Here I am! First thing THANK YOU so much to each one of you thanks for the lovely reviews! I really love to read what you think! And I'm loving that my bad English is not an obstacle for all of you to read this! This chapter will be a little bit on Hayley mind… There are many quotes from TVD episode 4x16 and one from season 2 guessing which episode? :P ! And very important: look at the paint that Hayley liked in 4x16 of TVD is really the true point of this chapter! It will be important! Let me know what you think! (fan art with tha paint for this chapter is here: (youwerethereforme tumblr) post/74659037555/unconditional-love-klayley-au-after-1x08-to )

Chapter 3: The paint

I hope that you catch me 'cause I'm already falling
I'll never let our love get so close

That night, too many things had happened and that Klaus was relieving them in his minds. How could anything be out of his hand? In his mind something was changing. He had tasted joy for a very short time in the woods he shared joy feeling his child. And a moment after he realized that this was the real threat to everything he dreamed of becoming. He didn't want it. He shouldn't. He couldn't."Be all that your father was not for you." There was only one thing he could do. Or all would be lost.

"When shall we go?" The impatience of Rebekah awoke Elijah from his thoughts. They had taken back Hayley, in the house at the center of the district of New Orleans; many hours had passed since they found her alone in the woods.
"Rebekah, we won't go away leaving Hayley in the hands of these vampires so fickle as insignificant. We'll wait for Niklaus's returns. "
"Have you lost your mind? Nik does not want us here!"Rebekah remembered the words of his brother when he had invited them to rot in the old house of the governor.
"I don't care. If you want to go, Go ahead. I will stay here. Hayley can't be alone. "Elijah sighed, staring at the door of the room of the young girl wolf.

Hayley hadn't said a single word ,not eaten or sleep , it happened before to her to pass sleepless nights due to pregnancy but this time she felt the problem was coming from her head. She couldn't stop thinking about what had happened in the woods with Klaus. She was waiting for him to come back. She wanted to see him back. What she had said to him… her request…she hoped to see soon if there was hope for them to cooperate for their child . But every time she saw a step forward something happened and… here he was: the Klaus she was afraid. There was a small part of him ...who scared her. She lay in bed. The dawn was coming soon, and for the whole night Klaus was out. It was not the first time that happened since they forcibly shared the same roof, but inside she was worried. Worried about what would happen now. she had already warned that concern once, when she found herself in front of Klaus for the first time after the news of the child. She didn't know what to expect but a part of her had hoped for a different reaction. The memory of the night to the cemetery would never stop hurting her.

After their night together, every day spent in New Orleans ended in the same way for her: remembering those moments because there was something in that game with kisses, caresses, embraces, in that intense desire to let go and forget everything and everyone. But the thing that tore her inside is that for a second in those arms she had experienced a new feeling: home. "You're so stupid,Hayley." she wiped a tear. And she tried try to remember all the horrible things done by Klaus ... but all that came to her mind was him… going away in the woods. His outline.
She closed her eyes and was able to sleep for a few hours.

Hayley woke up feeling sick,nausea. Just like any pregnant woman she thought going to the bathroom . It had happened often but when it happened she felt almost happy, all prophesied about her child and instead it was completely normal, like any other pregnancy. When she left the room, stared for a moment to the chair where Klaus had been watching over her for the previous nights .
Empty.

She wanted to stop hearing that absurd desire to see him. What's wrong with me? shee took a pair of jeans, a shirt and a sweater quickly got dressed and went out. She hated that house. Vampires strangers everywhere. And no sign of Klaus. Marcel saw her pass through the inner courtyard of the house and stared at her for a long time. With her surprise she found Elijah.

" It's important that you take care of yourself. " He handed her breakfast smiling. He would never ceased to take care of her?She thought and smiled. "Are you okay?" Hayley drank the glass of juice.
"I don't think it's a good idea that you're here. Klaus won't be happy to see you." Elijah sighed.
"My brother is quite unattainable at the moment. He hasn't returned. I'll wait.I have to talk to him." Without knowing Elijah answered one of the questions of Hayley. He didn't come back. It was so stupid to think that the reason was their conversation the night before … probably he was drunk in a bar in New Orleans. Decidedly,she told herself . It was only then that he noticed the paint behind Elijah. The vampire looked at her and noticed how tired and thoughtful she was and it wasn't the Hayley that he had left the day before the return from the bayou. Hayley almost blanched . Elijah saw her and grabbed her arm and the glass. The paint. it was at the center of the room on the pedestal, that paint.
" Hayley, what happens? " she couldn't talk because he had never expected to see it again . Elijah try to seat her but she freed herself from his grip.
"I have to get out of this place." she ran away. She felt suffocated by the memories, the memory of that night, his hands , his breath on her breast, his kisses excited by the desire she had felt that night. She found herself crying and running, she had to be crazy , or perhaps like he read times ago it was the hormones. Damned stupid pregnancy hormones. But it was easy to blame them. She arrived in the middle of the French Quarter and sat down on a bench , the same bench where months before she was about to drink the wolfsbane to abort.
He kept it.

