Synopsis: Klaus faces another enemy from his past. Hayley and Klaus find a common peaceful ground in their developing relationship.

Rebekah stopped as she heard "Mary-Ann" and then her eyes darted to Hayley as Klaus grabbed Elijah by his throat. Their eyes met as Klaus let go of Elijah said "if anything , anything happens to Hayley Elijah, I swear I will…" and left the compound.

Hayley looked at Elijah who was still in shock. He turned towards Rebekah who was looking at him.

He said to her harshly "stay here, i have to take care of this business".

Rebekah said softly "he will kill her".

Elijah nodded and whooshed out.

Hayley asked Rebekah in shock "what the hell happened?"

Rebekah recovered and said "I don't know".

And went to her room with Hayley staring at the spots where Klaus and Elijah were standing a couple of minutes ago.

Klaus went straight to the cemetery when he sensed him. HE said "Elijah, I can manage her".

Elijah walked to him and said "Niklaus I am here to help".

They both walked to the crypt and were surprised to realize that they could enter it. Elijah looked around and turned towards Klaus who had picked up a note on the table which read "Elijah there is always next time. I don't know how it happened but there is always next time".

Klaus crumpled the note and threw it and yelled in anger. Elijah picked up the note and read it and then looked at him slowly as he saw him held his head in frustration.

flash back

Year 1915

Elijah and Klaus walked in the room laughing after attending the party. It had been a great party. Elijah looked at Klaus and smiled as he realized how he was down at the start of the party because she was not invited to spend time with them on account of it being brothers time but now he was ear to ear.

Elijah entered his room and stood there in shock as his gaze fell on the bed. He darted to it and said "NOOOO"

A second later he sensed him enter the room. He slowly turned towards him and literally could feel the life drain out of his body as he saw him walking towards the bed in shock. He could see the anguish and torture starting to appear on his brother's face replacing the initial shock as he was staring into the still open lifeless green eyes that once shone so bright. As he saw his eyes travelled and he saw her heart was missing. He fell on the knees whereas he,Elijah, just stared at her not believing that he would never see her charming smile again. After a couple of seconds which looked like an eternity to Elijah he took a few steps to close the distance between him and where Niklaus was kneeling down next to her in the pool of blood gathered on the ground and getting absorbed into the ancient carpet. He put his hand on his brother's shoulder when his gaze fell on a paper on the bedside table. Elijah's hastily picked it up and read "she is the one you rejected me for right?!"

Elijah stared at those words and then yelled; yelled for the first time in his life, in anger, in fury and crumpled that paper and left the room, left his brother kneeling with the love of his life, left the girl still on his bed soaking in her own blood; the girl who had changed their live, made them all happy.

End flashback

He jolted out of his thoughts when he heard Niklaus say sternly "find her brother and do it properly this time" and left the crypt.

He looked at Klaus with that guilt that he always felt whenever he thought about how because of him, his brother's life was destroyed.

He nodded and left the crypt too.

Klaus stood outside in the open lost for a minute, not knowing what to do. The thought that Hayley might meet her end like Elizabeth was too tormenting for him to even fathom but he was unable to push it out of his mind. He cursed himself for caring so much about Hayley and wondered 'when did that happen?' He was feeling so overwhelmed that he couldn't ever sense Sabine right now. And then he sensed Elijah who said "I will find her".

He didnt say anything to him and went to his car.

He entered the bar and saw Marcel sitting across Cami drinking. Cami looked at him angrily and walked to him and said "what are you doing here? You killed that innocent girl".

he stared at her face and brushed her aside and went to Marcel and sat down opposite him grabbing the bottle from his hand and started drinking it. They both sat there in that both without saying anything to each other for sometime and then Klaus said "I am sorry about Davina. You seemed to really care about her and I am sorry that things didnt happen the way we were expecting it to".

Marcel looked at him, scoffed and said "you knew deep down harvest will not work but you insisted".

Klaus said angrily "what did you want me to do? see the city burn down".

