Hey guys! i was a bit behind on writing this story, but have finished a few chapters! so here's chapter 2! hope you like it :)

THIS CHAPTER: Introduction to the rest of the Mikaelson family. Hayley and Klaus talk at the PTC. Hayley gets a chance to express her talents. The Mikaelson family have a dinner


Chapter 2

Klaus and just finished talking to Mitchell's parents and ticked his name on the register.

"Good evening," he heard a female voice say.

He spoke while looking up. "Yes hel-" when his eyes caught the face of the voice he stopped speaking. Words couldn't formulate in his mind or tongue because he was mesmerised by the woman standing in front of him. She was beautiful. Heck, she was gorgeous. Glossy pink lips and eyes as hazel as the leaves in autumn. Her eyes, they were hypnotising... he couldn't look away from them. They're gaze broke when she looked down for a second. before looking up again and this time speaking.

"Hayley Marshall. Nice to meet you," she said extending her hand to him. He shook it and realised she was Kaleb and Hope's mother when he realise them in the room for the first time. He felt embarrassed that she had managed to distract him from everything else in the room. He cleared his throat, afraid that he won't be able to say anything and stood up. He kept that to himself and took her hand in his... It was so soft that he wanted to latch on to it. "It's nice to meet you indeed."

He looked at the kids again and smiled he gestured to the seats and looked at her and said, "please have a seat. We have a lot to talk about."

She sat down in the middle of Kaleb and Hope. "So, I'm Niklaus Mikaelson, Klaus for short. I must say you have two of the most talented young artists," Hayley smiled at this comment and looked at the two of them. They gave him a smile too.

"Let's start with Hope." They talked about Hope and her growing interest and creativity. Hearing the nice words about Hope from him made her an incredibly proud mother and couldn't wait to hear what he had to say about Kaleb.

Klaus smiled at Hope and was amused by her shy reaction. "Moving on to Kaleb here," klaus said looking at Kaleb.

"His work in particular excites me! He's always volunteering to help others, he comes up with fantastic ideas and he's certainly and expressionist. For a fourth grader that is prodigious," Klaus said watching Kaleb smile brightly at his mother who was looking at him with a very happy expression.

Klaus remembered the drawing of Kaleb's that he had personally wanted to give it to whoever his guardian was. He pulled out the drawing from his desk cabinet and before giving it to her said, "Kaleb has been raised very well Mrs. Kenner-"

"Oh please call me Ms. Marshall," she said interrupting him politely. He stayed silent for a moment looking into her eyes again. He got confused. On the form she had signed at the receptionist which all the teachers were given a copy of, she had signed her name as Hayley Marshall Kenner. But he decided to nod and brushed it off, it wasn't his business.

"Very well, Ms Marshall, um, so yesterday I had asked the children to draw what made them happy... while most children drew particular objects, this is what Kaleb drew."

Hayley took the drawing threat he handed to her and gasped when she saw what it was. It was drawing of Kaleb and Hope holding her hands and all of them with wide smiles. It also wasn't just stick figures like kids usually draw. It was very artistic. She felt herself getting lost in her thoughts. Amongst all the negative feelings she felt towards Jackson, there was gratefulness for giving her Hope and leaving her with Kaleb.

"Isn't it beautiful, mummy?" She heard Hope ask who was peering down and looking at the drawing too.

"Yes, baby, it is. It's all that matters to me," she whispered the last line to herself. She looked at Kaleb who was smiling and told how proud she was of him and complemented him on the art.

Klaus watched the exchange in silence. He stared at her the whole time she was looking at the drawing. She was shocked and happy, he could tell. The way she talked to and addressed her children said a lot about her. She was caring and loved kids. It made him start wondering about what life he would had if he and Tatia had a child. He was happy that they didn't because he wouldn't want his children to be raised by a crazy woman. He looked back at Hayley and wondered what the children's father was like.

Hayley looked up to see him look at her and couldn't help but blush a little. She looked away for a moment before looking back at him and asking, "May I keep this?" He nodded me she smiled, putting it in her handbag.

She looked at her watch and saw that thy had been there for almost thirty minutes.

"Oh wow! It's been thirty minutes already! You must have other families to see, please forgive me for not realising-"

"-Oh No need for apologies. You were the last family I'm seeing. And I don't mind at all," he said smiling. They gazed at each other for a long moment again before getting up.