"you know why I like that painting?"
"perhaps it was because it allowed you to see into my deep, wounded soul"
"I saw how twisted it really is. And maybe I can relate"
"So what's it gonna be? Going… or staying?"
"You like to be in control, you told me"

A flood of memories swept over her. Since she was 14 years,no one had ever protected her, she had always been alone. Looking for a family. But that night she was almost killed by Katerina when he came to help her. Not for her , but to use her to get to his enemy. But when she looked at that paint she understood. Klaus had given her shoulders the night before. Just as the man in the painting. He did not want her to see his true face. When he had been kind to her like the night before she had never seen his face .

She ran away too, the world had turned its back on her and she had done the same for so many times but that night Klaus had made her enter his house . And when she could choose to be free, she had entrusted to him for the next move. It was not the alcohol, and it was not his gaze was the only idea that for once someone chooses for her. For once could afford to be complacent .

"Going… or staying?"

He didn't told her to stay, he had grasped, grip, had invaded her with his twisted soul . His arms had close so loud that it hurt , but she had let her guard down . She felt free. In the first time that another had chosen for her , she felt relieved.
For a few moments they had become one tormented soul. She knew that it was not the same for him but seeing that paint had overwhelmed her.

"Painting is a metaphor for control. Every choice is mine… The canvas, the color. As a child, I had neither a sense of the world nor my place in it, but art taught me that one's vision can be achieved with sheer force of will. The same is true of life, provided one refuses to let anything stand in one's way"

The night before she had asked Klaus to choose whether to stand next to them to be a better father or continue to do the king of New Orleans. Not allowed him to control his actions. She had asked him to choose the place to have the child's life. Hayley hoped in his heart to see Klaus back. She didn't know which version of him would see and she hated herself for thinking he was doing. The first time he heard the baby's heart he ordered to kill her . The first time the child had kicked he ran away . She was scared . It would have been always like that with him? She was wrong she should not expect anything, Klaus was not the kind of vampire that could care and even if for a few moments she believed for a chance to see him caring for them it was time to return to reality.

Some time passed before Elijah found Hayley , he sat on the bench next to her.
"I know a lot of things but I admit that your behavior begins to be very strange. Niklaus committed other errors with you?" he adjusted his jacket talking to her.
"Nothing to do with your brother.I was wrong."
"What do you mean?"
"Everything."
"Hayley? It's about the baby?"Hayley nearly became angry. The pregnant girl. Why is everything always had to be linked to the child? She was hurt. Not her baby.
"I'm stuck in a city where being a wolf is a crime. I would have to look for my family, but guess what? I carry a new one in my womb." smiled sarcastically. "Pregnant by a hybrid that changes his mind every now who has spent the last 1000 years to alienate anyone who wanted to love him..." Hayley regretted saying it. "What will happen to my baby?"The voice broken by sobs. Elijah went up, taking her hand.

"We'll take care of you. With or without Niklaus. I promised to protect your baby. "Hayley sobbed.

With or without Niklaus.

"Do you really think this is enough?But what will become of me once the miraculous baby that everybody want, will be born? "
"We will protect the mother of that child because it is part of our family." The simplicity of Elijah's answer shocked Hayley.
"I'm much more than the mother of this child, Elijah. Much more. I believed for a few days in this miracle that you wanted to see, a beautiful happy family. But I don't believe anymore."
"What happened in the woods, Hayley? You can tell me. "Hayley wiped the tears away and said nothing. A few minutes passed in silence. "I'll take you home, you need to rest and slept you seem distraught."
Hayley not objected and followed him.

She slept for 16 hours. She was really exhausted from all that had passed, and everything felt inside her. When she awoke the next morning there was no sign of Klaus , she knew Elijash was looking for him and Rebekah was there to be her babysitter.
"How is my little niece today? " she said, smiling .
"We needed to sleep for a whole day. " Hayley was more peaceful sleep had kept away certain thoughts.
"Good. You almost made Elijah foolm he said you were upset. "
"Your brother is hyper protective you know. I'm not complaining but ... "speaking with Rebekah she came close to the paint in the middle of the room. "I needed to be alone. "
"You like this Nik's paint? " Hayley turned around and smiled at her. No one knew what it meant for her.
"I believe that your niece has just kicked…" Rebekah lit up and went near to Hayley asked permission to lay her hand on her belly. And she felt the baby.
" Strong as a Mikaleson I like her. "
"I claim the genes of the mother ... even though I don't know what name they may have…." Her voice became sad.

