SWEET KISSES FROM RUSSIA
Fan Fiction – Alternate Universe
Caroline & Klaus
Elijah & Katherine
From: Lovely Vero
Disclaimer: This story is, and will always be, a fiction story, that is coming from the imagination of the author. It is not a bibliography of the author or any of the readers, neither a story that is exploring your own experience in life. It is not meant to be informative or to represent the perception or opinion of the author about the subject at hands in her own private life; it is not an encyclopedia, or a medical reference. It is only a fiction, the characters are fictional, and the story should be taken as such and not be mistaken with the private life of the readers, or any of their personal experiences. Thank you.
Previously on Sweet Kisses from Russia …
"Where is Carolina? Is she ok?" Klaus followed his mother through a path of small rocks.
"She's fine. Just a bit tired." Maria replied, while leading the way. "You know it's actually Carolina who came up with this all evasion idea and plan." She turned her head to wink at her son. "She's very intelligent, this wife of yours."
"Why I am not surprised." The hybrid let a grin spread on his manly lips. "She's a small ball of fire, powerful and fearless; Maria. Perfect in every way."
"It's not a surprise to me, either; that she was able to tame you, my son." Maria added, teasingly.
"She did not tame me!" Klaus replied, defensively; being hit hard in his male pride.
"She didn't? Really? I could swear differently." Maria grinned.
"Ok, maybe she did a little bit." He whispered, redness reaching both of his cheeks.
"I tame you a lot, Nicklaus Mikaelson!" They both heard the shouting, before raising their heads at the blonde apparition standing on a large nearby rock. "You're just too much of a coward to admit it."
"Carolina…" Her name escaped his lips, in a desperate call; before he could rush toward her.
"Don't even take another step in my direction!" She shouted, a straight finger pointed toward him. "You need to explain yourself."
"I was against all of it, I swear to you. Please, believe me, Love?" He shook his head, admitting the truth.
"Maria?" Carolina questioned the Patriarch woman.
"I believe him." She confirmed, with a single nod, hands crossed over her chest; while standing in setback. "He knew he would be crossing a thin line with you."
"Tell me more?" Carolina asked, arms crossed over her chest, chin raised in a confrontational gesture.
"I was completely against it. I … I betrayed you too oftentimes in the past; and … I would have preferred to know that you were nearby me, than far away." Klaus admitted, repentant.
"But?" Carolina asked, with a raised eyebrow.
"But… You're human Carolina; and … I couldn't forgive myself if something had happened to you. You're my life, Love." Klaus gave his heart to her.
"Maria?" Carolina called, once more; tears filling her eyes.
"Oh… He's a sweet talker like his father." Maria concluded, with a smile reaching her lips and eyes. "But, he seems sincere."
"Now, can I hold you…Can I kiss you?" Klaus begged his wife. "Because I don't think I could held myself much longer."
"Not quite yet, my son." Maria raised on her legs, rapidly glancing at Carolina's standing position; who, herself, swallowed a lump in her throat.
"What is it?" Klaus frowned, concerned. "What are you both hiding from me?"
"You've been the only one for me, Klaus … Please, believe me … When I'm saying this to you?" Carolina begged, while nervously rubbing her hands together.
"What… What do you mean, Love? Of course, I've been the only one!" Klaus raised both eyebrows, in questioning. "Mother?" He turned his head toward Maria's standing position, drowning his sight in hers to find the truth in her eyes.
"Carolina…" Maria closed her eyes for a few second, to give herself strength. "Carolina is pregnant, Nicklaus." She finally confessed, over the speechless expression of her son.
Chapter 31
"In troubled water"
Author's note: This present chapter is essentially dedicated to the two main pairings of this story, Klaroline and Kalijah; enjoy guys!
"You should get comfortable." Klaus suggested, toneless; before throwing both of the sleeping bags on the ground of the small cavern, located at the base of the mountain. "I guess, we'll pass the night here, in setback position of the main camp, if only to please my mother." He added, wincing.
Carolina nodded while swallowing a lump in her throat, her back and opened palms pressed on the stones wall.
