Chapter 3, everyone! I'm doing a time skip so this is what happens after a month of living in hell for Hayley. Good news: Rebekah's in town and will soon meet Hayley, Sophie, Camille…and Marcel ;) Enjoy it and don't forget to review and tell me what you think after.


Silence filled New Orleans that morning as I stared out the window at people heading to work and vampires heading back into their houses after that long night of partying.

Ever since that day I first met Marcel, I wasn't allowed to go outside so you've realized how miserable I've been. It has been a month but the curious thing was that my baby belly was not showing…not even a little.

It was completely flat. Sophie came over to our house once in a while, asked by Elijah, to check on the baby and make sure it was okay.

Klaus has been going to every single one of Marcel's parties, drank and even spent time with some pretty vampire girls in hope to get closer to Marcel and his secrets. We haven't spoken since that day he nearly strangled me for leaving the house without permission.

I became a damn Rapunzel who was now forced to eat the food he bought and dress up in the clothes he bought for me as well, even though I had money…but couldn't get out of the house so I could spend them.

I moved towards the closet, picket out the simplest outfit as usual and headed downstairs.

I was hoping that Klaus was still out, but he wasn't. Instead, he was sitting on the couch in the living room and sketching something but I couldn't make out what it was. Elijah was pacing around the room and that was making me nervous.

As I turned to get back to my room, I heard "Good morning, Hayley!" Elijah was smiling at me as usual and Klaus looked up from what he was doing when he finally saw me.

Taking a deep breath, I went back down the stairs and entered the living room, crossing my arms, protective towards the baby I was carrying.

"Good morning!" I told Elijah, but didn't dare look at Klaus. He didn't really care. He went back to sketching and I rolled my eyes as I went to get some delicious pancakes with honey. I got two stacks and smiled to myself. I was eating for two now.

"Oh, Hayley, would you join us, please?" Elijah asked politely once I tried to head back upstairs and eat my breakfast peacefully there. I took another deep breath and went to sit on the only chair in the living room with the plate of pancakes in my hands.

"There is plenty of room on the couch." Elijah replied, confused of my choice but then shook his head when he realized that I just wanted to stay as far away from Klaus as possible.

He rubbed his forehead and said, "Never mind…but aren't you uncomfortable there?"

"Believe me when I say that I would have been ten times more uncomfortable if I were sitting over there." I said bitterly and began chewing on the pancake.

"Okay, this is as far as I can take. You two need to put aside your differences. You've got a child on the way for Heaven's Sake! I am talking to you mostly, Niklaus." I smiled, mischievously.

Klaus put down his work and said, "She is being an ungrateful and unreasonable girl. I have given her everything she needs and how she repays me? She disobeys me!"

"You know, none of this would have happened if you wouldn't have grabbed my throat and threatened me weeks ago. If you would have acted rationally and without violence, things would have worked out and we wouldn't have had anything against each other now! This is your fault!"

Klaus was about to protest when he heard the voice of a young woman from behind. "I hope I am not interrupting this family drama."

The three turned around and at the door stood a young blonde woman, 18 of age with icy blue eyes. Klaus groaned and was prepared to leave but Elijah stopped him.

I assumed that it was Rebekah, their younger sister. She dropped her bags on her floor and looked at me up and down before saying, "So, you're the werewolf girl my brother knocked up. Oh, you poor thing!"

She came over to me and hugged the hell out of me. She smiled as she pulled away and held my hand. "Don't worry! I am here to help you with whatever you need. I hope my brother hasn't been hard on you."

"You have no idea." I whispered and she finally turned around and punched Klaus in the arm.

"Are you torturing her the way you tortured me? Please remember that she is carrying your gift. The gift of a child, one you absolutely do not deserve!" Rebekah told him and Klaus' face hardened in a way I have never seen before.

"What are you doing here?" "Oh, Elijah invited me to join you. He said you need my help and I can't believe I am going to offer it to you even after you stabbed me the back…twice."

