Chapter 12, everyone! Sorry for taking so long. I have school preparations and tutors and not so much free writing time anymore. This chapter will be full of Klayley interactions due to Klaus' unexpected beat down. Hayley will try to find out from him what happened in the woods.

Many emotions will be running high at one point. Davina and Kol are also going to have some moments ;) and Katherine will try to do something nobody expected her to do. Enjoy!


Watching his sleep was something I hadn't done before. He was brought back in Elijah's arms and Rebekah was frightened of what might have happened to her brother if I hadn't gotten there in time. Klaus was laid on his bed, covered with blankets, with black shorts on, but no shirt.

He was half-naked this time, so any woman would have been okay with peeking at him from outside his room. I was glad I found him and asked Elijah to call Sophie and have her come and check on him. Katherine informed me that at the moment, what Klaus needed was to regain her strength. I was having a small conversation with her outside his room.

"We need him well." Katherine said and I knew she meant that only because she wanted to be well protected, but I just nodded, agreeing with her. "It's peculiar how you decided to just go after him like that. I have to say, Hayley, that I was impressed." "This baby needs him more than ever. Sophie even told me about my first ultrasound coming up. This baby's father needs him here."

"And you need him here." "This has nothing to do with me." "Well, you're in love with him. It's natural to refuse to let him walk out of your life, but you two will always be connected by this child, you know that." Katherine told me and I sighed and started thinking whether or not this was all I wanted.

"If you want my opinion, I think he got exactly what he deserved. What was he thinking, almost ignoring our plan to spend a night with Caroline?" she wondered to herself and I refused to answer to her question.

Sophie walked towards us with Elijah by her side. "So, you've found him. What seems to be the problem?" she asked me. "Well, that's what I want you to tell me." I pushed the door open and invited her inside Klaus' master bedroom. She seemed to be afraid of what she might discover; after all she needed Klaus for Marcel's destruction as well. She analyzed every bone in his body and started chanting. Just then, Kol and Davina walked in a little too loud.

"Shhh!" Sophie told them and they went mute almost immediately. Chanting, I noticed that she was feeling the inside of his abdomen and had a frown plastered on her face. "Sophie, what's wrong?" Rebekah asked her, also noticing the frown. "Let me put it this way. His bones are terribly broken, right here and right here." Sophie said.

"That is impossible. He would have healed by now. He's part vampire." Elijah replied and Sophie shook her head. "No. You have to understand that something about his transformation into a werewolf, affected the inside of his body greatly. He needs to be well taken care off for a couple of days." Sophie explained and handed me some herbs in a bottle.

"Rub this on his body now and tomorrow. He'll be fine." I looked at the bottle and nodded. "Can't you tell me what happened?" "Hayley, you're a werewolf. You can try and figure it out. I am not the expert in this."

Handing the bottle to Rebekah, I went after Sophie outside, hoping that I would get a chance to have a private conversation with her. "Hey! Sophie, wait!" I called out and she stopped walking.

"What's wrong?" Catching up to her and breathing hard, I told her the truth about what was bothering me. "I am worried about my baby." "Why?" "Sophie, you keep telling me that the baby is fine, but from the way I see it, it's not. It kicked and my belly is still not showing even after two months, not to mention the bomb you laid on me that the baby will grow pretty fast due to Klaus' vampire side.

It is growing fast, but from the looks of my flat belly, it isn't." Sophie smiled and patted my arm. "We don't call it the miracle baby for nothing, Hayley. It's not natural what is happening, because it is a supernatural baby and not an ordinary one. Try to understand that and have faith that your baby belly will show pretty soon.

You'll wake up one day and realize that you're fat." She started laughing but to me, it didn't seem funny at all. Being fat was not exactly what I planned of becoming. I mean, I understand that due to the growth of the baby, the belly needs to get large, but I didn't want it that large and absolutely not so sudden. "Okay." I whispered and Sophie rubbed my arm one more time before leaving for good.

There I was, stuck again. Not knowing what to do and where to turn. Getting back in the house and heading towards Klaus' room, I noticed Davina just sitting there, away from the others. "Are you okay?" I asked her.

"I know that I mustn't be afraid of him but I am afraid that he will never accept me living here with the rest of you." Davina responded and I sat down next to her. "Don't say that. You are staying with us, do you hear me?"

