summary: an AU for forbes!reader, Y/n Forbes remains human growing old while her husband is still ageless (major angst)

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1977

Klaus sat on the edge of the bed watching his fiancé pace back and forth in front of him. It had been four months since he revealed to her his secret and earlier that morning, he asked if she wanted to become a vampire.

Y/n was only 25 years old, Liz was 5. She was still young, but being with her fiancé, he couldn't bare her the gift of children.

"That doesn't make me love you any less. I don't need more children to love you, we have Liz, that is enough, you are enough." Y/n told him as he broke down that night.

"I don't think I can do it Nik. I'm young, I want to watch Liz grow old and have her own family. I can't watch her die while I'm still youthful. I'm sorry." Y/n looked at Klaus with sorrow eyes. Klaus's face softened, bring her into his lap, Y/n wrapping around him like a koala bear, crying into his shoulder.

"Oh my love, there is no need to cry." He rubbed his hand up and down the back of her head, kissing the crown of her head softly. "It's okay, I'm not mad, this is your life, I respect your decision."

"Will you still love me when I get old and wrinkly." Y/n murmured into his shoulder, still clinging onto him

"I will love you til your last breath, you will always be beautiful to me." Klaus removed her face, cupping it in his hands, wiping her tears away with the pad of his thumb.

"You won't leave me for someone young, or some vampire?" She asked.

"I will never leave, I will always love you." He smiled kissing her reddened nose.

Present

"How are you today grandma?" Caroline came in with Bonnie and Elena. The three girls had always visited Caroline's grandmother at her home.

"Not so well dear." Y/n rasped out. Y/n was 56 when she found out she had Glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, only having so much time left. The past year had been Liz driving her to different doctors in Virginia to help her mother, but everyone told her the same thing, there was no cure and she had a 10% chance of living 5 more years, 5 more years in pain.

She had lived with this cancer for almost three years, now send home into hospice, end of life care. Her nurse was a wonderful young man, Anthony who stayed with her in the home she had since she still young.

"How are you Miranda?" Y/n looked over at Elena. The cancer had gotten worst the past year, Y/n starting to loss some of her memory. Miranda had been a friend of her daughter who had always came over after Liz's soccer practice. "How is little Elena, is she walking yet?"

"She has." Elena tried to conceal her tears. "We have to walk her like a hawk so she doesn't walk out of the room." Bonnie grabbed Elena's hand in comfort, it was hard for the three girls, Bonnie and Elena grew up with Caroline and had a special bond with Grandma Forbes (A name Caroline always called her since she was young even though she was never a Forbes)

"Yes, Nik and I had to put gates in all the doorways so Liz wouldn't run away." Y/n chuckled before looking sad. "I miss Nik."

Nik. Y/n's husband, the three girls heard of him but had never met him, they all assumed he died before any of them were born.

"Miss Y/n." Anthony came into the room with a small smile. "It's time for your medicine and lunch, then your daughter is coming over."

"My daughter, she's already here?" Y/n looked over at Caroline in confusion.

"He got it wrong mom, he meant Caroline, you remember her." Caroline said.

"Oh yes." Y/n smiled at the thought of her granddaughter. The three girls looked over at Y/n, wiping away the tears before heading out. Caroline always tried to conceal how she really felt about her grandmother, growing up she and her mother didn't have the best relationship so it were many times she was with her grandmother.

"Hey mom, I'm home. I just back from grandmas and-What the hell is he doing here?" Caroline entered the house walking towards the kitchen, stopping at the sight of her mother next to Klaus Mikaelson, her smile turning into a glare.

"Hello love." Klaus smirked.

"Mom are you crazy!" She exclaimed, she had met Klaus a handful of times and none were really pleasant.

"Caroline, I think we should talk, all of us." Liz looked back at Klaus before looking at Caroline.

The three sat around the dining table, Klaus at one end, Caroline on the other glaring at him, Liz in the middle. Liz knew her father was back in town but told him he wasn't able to see her mother until he got his vampire priorities out of the way.

"Your my grandfather?" Caroline asked in shocked after her mother told her story about Klaus and their family.

"Step-grandfather, but yes." Klaus nodded his head.

"And you both knew and didn't tell me!" Caroline shouted.

"Caroline, calm down. I told him whenever he came back to town when it was safe, he needed to have no vampire business." Liz explained.

"Does he know about grandma?" Caroline asked softly.

"Yes." Klaus gulped looking down trying not to cry. He knew, while reconnecting with his daughter in over 30 years, he knew about her cancer. Klaus wanted everything to be squared away so he could with her, not leaving her side. "I needed everything to be okay so I could be there for her."

Klaus didn't go back to his old house in Mystic Falls until a few days later. He stood outside with a bouquet of her favorite flowers, hoping it would trigger some memory. Anthony answered the door, immediately recognizing him from all the photos in the house. Alongside from being a hospice nurse, was the only male Bennett witch in the family.

"Miss Y/n, you have a visitor." Anthony walked into the master bedroom, Klaus following close behind. "I'll give you too some privacy."

"Nik?" Y/n asked in a shaky voice looking at her husband who was trying not to cry. "Is that really you?"

"Yes, love." He made his way to her side, replacing the flowers in the vase with his. "You look beautiful as ever." He caressed the side of her head, kissing her forehead.

"Don't say that." She slapped his wrist weakly. "I'm all old and have cancer."

"Don't talk about my wife that way." Klaus said playfully, grabbing her hand. "She doesn't like it when people about her like that."

"I don't have much time Nik." Y/n confessed. "My last doctor said at least 6 months if I'm lucky."

"Well then, I'm not leaving for six months, I'll be right here." He ran a hand over her knuckles.

Klaus listened intently as Y/n tried to catch Klaus up on all that has happened in Mystic Falls, ignoring the times when it was out of place. "She was so beautiful." She thought back to the day Liz had gotten married. It was a stressful day for her, all Liz wanted was her father but he knew that it was unsafe for him to be here, she just wanted him to walk her down the aisle.

As nightfall came, Klaus let Anthony return to his room he stayed in at the house while he help met Y/n and give her medicine.

"Go to sleep, love, I'll be here in the morning." Klaus whispered to her as he saw her trying to keep her eyes open.

"I want to keep talking to you." Y/n confessed.

"We'll talk more in the morning." Klaus replied, bringing up her blanket, repositioning her pillow.

"I love you Nik." Y/n said before letting sleep take over her body.

Klaus didn't sleep that night, just listening to Y/n softly snoring. It was around 1am when Klaus quietly walked through the house, having flashbacks of him and his family before he left when Liz was 16. He looked at the photo of Y/n and Liz at her high school graduation trying not to make much noise when he heard Y/n's breathing stop, only hearing one heartbeat through the house.

"Elizabeth..." He spoke in the phone, his voice cracking.

During the funeral, Klaus stayed hidden in the shadows listening to everyone speak about his late wife. When the locals started to leave, leaving Liz, Caroline, Bonnie, Elena and a few stragglers, he made his way to the casket.

"Don't." Caroline pulled Damon back as he went to attack Klaus. Damon watched as Klaus placed a single orange blossom on top of the casket, the meaning of eternal love.

"I never said I love you back." Klaus sat to Liz trying to stay strong for his daughter. "It was the last she said 'I love you' and I didn't say it back."

"It's okay dad, she knew." She squeezed his hand three times. "She always knew."

"Forever and Always, my love." He watched as her casket go into the ground.

Y/n L/n-Mikaelson

1952-2011

Daughter, Wife, Mother, Friend

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god, I cried writing this