen doorway.

She had thought she didn't wake anyone but she was wrong, but then again she was living in a house filled with Original Vampires with even more heightened hearing than regular vampires. Of course they would hear when she opened the fridge.

"Why are you up?" she asked, pulling the meat away from her face.

"I rarely sleep love" he smirked, folding her arms across her chest.

She shrugged her shoulders in response and made move to take a bite of the meat when Klaus flashed towards her to hold her wrist, preventing her from moving the meat further to her lips.

"What's wrong?" she asked, completely clueless.

"It's raw meat. Caroline. Do you realize that?" he asked.

"Yes" she tried to pull her hand away but Klaus didn't release her hand. Instead, he attempted to remove the meat from her hands when she squirmed in her spot, trying to pull her hand and by extension, the meat.

"I think you'll enjoy it more when its warm and edible" he said, wanting to sway her from eating the meat in its raw state when she squirmed a little more and tried to use her other hand to reach the meat when Klaus used his other hand and blocked it.

"Klaus…" she warned.

"Caroline…" Klaus mocked.

"Gimme my meat!" she whined, trying harder to pull her hands from his grip.

"Caroline…" she cut him off.

"Klaus gimme my meat!" she shrieked, frustrated with him.

"Klaus, give her the meat" Kol shouted from the stairs. His hair was messed up and his sweatpants were wrinkled. He wore no shirt.

She went from whimpering to having her eyes blurred with hot wet tears as they threatened to fall from her eyes. Why did she suddenly feel like crying? She honestly didn't know.

"Klaus let me eat what I want to eat!" she yelled at the top of her lungs causing Klaus to be in shock for a few seconds, it was more than enough time for her to pull her hands away from his iron grip as he stared at her.

"You can't control what I eat, Klaus. You can't control what I feel Klaus, you can't control me! Why must you always try to control everything?" the tears were freely falling down her cheeks then "You're trying to control my friends, you try to control your siblings, you even tried to control Stefan, stop controlling everyone, you can't control everyone you fucking control freak!"

He was more in shock than ever before in his life. Why was she angry at him for wanting to cook for her, and at 3am in the morning?.

Any pregnant girl who had odd food cravings would want their….guy friend… to cook for them at 3am at night.

'Guy Friend' was the most safest word to use at this point because he didn't know what they were.

In the timespan it took her to vent whatever she was feeling towards him, Elijah, Katherine, Kol, Bonnie and Rebekah had made their way downstairs and into the kitchen where the argument was taking place.

"What the bloody hell is going on!?" Rebekah asked with a groan. Suffice to say, The Original Barbie wasn't happy to be awake at such a time.

"Klaus won't give her the meat" Kol smirked, causing everyone to roll their eyes at his double meaning.

"Not now, Kol" Elijah warned "Caroline, wouldn't you rather that raw piece of meat cooked?"

"What is it with the two of you asking me that?" she shrieked, turning around and stomping away from Klaus to the sink where there was a knife. She wanted to cut the meat in half before eating it. She wanted whip cream, it would taste even better with whipped cream.

"Well, we're only thinking rationally, sweetheart." Klaus said hesitantly, not wanting her to 'blow up' in his face again.

"What the hell does rational thinking have to do with me eating, Klaus?" she yelled "I want to eat raw meat with whip cream. You're friggin vampires, vampires don't need food, you all won't miss the meat and I'm hungry, so screw me for wanting something to eat!"

Everyone was shocked at her sudden outburst, everyone except Katherine, who was quite amused if anything. She was ready to rip their heads off for a piece of raw meat, this was gold for her.

She was suddenly crying, why was she even crying? She had nothing to cry about but she was crying. The tears were hot and flowing and annoying but she couldn't stop.

Klaus made an attempt to move towards her, but she put her hands up to stop him.

"Don't come near me. I'm not a baby" She sobbed.

"Interesting choice of words for someone who's carrying one around like a tote bag" said a voice next to Katherine.

It was Hayley.

Caroline's anger suddenly returned and she grabbed a knife from the kitchen sink, one she was using just moments before they all interrupted her dinner and spun around, throwing the knife at her. She knew she was human and now her aim was bad but she was surprised when Katherine grabbed the knife before it reached Hayley. The curly-haired brunette had a smirk on her face.

"Even though most of us don't like the little wolf, she's still pregnant and call me sentimental but I have a thing against harming pregnant women"

That night ended with a dramatic exit from Caroline and annoyed Originals returning to their slumbers.