"I would love to be reassured like that, but you are not the one that gets to decide that, Hayley, no offence." "None taken, but I get your point." "From what I know about Klaus Mikaelson is that he's always been this evil hybrid who cares only about himself and power. Nothing else."

I hugged her gently and said, "That is not true. I mean, he was that kind of person, but a long time ago. He's changed now, or maybe it's just that he's been doing what I asked him to do once, and that is to take off that hard mask and reveal to everyone the person he truly is on the inside." I whispered and Davina was looking at me and listening to my every word.

"So, you think that he will be that person?" "I really don't know anymore. He changes from time to time. At one point, I am talking to this man I admire and happen to love, the father of my child, and then, I realize that I am speaking to a heartless monster."

Davina continued to look at me and said, "If he shows even the smallest gesture which proves he cares, it means that you and your baby must mean to him a lot more than you realize."

Elijah walked towards me after a few hours. I had decided to sit peacefully in the living room and read a book like a normal person. I was not only reading. I was also thinking about everything that has happened and my thoughts trailed to the conversation he and Caroline had on the phone before he left at an unreasonable hour and didn't even bother telling his family that the only reason he left early was not because he wanted to start as earlier as possible.

It was because he wanted some time alone with Caroline and that little vampire slut spent that night playing with Klaus' heart behind Tyler's back. The anger roared inside me at that moment and it was clear that what I felt was so much more than a broken heart.

I was never going to forgive Klaus for what he did. Unfortunately, I realized a little too late how desperate and pathetic I've become just like those little cheerleaders I've seen in Mystic Falls. Emotionally weak and too optimistic for their own good.

I have spent too much of my time pretending to be someone I'm not just because some feelings for Klaus started kicking inside me, but this was not who I was, and I was going to prove that nobody would mess with my body and my feelings and gets away with it. Klaus had managed to do both of those.

"Hayley, Niklaus is awake." Elijah whispered. I put down the book I was reading about pain, torture and deceit. I looked at Elijah in a way that told him, "So, what do you want from me?" He glanced at the floor and replied, "Could you go speak to him, please?"

"Why? I am no mood to face him right now, Elijah." "Please! He refuses to talk to both Rebekah and I. I was thinking that maybe you would find a way to get him back on track and find out what happened to him in those woods." I stood up and put my hands on my hips.

"Why would he listen to me, when he already refused to listen to his own brother and sister?" Elijah rubbed his forehead again and I noticed how tired he was. Katherine came downstairs in the living room and said, "He's asking for you, Hayley."

Katherine pulled Elijah into a tight hug and showed her love and devotion to him. Once again, I let myself wonder what it would feel to be in a man's arms like that and be feeling the love, care, devotion that he brings to your beating heart.

"Hayley! Niklaus." Elijah told me and I snapped out of this immediately. I sighed and just when Rebekah waltzed downstairs with her hair pulled in a ponytail. She was sweating. "It's hard to get him to talk, Elijah, but he wants to see Hayley." She fanned herself and I rolled my eyes. What possible reason did he have to want to see me? How could he even look at me in the eyes after everything he's done? I decided to give it a rest and see once and for all what this "bastard" as the beloved Katherine Pierce described him, wanted.

His bedroom door was wide open and I could easily walk inside and see him looking pale and I noticed from the door that Rebekah had managed to trace his abdomen with those herbs Sophie had brought us.

He looked at me from the moment I appeared in the doorway and he looked serious, but not angry, the way I would have expected. I was looking at him with a frown however, and that surprised him a lot.

Walking towards him, feeling a chill down my spine and my beating heart quicken its pace was really overwhelming and I refused to let myself feel that way, using the anger I also felt on one side for betraying us and our plan for survival in New Orleans with a new King by our side, but it turned out that King that we trusted had turned his back on his followers, his heir and his kingdom for darling, messed up Caroline Forbes who likes playing around with men and doesn't know her purpose in life anymore.

"Hayley." he whispered when I sat down on the bed next to him. I refused to look at him in the eyes and touched his stomach, to which he roared and growled afterwards. "DON'T TOUCH IT!" he yelled, grabbing my arm and pushing it off him. That was the moment all that girl power kicked inside me and I had the courage to meet those now angry eyes of his.

"WELL, HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ME TRYING TO HELP YOU GET BETTER? HOW CAN I DO THAT WHEN YOU REFUSE TO LET ME HELP YOU EVEN AFTER EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE?" He looked shocked for a moment and his eyes scrunched into a frown afterwards, as he stood up on his bed. We were now looking at each other eye to eye.

