Chapter 14: Peace
"I'll be in my room." Hayley spoke as she backed away towards the door and turned around to leave. She had had to break the silence, the tension was awfully uncomfortable and her mind clouded.
Elijah's eyes had flickered over to her as she had spoken the words, he was checking to see she was okay. Unknown to him however, Klaus had caught his brothers concern and noted the moment somewhere in the back of his mind, though strangely it did not bother him.
His eyes lowered for a second and then he turned to Marcel, raising his glass as he did for most his announcements.
"I fancy a celebration." He spoke in his confident way.
Marcel smiled, "A celebration for what?" he asked.
"Do we need a reason?" Klaus retorted.
"We rule New Orleans, we can do as we like." He smiled.
"True." Marcel nodded, folding him arms and waiting for Klaus to come up with one of his ideas."
"The Celebration of The Casket Girls is due not too long now; I suppose we could throw a hell of a party for that."
"It's been a while. It's time we showed our city a proper Mikaelson bash." Klaus mused.
"I'm in." Rebekah spoke, and Marcel's eyes flashed onto her.
"What? You practically have me to thank for, that entire celebration wouldn't exist without me."
"As long as no war breaks out between the witches and vampires, I believe the idea is a good one." Elijah spoke.
"Well then. A party we shall have." Klaus grinned, as he took a seat and sipped the liquor in his gasp.
"Good good, I'll go tell Hayley." Rebekah suddenly offered and she was out of the room before anyone could have spoken.
Elijah found himself wanting to follow her, he knew Rebekah was still not convinced and she didn't want her worrying Hayley. He attempted to think of a genuine excuse but failed hopelessly.
Upstairs Hayley sat cross legged on her bed. She bit her lip while thinking. Katherine and Elijah, what an unlikely pair, she never thought Elijah could love a girl like Katherine, he seemed her complete opposite. "Maybe I don't know him as much as I think I do?" she found herself contemplating. She remembered Klaus's word once again. "You hardly know him."
Then she found herself thinking about Klaus and Caroline. She didn't know why but she did. The whole reason they had connected that day had been because their situations with Tyler and Caroline.
All this small talk and making breakfast confused her now. If Caroline meant so much too him, why play this game. Was it just to anger Elijah? Was he just the territorial type? "Probably." Hayley thought.
Her thoughts were abruptly interrupted when the door to her room flung open and Rebekah strode inside, shutting it behind her.
Hayley suddenly felt guilty as if she'd been caught something wrong. She changed her posture and moved , looking round the room distractedly before finally managing to say...
"Um you could have knocked."
"Ugh. I don't need to knock." Rebekah spoke haughtily. Hayley smiled slightly, she liked their friendly arguments.
Rebekah sat on her bed and Hayley waited for her to speak, wondering what she had come to say.
"So tell me then." Rebekah spoke. Hayley raised her eyebrows, showing she had no idea what Rebekah was talking about.
"Ugh! You really think I was going to fall for, the nothing's wrong act?" Rebekah glared at her.
"Um yes, because nothing's wrong?" Hayley continued to avoid her questions.
"Then while were you so jumpy when I walked in?" Rebekah challenged.
Hayley sighed in defeat even though her guilty jumpiness had been nothing to do with their issue before.
"We were going to tell Klaus." Hayley confessed.
Rebekah's eyes widened after a few seconds as she realised what Hayley meant.
"Are you bloody out of your mind." Rebekah scolded her.
"I tell Elijah to try and maintain Klaus's good mood, and he comes out with, oh let's just tell my brother I'm sneaking around with the mother of his child."
"Rebekah!" Hayley snapped as all the bad feelings dawned on her. It was right, that was what they were doing.
Rebekah watched as Hayley's face grew grim.
"Oh don't go feeling all guilty now." Rebekah spoke.
"He's completely and utterly in love with you and no one should take that away from him." She continued as if recalling an old thought.
Hayley smiled meekly.
"We can't keep at it like this." She spoke worriedly.
"You know Klaus, it'll only make it worse, the longer we wait."
Rebekah considered her comment.
"And you know Elijah, you know how much it kills him to be untruthful to his family."
Rebekah smiled sadly at Hayley.
"Elijah has spent his entire life giving up everything just to keep us safe, us happy..."
"Which is why I refuse to let you be taken from him. I understand Nik won't take it well but all then there's all this stuff with Caroline?"
"We don't even know if he was with Caroline." Hayley challenged.
"Okay, but not now, the time isn't right, for once things are peaceful. I don't wish to rupture the tiny bit of peace we get. "
"Okay." Hayley agreed after thinking for a few seconds.
"Keep the peace Hayley." She told herself.
"Oh Klaus is throwing a party." Rebekah then added.
"Why?" Hayley asked confused, it was clear that she was still distracted and anxious.
"In honour of The Casket Girls." Rebekah told her.
"The Casket Girls?" Hayley asked.
"Yeah, how about I tell you over a drink?" Rebekah offered.
Hayley raised an eyebrow.
"Oh wait, pregnant yes. Fine while I drink." She spoke.
Hayley smiled.
"Alright." She agreed. Right now a distraction was what she needed.