The next day, Katherine was very visual and verbal on what Caroline and Hayley were currently experiencing since they were in their second trimester, Caroline was four months pregnant and the were-girl was five months pregnant. Bonnie was also helpful with mixing Caroline's hormones with her personality to predict her future actions until the pregnancy symptoms subsided.

Avoiding Caroline was a challenge for Klaus. He remembered her first outburst over a pair of shoes.

A pair of shoes.

She claimed that the shoe had swollen but Klaus knew her feet must have swollen dued to the pregnancy.

She didn't agree with him and it just started. The outburst turning from shouting to crying and he had to calm her down, which was indeed a challenge for him because he knew little to nothing about comforting others. Especially others that were pregnant.

When she did calm down, she got tired so he had insisted that she take a nap and rest up. She agreed and since then, he had been walking on eggshells around her.

He was conflicted.

He wanted to be around her as much as he could for some reason but at the same time, he wanted to avoid another one of her pointless meltdowns. True, he really had no idea what was going on in her head, but Katherine made sure to say that the stuff that would seem stupid and pointless to argue or cry and fuss about would be important to a pregnant woman. Their emotions were heightened during this time.

One thing did catch his attention though. She made sure to mention to him, in private of course about the constant need for a man's touch for all the time, she was caught by Elijah and scolded her for her loose tongue and Elijah even sent him a silent warning about not even thinking about acting on her words and he wasn't.

He knew he would not really try to sleep with her. He would never take advantage of her in her current state, but if she insisted on it he didn't know if he'd have the restraint to turn her down.

No one wanted to be around Hayley because she was much more of a bitch than usual. That girl would openly flirt with Elijah in front of everyone, except Katherine of course and while everyone would all roll their eyes at how obvious she was being, Elijah being the polite gentlemen that he was amused her to no end.

No one, not even Caroline saw it fit to tell Katherine about it because everyone in secret wanted her to find out on her own.

She had yet to do so.

Tyler also didn't know about her flirting and no one wanted to tell him. Everyone wanted him to see for himself what kind of woman she really was and not the woman she claimed to be in front of him.

Every morning Klaus would wake earlier than everyone and go to Caroline's door and just stay there. He'd just stand there at the door and listen to her as she slept. He would listen to her heartbeat, one of the most soothing sounds he'd ever heard in his life and he would listen to the little one inside of her. Sometimes when he tried to focus on the child's heartbeat, he would hear both Caroline's and the child's heartbeat and it would sound like a complete mess and because of that he would listen to her breathing.

There were times where he would sit on the floor and lean his back against her door and just listen. It would be so soothing that he would occasionally close his eyes and rarely there would be a tiny small smile gracing his lips.

There was one moment of the peace he felt when he was caught by his sister who stood there smirking down at him.

Ever since he had always made sure Rebekah was asleep before he went or else he would have to find another way to be able to make sure that she was okay.

That was his excuse. Him making sure that she was okay.

That day with Rebekah had been the most horrific morning of his entire existence.

Klaus knew he had a tiny little smile on his face and he thought about removing it, hoping no one would find him like that, but he didn't have the energy to do so. He allowed himself this one time. He felt like someone was watching him but he knew he was being paranoid. Rebekah was having one of her beauty sleeps, he knew Caroline was asleep, Katerina and Elijah were having their morning tryst and Kol was far too busy studying their mother's grimoires to care about his surroundings, fortunately.

But that nagging feeling that he adapted when he felt like someone was watching him was eating at his insides and crawling his skin.

He decided to just peek at his surroundings. Mikael was dead which meant that he shouldn't be this jumpy anymore. After all, old habits did die hard.

He opened one eye slowly and his eyes widened, the smile was replaced by a quick look of shock and he darted off the ground to stand up straight and tall and the shock fell off his face and he painted a look of cold indifference as he stared at his amused sister in her silk white robe wrapped around her loosely.

They stared at each other intently, one of no amusement and one of far too much amusement for his liking.

He flashed off into his room where he shut the door with extreme force, locked it and stayed there until the mini panic attack happening in his stomach died down.

One sunday morning, Klaus planned to escape to the library where he hoped he would evade Caroline for the time being. Her current emotional outburst were taking its toll on him. He needed the time away, if for a little bit.

However, when he had entered the library, he found her crying her eyes out with a laptop on her lap and her hair hiding her face. Her sniffling told him that she was indeed crying and as much as his gut told him that this was one of her little outburst and to turn around and run as fast as possible, that thing in his chest had a completely different way to deal with this. In the end, that thing won.

