So this is part 2, I didn't really specify in part 1 that I was going to do a part 2 but I've had a few asks, messages and comments on different sites to do a part 2, so here it is!
It was near seconds later after they pulled apart that both the blonde and brunette heard the voice of their little girl.
"Mommy, daddy I brushed my teeth and changed into my pjs, I'm ready for bed now!" Hope shouted enthusiastically from the balcony as she started at her parents.
Pulling away slightly from klaus, Hayley looked up to her daughter and smiled "okay sweetie, go get yourself in bed, and I'll be up right away to tuck you in and read a story."
"No! I want daddy to do it, daddy makes better voices!" Hope giggled, as she remembered the few times her father would make the voices of the character sound silly and funny, even the bad guys!
Smirking toward Hayley, klaus raised his head up to see the smaller brunette better as he spoke back.
"I'll be right behind you my love." He says softly, watching as his daughter happily skips from the balcony back to her bedroom.
Sighing, klaus turned back to Hayley. Just as she was about to speak, he refused to let her do so by capturing her lips with his Ina soft kiss. Cutting her off completely as she kissed back.
Not even a second later, the warmth had gone from her lips, his exit, completely noticed but the woman. Bringing her small hands to her mouth, she ran her fingers ghostly over the top of them, remembering what it had felt like to kiss him.
Leaning back a little to compose herself, Hayley's back hit the bar. Turning her head she glanced back down at the drawing. Sighing, as she reminded herself that she could really fall for him, well, has fallen for him.
Pushing herself away from the wooded bar, Hayley's legs carried her up the stairs slowly, she smiled genuinely as she walked through the hallways of the compound, following the voice of, what she could only imagine sounded like a small grumpy character from one of hopes books.
"Noooo! You have defeated me!" Giggles upon giggles bounced of the walls and around the corridors and hope laughed at her fathers impersonation.
As she got closer to hopes room, Klaus's voice became louder, and funnier, she admits to herself. Stopping at he doorframe she crosses her arms and legs and rests her head on the wood, surrounding the door. Watching the father and daughter bond even more over hopes favourite book.
"The beautiful queen and the lovely princess were saved, the king had done everyone in his power to save them, and he did. And then The king, queen and their little princess lived happily ever after! The end." Smiling as he watched his daughter yawn, klaus sat up from the side of the bed, where he had perched, careful not to startle the small girl that had curled herself up on him.
Placing the book down on her bedside table, klaus reached out and turned off the lamp, that had just enough power to make the room glow In a low golden light. He then reached for hopes purple bed cover and pulled it up a little further to her chin, to make sure she kept warm.
Bending down, klaus place a small kiss on her forehead, kissing her goodnight.
"Good night."
Yawning one more time, hope whispered back.
"Daddy, would you so the same as the king and save me if a bad guy kidnapped me?" His eyes widened a little, as he listened to his daughter speak, for a second she sounded so grown up.
"I will always protect you sweetheart, and If an evil troll tried to take you and your mother away, he'd regret it for the rest of his life." He smiled at her, trying to tell her as gently as possible as to not frighten her, that he will protect her forever.
"Okay daddy, goodnight, I love you"
"I love you too my littlest wolf."
Swivelling away from the sleeping child. he lays his eyes upon the exquisite woman stood in the doorway. He starts to make his way toward her. Stopping at the door from where she was rested, he placed a hand on her arm and whispered into her ear.
"Come with me, there's something I want to show you."
Pulling her head back slightly, she looks into his blue orbs and nods. As he quietly walks past her, his hand still attached to her arm moves further down her forearm, until the tips of his fingers reach hers. Ghosting for a second, he slowly clasped his fingers with hers, tightly, pulling her with him as he walked through the corridors making his way to his bedroom.
Once they arrived, their hands unclasped. Klaus walked to his bed, bent down and began fiddling with the floorboards. Curiously Hayley glided around the bed, to see what the blonde was doing.
He pulled the floorboard up, then a second and third one, till the hole in the floor revealed a small space big enough to fill with a few things. To klaus, it was big enough to fill with everything he held dear to himself.
As he reached down into the hole to grab something, Hayley moved a little closer, wonder filling her and she anticipated the reveal of what klaus was going to pull out.
Her green eyes widened as she recognised the object klaus was pulling out.
A painting.
The, painting.
A very twisted painting.
The only painting she had liked, loved, the night they first slept together. Her favourite painting.
After he removed the painting completely from under the floor, his feet carried him to the bottom of the bed, where a chest was placed, and he rested the painting down onto it, displaying it for them both to admire.
Following him around the bed, Hayley stood herself right next to him as they both gazed upon the twisted piece.
"I want you to have it."
Whipping her head around to look at him with widened eyes, she stutters as she tried to tell him no. It's not that she didn't want it, but klaus had kept this painting hidden, with things he hold close to his heart. It meant s lot to him, she knew it did, so why would he want to give it to her?
"I want you to have it Because if it wasn't for this painting, if it wasn't for you liking it, if it wasn't for us bonding together over how lonely it made us feel, then I wouldn't have hope, or you."
As klaus spoke with so much emotion in his voice, he turned slightly, away from the painting, to lay his Baby blue eyes upon Hayley.
"Hayley, if it wasn't for this painting, or for you, my life would not be worth living."
Meeting his eyes with hers, she moved closer to him as he spoke again.
"I thought of this painting everyday when I was behind that wall because it reminded me of what you gave to me, my family back, our daughter, our own family, everything I had ever dreamed of when I was human. It gave me hope that I'd see you and hope again.
Hayley, you gave me the ability to love someone unconditionally... You."
Falling witness to the tear that had escaped Klaus's eye, Hayley reached up with her hands and gently rested them on his cheeks, caressing her thumb over the left one as she wiped away the stray water, and left a streak that shined in the light.
Signing, Hayley pulled him into her, resting her forehead against him as she felt her own eyes start to blur with water.
"If it wasn't for that painting, neither of us would have what we have now. That painting, klaus, is worth more to me than you could ever imagine. Thank you." She choked out as the water drops overflowed from her eyes and streamed down her cheeks.
Pulling him in for a kiss, Hayley carefully pressed her pink lips against his, bending her head back slightly as he slightly towered over her.
Returning the kiss, the blonde smiled as he remembered that this was the mother of his child, a woman he had hidden his feelings about her from, even hidden them from himself.
Separating their lips, klaus rests his head against Hayley's once again, using her to stabilise himself.
"Stay with me, tonight."
"Yes." She whispered with absolutely no hesitation, a smile spreading across her face as she replied.
"There's something that I want to say, I've wanted to say it for a very long time but I'm... I dont... it feels impossible to say, even now, when your stood right in front of me, but I need to say it, i need to, I made stupid desicion in the past and not telling you was one of them, I've waited too long." Klaus spoke with not one breathe to interrupt him, from saying what he has wanted to say for a very long time.
"Hayley Marshall, my little wolf... I love you."
"I love you too Klaus Mikaelson."
And once again they relished in a long soothing kiss, that lead them to the bed where all they did was talk to each other about theirselves, their secrets that no one knew but them, they confided into the other with thoughts and declarations , and eventually slept, with Hayley's head rested on Klaus's chest, and his hand wrapped around her waist as he held her closer to himself, Promising to never let her go again.