Marcel laughed and said sarcastically "now you care about the city!"

Klaus said coldly "I always cared about the city. I built it".

He then added harshly "you need to pull yourself together".

Marcel leaned in and said cruelly "like you pulled yourself together when Liz died?!"

Even before he had finished his sentence Klaus had jumped up and was saying "fine. you want to pout, pout. This will not bring her back just like that didnt bring Liz back. I learned my lesson hard way now it is your turn to learn it".

He turned around and saw Cami standing there looking at both of them. From her expressions he realized that she had heard everything. He went to her and said "he needs a friend right now" and left the bar.

Later that night after Hayley had retired in her room Klaus, Rebekah and Elijah decided that Hayley shouldn't be left along in the compound at anytime so they decided that Klaus would give her company if Rebekah is not around mainly because Elijah said to him "Mary-Ann is my responsibility and that he needed to do that".

Hayley spend a lot of time in the bayou for the next few days. She was surprised to realized that Rebekah was starting to spend too much time with her too. Every time she wanted to go the bayou Rebekah would tag along and then she realized that she was going for Oliver. That realization made her happy and warm towards both of them. She was still developing feelings for Rebekah but if she had to sum them up then she realized that she liked her and Oliver was from her pack and she liked him too. She also made a new discovery which had started to bug her that he was always on her mind these days. The way he looked at her when she was under the affect of Sophie's spell, the way he had told her to "drink" there was something more then care in those words, his fight with Elijah after that incidence was still in her mind prompting her to ask questions like why does he keep on saying that friendship with Elijah will be lethal. Did something happen? And another observation she made was that she was never alone unless she was in the compound, even then there were someone in the compound. Either it was Klaus or Rebekah and occasionally Elijah too. It had started to irritate her that whenever he and she were alone he just ignored her. She had thought that after what they went through in the past couple of days they should be becoming more friendly but no, it was not happening. Elijah was really busy these days spending most of his time away from the compound. She knew that he was looking for Sabine but was having no luck as she had gone off the radar after trying to kill her. She felt really overwhelmed when she found out that Elijah was looking for Sabine because of what she did to her.

Four days later after Sabine incidence Klaus was sitting in the parlor reading a book when she came in and sat opposite him and asked him sternly "why are you baby sitting me?"

A smile appeared on his lips as it hit him how different she was from Elizabeth. Liz was soft, caring and gentle where Hayley was … he couldn't finish the thought as he started to become uncomfortable so he said while turning the page of the book "because you were recently tried to get killed by that witch Sabine and she will come back at you again".

Hayley asked him "why?" but before Klaus could answer she asked in panic "is it because of the baby?"

Hearing that from her mouth made him curious and he finally looked up at her and said "why would you say that?"

Hayley said in distraction "because of what she will be"

KLaus asked again still confused "what do you mean? your child will be werewolf just like you".

Hayley started "no I mean…" and then she stopped when she realized what she was about to say. She said hurriedly as he continued to look at her and said "you know my family is royal so may be …" she couldn't finish her sentence as the intensity of his gaze was making her feel nervous.

Klaus was about to say something when the cell rang. He took out his cell from his pocket and put it against his ear while his eyes were still on Hayley. Hayley was starting to feel more nervous under the scrutiny of his gaze and feeling conscious she removed the strand of hair back from her face and then she saw him jump up as he heard Cami's panicked voice "come this witch he has attacked Marcel and I cannot…"

Klaus looked at Hayley as he heard Cami's scream and the call got disconnected. Hayley was already getting up when he said "come with me". He whooshed her out of the place.

He only let her go when he reached the bar and saw Marcel on the ground and black man bending over him with a weird shape looking blade in his hand.

After initial shock at recognizing him he whooshed to him and grabbed him from behind and said "I remember killing you. I rather relished it. What a joy it is to live the fond memoires".

Hayley took an instinctive step towards him as Papa Tunde jabbed him in the stomach with his elbows and threw him over the china cabinet in the room.

