The Vampire Diaries

"I should go tell Astrid." Tatia kissed his cheek before getting up and heading out.

"I'll go wake him," Klaus whispered, getting to his feet and heading down the stairs to where they kept Kol.

"Astrid?" Tatia called as she knocked once and let herself in.

"Mm?" Astrid hummed frowned where she was curled up on the sofa. Her arms wrapped around her stomach as she blinked her eyes open.

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Klaus pulled the dagger out of Kol.

"Hey... Sorry to wake you, how are you honey?"

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Kol groaned awake around an hour later.

"Tired, constantly tired." Astrid replied with a quiet yawn, "Now the problem normally is that Dex is over excited about it all and I can't keep my eyes open half the time to join in with the mood.... How're you?"

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"You aren't going to make me redagger you now, are you? It's been a long time this time."

"How long?" Kol groaned as he sat up.

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"He's bound to be excited, it's his first, probably only baby. You're lucky, Kol wasn't like this was he?" Tatia hummed as she sat by her and rubbed her back gently. "Im fine... Just making last minute arrangements for the wedding..."

"No, but I had the energy to be excited for both of us..." Astrid whispered with a weak laugh, "Which is worrying because I wasn't this exhausted with the twins, I wasn't tired at all with Karl either... Why this one? I'm trying not to worry too much about it." she added before nodding subtly in response to that, "When is it?"

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"Farrah's (insert age here) now, you can work it out from that."

(( About six, innit? ))

"A few weeks... If you're worried you need to be seen Astrid. I'll come with you if you don't want to worry Dex."

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((Seven I think... Idk haha))

"Wow... That's a while. What's everyone doing?"

"What about your wedding?" Astrid asked with a grimace, shaking her head a little bit and whispering, "It's fine, I'll go and get checked out on my own. It'l just be hard doing it when Dexter doesn't notice, that's all."

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"Finn and Sage have been having a bad time, Cameron got killed." Klaus told him quietly, "Scott proposed to Kira. Mica found out about Ana, it was a little chaotic. She told Jasper too. Rhea was attacking Mica alot, Sarai ended up hitting Mica so things are a little bit strained there but she's still going to come to mine and Tatia's wedding. Which is soon.. which is why I undaggered you."

"What about Astrid?"

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"I'll come with you, you need support Asa."

"She isn't married to him yet.... But she's pregnant."

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Astrid just nodded subtly.

Kol flinched a that before nodding.

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Tatia kissed her cheek. "Dex is working isn't he? Shall we try get you in now?"

"No matter how long you're daggered, it won't make it easier on you emotionally." Klaus mused with a grimace when he saw his brothers flinch, "Try not to lose it this time, please? I'll have to dagger you again if you do."

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Astrid nodded after a minute, "Yeah.. okay."

Tatia got up then and offered her a hand.

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"Yeah... Sorry."

"It's Astrid and Dexter you'll have to apologise to," Klaus replied with a shake of his head, "Tat said Astrid's scared of you now."

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Astrid took her mothers hand and got to her feet with a quiet, "Thanks,"

Tatia pulled her into a hug. "Good or bad. I am here for you, always will be".

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Kol grimaced at that.

"It's probably nothing, I'm probably just worrying too much." Astrid whispered quietly in response to that, hugging her mother back quietly. "I hope it's just me worrying.."

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Klaus was silent then.

"Probably will be, relax honey."

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"Anything else happen?"

"Tamara is back, Olivia is an anchor to the new Other Side so I think Adam is having a rough time keeping her sane. I don't know the details, though, you'll have to phone them."

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"Mm," Astrid whispered. "Lets just go... Where're you going to get married? Is everyone coming?"

"By the falls again... And I hope everyone's coming..." Tatia said as she headed out to her car.

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Kol just nodded. "Where do I uh... Stay?"

Astrid tensed a little bit and asked, almost silently, "Does everyone include..."

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"With Rebekah or Finn would be ideal, you'll have to organise that for yourself though. One of the conditions of you being undaggered is that you have a baby sitter until we know you won't have an outburst."

"Yeah... I'm sorry... But I've told Klaus he needs to be guarded."

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Kol just sighed deeply.

"We can't have you hurting her or Dexter when she's pregnant." Klaus shrugged, "Tatia'd have your heart out if she ever caught you anyway, so it's for your own safety too."

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Astrid tensed at that and shook her head, "Because that'd stop him." she muttered.

"I'll arrange the seating plan so you're nowhere near him." Tatia said as she opened te door so Astrid could get inside the car.

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"Fine. Whatever."