First of all, can I begin by saying that I was surprised at the positive response I got. Many guests PMed me. And here you go another chapter. Please do continue posting reviews it serves as excellent motivation. One of you expressed your concern about how Klaus and Caroline would be better than Elena. Honestly, I ship both of those ships and Klaus and Camille too, rest assured I have not decided yet on any sort of final pairing but what they may be; it is highly unlikely it will ever be Klaus and Elena. Also do note that this fic may differ slightly from the originals as, well, Hayley and Elena are two different people altogether. Do give me your suggestion if you want it all to be short chapters and faster updates or long chapters and slower updates. Constructive criticism is highly welcome, I am of the belief that you always learn something good. And to those Caroline shippers, she will have some more screen time than she had in the original version as she is after all Elena's best friend. And you may need to forget about some parts of Vampire Diaries since Elena is still human and Jeremy died a little bit differently than he did originally.

ELIJAH POV

Sitting on the stool at a place called ROUSSEA'S in New Orleans in a city filled with art, culture, and music took me years back to this place which I called home for two centuries before my father had chased us down and burned this city to the ground. I sat on this chair, where a familiar scent lingered although I could quite not put up a finger on whose it was, as I stubly tried to get information out of the bartender.

"So what brings You to the Big Easy?" she asked as she poured me a drink.

" I used to live here," I replied truthfully, as half of my mind was already trying to distinguish the scent.

"Really? When?" A hundred years ago.

" Oh feels like a hundred years ago."

" I just moved here myself. What brought you back?" she asked.

" Well, My brother is here somewhere. I am afraid he has gotten himself in a bit of a bind."

" You say that like it's a common occurrence." It is

" Well, he's complicated, defiant, ill-Mannered, and a little temperamental," I said taking a sip of my drink as my mind worked furiously over distinguishing the scent.

I proceeded to give her a little bit of family history, enough for her to give me some information I needed. She was perceptive he could give her that. When I had decided that there was enough chit- chat I glanced down at her badge and said,

" Listen Camille. I am looking for someone who might shed some light on his current predicament. She works here- Jane-Anne Deveraux any more. Any idea where I might find her."

" Oh, she was here an hour ago taking her friend with her."

" A friend?"

" Ah yes, she said her name was Caroline." Caroline, Mystic Falls but this is not Caroline's scent this is ...Elena's.

" Do you know if I can contact her somehow?"
"Who Caroline or Jane."

" Jane"

" Well, I know someone who might know about her whereabouts."

After seeing the events through, all I felt was betrayal and confusion, Marcellus was alive, he had not perished in the fire so long ago, and yet he had never searched for them, Jane-Anne Deveraux was dead, the witches had called the original to town for help as they had been denied the right to practice magic and Marcellus was now the king of New Orleans, Klaus won't like that at all. Rebekah had expressed her disinterest in helping their brother. They have lured Niklaus here, And I wanted to know why. And somehow Elena was involved in all this. And for that, I need to talk to Sophie Deveraux.

I followed Sophie as she prayed to her sister, not realizing that two vampires were there.

" The doors work you know," Sophie asked

" You are doing magic " the vampire questioned with a sneer.

" I am praying to my dead sister. Go ahead. Pay your respects."

" Don't make this a thing Sophie." another vampire said, "The hybrid was looking for Jane-Anne. Marcel wants to know why."

" I would say ask her yourself, But I guess you can't, see because Marcel killed her."

The young vampire lunged for her, and I decided that it was time to intervene. The two vampires were taken care of rather quickly.

" I am Elijah. Have you heard of me?" I said

" Yes," she replied, nodding her head.

" So why don't you tell me what business your family has with my brother?" and as I moved closer I could again catch Elena's scent on her. Guess this was all related after all.

Sophie took me to a cemetery and as I opened the gate, I found myself unable to enter I looked at her for an explanation.

" This is sacred ground, which means vampires have to be invited in.." Please tell me you are not playing this game now," But since I am desperate. Come on in." Seems like we are not.

