In the last chapter, Sophie revealed the shocking news that Finn is also alive and well. We're reuniting the whole Mikaelson family, apparently.
But Finn has other plans than to help his siblings take over New Orleans. As we know him, he has once tried to help his mother kill all of them, so to carry on his mission; he will be on his father's side.
We'll see how that turns out for the Mikaelsons. In Chapter 25, Hayley will be in the witches' hands as more news about the baby she's expecting will be revealed. Katherine will also be by her side and she will offer Hayley something that no one ever expected. Rebekah confronts Marcel about his new thing for the blonde bartender, Camille (Poor Rebekah).
Elijah, Kol and Klaus will continue their search for Davina without Marcel knowing. This is going to be a fabulous chapter and I can't wait to read the review of what you think of it. Enjoy!
The morning came quicker than ever. I expect that after a night like we had last night, we wouldn't be able to sleep, but I was wrong as I could hear Rebekah's snoring from the other room and Katherine and Elijah were having the time of their lives in their room too, if you know what I mean.
The night before, when Sophie had revealed that Finn was alive and helping Mikael was something which made everyone think for themselves.
Rebekah almost cried out of happiness at the thought of her brother being alive. She didn't think much of Finn, but she had loved him a lot once.
Klaus had given quite some punches in the walls that night and Elijah had to calm him down once again. I didn't know how to feel about this new discovery because I had never met Finn or Mikael, but from what I heard from Katherine, I should be staying clear from them.
Klaus had been in his room and screaming "TRAITOR!" over and over again. Kol didn't really care.
All he wanted was to get a chance to kill both Mikael and Finn for plotting against their own family and of course, he wanted Davina back.
I was now lying on the bed and thinking about how the danger kept getting bigger as the day when I was supposed to give birth to my baby, kept getting closer. I just sat there with my eyes fluttering as the sun rays kept me and my child warm.
I liked it. There was a knock on my door and Klaus entered, swiftly before I could tell him that he could come in. "Did I wake you, love?" he asked, approaching my bed.
I sat up, wrapped my arms around my legs and shook my head.
"I was already awake, thinking about what happened last night." I replied and Klaus nodded, sitting down next to me on the bed. He rubbed his eyes and then moved on to his forehead when I said that.
"I'm sorry." I whispered. "I didn't mean to bring it up. I just…"
"It's alright, love. You are worried about our child and so am I. Finn is a traitor. He is not considered family because he has decided to take our father's side against us."
"Elijah told me that he once helped your mother try to kill you."
"He is a suicidal moron. He doesn't value family. He never has. Rebekah was the only one who ever refused to believe that and now she wants him to come to us. I will not have him come near you." Klaus whispered. I nodded.
"I understand. But he is still your brother." "Half-brother." "Just like the rest."
He looked deep into my eyes and said, "I promise that I will take care of this with Marcel. We shall rid this town of both of them."
"It's so strange for you to be working with Marcel now. You were plotting to infiltrate his Inner Circle and now…" Klaus placed his hand in my and played with my palm, tracing each finger afterwards.
I watched his every move and he did the same as he spoke. "This is just temporary."
"And what about Amelia and the werewolves?" "They will listen to you. You are the Werewolf Queen, after all." Klaus replied, smiling.
I shook my head. "I do not want to think about this. I don't want to rule the werewolves. All I want at the moment is to protect my child and rid this town of all the danger that might come to it." I explained.
Klaus nodded and continued tracing my fingers gently.
"I am not going to force you to make any decision regarding that. It is your family and you decide what you want to do next." "Thank you." He pulled his hand away and looked at his watch.
"I have to head towards the bar where Marcel, Diego and Thierry are waiting for me."
"Will you tell Marcel about Finn?" "If we are going to be working together, he has the right to know." he answered, winking.
"Take care of yourself today, little wolf…and stay out of trouble." I hit him gently and he chuckled.
"I may be pregnant but I can take care of myself, Klaus." I told him and he got up from the bed, still grinning as he headed towards the door. I knew that he was just teasing me so I smiled back.
Elijah, Kol and Rebekah were downstairs when I joined them in the living room, still wearing my night dress. "Good morning, Hayley. I see that you've slept well." Elijah greeted me.
Kol didn't say anything. He didn't wink at me or anything. He was just sitting on the couch and moping, just like I thought he would, considering that Davina is missing.
He was sitting on the couch with his hands intertwined and he was deep in thought. Rebekah pressed a finger to her lips and came to my side in order to explain.
"He has become a miserable little thing." "Davina has really gotten under his skin, hasn't she?" I asked.
"Yes, she did. How are you feeling? Is the baby okay?"