He sighed and walked over to her. She sat on the couch and when she heard his sigh she looked up and saw Klaus standing there, with a wary but worried look on his face.

"What's wrong, love?" he asked with a soft and concerned voice.

"It's Spartacus" she sniffled "He's dead" she sniffled again "He was supposed to win, he was supposed to win against Marcus Crassus and take down Rome for good and free more slaves and now he's dead" a muffled sob escaped her throat.

He wanted to ask her what was she talking about but he decided to see for himself, so he moved behind her and looked at the laptop, he remembered the show immediately. It was the Spartacus Series. He remembered being bored out of his mind one night and put it on just to take a peek at it. He wouldn't say he enjoyed it. The sexuality of the Romans were very accurate around that time of year, that he was sure of. He had enjoyed his times in that particular century as well.

He just found this silly that she was crying over a television show.

A historical, slightly inaccurate television show.

He was about to argue the fact that he died a hero and a free man but decided against it even though he knew that Spartacus died a martyr. That would put more fuel to the fire he wanted to put out.

So instead he closed the laptop slowly and attempted to comfort her again. A feeling he has yet to get accustom to. He wrapped his arms around her from behind her and pulled her towards his chest, rocking her forward and backward and whispering soothing words, even though at the moment he felt cursed by her emotional rollercoaster.

"Explain to me again, your history with Klaus?" Davina asked, while packing all her stuff. Marcel was moving her into the mansion. The Mikaelson mansion where she was most safe with Marcel instead of hold up in the Church, hiding like a rat "Because I met him and he's like the worst person on the planet" she stated with a light laughter.

Marcel smiled "Klaus doesn't exactly make a very nice first impression. That I know" he smirked at her and she rolled her eyes "When I was a kid, I was beaten and one day Klaus saved me and took me in as his son. He was more of a father to me than my real father ever was"

"I don't see a father figure in him" she said with a shake of her head.

"No one does, and the Mikaelson's fight like dogs with each other but they protect each other furiously"

She paused to turn and look at him with her hands on her hips "So you're giving up a kingdom you built…"

"He built this town" he corrected her with a giant grin.

"You were here when they ran" she countered.

"From their father who was an Original and hell bent on killing his own children with the one living weapon that could kill them" he stated "If I was in his place I would have ran too"

"They were a family to you"

"Yes" he nodded "They were. As dysfunctional as they are" he chuckled "The last time I ever felt like I was a part of a family was when Danielle…" he paused when he let her name slip past his lips and Davina winced at the sound of it and she tensed.

"Sorry…" he whispered.

"It's okay Marcel, my mother was the love of your life and even though you didn't agree with her beliefs, you still loved her and she loved you" she smiled but he could see the sadness in her eyes "She was always happiest with you"

"Now you have a new family, an army of soldiers, comrades, brothers…" Marcel cut her off.

"But not family" he shrugged "They'll never be the spoiled bratty blonde sister who expected nothing but the best and nothing less, they'll never be the moral brother with a witty tongue and wants only the best for his siblings and they most certainly will never be an Original Hybrid who saw something in me that day, the Hybrid that changed my life, who made me hope and dream for the first time, who took care of me and who loved me, in his own, twisted way.

Davina stayed silent then, pleasantly surprised by his words and how powerful they were. She realized that he actually saw those Originals as family once upon a time and he wanted that back, he wanted a family and so did she? From the originals, she wasn't completely sure, but she trusted Marcel with her life, as did her mother once upon a time.

"Well I'm not leaving you" she stated as if there was no discussion in the matter and a tiny bit of sass. He looked up at her with a raised eyebrows "What?" she asked, wondering why he was staring at her as if she was an alien in front of him "The Bennett…Bonnie's growing on me, I really like her. They're helping me tap into spiritual magic and I want to be like her. I've seen her stand up to Klaus and not once did she back down. I want to be strong and confident like her. I want to be in control of my magic and not let it control me like her, I want to be able to defend myself and be independent like her"

"I know you can be Davina, you're a fighter" Marcel smiled, knowing in his dead heart that she could be all those things and more if she really wanted it.

"Besides" she sighed heavily "I'm tired of constantly monitoring so many witches and so much magic" she paused and looked at Marcel "They give me a headache"

They both laughed.

"Your friends miss you, Bonnie" Sheila said in a calm tone, causing Bonnie to jerk up her chair in shock.

Kol looked over at her with concern glittering in his eyes "What's wrong?"

"My grandmother is enjoying the luxury of popping up whenever she wants" Bonnie breathed out heavily in relief and dropped herself back on the couch and placed her sights back on the grimoire.

