The Only Hope For Me Is You: A Klaroline Fanfiction

15.

"Because I caught her in bed with my brother." Klaus declared before taking another drink from his tumbler.

As she started to choke on the Scotch, Caroline was very glad she hadn't taken a larger drink. She hadn't been expecting the answer he had given her. The Mikaelson men all seemed so close that she couldn't imagine one of them sleeping with their brother's wife. Hell, two of them had wives of their own, which left only one possibility in Caroline's mind. "Kol?"

"No, it was Elijah," Klaus answered, not bothering to ask why she had thought that it had been Kol who he had caught with Tatia.

"Elijah cheated on Katherine?" Caroline asked not believing what he said for two reasons. One, because the idea of Elijah cheating on his wife or betraying his brother like that didn't mesh with the gentleman she had met at Lexi's meet. And two, she was pretty sure Katherine would have done serious physical harm to him that would have made Daniel and her current pregnancy impossible.

"Sorry, I'm not telling this right. I've never talked to anyone about it so my story telling skills are a bit rusty," Klaus clarified. He knew if he were going to tell her his history with his ex-wife, it would be best to start at the beginning otherwise things would get even more confusing than they already were. It had been a long time since he had dredged up these memories; he tried to keep them buried. If he didn't, they would drive him insane.

"I met Tatia when Elijah and I were still at University. Unbeknownst to me, she had also met Elijah at the time and we both began to pursuing her. Once we did find out about each, we told her she would have to choose. She said she couldn't because she cared about both of us. We were in the middle of forcing her to make the decision when Elijah's attentions were directed elsewhere. Katherine came to school to visit her twin and she and Elijah hit it off. Tatia chose me, which according to her she'd been planning to do and things went from there. By the time I got my degree, we had been involved for a few years and I did what I thought was the next logical step and convinced her that we should get married."

"Convinced?"

"I had to talk her into it. She said that she loved me but was hesitant because she didn't think we wanted the same things," Klaus clarified. "She didn't want to have children and she knew that I did. Growing up in a big family, she knew I wanted to have one as well."

"I thought it was something that she would change her mind about after a few years. Her and Katherine's parents died in a car accident when they were sixteen, so it was just the two of them after. I thought she would want to fill the void left by their death with a family. I told her it was fine that she didn't want kids. She ended up saying yes and we got married, couple years later she was pregnant."

"I'm guessing that she still hadn't changed her mind?" Caroline asked when he paused in his tale to take another gulp of his drink.

He shook his head in reply. "No. She was still adamant about her choice while my desire had grown; substantially so."

"Tatia wasn't completely indifferent to being pregnant. She didn't want to have children, but she never said a word about not having them and she took care of herself. The women in her family have difficult pregnancies—you've seen that with Katherine—but Tatia did everything she was supposed to. I took it as a sign that she had warmed up to the idea by the time they were born," Klaus explained. "But I was wrong."

"Not long after Henry and Lexi were born, I realized that the connection between Tatia and I had started to deteriorate even more than I had thought. I was busy trying to help with the business but also be at home to help her with the babies, most of the time I fell asleep on the bed in the nursery and she felt neglected. We started fighting constantly."