A/N Hayley and Elijah after they kissed for the first time in season 1 after Klaus had shown Hayley the nursery. This is how I imagine the day between that kiss and the show down of the season. I hope you enjoy it.

Elijah looked at her and then realized that his hand was on her stomach. He felt something. He looked down and realized that he had felt the baby kick and then suddenly he felt like he has done something really wrong. He looked up into her eyes which were also confused right now.

Elijah suddenly stepped back from Hayley who had her hand on her lips and was looking confused. He left the nursery and went to his room. He started pacing the room thinking what had just happened between them. He had felt the baby kick for the first time and it had left him with a feeling that he had never had before not even when he had leant that Katherine managed to make a run for her life and saved herself from his brother.

Suddenly he stopped as a thought occurred to him out of nowhere 'has his brother felt the baby yet?'

Then he shook his head as he answered himself 'Hayley and Niklaus cannot stand each other so why would she let him feel the baby?'

He had a strange feeling. He felt bad for his brother thinking 'it was after all his baby, he had more right to feel the baby then him' and then a fleeting image of Jackson touching Hayley's stomach in the bayou came to his mind and he stopped pacing. He tried to make himself feel better by convincing himself that it was not just him who had felt the baby, Jackson also felt it.

Hayley was pacing her room thinking about Elijah's kiss. She has been wanting to kiss him since he had returned from getting undaggered and all those moment when they had almost kissed. But today when he had kissed her it felt a little weird. She had felt the baby move in her and she knew that Elijah felt it too because he had his hand on her stomach. She sat on her bed and rubbed her stomach gently and smiled and then suddenly a thought occurred to her 'what would Klaus do if he finds out?'

She got up suddenly and started to pace the room again anxiously. She remembered all those times when Klaus had shown his displeasure about Elijah acting as a "father" to his child. In the beginning she had been really mad at his reaction but as the pregnancy had advanced she had realized that he really cared about that child and he had shown his concern many times now. In fact he had said to her once 'because Hayley that child is the most important thing in this world to me. Now you can fight me on this but you will lose'. She smiled at the memory. She was really mad at him at that moment so she had not realized how much he cared but now after 4 months of that incidence she had started to look at that sentence differently. She had no doubt in her mind that he cared about the baby but would he care if he knew about their kiss.

Hayley wondered what he was doing and where they were going with everything. They had this baby on the way but they rarely interacted. It had not bother her at first but it was starting to. She was feeling frustrated with her advanced pregnancy and no one to share her concerns with. She looked towards the nursery and smiled about their earlier conversation. Didn't he admit to her "Believe it or not but Hayley I want our daughter to be raised by her parents together in her family home"

She had believed him. She felt bad for him for the first time since the time she had known him. She had seen what a hatred of a father can do to a child. She had seen the shadow of that hatred in his eyes when he had said "he has done damage only a father can"

She had wanted to hug him but she knew that he wouldn't like it so she had said the only thing that she felt that would make him feel not bad about himself. The sweet smiled that he had given her when she had said "nothing true" was something she will never forget. It had taken her by surprise because she had not expected something like that from Klaus.

She got up and walked to the nursery again and looked at the painting he had hung on the wall. The nursery was just so beautiful something she had again not expected from him. She stood staring at the big white full moon in the painting.

Her eyes went from the crib to the rocking chair to the horse to the books to the painting to the wolves on the crib and she smiled. She closed the nursery's door and went to her room.

She changed her clothes and went to sleep. Although it was her first night in the compound but she felt comfortable and went to sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Next morning when she woke up she got up and quickly changed her clothes and went down to the sound of voices.

Klaus looked at Elijah and said with frustration "yes I know Elijah. Jackson is coming right now with the stones. He will contact me as soon as he can"

He then turned and almost bumped into her. He brushed past her and left the room without sparing her a look.

Hayley looked at Elijah and smiled shyly. She suddenly remembered their kiss which had slipped her mind with all the other thoughts about…. Klaus. She turned around in confusion and looked at the place where he was at a couple of seconds ago.

Elijah looked at Hayley and then walked over to her and held her hand. He smiled at her and said "How was your first night here?"

"It was good" she said with a smile and then asked him "where has Klaus gone and what was he talking about Jackson and the stones"

Elijah opened his mouth to say something when his cell rang. He picked up the cell and said to Hayley "Klaus"

He asked him still looking at Hayley "so where is he?"

Klaus said to him while walking on the ledge of the building "Jackson had gone missing but fortunately I have a plan how to find him. I will call you once I am done here"

Elijah opened his mouth to say something but Klaus had already cut him off. He looked at Hayley and said "he is up to something. Hopefully not kill anyone in the process"

"Is Jackson okay?" Hayley asked

Elijah looked at her with narrowed eyes and said "I am sure he will be by the time my brother is done with whatever he is doing"

HE said "I have to go now and see that my brother is in check"

He held her hand briefly and then left

Hayley looked at him leaving the nursery and smiled. She looked down at the letter she was writing and smiled as she read "you dad just asked me…"

She put her hand on her stomach where he had his hand a couple of minutes ago. She could still feel his hand on her stomach. The feeling was different from the one when Elijah had touched her stomach. She had seen that kindness in his eyes which she had started to realize that is only for her to see and apart from his family no one has seen it. She smiled at his tease about writing the letter to Elijah or Jackson. That had made her smile but his sentence "Don't tell me it is me. I thought I was out of running ages ago" had made her laugh. A part of her heart felt a twinge at hearing that sentence so she had joked about it by saying "and the biggest ego goes to". But now that he was gone she thought about her and his response and wondered 'why did he say that? Does he have feelings for her?'