KLaus got up as Papa Tunde said "good you are here. I will kill you before your son".

As Hayley watched in horror Klaus whooshed to him but the man was strong, he grabbed Klaus by his throat with one hand and said through clenched teeth "this time I am stronger"

He pointed at Marcel who had a cross on his head and was turning grey and said "you took mine. I am taking yours".

He took out the blade from his pocket and put it on Klaus head and started chanting. Hayley looked around frantically and grabbed a bottle of wine and hit Papa Tunde on the head with it. He turned towards the disruption and flicked her finger sending her flying across the took advantage of his turning away from him for a second and threw him across the room and then Klaus looked at Hayley for one second as he saw her getting up. Their eyes met across the room and he nodded at the question in her eyes and hands on her stomach. He looked at he place where Papa Tunde had landed but he was gone so he darted to where Marcel was lying. He knelt next to him and bit into his wrist and put it against Marcel's lips. A couple of drops of his blood on his lip made Marcel stir and then as Hayley saw he grabbed Klaus's arm and started to drink on it furiously. Hayley looked at Cami who was staring at them and then she looked at Klaus who was looking at Marcel anxiously as he drank from him and she noticed Klaus's face paling as Marcel continued to drink from him. She took a step towards them but Klaus raised his hand to stop her. She looked at him in irritation but his attention was focused on Marcel. Hayley stood there impatiently thinking 'how long he will let Marcel drink from him? with this speed Marcel will drain him' and then she saw color started to appear on Marcel's face. She stepped forward again ignoring Klaus "Hayley!" and pulled Marcel back from him saying "stop, you will drain him".

Klaus was starting to feel a bit dizzy, he realized he needed blood and then he felt her eyes on him. He asked her without looking at her "you okay?"

She asked him "are you okay? you seem pale"

Klaus said with a tired smile "I need blood".

Cami suddenly said "I will do it" but as she took a step towards him Klaus said "not you" Hayley felt a twinge in her heart at this exchange of words but she stepped forward and helped him up. She saw surprise on his face which made her wonder 'why?'

She said "lets get you home".

As they left the bar she said "you need my blood?"

When he shook his head saying "I will get some when we get back to the compound" she said "you really care about her?"

Klaus who was still thinking about how it could happen asked "who?"

Hayley said "Cami who else?"

He looked at her not really looking at her and said "harvest!"

Hayley said "what?"

Klaus said "he came back through the harvest".

Hayley said "what?! but harvest was hoax".

Klaus said "apparently not" and then held her arm unconsciously and whooshed to the compound.

On reaching the compound Klaus darted to kitchen and took out a bag of blood from the freezer and started to drink from it. After he was done he said "I am going to go look for papa Tunde. You stay in the compound Hayley".

Hayley said "Klaus I am not a baby and isn't that Papa Tunde guy a freak?"

Klaus smiled and said "yes he is and no you are not a baby but there are bigger things at stake her". He didn't know that his gaze had gone to her stomach when he had said that which didn't go unnoticed by Hayley.

Hayley stared at him thinking he is worried about the baby whereas Klaus was looking at her thinking he will not lose her again and that baby … she deserves not to be pulled into this mess because of his and Elijah's past. They just kept on staring at each other for a minute and then Klaus steered his gaze away and said "go, I will be back in a few hours".

Hayley went to her room and laid down on the bed thinking why she doesn't tell him. Why she is worried about him and after a lot of tossing and turning she went to sleep.

She startle as she heard a sound. She sat up and realized that it was night. She got out of her bed and walked out of the room and then took a sigh of relief as she recognized Elijah and Klaus's voices. She walked towards the sound and stopped as he saw Klaus standing close to Elijah and saying "I see her hand in this Elijah. She is playing with all of us. We need to find her".

Elijah was about to say something when his gaze fell on Hayley. He said "Hayley come in. Did my brother's yelling woke you up?"