Sheila smiled at her words "You should take a break and go see them, let them know you're all right"

"I'll call Elena tonight" Bonnie said distractedly, waving her off, far too focused on the grimoire in front of her to be concerned about Elena at the moment.

"What's wrong?" Kol asked, while flipping through his mother's grimoires.

"She wants me to talk to Elena and let them know that I'm fine" she mumbled.

"I agree darling, we wouldn't want the bogus doppelganger and her better half coming here to look for you and by extension, Caroline" Kol argued, causing Bonnie to slowly look up from her book to show Kol just how shocked she was that he was siding with her grandmother with this.

"Are you seriously siding with my grandmother who hates vampires right now?" she stated in surprise.

"I am a warlock darling" he winked.

"You just got back your magic after a thousand years!" she countered.

"That doesn't mean I wasn't learning since then, it just means that I'm out of practice" he smirked. "Maybe a bit rusty... But you know, practice makes perfect."

"You're doubting your friends, Bonnie" Sheila stated in a calm tone.

That surprised Bonnie a little "What do you mean by that? I'm not doubting our friendship, we've been friends for years, I know those people like the back of my hand" she argued.

"Yet you have your doubts, one of them include Elena"

Bonnie went silent for a few seconds before she spoke "I have every right to, ever since she's been turned, she's not thinking clearly. She killed Kol, of all the people on the planet" Kol smirked "She knows better than anyone that you mess with one Original, they'll all come after you" Kol smirked again, she could see him from the corner of her eyes "She could help allowed Klaus do deal with his crazy siblings, if Klaus had daggered the idiot, the compulsion he had on Damon would have worn off but she decided to kill Kol to finish a tattoo"

"Which was a total waste of an Original might I add" Kol stated but the both Bennett witches ignored him.

"She killed Kol, made an enemy of all the Originals, even Elijah, who's too damn polite to show it and for what? For a cure that she didn't even take. Silas was awoken for this cure, the veil was brought down for this cure and she didn't even take it. She wanted to use it against Katherine, Katherine! So yes, I do doubt Elena, especially now that she's a vampire and thinks irrationally and with little compassion. She will not see past this. She'll hate the child, she'll hate Caroline and she'll hate Klaus even more than she already does"

Sheila was a little taken back by her outburst about the situation, not expecting Bonnie to think like that at all, but considering that her daughter has been on the other side for some time and have seen the way Klaus is when he's with Caroline, she would have approved of it somehow.

"Elena does not know his true feelings for Caroline but you do, you've seen it for yourself but understand it from her view, if you were alive instead of where you were, you would not have seen what you saw and you would have been sharing her views on their relationship"

Bonnie did consider that, if she was not dead, she would not have seen what she saw and she would have also felt the same way, she would have helped Elena in whatever plan she would have been disappointed in Caroline for sleeping with him in the first place, she would have been thinking of so many different ways to kill Klaus once and for all, even look for his parents on the other side.

"You know what's weird?" Kol asked, no one in particular, because the thought had just entered his mind. The Bennett witches turned to look at Kol as he spoke "I've also been back from the dead" he paused and a playful smirk played on his lips "Well not technically since I'm still dead" Bonnie rolled her eyes and Sheila smirked and shook her head "But you can see your dead grandmother and I can't see my dead mother. I just find it hard to believe that the mother that has been plotting our deaths for a thousand years is finally at peace" he smirked widely.

"Hello Kol" a very familiar voice said behind Kol while he sat on the couch.

Kol smirked at her timing "If I start to wonder how come you're not completely gone from existence will you actually disappear?" he asked, his voice thick with sarcasm.

"Kol who are you…" Bonnie's eyes widened as realization dawned on her that Esther might be with him right now.

Bonnie whipped around to face her grandmother to ask, her mouth opened but Sheila smiled and nodded at her to answer her unsaid question.

"Unfortunately no. I am a supernatural being and all supernatural beings who have unfinished business with the living stays here, I taught you that Kol, remember?" Esther replied, moving around the couch to stand in front of him. He dared not look up from his book, very adamant on believing that she really wasn't really there.

"Of course I do, you thought I had magic and you were persistent to teach me your ways.." he said with a small chuckle.

"I still can't believe of all my siblings, you had to get your magic first" she said in a calm tone while shaking her head "You were the most mischievous of them all"

"I still am" he smirked.

"I know" she replied with a smirk of her own.

