AN: Part 1 of a three part drabble series in this universe, takes place 5 years after klaus and hayley get married. Enjoy :)

"Mom!"

Hayley took in a deep breathe as the familiar sound echoed through the house. It was Hope's voice of course. It was always Hope's voice. It seemed like her 8 year old was yelling out for her every 20 minutes for some completely unnecessary reason and when Hope wasn't calling her name her five year old was. Between her two kids, her and Klaus's werewolf family, and keeping Klaus on his leash,Hayley had her hands full. Her life was hectic and judging by the fatigue that was suddenly creeping up on her it was starting to wear her out.

Hayley ignored Hope's vice and and continued looking through the papers scattered across Klaus's study. They were renovation plans she and Klaus had drawn up. Not too long after she and Klaus got married they "acquired" some prime real estate in the quarter and made it into a series of town homes for their families. That was some years ago and it was time for some updates. Klaus had a lot on his plate so he pretty much let her have free reign over the project which Hayley initially met with a lot excitement, only now she didn't seem to have the energy to oversee the project. She didn't have the energy to do anything these days it seemed. As she continued to make notes of some of the changes she wanted made she head Hope yell for her again, she started to keep ignoring her only Hope's yell was followed by a loud cry. That voice was Diana's, when she heard crying it was always Diana. When she heard that she knew if she didn't get up and tend to her daughters her house would erupt into complete chaos so she buried her face in her hands and yawned before getting up to make her way to Hope's bedroom.

When she got there she found Hope sitting on her bed pouting, Diana on the floor in tears and Hope's acrylic paint set scattered across the floor. Hope was so focused on throwing darts at her sister with her eyes she didn't even notice Hayley standing in the doorway.

"What's going on in here" Hayley said firmly. She used her mom voice and she hated when she had to use her mom voice, it make her feel way older than she really was. Unfortunately of her, her rambunctious children forced her mom voice out of her more often that she appreciated. As soon as Hope heard her mom she started crying and yelling what happened at her.

"Mom Hope ruined my paint set! I told her not to touch it and she didn't listen, look at what she did it's all over!" Hope whined. Raising her voice made Diana cry even louder than she already was.

"Hope calm down, and stop yelling you're making your little sister upset"

"But mom! Dad gave that to me for my birthday, it was my favorite set and now I can't paint with it anymore, she ruined it."

Hayley paused for a moment, debating how she should handle her two crying children. Hope had the temper of her father, she was easily angered and difficult to handle once she was. She also had a flare for her father's dramatics which drove Hayley nuts. Diana on the hand was a sensitive child, something Hayley liked to attribute to Klaus as well, only she didn't tend to act out in anger like her sister, though she did have a penchant for mischief and typically exhibited generally sneaky behavior. Sometimes Hayley was proud her daughter inherited that quality from her, and other times it drove her up a wall, like now. She rolled her eyes as she watched her daughters put on a show. Hope was still complaining about the paint and Diana had finally found some nerve to stand up for herself against her older sister. Hayley had a throbbing headache and all she wanted to do was sleep, not break up a fight between her children. She massaged her temples with her fingertips wishing she could drown out their voices

"Leave me alone Hope I just wanted to paint!"

"You don't even know how to paint! "

"I do know how to paint!

"No you don't!"

"Yes I do!"

"It was still my paint and I told you not to touch it! Dad gave it to me not you! "

"So! stop yelling at me Hope!"

"I'll stop yelling when you stop being annoying"

"Alright that's enough out of both of you" Hayley finally interrupted.

"But mom" Hope pleaded

"No, that's enough Hope. I don't want to hear another word from you. and don't' roll your eyes at me either"

Now that she had both of her daughters silent she could resolve their conflict and get back to more important things like that nap she desperately needed.

"Diana come here."

The child wiped her tear stained cheeks and slowly approached her mother with guilty eyes. Hayley could tell she felt bad about what she had done, which made her soften her demenor towards her.

"Did your sister tell you not to touch her paint?"

Diana silently shook her head yes.

"So do you want to explain to me and her why you did it anyway?"

