The Prince of Mystic Falls

4. A New Wish

This is a continuation of The Vampire Diaries, Season 2, Episode 1. Klaus and Jeremy are back in Mystic Falls. Will Klaus add to his new family?
Pairing: Mason/Tyler Lockwood: belt, bent over, hand, otk

Klaus woke up with his arms still around his new son, who was sleeping deeply. He smoothed back the boy's hair gently. He couldn't help but recall the nights he had spent comforting Marcel after they brought him home from the governor's plantation. The boy woke with nightmares for months, maybe years. If only Marcel were still alive...but Klaus could not think like that. He had someone new to take care of now.

Klaus went down to the kitchen and Nicole was already working. With her dark hair and fiery eyes, Nicole resembled Penelope Cruz to Klaus. Nicole was French, but her family was from Spain also. Not that he watched that many films these days, but he had seen Vanilla Sky. He had thought Rebekah could be the actress, Cameron Diaz. A vampire becoming an actress? Well, some of them never seemed to age. He smiled fondly recalling the memory.

"You look happy today, Master Klaus. How's the boy? Recovered from yesterday?" Nicole asked cracking eggs into a bowl.

"Mornin', Love. Yes, the naughtiness has been thrashed out of the boy for now. You would never know he suffered such a whacking at the hands of his 'evil' father. I didn't even give him my blood," Klaus said pouring himself coffee.

"Speaking of, would you like to..." Nicole offered him her neck.

"No thank you, you have been through enough this weekend," Klaus said, turning to kiss her on the cheek. Klaus always had spare blood bags around, but of course, feeling on a human was much more satisfying.

"He's a good boy. He just needs a father to teach him a bit of respect, even if it has to be through his stubborn backside," Nicole smiled. "Now, sit. I'm making you oeufs en cocotte."

"Sounds lovely."

***

Jeremy woke up alone. His face felt puffy from crying. He remembered falling asleep in Klaus' arms and wasn't sure how he thought about that. Jeremy went to get up and felt only a mild tenderness in his backside. He went to bathroom and pulled down the back of his sweats. There were two small areas of pink, but other than that his behind was unblemished and clear. His face colored to recall the incidents of the previous day. He was loathe to face Nicole and his...father?

No, he would call him Klaus, but Jeremy was hungry.

"Good morning, Master Jeremy. Do you like eggs scrambled?" Nicole said brightly. She knew the teen did not care for her more elaborate French cooking.

"Ah, yeah, thanks. Where's Klaus?" Jeremy asked politely looking around.

"He said he was going to walk down to the boat house if you wanted to join him after breakfast," Nicole said filling his plate with scrambled eggs.

"Great. Um, Nicole, you know I am sorry about yesterday. I don't know what gets into me," Jeremy said with his face burning. He couldn't just pretend like nothing happened.

"I say I forgive you. But, just so you know, your papa left that paddle in this drawer with me," she said indicating a drawer to the right of the refrigerator, "so behave!"

"Yes, m'am. Believe me, I don't want to see that dam-, I mean, darn thing again," Jeremy blurted, quickly catching himself from cursing.

"Oui, and the soap is here too, so watch it!" Nicole warned with a wry smile.

***

Klaus was checking out his boats when Jeremy came to join him.

"Hi," he said shyly.