Chapter 37 Preview - Daddy Issues

"Can I ask you something?" He nodded "Promise me you'll be honest?" He promised. He was actually quite intrigued to what her question maybe. Caroline took a deep breath and decided to cut to the chase. "Are you in love with me?" Too forward?

"What?"

"Are you in love with me?" She asked again. He took a deep breath and decided it was time to fess up. He was going to die anyways. "Yes." It was Caroline who now had to take deep breaths to calm herself down. "What? I mean why? Why me?"

"Caroline, you're beautiful. You're loyal and you're kind. What is there not to like?" Kale tried pulling himself up more so that he could sit upright. Caroline moved to help him.

"Kale, I'm sorry. I'm sorry if my actions in the past had lead you on. You're my friend. One of my best. But," She apologized.

"You don't love me. I know. It has always been Niklaus." She nodded as the unshed tears flowed down her cheeks. He tried to hold back his own tears but the pain from his bite was making it difficult.

Klaus listened to their conversation from his bedroom. When he could no longer hear anymore spoken words, he got up and left. Caroline and Kale sat in comfortable silence as he passed the guest bedroom, whose doors were slightly opened. He made his way downstairs to where laughter was heard.

Raine.

He came upon the screen doors overlooking the back yard. Kol and Bonnie sat on the grass as his little girl danced around in the field of flowers. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but teenagers are suppose to be in school, are they not?" The pair looked up.

"Ah brother. Has eavesdropping on Caroline bored you?" Kol smirked. Klaus clenched his jaw. Oh how he did not needed to be tested right now. "Klaus. I need to talk to you. It's important," Bonnie interrupted the brothers' staring contest. "What do you want?"

"Look, I know my friends and I have tried to kill you multiple times. But I know about Raine and the Bennett witches back in Italy. I want to help. Let me help my ancestors finish what they started. Let me train your daughter, please," she begged.

Klaus simply scoffed. "And I'm suppose to trust you? You want me to believe that you're doing this out of the goodness of your heart? You and your little gang," his rant was cut short with a loud roar and flash of lightning across the clear blue sky. Raine ran up to her father holding a little puppy. "This is the one that licked me," she giggled. Bonnie, Kol and Klaus watched as she ran back to the field. The only difference was that an old hut, a large puppy pin and a very confused Italian man stood.

"Did she just," Bonnie couldn't find the right words. She couldn't believe it. "Did she just transported all of that through time?!" Before anyone could answer the obvious, another flash of lightning could be seen in the horizon. And just like that, the field was back to normal again. Bonnie gasped. She knew Raine was powerful but powerful would be an understatement.

The little girl came running up to her father again, jumping into his arms. "I don't like puppies anymore," she frowned. "They bite." She showed him her healing hand. Klaus' eyes darkened. Nobody harms his daughter, not even some dumb mutt and gets away with it. If she hadn't already sent them back, he would've compelled the Ripper to drain them all dry.

"Don't ever do that again, Raine. Do you understand me? That kind of magic is extremely dangerous." He kept his voice as gentle as possible without losing his authoritative spark. She nodded. Caroline would be proud of him right now. Usually he wouldn't mind letting her use her witchy mojo as she pleased, but Caroline wanted her to learn how to control it. She wanted their daughter to learn when to use magic and for the right reasons too.

Bonnie saw this as an opportunity to pitch her idea again. "So what do you say?"

"Yes Niklaus, what do you say?" Kol mocked. Klaus pinched the bridge of his nose. This was not how he had pictured fatherhood back when he was human. No normal guy would. But a normal guy doesn't fall in love with a teenage time traveller who'd eventually give birth to their vampire-witch-hybrid daughter who also happens to be a time traveller.

Back inside the mansion, Caroline was busy cleaning the blood and sweat off of Kale. He'd only get worse by the end of the week. She just hope her stubborn Nik changed his mind by then.

It's been awhile! This is just a preview! The rest will be up soon! As some of you might've noticed, my chapter titles always relate to the chapter somehow. & this phas new hasn't even gotten to the "daddy issues" yet. So yes, it'll be longer. Don't worry.

What do you think? Should Bonnie be allowed to help Raine? Should Klaus save Kale? Let me know! Leave guesses for what I mean by "daddy issues" too if you want. Sorry for the long wait but I'm finally going to get back to writing.