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This is coming to an end PEOPLE! 3

XXI

Only 24 hours. That was all the time that happened since the amazing-but-ended-awful night. And Hayley had spent the day closed in her bedroom, ignoring every outside sound. The baby had been crying for hours, and only Klaus had came to help her, but he got tired. So typical of him. By the time he stepped out of the door, he was so annoyed that Hayley experienced his frustration from her chair at the other side of the room.

Now, it was dinner time. She wasn't ready. She was weak. And she knew it. She had been going everywhere around the house until she realized she was "escaping" from Elijah. She didn't want to know how his face did look like after she dumped him, but she was so anxious to see if she had really hurt him. Of course, you've hurt him. You've dumped him for the second TIME! Everything was slipping out of their hands. Anyone could handle It: Sophie was out somewhere, planning on something big after the giant massacre of the woods, they were on an emotional spirale and it was about to swallow them up...and the baby, Henrik, in honor of the brother that died when Klaus and Rebekah and Elijah were still mere humans, had been growing up stronger and stronger in just one day. He wouldn't grew up in three days, but he was beginning to reveal certain...gifts. As a powerful hybrid born from a werewolf and a half-vampire and half-werewolf, anything could be possible in him.

It still sounded weird after a day, to call Klaus father of Henrik. At least, it sounded strange for Hayley. She didn't have to dig inside her to know what she wanted to hear. And that was why she left him in the bedroom. "Hayley!" Klaus' angry tone advised her that, if she didn't appear on the table that night, probably Henrik would be orphan by the next day...

"I want to thank to myself for bringing an oportunity to this family. To have Henrik with us for eternity, and possibly be my successor for an amount of time of Mikaelson's ruling New Orleans. As a successor, probably I should teach him from now on the risks of being a fighter, as the hybrid he is, and..." he shut up instantly when he saw those disgusted shocked faces that were placed upon him. Of course, Kol wasn't included. He had just began to eat from one of the servant girl's wrist, so rudely. Klaus smiled. "I was joking" he showed good mood that night, but what Hayley didn't expect was to see Elijah smiling back at him. And when he literally felt her look on him, he turned his face so fast that

she wasn't able to look away at the same time. His eyes had her on her seat. But she wouldn't feel vulnerable and probably surprised by his...quiet attitude about their...talk of the day before. What was he doing? "Long live to Henrik" that had been, not an emotional speech or very unKlaus, but it had been the most honest and proud thing he had said in his life. Maybe Hayley should be scared of his change of behavior...Nah, probably he would kill someone the next day to maintain his status. She wanted to be serious, but there was something funny on Elijah that night. He was cheered up, and that was the most strange thing she had ever seen on a guy. Of course, Elijah was no ordinary boy. "You like it, don't you?" began to argue Rebekah. She was the one that felt more attacked when Klaus tried to calm Henrik that morning. Bekah had been going in and out of Hayley's bedroom constantly, trying to "act" like the perfect aunt. That was so rare...but at the same time, Hayley was greatful to see Rebekah's human side. There was a point on a moment that she had thought that Rebekah had spent all her life as a vampire without emotions. She didn't know her quite well, but she was sure that Bekah would take care of the baby the day Hayley died. Died. That was the point that was missing in the complications list she had made mentally. Henrik would lose his mother sooner or later...But there was no way she would turn a hybrid. Maybe she had needed to thought about that before...But no. That wasn't the time. She was so young that she couldn't count the days she had left even with four hands.

She walked out of the house. It wasn't a surprise that she got tired of the mood that began to float over the living room. Rebekah and Klaus were arguing about who would take care of the baby during the night, without thinking that probably Henrik was Hayley's work too. She knew that she was heading to the lake when she found herself caught in one of those oak's hanging silver-ropes. "You weren't prepared, weren't you?". She recognized that voice. Even if she had went deaf, she would have heard his voice somehow. "What are you doing here Elijah?" she sounded tired, but all that her heart was asking her to do was to make her say sorry. But Hayley knew that if she apologized he would do the thing she was most afraid of...And that would end with his death...or hers. "You seemed pretty annoyed by my family" he was joking. Of course, he was. "Now I meant it. What are you doing?". "What am I doing?" asked innocently. He was approaching and that was a bad thing for her heart. Someday, she wouldn't die in the hands of some bitchy witches, oh no, she would die of a heart attack. And he knew that she had those reactions around him. So she slapped him.

"Acting like I didn't say anything to you yesterday? We've talked about that. And you were the one who stepped away from me in the blink of an eye!" protested Hayley. He was quite surprised of the slap, but he hadn't erased his sarcastic smile off his face. "I'm pretty sure you know why." His steps were closer to her quiet figure. That wasn't a good idea, but her mind didn't react. Elijah wasn't using his "mind control"...was he? "Tell me. Because this is so brain-confusing that I don't know if what I've done is the right thing. I don't know if I need Klaus approval to check that my feelings are the right ones." that was astonishment, girl. Hayley hadn't seen that face for a long time. And she knew she had only messed it up a little more. Like he wanted to kiss her, he moved fast and he was in front of her face, just 3 cm away from her lips. "I'm gonna fight for you Hayley. I was the one that has protected you all this time, but right now there won't be anything, that will protect you from my feelings to you" and he was gone, leaving her heart aching for him.