Hayley laughed and said "it had been while I heard this sound so yeah it was a music to the ear"

She turned towards Klaus and said with a smile "you have not shouted that much ever since we left the plantation house. What is going on? Tired of playing nice?"

When he ran his fingers through his head she realized that he was genuinely upset about something. She asked him seriously "did you find him?"

Klaus said irritatedly "yes, we found him. He was dead by the time we found him. Some sort of ritual".

Hayley smiled "good riddance so why are you upset. Did you want to be his friend?"

Elijah who was thinking about what klaus has said to him couldn't help but smile at how her tone has changed to sarcasm at the end of the sentence and then caught Rebekah's gaze who was looking at Hayley with annoyance.

Rebekah sensed someone's eyes on him and turned and caught Elijah looking at her curiously. She flushed and shook her head and got up saying "I am tired. Will talk tomorrow. good night" After saying that she left the room.

Rebekah said to Marcel "are you crazy. You cannot do that to Klaus".

Marcel said "you are either with me or against me Rebekah. I need those daggers".

Rebekah said "No, Marcel we cannot…"

Marcel whooshed to him and said "I am not killing him. I just want him in my garden. he took everything from me. My city, my home… Davina" his voice break at the end of the sentence.

Rebekah walked to him and put her hand on his cheek as he looked at her desperately saying "I promised her that I will protect him Rebekah".

Rebekah said "I know Marcel, no one wanted that but you saw what she was doing to this city from her powers".

Marcel shouted and stepped back and said "Damn it, will you help me or not. You and I can rule this city together again like once we wanted to".

Rebekah was in the process of nodding her head when she stopped as she saw Hayley walking out of the room.

Hayley couldn't believe what she was hearing. She walked out of the room and stopped as she saw Rebekah nodding her head.

She stared at Rebekah and went back.

The look on Hayley's face made Rebekah doubtful and said to Marcel "I don't think it is good idea".

Marcel held her arm and whooshed her out of courtyard.

When she came back after two hours Hayley cornered her in the parlor and said "what the hell Rebekah? he is your brother".

Rebekah said with scorn "a brother who destroyed my life".

Hayley asked her in confusion "what do you mean?"

By the time Rebekah stopped telling her about her and Niklaus history and how he had killed all of his boyfriends and how he didnt let her be with Marcel, Hayley's anger was gone and was replaced by disappointment and then she remembered what Klaus had told her about why he didnt approve of her and Marcel. She remembered how Elijah had kept quiet during that conversation making her think that his explanation was honest. She wondered 'may be there were other logical reasons for him not killing Rebekah's girlfriends. The Klaus she had been discovering cannot be that cruel?'

She looked at Rebekah who was still reeling with emotion from the stories she had told Hayley. She asked her "why did you stay with him Rebekah?"

Rebekah said "what?"

She said again "why did you stay with him? You could have left".

Rebekah laughed and said "you cannot leave Niklaus Hayley. You will find out that soon. He will never let you leave his life now that you two are having this child".

Hayley gulped and her heart skipped a beat but she said "when you came back to New Orleans weren't you living alone. Klaus was not with you. How come he let you live alone right now?"

Rebekah just stared at her lost for words and then she turned and was leaving when Hayley said "Rebekah don't do it. If you do I will tell…" but before she could finish her sentence Rebekah whooshed to her and grabbed her by neck.

Hayley could feel her fingers tightening around her neck when she heard a cold voice "Rebekah!"

Klaus entered the compound in anger and went to the parlor and stopped as he saw her fingers around her neck. He felt a wave of anger shot through him and he said in an authoritative voice "Rebekah!"

As he saw she said "you will not do that" and turned and was passing by him when he held his arm and said "tread lightly. She is not Liz".

Rebekah looked at her and said "I know that". She pushed his hand away and left the room.

Klaus walked in and asked her "what happened?"

She massaged her neck and said "nothing, girl fight".

But Klaus knew from her tone that she was lying. He decided to let it go. He was about to turn when she said "I need to tell you something".

Klaus looked at her with questioningly glare.