"The baby is fine. I want to know how you are doing, after that ground breaking news we got last night." I replied. Katherine came downstairs at that moment, gave Elijah a hug and a long kiss before coming towards me and Rebekah with a grin plastered on her lips.
"You should see Klaus' face. I can tell that he hasn't got any sleep last night." she told us.
"Nik has always been a little scared of Finn." Rebekah snickered. "Why? I thought that as the Original Hybrid he wouldn't be scared of anything." I said.
"Oh, that is not true. Niklaus is scared, but has a good way of keeping it a secret." Rebekah told me.
"He worries about my safety and my child's now that his suicidal brother is alive and plotting against him." I explained and Rebekah nodded.
"You are very important to him, Hayley. You're family now." I nodded and smiled. We all turned around and we saw Klaus come downstairs, all dressed up and ready to leave.
"I thought you've already left." Elijah exclaimed and Klaus rolled his eyes.
"I had to get prepared. I am just letting you know that I will be informing everyone about Finn and the fact that he is helping our father get into town." "I think that you are only going to anger Marcel." Rebekah told him.
"Let me deal with that, little sister and you worry about your love life, or better yet, Cami is unprotected. Why don't you go now and snap her neck while you can?"
Rebekah didn't say anything. Elijah was also mad at her for what she pulled off the other night in front of Marcel.
He had told her that they had to make Marcel like having us around, not give him reasons to make us leave. I had to agree with him on that one. "Be careful." I told Klaus before he gave me a charming smile and left the house.
"Kol, we have work to do. We still have to find Davina before it's too late." Elijah informed him and they both left the house as well.
There was a beep and Rebekah checked her phone.
"Sophie will be here with a couple of witches. They want to take a look at you, Hayley." she told me after reading the message.
I nodded, went upstairs, changed into more suitable clothes and came back downstairs.
"So, it is just us girls now." Katherine said. Rebekah stood up, got all the bottles of vodka, gin, whisky and scotch and stashed them away where Katherine couldn't reach out and grab them.
"Enough with the drinking." Rebekah said in her face afterwards and Katherine rolled her eyes. "I wasn't even planning on drinking."
Wearing jeans a comfortable shirt on me, I walked in the living room and turned on the radio, feeling the need to listen to some slow music, which reminded me of the dance Klaus and I shared last night.
I sat down in his armchair and curled up in it once again. I remembered how we moved slowly and swiftly across the dance floor and how he kept whispering my name and making my heart pump twice as much blood.
Just then, I felt something in my stomach and it wasn't a movement or a kick coming from the baby.
"No!" I exclaimed before running to the bathroom and throwing up, Rebekah and Katherine catching up to me. "It's okay, Hayley. Directly in the toilet. Let it all out." Rebekah informed me.
I did as she said. I let it all out, but this wasn't regular vomit because of the pregnancy. It was blood vomit and I panicked. Katherine came over with some towels for me to wipe my face.
I was starting to sweat and Rebekah could barely hold me, despite of her vampire powers.
I continued vomiting until I could feel nothing, absolutely nothing. I stood up and walked out of the bathroom slowly, looking like a zombie with dark circles starting to form under my eyes.
Katherine was right beside me, helping me get into the living room while Rebekah stayed behind to clean up the mess I've made.
"I'm sorry." I whispered. "It's okay. It's natural. You're pregnant for crying out loud, Hayley. You have nothing to apologize for." Katherine told me.
I sat on the couch and Rebekah came in the living room at that moment, wiping her hands on a towel. "Everything has been settled. There are no apologies necessary." she said, eyeing me closely at that moment.
I nodded, smiling, until something happened. I couldn't feel my hands and I couldn't feel my legs. I was about to tell them that but I realized that I couldn't even move my lips anymore.
"Hayley, are you okay?" Rebekah asked, sounding worried. I couldn't respond and then, I collapsed.
I could see only darkness in front of my eyes until light warmed them, and made me open my eye lids gently.
I noticed that I had been laid on my bed in my room and in front of me were Rebekah, Katherine, Sophie, Agnes and Sabine. They were all staring down at me while Sophie was cleaning my face with a wet towel.
"She'll be just fine." Sophie informed Rebekah and Katherine.
"What happened?" I croaked. "You passed out, Hayley, due to the loss of blood when you vomited." Sophie explained. "It's alright, now. You're in good hands." Sabine told me.
I looked around, hoping to see the boys, hoping to see Klaus, but they weren't there.
I didn't think that this little incident would make him come back to see me, but I had hoped that would have been the case.
I stood up on my bed, even though Sabine was trying to push me back down.
"You need rest." she said. "You have come here to check on my baby and that seems more important to me at the moment." I told them and they smiled, even Agnes.
"I told you that she's a very special wolf." she mumbled in Sophie's ear. I went to the bathroom first in order to wash my face and took a mint for my breath.
