I do not own the Originals.

Tesla sat at one of the bar stools at eleven thirty. It was mostly dark save for the light over the bar she had turned on. She was doing some window shopping on her phone and picking apart a pomegranate. She had two bowls. One to hold the guts you couldn't eat and the other was for the guts that you could eat. It was a long and tedious process pulling apart the sweet seeds from the inside but the reward was worth it. She was in her matching pajamas which were linen button up white and grey striped with pink lace on the trim. They were a little old fashioned but this was what she liked to wear.

She was finished and she went to throw away the bad parts. She dumped them out and went to the sink when she heard someone padding down the hall. A pretty face appeared masked by soft brown hair. Her doe eyes looked up and Tesla as she made her way over to the refrigerator to her left.

"Can't sleep?" Tesla called going over to her bowl full of gems that she had just dug out.

"It's hard to sleep with this baby." Haley said throwing open the freezer and the fridge at the same time.

"I have lavender oil that should help with that if we can find a humidifier around here." Tesla said popping seeds into her mouth.

"Good luck finding anything for pregnant woman around here." She said "This isn't exactly friendly household."

Tesla looked at her face as the girl searched the fridge for something to eat. There was sadness there and a little bit of longing.

"Has the protectiveness started yet?" She asked the girl

"Yes but in strange ways." Haley hesitated. "Around certain people I want to protect her." Haley said and turned to her.

"How do you know so much about pregnancy?" Haley asked her and Tesla got very silent. This girl was all alone here. She felt like she needed at least one person who would be honest with her and Tesla could be.

"I had a baby." She said and Haley looked at her with sympathy.

"What happened?" She asked her like she was afraid to ask.

"She died when she was two." Tesla said "Her name was Iris."

'I am so sorry" Haley said and Tesla shrugged at her.

"It was a long time ago." She remembered her little baby girl with dark black curly hair and eyes that were almost purple. The smile that she had could still light up Tesla's heart. She thought that her child was the center of the universe; and she had been in hers. Tesla brushed it off. "It's you that we have to take care of now starting with a humidifier, grape seed oil nice sheets and the book what to expect when you are expecting." She said as Haley raised an eyebrow at her still with the fridge open. "Maybe some fuzzy socks, those are nice." Tesla said taking a piece of paper from her bag on the seat next to her. The door opened and Tesla didn't have to turn around to know who it was.

"Haley, Tesla what are you doing up?" It was Elijah followed by Klaus who had just got in.

"You boys have broken curfew" Tesla said as they moved around the other girls.

"Why don't we ever have ice cream?" Haley sighed. "All I ever wanted was some ice cream." She said slamming the doors. Tesla smiled up at her and added ice cream to the list she was making. She got up and ripped the page off the list. She walked over to Elijah as he eyed her. Klaus walked over to the bar and poured himself a drink.

"Listen." Tesla said as Elijah took the piece of paper and read it over. She went to Haley and pushed her in his direction. He struggled against her but Tesla was a vampire. "Haley needs these things on this list." Elijah opened his mouth but she shook her head. "You guys have her cooped up in here and aren't even giving the things that will make it easy on her. You want her to have this savior child? Get her a damn humidifier." She said turning around" and some Ice cream, if the pregnant lady wants ice cream keep ice cream in the freezer." She said shaking her head

"Haley is fine." Klaus questioned her.

"Have you ever been pregnant?" She asked him he looked at her. She knew that if he didn't want Haley and Elijah going that they wouldn't. So she pleaded with him. "Do you want people to want to be here?" She asked quietly. Haley couldn't hear her but Elijah would have. If Klaus thought that he was being manipulated even for a minute he would get all raging hate goblin. "Let her go Klaus." She said to him and he took a minute to stare at her before he nodded in Elijah's general direction. Haley took that as she and Elijah headed outside to get some much needed items for this house. She sat down in her seat again and started in on her bowl of pomegranate seeds. He was still staring at her.

"What?" She asked without looking up

"You have been here for a little less than a week and you think you can just run the place." He said to her. His tone was borderline frozen. It was skating the line of upset.

"It's just a trip to the store Klaus." She said

"My brother is under the impression that that girl with my child is his." He said darkly and now she looked up.

"And you think you own her." She said. She didn't pose it as a question because it was easy to see the answer.

"She is carrying my child." He said like it closed the subject.

"CVS carries my favorite ice cream. That doesn't mean it's my grocery store." She said

"All my life he has tried to take what is mine!' He almost yelled at her an slammed the glass he was drinking out of on the ground. It shattered into a thousand pieces. "All my life, He was the favorite child and now she chose him over me." He was still yelling. She got up and got a broom which she had located two days earlier. She started to sweep up the broken pieces of glass.

"Are you going to break more stuff? Or can I sweep?" She asked him and he poured another drink and sat down. She swept as he watched her back and forth. "He will bring her back Klaus. He isn't going to take her away. He is a man of morals as far as I can tell." She said

"Yes dear old Elijah, the one with all the good attributes." He said drinking some more.

"Oh we need some balloons if you are going to throw yourself a pity party." She said throwing the glass away. She put the broom away and threw her hands up.

"Klaus look around at what you have." She did a three-sixty with her hands up motioning to the house. "You are thousands of years old. You have the biggest house in New Orleans. Not only that but you own the whole city as I hear it. You have family Klaus which is more than a lot of vampires can say."

"It isn't enough." He said quietly and she sighed.

"What do you want?" She asked him

"When I get it I will know." He said to her

"What happened to you?" She asked him and he looked up at her. "I mean in two thousand years you have to have seen some pretty horrible stuff. What I want to know is what moment defined you. What moment took the part of you that used to be your soul and twisted it out of recognition." When she asked him this all he did was laugh. He laughed for a good long while before he answered her.

"You mean to fix me?" He asked "You think that there is part of me to be saved. Well you can join Elijah on his never ending hunt for my soul because the truth is there isn't one. Immortality rips it from you." He said to her.

"Then why in this nest of immortals you seem to be the only one without one?" She asked him pouring herself a drink. She awaited his response but none came. "oh come now Klaus. You trapped me here for three more weeks after that you won't ever see me again. I am giving you an opportunity to share. To share your story with a person who has almost no bias of you already." She waited some more as he just looked at her. "No? Well the offer stands." She said moving back to her seat.

"May I?" He said and pointed to her bowl

"No." She said you may not. "It took me fifteen minutes to get these out of here and I intend to eat them myself. You are rude and nobody wants to share with you. Of course you could take them from me." She grabbed the bowl and went to leave. He was pouring himself another drink. She popped a few seeds into her mouth and set the bowl in front of him.

"Lesson one in being a nice person. You asked me for something that I could give you. You didn't force me to and I don't expect anything in return. I don't even like you much and yet I gave it to you anyway" She walked toward the hall "You should try it some time."

The next chapter I think is going to be Elijah and Haley but I'm not sure yet.