"It was nice meeting you, Mr Mikaelson," she said nodding to him and holding Hope and Kaleb's hands.

"Likewise," he said nodding back and told the kids goodbye. He watched her leave after she pulled her long brown hair pulled to one side and smiled at him. He walked back to his desk, sat down and sighed deeply. Now he had to go home.

As soon as she walked out of the room she released the breath he didn't realise she was holding when he smiled back at her.

Klaus walked into his apartment when he got a call. "Hello Elijah," he said.

"Niklaus, mother has invited us all for dinner. Rebekah's family and Kol will all be there. It's been a long time since we have all been together in the same place so please be there without any excuses. It's in Saturday by the way. And later us men are planning on going to a bar but that might change accordingly," Elijah said through the phone.

Klaus sighed. "Fine I'll be there. Text me the time. Who else is coming?"

"Camille, father and Kol's new girlfriend...or as we like to put it, his soon to be disposed play thing will be there too," Elijah said and Klaus rolled his eyes. Kol knew no boundaries when it came to behaviour with family or any sort of manners towards women.

"Great. just great," he mumbled and said his goodbyes to Elijah. At least he would get to see Davina. She was adorable and he loved making her laugh at his weird jokes and noises. He went to bed and started thinking of his family. He was the only one out of his siblings who wasn't in a relationship. Not that it was a bad thing but seeing all his siblings happy and in love made him miss having a woman by his side ready to comfort him. He had always wanted a small family of his own... with kids of course. He even had the chance at one, so he had thought. He remembered Tatia and the last few days of his happy turned sad and angry life with her.

Flashback early 2005

Klaus walked into their suburban house and loosened his tie. "Sweetheart, I'm home!" He shouted and placed his files on the table. He didn't hear her voice so he walked up the stairs and stopped when he thought he heard muffles. He walked towards his room slowly and halted at the door when he heard cursing and moaning. His eyes widened and he opened the door. What he saw made him thoroughly shocked. Tatia was on their bed completely nude with man wearing the same amount of clothes she was. They were in a comprising position and were pounding like wild animals. The most shocking part was that they hadn't even notice him enter the room and were still moaning loudly. Once he regained his ability to speak he became an angry man. "Hey! What the hell are you doing?!" He didn't know if he was speaking to his naked wife or her partner but he didn't care. He needed answers for this unexpected betrayal. They stopped and looked at him. The man rushed to pick up his clothes and Tatia sat up holding the covers to her closely. "Oh God, no baby this is-" "Not what it looks like? Yeah I can see that!" He shouted getting closer to her and get louder. He watched the man walk out the door but not before showing him a small smirk. Klaus urged not to beat the man and his shock helped him to do just that. He looked back at Tatia. His eyes gleamed of anger but more of confusion. After watching her closely he could tell that she wasn't drunk. So why then? Why this indiscretion?

He looked at her questioningly waiting for her to explain. She didn't even bother moving from her spot but opened her mouth to speak. "It was a mistake,"

"Didn't seem like one when you were screaming two minutes ago," saying these words to her were weird to him. He had never been angry at her before. But looking into her eyes and seeing that man's smirk made him realise that this was t the first time this was happening. Also his brother's girlfriend Camille was a to be graduating psychology student. Their conversations taught him a lot. "Who was he?"

Tatia looked up at him. He had walked closer to her. "Some guy from a bar, I had a few drinks-"

His heart broke when he realised she was looking him in the eye and lying to him. "Try that again Tatia, I know you're lying." The stench of sex was giving him a headache so he sat down at the end of the bed.

She sighed, showing that she was going to give up trying. "He's a guy I met at the mall."

Klaus sat quietly listening to her. "How long?" He asked in a broken voice. "Four and a half months."

Wow. He was not expecting that answer. She had been sleeping with another man for almost half their marriage. He had bought a house for the two of them. He had bought her everything she wanted and needed. He had had done everything. He looked up to her and saw that she didn't look regretful. When he was lost in his thoughts she dropped the sheets and got out of the bed, walked to him and stood in between his legs. "Baby, please forgive me. I didn't mean for it to be like this," she took his head in her arms and brought it to her chest.

Tears started forming in his eyes. The woman he loved and committed himself to had broken their vows. She had broken his trust and his heart. He didn't move and murmured against her. "Why?"

She tried to shush him and push him on the bed but he pushed her away angrily and shouted with tears flowing down his cheeks"Answer me! Why did you decide to cheat on me? What did I do to deserve this atrocity?! I give you everything! What more do you want?"