I have had enough of smelling like vomit all the time. I rubbed my tummy and whispered. "You don't have to feel sorry for me. I can take care of myself and I can take care of you too."
I smiled to myself at the thought that in a week or so, I would be able to see my child at last, hold him or her in my hands, rock my baby and talk to him or her.
Klaus would like that as well. He wants this baby more than anything at the moment. I closed my eyes for a while and opened them to see my friends once more.
Sabine sat down next to me in the bathroom and said, "You know, if you want, I can find out more about this baby you are carrying." I laughed.
"What else is there beside the fact that it might be a mini Klaus and the fact that it's a miracle baby?" Sabine frowned. "Mini Klaus?"
"It's just that most of the people in this house believe that it is going to be a boy." Rebekah raised her hand in delight. "Don't get me wrong, I would love for it to be a girl, but it just seems to me like it's a boy." she said.
Sophie laughed. "Who believes it's going to be a girl?" "Katherine and I are the only ones." I told her.
"Why don't we find out?" Sabine asked me, smiling. I looked at all of the three witches. "Are you serious? You can find out?" Sophie nodded. I shook my head.
"I don't know. I kind of like to be surprised and I don't know how I would feel if I were to find out now before it's born. In fact, I am a bit scared to find out." "Come on!" Sophie and Katherine both begged me.
Rebekah wanted to know to. "The curiosity is killing me and I am sure that Nik wants to know too." Agnes shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Let the girl decide. It's up to her."
"Yes, she's right, Hayley. It's up to you. Do you want to know or not?" I looked at them for a moment.
"Are you going to use magic? You can't. We don't have Davina anymore and who knows what can happen if Marcel finds out."
"Easy, Hayley. We have some special tricks of our own to find out the sex of the baby. We can find out without using magic." Sabine explained.
I looked at them for a couple more minutes before smiling and nodding my head in agreement that I wanted this.
Sophie, Sabine and Agnes made me lie down on a table in the kitchen and Sabine was holding a sort of crystal tied to a chain above my stomach and she was sort of waiting for it to move.
Katherine and Rebekah were watching, intrigued by this so called trick of theirs. Without magic, Sabine let the Sophie and Agnes in turn take the crystal and hold it above my stomach.
"What did you sense?" Agnes asked Sophie. She smiled. "Hayley, big news for you and for Katherine."
Katherine gasped and jumped in the air before Sabine could say, "You are having a baby girl." Rebekah looked not disappointed by the news, but shocked.
"Odd! I always imagined the baby to be little with Niklaus' head." Everyone laughed at that remark. "Oh, you so owe me fifty bucks." Katherine told Rebekah and snickered.
"What are you talking about?"
"Have you forgotten our little bet? You said that if the baby turns out to be a boy, Hayley and I would have to pay you one hundred dollars but if the baby turns out to be a girl, you would have to pay both Hayley and I fifty bucks each." Rebekah looked wide-eyed.
"I have almost forgotten." "Yeah, I'm sure." Katherine raised an eyebrow at her, suspiciously.
"Wait till Nik finds out, Hayley. He was hoping for a boy." I looked at her and sudden sadness filled my eyes. "What's wrong?" Sophie asked me.
"We had a moment when we talked about the baby and he told me loads of times how he thinks it's a boy and…I told him that if it's a boy, we would name him Henrik after his youngest brother who died when he was human and he looked so happy…but now that it's a girl…I don't know. I feel like I can't make his wish come true and that saddens me."
"Hayley that is bullshit! Klaus wants that baby regardless of its sex. You can't possibly believe that he is going to be upset just because it is not going to be a boy." Katherine told me and I was hoping that she would be right.
"Do you want to call him and tell him the news?" Rebekah asked, ready to hand me her phone.
I shook my head. "No. I would like to tell him in person when he comes home."
"Then you are going to have to wait quite a while. Nik will be gone pretty much the rest of the day and Elijah with Kol have to find that little backstabbing witch…"
"Rebekah! We don't know why Davina left us. I trust her. There must be a good explanation." I said, stopping her from talking crap about the girl who warmed up to me and who've I warmed up to.
"Hayley is right. We don't know for sure, but you said it yourself yesterday, Hayley. She could be going back to Marcel." Katherine said.
"But don't you think she would have been with him at this moment?" I asked.
"Not necessarily. Marcel could be hiding her someplace else this time." Sophie replied.
"Perhaps, but I still don't buy it. Marcel would have broken up his friendship with Klaus otherwise if he found out that Klaus had been keeping Davina with us all this time." I told them.
"And we would have been kicked out of this town." Katherine finished.
"There are many possibilities but the most important thing right now is for Klaus and Marcel to find Mikael and Finn and get rid of them so we can execute our original plan to take over the city." Sophie replied.