"Why are you glued to the stones wall?" He questioned, with a raised eyebrow. "Are you still seeing me as this heartless beast that could raise a hand on you, Carolina?" Klaus snapped the harsh words out of his mouth and to his wife.
"At the present moment I'm seeing a man who had just chosen to not believe the truthfulness and faithfulness of his wife!" Carolina replied, dryly; with her chin raised in a confrontational gesture. "If it was not for the presence of Maria; you would … Truthfully, I don't even know what you would have done?"
Klaus turned his fiery sight toward the young woman, a loud and terrifying growl escaping his throat.
"I wouldn't have raised a hand on you, Carolina; I would prefer to cut that said hand, before acting in such a despicable way!" Klaus yelled back. "Especially with your present condition." He nodded, with a rapid glance at her prominent belly.
"You've managed to scare me." She crossed her arms in front of her chest; in an attempt to lower the tremors that were hitting her body all at once. "I trust you; but not … But not when you lose your calm this way."
"It wasn't intentional." Klaus shook his head. "I'm a hybrid, Carolina, a mix of vampire and werewolf; I can't procreate, simply for the mere fact that in the human world, I'm technically dead." He started pacing back and forth in the small abode. "What was I supposed to think at first? I … I thought you had … I mean…Wasn't it obvious that you could have been unfaithful to me? Especially after all you had to endure? Could you put yourself in my shoes for a second?"
"You thought that I had an affair with a man, like your mother did so many centuries ago with Petrov, did you?" She busted the truth to his face.
"Can you, in all honesty, blame me?" Klaus snapped back, furiously; pointing a finger toward his chest.
"No, I can't blame you." Carolina agreed to his say; shamelessly lowering her head. "But … For the hundreds of times; you're the only man that I've shared intimacy with, Klaus." She repeated, tears filling her eyes; her head now raised to drown her sight in his. "This ... This child I'm carrying is yours." She confessed, humbly; her hands sliding on the roundness of her belly.
"If Petrov is responsible for this, like I'm presuming that he is; I swear I'll find a way to kill him with my bare hands!" Klaus mumbled, angrily, between his clenched teeth. "He had no right to use witchcraft to fulfill his own devil plan to build a new species of hybrids!"
"The aspect of having your wife carrying your child is so disgusting to you, that fulfilling your revenge on your father seems more important than actually acknowledging the fact that you'll be a father soon?" Carolina winced at his imply. "Is it because there would be a part of me in this child, Klaus, a very human part; is that what bothering you so much?"
"What? Why would you even think or say something like that to me?" Klaus grabbed his head with both hands.
"Up to now, there's nothing that I wanted to offer you that you've wanted in return!" Carolina exploded, while pointing a forbidden finger toward his standing position. "I've wanted to turn as a vampire for you, and you've refused numerous times; then … Now that I'm carrying your child, by this twisted faith … I'm still not good enough!" She added, tears rolling fluently on her cheeks.
"No, no, no Love …" Klaus shook his head, denying repeatedly; before taking a few unsteady steps to slowly advance toward his wife's standing position. "I'm … I don't know how to explain it…" He stammered, incoherently.
"If you don't know, then let me be… Please!" Caroline sobbed through her sentence, while taking a hold on him, both hands wrapped around his wrists.
"Carolina… Oh, Carolina…" He whispered, tenderly, with his eyes closed; before cupping her face with both hands, his forehead leaning on hers. "What are you doing to me?"
A few hours prior …
"What did you just say, Maria?" Klaus narrowed his sight on his mother, a dumbfounded expression plastered on his face.
"Your …" Maria closed her eyes to find the courage to repeat her say, one more time, to her son. "Your wife is pregnant. She's expecting your child."
The hybrid stood immobile and speechless for a few seconds, his sight raised to the sky; both hands placed on each side of his waist.
"Who's the father of this child, Carolina?" He asked, toneless. "Who's the man who've managed to share your bed?"
"What? What do you mean who's the father of this child?" Carolina repeated, in shock. "Maria?" The young woman turned her sight toward her mother-in-law, in a begging gesture to receive her help.
