Afterwards, they held each other. Hayley could feel Elijah's gentle lips filter across her hair, down her cheeks, and back towards her lips, when suddenly – WHAM

Klaus burst through the door. For a moment he stood frozen in the doorway. She saw surprise flit across his features, followed quickly by disbelief, and finally replaced by anger. He stared at her, and then at Elijah, his eyes narrowing.

"Once again, noble Elijah gets everything," he snarled. For once Klaus looked downright vicious, "come to steal my girl, just like you come to steal my glory –"

"Your girl?" repeated Hayley, in a slight screech. "I am no one's property, you ill-mannered hybrid, and for your information –"

"Hayley, don't –" began Elijah, "please, just leave Klaus and I to sort out our differences."

Klaus smirked. "Yes, Little Wolf, please get the hell out of this insufferable study, so I can teach my brother a little lesson."

"Don't you dare hurt him Klaus," said Hayley, "I mean it! Lay a hand on him and I will, I will…" she faltered and Klaus just smirked, before pushing her out of the room and slamming the door in her face. Hayley reached for the knob and tried to yank the door open, but it was locked, so she began pounding the door with her fist.

"Open the damn door Klaus!"

Beyond the door, she heard rowing, crashes, the sound of flesh hitting flesh…

Hayley yanked the door knob again, and again. After a while, Rebekah came upstairs to see what the noise was all about.

"I would just leave them to it," she said softly. "They won't do serious damage to one another, but it goes to show doesn't it, that Klaus really cares for you, doesn't he? I never thought that was possible, my brother showing the slightest spark of love, but you've changed him Hayley, and I know you are conflicted between my brothers, but whatever you do, I'm asking you not to break Elijah's heart either."

Hayley gulped. "What do you suggest I do?"

"Come downstairs and have a drink with me," replied Rebekah. "Let the boys do their stupid boyish thing, and don't worry, they will be best of buds again in no time."

Reluctantly, Hayley did what Rebekah suggested, and she confided to the female original about her feelings, the loss of her child, her desire for a family, and when Hayley went to bed that night, she couldn't sleep, because both Elijah's and Klaus's faces swarm in the foreground of her mind. Yet sometime during the night, she heard the bedroom door creak open and in came Klaus.

For a moment, they didn't say anything, just stared at each other. Slowly, Klaus walked into the room and sat on the edge of the bed.

"What did you do to Elijah?" she asked eventually, dreading the answer. Was Elijah daggered again? She couldn't bear the thought…

Klaus did not reply. Instead he stared out the window.

"I don't get you Klaus," said Hayley, sitting up, her voice dripping with asperity, "you have everything, don't you see that? You have a family who loves you more than anything and you treat them like dirt! Do you know how long I've wished for a family? I want it more than anything in this whole world, and then I see you, and how much you don't appreciate Rebekah or Elijah, and I can't help think that although you've walked this earth for thousands of years, you know nothing about love or life, and you have everything, but you just don't see it…"

"Are you done, Little Wolf?"

"Not quite – here's the thing Klaus, I'm not going to tear you and Elijah apart, so I'm leaving tomorrow, going back to the life I had before I met you…"

Klaus moved so fast that Hayley's heart jumped in her chest. His hand came up – the fingernails broken and swollen – and he took tight hold of her hand, gripping her with force. "Don't go," he said thickly. His luminous eyes locked with hers, "Hayley- stay. Please."

At first Hayley was surprised by his actions, but then she leant against the headboard and stared at him, chewing her bottom lip in thought.

"If I stay," she whispered, "I'm not going to break Elijah's heart –"

"And what of my heart?" snapped Klaus.

"I was unaware you had a heart," said Hayley sarcastically, "and if you do, I am yet to find it. The night you knocked me up, that was the first time I saw you, the real you and I know who you are Klaus…you are not the feared hybrid; you're an artist, an enthusiast of life, a brother…I know you have a heart but I don't know where you keep it…and I know you know that I like Elijah, but here's the thing, I also have feelings for you because that night…you sparked something within me, not just because I carried your baby for a while, but because we are so alike…because we feel so alone in this world, even though love is all around us…"

"My, my," said Klaus slowly, "I didn't know you were so sentimental. Are you trying to redeem me just like Elijah is?"

"No," said Hayley quickly, "I'm trying to make you see that even though you and your family are immortals, that does not mean you can't be killed, and when you rage a war with Marcel, I wouldn't be treating your family the way you do, because one day you might wake up, and they will be gone, and you will find you don't belong anywhere anymore, just like me."

"Well thank you for your advice, Little Wolf, but we are the originals…we are undefeatable, and for the record, you belong here, you know that? You belong with us."

A/N: So I know a lot of you are disappointed by the last chapter, but I ship both Halijah and Klayley, so it will be a mixture of both. Hope you like this chapter! Lots of Love - CD