"God! Everything is so damn complicated." Sabine groaned.
"All I want is for my little girl to be safe. That is my top priority." I told them, placing a hand on my tummy.
The witches left the house a couple of hours later and that afternoon, I decided it would be the perfect time to visit the werewolves in the warehouse.
Klaus wouldn't be back home for quite some time, so why wouldn't I use this free time to talk to my aunt about the discovery I had just made? I walked towards the warehouse and didn't bother to knock before walking in, which alarmed all werewolves.
"Hayley! What are you doing here, sweetheart?" Amelia asked me, coming over and kissing me on the cheek.
I looked around at all werewolves who stopped working and practicing their fighting to look at me.
"It's a sign of respect, since you are heir to the werewolf throne." Amelia satisfied my curiosity. I nodded, smiling and getting right to the point. "Sophie and her witches have helped me find out the sex of my baby."
"And?" "It's a girl." I whispered, excited and Amelia smiled, warmly.
"That's wonderful! It's going to be beautiful and strong just like its mother."
"I don't know why I get the feeling that she is going to have her father's temper." Mentioning Klaus didn't seem to delight Amelia, despite the fact that we were talking about his child too.
"I heard the news about his other brother helping the step-father in this outrageous plot." "It's true. Klaus is doing everything he can do to protect his family and I respect him for that."
"After what he pulled off, I don't think that I will ever be able to trust him the same way I did once." Amelia told me, sitting down.
I sat down with her. "Come on! Don't be like that! I already explained the situation to you. You need to be more understanding."
"And there you go defending him when you know that he is wrong." Amelia shook her head in disbelief.
I stood there in shock and rolled my eyes. "He is not wrong. I know that Klaus does seem to mess up things most of the time but this messing up actually does more good in the end than bad. Have faith!"
"I have had all the faith in the world that despite everything he has done to werewolves in his history, he would be the one to save this town from Marcel's extremely bad rule and would allow werewolves to return to this amazing town again…but now I have my doubts that we chose to ally with the right person."
I didn't say anything. All I did was sit there and think about everything she was saying.
"Maybe it is your love for him which makes you defend him so much and makes you ignore the truth."
"Listen to me closely, Amelia. I trust Klaus. He is the father of my child and everything he has done so far was to help me, protect me and care for me and my unborn child and he has also been caring for his brothers and sister. He has done everything."
"And yet, it seems like it's been months and we haven't done anything. We are right back to where we were at the beginning but with more problems on our hands. Doesn't that strike you as a little bit odd? Klaus might not even want to defeat Marcel due to their history together."
"No. He promised me." I whispered, remembering the night before, at the bar, when he told me to trust him because he knew what he was doing.
She stopped talking and we sat there in silence. The werewolves have been listening to our conversation all this time and one of them said, "We should give the guy a chance."
I smiled at that remark, but Amelia wasn't. "Don't you have work to do? Hop to it!" "What does Hayley say?" another werewolf asked and I was surprised.
"What?" Amelia was shocked. "She is the real ruler. What does she say we should do?" the werewolf responded. What had gotten into them? A few days ago, they were considering me to be the traitor of my own species and now…
I shrugged and said, "Better do what Amelia says. She is your leader, not me." I answered. The werewolves nodded and headed back to work. "That was incredible." Amelia groaned and I apologized.
"It is not your fault. They are beginning to recognize you as their true leader, Hayley. Have you made your decision?" "No, Amelia. I have other things to worry about right now."
"Of course." she agreed. We stayed in silence until she asked me, "Does he know that he is going to have a girl and not a boy, like he wished?"
"Not yet. I want to tell him in person when he comes home and I don't think that will be the case until tonight. He is out with Marcel and his buddies." "He has time to drink and party?" she asked, eying me.
"It's for a good cause."
"Whatever you say, Hayley. I just hope that he gets rid of Mikael and Finn soon, because Sophie's potion is prepared and we are ready to attack on the full moon next week. If we don't do it then, we would be wasting a huge opportunity and the baby would be in even more danger. Think about what I said."
Amelia informed me. I looked at her for a moment, nodded and turned to leave the warehouse, but not before saying goodbye to them all. I knew my aunt was right.
As I walked back towards the house, I thought about everything Amelia had told me about wasting a huge opportunity, but maybe there was still hope that we could pull all of this off in less than a week.
We had to, for the sake of my baby girl. "A girl." I repeated over and over again, smiling s I reached the house.
"I am going to have a baby girl." I patted my big round stomach and thought about what it would be like to hold her in my arms, brush her hair when she would get older and talk to her about girl stuff when she would become a teenager.
It would be a dream come true for me, considering that I never had a good family to raise me and take care of me and I didn't want that kind of life for my daughter.
