Thanks to everyone who reviewed that last chapter! The sporadic emails got me through the day! So I'm really excited about this chapter. hope you guys like it! The music is key! LISTEN TO IT!

Music

As Long As Our Hearts Are Beating - Jenny & Tyler (elijah & hayley)

Do You - Carina Round (waking up)

Fight Them Soft - Sóley (Kol)

The Gentle Hum of Anxiety - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Shock)

He Had A Good Time - Cliff Martinez (Klaus & hayley)

Elijah and Hayley left the grill discreetly, leaving Rebekah and Kol to find their own entertain. They sat in the car in comfortable silence. Hayley looked out the window, a small smile stuck on her face.

"Hayley, I don't think you should push Damon so far. He's dangerous." Elijah tried to sound like he was stating an opinion instead of a demand.

She sighed. "I know." Her response surprised him. "I couldn't help it! Sometimes I just say things in the heat of anger. He was being so awful towards Rebekah… he had it coming." Hayley finished angrily, crossing her arms.

Elijah smiled at her. "What?" She asked, annoyed when she noticed.

"I can't help but find you adorable when you're angry." He said honestly.

"What! That's the last thing I want to be when I'm angry!"

That only caused the smile on Elijah's face to become bigger. Hayley tried to act like she was mad but soon she was laughing. A few minutes later, they were in front of the mansion that still felt foreign to her. It was too big, feeling cold and desolate. There was no essence of home, and she was pretty sure it felt the same for Elijah and all of his siblings. With Elijah's coat still around her shoulders, she turned.

"Where's Klaus?" She wondered. Elijah didn't have to listen for his brother. He already knew that he wasn't at home. Probably finding some way to be a nuisance to Caroline.

"Not here." He answered. Hayley immediately had a mischievous grin on.

"Good." She stepped nearer to him and put her lips on his. Her hands were on either side of his face and his hands automatically went around her hips. After a few moments of their kissing, she barely pulled away.

"I wanted to do that all night." Hayley whispered to him. Elijah just stared into her eyes. She glanced up at the top of his head. Her fingers rain through his neatly styled hair. "I'm still not used to your hair."

"How long until your brothers and sister are back?" Hayley questioned.

A smile slowly formed on his lips. "Not for awhile."

Her eyes narrowed with a smirk. "Perfect." She moved away from him and grabbed his hand. Walking backwards, she pulled him toward the stairs. He raised an eyebrow at her, entertained by her tactics. But he wasn't about to let her take the lead. He sped towards her. His lips didn't rush. Slowly, they moved against hers. His hands grabbed behind her thighs, lifting her up. It was like she weighed nothing to him. Hayley made a surprised sound at the action. But then laughed and wrapped her legs around him. He rushed them to the bedroom, shutting the door behind him.

The window was left open since it had been so nice earlier in the day. The clashing of the cool and warm currents caused a severe wind in the night. But even in the freezing room, Hayley was sweating. Her body was restless in her sleep, having a nightmare of some sort. In her mind, she heard a distant blood-curdling scream. Her eyes flew open and her body shot up in the bed.

Elijah's usual place on the bed was vacant. Hayley looked around the room, breathing heavily. The open windows were causing the sheer curtains to fly around madly. The moon was full outside and currently the only light source in the room. She got shudders at how haunting the room felt and appeared.

She jumped when she heard the scream again, but she was awake. Her hand soared over her heart, trying to calm it. So she hadn't been dreaming it; the noises of reality had somehow slipped into her nightmares. The cry brought chills across her skin. Hayley scurried out of bed to put on her clothes. Whoever was screaming didn't sound like Rebekah or anyone else she knew.

Quietly, Hayley slipped out of the room. Her bare feet made it easier to slip around the marble floors of the mansion. She heard a woman whimpering from a room downstairs. Hurrying down the steps, she listened closely to try and figure out what room the cries were coming from. Her heart was racing, and all her muscles felt shaky from fear. Finally, figuring out it was one of the dens. She tiptoed as quietly as possible to the open doorway.

When she finally reached it and was able to see inside, Hayley swore her heart stopped. Kol was holding a woman in his arms as his mouth latched onto her neck. She was crying and her entire body shook under the pain. It had only been seconds of Hayley watching, but she felt like time had slowed. The next thing she knew, Kol dropped the girl carelessly. The thump of her dead body hitting the hard floor made Hayley jump. The girl's eyes were still open and staring off in Hayley's general direction.