"I just wanted to paint something special for daddy mommy. Hope's paint better than mines, daddy only let me use the finger paints like I'm still a baby but I'm not a baby. I wanted to show him I can use the grown up paint too so he would get me some like Hope's"

"Okay sweetheart I understand that but you still went into Hope's things without her permission and you made a mess."

"I'm sorry mommy." Diana said before she wrapped her arms around Hayley's hips, pressing her face to her abdomen and letting her tears fall again. Hayley smoothed her hair from her face and hugged her close to comfort her.

"It's okay baby girl, I know you're sorry. I think your sister would like to know you're sorry too so why don't you go apologize to her."

The little girl let her arms fall from around her mom and slowly walked over to Hope's bed, playing with her hands nervously before she finally spoke up.

"I'm sorry I played with your paint and I'm sorry I made a mess, I didn't mean to make you mad."

Hope released her legs from the hold her arms had on them and sat up straight on her bed. She felt bad for yelling at her little sister. She stood up and rubbed the top of her sisters head. "Next time you can just ask me Diana, I would have helped you. I'm sorry for yelling."

"Okay" her little fragile voice whispered as she wrapped her arms around her big sister. Hope hugged her back and the two girls smiled at each other. Hayley smiled as she watched her two girls make up. Her first task was taken care of, figuring out what to do about the mess in Hope's room was her next order of business. She walked closer to Hope's bed and sat down as a wave of fatigue hit her. She yawned and rubbed the back of her head, closing her eyes hoping to gain some strength for her next task.

"Are you okay mom?" Hope asked, noticing her mother's weird behavior. Hayley opened her eyes to see both her daughters staring back at her with concerned eyes.

"Yeah mommy's fine, how about you two get started cleaning up that mess down there."

"Aww mom why do I have to help? Diana was the one who made it!"

"Because I said so"

"Why can't the maids to it?" hope whined.

Hope could be such a spoiled brat sometimes Hayley thought to herself. Her annoyance would Hope's complaining was starting to reach new heights and she could feel her mom voice coming on again. "Because it's Diana's mess and it's your room, now get to it, both of you." She said firmly pointing to both of her pouting daughters. The two girls huffed and pouted their way to the mess and started picking up the tubes of paint scattered all over the floor. Diana had made a complete mess of the carpet. Hayley silently observed them at work.

"Mom can we ask dad to get me another paint set?" Hope asked from a distance. "Ohhh me too mommy can I have one too! A grown up one!" Diana chimed in.

"We'll see what he has to say after I tell him we're gonna have to replace your carpet because of this mess." Hayley responded. She was amused by the identical frowns on their face that followed. "I can't promise anything but I'm sure your dad won't mind. You'll have a better shot if that mess if gone by the time he gets home though."

Hearing that made both girls decide to work harder, they really really wanted some new paint apparently. Hayley giggled at their enthusiasm to impress their father, if only they had that some zeal to not harass her all day. As she watched them finish up she assumed her work there was done so she got up to leave.

"Girls mommy's not feeling well so I'm going to lay down for a little while, finish cleaning up and get to your homework. Dinner should be in a couple hours, your dad will be back before then but your aunt Rebekah is down the hall if you need something, please behave yourselves and no more fighting, mommy really needs some rest okay?"

"Okay" Hope replied. "Feel better mommy" Diana said sympathetically.

She started out the door but right before she made it pass the threshold she was stopped by a voice, Hope's of course, it was always's Hope's.

"Wait one more thing before you go." She said.

"I'm all ears Hope."

"So I was at school today and there was a new girl in my class…when the teacher called my name in class during roll she made a face at me, so at recess I asked her why she made a face since I didn't do anything to her."

Of course Hope wouldn't take kindly to that slight offense, God forbid someone made a face at her. Hayley sighed to herself, she really was her father's daughter.

"and what did she say, you didn't get into a fight did you?"

"No, she said that she made the face because she heard her mom say one day that Mikaelsons know how to do magic and my last name is Mikaelson so she thought I was one of those weird people who could do magic."