I knew that physically, he would run me over in a flash, but mentally, I was in charge and I had the necessary resources to put him in his place. "It… hurts!" he said in a ragging tone. "Good. That is what you get for messing up our plan." I turned around to leave, but in a second he had gotten out of bed and grabbed me by the waist, while also closing the door in front of me.

He didn't want me to speak, he didn't want me to help him, but somehow he did. What the hell did he want from me? At that moment, I heard a crack and he was on the floor again, gripping his stomach, the pain rushing through him faster than anyone could possibly imagine.

Shocked by what happened, I quickly knelt down next to him, help him up and took him to bed so he could lay down again. He started breathing hard and I grabbed Sophie's bottle and continued to grease those herbs on his stomach again.

He didn't keep his eyes shut and watched me how I got a special kind of olive oil combined it with wolves bane and rubbed it on top as well. "What is that?" he whispered. "Wolves bane with olive oil. From what I know from my experience as a werewolf, it will ease the pain in your situation." I told him as softly as he asked me. "Why were you in woods alone at night? What were you thinking?"

"That is the problem. I wasn't thinking. Let's just say that everyone here in New Orleans, me, Rebekah, Elijah, Katherine, Kol and even our new member, Davina, got tired of waiting for you to arrive. I did this for the baby's sake. You didn't deserve my help and nor do you now." Klaus sighed and looked at me sternly. "Why is that witch here?"

"Didn't you say that we need her against Marcel? Well, while you were off doing God knows what, Kol and I have been working our butts off trying to convince her to leave Marcel's side and join us to rid this town of those who want to destroy it, even though she considered Marcel her family for the past sixteen years of her life." I explained, with the same stern expression on my face.

He looked at me as if he couldn't believe that I had managed to pull this off without his help. Well, I had managed to pull this off with the help of another Original Vampire, one who was considered to be the worst brother, but unfortunately for Klaus, that was not the case.

That spot had been taken by him. "Why didn't you wait? Marcel could have caught you, or his slaves." Klaus asked, standing up on his bed again to look at me straight in the eyes.

"I know. Rebekah warned me, but we were already wasting too much time, so I took the reins and managed to accomplish my goal. From the looks of it, you had been missing for quite some time, yet you didn't manage to accomplish your goal, I mean the goal that you had before other unimportant ones." Klaus was startled by what I was telling him and he should have been.

Many moments passed in silence. Klaus kept looking at me while I tried not to meet his eyes and continued to rub his stomach with that special medicine of mine. Unsurprisingly, he tried to change the subject and I let him.

"How did you know that this would work?" he asked me about my medicine. I looked at the wolves' bane and the olive oil and smiled.

"I had some trouble a while ago after I triggered my werewolf gene. The first full moons were horrible and I knew that if I wanted to survive, I had to find others like me and stand by them and at the same time ask for their help. There was a girl, Nadine, about my age. She helped me overcome the pain with this combination of werewolves' bane and olive oil. She was a good friend. Her pack was my first one, but due to complications, I had to move to many other packs. I've also been through many states and I've even been in France, Italy and Spain in Europe."

I hadn't meant to get all emotional about my difficult past life ever since I was fourteen and my adoptive parents kicked me out when I triggered my werewolf gene. It just slipped out and Klaus seemed interested by what I just said. "You travel?" he asked me in a whisper.

What was the point of him asking me that? I answered anyway, still greasing continuously his abdomen and kind of enjoying the feeling of touching it. It made me feel easy, safe and I never wanted that feeling to wash away. "I did. I've always liked to travel, see the world. It made me feel like wherever I went, I was able to be the person who I wanted to be. I felt free and completely safe at the same time. I can't remember one time when I was actually in danger."

Klaus chuckled. "I have trouble believing that." he said and I continued talking like I never stopped. "I never had a stable home. I wish I did. No matter where I went and in what packs I managed to sneak into, I never felt like I had a family and a home. Never."

He seemed to want to listen to me at that moment and I liked that. I liked that I was finally able to get through to him, but I was still angry at him and he noticed that.

"What is it, love?" I rubbed some more and he relaxed under my touch. "I am mad at you because you screwed up our plan by leaving earlier than we planned and not telling me." I lied. I mean, it was partly true, but I was actually mad at him for a whole different reason. For a moment, I didn't even care that he didn't manage to get the lost werewolves. I was planning on taking care of that.

