Hey guys! So this is my first Originals fanfic. I know this might end up a tiny bit long, but I have a lot to say! First: Please forgive my grammatical errors/spelling errors. I haven't proof-read it. Please comment or message any errors so that I may fix them. Second: The events in the show will mostly occur, but other things will happen and they may not occur exactly like in the show or they may not happen at all, so I hope that I don't get a ton of comments saying, "That didn't happen!" or "But that didn't happen until this happened." Or anything. I am trying my best. It won't go off of the show a lot, maybe only a few things here and there, so if you have any questions please ask. Also, this is my first ongoing fanfiction. Until now I have only written One-Shots, so this might not be the best. I will definitely try my best and I hope that, in time, I will grow as a writer and become better.
I also wanted to tell you all that I will be writing some One-Shots for a lot of shows (or even putting some up here that I have written on other websites) so this story may not be my main focus. If enough people like it, I will try to continue since it is summer time and I should have a lot of time to write. Okay, so this is Chapter One (it should probably be a Prologue really). I hope that you enjoy it and be sure to Review! I won't know if I should continue or not if you don't let me know how I am doing, or what your ideas are.
Chapter 1: The Truth is Revealed
The rain was pounding against the rooftops of the houses in New Orleans. All around people were rushing to find cover from the relentless storm. Women in the street ushered their kids into the safety of nearby buildings, men used their suit jackets as they made a run for their cars or homes. Outdoor parties turned into a scramble for protection from the water falling from the sky. Only one was not rushing for cover, but into the storm and in a hurry. Her phone was pressed to her ear as she tried to talk over the rain, but not so loud as to help them hear her conversation even though they had enhanced hearing.
"...know what I promised... I can't...you have to come...Klaus... Elijah... Problems.. Too much." She spoke into the little mechanical device. The black jacket that helped her hide in the shadows was getting drenched, but she didn't mind the coldness of the wind and rain. A little cold would not hurt her. However, those out looking for her wouldn't be so kind. Quickly she made her way through the city of New Orleans, hoping to become one with the massive movement of people, shifting from one group of shuffling people to another in as casual of a manner as she could.
"This is ridiculous, Skylar..." She was saying, sounding desperate and annoyed all at the same time. "Nothing will happen...you need to get here..he's been getting...yes. Exactly." Only snippets of her conversation were able to be heard by those nearby. "...baby... too late...gone.." She finished before giving the person on the other end of the phone a hasty goodbye and a hang-up mid-talk.
Shoving her cell phone into her pocket, the woman kept walking, head down as she moved through the mass of people. She would not be able to get far if she didn't use the cover of the rain wisely, so she had to hurry before the storm subsided. It was her only chance to get out of the corrupt, dangerous city. Her phone rang once more, interrupting the consistent sound of complaining humans and pattering of rain on rooftops. With a hint of guilt and regret, the young woman snapped her phone and tossed it into a nearby alley before running faster out of the city.
"Hayley!" The sound of her name caused her to flinch and move faster. It sounded as if they were still searching for her. They hadn't actually spotted her yet. She still had time to get out of New Orleans. If she could move a little quicker...
"Ah-ah-ah." A voice next to her caused her to look up, eyes searching for the person. Immediately she saw him. Klaus. "And just where do you think you are going?" He asked, his accent thick as he looked at her through a dangerously cold glare, despite his light tone. She knew not to trust him. Not to think she was safe for even a moment. However much she wanted to spit in his face, snap out a comment, Hayley couldn't bring herself to say a word. She just stared at him defiantly. "Not in the mood to talk I see." The hybrid spoke, getting closer to the werewolf. Her body tensed, ready to fight. "Come. We're going back." He had a grip on her arm before she knew it, and she was being dragged back toward the Mikealson home.
The entire way back to the home of the Original family, Hayley was mentally cursing whatever God existed that she got caught. She was almost out. She had almost escaped the madness and suffering that she had been forced to go through in the past two to three months. But now it seemed as if all of that was just a hopeful wish. Her surroundings began to become more familiar, the grand house coming into view, a figure standing in the doorway, leaning against the frame. With all of the rain it was a bit more difficult to make out who it was, but judging by the short hair it was Elijah.