I wanted everything to be the opposite for her. I wanted her to be loved and to have the family that I always hoped for and with the Mikaelsons; I believed that she would have just that.
Katherine was waiting for me when I got to my room. She was sitting on my bed and she looked serious. "I have to talk to you about something, Hayley." I closed the door and shrugged.
"What is it?" "Come here." she said and patted the seat next to her. I came over and sat down, crossing my legs.
"You do realize that once the baby is born you are going to have to be stronger than you are now in order to protect it, do you?" I frowned.
"What kind of question is that? Of course I realize that but as a werewolf I think that I can offer her enough protection and Klaus can keep her safe too." Katherine sighed and looked at her hands.
"What do you really want to talk about Katherine?" I asked her. She stood up and went to get something from her room. She came back with a small vile of blood.
"What is that?" I asked, shocked of what I was seeing. "It is my blood." she whispered, sitting down next to me again and putting it in my hands.
"What do you want me to do with your blood?" I looked at it carefully and realized almost immediately what Katherine had in mind. "No! I will never choose to become a hybrid!" I yelled at her.
"Hayley, calm down. I was only thinking about the possibility of you wanting this for the sake of your child. She will need protection that only an immortal mother with vampire skills could give her."
"I would rather die." I whispered and gave her back the vile. She refused to take it.
"Sophie will be giving me the potion soon so I can turn back into a vampire.
That vial will be the last doppelganger blood you will see for another five hundred years. You will not live five hundred years. Remember that." she told me and made grip the vial of her blood harder.
"Take good care of it." She said to me before leaving the room. I stayed there, complete in shock as I stared at the blood Katherine had offered me. Rebekah was at the door and had witnessed the whole thing.
"When you're ready." she also whispered to me before leaving. I looked at the vial of blood and even though I didn't want it, I felt the need to keep it safe so I stashed it somewhere where I was sure that it would be well hidden so no one would find it and at the same time, would be well protected.
"I will never choose to be immortal. I can't." I whispered to myself, still not believing that Katherine and Rebekah were expecting me to choose this path.
Klaus knew that I refuse to be turned. I had even told him that I would rather die than to become a hybrid which would eventually be sired to him. He would never give me his blood or even force it down my throat.
"No." I whispered again.
Something was not right, though. I stood up and ran out of my room to meet Katherine downstairs. She refused to look at me in the eyes, feeling a bit ashamed of what she did, I think.
"Katherine, that vile is useless in the transformation into a hybrid." I told her. She didn't say anything and I continued talking.
"The vial of blood you gave me is infected by the cure you took. Sophie hasn't given you the potion yet, has she?" I asked and Katherine finally met my eyes and spoke in the most serious way possible.
"Sophie hasn't given me the potion yet, but she had cleaned that vile of blood I gave you. It's pure doppelganger blood, perfect for the transformation. As soon as Sophie gives me the potion, Elijah promised that he will turn me back into a vampire." she explained and I finally understood.
"Sophie has been planning this with the two of you?" I looked at Rebekah who was playing with her hair, behind Katherine.
"Hayley, we are trying to help you. Your daughter…she will need an immortal mother, with her always and forever." Rebekah said and I sighed.
"Sophie has already told me that my little girl is a werewolf. She is not going to be an immortal child, therefore not needing an immortal mother." Katherine looked exasperated.
"True, but the father of your little girl is part vampire, don't you forget that, Hayley. Anything can happen once the baby is born. Even Sophie has confirmed that due to Klaus' vampire side, the baby is growing faster than a normal baby would."
"But the growth will be normal once the baby is born. She is a werewolf!"
"You don't know that. Neither one of us knows what is going to happen once your little girl arrives on this Earth. You need to consider every single possibility, Hayley, no matter how impossible they may seem. I say that you keep that vile of blood. I sense that you are going to need it someday." Rebekah told me.
"I will never choose this." "Never say never." I crossed my arms and decided to end this subject as Rebekah's phone started ringing.
"Elijah!" Katherine and I immediately turned our heads to her and watched her speak with her brother on the phone.
"That is great news! Okay! Keep looking and keep us updated." Rebekah said before hanging up.
"They have found a book which belonged to Davina at the edge of town. She is still in New Orleans. It's been confirmed." I smiled but frowned afterwards.
"But where could she be? New Orleans and especially the French Quarter are not that big. And for Original Vampires as Elijah and Kol, I would think that it would be easy for them to find her."
"You are forgetting that Elijah and Kol are not the only ones looking for her. Marcel's vampire friends are on it as well." Katherine told me. "Yes. You do have a point."
Rebekah stood there, thinking for a couple of minutes before she said, "Maybe I can find out what they got so far." "What are you talking about?" I asked her.