As soon as the thought came to her mind she discarded it trying to convince her 'if he had any feelings for her he would have told her. He is not the kind who would hide his feelings. Is he? He has been shacking up with Genevieve'.

As soon as her name came into her mind she felt as if something dropped in her stomach. She got up angrily thinking 'He is sleeping around right and left while I am carrying his child so why can't I do it?'

She had been feeling so guilty about that kiss that she had shared with Elijah that evening after Jackson had left. They had now shared two kisses and both of them had left her confused and somewhat guilty. But thinking about Genevieve and Klaus had brought on some weird feeling in her which she didn't want to feel. She got up and left the room and went to his room.

Elijah was sitting on his bed with a book in his hand but not actually reading it. He could still feel her lips against his. Different thoughts were running through his mind. He was thinking about how shocked he was to hear her telling him about Jackson and her history. He wanted to kill Jackson but he knew that he couldn't and then he had ended up kissing her again.

He had been trying to control his feelings for her for the past 5 months and he had succeeded successfully until recently when he had given in to his feelings. One part of his mind had been telling him that she was his brother's child's mother and the other had been telling him that they don't care about each other. They were only having this child together and nothing else so why couldn't they be together and Elijah had given in to that part of his mind but now he was feeling guilty but why? He wondered whether Niklaus cared about Hayley or not. He had been sleeping with Genevieve a couple of weeks ago and then he had been helping Cami with her uncle. He stopped and corrected his thought and gave his brother credit for helping father Kieran. He wanted his brother's happiness so badly that he had forgotten about his happiness. He had been helping him break his curse, locate Katherine for so long that he had forgotten his feelings for her and now again because of his feelings he was not indulging in his. He snapped the book down on the bed and got up when the door to his room opened with a bang. He looked into her eyes.

Hayley rushed to Elijah and cupped his face and kissed him hard on his lips.

Elijah cupped her face and kissed her back. They moved to the bed and Elijah laid her on the bed gently and continued kissing her.

He felt his stomach muscles tightening. He let his hand glide down her body and they rested on stomach and suddenly he felt weird. He pulled himself back. He looked at Hayley who propped herself up.

He said to her "Hayley I cannot"

"Elijah!" Hayley said with shock.

"Hayley it is a little weird" Elijah said rubbing his hand on his forehead.

"I know but I want us to be together so why not?" Hayley asked in confusion

"Hayley until you are carrying this baby we should not" Elijah said with frustration.

"So what? Until I have this baby, we cannot do anything" Hayley asked in frustration.

"Hayley…" Elijah said but couldn't finish his sentence.

"This is not fair. It is his child too and he is sleeping right and left and we cannot indulge into our feelings" Hayley said angrily stepping back and folding her arms across her chest.

"Niklaus?" Elijah asked her in surprised tone.

Hayley felt her cheeks getting red. She stared at her ground and didn't say anything

"Hayley what about Jackson?" Elijah said a couple of minutes later

"What about him?" Hayley asked at last looking up

"You said you were best…" Elijah asked her

"Yes but that is over. Obviously we are not going to get married" Hayley said casually and then turned around and looked at his room.

She walked to the fireplace and picked up the glass of scotch from the mantel piece and turned and said to him "In times like these I miss these"

Elijah smiled at her but said nothing. Hayley said to him with a smile "Okay then I will go and try to get some sleep. It is becoming difficult to sleep as the baby is growing"

Elijah smiled at her and walked to her and then said "Just a couple of more weeks and then you will have this beautiful daughter that you will cherish"

"And we can be together" Hayley said with a smile

"Yes we will be" Elijah said after a moment of hesitation

"Are you concerned about Klaus's reaction to us?" Hayley asked him

Elijah looked into her eyes and said "Yes".

"He doesn't care who I am with. He just loves this child and cares about her a lot" she said rubbing her stomach ideally making him go weak in the knees.

She then leaned in and kissed him on his cheek and left the room.

She entered her room and turned to close the door slowly thinking about her conversation with Elijah. She might have admitted to him that Klaus might not have any feelings for her but her heart was telling her different story. Jackson had said earlier to her "Klaus is not doing this out of goodness of his heart you know, he is doing all of this for you Hayley". A part of her was happy to hear it while the other part had gotten confused. She didn't know how he felt about her. He had been passing weird comments recently just like he did that evening "I am fine too. Thank you for asking"

Elijah touched his cheek and smiled. He felt confused about what Hayley had said about Klaus. His mind was saying that what she said made sense but his heart was negating that. He remembered Klaus's snide when they had come back to the compound after saving Jackson and then "I blame him". His brother has never been the kind to express his feelings and he didn't want to step into something that would make their situation messier. So far Klaus has not shown any interest in Hayley but Elijah also knew his brother's art of hiding and running away from his feelings. He just wanted to tread on this ground carefully.

He went to the bathroom and after changing his clothes he laid on his bed and after some time he went to sleep.

Hayley spend half the night thinking about their conversation and tossing and turning because of her very pregnant stomach and at last managed to get some sleep around midnight.