"What gave you the brilliant idea to run off in the rain?" Elijah asked, looking at Hayley as they trudged up the stairs, Hayley's arm still caught in Klaus's right grip. The werewolf looked at Elijah but didn't say a word. She wasn't planning on saying anything to anyone as she was forced inside and shoved towards the living room. Klaus had the decency to let her arm go, to which she shrugged out of the drenched black jacket she had foolishly hoped would provide her some cover from the view of the Original. "You have a guest." Elijah spoke again as he followed the two into the living room, stopping at the entrance way and watching as Hayley's eyes grew wide and a small noise slipped from her lips.
Sitting on the couch in front of them, water droplets running down their face, hair plastered to their head, entire body shivering from the cold, was a young human woman. Her hazel eyes were zeroed in on Hayley, giving her a look of mixed emotions. Her clothes were suctioned onto her skin, and a blanket was draped over her shivering body – courtesy of Elijah no doubt.
"Skylar..." Hayley breathed out, looking a little pale herself. She slowly made her way over to the human girl and sat down next to her. "You're going to get sick. What were you thinking coming here?" She asked her, looking at her in a manner that said she was absolutely insane.
The young woman – Skylar – looked up at Hayley and offered her a small smile. "You said you needed help. You asked me to come here, remember."
"I didn't mean right this very moment! There is a storm! Your body isn't strong enough to handle getting sick right now!" Her attention turned to Elijah and Klaus, who were both just staring at the two and waiting for an explanation as to what the girl was doing at their house in the first place. Hayley looked back at Skylar, who had just seemed to notice Klaus for the first time and was staring at him, fear in her eyes and heart pounding in her chest.
"Care to explain..." Klaus made a motion with his hands towards the two, mainly at the human on his couch. "This?" He asked, looking directly at Hayley and not seeing the expression on the face of the other female. He could hear her heartbeat though, and her fear was evident in that alone. So she knew who he was. What he was. That didn't really answer any of his questions. Who was she? Why was she at their home? How did Hayley know the girl? Why had Elijah even let her in?
Hayley looked at Klaus from her seat next to Skylar. She glanced back at the human girl and bit her lip before she let out a sigh. Her mouth opened to speak but a sudden pressure on her arm caused her to pause and looked down to see a pale hand gripping onto her for death life. Following the hand up the arm and to the face of the owner, she saw the fear in the eyes of the human. Hayley gave her a reassuring look before looking back to Klaus and Elijah. "I'm not pregnant, Klaus. I don't have your child in my body. There was a spell cast on me by a powerful witch to make it seem like I was. It was powerful enough to keep other witches from realizing there had even been magic involved." Her confession caused Klaus to harden, any trace of a smile leaving his lips. Elijah just looked surprised.
"This entire time we've gone through all the trouble, and there is no child that is destined to destroy the witches?" The accented hybrid asked, getting irritated. He was three seconds away from snapping both the human's neck and Hayley's as well. Why not? Hayley didn't have his child in her stomach.
Hayley shook her head. "That's not true. There is a child. Your child." She replied.
"Well then let's see this child. Where is it?" Klaus asked, looking at Hayley with a dead-serious expression. He was obviously unhappy to hear this news. Outside the thunder rumbled and the lighting temporarily lit up the house even more, the lights flickering for a moment before unsteadily gaining their brightness again. It was a little melodramatic, that he would say something right before the storm decided to back him up. If the situation hadn't been so serious Hayley might've laughed at the irony.
Unlike his annoyed brother, Elijah had pieced together the puzzle. He smoothly pushed himself off of the frame of the entrance to the living room and stepped forward, arms crossed over his chest as he looked at the shivering human girl. "When did you know?" He asked her.
For the first time, the girl broke her fear-filled stare at Klaus to look at Elijah, looking no less frightened. "A-A couple m-months a-ago." She wasn't shaking from the cold, but of fear. "I-I didn't know how... b-but then I started to remember.." Her hazel eyes closed tightly for a moment and Elijah guessed she was reliving whatever had happened to her. Whatever she was remembering. "What had happened. I couldn't control anything that I did.." She swallowed, body shaking.