"I can talk to Marcel and try to get something out of him regarding where Davina could be." she answered and went upstairs to get dressed. "Something tells me that it's something more than that." Katherine whispered.
We followed Rebekah up to her room and watched her pick out her outfit for the day. She was choosing to wear something elegant which made her look incredibly glamorous.
I crossed my arms and smiled, "Kind of fancy for a walk in the city, don't you think?" Rebekah looked at the two of us in shock. "I always make sure I look good." Katherine snorted.
"Just admit it! You want to go see Marcel for a whole different reason. I don't see you caring so much about finding Davina, but you seem to care more about Marcel's relationship with Camille."
Rebekah didn't say anything. "I am just going to go outside, get a bit of fresh air and talk to Marcel. There is nothing wrong with that. I do not want to be locked up in here all day, thank you very much."
She walked past us and out of the room. We stalked her, but she didn't care as she grabbed her purse and made sure that she had her phone with her.
"Rebekah, I understand how you must be feeling, but this is not going to do you any good. You need to move on. Please!" I insisted.
Rebekah had a saddening expression on her face as she kept searching for something in her bag. "I need to talk to him, at the very least." she whispered.
"No. You need to stop loving so easily and get real, girl." Katherine told her. "I am not giving up on this, no matter what you two say."
"I think that you don't realize that we are soon going to get this town rid of Marcel and you will most likely never see him again except in exile." Rebekah found her perfume and continued spraying herself and then put it away.
"I am going to see him. If Elijah and Kol come home by any chance, just tell them I'm out and I'll be back soon. Bye!" Rebekah exclaimed and headed out the door.
I know that she looked heartbroken, but her heart would soon be shattered even more. "This is ridiculous. I am going after her. Are you?" Katherine asked me. I just shrugged.
New Orleans was at its finest hour that afternoon and tourists filled the place, having Sabine as their guide. She saw Katherine and I walk past them and she winked with a smile on her face.
According to her schedule, Sophie was supposed to be at the bar just like Camille. "Do you think that is where Rebekah went?" I asked Katherine.
"I don't think, I know! She wants to talk to Marcel and the bar is the most logical place to look for him and his buddies." "Klaus might be there too." I whispered.
Katherine looked at me closely as we walked. "Are you going to tell him the sex of the baby?"
I thought about it and shook my head. Katherine sighed. "You said that you want to tell him in person. Well, you are personally going to meet with him at the bar right now. What's stopping you?"
"I don't feel good talking about my baby around Marcel and the other vampires. I want the two of us to be alone at the house." I explained to her and I noticed the sudden disappointment on her face.
"What? You wanted to see his reaction didn't you?" "Well, I certainly like seeing him blow his top." "What do you mean?" "He might do just that after he hears the baby is a girl."
"But you said…" "I know what I said but I also happen to know how quick-tempered Klaus happens to be. You never know what his intensions are. I think that you should be careful now, Hayley."
"I trust him." I whispered.
I think that I have said that to myself for about a hundred times since I moved to New Orleans. It was true. I did trust him, but his actions made other people believe that he is not reliable. Even Elijah believes that, however, not me.
It looked like we were prancing around towards the bar. All we wanted was to have a little bit of fun as we saw the bar right in front of us. Katherine opened the door for me.
"Pregnant ladies first." I snorted. "Thanks a lot." "No problem." She replied with a sly smile.
The bar was crowded, just like I expected it to be and just as both of us expected, Sophie and Camille were working. Sophie as the chef making the famous gumbo tourists adored and Camille was taking care of the drinks.
We saw Rebekah standing there, talking to them and we hurried over. She looked wide-eyed when she saw us.
"Are you two following me?" "Someone has to, or you might get in big trouble. I thought Klaus told you not to come here again. You know, Marcel is pretty pissed off."
Katherine couldn't keep her mouth shut. Camille was looking with a weird expression on her face.
"Okay! What are the two of you talking about? Why is Marcel pissed off? He seems fine to me." "To you, maybe." Rebekah said through gritted teeth. Camille approached her.
"Did you do anything to upset him?" Rebekah refused to tell her anything and that made Camille get her a strong drink in order to make her feel better.
"Just try to be nice. Don't do anything foolish like last night." I said to her. "I lost control last night, Hayley. That's it." "And you came here in order to apologize to Marcel?"
"I don't apologize!" "Maybe you should. After all, he owns everything round here." Katherine replied, getting herself a drink.
She was going to be ripped apart by the time Sophie gives her the potion. Speaking of the potion…
"Tonight, it will be time." Sophie told Katherine and her eyes beamed.
I have never seen her so happy in her entire life. I knew that she was happy to be able to become immortal once again but she cared more about the fact that her relationship with Elijah will continue forever and they could love each other forever.