Hayley looked at Kol, whose eyes were blood red and veins lined underneath his lids. His fangs were out, blood dripping from them. "Kol." She whispered unintentionally. He was in a daze of hungry and only saw her as another source of blood. She gasped when he was standing centimeters from her face, his face still in its predator mode. He looked into her eyes, when suddenly something hit him.

"Hayley." Kol inhaled. His eyes immediately went back to normal. But he receded away from her and turned his head so she couldn't see his face anymore. Hayley looked back down at the body. The girl's neck was split open and her blood had trickled across the floor. It was getting closer and closer to her feet.

Hayley didn't want to be scared. She wanted to brush it off as nothing. The fact that she had surrounded herself with vampires and had yet to see a dead body was stunning. But her body was quickly going into shock. There was no controlling it. Her mind was shutting down, letting the body take over. It was impossible for her to tear her eyes away from the bleeding corpse.

She couldn't breath; she needed to get out of this room. Clumsily, her body walked backwards out of the door. Before getting to the opening, she ran into a stand holding a vase of some sort. It crashed to the ground, shattering into a hundred pieces. Hayley didn't even notice as her feet stepped around the shards.

Her body's movement was stopped by something. She didn't even turn around to see whom she'd run into. They stepped in front of her, blocking her view of the dead women's eyes. Elijah looked down at her face, concerned and scared. Hayley had to see that his lips were moving to realize that he had already called her name three times.

"Hayley! Hayley! Look at me! What happened?" His hands strongly grasped her shoulders and his head tilted down to look at her on eye level. It was like someone had turned up the volume and she was slightly awoken from her haze.

"I heard a scream…Kol…there's blood everywhere…" Hayley was barely audible to human ears as she spoke. Her words weren't even forming comprehensible sentences. Elijah turned to look into the room behind him, and finally understood what had happened without an explanation. He took her appearance in: face pale as a ghost, hands shaking, and eyes horrified.

Kol quickly walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. He stared at Hayley, puzzled by her reaction. "What's wrong with her?" He asked.

Elijah's head snapped to look at him. His arms were still placed on her shoulders. "She's in shock." He growled at his brother. Hayley eye's suddenly shifted away from the door to Kol. Her feet started backing away again, from fear of just his mere presence.

"Kol, leave." Elijah heard another voice beat him to the demand. He was surprised to see Klaus glaring at Kol. The younger brother was about to say no but he looked back at Hayley. He could see her hands trembling as Elijah moved his own from her shoulder to hold them. Kol growled before speeding out of the hall.

"Just compel her already." Klaus said casually.

"No." Elijah immediately snapped. Before his brother could say anything more, he whispered soothing words into Hayley's ear. She nodded blankly. He then picked her up and slowly carried her back to their bedroom. Delicately, he laid her down on the bed. Klaus hovered in the doorway, watching everything.

Elijah got up, powerfully walking back towards the door. He looked at Klaus. "Watch her. And don't you dare compel her." He ordered. Quietly, he listened to hear where Kol was. When he marked his location, he raced after him. Kol didn't even try to defend himself as Elijah tackled and pinned him to a wall with vampire force.

"What is wrong with you?" Elijah said in his deepest voice.

"Expect me to starve, do you?" Kol retorted.

"You brought that woman here, without compulsion, fully aware that it would cause attention."

"Am I supposed to change my ways just because of her?" Kol clearly spoke of Hayley. He tried pushing his older brother off of him. But Elijah was stronger and he only slammed him back harder against the wall.

"Unlike us, most aren't accustomed to seeing innocent people murdered, then watching their corpse bleed out onto the floor." He let go of his grip around Kol's neck. "Stay away from her. You'll only make it worse." Elijah warned.

As Klaus listened to his brother's fighting, he strolled over to the side of the bed. Hayley lay on her side at the very edge, her eyes starring off. He knelt down close to her. She eyed him, questioning his motives but not having the caring enough to say anything. "Are you alright, love?" Klaus asked softly. He had his charming smile on that had been perfected over centuries.

Hayley only stared at him as her brow wrinkled. She had no intention of answering his question, seeing as it was obvious that she was anything but okay. Abruptly, a wave of chills hit her again. Klaus noticed the bumps forming on her arm and looked over at the window. The drapes were still fluttering from the wild wind. He got up from her side and closed all the windows in the room. Elijah walked back in as he closed the last one. Without a word to him, Klaus exited.

This chapter was a little different...let me know what you thought.

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