She opened her mouth to say something but seeing the intensity of emotions in his eyes, she lost the nerve and said "you know Jackson right?"

Klaus nodded now walking towards the liquor bottle on the desk. He picked it up and poured a glass for himself.

Hayley looked at his back and said "he told me that he and I are betrothed".

Klaus turned towards her slowly and said "what?"

Hayley suddenly smiled at his reaction and said "good to see that I was able to get this reaction from you. I wonder if you …" she stopped as she realized what she was about to say.

Klaus saw red creep on her cheek and thought that it was because of Jackson. He asked again "when? you just broke the curse"

Hayley said "it happened when we were kids. His family and mine didnt get along so to get peace in the pack our parents decided to do this. That is how pack mentality works. He told me at the full moon party".

Klaus was about to say something when Elijah entered the room.

Seeing Elijah brought on the anger that he had been feeling ever since he had found out Mary-Ann was responsible for hurting Hayley.

Elijah saw his expression change and felt guilty again and was about to sit when he asked him "did you know that?"

When he just looked at him Klaus said "About Jackson and her?"

Elijah looked at Hayley in confusion wondering why was she telling him that and nodded. Klaus laughed and said "of course you knew".

Hayley at once got up angrily and said "what do you mean by that?"

Klaus stared at her and then shook his head and said "nothing love so why are you telling me all that?"

Hayley snapped "I just thought that I would tell you something new about my life considering that we are becoming friends" and left the room.

Klaus stared at her leaving and then said to Elijah "you are really calm about all of this and about how she almost died. I would have thought that…"

Elijah said "I don't have time for this Niklaus, I am trying to locate Mary-Ann but have not found her and I have a bad news for you".

Klaus sat down and gulped his drink down and said "what?"

Elijah said "Sophie Deveraux is dead and her niece is back".

Klaus leaned forward and said "what?"

Elijah said "yes apparently she cam back last night. what is going on here? First Papa Tunde came whom you have killed in past then there is the matter of Mary-Ann whom I killed and who has disappeared to I don't know where to and now Sophie".

Klaus got up and said angrily "magic. I hate it and to think that we would have been witches if our dear mother had not made us into vampires".

That brought a smile on Elijah's lips and he said "I would take being a witch any day over being a vampire".

Klaus looked up at Elijah again and said "stop pouting about that. We are what we are. We didnt ask for it. Our mother did this to us".

He got up saying "how do you feel about Jackson and Haley's new development?"

Elijah who was still thinking about what is going on looked at Klaus at this question and saw something on his face which he had not seen for a while not. It looked something like jealousy but not really. He controlled the knowing smile that wanted to creep on his face from appearing and said "I told her, it is her choice. Whatever she chooses I will stand by her".

Before he could stop himself he words were out "what if she chooses Jackson?"

Elijah was quiet for a second taking in the flustered look that had appeared on his brother's face and then said "she will not choose Jackson, Niklaus".

Klaus stared at his brother, at his confidence that Hayely will choose him and at last he nodded and said "I hope choose the best of you. She deserves that".

Elijah didnt know what to say so he kept quiet. Klaus said to him "I have to say that you always had a good taste brother" and then brushing his shoulder he left the room.

That night klaus couldn't sleep at all. He kept thinking about her so at last he consciously starting thinking of Liz and how she used to make him feel. That helped as he started to relax down and drifting off to sleep with the image of her smiling in his mind.

Next morning Klaus entered the parlor and saw her sitting on the sofa with the laptop in her lap and looking at it. He wanted to turn around and leave but then he thought that if she is to end up with Elijah then he has to learn to act in her presence so he took a deep breath and asked her "what is going on?"

Hayley smiled and said "nothing much, just reading something about pregnancy on internet".

Klaus was so taken back by her answer that he didnt know what to say.

When Hayley didnt hear anything from him she looked up and asked him after some hesitation "have you ever thought about having kids?"

Klaus started feeling nervous by these questions so he said rather harshly "I cannot have kids so what is the point of thinking about them".