"Is that all?" he was starting to pressure me because he knew very well by the hurt expression on my face, which I couldn't hide anymore, that it was something else that was bothering me, but that was exactly what I refused to let out of me. I stopped rubbing, feeling my face hot from embarrassment that I had been doing this for so long, getting up to put the bottles away.

That rubbing must have a helped a lot because he managed to get out of bed this time without collapsing. He walked towards me and I couldn't help but stare at that muscular body of his, with that necklace he loved to wear and that tattoo he had on his arm. He looked absolutely gorgeous, I couldn't hide that, and he would indeed make a handsome king.

I snapped out of my thoughts when something crossed my mind while admiring his physique. He was right in front of me and I could now ask him the most important question that day.

"Klaus, when was the last time you turned into a werewolf?" He looked at me and I wondered in what way he was going to answer this question, as it seems that he was struggling not to give me a straight answer. I looked at him and demanded a straight answer from him.

"Before I became the first hybrid." he said.

I have to admit that his answer took me off guard. It was hard to imagine that he hadn't tried to turn into a wolf anytime in his one thousand years of existence. "What are you saying? That you hadn't turned at all for the past one thousand years?" I asked, shocked.

Now everything made sense. I knew very well that his body was not used to this kind of thing anymore and the wounds that were created on the inside, if I hadn't gotten to him in time, he would have indeed become a real mess and the recovery chances would have been really low.

"Don't do it again." I warned him and he looked stunned.

"You cannot ask me not to turn into a wolf anymore, love. As you saw, I needed to turn I order to get to the lost werewolves." "You didn't succeed!" "I will once I go out again tonight." he said and I stepped towards him in a menacing way.

"You are not going anywhere, do you understand me?" Klaus smirked and took a step towards me, taking me off guard. "This is my kingdom, love and you are not going to stop me from getting it."

I laughed and said, "Have you lost your mind? All I did my entire time here was try to get you to get this town back, but you don't seem to appreciate my help at all. And what makes you think that you are going to succeed tonight when you haven't succeeded in the last couple of days?" He looked at me in a way that made me feel that he was making up an excuse.

I didn't understand why it was so hard for him to tell me the truth. Why did he have to hide the fact that he'd been with Caroline? Everybody knew the truth, and I was pretty sure that they were all waiting to hear it from Klaus.

"It was the first time I turned into a wolf since I became a hybrid. I want you to understand from what happened last night that it was difficult for me, even with my vampire side. I am going to turn again tonight and find those blasted creatures." he made his point and went towards the closet to put on a jet black shirt.

"I am the one going tonight, not you." Okay, I was still mad at him, but I couldn't just stay in the house and wait for him to get hurt like that once again. He needed to take it easy just like Sophie told me. Klaus grinned and laughed that cute and irresistible laugh of his. "I don't think so." "Yes, I am. I'd like to see you try to stop me."

Uh oh! Bad move, this time. I didn't want to end chained up in the living room that night. Klaus approached and took a strand of my hair and started playing with it under his fingers.

"Don't tempt me, Hayley. Stay here. You can't even turn into a werewolf whenever you want." "Even if I can't shape shift, that doesn't mean that I will have less chances of convincing them to join us than you will." "Want to bet, love?"

I pulled away from him and headed out the door. "Yes! And stop calling me love!" I called out from the hall and I could pretty much make out his chuckle. I started laughing out of nowhere, as I was walking down the stairs, for some reason.

A terrific surprise was to get into a discussion between Elijah and Katherine downstairs. The subject was not the one I was expecting, Celeste. "Why can't you do it?" Katherine asked with tears in her eyes.

Elijah came towards her and pulled her in a short but soft kiss. "My darling Katerina, I can't do something like this. The chances are too big. You've taken the cure and its particles are still inside of you. Turning you into a vampire the old fashioned way is not an option. The cure will forbid it and you will die." "I'd rather die now than live like a human until I am an eighty year old lady."

"I am not going to lose you, Katerina." "You will if you don't turn me back into a vampire. I need to be immortal again, Elijah. You have no idea how much it means to me. It's part of who I am. It's who I've been for the past five hundred years. I can't just give up on all that."

"Please, I need you to trust me when I say that there is no way back. My darling, I promise you that I will do everything in my power to find a way." "And what if you don't?" Katherine crossed her arms, the tears refusing to dry from her cheeks. This anti-vampire transformation was affecting her more than I thought.

