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Chapter 3
Klaus's POV
Elijah was writing a different story this time, at least that's what he thought. Klaus didn't really care though. He was sitting in the writer's room along with his brother, his senior but close friend, Marcel, other writers and a bunch of associates with whom he had had very little interactions. Elijah was brainstorming ideas along with the other guys and was simultaneously wondering aloud how he was picturing directing this movie. Klaus looked at Marcel and fake yawned but Marcel shook his head, showing that he disapproved of his silly behaviour. Klaus was in his own world and after what seemed like hours, the meeting was finally over and everybody left one by one. Marcel looked at Klaus and told him that he will see Klaus later and Klaus just nodded. He stood up to leave but not before he heard a voice calling him.
"Niklaus," Klaus turned around to see Elijah calling him. He didn't realize that Elijah was still there. "Please follow me to my office, brother. I need to have a word with you." Klaus bunched his eyebrows together in confusion but followed his brother without saying a word. He guessed it was probably something to do with the day before.
When they got to the office, Elijah went behind the desk and sat down in his black, rotating chair and put his feet on the desk. Klaus just stood there looking around the office awkwardly with his red file in his hand.
"Do you have the contracts that I asked you to bring signed by the camera committee?" Elijah asked. Klaus nodded and opened his file, took out the four contracts and put it on the desk in front of Elijah. "Hmm. Thank you, Niklaus," said Elijah and remained quiet. Klaus still felt awkward and turned around to leave but Elijah's voice stopped him again.
"Niklaus, I'm not done with you," His voice seemed annoyed. Klaus rolled his eyes and turned back to Elijah. "Oh, what is it now?" He said, frustrated. Elijah stood up and walked towards Klaus, and when he did, Klaus noticed that Elijah seemed nervous.
"I have some big news. It really big," Klaus's expressions went from blank to confused in a matter of seconds. What could this possibly be now? He stood silently waiting for his brother to continue. Elijah took a deep breath, closed his eyes and sighed.
"I'm getting married!" Elijah said and with a big smile and Klaus just stared at him wide eyed, mouth hanging a little. He was still processing the information that he received. But then his expression turned into a big smile and he hugged his brother. "Oh. My God. Congratulations brother! When did you propose to Kat?" Katherine Pierce was going to become his sister-in-law. Klaus was very fond of her and they got along very well compared to all the other girlfriends that Elijah once had. He was truly happy for his brother.
"I proposed last night when I took her out for a moonlight picnic. The moment she said yes was the happiest moment of my life," Elijah said with a shy smile. Klaus rolled his eyes at how romantic his brother was but smirked at placed a hand on Elijah's shoulder. "Well at least now Kitty Kat is finally a part of the family." Elijah smiled and looked at his brother.
"You know you should settle down too, brother, trust me you'll –"
"Don't Elijah," Klaus's face turned angry at his brother's words. "I thought I made this clear ages ago. You DON'T get to make me commit to a relationship. I'm not settling for anyone and I probably never will," said Klaus. He wanted to be happy for his brother right now but Elijah wasn't making it easy. He had explained to his brother many times before that his life with women was never his business. "Now is there something else you need to tell me, or can I leave?" Klaus saw Elijah sigh and knew he was about to answer but his newest associate, Josh, came knocking into the office and they both turned to face him. "Hey Elijah, the art department wants to know if you hired a costume designer and a prop master."
"Yes I have, Josh. Send our art director here," Elijah said and Josh left. He then turned to Klaus. "Actually Niklaus there is something else I needed to tell you. You are in charge of the prop department now." Klaus looked shocked and confused for the third time that day. He did not expect this change in job. "Wait… What? No! Then who's going to be you're assistant?"
"Sorry Niklaus, but we have interns here and they need a chance at doing you're old job. Davina Claire is my new assistant manager." Klaus sighed and closed his eyes. Sometimes his brother can be very annoying.