"It's yours, Nicklaus." Maria nodded, truthful. "I don't know how it's even possible, but the child Carolina is carrying is your son or daughter."
"Is this a joke, Maria?" The hybrid cocked his head to the back, before bursting into a cynical laughter. "What? You've managed to convince my wife to accept to play this sick theatrical play to take your revenge on me, mother? Because, you couldn't obviously take your revenge on Petrov? So you have to repay me with your anger, because your past lover locked you in a cell?"
"Klaus! Stop it!" Carolina shouted, a hand placed over her belly. "How can you even be so cruel to your own mother?"
"It's ok, Carolina; don't upset yourself in your present condition." Maria waved a hand in her direction, a shy smile spreading on her lips. "It's hard for my son to digest the news."
"Digest the news? Are you for real, mother?" Klaus lashed out, angrily; before rushing toward Carolina's standing position, his head bent at a near inch of hers, while his right hand forcefully grabbed one of her wrist. "Who was it? Did he managed to make you come as strongly as me? Did you scream his name from the top of your lungs while making love to him?"
"Fuck you, Klaus!" Carolina spat to the hybrid's face; squirming to free herself from his grip. "You've heartless!"
"Nicklaus! Lower your temper this is an order!" Maria yelled to her son.
He kept his position while maintaining his grip on his wife's wrist for a few additional seconds, both kept inside an intense exchange of power. He finally pushed himself at arm length, only to pace back and forth on the rocky path.
"Are you ok, my sweet child?" Maria reached Carolina, before giving her a needed hug.
"I'm fine, just a little disturbed." Carolina nodded, with a shy smile to reassure the Patriarch woman.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, Nicklaus!" Maria busted, nastily. "Since when do you raise your hand on a pregnant woman?"
"I did not raise my hand on my wife, Maria; I simply grabbed her wrist, and by doing so, I've tried to find the truth in her eyes." Klaus replied, dryly; with a pointed finger toward Carolina.
"And what did you see, Klaus? Mm? Was it my betrayal? My truthfulness in my say? My wrongs? Or what is my unconditional love for you?" Carolina lashed out, detaching herself from Maria's comforting arms, while taking a few steps in his direction. "What was it?" She yelled, angrily; her sight locked in his. "Don't be a coward, spit it out to my face, Mikaelson!"
"It's impossible…" He growled, under clenched teeth; while lowering his sight from hers. "You can't carry my child, it is as simple as that, Carolina – The probabilities of that happening one day are none existent."
"Then to whom the child I am carrying belongs to?" Carolina replied, with a single shrug. "Because, my husband is the only man with whom I've shared a physical connection."
As the night started to surround them of its dark penumbra, Klaus finally turned his sight back toward his wife.
"How?" He finally decided to let the improbable possibility of his wife carrying his child, become a reality.
"I suspect your biological father had something to do with the fact that Carolina was able to become pregnant with your child." Maria started to explain her own theory. "Just think about it, Klaus; your father wanted more than anything to start his own army of hybrids, what better way but to find a loophole that would allow him to repopulate the planet with the human female species?" She added, with a hand gesture, before holding her say for a few seconds. "You're too quiet, say something for God sake?"
"Well, mother; pardon me for taking the time to let this crazy theory sink into my skull and brain!" Klaus snapped back, while pointing two fingers toward his temples. "Not only, if this could even be remotely true; Petrov acted without mine and Carolina's consent, and he probably put the health of my wife on the line with his sick, perverse plan!" He added, angrily; before turning on himself to retrace his steps toward the camp. "Look at her! It looks like she's six months pregnant in the time space of a few weeks?"
"I know…" Maria agreed to her son's say. "But, except for the rushing steps of her pregnancy, Carolina seems in good health."
"Can you swear on your life that she is?" Klaus asked, dryly. "No? Then, let me take care of Petrov, and mind your own business, mother!"
