Klaus & Hayley + Rebekah
AN: AU-ish, Haylijah is a canon relationship in this one, only Hayley is sneaking around with Klaus behind his back and Rebekah knows about it. On tumblr this one is called I Knew It, but I decided to change the title to go along with my routine of naming things after song lyrics. Enjoy!
Rebekah knew the moment she met the hazel eyed brunette carrying her brother's child that she would infiltrate his heart. Maybe it was the feistiness behind her voice the first time she spoke, or maybe it was the way she stared her down fearlessly, or maybe it was the way she walked around her home as if she'd always belonged there. She knew there was something about the wolf girl's soul that was familiar to her, too familiar, and the moment she realized why that was so she knew what would happen. The first day she knew, it was as inevitable as the sun rising in the east. Even when they seemed to hate each other she knew, she knew all too where herself how thin the line between loving Klaus and hating klaus was and the more she saw drift towards the hate side of that line, the more she knew that eventually the pretty little wolf would find herself being pulled down to the other side so furiously she would think gravity had a personal vendetta against her.
When Hayley started her relationship, or whatever it is they chose to call their little infatuation with each other, she thought maybe she had pegged her wrong. Maybe she was projecting, or maybe she didn't know her brothers nor Hayley the way she fought she did, but then the glances started. What used to be looks of annoyance on Hayley's end turned into something else, something with more affection and care behind it. Klaus used to avoid Hayley's eyes like her pupils were death themselves. That changed as well, replaced by actively seeking out those same pupils any chance he got as if he didn't look at her he might loose every memory of her he has. Sometimes the glances were quick, especially early on. They would come and go so fast even the most trained eyes would miss it, but not her's she knew the iris's of Klaus's deep blue eyes too well to not notice when they landed where his heart secretly resides and she knew they would land on Hayley before he probably did. And she knew that once they did there was no stopping them from etching the intricacies of his soul into hers, especially when her own intricacies match his like they were both etched simultaneously. Nothing gave them away more then the way their eyes would pretend to not know each other when Elijah was around. They way they would rather have them burned by the sun than have them find each other in his presence.
Then there was the touching. The invasion of space Klaus liked to do when he felt something more than what his mouth was willing to betray. His body has never had a problem stabbing him in the back and it often did every time she saw him around Hayley. It was in the way he always ended up somehow leaning closer to her lips,as if being pulled by a magnet, when he spoke to her during even the briefest conversations; and it was in the he way Hayley's breathe would hitch and her lips would part when he got a little too close. Hayley seemed to always find a way to touch his hands. Even the shortest interaction between them managed to warrant at least her fingertips grazing his. They think no one noticed the way their fingers tangoed with each other one night as they shared a "innocent" dance at a faction party, but she noticed. She noticed they way his fingers grazed the back of her hand before interlocking themselves in between hers. She noticed the way Hayley rubbed the side of his index finger with her thumb while he breathed into her neck, and the way his thumb drew circles into her palm whenever he brought her hips just an inch closer to his.
And the whispering, the showing up at dinner with almost synchronized steps but from seemingly different directions. The verbally insulting each other in front of people, especially Elijah, while their eyes danced and their heartbeats skipped. Sometimes she thought about it all being in her head, but there were somethings she didn't have to see to know. She could feel it as well. She felt his heart drifting from hers. He became less possessive of her. He no longer cared as much about what she did or rather who she did. His cheek kisses no longer lingered for 3 seconds too long, instead they ended 2 seconds too fast. She could feel the velcro attached to his heart be slowly being ripped away from the piece attached to hers.
However no stolen glance or subtle touch convinced her more than the smiles. The smile on Hayley's face as she looked at her cellphone like her lover just texted her, only Elijah's phone would never be the one vibrating with new messages. That smile didn't even compare to the smiles she saw when she walked in to the study one afternoon. Klaus, arms folded and eyes steady, was looking down at her while leaning on his bookcase with a smile that could made even the devil himself melt. She hadn't seen that smile since they were innocent children and the only smiles that could even compare to it were the ones he exchanged with her over the centuries. Hayley's was no different. Her lips curled up and her eyes glistened while she looked up at him from where she was seated with a crinkle in her nose. Hayley never managed to display that kind of joy with her more nobler brother. After that day Rebekah knew. She didn't know if they spent obscure hours with their lips locked and their bodies intertwined but one thing was for sure, the muscle fibers of their hearts were weaved together, and they were weaved so tightly and intricately they wouldn't be able to find their way through the maze to let go even if they tried.
Poor Elijah she thought sometimes. He had no idea her never really had Hayley's heart, it always belonged to Klaus, and now there was no prying it away from him, not that Hayley wished for such a thing. She hate to think about the hurt her brother would feel when Hayley eventually let go of her fantasy and surrendered to her reality with Klaus. Sometimes she really did wish it was pure conjecture on her part so she wouldn't have to witness the fallout, but as she kept walking closer and closer to the moans echoing through her home any doubt about Klaus and Hayley's love affair were erased.
See she wasn't supposed to be home, no one was, not even them. Hayley had told Elijah she was spending the weekend out in the bayou with her family. Usually that wouldn't be a good enough cover but Elijah just so happened to have faction business a town over for the night and too preoccupied for the following days to check up on her. Klaus had told everyone that he would be going compel himself a coveted piece of modern art from a gallery out in Houston for the weekend. She herself was supposed to be away for a mini vacation with a certain newly single Salvatore brother. Yet here she was, inching closer and closer to the sounds coming from her Klaus's art studio. At first when she walked in she thought maybe just maybe it wasn't them, that maybe someone else decided to use their home while they were away, but then she saw a henley draping the staircase. She thought maybe Klaus had taken up with another witch since he couldn't have Hayley, only she found the blouse she loaned Hayley two days ago and a familiar pair of jeans scattered along the stairs. She knew it is all she could say, she knew it.
She waited outside the door until she didn't hear the noises anymore. She didn't want to walk in on them during their intimate act, no that's not why she was up there at all. She needed to see them after their love making because that was when the true intimacy began, that's what would tell their story. Opening the door was like cracking open a book that you were almost done with. Rebekah already knew what the majority of the pages read. The glances, the touches, the whispers, and the smiles, they already filled up all the chapters and when she saw Hayley with her hair draped across his torso and her bare legs tangled up in sheets while she played with his fingers. When she saw Klaus smiling down at her, kissing the back of her hand before laying a tender kiss on her forehead, the missing chapter was filled in. "I bloody knew it" was all she said to a startled Hayley and Klaus. They only stared back at her with guilty eyes, they supposed their secret couldn't stay a secrect forever.