She suddenly got angry. "I know you give me everything Klaus but I want your attention too. Ever since you started kissing the ass of that artist whatever his name is, you have been spending more time tying to get him to get you your dream job than being with me and not I mention spending more time screwing around with children than paying attention to me. you can't blame me for getting lonely."

He couldn't believe that she actually said those words to him. For a second he thought she was playing a horrible prank on him. "Are you out of your mind? Tatia I'm trying to get a decent job that pays me enough to give us a happy life. Sorey if I don't want to live my whole life off of my parent's money. This house, all the things I bought you. Everything is their money. I 'screw around with children'? That's how you put teaching? You know what, it's called a job, sweetheart. But you wouldn't know what that is do you because you spend your time being a slut and rutting with other men instead." She kept quiet throughout this and just looked disinterested. His voice

He grabbed his hair tightly and said crying. "I was planning to have a family with you in the future. Have our own children and be a happy family. Maybe if you had told me that you were neglected I would have done something about only because I was in love with you. You've broken me Tatia. Something no one had managed to do. I hope you're happy."

Tatia looked at him sternly and said, "I want a divorce Klaus."

He laughed at this. She had the audacity to ask him for a divorce when he had done nothing wrong. "Well you're not going to be disappointed." He said and stormed off to his car and drove around aimlessly. He stopped by a lake at sometime during midnight and screamed in frustration. he swore he would never fall for anyone again.

End of flashback

He often wondered if there were more than one man, probably, and if the reason she cheated on him was because a month before the start of her indiscretions, he had told her that he wanted to have children with her. he had always wished to experience the bond between a father and child. Matbe that is what scared her into it even though she had shown no sign of such a thing. He turned around to face the ceiling and thought about his day. His thoughts went to her beautiful face. He wondered if he would ever see her again soon. He had never met a more caring mother than her. The interest that she had when he talked about Kaleb and Hope... he had never seen another parent with the twinkle in their eye when they heard the accomplishments of their children. Apart f I'm that, he was definitely attracted to her, physically. But he wanted to get to know her. Then he remembered Tatia again and remembered the vow he made to himself that he would never get into a serious relationship again. He sighed and went to sleep.

Hayley left Angela, her close friend and neighbour look after her kids and spent the end of the day searching for a store with decent and inexpensive clothes to wear for her Saturday gig at Rousseau's. She had been doing this for a while, finding more and more places to work to earn more money. In the past two months, she had found many gigs where she could sing and none of them worked out because they were all in clubs and the owners wanted her to 'show more skin' but she wasn't into that so she decided to search for restaurants to sing at. A beautiful restaurant named restaurant named Rousseau's had offered her a chance to sing for them and she had taken it. It also paid well so she didn't want to blow it. She had asked her friend Sophie, who worked at the coffee shop to join her and help her chose something.

"What about this?" She said looking at the black dress. "Hmm, you need something more... alluring," she winked.

Hayley rolled her eyes. "I'm singing not going on a man hunt." Sophie chuckled and looked through more clothes behind her. "Well you should, you've been single for way long girl. I mean at least one date but no, nothing! Come on, loosen up and maybe have a one night stand!" Sophie said. She spotted the perfect outfit and waited for Hayley to turn around.

"No I've already have two of those in the years after my husband left me and regret both times. I vowed to never do that again," she turned around and saw Sophie holding a beautiful outfit. "Go there and try this on now." She said pointing to the changing room.

Hayley looked at the mirror an at her reflection. The outfit was perfect and fit her like it was made for her. It was a white strapless crop top and a deep blue high low skirt. She fell in love with it. It looked formal enough to wear to her performance at Rousseau's. That place had a certain class to it that made everyone fall in love with it. She stepped out and Sophie whistled. "Woo that's a man stealer," Hayley laughed and said she was getting the outfit and then bought it.

Hayley and Sophie walked back to her car "so I'm going to be there for your performance okay? I'll see you on Saturday."

"Thank you so much for today, I owe you. bye," Hayley said before Sophie nodded and walked back to her car and she drove back home to have a nice day at home with her kids.

Saturday

Saturday arrived quickly and Klaus was getting ready for the dinner. His brother had sent him a text saying that it was going to be a formal dinner and that they had to wear suits. He had run a few errands and had talked to the manager of the art company he was applying to for a part in a project and had a meeting set up on Sunday, tomorrow, for his presentation.

