A/N: Just had to keep the Klaus bit! I thought it was beautiful and very moving and meaningful on the show!

P.S - Title inspired from the song Demons - Imagine Dragons

Demons

Hayley dashed immediately into her room so fast it looked as if she fell into it, her hand grasping the door frame as she swung inside. The first thing she had thought of when arriving back at the compound was Elijah. and Elijah alone. He was filling up her mind today like helium in a balloon and she knew that even trying to tell herself that she hadn't been missing him up to date would be pointless from all angles. Just seeing him made her feel...

She hesitated.

What the feeling was exactly still seemed currently unexplainable

Hayley flipped back the hood of the dark jumper she had stolen from Elijah's room. It had his scent all over it and needing it for her "plan" almost felt like an excuse. She hugged the material and sighed as she came closer to Elijah. He looked unchanged, as if she had left him for only a few seconds. She reached the bed breathing deeply and sat gently by his side, her heart suddenly thudding in her chest hard.

She hadn't wanted to leave him but something else had driven her to, something strong, a primal instinct. It had angered her so much to see him placed in this painful state; she couldn't have just kept sitting there, watching. She was Hayley Marshall.

"You better wake up soon." Hayley now playfully scolded him now play before reaching forth and feeling his forehead with an ounce of fear. Luckily it was much cooler than before and she closed her eyes slightly relieved but of course was still full with concern.

Klaus should be back with the Medlock root now. She thought anxiously but then was distracted by Elijah's frame which stopped it's gently exhale for a second and began to breath more erratically. Before Hayley knew what she was doing her face neared his and she discovered she was now pressing her soft lips upon his forehead. Her eyes widened with shock as she then darted away, surprised by her own impulse. Her cheeks flushed as she looked cautiously around the room for a second before finally calming down and returning to gaze at him. Something in her subconscious swirled. She thought back to their capture in the cemetery and how she had thought about kissing him. The yearning that had enveloped her. That want...

The window to Hayley's room then suddenly shuttered and she gasped looking towards it and then sighed rolling her eyes internally.

Hayley had agreed to Klaus's request to stay back with her wolves but it hadn't been too long before her palms had begun to twitch with restlessness. She had felt the strong need to do something, anything. And not too soon after an idea had hit her.

Elijah wouldn't just sit here. Hayley had thought in the back of her mind as she had stroked over his fingers while clasping his hand and suddenly a great sense of determination had flooded her.

She had then confidently left the compound vowing that she'd return successful and she had.

Unaware to Klaus and Elijah Hayley's plan although difficult, with the help of Marcel, Gia and Cami had thrived and now the two other Mikaelson brothers, Finn and Col stood wrapped up in chains like a lovely early Christmas gift in the ballroom.

Hayley looked over her shoulder towards their direction and listened carefully using her hybrid perk, her eyes then narrowed from the lack of sound.

Hmm. She thought to herself rising from the bed gradually.

Slowly she then slipped her hand out of Elijah's slightly clammy one and strode towards her prisoners not wanting to make a single mistake regarding their capture.

Part of her deeply wanted Klaus and Elijah to realise that she was perfectly capable. They'd know her for far too long as just the mother wolf...her heart clenched as Hope's beautifully pure scent managed to appear into thin air but Hayley swallowed.

She was a hybrid now and she was beginning to understand that nothing, nothing at all could ever keep her always from her daughter. She was going to get her back; there were no two ways about it. For the past months she had been battling against her demons and they had been winning for so long but not anymore. It was her turn now and in making this decision she was beginning to feel stronger than ever.

As Hayley made her way to the ballroom, elsewhere a downtrodden Klaus entered the compound clutching in his fist the medlock orchid root he had desperately set of to retrieve and in a twisted and tragic way had lost his birth father in the process.

Klaus slowly stepped into Hayley's room, his eyes flickering wide like a child on seeing his big brother. He neared him gradually eventually standing at his side and gently applied the ointment with a rare tenderness about him.

The atmosphere filled with a strange sense of serenity and in the next few moments it was as if nature itself bowed down to listen...

"You were innocent once Elijah." He breathed almost softly and then the intense speech began...

"This bloodlust was forced upon us by our parents turning us from prey to predator..."

"We are the demons lurking in the shadows; we are the savage villains, in fairytales told to children but not for my child, not for Hope..."

"In her story we are the knights in shining armour, without you by my side I don't think I can survive my own love for my daughter..."

Klaus's breathing hitched and he swallowed or a second.

"I need you...I need you brother, the monster in me can only be checked by the monster in you. Only together we can defeat our demons and save our family"

Elijah's eyes flashed open with a jolt.