"You're going to have to meet the new art director. She's lovely and I hope you'll get along with her just as well as we all have." Elijah said, while walking back behind his desk and sitting down. "Speaking of…"
Klaus noticed that his brother's eyes were then averted from his and were looking towards the door. He heard footsteps and turned around to see someone he did not expect to see walk through that door. His eyes widened in shock. Brown hair, glossy pink lips, this time wearing skinny jeans and a tank top. What was he supposed to say? Or even think? And for the millionth time that day, he was confused as ever. What the…? "Brother meet Hayley Marshall, our new art director for this movie. Hayley, meet–"
"– Klaus, yes I know I met him at the movies yesterday," She said slightly smirking. That's when he realized that she might have actually known all along that she would meet him at work, since he told her that he worked for Elijah. That would explain her lack of surprise seeing him there, "and I have to say Elijah, he didn't really speak of you fondly," she said smirking again. The nerve this woman has! Klaus thought to himself and narrowed his eyes at her. "Oh really? Hmm," He looked at Elijah who was giving him a whale face. Elijah got up from his chair and leant on the desk in front of Klaus, with his hands in his pockets. "Well I hope while he works with you he'll actually learn some manners." Klaus growled at his brother and looked back at Hayley, shooting her daggers. She just looked at him and gave him a fake innocent smile and walked away after bidding his brother a good day. He turned back to Elijah who looked at him and said, "Well go on then, not a lot of time to waste now," he rolled his eyes at Elijah, who got back to texting Kat, and walked out of his office to go see Marcel.
Marcel's POV
Marcel was throwing and catching one of the props in his office when Klaus walked in and sat down on one of the sofas, with a face that looked like it was going to burst out any second.
"What's up man? Why so serious," He said trying to imitate the joker and make his buddy laugh but the way Klaus was looking at him made him fake surrender by putting his hands in the sky. "Ok, ok, what's gotten you all tied up in a tizzy?" He said sitting down in his brown leather chair. His voice was filled with concern because at the end of the day Klaus would always be his best friend and they always came to each other when they had problems.
Klaus put his head in his hands and rubbed his eyes. "The newbie she devil. That's my problem." He said looking around to see if the so called 'She Devil' was around, marcel assumed. He was still confuse about who Klaus was talking about.
"Who, Davina? Because she took away your position?" He asked but Klaus just shook his head no. "Then who you talkin' about?" Klaus lifted his head from his hands and looked up at him with an obvious look. "Hayley." Marcel looked surprised when he heard this. He'd met Hayley and she was really nice to everybody. He wondered what could have gotten Klaus to dislike her since he couldn't think of any reasons.
"Hayley Marshall? The art director?" Klaus nodded with a look as if he was thinking something, in his own world. "Nah man! She was super nice! Kinda hot too," That seemed to snap Klaus out of his thoughts, Marcel noticed and chuckled. Then Klaus spoke up.
"Hmm, she is a pretty little thing, but you know, out of all the hot woman I've met she's the meanest of them all," Klaus said and Marcel just laughed. Out of all the woman in Klaus's life, he'd known only one woman who actually bossed Klaus around, was his sister, Rebekah. Thinking of her made him sad. He really missed her because back in the day, before him, Elijah and Klaus moved away from London, Rebekah and him used to be a couple. Family problems aroused and they couldn't be together anymore. He shook his head before any of these thoughts ruined his mood. He looks at Klaus and smirked.
"Well, I'll ask you why you're acting this weird later. But speaking of the so called she devil, look to your left, she's heading to her office," he said to Klaus who immediately turned his head to the direction in which Marcel was pointing. Marcel noticed him think for a moment and then looked up at him. "I think I should confront her, shouldn't I?" Marcel chuckled and nodded. "Well go on, talk to her. Get your problems sorted out because a) she's actually really nice and b) You're going to have to work with her, so…. I think it kinda speaks for itself." Klaus growled and sighed at the same time making it hard for Marcel to figure out what Klaus was thinking then. He got up to leave to Hayley's office. Completely off topic, he thought it was cute that Hayley had Klaus all metaphorically tied up. He chuckled at the thought and got back to work.