Kol sighed heavily, done with the mother/son bonding and ready to get down to business "So Mother, to what do I owe the pleasure? Come to kill us all again? A little difficult to do considering you have no power to use against us here in the land of the living, don't you think?" his voice was thick with sarcasm, wit and a subtle seriousness.

"No I am not here to kill my own children, Kol" Esther sighed.

"You'll forgive me for jumping to conclusions and not believing a word that leaves your lips, considering you tried to pull the 'living as a family' trick on us before"

"I do not blame you for not believing me Kol. Maybe some news about your father might change your opinion of me" Esther said politely, causing him to raise one of his eye to her before raising the other eye. Curious to what she might, he closed the book slightly, placing his index finger on the page he was on and unfolding his legs. He looked straight up to her and smirked, while Bonnie and Sheila were completely clueless mostly because they can't see Esther or hear what she's talking about but judging the way Kol looks, Bonnie guessed that she was standing in front of him and he was ignoring her until now.

"When Bonnie brought down the veil, your father and I came back and he was set on finding that white oak stake I made and ending you all and by extension, all vampires. However, I had gotten a vision…"

"Witches or warlocks do not get visions mother" Kol deadpanned.

"That's very true but it wasn't a vision, but I did a spell to see into the future, I saw a pregnant Caroline and Niklaus beside her in this very house and I didn't want to destroy that, so I had to make a choice"

Kol smirked "Revenge or Redemption"

"I turned your father human and killed him. He's not even on the other side anymore, he's moved on from this world, forever" her voice broke a little but she knew she had to do it. She didn't want Mikael's anger ruin her son's one chance he can have of happiness, after so many years, as much as he had done, he deserved it. This was his redemption, this was Niklaus redemption and she would be damned if she let her vengeful husband, ex husband ruin that out of pure hate for her mistakes.

"Why don't I believe you?" Kol asked, although it sounded like a rhetorical question, she decided to answer it anyways.

"Because you still believe that I want to kill my own children"

"You've tried twice already, third time's a charm"

"I never wanted to kill my own children, my entire plan was never to kill any of you"

Her words touched his curiosity and he decided that since he was already tired of hearing her failed attempts of reconciliation, he'd find out what was her real intent.

"I'm curious, what was your sole intent when you rose from the dead. Mother" he asked, empathizing the word mother with venom.

"My sole intent, Kol, to become a family. A normal family" Esther replied, before vanishing. The word normal did make him think a little on what she meant.

"He's forgotten the fact that we're still here" Bonnie sighed in frustration.

Kol smirked and turned to Bonnie's direction "How does one forget a phoenix such as yourself?"

Esther and Sheila smirked while Bonnie just rolled her eyes and returned to her grimoire.

She really didn't want to be here but she had to. She'd been avoiding this conversation for far too long. It was needed at this point, considering that she has to live with him in his mansion for the next couple of months.

She took in a deep breath and released before knocking twice on the door and waited for it to open.

"Klaus, none of us…" he froze as he saw who exactly was behind this once closed doors.

"Hey Tyler, can I come in?"

He stared at her in disbelief for a moment before opening the door wider, allowing her entrance.

She walked in slowly, and took in the room. It was simple. A large bed, a fireplace, a sofa and it's own en suite. Just like the other guest rooms in this mansion she mused.

She turned when she heard the door shut and smiled a little to ease the tension that entered the atmosphere at her presence.

"Tyler…" he cut her off.

"Let me start, please?" he asked, softly, causing her to nod at him.

"I'm sorry" he paused and she realized that he had more to say "I'm sorry for sleeping with Hayley while we were technically still together. It was wrong of me. Especially because while you were going through your transition to being human, I couldn't face the music and I tried my hardest to stay away from Mystic Falls for as long as I could to prolong our relationship, but one day I felt like it was doomed before he killed all those hybrids. I'm not blaming him for what happened between us. I'm blaming myself. All of my emotions went to hating him instead of loving you and I lost you because of it, so I'm sorry"

She wasn't expecting that.

Well yes she was expecting him to attempt to apologize and maybe throw some blame on Klaus in all of this but she wasn't expecting him to own up to his own mistakes and he was being honest. He truly was sorry.

"I accept your apology Tyler" she paused because he knew as well as she did that it would take a lot more of an apology to receive her forgiveness "It'll take time to forgive you"

"I understand"

I'm not apologizing for sleeping with Klaus so don't ask me to"

"I won't" he smiled.

They stayed silent for a while before she took a deep breath, deciding that enough apologies were said for the day.

"I hope we can be friends" she said in a calm tone with hope in her voice.

"I hope so too" he agreed.

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