What was the point of becoming immortal? I mean, sure, when you have someone you truly love, you would do anything for that person and be anyone for that person. You could live together forever with no problems, but in my case where I had no parents, no family, and no real place where I could feel at home, you don't feel the need to live forever.

I wanted my life to have purpose. I was planning on being a responsible mother when my child would be born and live until my time is up. That was my plan, and if I would manage to find my biological family, even better.

Slowly, as to not interrupt this truly emotional moment Katherine was sharing with Elijah, I decided to take a break and go in the kitchen for a snack. One of Katherine's burgers seemed like a good idea. I was planning on keeping a diet in order not to turn up fat after the delivery, but what the heck?

Finishing the burger in the hall and washing it down with a glass of fresh water, I decided to check on Davina, but it seemed that when I got there, someone was already having a nice little chat with her.

"I don't agree with you looking through my stuff, Kol! Let that go!" It seemed that Kol had taken Davina's favorite spell book and was messing around with it.

"Well, this is totally messed up and I don't get any of this. What is it with you, witches? I don't get anything of what you're doing. All this magic stuff is a lot of crap if you ask me." "Then get out of my room!" Davina yelled out loud and took Kol by surprise.

"Wow! You sure know how to adjust the volume of your voice, darling." Davina grabbed her book out of Kol's grip and gave him a dark look. Kol just snickered and went to sit down next to her on the bed, as she continued reading, also putting his arm around her.

"I am here, put by Hayley, to protect you, sweetheart." "I don't need protection. I can take care of myself. I think I've said that more than twice." "That's not what Hayley thinks when my brother is going to finally meet you. It was his idea actually to take you away from Marcel."

"Maybe I might change my mind and go back to Marcel and continue my life the way I started it." Davina snapped at him. "Really? Do you want to be the same trapped witch you were before? Marcel is only using you for your powers. You got rid of them, he couldn't care less about where you would end up."

"And you think all of you are different?" "At least we are fighting to get this town back in track. I hate it when Nik has all the glory, but I have to admit that this is his town and no Marcel is going to change that."

"So, you are jealous of your own brother?" "Hey, don't consider me the bad guy here. There are sibling rivalries going on in every family. I am actually the good brother." Davina grinned as she continued to stare down at her book, but I don't think she was reading anymore.

"I have trouble believing that. Elijah seems to me like the good brother who wants to keep his family united." "Elijah is the oldest. He's boring and that's why he seems so mature. At least Nik and I know how to have fun."

"What kind of fun? Ripping innocent good people's heads off?" Kol started laughing and I knew that she had gotten him there. Davina was a smart girl, just like me. I wanted to go right in there and congratulate her for her bravery and intelligence, but I didn't want to be too pathetic.

Listening to Elijah and Katherine being able to deal with difficult problems, and hearing Kol and Davina getting to know each other better made me think about how much trouble Klaus and I had in these parts of our lives.

We were supposed to get closer, this baby's future lies in our hands and instead, we lie and deceive each other. Klaus was supposed to be my friend, my partner. We were supposed to collaborate like the mature future parents that we were.

Deciding to get in on another burger, I yet again thought about my lost family. What if the werewolves that once lived in New Orleans were actually my real family? There was only one way to find out.

I had to leave for the woods tonight and I was going unnoticed. "You know, love, if you keep up eating so much junk food, you will sure wake up with ten more pounds after the baby is born." Klaus walked inside the kitchen, opened the freezer and got out one of his thousand blood bags.

"Thank you for telling me." I noted the sarcasm in my voice, but he didn't or he chose to ignore it as he said, "You're welcome, Hayley." Thank God he called me by my real name and not that "love" word which I kind of loved when he used it with his accent, but I was one hundred percent sure he did that with every girl, not just me, as his way of teasing us.

"I was being sarcastic. I didn't mean that seriously, for your information. I just ate one burger. I was hungry." Klaus licked his lips from the blood which made his lips look dark red. "Sure, but you were going to get another one."

I quickly put the other one away in Katherine's little cupboard where she kept all the human food she remembered she once loved. "I better feed a lot for tonight." he replied, getting into sucking another blood bag and I knew that he only said that to provoke me, and as a fool, I took the bait.

"You are not going anywhere! I am and I am leaving tonight, which is why I decided to get myself one of these burgers so I would not feel the need to eat anything tonight when I go!" I told him, stubbornly.