Hayley's POV
Hayley walked into her office completely focussed on her work and started arranging all her files in her new office cabinets. She heard someone come into her office. She turned to see Josh walking towards her with a two huge files. He was struggling to hold them up so she leant him a hand in carrying them to her desk.
"Thanks. The first file, the blue one, is the prop list. Now, Elijah says that its entirely yours and your crew's decisions on what the object specified in the list can look like as long as every item on the list is available on set for immediate use," Josh said, pointing towards the blue file. It was huge and Hayley knew she was going to have to start getting them as soon as possible. She opened the file to see an index of every scene in the movie. She turned to one of the pages and saw a 3 page long list pf items needed for the scene. Boy! Was she going to have a lot of work! But she didn't care, this was her dream and she was going to make it the most amazing movie set Elijah and everyone had ever laid eyes on. She nodded and looked to Josh, waiting for him to continue. He pointed to the green file which was slightly smaller. Slightly.
"Now this here, is the design file. The 'magic book' as everyone calls it. It contains graphical paper, and ruled paper and other sorts of papers just for you to design the spectacular sets. Elijah is excited to see what you come up with. You can work on it yourself or you could get help, entirely your choice." Josh said and all this made Hayley extremely excited to be there. People like Josh were going to make her time there very work-friendly. All of a sudden someone else knocked on the front door and Josh and Hayley turned around to see him again. Her smile faded and she glared at him, crossing her arms over her chest. He looked at her back with the same expressions.
"Oh Hayley, and Klaus here will be helping you with whatever you need, he's your new assistant. I'll see you later," Josh said with a smile. Hayley smiled back at him as he left and then turned back to look at Klaus. She was not happy to see him here. He had his hands in his pockets and she was just waiting for him to say something. He glared at her for a couple of seconds before he spoke.
"You just loved that didn't you? Complaining about me? What are you, five? What is this, high school, that you have tell me off to –" he started yelling but Hayley wouldn't let him do that so she interrupted him before he could continue.
Klaus's POV
Hayley didn't let him finish. She stopped him in the middle of his rant and raised her voice, as to make her message loud and clear.
"Listen up, Mikaelson. You said enough yesterday and a lot of rude comments at the movies. But I didn't say anything. I'm not going to let you continue that around here. I'm your senior now, so whatever I tell you to do, you're going to do, got it?" she said getting close to him and pointing a finger at his chest. He looked down at the finger and looked back at her, still shooting her daggers. Suddenly, she fake smiled and took back her finger from his chest, and took a step back. She turned around and walked to her desk to get a bunch of papers. Once she found them she walked towards him and shoved them at his chest.
"Now go those signed by everyone in the art department. You're wasting precious time," She said sternly. Klaus clenched his jaw but controlled himself from yelling out. He didn't move from his spot and looked at the papers. There were, to him what looked like twelve papers. He looked back up when he heard her voice.
"What are you still doing here? I thought I gave you work to do. I need those signatures before today afternoon. So, chop-chop, get your ass out of my office and get working," She said with that annoying smile and turned back to do her own work. He walked out of the office but not before slamming her office door shut. That smile. He hated that smile, it only meant trouble for him. She wanted to play games? He could play this game. His new life mission was to annoy the hell out of Hayley Marshall in hopes to get out of her little kingdom. Hayley 0, Klaus 0. This should be interesting. He thought to himself as he started asking crew members to sign the papers.
And that's that! Don't worry, from this point there's going to be lots of klayley scenes. They will be bickering though but you'll slowly start to see their FRIENDSHIP a few chapters later. They will be only friends for a while before all the romance ;) pls keep all the amazing reviews coming! :) Till next time! which I hope is soon... Also if anyone can be kind enough to make a cover picture for this story i would really appreciate it! pls PM me if you are interested :)