"I can't believe it either." Klaus picked up his drawings and put them away, not wanting anyone to look at them.

"Well, you better believe it. I am here to help your sorry ass, another thing you don't deserve from the person who's been by your side for more than a thousand years and have treated her poorly. I am here for Elijah's sake since he is the only person I can trust at the moment and I am here to help Hayley fit in this poor excuse of a family."

"If you are going to ruin my plan…" "Oh, no, dear brother. I can assure you that is not my plan. My plan is to make your life a living hell, and that is something you really deserve."

This was too much for me.

I went upstairs to get my old fashioned jacket and when I came downstairs, I heard the three talking about Sophie's plan to end Marcel and Rebekah telling Klaus that it was his fault this town that used to be her beloved home, was suffering.

"If you hadn't been busy going after a dumb blonde cheerleader, you would have done something about this sooner and this town wouldn't have gotten into this state. Seriously, you have become a lame hybrid, Klaus. What has happened to you? You spent your time in Mystic Falls chasing that annoying blonde who doesn't give a damn about you and took advantage of your feelings for her to obtain her boyfriend's freedom. Pathetic!"

She shouldn't have said those words. "What about you gallivanting around with a busboy? You are the pathetic one, if you ask me." At that moment, I finished climbing down the stairs and headed for the door.

Klaus was right in front of me. "Where do you think you're going?"

"To get some fresh air! I have been trapped in this freaking household for a month. I can't take it anymore!" Elijah came over to talk to me too. "Hayley, please understand that we want you to be safe. At least let Klaus or I accompany you."

"NO! I need time for myself." "You will be surrounded by vampires! Who will protect you if you're alone?" Klaus asked in a much calmer tone, remembering their little discussion from before Rebekah arrived. I pointed at myself.

"Me! I've been on my own since I was fourteen and I have been surrounded by worse creatures than vampires. As you can see, I survived. I can take care of myself. I don't need or want bodyguards! And not you two decide what I should do with my life, alright? I am not your prisoner."

"You are carrying my child."

Rebekah smiled. "I like you already. Let her go, Nik!" Klaus sighed and looked at me with a, believe it or not, a pleading look which caught me by surprise.

"Stay." He told me firmly. "I am going out! See you later." I told him, refusing to fall for his cute almost puppy face look. No way! Not letting him get the better of me.

I opened the door and left. "Go after her, sister. Watch out for her." Elijah said.

I was walking down Bourbon Street when I heard a voice behind me. "Hayley, wait up!" and just then, Rebekah speed herself next to me, almost giving me a heart attack.

"Please, don't do that again." I said, continuing to walk faster with her catching up. "Sorry. Old habits die hard." "Please, don't tell me that your brothers have asked you to keep an eye on me."

"Actually, they did and I am happy to do so. It will give both of us a chance to get to know each other better, considering that we're related now. Let's head forward to the bar."

I stopped and stared at her, "If you are going to start to act like your brothers…"

"Trust me! I am nothing like my brothers, Hayley. They're old and have no life. Nik does stupid things and spends the rest of his eternity suffering the consequences while Elijah picks up his scraps along the road. Like I said, they have no life! Me, I have always been considered the life of the family. You're going to have fun with me and you'll really start living. So, what do you say? Come with me to the bar so we'll have more time to chat."

I sighed and realized a little too late that I wasn't going to find a way to get rid of her, but why would I even try? She was nothing like Klaus and Elijah. She seemed nice and since I was really low on friends, I figured that we becoming girlfriends might not be such a bad idea.

Smiling, I nodded and she was relieved. Together, we headed to the Deveroux bar where Sophie was waiting there to serve us. "Hello, Hayley. How're you feeling?"

"Fine, I guess. This is Klaus and Elijah's sister, Rebekah." I introduced them. "Nice to meet you!" "Please don't tell me that Nik has wasted his time threatening you too." Sophie coughed up a laugh.

