My Light

Meeting New People, Remembering Old Rituals

Hey everyone! I know it's been a while since I've updated. I've been on vacation, it's a little bit of a struggle to write lately. Hopefully this chapter will make it up to you guys :)

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Chapter 7: Meeting New People, Remembering Old Rituals

The day after Klaus and Caroline's tea party, Klaus heard that Sheila was back in town and decided to meet her at the herb shop. When he arrived, he started to examine the plants all around him. They were the same herbal plants with the same simple colors. In his eyes everything looked the same, but ever since he met Caroline everything in his world seemed brighter...full of light. The hybrid did not complain about it one bit.

"Klaus." Sheila called out, catching his attention, "How are you? You are glowing today." She had a smug expression on her face.

"Careful, witch. I may be in a good mood but I can easily rip off your head." He smirked.

She humphed and started making a batch of her remedies, "What can I do for you? I assume everything is going well with Caroline?"

"Everything is going splendidly, thank you for asking. Now back to business. I need a favor."

"What do you need?"

"Can you do a protection spell on Caroline?"

She stopped and narrowed her eyes at him, "What on earth for?"

"I'll soon be going to Chicago for three days next week and I don't want to leave her unprotected."

"And may I asked why are you going to Chicago?" She crossed her arms.

"Just business."

"Just business?" she questioned, "You're going to have to be more specific than that otherwise my spell would just be worth nothing, you know?"

He sighed, "Fine. The business I have involves a plush and cuddly one." He admitted, embarrassingly. But this was for Caroline so might as well just go with it.

Sheila blinked and slowly spoke, "You're going to Chicago...to get a stuffed animal?"

He sheepishly rubbed his head, mumbling something about as if the situation wasn't humiliating enough and that Caroline was going to be the death of him. "Caroline's birthday is coming up and I need to go to Chicago to get a custom made American Girl doll. And I want to give her the best so will you please do me the favor and use a spell to protect her."

"Yea, sure. I can do that." The witch desperately tried her best to contain her laughter, she coughed and cleared her throat, "Just one thing, American Girl dolls are not plushy. You can cuddle with them, but they are definitely not filled with stuffings."

He waved his hand, "Same thing. But you will keep this between us, yes?"

"Of course, I mean, I least I hope so."

He growled, "Sheila."

She rolled her eyes, "You're going to buy your mate a birthday present, Klaus. There is nothing wrong with that."

He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Just...do the spell."

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Klaus was walking in the center of town when all of a sudden he saw Sheriff Forbes walking with her daughter hand in hand coming toward his direction. He could tell from the look on her face that Caroline needed one thing from one of her parents: attention. Liz may not pay as much attention to Caroline, but at least she was a lot better than Bill. The smile she had on her face made her glow and full of light. It made his heart soar. He didn't want to interrupt her mother-daughter quality time. He was about to turn and walk away, but Caroline noticed him and yelled his name.