Hayley froze when she heard the words Mikaelsons and magic. Hope knew a little bit about the supernatural but she didn't know what she herself and her sister were capable of. She and Klaus wanted their children to grow up as normal as possible, they would tell them both everything when the time was right and neither felt that the time was right yet. Out of the two Hope was the only one who knew that supernatural beings existed and that was only because Klaus had forgotten that she was home one afternoon when he brought a fresh meal back to the compound. The six year old found the drained body in her father's study when she was looking for a toy. Hayley was livid of course and Klaus had suggest that they compell her to forget, which made Hayley even angrier than she already was. Klaus appeased Hayley's desire to just tell her the truth about vampires and werewolves so that lead to a long talk with a very confused Hope. They didn't tell her all the details, just that vampires and werewolves are rare and special compared to most humans. They didn't tell her about witches, fearing that knowledge would peak her curiosity too much. They didn't want her exposed to that dangerous world yet even though she would be eventually. Diana on the other hand was completely ignorant to all things supernatural and they hoped to keep her that way for a while longer, or at least until Hope started dabbling in magic. Hayley didn't know what to say to her exactly, all she could think about was giving the mom of that little girl from Hope's school a nice slap across the face. Both Hope and Diana looked on waiting for her to answer.

"Can I do magic mom?" Hope asked.

"I wanna do magic too!" Diana squealed.

Hayley knew she had to say something before they both got out of hand and started asking too many questions.

"No one is doing magic, who even said magic was real?"

"Sarah at school said magic was real"

"Well Sarah needs to keep her fantasies to herself, her mom too" Hayley snapped back.

"oh oh is it like vampires!" Diana asked excited. Hope reached over and slapped her on her arm to shut her up.

"Ouch!" Diana whined. "That hurt!" Hope just gave her a death glare. She wasn't supposed to know about vampires and Hope knew she would get in trouble if her parents knew she had told her.

Hayley's heart sank when she heard that question. This conversation was going downhill fast. She stared at Hope,who pretend to not know where Diana would get an idea like that, angrily.

"There's no such thing as Vampires or Magic Diana."

The little girl tilted her head and looked at her mother confused. "but Hope said that uncle Elijah and auntie bex were vampires and that they were special."

Hope looked at Hayley, who was now scolding her with her eyes, guiltily. "Hope what is she talking about?"

"Nothing I didn't tell her that mom I swear!"

"Yes you did!"

"No I didn't Diana shut up!

"You lie Hope, daddy said we're not posed to lie."

"Both of you quiet right now!" Hayley slightly yelled. She didn't like to raise her voice at her children but the serious nature of this argument and her aching body meant her anxiety was high, her temper was short and her patience was low, resulting in a much sterner attitude.

The girls stopped their argument when they heard their mom yell. She didn't do it often so when she did they knew she was serious and they were in trouble.

"Diana look at me…there is no such thing as vampires or magic. Hope told you a made up story about your aunt and uncle okay. Now I don't want to hear anymore talk about Vampires or magic or anything else like that do you understand me? That's goes for you too Hope"

"yes ma'am" they both whispered. They always called her ma'am when they were in trouble. It was another thing that Hayley hated, it made her feel old. She was fine with them calling her mom or mommy, Elijah and Klaus were the one who insisted that a Mikaelson couldn't come up without knowing formal English. Guilt washed over her as she watched her two remorseful daughters silently go back to cleaning up. She didn't want to lie to them but she couldn't tell them the truth, not yet at least and not without their father. She watched them for a little while longer and left, stopping on the way to her room to tell Rebekah to keep and eye on the girls for her. Relief washed over her when she finally reached her bed, she had been craving it all day and it was much needed after that conversation. She drifted off to sleep almost instantly once her head hit her plush pillow.

Hayley felt a cold hand gently rub her back as she laid in bed. The cold of the touch jarred her out of her sleep forcing her to turn over on her back to get a look at who was interrupting her much needed period of slumber. She already knew who it was of course, how could she not know his touch as many times as his fingers and his palms had left their mark on her skin. When she finally got her eyes open she saw his deep blue eyes staring at her, she expected to see a smile but she was met with a concerned frown instead.

"Welcome back love." he mumbled.

Hayley didn't know how long she had been asleep, however long it was it wasn't long enough since she still felt incredibly tired.

"Are you okay sweetheart, you look unwell" Klaus questioned as he ran his hand along her side and gently brushed her hair away from her face.

"I think I'm okay, I just felt a little out of it today that's all. How long was I asleep?"

