The drive to home was a quiet one. She was really annoyed with him but she realized that he looked lost in thoughts too. She said after a couple of minutes of quiet drive "I need you to drop me at my apartment"
Klaus looked at her and said with a sigh "Hayley I had a really long day, I will love it if you don't argue with me on anything especially on a stupid demand like that. I will take you to your apartment, you gather some necessary things and come with me to my house. Do you get it?"
Hayley felt like snapping at him but he really looked upset at something so she didn't say anything. He stopped the car outside her apartment building and stood at the doorway as she put some change of clothing and her toiletries in a bag.
Hayley kept glancing at him during the drive to his home but he didn't say a single word to her. When they reached home, he got out quietly and took her bags inside. He said to her as she entered "there is a room opposite mine. You can settle in that. I have some work to do so please feel comfortable".
And then he took her bag upstairs and after dropping it in the room he had told her about, he went to his room and changed into something comfortable. As he was going down he bumped into her. He excused himself and went straight to the study. He took out the file and started to read it. The meeting with Jim Barkerly was going through his mind. He thought about how much he liked the man and now he was dying. He wanted to help him but what could he do when Jim was willing to let go.
And then with determination he took out all the files related to the case and started reading the detail of law suit again. A couple of hours later he was sitting on the ground with papers all around him. He held his head as he picked up a sheet and after reading it he said "Fuck me".
"I didn't know that you knew that word" his head spun in the direction of voice.
Hayley walked towards him thinking 'how adorable he looked sitting on the ground with all the papers around him and fussy hair'. She smiled as she saw his bare feet. Something about seeing a person in his or her bare feet always made her very homey and looked intimate. She sat opposite him with legs crisscrossed with at the cup of coffee in her hand.
Klaus looked at her and his eyes went to her bare feet and he smiled. He said "everyone knows that word these days" and then he asked her "what are you doing up at this time of night?" One look at his wrist watch told him that it was two in the morning.
"I cannot sleep" Hayley said. When he stared at her she said "apparently morning sickness is not confined to mornings only. That medicine is not working as well as I had hoped it to work".
Klaus looks at her for one second and then looks down at the paper in his hand. She asked him "what are you doing?"
He said distractedly without looking at her "I am trying to find something to salvage this case I am about to lose"
"What is the case about" Hayley put the coffee cup down on the floor and leaned over and picked up the file from near his feet when he held her hand. When she looked into his eyes he said "please don't touch these".
Hayley dropped the file. Klaus realized that he was still holding her hand. He let it go and said "Any way you probably will not understand all of this"
Flashback
Year 2008
"I present you class of 2004" Someone announced.
She stood up with her class mates and moved the tassel of her graduation cap in the opposite direction and smiled. She looked around at her friends who were smiling and waving at their family members. James and Emma looked at her and smiled.
They sat down on their seats as the announcement proceeded to more classes.
After the ceremony, she walked up to Emma and said "Valedictorian I am impressed"
"It should have been you" Emma said "I don't know why you didn't become"
She smiled at her and said "because you were better than me".
Emma said "No, you were. I swear you were"
She just smiled and thought about Mrs. Jameson's visit to her when she came to tell her telling her that she was getting the award and how she compelled her not to give the award to her and give it to Emma because she didn't want to become center of attention making people suspicious of her.
She laughed as James grabbed her from back and lifted her in the air and said "we did it".
He put her down and said "Remember the first year when we thought that we couldn't get through it and look at us now, we are lawyers"
They hugged each other and promised to keep in touch with each other and carried their bags out of the building where they had spent last four years.
Hayley looked at the law campus of Harvard with an ache in her heart. She had spent four wonderful years in here and now she was a lawyer and new chapter of her life was going to start not. She turned and bumped into someone. She said "excuse me" and bent to pick up her handbag as she heard him say "I am sorry love, I don't know what I was thinking".
"Hey come look at this" a voice sounded and the guy turned his face towards the voice as she lifted hers to look at his face.