At her squinting eyes he realized that his tone was unnecessary harsh so he got flustered and said softly "sorry, I just…"

Hayley said "so if you could have, you would have been interested".

Klaus said after some time "no".

Hayley asked him in surprise "why not?"

Klaus said "because I don't have a good role model of a father and they say like father like son".

Hayley was so taken back by the honesty of his answer that she didnt know what to say at first and then she said "first of all Mikael is not your real father and secondly not every son is like his father. I have a feeling you will be a great father".

As soon as the words were out she felt her cheeks getting warm and that amused look on his face was not helping her.

He said with a smile on his lips; a sweet smile that she had only seen on that night when they were together, a smile that had melted her heard and was still melting it "why Hayley! that sounds like a complement".

Hayley laughed and got up and said "well take is as you want. I am off to".

Klaus asked her "where are you going?"

Hayley said "going to the bayou…" she stopped as he got up and opened his mouth to say something "with Rebekah" .

She smiled as she saw his shoulders relaxing and said "for someone who wants people to believe that he does not care about anyone you show a lot of care for people".

She smiled when didnt say anything and left the parlor with him standing in the there alone lost in his thoughts.

In the afternoon Hayley was sitting in the living room thinking about her meeting with Eve and smiled at what she had discovered. She felt like sharing it with someone other than Rebekah who was with her when she found out. Suddenly she wanted to tell him but the thought made her nervous as she wondered how will she tell him. Their morning conversation about him not having a child had haunted her throughout the day and she was starting to seriously doubt that he would be happy to find out that it is his child. She startled as she heard him ask "how was your trip to the bayou?"

Hayley said "good. Rebekah was with me all the time incase you are wondering" with a smile.

From his expressions she realized that she has hit the bulls eye. As she saw him he nodded and then turned to leave when Hayley got the nerve and said "I found something about the baby today".

Klaus was at the door, he stopped as elijah entered the parlor.

She said with a smile looking at his back and Elijah at the same time "I think it is a girl".

Elijah eyes glimpsed at Klaus and his heart warmed up to the flow of emotions that passed through his face. As Elijah looked, Klaus looked in his direction. Their eyes met for a fraction of a second and then Klaus continued going out.

Elijah entered the room and said "you told him?"

Hayley shook his head and said "no I couldn't".

Elijah said with exasperation "Hayley!"

Hayley got up and started pacing intervening her fingers showing Elijah how nervous she was. She said "I don't know what is happening. The more time is passing, the more it is becoming difficult for me to tell him and now that we are on best terms ever. He seems to care about me and the baby because he thinks that the baby is not his. I am afraid that he will not care if he finds out this baby is his. I just cannot bring myself to tell him. What do i say to him? How do I say to him? How can i explain to him that I lied to him".

Elijah went to her and took her hands in his hand and said "dont think too much Hayley, just tell him. I told you he will be shocked, not just because he is going to be a father but because it is not possible. He is part vampire Hayley, we never imagined something so wonderful can happen in our lives. This is something extraordinary that has happened to both of you. Think of it as a gift to you two. Tell him Hayley".

He leaned in and kissed her on the forehead and turned around and left, both of the not knowing that kiss was witnessed by someone.

Klaus was coming down the stair leaving the compound when he causally glanced in the parlor on the way out thinking that he should congratulate Hayley on the news but he felt as if all the air got sucked out of his body as he saw Elijah leaning in to Hayley. He turned around and whooshed out of their as if that will scratch that image from his mind.

He went straight to Rousseau's hoping that drowning himself in liquor will help him think of other things but it didnt help. These days he had been getting really agitated thinking of his emotional involvement with Hayley. He would often ask himself 'how come he reached this point. He knew she was not Liz so why did he open his heart for him?' but a voice kept on saying 'she made her way in forcefully'. He was getting really worried about the fact that they had still not found Mary-Ann slash Sabine and he knew she would want her revenge from Elijah and that revenge can only be Hayley right now.