Life on the Road (And Excerpts from Hayley's Journal)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from The Originals or The CW.
Summary: Crossing the country alone with your baby is hard enough. Add a semi-truck full of un-dead, unconscious companions to the mix, and it becomes downright difficult. Hayley searches for cures for the Mikaelson family so she can wake them up and save Klaus from Marcel.
Chapter 1
Hayley pulled the heavy door of the truck closed and locked it, resolve and responsibility weighing heavy on her shoulders. She felt regret as she looked back one last time toward the middle of the city.
It felt so wrong.
As much as she and Klaus often bumped heads, or flat out tried to rip each other's heads off, they'd finally come to some kind of peace. She knew no one would love their little girl more then they did. Taking Klaus from his daughter was cruel. Marcel wasn't the man he used to be.
Hayley often wondered if that was just the cost of being King in New Orleans, or if the Mikaelsons had made him that way.
Either way, the chess board had been set.
Now, they were all playing a role in the game.
It would up to Hayley to start a new board.
She dropped an envelope in the post office box on the corner before getting behind the wheel and started the engine. Marcel would receive her letter a few days after she was gone.
Hayley glanced at Hope, and the letter Klaus had left with their little girl to fill the absence. It wouldn't be enough.
She reached over and adjusted her daughter's blanket with a slight smile before glancing in the rear view mirror with cold eyes. There was nothing left for her in New Orleans right now.
For now though, they had to get as far away as possible. She's been entrusted with precious cargo, and the knowledge that she alone was the only one not bearing the Mikaelson family name that had ever been trusted enough to guard what she couldn't help but consider a family crypt on wheels. She would keep them safe until she could wake them up.
Hayley drove northwest.
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Two days after Marcel put Klaus behind bricks, he found an envelope in his mail with curvy, precise handwriting, a postage stamp, and no return address.
He opened it.
Whatever he'd expected… this hadn't been it.
It was from Hayley.
Marcel,
I'll be gone by the time you get this. You told me a long while ago to get out while I still could. I didn't make that choice, but I knew you were only saying that because you were trying to protect me. (Or maybe I agreed with you, but I knew I'd never be able to keep my child from her family completely.) You're not who you used to be… the man who saved my life when my family was slaughtered? Where was that man when you took Hope's family from her? She did nothing to deserve any part of the life I had growing up.
Hope deserves two parents who loved her. (And not too long ago, I would have considered you someone who would have protected her.)
Klaus loves her.
She deserves to feel that, and not have it taken because you were angry, hurt, and needing revenge. I know you feel betrayed, and you're grieving Davina's death. So am I. There are so many things that shouldn't have happened. I'm sorry, Marcel.
Family is sacred.
You and I will see each other again.
You have something of mine, and eventually, I'm going to come take it back.
Always & forever,
~ Hailey ~
Alone in his apartment, Marcel ran his finger over the jagged edge of the paper that had been ripped from a journal. He threw away the envelope, but folded the letter small enough to fit in his wallet. Marcel would pray Hayley's need to take care of her daughter overrode her anger and she stayed away.
He poured himself a heavy-handed drink as he made a call.
"Hey, Romero. Do me a solid and keep track an eye on Hayley Marshall for me… No, no. Don't engage with her. She'll kill your ass." Marcel's eyes rolled. "I don't want you to bring her back here. Leave her be. Just…" his hands raked over his face. "Keep her out of trouble if it comes to that, otherwise stay out of her way. I don't want her to end up a target because I have Klaus…. And I don't want their daughter to grow up an orphan."
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A/N: Okay, so Chapter 1 has been edited a bit. The heart of the story remains the same, but I needed to fix and change a few things before moving on with this story. The next chapter will also be edited! Thanks!