He got up and handed her the handbag with his face still turned towards the voice. Hayley noticed a ring in his finger and realized who he was and hastily took her handbag from him and left.
End flash back
Hayley said with a smile "actually I can understand all of this".
When Klaus looked at her she said "what? I was getting bored with my life and I decided to study law".
Klaus laughed and said "Bored! Law! That is impressive. When and from where?"
He didn't realize that he leaned back against the sofa and was smiling.
She took the file from his hand and said "Harvard, class of 2004".
She looked up when he didn't say anything and said incredulously "you don't believe me?"
Klaus recovered and said "No, it is just that I did my law degree from there too, class of 2008"
'or it is fate' Sophie's words rang through their minds as they stared at each other. Hayley recovered first this time and said "so I graduated the year you entered?"
Klaus said "apparently"
Flashback
Year 2008
He ran into Elijah's room and said "I got it Elijah". He showed him the letter and said "look I got into Harvard"
"You had doubts, brother?" Elijah got up from the lying position and took the letter of acceptance from his brother's hand and smiled.
"Father would be so happy" He said.
Elijah sighed and said "Niklaus don't worry about him, he is always proud of you"
Klaus said sarcastically "yes sure and guess what? Mason got in too. We can at last spend some time together"
Elijah said with eyes rolling "as if you guys don't spend any time together".
Klaus laughed and as he was leaving his room Elijah said "Niklaus you are not even responsible for your behavior but Masons too, you know"
Klaus stopped and looked at Elijah and said "You think I will go on a killing spree on full moon"
"Not you I am concern about. It is Mason" Elijah said.
"Oh give him a break, it happened once. Don't worry I will keep an eye on him" Klaus said and left his room.
He stood in the middle of path and looked at the huge impressive building of Harvard. It was his dream to get in and now he was in. and took a few steps further with his eyes fixed on the building when he bumped into someone. He looked just in time to see a girl bending over to pick up her stuff and heard her say "excuse me".
He said "I am sorry love, I don't know what I was thinking"
"Hey come look at this" Mason called him. He turned around at once with the handbag in his hand. He felt the bag being taken from his hand. He turned around but she was gone. He looked for her but she had disappeared into the crowd and then looked down and saw a butterfly shape hair clip on the ground. He picked it up, smiled and looked in the direction where she had disappeared to and with a smile he put the clip in his jacket pocket.
End Flash back.
He looked at her as she snapped her finger and said "back to earth Klaus Mikaelsons"
"What?" Klaus asked her.
"I asked you, what is this case about?" Hayley said with exasperation.
"Please don't throw up on these papers" Klaus said to her.
Hayley looked at him angrily and then she realized that he looked very tired so she asked him "tell me about this case. What is it about?"
Klaus looked at her and then he said "this guy Jim Barkerly, owner of 'Barkerly and Co' is being sued for a negligence that his accountant did and I was trying to get him out of this mess".
"Trying to?" Hayley asked picking up her coffee.
He looked at her and asked "should you be drinking coffee?"
"This is the only thing I have been able to keep down for a while so let me" Hayley said with a little annoyance and then said "so what do you mean trying to?"
"He has backed out" Klaus said looking down at the file.
"Why?" Hayley asked him.
"He has discovered that he has cancer and he is dying so he is giving up. He does not have a family so as per him he has nothing to fight for" Klaus said without looking at her but he couldn't keep bitterness out of his voice.
Hayley stared at him and for the first time it hit her how much empathy Klaus has. He was obviously upset about that man. She said "then you should not give up on him"
Klaus looked up at her in surprise and said "what?"
"I said then you should not give up on him" she stood up with her cup and said "there should be someone fighting for him" and then she left the study.
Klaus looked at her back as she was leaving the room and smiled and with determination he opened his laptop and started making a deposition.
Around four in the morning when he was going towards his room, he saw light from under the door of her room. He knocked at the door but when he didn't hear anything, he walked inside and saw that she was not in there. He hastily went to check the bathroom and then sighed with relief when he saw her sitting on the floor near the toilet. She looked at him and said "I was wrong about the coffee"
Klaus couldn't help but smile. She saw his smile and said "I hate you".