"Don't act irrationally and under your anger, Nicklaus!" Maria grabbed her son's left forearm to retain him on his momentum. "At least, take the night to cool off. Look what your tantrum brought you earlier? Nothing! Except bringing pain to your wife." She added, while nodding toward Carolina. "Carolina is scare, alone and she's shivering of cold because the night just fell on us. You should finally become a man and think of her and your unborn child, like a husband should, and stop acting on your bad impulses. Tomorrow will come soon enough for you to unravel this mystery." She concluded, before releasing her grip on her son. "I'll go back to the camp; I'll see you both tomorrow morning for breakfast, sleep well my sweet child." She added, while addressing a smile to her daughter-in-law. "Behave!" She finally pointed a finger underneath Klaus's nose, before disappearing into the night.
Back at the cavern…
"How could you even think for a second that I would betray you by sleeping with another man?" Carolina questioned, the whisper escaping her trembling lips; while her tears ran from her cheeks down her neck. "Don't you know by now, how I can live without you? Or are you just being an asshole?"
"I'm not even resenting the "asshole" part, I've brought havoc into your life, Carolina; I perfectly know that I deserve that title." Klaus let a loud sight escaping his lips, before backing away from their embrace. "Did you even, for one second, make the count of all the sufferance you had to endure since the moment you have laid your eyes on me, and accepted to marry me?" He questioned, dryly. "Even my own biological father has managed to put you in this precarious pregnancy; in which we have no idea if all of this could make your life in danger or not?"
"I prefer to make the count of all the blessings that have entered my life and heart, since I have fallen deeply in love with you, Nicklaus Mikaelson." She replied; bringing her hands back on her belly. "I prefer to believe that your father was not stupid enough to put in danger my life or the one of the baby."
"Oh yes; I'm so great! Let make the list, shall we?" He let a cynical laughter escape the thin line of his lips. "Well, there was the arranged marriage to start with…"
"I fell for you the moment our eyes met on the laptop screen." Carolina confessed, truthfully.
"Oh don't even go there, Carolina! You couldn't even stand me back then!" Klaus pointed a forbidden finger in her direction.
"Oh that is precious! You think that the virgin that I was, back then, would have undressed herself for any men in front of a webcam?" She replied, both closed fists placed on each side of her hips. "I was drown to you, and … And at that time, I couldn't even explain the reasons to myself."
The hybrid took a rapid glance in his wife's direction, before dismissing her say with a hand gesture.
"Then there was our wedding night disaster!" Klaus exclaimed, a nerve twitching inside his left cheek.
"Don't even have the audacity to go there!" Carolina cried, her chest raising up and down under her heavy breathing. "I've forgiven you hundreds of times already, we've passed that bump on the road already!"
"Why? Because it was yet another great moments between us, Carolina?" He busted, angrily; while hitting his muscular chest with his closed right fists. "Was it so enjoyable for you that I've …" He continued to lash out, before being cut on his angry momentum.
She promptly closed the space between them; both hands cupping his hairy face, her lips crashing on his a second later, under his loud growl of surprise.
"Stop talking, start feeling…Please?" She begged while mouthing the words, her eyes drown in his.
"This will not help!" Klaus replied, before grabbing both of her wrists to push himself at a distance, once more.
"Why are you doing this, Klaus? I need you … We need you!" Carolina grabbed his right hand to bring it over the curve of her belly. "He or she is kicking right now."
Klaus froze all his movements, his fiery sight narrowed on Carolina's belly; parted lips letting escape a long sigh, while his shoulders suddenly relax under the previous heavy tension, a lump being swallowed in his dry throat.
"Can you feel it?" Carolina questioned, a tear rolling down her left cheek. "The baby is not happy because his daddy and mummy are fighting like cats and dogs."
"Yes, I can feel the kicks." He nodded his head, gently rubbing her belly in slow movements. "I can hardly believe it."
"Isn't it wonderful?" She exclaimed, while wiping her tear away with the back of her right hand. "It's our child, Klaus… Ours!"
And then … The hybrid fell… He fell on his knees, his back and head curved in a plea gesture for forgiveness; while his arms wrapped around her rounded silhouette, with his left cheek slowly resting on her belly; tears rolling down his face.
"Klaus?" Carolina whispered her husband's name, not able to move for a few second; left under his unexpected reaction. She finally let herself fell into a kneeling position, by his side, on the cavern ground; slowly raising Klaus's head while lifting his chin up, her fingers sliding in his golden curls. "What is it, talk to me?"