I looked over at the other side of the bar and noticed Marcel and Klaus, sitting, drinking and talking but seriously this time.
"I am going over there." Rebekah whispered and got up before I could stop her. She was going to make a fool out of herself in front of her brother and as crazy as that sounds, I would feel like I would embarrass myself in front of Klaus, so no!
I stood up as well, leaving Katherine all alone to drink her miseries away and welcome the good things that would soon happen to her. Klaus smiled, surprisingly when he saw me but he frowned when he noticed Rebekah coming towards him and Marcel at full speed.
"We need to talk!" she told Marcel. He stood there with his eyebrows raised and Klaus tried hard not to laugh, but replied dangerously, "We are in the middle of something important right now, sister, so if you don't mind…"
"Actually, I do mind! I want to talk to you now." Rebekah was furious and Marcel seemed to enjoy seeing her like this.
He stood up and told Klaus, "I am going to have this chat with her and then we can continue our business." He winked at Rebekah; she frowned and followed him out of the bar. I stood there and watched them go that I didn't even notice Klaus standing right in front of me in a matter of seconds.
"Little wolf." he whispered and I jumped in fright.
"Forgive me. I didn't mean to scare you." Klaus said immediately, noticing my state. "I'm a little jumpy today." I told him with a small smile on my face and then asked, "How is the plan going?"
"You don't have to worry about that, love. We are setting a trap for Mikael and according to the fortuneteller; he and Finn should be in New Orleans soon. Marcel and I are going to capture them. The problem is that they are two Original Vampires and then on the other side there's me and a few normal vampires."
"It doesn't matter. You sound even to me. You'll catch them, won't you?" I asked and he ran a hand through my hair gently. "Of course." He placed his hands on my back and held me to him as he asked, "How many days until the full moon is out?"
"Four." I whispered. He nodded and said, "Everything will be okay by then."
"Are you sure?" "Positive." I turned my head around and noticed Marcel and Rebekah having an argument outside and Rebekah looked like she was in serious pain.
Marcel then turned around and entered the bar again. Klaus let go of me and put his hand sin his pockets.
Marcel eyes the two of us darkly. Rebekah didn't enter the bar again. She left and Katherine followed her home. Stayed there as Marcel looked at Klaus with his chin up.
"Are we going to get down to business or are you going to keep having sweet talks with your lady werewolf?" Klaus rolled his eyes and motioned for me to go. I understood.
Just as I was about to head out of the bar, my phone rand. I looked at the called id and I saw that it was Elijah.
"Hi! Is everything alright?" "Hayley, we have found Davina!" I sighed in relief.
"That is great news. Have you brought her home yet?" "No. She doesn't want to come home. She is keeping Kol and me away from her." I gasped.
"What is she doing? Doesn't she know that we are trying to help her?"
"She keeps saying that she is tired of being used." I rubbed my forehead and thought hard that maybe she had overheard all those conversations I had been having with Klaus around the house about her being the weapon we needed and all that crap and how Klaus wants to get rid of her afterwards.
Sophie would never let that happen, though.
"Elijah, put her on the phone. I need to talk to her." "She does not want to talk. She is just sitting on her knees and crying her eyes out. I don't know what to do. We need your help. You are the only one who can heal her and bring her back to her stable self. Come, Hayley."
"Okay! I have just left the Deveroux Bar. Where are you?"
"We are near our house actually. A little past the warehouse we have, in the forest."
"I'm coming. Stay there and make sure she doesn't do anything foolish." I couldn't believe the mess that I had gotten myself into. I walked faster and faster, almost ran to the lace I figured Elijah, Kol and Davina were.
The forest was pretty big, much like the one in Mystic Falls. I didn't bother going into the warehouse first. I had no time. I was afraid that due to her depression, Davina might try to take away her life.
She felt used and I understood perfectly how she felt, but running away was not going to solve anything.
I have grown to love her as if she were my own daughter and I was not going to let anything happen to her. My baby belly gave me a hard time while I was running into the woods and I also had to consider the fact that pregnant ladies shouldn't be stressed out.
They should be calm and in perfect control and for the past few months, I have been the exact opposite of that. "Davina!" I had heard Kol yell and that helped me find them more than I thought it would.
There was Davina, sitting on the ground just like Elijah had said and she was crying. She was doing some kind of spell in order to keep everyone away from her, even Kol, who she had grown to love but as soon as she saw me, she stopped being so tense and her eyes stopped shedding tears.
I raised my hand up, "Davina, please, stop. This is not the way. Please, let me help you."
She looked deep into my eyes and I believe she noticed the sincerity in my voice and in my eyes because she broke the spell and the three of us could finally reach her.