He smiled after finishing his second blood bag and took a few steps forward until he was standing right in front of me, and we were pretty much the same height, okay he is a little bit taller. His sweet hybrid smell made me feel somewhat dizzy again and I felt like drowning into it, with no shame. Worse for my beating heart was one he reached a hand and cupped my cheek.

Feeling his touch against my skin made me shiver and get yet another chill down my spine. He did this once before and that was before he promised me that as long as I was with him, nothing bad would happen to me. "Sweetheart, you need to stay here and take care of the baby." he whispered near my cheek. "You don't think that I am capable of doing this are you?" Klaus looked at me in a serious way, his mouth parted a little like he didn't know what to say, and I got my answer. "Fine." I whispered and pulled away from him, leaving the kitchen without that burger no matter how hungry I was.

Elijah was not in his study, he was still in the living room with Kol and Davina. Davina was helping Elijah find something useful through books, while Kol watched her in a way that amazed him.

"You're really good at this." he laid back on the couch and put his head on her legs, grinning and Davina raised an eyebrow before getting him off her. "I told you to never touch me again, or I will zap you like I did in the attic."

"Darling, if you wanted to hurt me, you would have done that from the very beginning when I entered your room, uninvited." Kol was teasing her and it was good that Davina was resisting. I came inside and our eyes met. Davina smiled and said, "We're researching about these kinds of supernatural babies, like the kind you are carrying, Hayley."

Elijah looked up from his book and nodded at me. "Thank you, guys, you don't have to do this. This is my baby and I have to find a way to care for it the best I can." "And Niklaus will help you, will he not?" Elijah replied, still smiling for some reason. I think he somehow got the impression that Klaus and I were finally getting used to this and working together.

"Well…" "Of course I will." Klaus appeared right behind me and breathed lightly into my open neck. Just those words coming out of his mouth meant a lot to me. Half smiling at him, I nodded and whispered "Thank you."

"I am glad to see everything is working out well." Elijah said and nodded. "Where is Katherine?" The last time I saw her was when she and Elijah were having that discussion about vampirism. Just when I asked, I saw her wondering out of the dining room with something in her hand, but I couldn't make out what it was.

"Hey! What are you doing?" I asked her and she just shrugged, quickly heading upstairs and shutting her door. "She sure is in a mood." Kol replied, smirking at Elijah while his oldest brother sighed. "She wants to be a vampire again so much. I don't know what I can do to help her."

"Not to worry, brother. She is more useful to me human than vampire." Klaus exclaimed and I rolled my eyes. There was no way that Rebekah and Elijah were going to let him create anymore hybrids and I was hoping that he would refrain from doing that when we would finally find the Louisiana werewolf pack.

"I am going to have a talk with Rebekah." I said and left Klaus' side, to his disappointment, because he was soon upstairs in front of me, using his super speed. "What now?" I asked.

"I just want to sort things out with you. I never meant that you are not capable of finding those werewolves alone, I only wanted to imply that is not your responsibility." "I just want to help." I replied and that made his true and natural smile pop out on his face, something which surprised me because I rarely ever saw it.

"Hayley, you've done enough, sweetheart. You've brought Davina and she will be of great use to us." "It's not just that. I…" I couldn't even explain to him what I felt, but he seemed to have understood when he saw the expression on my face.

"You want to find your family." he whispered and I nodded, looking at him with my emerald green eyes showing every emotion I felt. Such traitors. "Family means a lot to me and I know that it means a lot to you too. That is why I was hoping you would understand." I whispered and he came closer, nodding. He gets me.

That is what I love most about him. He sighed and looked once more deep into my eyes before responding to my unasked question. Rubbing his chin, playfully he said, "Let's just say that I might need someone with powerful convincing abilities, and that person could be you since you just convinced me to let you come."

When I heard him say that, a huge smile spread on my face and I couldn't control my emotions any longer. I ran up to him and pulled him into a hug, wrapping my arms around his neck. I was too happy and pleased by his answer that I simply couldn't contain it or my actions.

Klaus just stayed there shocked for a moment, before wrapping both of his arms around me, filling me up with warmth, comfort and support. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes, him breathing slowly down my neck, the way I loved and I wanted to stay like this with him forever.

Just then, an image flowed in my mind with him and Caroline wrapped around each other that night. Feeling lost once more and confused, I let him go, and he looked like he wasn't expecting me to sort of push him away like that. "Um, we'll meet here tonight." I told him before leaving.