"I don't deserve you, I don't deserve "this", Love." He replied, shaking his head, with his sight drown in hers and both hands placed on each side of her belly.
"You deserve this and so much more, Klaus. If only you could believe in yourself, in "us", and in our future child?" She nodded, a shy smile spreading on her lips. "I love you; and our child will love you even more than I could."
"How are you … I mean, do you have any side effects?" Klaus wondered, nervously; while raising his right hand to push a loose strand of her blond hair behind her left ear. "I'm so worried about you; I … I know that I'm showing it the wrong way."
"I'm ok, I guess?" Carolina shrugged. "The pregnancy seems to be speedier than a normal human one, but other than my heavy breasts and back pain; I'm not complaining."
"I've, somehow, noticed." Klaus let a smirk lift the right side of his manly lips.
"What?" Carolina questioned, with a raised eyebrow.
"Your breasts." He winked, playfully. "It's more than obvious for me to notice."
"Jerk!" She exclaimed, hitting a closed fists on his chest. "Fuller breasts is the only thing that would get your attention, Mikaelson?!"
"Well, I'm a man after all, Love – I see, what I see." He replied, playfully; pulling her toward his chest. "I'm sorry, I can't … I mean, we can't … I mean the baby…" He stammered, redness filling his cheeks.
"I want this, I want to share intimacy with you; and there's no way you could hurt me or the baby." Carolina shook her head, in a reassurance gesture.
They locked sights for a few seconds, then, she promptly undressed herself of her army vest, before her fingers could opened the buttons of her shirt, one by one, her sight still locked with his; while partying both sides to reveal her fuller breasts and round belly; her bra being thrown on the ground a second later. "I know I've lost my figure… but…" She blushed herself, before unexpectedly letting a muffled cry escape her parted lips. Klaus had leaned toward her, both hands cupping each breast, his lips biting one of her erected nipple, while his finger pinched the neglected one. "Klaus!" She cried, both hands softly caressing the long golden locks at the base of his neck.
"I won't endangered you or the child… But, I'll give you pleasure; Love." He whispered, while slowly lowering her into a lying position on the ground, over a sleeping bag; softly kissing her belly, his right hand reaching the button of her khaki pants. "You deserve all the pleasure in the world, Carolina; and that's something that I can give to you."
Katerina entered the cold water of the river that she had been lucky to found the spot while scattering the camp area. Luckily for her, once more, the bright glow of the moon lighted the bank. She closed her eyes, clenching her teeth together; it was ice cold. As a vampire, she could have easily blocked the intense shivering if she had wanted to not feel it, but strangely enough; she wanted to feel the goosebumps on her entire body, she wanted to feel human if only for the short time of a bath.
Maria had come back to the camp and had informed her that her sister, Carolina, was safe, and would pass the night with her husband. It had lifted a heavy weight off her shoulders. Especially, after Maria had announced to the group of women, that her sister was pregnant – Which at first announcement, had seemed completely unlikely and impossible that Klaus would be the father; but it seemed that he was.
She plunged underneath the water, performing a swim from one bank to the other; before emerging from the river, her head bend toward the back, with her fingers sliding through her long curly brown hair, before suddenly immobilizing all her movements, all her senses in alert; with the distinct impression to be watched.
She turned on herself, facing the row of trees, her chest exposed from her waist up to the fiery sight of her husband.
"You perfectly know how dangerous it could be for you to expose yourself like this, Katerina?" Elijah growled, unhappy.
"We're divorcing, remember? It's not like my welfare should be any concern of yours." She replied, tit for tat; with a raised chin and a single shrug.
"Oh…" Elijah shook his head, before letting a loud laughter escaping his lips. "Really, Katerina; I think you can put to rest the brilliant performance you did back at the underground cells. "You're my wife, you took vows linking your life to mine forever; and I'm not about to let you forget!"
"Don't you mean: you've paid a high price for my services, and you want to enjoy me for the money you have invested?" The brunette vampire replied, perniciously.
"I thought we had agreed to never bring that subject on the table in the future?" Elijah asked, under clenched teeth.