" We can talk freely here." she continued, as I was hit with the scent of blood.

"Then I suggest you start talking. What did your sister want with Niklaus? "

" Isn't it obvious? We have a vampire problem And we need help." Fancy getting that from my brother. ," Marcel has an army backing him. The witches have been trying to fight back. We haven't had much luck. Until my sister Jane- Anne met a girl, perhaps the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. The Petrova doppelganger passing through the quarter and also a werewolf from a small town in Virginia." Elena is not a werewolf, they are lying.

Before she could continue further, I interrupted her.

" Elena is not a werewolf. It would be advisable not to lie any further to me or Marcellus would be the least of your problems. "

" You know the girl." she said in surprise," And I am not lying she has the werewolf gene and the crescent mark, she just has not killed a human yet, for it to activate."

" You are lying."

"No see, I will show you," she said as she made to move.

" Even if this was true, what does Elena have to do with my brother?"

" Oh, she has a special connection to your brother." Is she talking about making hybrids? Hadn't Niklaus given up on that already?

" What kind of connection?" I asked.

" Apparently in a drunken haze, they spend some time together, one thing led to another..." Impossible " And now the Petrova doppelganger is pregnant, and the father of the child she is carrying is your brother, Klaus, no matter how much she tries to deny this." Do they think of him as a fool? Vampires can't procreate and even Elena is denying it.

"It's impossible."

" Nothing is impossible, especially when it comes to your brother, a hybrid, and the Petrova doppelganger. Think about it they call him the hybrid. Right?."

His disbelief must have shown on his face as the girl called,

" Bring her out." I looked when I heard the creaking of the door and as the scent of blood became stronger, and in walked Elena with two people at her side holding her arms. She did not look good at all, her lip was bleeding she appeared tired and pale and there were some injuries on her legs. Her hair was all over the place and she was bleeding from multiple spots, a wound ran down from her face which if not healed urgently would leave a scar. She was also limping slightly as she supported her weight on her one leg. She looked furious and seemed to struggle against the witches' hold on her. She looked up at me, and on seeing me every inch of her face broke out in relief, I concentrated on her and heard the sound of a normal heartbeat and another one that was much more light, but it was there.

" Elijah," she said, relief clouding her voice as a tired smile appeared on her injured face before she winced.

" Look at her, she is pregnant," Sophia said," We have been checking on her with witchcraft for days. We have confirmed the pregnancy. Klaus is the baby's father."

" Oh yes, checking on me means torturing me every day for almost a month," Elena said, breathing heavily.

" Now that's a lie, I just caught her scent in the local bar," I said, my eyes not moving away from her.

" She escaped," Sophie said," My sister Jane had to use magic to lure her back from the bar and that's why Marcel killed her for doing magic in the Quarter, my sister died because of her." her voice turned accusing.

" I have no reason to lie," she continued, desperately." I know you will kill me if I did."

"Give us a moment please," I said. The witches tried to drag Elena before she snapped, " I will walk on my own." she turned around still limping as I followed. My mind a whirl of emotions and possibilities. It seems as if New Orleans will be Niklaus's redemption.

NO ONE'S POV - THIRD PERSON

Elena sighed as she rested her head on the wall, it was after a long time that she felt good, Elijah's blood had done wonders to her injuries, she did not feel lightheaded anymore. These bloody witches, Elena thought as she berated herself for her poor life decisions, stop taking birth control tablets, poor decision, trusting those more insane visions poor decisions, coming to New Orleans without informing anyone and just writing a note poor decision, underestimating the witches another poor decision, getting drunk poor decision and sleeping with Klaus the poorest decision in the history of poor decisions.

"So they have been holding you here against your will for a month," Elijah stated, more to clear his head of anything else

" Yes, and torturing me for the same amount of time," Elena replied

" How did this happen Elena,"

" What the pregnancy? Apart from the fact that it should not happen, It was a drunken mistake and the worst mistake of my life."