"Actually, yeah! He did. Not that I mind. Gumbo on the house?" she asked me and I smiled and nodded. She went right to work. What a way to save money!

"So, I heard that you came to New Orleans to find your family, correct?" Rebekah asked me.

"Yes. I've never met my parents. They abandoned me when I was just a baby. The couple who adopted me threw me out of the house when I triggered my werewolf gene and accidently killed someone. I was fourteen…and I've been on my own ever since. I found shelter in other werewolf packs but none of them could accept me for real because I wasn't their family and they weren't my family. I then realized that the best thing I could do was to find my real family and hope that they would accept me. I've been in Mystic Falls where Klaus claimed he knows something about my family being here in New Orleans after he saw my birthmark."

I showed Rebekah the moon on my shoulder. "I've always had it, but didn't realize that it is the key to finding my family." I explained. Rebekah nodded, paying close attention to what I was saying.

"So, how did you end up in Mystic Falls?" "Do you know Tyler Lockwood?" "Of course I know him. He is Niklaus' first successful hybrid."

"Yeah, well we met in the Appellations when he was trying to get rid of his sire bond to Klaus and I managed to help him. We became close friends and then he left. I left the pack I was with and after I heard that Tyler was currently living in Mystic Falls, I decided to drop in on him to see how he was doing now as a free hybrid. There, I met Caroline…it didn't go well and I met your brother, Klaus."

"Ah, please don't get me started on Caroline Forbes." "What? You can't stand her either?" Rebekah sighed and whispered, "One of these days that girl is going to have her skull bashed so hard..."

"I would rather snap her neck once more." I replied, smiling a little as I remembered the unpleasant moment in Mystic Falls where that little girl was going to ruin my plans. "What reason does she give people to actually stand her? She called me a bitch more than three times and she also refers to me as The She Devil and Bloodsucking Slut." Rebekah added.

"Look who's talking." I mumbled.

"Exactly! I tried to be nice to her and even after I saved her from Silas' compulsion which made her cut her hands, she called me a bitch. Not to mention that she has got Klaus wrapped around her little finger when she doesn't even deserve him. He's an idiot for falling for her, really."

The gumbo came and we stopped talking about Caroline or we wouldn't have been able to enjoy eating it.

"This is amazing! I've never eaten gumbo before." Rebekah was saying and my mouth dropped. "Are you serious? It's only like the best dish in the world and made by Sophie, it's to die for!"

Rebekah licked her lips and smiled when she saw a cute blonde girl, picking up the microphone on the stage the bar had and saying "Let's heat it up with Marcel!"

He walked on stage and started singing one of his favorite melodies. "The bastard." I mumbled under my breath. "Who is the blonde girl over there? She looked like…" Rebekah was asking me.

"I know. That's Camille. She's a human student who studies psychology. She's pretty nice. Don't call her Camille to her face, though. She hates it, claiming it to be a grandma's name. Call her Cami, okay? And don't worry. She is super nice and bearable unlike…you know who."

"That's good. Marcel is good too." "He is the King." I laughed.

"For now. I may not like Nik right now after the way he betrayed me, but I believe that he would make a great king and it's good that he has an heir on the way."

She smiled as she stared at my stomach. "How is he or she?" "Great! I haven't felt a kick yet, though. It's been a month and a half and I'm getting worried."

"Don't worry. You need to be patient." She handed Sophie back the empty bowls and we continue talking as Marcel sang. "So, I couldn't help but overhear Klaus talking about you and a busboy." I said and Rebekah giggled.

"He is not exactly a busboy. His name is Matt Donovan and he lives in Mystic Falls. I've given him a tour around the world in the summer which I think he enjoyed."

"Is it serious between you two?"

"I don't know. Not yet. We're just trying to get to know each other on a platonic level right now. He considers us as really good friends but I believe it will turn out to be something more. He used to date Caroline, you know."

"I wonder why they broke up." I said sarcastically and Rebekah elbowed me lightly.

