AU: Everything is black and while until you meet your soulmate.
Rebekah swore to him she had seen the world in color at least a thousand times over the last centuries.
He didn't believe her once.
Had seen colors himself, he would see them whenever he looked at Tatia. He had heard stories, way too many of how the world changes when you find your soulmate, some of them even found it difficult to describe. Though, they all agreed that you just knew it, that you didn't dare to doubt it.
Deep down he knew Tatia wasn't his soulmate, she already had found hers, not even in his brother but in her first husband, the father of her child. Yet, she believed there was more than a soulmate out there and still hoped to find hers, she never found another.
And now, being a thousand years old hybrid, he doubted he would find one himself. He had been all over the globe, so many places that it was hard to remember the names of them all, Finn found Sage not even after a century as vampires, but the rest of his siblings and himself seemed to be damned.
But he had no time to worry about that, he had heard from one of his hybrids that the rogue hybrid Tyler had a new lady friend in town. Klaus had his own theories about Tyler's activities while being away, and he couldn't wait for Caroline to learn it all.
But now, he needed to confront the wolf girl, confirm his theories. He saw an unfamiliar figure checking out a picture, it surely had to be her. "You're a new face." he said with a smirk, he couldn't wait to tease her about Tyler.
Then she turned, meeting his eyes and he knew it. Suddenly there was no more black and white, everything around him took different shades of so many colors, he instantly understood the lose of words the elders used to have, he found himself with no words to describe it.
Her voice pulled him out of the trance he was in "And I'm taking from your accent you're an old one, Klaus." she said pointing at him, he couldn't help but to be curious. It was like she hadn't noticed the new world around them, it was even possible? To someone to see color when the other person didn't?
But she was, she was seeing colors more vividly than she ever imagined. Yet, along with the new sigh came the stories about her supposed soulmate and even more important; her mission. She needed him to kill all his beloved hybrids, she couldn't get herself be distracted, not when she was this close to find her family. Perhaps... if she pretended to not notice, perhaps it would eventually fade away.
"My reputation precedes me. Hopefully not all bad." he said walking closer, he was doing it almost instinctively, like it was the most natural thing in the world to be close to her, yet, it wasn't as close as he wanted.
"A little bad, mostly repulsive." she said not even a heartbeat after, her gaze intense and he was starting to doubt his earlier assumption, maybe she did see colors after all.
He stared at her, studying her reaction to him. He wondered if she would break eye contact at some point, but she didn't. "So, you're a friend of Tyler's?" he asked walking even closer, the thought of what his soulmate and Tyler could have done in the Alps filling him with rage.
"It's strange... he never mentioned you." he said, making sure to take in every emotion that would cross in her face, yet, all he could see was genuine curiosity... towards him. Not far away he heard Tyler and Caroline talking til she managed to convince her to leave with lame excuses.
"And I think I know why." he finished, looking back at the little wolf in front of him. She had heard glimpses of it too, she didn't have vampire senses but besides small, hearing was one of the things that she -a wolf- could do best.
Her eyes found their way back to the hybrid in front of her, eyeing him warily. He wasn't doing nothing, just staring at her with a smirk, hazel green eyes met light blue ones but none of them said a word til Tyler's steps to the second floor snapped them awake and they both left in the same silence they have been for the last minutes.
Once away from the hybrid Hayley found herself letting go a breath she didn't know she was holding, while Klaus was growing angry at the universe. She was a werewolf, out of all the people in the world his soulmate was a she-wolf that could or not could be feeling the same way about him.
He had to be away from her, he couldn't let himself grow close to her, not now, not ever. If it was a human he could think of turning her, but a werewolf? He had no way to make hybrids now, she would witter and die, like all the others werewolves.
And it didn't matter how much he would try to stop it, there was no way she could live forever, she would last no more than 60 years given her age. To him, that was way too short time, if he ever let himself care for her, or even... he would have to live with the pain of losing her way too soon.
Was universe punishing him for all the death and destruction he caused? It took him a thousand years to find his soulmate, a kindred spirit... a little spark of hope in all the darkness and loneliness that his world was, but like all the sparks, she would burn too soon.