"You'll find your family 'll see." Hayley appreciated the sincere response from Rebekah.
"Speaking of family... your brother... not the one that promises the world... the other... " Rebekah stared Hayley looked down.
"It's still out there plotting some kind of plan. It amazes me that Marcel did not know where it is..."
"What do you mean ? " Rebekah did not have time to respond... Marcel appeared in the room. Hayley felt a sort of nuisance, she knew that he was responsible for the curse that had been launched on her clan of wolves.
"I guess you've been the last to see Klaus, there is a city to govern and have no time to lose, or maybe he is already tired to be the king." his tone was irritating.
"Leave her alone." Rebekah stepped in front of him.
"Why would I ever know what Klaus is doing?" Hayley seemed annoyed.
"You're the mommy should. " she looked at it for a long time . "The only reason you're still here is because I have sworn to Klaus not to hurt you, but you have no idea how much I hate the smell of a wolf in my town." Hayley took a step toward him.

"Oh you have no idea how this wolf wants to see you away from this city. Forever. And I will find a way to do it. You will pay for what you did to the Midnight Clan! You will pay for that curse you put on them!"Marcel stopped not because of the swagger of Hayley, secure by protection of the originals, but because she knew about the curse.
"ENOUGH!" Hayley would have recognized that voice above all. He was back.
He put himself in front of Marcel, challenging him.
"I'm sure we have many business to take care of so why do not you start to go, Mommy wolf does not concern you."
"You worry too much for someone who says he doesn't care about her." Rebekah took Marcel from the arm and they went out together.

He was back.

He was there.

Hayley took a step toward him smiling. After nearly two days, when she had thought about everything.

"I was ..." but when he turned to look at her, Klaus's eyes froze Hayley.
"Let me be clear: don't you dare ever talk about your clan of wolves with Marcel. Don't you dare threaten him with future repercussions, what were you thinking?" Hayley was awed by his tone of voice.
"I know…I should stay away from him ..."
"You have to stay away from anyone, you're here for my will and you won't do stupid or meaningless things ... until the baby's birth." He was in front of her and yet seemed far away. It was not like the other night, he was different.
"And after the birth?" she came to him Hayley could feel his breath on her cheek; Her eyes full of tears.

There was a long silence.

"I guess you'll choose If I'll live or die."Hayley tried not to let the tears fall. How could she have been so stupid as to have worried about him .
"I will not allow anyone to stand in my way."
Hayley had fought many battles in her short life as a wolf but no scratch , no bite had hurt her so much as that sentence. She was the obstacle. She felt faint but she couldn't afford her body to leave her at that moment. She stood with her mouth open petrified .
She saw him. The light shone on his face. His eyes. At the end a tear fell on her face.
"Are we done here? " Klaus was cynical and his voice flat. Hayley felt the baby kicking in her belly and she remembered that this was the most important thing. She knew that he had heard the kick too. But she left without saying a word.
The hand of Klaus stood slightly to the space occupied until a few moments before by Hayley. But his fingers clutched nothing.

"Love is a vampire's greatest weakness, and we are not weak, Elijah."

He had told it to Elijah nearly 700 years ago. And still it was true.
Klaus turned around and placed the paint that was slightly shifted from the pedestal. Placed it carefully. He stared at it for a long time.

"I saw how twisted it really is. And maybe I can relate"

She understood too much and this was her punishment.

N/A: I know its a sad chapter It will get better, I promise! But we all know Klaus and before Klayley I want to explore this two character who are so amazing specially Klaus! I want to show a slow process of Klaus emotions and I know it's really hard but I'm doing my best! It seems all about Hayley but If you read carefully this chapter is all about Klaus. He is the turning point for me. And you probably are not liking this coldness with Hayley but I think it's right for now. The paint will be central again… i don't know If you realized it but in The Originals they show it in the backgroud really often! And it is in Klaus living room! You will find out soon where Klaus was in these 2 days away… when he basically run from a chance to a good emotion. Let me know what you think *pretty please* I really want to know If you liked my choices! Next Chapter I will try to put some pieces of The Originals Episodes 1x09/1x10… Bye!