Kol wrapped a blanket around her and picked her up. "I am taking you home." he whispered to her. She looked at me as I walked alongside her and Kol and she said to me, "Hayley, I found Mikael and Finn."
My eyes widened at that moment. "What?" "I found them. Klaus will get them in no time." Elijah was just as shocked as I was. "Is that what you were doing?" Davina nodded.
"I ran in order to help you save time and find Mikael and Finn earlier than planned, to help you Hayley, and then I was planning on leaving New Orleans so no one would dare use me again."
"Davina, we are not using you. Maybe Klaus…but aside from that, we have all grown to care for you. Haven't you noticed that?"
"I tried to think that." she whispered to me back.
"Where are Mikael and Finn? I need to inform Klaus." I asked her. "They are in Mystic Falls." Davina said and that alarmed all of us. "But I thought they were already here and…"
"No. They are planning something big. I used a tracking spell and found them in Mystic Falls, the both of them. They are coming here with a vengeance. You need to be ready."
"Niklaus will know what to do." Elijah said.
Once we got home, Rebekah and Katherine were already there and they both started scolding Davina for her actions but warmed up to her once they found out that Davina had found our biggest threats at the moment.
Night came and Klaus came back home, and he looked even more tired than he had looked in the last couple of days.
I looked worried when I saw his state and placed my warm hands on his face. "Are you okay?" I asked him. He smiled and stroked my cheek slowly.
"Just fine, love. I see you've found Davina and I heard from Elijah that she has been able to track down my brother and my step-father. Well done, witch!" he added and the name infuriated her as well as Kol.
"They are in Mystic Falls. They are planning something there and according to Davina, they will be here really soon." I added.
He nodded and I let go of his face as Elijah cleared his throat.
I felt a little red after touching Klaus' face like that. I was starting make things way too obvious, but Klaus didn't have a problem with my actions. He seemed to enjoy them, in fact.
"I have spoken with Marcel and now that we know that they are Mystic Falls, we are going to step it up, take this to a whole new level."
"You claim to have a plan, Niklaus, I trap set up for our father and our brother." "I do." Klaus replied with a charming smile on his face. "So, you are going to catch them here?" Elijah asked.
"Oh no, dear brother! Marcel and I are going to catch Finn and Mikael before they even get to New Orleans."
Rebekah crossed her arms. "Okay! Finally, a plan of yours is starting to intrigue me, Nik. What are you up to?"
"You'll see little sister. Oh and maybe, just maybe, Marcel will tell you himself, that is if he has forgiven you yet." Rebekah threw a pillow at him and he couldn't help but laugh at her.
"I had a long day so I am just going to go upstairs and think everything through." Klaus stated and started walking up the stairs.
Katherine gave me a look and I knew what it meant. I had to talk to him now, make him feel better at least about something and that would be our future baby girl.
"Klaus!" I knocked on his door. He came out of his bathroom, wearing his pants but no shirt on.
That actually made me lose all of my focus for a minute as I could see his muscles, his everything. He smiled when he saw me but didn't bother putting on a shirt. He just approached me like that.
"Is everything okay, Hayley?" I nodded, smiling and tried to ignore his wonderful strong abdomen as I stepped closer to him and crossed my arms.
"Klaus…" I began and he looked a little confused, wondering what I wanted to say to him.
"I…I found out the sex of the baby today." I whispered and Klaus' eyes lit up, putting his hands in my waist with a smile on his face as I placed my hands on his hard chest, feeling his soft skin at the same time.
He leaned in and placed his forehead on mine. "Tell me, little wolf."
I took a deep breath, feeling the electricity when our foreheads touched and looked deep into his eyes.
"We're going to have a little girl." I whispered close to his lips and watched them turn into a smile. I couldn't believe it. He took my hand in his and kissed it, whispering "A girl." against it.
He was happy about this, not upset, like Katherine thought he would be.
"Were you hoping for a boy?" I asked, a look of sadness filling my face. He noticed that and shook his head.
"I just assumed that it would be a boy, love. The fact that it is a girl surprised me. I love surprises."
I smiled after that. "I love surprises too. And this is one of the best surprises so far."
"I couldn't agree more." We stayed there, wrapped around each other once again and with our foreheads pressed together.
For some reason, he didn't want to let me go and I didn't want to let go either. I wanted to stay in his arms or as long as possible, thinking about my future and my little girl.
His scent washed all over my dace and his breathing made me want him even more than I already did.
Nothing more happened after that, although he said that he wanted to stay in my room that night, to keep me safe. I appreciated him for that.
Being with him was all I needed, but I wanted so much more. I snuggled in bed and I felt his arms wrap around me in a comforting way.
"I will protect you, love. You needn't fear. You're safe with me." he whispered before I drifted off to sleep.