"According to Rebekah 4 hours"

"Four hours!" Hayley asked shocked. " That can't be right, no way I was asleep for four hours, I was supposed to be up by dinner."

"Well I'm just getting home but Rebekah told me that you went to sleep around 5 and it's now almost 9:30 so four hours seems to be pretty accurate."

"Crap, I didn't mean to sleep that long…the girls! I missed dinner."

"Don't worry about it sweetheart, Rebekah made sure they completed their studies, they were also fed and now they are both tucked away in their beds in deep slumber. She said she didn't want to wake you since you seemed unwell and in much need of some sleep"

Hayley sighed in relief. She was afraid for a second that her children had been completely neglected for hours, their mother was sound asleep for hours and their father was out in the quarter doing God knows what.

"Remind me to thank her tomorrow. Where were you? I thought you would be home hours ago."

"I was" Klaus replied as he stood up and started to undress. He kicked off his shoes and started to remove his shirt before continuing. " I should have been back but there were some visiting werewolves in the city, Marcel and I ran into them at a bar"

"A bar? you were at a bar all this time, Klaus.."

.

"Before you attempt to give me my inevitable scolding you could at least grant me the privilege of finishing my story"

Hayley lifted her brows and perched her lips as if to say I'm waiting, signaling to Klaus that he was free to continue.

"As I was saying. Marcel and I had visited a bar in search of on of his vampire comrades who had some important information to update us on. While we were there some werewolves entered. I decided to stay to give them a warm welcome" He said the last part with a smirk on his face, indicating to Hayley that the welcome really wasn't that warm.

"Klaus what did you do"

Klaus looked at her with a fake shocked expression. He sat back on the bed next to her, removing his necklaces and his ring and placing them on their night stands.

"Nothing love, I just made sure they were aware that we do not tolerate trouble here and the consequences to those who do are worst than death. I think they got the message pretty clearly.

Hayley let out a light laugh, running her hand up and down his bare arm while she pulled her self closer to him. "I wouldn't expect any less from you Klaus, I'm glad they got the message" she said before leaning in to give him a slow kiss on the lips. When she tried to pull away he gabbed her arm and kept her in place giving her another lingering kiss. He had been gone almost the whole day and he missed her dearly while he was gone. It took him a while to get used to coming home to someone every night like this. Early on in their relationship he and Hayley argued a lot about his late nights away from her and the children. He was reluctant to change but he soon realized that coming home to Hayley and his two daughters every night was more satisfying than anything the quarter had to offer. After that he was almost incapable of being away from her a whole night. Hayley was pretty flexible, she understood that some nights he would be needed elsewhere but he hated going a whole day without seeing her infectious smile or her intoxicating eyes.

After he pulled away from her he stared into her eyes. Taking hands into his he interlocked his fingers with hers and brought them to his lips, placing gentle kisses on the her skin. "I hope you realized how much I missed you little wolf"

Hayley leaned in and gave him one more quick peck on the lips before answering him. "I missed you too" she whispered. "However, you couldn't have picked a worst day to stay gone all day."

'Why what happened? trouble with the girls? or was it the wolves again? How are the renovation plans coming along?"

"The renovations plans are, well they're kinda stalling but that's the least of our worries. We have a problem with the girls, a big problem." She said worriedly.

Klaus's face hardened and he looked at her with extreme concern behind his eyes. "What kind of problem Hayley"

"Well for starters Diana now knows about vampires…"

"How?"

"Hope, she told her that her uncle Elijah and auntie Bexs were vampires and that they were special."

Klaus threw his head back in frustration. He knew he should have compelled her to never tell anyone about vampires behind Hayley's back like he wanted to. He almost did it one time he was left alone at the house with her but Hayley's wrath if she ever found out was not something he wanted to incur.

"And that's not even the biggest problem…Hope asked me about magic today…"

When Klaus heard that he jumped up from the bed.

"How in the bloody hell does she know anything about magic!"

"Apparently one of her classmates overheard her bitch of a mom say that Mikaelsons can do magic one day. When she heard Hope's last name she made a face at her, of course Hope wouldn't be your daughter if she didn't seek out the reason behind the slight. When she confronted her she told her that she thought she was one of those weird mikaelsons who did magic. I really wish I could strangle that little girl's mom."

