Familia • Klaroline [SLOW UPDATES] ✗

𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳

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Rain was ceaselessly pounding against the roof and the wind howling against the windows, shaking the panes. Perfect conditions for a movie night. Lexi had thumped onto the twins door until her fists were sore. Lizzie had answered with a face matching the thunder raging outside, clearly she was not happy that her pity party of one had been disturbed.

Lexi pushed passed her younger sister and dumped her armful of stuff onto the blonde's bed.

"What are you doing?" Lizzie huffed, Josie watched on in mild amusement as she saw the telltale signs that her sisters were about to argue.

"Pulling you out of your misery for a movie night, what does it look like I'm doing?"

"You can't do that!"

"Sure I can, I'm older." Lexi said casually and turned back to her pile of stuff. "Okay, get out all your blankets and pillows and put them over there; we're making a fort."

She pulled a bag out of the pile of her duvet and undid the knots that held it closed. Tipping the bag upside down, she emptied out a store's worth of sweets and chocolate. She began to organise the pile and without looking up she said, "Ooh, and dig out your secret stash of treats. I know you have one." She gave each a look of brief, playful disapproval before going back to her food.

Josie stood up from her bed and began shifting all her blankets, duvets and pillows to the floor with a laugh. Lizzie huffed before following the orders, it was easier not to argue with Lexi.

It was after twenty minutes that the girls discovered they couldn't build a fort for shit. Any and all attempt had been reduced to a mess of blankets and one of the girls buried underneath. Lexi had become a tangled mess of blankets and limbs, rolling around the floor laughing her lungs out. Josie was leaning over a desk chair that they'd used to prop up the blankets, laughing at her older sister. Lastly, Lizzie was assaulting Lexi with chocolate bars, playfully yelling at her to get up.

That was how Alaric found them. The noise hit him like a brick wall once he'd opened the door. Burnt sage sat on Josie's desk, and truthfully Alaric was thankful for it, he didn't need to hear his daughters shrieking at whatever movie they were going to watch right through the night.

All three of the sisters froze like a deer in headlights. The look of pure confusion on Alaric's face was enough to make all three of them to burst out into laughter again until all of them were rolling on the floor, unable to breathe.

Watching the girls roll around laughing made the paper in his hands feel like it was scalding his finger tips. "You know what, I'm not even going to question this."

He stepped back into the hallway, as the door closed the sound from the within room quietened into silence.

Alaric sighed and started walking down the hallway towards Caroline's office; Kol had yet to leave so the both of them were most likely inside.

The wind howled against the windows, oddly reminding Alaric of the sound of a vampire running. Lightning flashed outside, showing flashing shadows against the walls.

The school at night was creepy to say the least.

Upon reaching Caroline's office, he could hear the drunken giggling of the woman herself inside. Inside the office, Caroline was relaxed on her desk chair, her legs over the side. Kol was reclined back against the desk, talking animatedly about something or other, an empty bottle of wine next to him.

"Uh-oh. Something tells me we're about to be told off darling." Kol said mockingly. Caroline instantly sobered up at the sight of Ric standing in the doorway. He walked over to where she was sitting and handed her the papers in his hand. Upon seeing her own scrawled handwriting on the first page, she groaned.

"Way to ruin a evening Alaric."

Kol snatched the pages from her hands, she made no move to take them back, and he saw his own last name staring back at him.

"Did they really have to send her here? I mean I'm fine with one Mikaelson kicking around but the whole family just makes me nervous." Alaric began to pace around the room, ignoring the glares of both Caroline and Kol.

"And, I love Lexi and all but honestly, Of all the people in the world you had to have a kid with him? And he just left, he didn't stay to help with her, he just knocked you up and left." Alaric seemed to be on a roll now.

"It takes two to tango Ric." Kol stated simply whilst lifting the wine bottle to check if there was even a slightest amount of alcohol left.

"And you never let me forget it." Caroline muttered whilst smacking Kol on the back of the head. She gripped Alaric by the wrist before he could continue his pacing, a menacing glare on her face. "I shouldn't need to remind you that she is my daughter too. I don't know what it is that has got you so worked up and frankly, I don't care. But snap out of it before I send Jade after your ass."

She stalked out of the office whilst Alaric huffed. Kol jumped down from the desk childishly, "Well that was dramatic."

He moved to leave the office but paused in the doorway, "Ooh, and word of advice mate. As long as you don't have a white oak stake lurking around then my family won't care what you do. I certainly don't."

And with that Kol left the office and ran down the corridor and out of sight.