"Hey!" I knocked on Rebekah's door and walked in even before she could say for me to come in. I stared at her in shock. She stood there, wearing make-up, dressed in a sexy black outfit with her beautiful blonde hair let loose and straightened.

"Are you going somewhere?" I asked stupidly. Of course she was going somewhere, otherwise she wouldn't have been dressed up like that. "Yeah! Marcel invited me for a drink today and I am supposed to meet him at Sophie's bar in twenty minutes." she said, checking her watch.

I stood there amazed with both of my eyebrows raised. Rebekah sighed, "It is not that big of a deal, Hayley. I am only going because he asked me to. Give it a rest. I can get information from him if I act like I am his close buddy."

I smiled, "Rebekah, nobody is accusing you of anything. It is not a big deal. What I want to know is why you haven't told me, Klaus or Elijah yet? Were you also planning on leaving without saying a word to us?"

"Marcel…" "I get it! You should have told me at least." "Very well! I'm sorry. I had to get ready and I forgot to tell you all about it. By the way, why did you come here. Is there something you wanted to talk to me about?" "It's Klaus." "Ah! Have you two proud parents figured out a way to work together, yet?" "We have."

"Good. Then I expect not to hear anymore yelling in this house except from Katherine." "Yes, but I am still mad at him, regardless of everything else." "Hey, I am mad at him too for leaving us without saying a word that night, but it's in the past. I am sure he will not do it again."

"I am not so sure about that." I whispered. "Everything will be already, Hayley. You just have to focus on your baby. You know very well that is your first priority now."

"Yes, of course." Rebekah gave me a wink before heading out the door but stopped and said, "Hey, don't tell Klaus and Elijah who I am meeting there, okay?"

"Why not?" "Please. Do it for me. I helped you when you wanted to go inspect Marcel's mansion at the Art Show that night."

"You eventually told Klaus and Elijah. I still haven't forgiven you for that." "That was different. I thought you were in danger, both you and Katherine that is why I told them. Try to understand that."

"I'll do my best." "So, will you do it?" "Yes! I will tell them that you went out shopping." "Good one. I must remember to get some clothes before I come back home. They might get suspicious if I don't. I mean, I've never come back home from a shopping spree without clothes. They might think I've lost my mind."

I laughed and so did she. "Okay. I'm going. Take care of Katherine for me, will you?" she said before disappearing using her super speed downstairs and out the door.

Speaking of Katherine…just when Rebekah left, I heard some noise in Katherine's room. Like something tumbling onto the floor. It was a loud noise and I heard Elijah and Klaus rushing upstairs just as I approached Katherine's room and opened the door in shock.

"Katerina!" Elijah rushed to her side. She was laying on the floor with blood dripping from her mouth and I saw that a chair and a rope tied up to the ceiling was in front of my eyes. I gasped, closing my eyes and covering my mouth with my hands when I realized what Katherine was really trying to do.

"Vampire. I wanted to be a vampire." Katherine whispered in Elijah's arms. He smelled the blood and said, "Vampire blood. Where did you get it." Katherine gulped and pointed to Klaus. I realized that she must have taken some from him when he was asleep that day and no one was watching.

"Katerina, you mustn't do something like this again. You are going to get yourself killed. Please, never try this again. You cannot become a vampire like this. Do you want to get yourself killed? Do you want to leave me alone in this world for eternity."

"I was only trying to get myself immortal again so I could be with you immortal once more." Elijah pulled her in a hug and just then, Kol and Davina walked inside. "What the hell happened?" Kol asked. Nobody answered as Katherine stayed with Elijah, and I stood transfixed in front of the hanging rope. She was trying to hang herself after drinking vampire blood, just the way she turned five hundred years ago.

This was not the way now that she still had the cure in her system. Elijah was right. She could have died if we hadn't come inside to stop her. Klaus wrapped his arms around me.

"Shhh." he whispered once he felt what I was going through. I didn't even know why I turned around and held my head against his chest, not bearing to see the in what state Katherine was in anymore. She needed some serious help or else she would have gone mad. I was sure that Elijah would be taking extra care of her from then on.

"I can't look at this." I whispered in Klaus' chest. He understood what I was going through once again. He sighed and whispered

"C'est la vie." This means "That's life." in French. Taking a quick peek at Katherine, I was worried and hoping that she would indeed find the necessary help she needed.