Katerina swallowed a lump in her throat, before lowering her head shamefully. He was right, she was always the one who reminded him of the circumstance they had met.
"I'm sorry." She whispered her apology, before slowing raising her gleaming brown eyes to take a look at him. "But, you should be sorry for leaving me behind and locking me inside a cell?"
"I am … I truly am." He responded, truthfully, and with a single nod, before burying his hands in the front pockets of his jeans. "Get out of the water, Katerina; you're freezing." Elijah ordered his wife.
"I don't feel like it." She replied, with a raised eyebrow; while untangling her hair. "Being my husband doesn't mean you can order me around, Elijah."
"No, it doesn't; but staying in an icy cold water without turning your senses off is not the brightest idea you had." He commented, with a long sigh escaping his lips.
"It doesn't beat the one of locking me into a cell, because you've decided that I was not able to defend myself like a man would, because I came from the fairer sex." She replied, confrontational.
"To be frank, I still believe that." He mumbled, between his teeth.
"What was that?" Katerina questioned, with her sight narrowed on the Original.
"Nothing!" Elijah replied, dryly. "Are you getting out, or will I have to drag you out myself?"
"I'm not cold, it's actually very pleasant." She lied, under her chattering teeth, and shivering body.
"Really? Your nipples are as hard as they can get, Katerina!" Elijah commented, while crossing his arms in front of his bulged chest.
The brunette startled, before promptly crossing her arms in front of her breasts.
"Don't you have anything else to do but examining me? I don't know like drink Vodka, and play poker around the camp fire, like "real" men would do?" She replied, icily. "And so you know; I used to take cold showers all the time; because my sister and I were without running hot water, in our tiny one room apartment, back in the days. So, the cold water is not a problem for me!" She added, angrily.
"You lips are turning blue." He added, with a smirk.
"Иди к черту!" She sent him to hell, in Russian.
"Fine woman! God, you're as stubborn as you can get!" Elijah replied, before passing his turtleneck over his head; standing chest naked in front of his wife's sight.
"What are you doing?" Katerina asked, with wide opened eyes.
"You know what? I think it's a good idea to take a midnight bath, like you did, after all!" The Original replied, smiling; throwing his boots near the tree, pushing his pair of jeans and boxer down his legs; before standing naked as the day he was born in front of his wife's speechless expression.
"Your damn ego is high, up in the sky, Elijah Mikaelson; you always want to be right!" Katerina mumbled, angrily; between her teeth; redness filling her cheeks.
"I don't know what you're talking about, Katerina?" The Original replied, teasingly. "The "Poker" men and I, have been on the road, walking for days now; and a bath will do me good after all."
"Your Ego is obviously not the only thing that is up in the air!" The brunette commented, while immersing her body in the icy water.
"Are you suggesting that seeing my wife naked would have no physical effect on me, Katerina?" Elijah smirked; lowering his sight on his man parts, while immersing his entire body in the cold water, before swimming in her direction.
"I'm getting out!" Katerina rapidly darted toward the bench, with rapid swimming strokes and flutter kicks.
"What's the rush?" Elijah promptly grabbed a hold on her left ankle, before promptly pulling her body toward him.
"Let me go, Elijah!" She kicked her legs, with splashes of water. "I'm cold; I want to get out of the river!"
"I thought you weren't cold?" Elijah replied, pinning her shivering body on his burning one.
"I don't want to be near you right now." Katerina replied, dryly.
"Funny! You had no problem straddling my lap earlier in front of the group, isn't it right?" Elijah managed to push and held both of her closed fists behind her back; while keeping her immobile.
"That's because I wanted to make you pay, not because I wanted to play a seduction game!" She lashed out, her fiery sight drown in her husband's.
"You could have easily fooled me, wife." Elijah let a smirk raise both corners of his lips.
"Elijah, let me go, please?" Katerina squirmed to free herself, tears filling her eyes under the intense mix of emotions.
"You foolish woman! Couldn't you notice that you count more for me than life itself?" Elijah confessed, his right arm firmly placed around her waist to hold her captive, while his left hand released her wrists, only to maintain her head immobile, his sight now locked with hers.