Klaus said "I know love" and then without warning he swooped her up and took her outside. Hayely asked him "where are you taking me?"
"TO my room. You cannot stay alone apparently".
He kicked the door of his room with his foot and went to his bed and laid her on it gently and then went to the bathroom and came back with a glass of water and gave it to her and said "drink this. Tomorrow I will take you the doctor".
"Klaus I cannot go to the doctor" she said taking a sip of water.
When he stared at her she said "what if they figure out something? What if there is something wrong with the baby, I am not exactly human as you must have realized by now".
Klaus looked at her for a second and then sat down next to her and said "First of all I don't think that will happen but if there is something like that, we will figure it out together. Okay?"
When she nodded, he got up and then turned towards her and said with a smile "you can always compel the doctor to forget everything after the checkup".
And then he went to the bathroom to change his clothes. Hayley stared at him and then she smiled and after putting the glass on the side table she went to sleep.
When Klaus came out of the bathroom, she was already sleeping. He got under the duvet next to her and in no time he was sleeping too.
When next morning Klaus woke up it was already noon and she was coming out of bathroom. He propped himself up and asked her "did you get some sleep?"
"Yes" Hayley said
"On the bed?" Klaus asked her sarcastically.
"Well till 8 in the morning and then I slept on the bathroom floor" Hayley said with distraction "You really have a nice and comfy rugs in there".
Klaus got out of the bed and said in an authoritative voice "get ready, we are going to a hospital" and then without waiting for her reply he went to change.
When fifteen minutes later he came out she was still standing there. Klaus asked her with frustration "don't tell me you have changed you mind again?"
Hayley said "Sophie said it will go away in two months"
Klaus sighed and while taking out his socks from the drawer and putting them on, he said firmly "Hayley if you don't get ready in fifteen minutes I will get you ready MYSELF and don't doubt that I will not"
And then he went out after putting on his shoes.
Hayley looked at him angrily and went to her room. She stood at the center of her room thinking 'how can he order like that. If I don't want to go I will not go'. She didn't realize how long she stood there when the door burst open and he barged in. He looked at her angrily and then without warning he dragged her to the bathroom and picked her up and stood her in the shower and turned it on. Hayley shrieked when cold water hit her. She hit his hand away from her and shouted "are you crazy?"
"I told you" Klaus said and ignored the slap that he gave on his hand. He said "do you want me to continue taking off your clothes now or will you do that yourself"
"You know I can take you. I am faster and stronger than you" she hissed at him.
"Not right now love" Klaus said and moved his fingers to the buttons of her shirt when she slapped them away and said "Okay you made your point. I will get ready. Now leave"
"No I don't trust you" he said adamantly and then turned away from her and said "I will stand here until you are done"
She looked at his back unbelievingly when he said "If you don't start in two minutes I will be happy to take over"
By now Hayley knew that he would go with his threat so she snapped "I am doing it"
Klaus smiled but didn't turn back. He stood there thinking about the case when she practically barked at him "pass me the towel". He half turned to give her towel when she screamed "don't peek".
"Love, we have already passed that stage but if you wish I will not" Klaus said turning his face away from her.
Hayley wrapped herself in towel and came out of shower and said to him "now get out, I will be down in ten minutes".
He went outside with a smile and then took out his cell and checked for the nearest hospital. He went down and said to Elijah who was sitting at the island table going through the stock market updates "I am taking Hayley to the doctor, her bloody morning sickness is getting out of control. I have decided to fight for Jim Barkerly, the deposition is ready. It is on my desk, check it out. When I come back we will take the proposal to Mr. Miller. Here is his number, call him and tell him to meet us at the Starbucks on 88th avenue". He gave Elijah his cell phone with Mr. Miller's number on it.
He then poured himself a cup of coffee, put a toast in the toaster and turned to look at him and saw that he was staring at him and then he nodded feeding the number from his cell phone to his own.
