En Route to Mystic Falls

Elijah's Thoughts

Elijah was nervous to see Katerina. It has been almost a decade since he has seen her. It was irritating to Elijah that she will talk to Rebekah, Kol, Davina, and even Niklaus, but she refused to talk to him. Her time in the French Quarter was short, but definitely not sweet. They both thought that they would find their happily ever after, but at the time, he wasn't ready to give up Hayley. Hayley and Elijah bonded when she was pregnant with Hope. They grew close, and developed feelings for each other shortly after they met. But their relationship came to an end after Hayley decided to marry Jackson a few weeks after Hope was born.

Elijah remembered that Hayley only decided to marry Jackson so that Hope can come home. There was a ritual among the wolves, if two Alphas got married, the unique power of the Alphas would get shared with anyone who attended the wedding, and since Hayley was a hybrid like Klaus, that would help the wolves protect themselves as well as Hope. He understood, but it still hurt him.

Katerina arrived in New Orleans shortly after Hayley told Elijah about her decision to marry Jackson. She had no idea what was going on but she wanted to see Elijah.

Hayley was not thrilled to see Katherine because she did try to kill her once, but Hayley just shrugged it off and continued making her wedding plans.

Katerina was in New Orleans for a total of six months. Niklaus and Katerina became allies and she decided to help protect Hope. She knew what it was like to lose a child. Rebekah came to love her as well, and almost everyone accepted her, except Hayley.

Katerina and Hayley had issues with each other as it is, and it became worst once they both realized that they were fighting for Elijah's attention.

Elijah knew who he was in love with. He knew it wasn't Hayley. He was always in love with Katerina. He made it clear to everyone, especially Katerina that he was, but he didn't know if he was ready to commit himself to her, because she destroyed him once before.

Weeks before Hayley's wedding, Hayley and Elijah met. Hayley knew that once she was married to Jackson she will not have any more chances with Elijah, so she begged him to show her what it was like to be loved by him, he obliged.

Katerina walked in and saw everything. Elijah couldn't explain himself, there was no excuse for his actions, so he didn't say anything and just let her leave.

Elijah thought that she just left to blow off steam for a few days, but she never came back. If he knew that she would leave forever, he would have followed her to the ends of the Earth.

The thought of all this breaks his heart all over again, and he can't figure out how she will react. At least he had a couple hours to prepare his thoughts before he and Klaus arrives in Mystic Falls.

Klaus' Thoughts

Klaus remembered Caroline's words from seven years ago.

"I'm happy you have a child, but I thought you were going to wait for me, what happened to being my last love? Now you have the stupid wereslut who's the mother of your child, that blonde therapist you wanted to replace me with and god knows who else! I thought I was finally ready to be with you and I thought you would've waited, for however long it takes. I guess I was stupid to believe that Klaus Mikaelson would wait for me."

He remembered her face when she walked away.

His heart broke, and he hasn't been able to mend it.

After Caroline left the French Quarter that day, Klaus ended things with Camille. Caroline was right, he was trying to replace her with Camille O'Connell, and Cami deserved better. She was a great person, but the only person in his heart has been Caroline. Caroline made him forget about his first love, the girl who broke him, the girl who helped set his course, Aurora de Martel. She made him believe in love again. He just wished that she would believe in him. She didn't let him explain, she just left and he never tried to talk to her again.

Now, Klaus will have to face her. He was scared to do it. He didn't want his heart to be broken again.

But it was inevitable. Mystic Falls was her territory, it always was.

Maybe now is his chance to get the love of his life back.


This chapter is to kind of fill in where Kalijah and Klaroline is. Like I said before, I'm probably going to do a prequel for this so there will be more detail! - S