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It wasn't a surprise that he was fine. It was the fact that she attacked him. Attacked him. How did they come at this point? "I'm sorry" she checked his expression instead of his chest. She wanted to know if he would be angry, or hurt. "I'm fine" he said with a broken voice. Clearly, everything was slipping out of her fingers. She didn't want to, but she began to sobber. Astonished, Elijah let his heart broke in pieces. It was the first time in horrible months of pregnancy and Klaus' bad treatments, that he had seen her cry. And he didn't want to experience that again. He needed to hug her, he needed to calm her but...Damn Klaus. And his arms were holding her, lifting their bodies up. It wasn't enough and Hayley fell on his gentle arms, embracing him. The smell of her hair was unbelievably tender and it caressed his nose. For a moment, his eyes turned darker and blood veins pronunced below his eyes. He was hungry. It's her. Hayley. And everything was gone. What was that about? Her cries didn't make it softer for him, and he was so desperate to make her stop. He couldn't bare it. But he had to be strong. He would kill everyone, including Klaus, who made her cry for the first time in 5 months. Everyone would pay for it. Even Kol. "Hayley" whispered his lips. She let it all go, and for minutes, they stood there until every tear had fallen down. Breathing a little faster, she tried to recover herself, and she wanted to apologize, but his eyes were begging her not to. This looked familiar, so familiar, but it wasn't the right time. Although it was no crime to let her go for a minute... "Let's go." he said, and they were already outside the house again...in pyjamas. "Where are we going?". "There's a place I knew long time ago, and I hope it still remains."
The land was beautifully cared, and in the pale moonlight of winter, the water of the lake was shining as if every tiny piece of star was a bright diamond stuck in the sky. Oaks were delimitating the sand were the water died. And they had gorgeous tiny vines hanging from them, with green pearls on it. The circular zone was surrounding the mountains that expanded on the horizon a few kilometres away New Orleans. There was a soft smell that touched her since she put her feet in that place, and she knew it was an unknown smell. What could it be? Peace was written in every wave of the round lake exposed in front of them. It felt like Adam's and Eve's Garden, although anyone had never seen it.
Elijah offered his hand to hers. Wanting to impress him, Hayley rejected it and escalated the big oak with a quick move. He was smiling metres below, and with a triumphant jump he was already by her side. Although the leaves didn't let them watch the whole landscape, Hayley could guess what was in front of them. With a little snow help, that place would look like Heaven.
"This is a place I used to pass time in when Klaus had killed..." Oh, personal Elijah. She should get used to his mood changes, and even after she had almost killed him, sort of, he was there, being generous. Celeste was the word missing, but neither of them wanted to pronunce it. That bitch thought Hayley instantly. The one who had taken the baby and flew away. And left no one to protect her. "It's okay. You don't have to tell me about that". "I've never shared this kind of things, not even with my family..." with a quick response to what he said, Elijah replied to himself. "Well, what family? I thought that this baby was gonna bring peace to our family once was born, but it's tearing us up.". "Maybe we could leave with the baby" It isn't that easy said his look. Let's try answered her with the eyes. Elijah refused to it with a head move. Frustrated, Hayley didn't speak once more for a long half hour. The night was getting cooler and the feeling that her fingers were getting frozen, it wasn't an impression of the darkness. "Elijah" she barely could say. She didn't figure it out that he was paying attention to her face since she didn't reply 30 minutes before. Now he was so worried by her vocals. "You're getting cold. Maybe we should return" it hadn't been a great idea to get outside. "If you fall in that state, I can assume the worst will happen" and he took her in his arms. Trying not to look at him directly, and failing, Elijah jumped off the tree and in a moment, but with a hard hit, they landed on the grass.
While he was moving, there was a need in her to tell him that she was fine and that she could walk, but he wanted to carry her for the rest of the way. It was only a kilometre away from the big mansion that Elijah approached his lips to her freezing fingers and began to blow. His breath on her was the most intimate thing he had done during the last months, and although he was cold as ice, his heart was bombing warm air through his breath, and soon, she was warming up.
When they arrived, it seemed like Elijah gasped. By the time they were upstairs, Hayley felt quite dizzy. She didn't sleep well last night, and now she was waken up after midnight. Tireness could her and meanwhile Elijah was walking to her room, she was falling asleep.
He was about to leave after protecting her body with the sheets of her white bed, but a hand interrupted him. "No" whispered Hayley. Wait. She was asking him to stay? Indeed. Elijah closed the door with slowness and got back to the bed. Laying besides her, he let his arms surround her, and in a moment, the sheets had them covered, and the sky finally had a rest. The world had stopped.