Klaus finally seemed to put two and two together as well. His anger turned into shock, and then slowly transformed into denial and disbelief. "No. There is no way that this... this human is carrying my child." Klaus stated, a finger pointing at Skylar. How could she be carrying his child? He couldn't even really remember who she was. She was practically a stranger. Familiar, slightly, but not enough for him to remember her becoming one of his fun night lovers. A human? She wasn't ugly – she was fairly attractive with her dark hair and hazel eyes. In a way she resembled Davina, but with darker hair and eyes. Their facial structure was relatively similar though, and that was kind of annoying to the Original. He walked up to the brunette and crouched down, looking into her eyes. "Tell me the truth and don't stutter." He said. If she was a human, she could be compelled.
Skylar immediately looked like she was in a bit of a daze for a moment before she began to speak, the fear in her tone leaving so she spoke clearly. "Three months ago I found out I was pregnant. I didn't know how, because I swore I was a virgin. Two months ago I started remembering what you had done to me. What you had compelled me to do and forget. I don't know how I remember. I found Hayley and told her what happened. She was worried about me, about what would happen if you found out about the child. She heard rumors of witches who were worried about Klaus's child and found a witch who owed Hayley a favor. She cast a spell on Hayley and I to make us somewhat linked, so that where I was in my pregnancy, she would be the one to look pregnant instead of me. The witches who performed the spell had sensed the baby in her, but through a powerful linking spell. They felt the baby through me." She glanced at Hayley before looking back towards Klaus and continuing on. "Hayely promised she would protect me from everything. She was a werewolf. She could protect herself more easily than I could.. She could heal from attacks. But she decided she was done. She asked me to come here and tell the truth. She wanted to be with her pack."
Klaus looked at Skylar and swallowed. "You're done." He stepped back and watched the human blink a couple of times before her eyes went back to fearful, body shaking once again as she wrapped the blanket around her more tightly as if that would save her from a powerful being such as Klaus. He turned his attention to the liar right next to the human. "So you didn't think that it would be a good idea to inform me that my child wasn't actually safe?"
"It wasn't my decision to make. But then I found my pack. They need my help. Their curse.." Hayley replied defiantly. She had never been one to care for Klaus's temper. Almost always she had gone against what he said. Elijah had always been her protector. Could she still say the same thing now that they knew the truth? Now that they knew who really carried Klaus's child. "Besides, maybe Davina can save her life. A human having a hybrid baby? She'll die giving childbirth to a baby of that power." Hayley and Skylar had already discussed this. Skylar had been fine with it, as long as the baby got to Elijah – whom Hayley had promised was the man she could trust. "Davina could put a spell on her to keep her safe." Hayley doubted Klaus cared about what happened to Skylar when she gave birth. He probably only cared about the child. Elijah, though, might grow to care for the girl. Either way, Hayley was done. She was getting out. Her pack needed her and she knew she was breaking her word, but she also had a duty to her people. "Now if you'll excuse me, I must go." She stood up and headed towards the door.
Elijah stepped forward to follow her as she slipped on her wet black jacket and darted out into the storm, but Klaus's hand on his shoulder stopped him. Now was not the time to deal with Hayley. They needed to figure out what was to be done about Skylar. The human who was carrying the child of Klaus Mikaelson. What were they going to do? If the witches found out.. She was a human. Harder to protect than a vampire. If they turned her into a vampire she'd be unable to have a child.
Once the door was closed, Elijah and Klaus both looked at the shivering human on the couch. Elijah stepped forward, slowly, as not to startle the already frightened human. He knelt down in front of her and gently reached forward to brush some of her wet hair out of her face, noticing her flinch of fear. "Don't worry. My name is Elijah. And I promise I will keep you safe, Skylar." He told her, his accented voice softening. Humans were a lot more fragile than werewolves. And it probably didn't help that she had been one of Klaus's "one night fun night" women, because that did tend to scar and frighten those who somehow remembered.
The scared woman looked into Elijah's eyes as if searching for something. She seemed to have come to her conclusion when her shivering came to a stop and her eyes softened. After a moment, she nodded her head the tiniest bit. Her lips couldn't say the words she was trying to get out despite being less afraid than she had been. Instead she simply took a deep breath and closed her eyes momentarily, attempting to calm her racing heart. She knew this was it.
Things in New Orleans, and her life, were about to change drastically.