"Strangle, that woman deserves worse than that." Klaus was noe pacing in front of the bed, he was really upset that his daughter had been exposed to magic after he and Hayley had tried so hard to shield her from knowledge about that particular topic all these years. "I tell you, once I find out who this girl's family is they will all regret the day they ever heard a single thing about the Mikaelsons. Was that all Hope said"

" Unfortunately no, she actually asked me if she could do magic, and you know Diana pretty much wants to do anything Hope does so of course she asked if she could do magic as well. That's when she brought up vampires, Diana thought vampires did magic."

"What did you tell them?."

"I did what any great mother of two supernatural children would do and I lied my ass off Klaus. I told Diana there was no such thing as vampires and magic and that I didn't want to hear anymore talk about those kinda things ever again. I think Diana bought it but Hope…she's a smart little girl, she knows that if I would lie to Diana about vampires then I'm probably lying about magic as well."

"I'm pretty sure that Hope does know you lied , which will only lead to more questions, she's a very inquisitive child, sometimes too inquisitive."

"I know that which is why we need to figure out what we're gonna do. My heart sank to my knees when I heard her ask me that. Klaus I'm not ready for our children to be exposed to his world, they're too young." Hayley's voice started to crack at the end of her statement. Klaus could tell that the thought of her children not being innocent and ignorant on the matter was tearing her apart. She was almost on the verge of tears.

"I agree Hayley, they are too young, but we knew we wouldn't' be able to shelter them from it forever. Something like this was inevitable, though I do wish that we were actually the ones to mention all of this two them."

"Diana is only 5 years old, she doesn't need to know about vampires and werewolves and witches, 5 is too young to be corrupted. And Hope, well Hope already has a temper just imagine if she knew that she was really a powerful witch. She's too young to have to carry the burden of being a supernatural around with her."

Klaus walked to Hayley and pulled his emotional wife into his arms. "I know love, I know. All we can do now is control what they know. We can introduce things to them gradually, we control how much they know and when they get to know it. As long as we keep an eye on them they should be fine. I promise you."

"I know, I don't even know why I'm this upset about it really, like you said we already knew this day would come, I guess I didn't expect it to come so soon. I don't even know why I'm crying like this." She said before laying her head on his shoulder.

"It is okay Hayley, it's been a long day, and that is not something you should have had to deal with yet, especially not on your own and while you are unwell. We will figure this all out soon enough."

Hayley finally pulled away from him and plopped back down on the bed. " I'm still really tired. I'm just gonna go back to sleep and pretend my two daughters didn't ask me if they could do magic today." Hayley joked.

"Get some rest love, I will join you as soon as I take a shower." He said as he got up from the bed and started unbuckling his pants. He tossed them off and Hayley made herself comfortable in the bed. Klaus made is way into the bathroom but before he could close the door he heard Hayley yell something at him.

"Oh and one more thing!"

"Yes love" he shouted back at her.

"We're going to have to replace the carpet in Hope's room. Diana got into her acrylic paint set today and made a complete mess of the place."

"I bet Hope had quite the little fit about that." He said as he peeked his head from around the door frame.

"Oh you bet she did. We're going to have to buy her a new set, and Diana wants grown up paint, she made the mess trying to paint you something so she could prove to you that she could use the grown up paint instead of the finger paints, she insist that she's not a baby anymore" Hayley said laughing.

Klaus laughed at that as well. "I told her that I would show her how to use the grown up paint as she likes to call it, when she turned 6, she's such an impatient little thing."

"Hmm I can't imagine where she would get such a trait."

"He mother of course" Klaus quipped from the bathroom which caused Hayley to roll her eyes and laugh in amusement.

"I think now would be a good time to clear out one of those rooms to make them their own studio like we talked about a few weeks ago."

"Very well then, I'll have the room cleared and Hope's carpet replaced tomorrow afternoon."

"Thank you."

"Anything else?"

"No that's it"

"Well then rest little wolf, I shall meet you again in your dreams tonight"

"If only you were that lucky." Hayley replied before laying he head back down on her pillow and drifting off to sleep.