"You left me behind…Like I was nothing to you!" Katerina busted to his face, tears rolling down on her cheeks. "In my country, I was used to count only on myself before I've met you; and I was fine with it! I hate the fact that I'm so dependent of you now… I hate it, hate it…"
"I left you behind because you're everything to me; and the thought of putting you in this terrible danger was simply unbearable; I wanted you to live, Katerina – I had caused you enough pain as it is!" Elijah explained his motive, hoarsely; while grabbing her chin, their sights locked in an intense battle, before finally crashing his hard lips on her parted ones.
The young female vampire let a muffled cry escape her lips, with her opened palms pushing on his muscular chest to regain her freedom; before letting an intense fire spread from her core to every particles of her body. She finally parted her lips, inviting his tongue to take possession of hers; with her legs easily wrapping themselves around his waist, underneath the water.
"Are you sure that you aren't playing a seduction game with your husband, at the present moment, Katerina?" Elijah whispered the question, mouthing the words on her parted lips, slowly sliding his lips on the tender curve of her neck; while positioning his erected cock at her burning entrance.
"ублюдок…You bastard!" The brunette grabbed a hand full of his dark locks, at the base of his neck to pull his head toward the back; before slowly filling herself of his hardness, the water cooling the intense fire joining both their burning flesh. "What's with the beard, anyway?" She questioned, with her pelvic slowly following the rhythm of his thrusts.
"You don't like, Katerina?" He questioned, smirking, slowly bringing his wife out of the water; before lying her body on the bank ground; still buried deep inside the deepness of her core.
"You're too sexy for my own good, Elijah Mikaelson." She replied, softly caressing his hairy cheeks; her lips gently nibbling on his bottom one. "I've lost my soul for you."
"Are you cold?" He wondered, worrying for her welfare; the tip of his fingers brushing a few loose strands away from her face.
"No… Not anymore." She let a shy smile spread on her lips.
"I love you, Katerina..." Elijah responded in a low whisper; while bringing her arms and hands above her head, before letting himself relapse into the tilt of her burning walls. "So much…More than life itself or anything else in this world; you're my bright light in the night, my sweet salvation." He added, with strong thrusts that left her panting.
"Elijah …" A loud cry escaped her parted lips, in the middle of their erotic exchange. She raised her pelvis, with her legs firmly wrapped around his waist. "Promise me to never abandon me again?"
"I promise you, my beautiful wife… From now on; you'll stay by my side, forever." He whispered, his sight drown in hers; before slowly capturing her lips; keeping another silent promise to himself to make her cry his name one more time, while both reaching their climaxes.
Klaus was now sitting on the cavern ground, in front of small camp fire. He suddenly turned his head and sight toward Carolina who had fallen asleep, her body wrapped inside a sleeping bag; her head resting on a small pillow; with a restful smile blessing the soft lines of her full lips.
The hybrid strengthened his right arms, the tips of his fingers tracing the soft curve of her left cheek for a few seconds. He rapidly withdraw his hand when he heard a sigh of contentment escape her lips. She was so beautiful, and at peace at the moment. He angrily closed his fists, his facial features stiffening over the intense rage boiling inside of him. Petrov would pay for his betrayal! That's a promise he had made to himself.
Another one was that Carolina and their child would always be safe of all danger from now one – danger that would include himself!
He had known centuries ago that he was a lethal threat to anyone who had the pretension to love him … And loving him was one of Carolina's weakness.
Thank you, as always, for reading the "In troubled water" chapter, guys!
We are slowly, but surely approaching the end of this story; I couldn't say for sure how many chapters are left to write, but in my estimation, around two to three after the present one. That is why I took the decision to write an update concentrating only on Klaroline and Kalijah. It was fitting perfectly the present plot, and I thought it would make you happy.
We'll be back with the craziness of all the group next update; don't worry, you must know by now that I truly love all pairings in this story ;)
This said, and I know I'm repeating myself; thanks for your patience between the updates. I have barely time for myself these days, between my work and family obligations.
Love you all;
Lovely Vero
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