He dressed up and left for the restaurant.

In the morning, Hayley rushed for her shift at the coffee shop and worked there for about four hours until noon and then left for her rehearsal at Rousseau's. In the middle of it all her car broke down and she had to send it to the mechanic and he said that she would only get back next week. Then she went home, changed, took Kaleb and Hope to the park and for lunch because they really wanted to go out somewhere. By the time they reached home and relaxed for a bit, it was time for her to get ready for the gig. In summary it was a hectic day. She did some vocal exercises that her teachers had taught her in school to release all the nervous energy. Kaleb and Hope watched her make those funny noises and couldn't stop laughing which amused Hayley.

Sophie came over to help her and the kids get ready. They had begged her to allow them to go to the restaurant too to see her sing and were really excited about it and so she accepted. She wore her outfit and Sophie did her hair a waterfall braid and topped it all of with a few accessories.

She walked out of the room with her eyes closed as demanded by her little ones. "Ready? Okay now you can open," Sophie said and Hayley opened her eyes. She gasped happily and ran to her children.

"Awww my sweet babies you look so good! Hope you look beautiful and Kaleb you look like an angel!" She said pinching their cheeks with a happy smile.

"Ew no! I don't want to be an angel! That's for girls. I want to be a smart business man!" Kaleb said loudly in his squeaky voice.

Sophie and Hayley laughed, "well that's exactly what you look like Kaleb don't you worry!"

He smiled and it melted her heart. With that they all left.

Klaus and his family had arrived at the restaurant and Klaus was playing with baby Davina who was seated in his lap and whom he hadn't seen in a while. "She's excited more than I've ever seen today! Why is that?" Klaus asked her parents. Marcel looked at his daughter and chuckled, "Well Rebekah and I have been very busy with cases that we haven't had enough time to take her out the house this week," Klaus smiled and passed Davina to her mother. They all settled down and started talking. "In happy you're all here, finally together in one place! Camille, always lovely to have you join this family," his mother said and Camille smiled. "My pleasure, Esther. I love this family," she replied, the last part while looking at and hooking her arm in with Elijah's. He smiled and they continued talking. Kol's new girlfriend seemed to be a not that bad type of person, she was not what everyone expected because he never brought home girls who were in their right minds to do anything, but everyone still worried that it might not last very long as usual.

"So any new cases?" Mikael asked Rebekah and Marcel. They looked at each other and nodded. "Well not exactly new, but one that's been going on for almost a year now. Quite a few years ago witnesses kind of saw and suspect a murder take place at their neighbour's house by two people. We can't reveal any details but this is a very complicated case that we can't seen to resolve that easily," Rebekah said as everyone listened carefully and intrigued.

"Yeah and we still haven't found a lot of evidence that can help us find the bodies of we don't even know how many people, or the alleged killers. The questions we've been asking haven't given us much to work with," Marcel continued and said that they were not giving up on the case until it was resolved no matter how long it would take to figure it out.

They were almost done with their desert when Esther said looking at the time, "Oh just in time for the performance!"

"What performance?" Elijah asked.

"When I was making reservations, the manager told me that there was going to be a performance today at this time," they all nodded and turned felt the lights go way dimmer.

A man's voice left the speakers. "Good evening, everybody! For those of you who didn't know, there is a performance tonight by a beautiful and talented singer. She has a beautiful voice that also matches her beautiful face," there was a small fit of laughter and cheer. "Please welcome Hayley Marshall to the stage!" Everyone clapped and cheered and all the attention was on the stage.

Hearing that name made his stomach tighten. He turned around immediately to face the stage and anxiously waited for her to come out onto the stage. When he saw her walk out of the curtains, his eyes widened. She was beautiful indeed, no one could question her beauty, and immediately felt his attraction to her surface as he saw her. He never took his eyes off of her and followed every step she made.

What he didn't notice was that another pair of eyes in the room was widened at the call of her name and the sight of her.


Hayley's Outfit: klayleyforeverandalways(.)tumblr(.)com/tagged/AOCfanfic

So there you go! Klaus and Hayley definetely have physical attraction for each other and it will continue to grow but slowly. the emotional attreaction will come later on in the story... What did you think about the PTC? do you think Tatia told the truth about her reasons for cheating? Who do you think the pair of eyes belong to?