"They broke up twice. First time because he found out Caroline was turned into a vampire, by Katherine Pierce." "Katherine? Boy, she sure loves ruining other people's lives." I exclaimed, amazed.

"Yeah! She's a pain in the ass. And the second time, they broke up because Caroline was starting to have strong feelings for Tyler after she helped him deal with his werewolf self."

"Wow! Lots of information dropped on you." "Well, I've lived in Mystic Falls for quite some time."

"So, Klaus doesn't like this Matt Donovan, does he?"

"No. He believes that he is not good enough for me. He claims that he is just taking advantage of my crush on him for a free trip around the world, which is not true. I can say the same for his relationship with Caroline. She is just using him and he refuses to believe that."

Rebekah filled me in on a lot of things when we finally got to the Katherine chapter. "Did you know that Katherine turned out to take the cure against vampirism?" she asked and this time, my mouth dropped all the way.

"Seriously? I thought she was dead set against it."

"Yeah, she was. But she got into this huge fight with Elena Gilbert, her doppelganger which you've heard of, and Elena shoved the cure down Katherine's throat. She is human now and she has a lot of enemies, including me, so she'd better watch out."

"And me!" "What did she do to you?"

"We met here and she promised to help me find my parents if I would act as a spy for her in Mystic Falls and get her information about the cure which I can only guess she was hoping to use it on Klaus to gain her freedom. I got her the information she needed and she didn't do anything to help me find my family, what makes it even worse is that she made one of her vampire servants come after me and kill me when she stopped finding me useful…and Klaus saved me."

I was getting so tired of everything we talked about going back to the subject Niklaus Mikaelson. "He saved you and then what?" Rebekah took a sip of her drink as she watched me blush, turning as red as a lobster.

"We had many drinks and then we…" I began but stopped and Rebekah patted my back.

"I get it. Don't worry! You don't have to say anymore. For one thing, I feel bad for you for getting involved with a person like my brother. But you are part of our family now, Hayley and we are willing to help you and your baby in any way we can." She smiled and so did I.

It was so easy to talk to Rebekah. I felt like I could confide in her, something I wasn't able to do in someone for a very long time. Like I said, I preferred to trust no one but for Elijah and Rebekah, I was willing to make an exception.

As for Klaus…we were going to go through this together with no arguments whether he liked it or not. "Nik is a good person when he wants to be, Hayley. He's just been through a lot and this pregnancy really caught him off guard. He didn't expect this."

"Do you think I did? I seem to be handling the situation much better than he is." "Give him time. Get to know him better, is my advice to you. You'd be surprised to see the real him."

Scenes flashed inside my mind that night in Mystic Falls and I remembered how caring and sweet he was and then, scenes of when we slept together also flashed in my mind and I quickly closed my eyes, trying to forget, but I somehow couldn't because for some reason, that night meant more to me than I thought.

It was the one night I felt safe, comforted and happy and I was having fun challenging him and making fun of his paintings, which for some reason he seemed to enjoy instead of feeling offended.

"Hello! Earth to Hayley!" I heard Rebekah say and I snapped out of it. "Are you okay? You spaced out on me." "Sorry." "So, will you do it?" "Do what?" "Give Klaus a chance and let me stand up to him when needed?"

She winked and I smiled. "I guess…for the baby's sake, I will give him another chance."

"Good. Just be nice to him and you'll surprise him and after some time, he'll respond the same. Trust me. I've been there and snapping at him and criticizing and yelling at him is not helping."

"I'll keep that in mind." Camille came over and said, "You're good at making friends, Hayley. Who is this?" "Cami, this is Rebekah. Rebekah, Cami, the new bartender." I was thinking about how tiring the whole process of introducing people to others is.

There would come a time for the great Rebekah and Marcel face-off, and I was not looking forward to that at all. "Cheers!" Cami called and we picked up our non-alcohol drinks and said "Cheers!" as well.

Cheers to the one big happy family we were going to be...I am of course sugarcoating it.