" The last I knew you were in Mystic Falls, mourning your family. Why did you come here?"

Elena sighed." I came because of family, I have been having some strange visions or dreams really about this place the woods, wolves, and New Orleans and they all ended with a one-word family. All the family that I know is dead and when they continued I decided to finally check it out. It seemed as people were calling for my help and the stupid person I am I came here. "

" Sorry to ask but aren't you an orphan. Your birth parents are both dead right."

" It seems that my birth mother Isobel lied to me about who my real father was and instead told John that he was my birth father knowing that he would take care of me. In her will, she had left everything to me, including her Journals, I read those in the hope of getting to know my real mother before she turned her humanity switch off, and instead, I found myself getting a new father. Isobell had always liked to do research she must have heard of this town which sells to tourists stories about the supernatural and she came here and met my birth father and I believe I don't have to explain any further. And don't ask me about the werewolf, I discovered about it when the witch bitch told me."

Elijah said nothing and Elena sighed again holding her stomach,

" How did this happen. Vampires are dead, they can't have children ."

" But werewolves can Elena," Elijah said

" Why did no one come to save you, you had been gone for a month. It is my understanding that they would have been beside themselves with worry. And with the Bennet witch, it wouldn't have been that difficult to locate you."

" When I left I didn't tell anyone about the true reason I was going. I was mourning my family and I told them I needed space. I had already broken up with Stefan and Damon because of my guilt of sleeping with Klaus and from what I think Katherine must have been trying to portray me. She always does that for her own amusement."

" Well, Katerina likes nothing more than to play mind games," Elijah replied.

" Elijah, what is to become of the child, I am not naive enough to believe Klaus," she spoke his name with disgust," would want to do anything with it. I however have no intention of killing an unborn baby especially not mine. No one must be denied life. Maybe if you can take me from here..." she let the sentence hanging.

Elijah looked at Elena and said," I cannot excuse my brother's behavior, but you must understand that our father hunted him," he got up and walked around the place," hunted us for centuries. Every time we found a moment of happiness, we were forced to flee, even here in New Orleans, where we were happiest of all. Not long after Niklaus broke his curse, he defeated our father as you will already know. I thought that this would make him happy, but he was angrier than ever. "

" What are you saying?" Elena asked standing up, her disbelief clear on her face.

Elijah continued as if he hadn't heard her," I wonder if, perhaps, this baby will be a way for my brother to find happiness, a way to save him from himself."

Before Elena could say anything, Sophie walked back in and said," I am glad you feel that way, because we need your help."

" What precisely, is it that you want? What does it have to do with this girl?"

" We want to run Marcel and his vampires out of town. Klaus is the key. Everything Marcel knows about being a vampire, he learned from Klaus. Marcel trusts him, looks up to him. He won't see the betrayal coming."

" Klaus doesn't like to do what he is told, he will take your heart out before you could tell him what to do," Elena said.

" This is why we brought Elijah here, Marcel drove the werewolves out of town decades ago. Do you really think he is going to welcome a hybrid baby to the neighborhood? Convince Klaus to help us, and no one has to know about the newest member of the original family." Sophia replied.

" Ya well, now you are dead," Elena said with a raised eyebrow as Elijah suddenly looked dangerous,

" That sounds remarkably like blackmail."

"As I said I am desperate," Sophie said not backing down. Elena looked disappointed

" Well, then," Elijah said with a dangerous smile," I have my work cut out for me, don't I?"

" You just have to convince Klaus," Sophie said folding her arms.

" Or better yet you can simply kill these witches and take me out of this place." Elena said," for I myself am desperate to go back home."

" That is a better option," Elijah said.

" I wouldn't try that if I were you, me and the doppelganger are linked together if something happens to me then Elena might not be alive," Sophie said.

" You are playing a dangerous game, Sophie Deveraux. The girl should not be hurt, I will bring my brother here."