He looked up at her as she came down dressed in jeans and a tunic. He handed her the toast wrapped in a paper towel and said "Let's go. It is almost lunch time. I want to get some doctor before they leave for lunch break"
Hayley took the toast from his hand stifling the nausea, when he said sarcastically "and you want to wait for two weeks". Without waiting for her reply he left the house with coffee cup in his hand.
Elijah looked at her and said "I hope you feel better. Don't let Niklaus behavior bug you. He is concerned about you"
She smiled at Elijah and then left the house too.
He handed her a brown paper bag as she sat in his car. She snatched it from his hand and gazed outside the window. The drive to the hospital was a short and a quiet one.
"Bloody hell" Klaus said angrily when the receptionist told him that the all doctors except one was on break. He said "Get her to see her, she is in a really bad situation" and as if on cue Hayley threw up in the paper bag she was holding.
The receptionist looked at Hayley with pity and then said "I will be back".
She came out five minutes later and said "Dr. Maria Sandy will see you right now"
She led them to an empty room. Hayley sat down on the patient bed and wiped her mouth with the paper towel that he handed her over.
They heard a knock and the doctor came in. she looked pretty young. She greeted them with a smile and said while looking at the paper the nurse had handed her over "Hayley, I don't have any information about you so what can you tell me about your health"
"I have been pretty healthy all my life. Don't get sick a lot but this time it is different" Hayley.
"You are not sick. You are pregnant" Dr. Sandy said.
"Why isn't it stopping?" She asked her in desperation and then she asked her "is something wrong with this pregnancy"
"No" Dr Sandy smiled kindly and said "we can do ultrasound to check it but I am sure everything is okay. Many mothers have to go through what you are going through". She looked at Klaus who was standing there feeling useless and asked him "you are the father I assume"
Klaus smiled making Dr. Sandy's heart jumped. She then said to Hayley "why don't you lie down and let me do an ultrasound"
Hayley laid back and lifted her shirt. She caught his eyes as she saw him staring at her still flat stomach.
Klaus suddenly realized that he was going to see his baby for the first time and he felt goose bumps on the back of his neck. Dr. Sandy smiled at him and said "you can go over there. It will be clear view from there" and then she poured the gel on her stomach. As she moved the transducer on her stomach the room filled with thump thump sound. Klaus felt her hand holding his. He gently squeezed it without taking his eyes off the monitor. Dr. Sandy said "well everything looks great. That is your baby" she pointed at a small peanut size thing on the screen.
"It is so small" Hayley and Klaus said it together.
"Well they do start with this size and in no time they will grow up" she wiped her stomach with a cloth and said "do you remember you weight before you got pregnant"
Hayley said "110 pounds".
Dr. Sandy said "we need to check it now to see how much you have gained". She stood up and went out. Hayley looked at Klaus and smiled. They both realized that they were holding each other's hand. They both let go of them at the same time.
A nurse came in with Dr. Sandy and said to her "come with me".
She came back in two minutes and gave the paper to Dr. Sandy who looked at it and then signs of concern started to appear on her face. Klaus asked her "is something wrong?"
Dr. Sandy looked at her and said "You have lost 15 pounds in just 6 weeks of pregnancy. That is not good for the baby"
"Fifteen pounds? It cannot be all that bloody… sorry morning sickness" Klaus asked with concern.
"No, but she needs to gain some weight so I will give her some prescription medicine for the morning sickness and you try to gain your weight in the next few weeks and come and see me in two weeks" she said while scribing down on a piece of paper.
Hayley stood up and walked out of the office with Klaus and whispered "does she need to be compelled".
Klaus said "No love, I think she is safe"
As she sat in the car Hayley said "I need to see Sophie".
"No way in hell" Klaus said sternly and turned the car on.
"You cannot boss me around like that" Hayley said angrily.
Klaus looked in the GPS screen and backed up the car and said "watch me"
Hayley tried to open the car door angrily but it was centrally locked. He said without looking at her "see I have learned a few things about you"
Hayley looked at him angrily and started to gaze outside the window.