The Woman Who Scared the Hybrid

ch.13

Elijah returns bringing in a large crib set and a entire room set. I turn on the couch with a sleeping Andy in her car seat on the floor. "Did you get everything in the store?" I smile.

He smiles back "No, I forgot the paint."

"Darn" I laugh. Standing, I cross my arms. "Which room?"

"I was thinking across from your's."

"Mine?" I tilt my head slightly, confusion covering my face.

"Klaus had one built for you in case...you came home." He says.

"Let me guess I have to share a room with him." I say annoyed.

"No actually it is next to his room but is completely your's and he even had a room connecting to a small library with all your favorite books. His room does connect to yours but there is a lock on your side of the door." Elijah says starting up the stairs.

"Your kidding." I say picking up a large box.

"Do I look like Kol?" He says stopping and looking at me deadpan.

I just burst out laughing. Before we continue up the stairs. Making our way down one hall before turning right then we walk further before he comes to a stop at the end of the hall. He sets down his large box before openning the door, picking up the box he enters. I follow not expecting to see a small teal room with a reading chair in the corner and a large teal and white rug in the center and closet on the left is open and empty, a white dresser is pressed up against the wall. Elijah sets the box in the corner of the room before heading to grab another. I set down my box on top of his. I smile feeling joy for the first time in a long time. Walking across the hall I find a large -large is a understatement this room is huge. I freeze in the entry. Slowly stepping in the room I find a California King bed with a grey and white comforter, stacked high with pillows. The room is painted a light grey with dark wood floors, the trim is white. I smile wider, there is a white shag rug in the center of the room with two sitting chairs and a small table. Entering the room I look to the wall with the entry on it, I see a 65' flat screen tv. Noticing two doors on the left- when you walk in-one on the right and large balcony, with a teal bistro set. Making my way to the smaller of the two doors on the left I open it to reveal a large 2 story library with a large couch in the center of the lower floor and a reading nook across from my bedroom entrance. I smile, noticing a black spiral staircase. I walk back into my room going to the other set of doors on this wall but they are double stained-glass. Opening them I find the largest closet filled halfway with many outfits. I walk in further finding a large bathroom also grey and white. A happy tear races it's way down my face. I leave the bathroom, entering the closet I find a makeup table with my Kol from when I had been with Klaus before. I smile picking it up. I stare at it for a couple seconds, before setting it back down. I leave the closet, making my way across the room I open the other door finding a dark-navy blue room with a black and white picture of me on the nightstand. I just back out shutting the door behind me. 

"Cleo?"

"Hm?" I turn around.

"Andy is fussy and I am making her crib."

"Right. Sorry." I say before speeding down. She is still in the car seat. Lifting her out I rest her on my shoulder before making my way to the kitchen. I sit on the counter and breast feed my daughter. Once she is done I burp her. Making my way up the stairs daughter in arms I make my way to her room. "Look it's Uncle Elijah fixing up your room love." I smile down at her pointing at 'lijah.

I smile and continues working. I rock Andy in my arms standing in the door way while 'Lijah works- for a little while anyway. "Would you like some help?" I ask propping Andy on a pillow on the chair.

"Can you hand me that?" He say pointing to a piece of wood. I hand it to him. "How are you doing? Honestly."

"Honestly, I feel like crap for leaving Klaus every part of me wants to go back...,but, I love this town I love the people here, I love the house. I love that he isn't running a empire, here. But I wish he was here." I say looking to my feet.

"Can you hand me that skrew." I hand it to him. "Are you going to tell him where you are?"

"I don't think so."

"Why?" He stops to look at me.

"While, I gave him the choice me and Andy or New Orleans. His pride is too high he wants to completely rule. I don't, I like being ordinary." I say looking to him.

"You are anything but ordinary." He says.

"Yea but, I don't want enemies. He comes with a surplus." I say quietly more to myself than to him. I look to Andy. "I want to raise my daughter in peace without worrying about her getting hurt because of us."

"That comes with being apart of the family." He says finishing the crib, before starting on the changing table. "There are sheets and a mattress in that box." He says pointing to a long box on the floor under the window. 

I go over picking up the mattress, placing it in the crib I say "But...I-I...I don't know anymore. I just don't want her to get hurt." I grab a light blue sheet from the box placing it in the crib before pulling it on the mattress. I pull a small Pink blanket from the box placing it haphazardly over the edge of the crib. Elijah finishes with the changing table placing it closer to the door. I grab a larger box of diapers and place an entire drawer with them before placing a few on the changing table it's self. Placing the rest of the diapers in a drawer within the closet. I place a shirts in one drawer, pants in another, then one sises, socks, then baby creams and lotions in the last one.

Elijah then places Andy in her crib, turning off the light we leave the room being the fact that I have been awake for two days I head into my bathroom taking a hot shower, before putting on underwear a pair of men's pj pants and one of Klaus' shirts. Even though I am mad at him, and sad and heartbroken, He still is my mate and his scent does make me happy but it also makes my stomach curl knowing it isn't actually him just something that belonged to him. Curling up in the middle of the bed I pull the blankets over my head a drift off to sleep. 

The first time I awake to a crying Andy. The second to someone standing in the door way.