A/N: So my exams are now officially over & I'm back! Did you miss me?! (I just had to say that because yes, I'm a Sherlockian)

Thank you so much for your patience & I hope you enjoy the chapter. ^_^

P.S - Title from the song "Say Something" - A Great Big World

Say something I'm giving up on you ~

Chapter 26: Say Something

As Hayley heard the plea she released her hand which was just before cupped around the back of Elijah's head. The words had evoked a dilemma and suddenly everything in the room had became still; everything, but two not so steady hearts, beating simultaneously.

Hayley realised Elijah was on his knees, while she sat perched upon the table, her feet resting on the wooden bench seats. Seeing him this way stunned her. Elijah was always tall, his posture never-diminishing, his confidence, his poise; always constant. Discovering him in such a position was almost unreal.

Elijah looked up at her now, his eyes doing all the persuading needs be. He was so afraid, so anxious, so nervous and Hayley knowing that only she had the power to eradicate these emotions felt identically.

Her face however was bleak; all emotion had been drained when Elijah had finally spoken. A minute ago she had been making plans to take off, plane tickets and luggage and transport revolving in her mind but now all she saw was him, him and her people around her.

Suddenly leaving came across as incredibly pathetic. She was Hayley Marshall. She couldn't give up the chance to free her family, she couldn't run when there was work to be done but could Hayley Marshall say no to the man she loved? The question seemed so incredibly stupid in her mind because that was her initial reaction. The word love always had always been foreign to her but now...But now?

Things had changed.

After her blissful moments with him, after her spoonfuls of paradise, she'd welcomed this new world.

This new world, with Elijah.

Hayley shook her head to try and shake of the memory of a girl who looked like her, was dressed like her and laughed like her while eating chocolate dessert in a fancy hotel, sitting across the very man waiting for her reply now.

But she could not, for she was that girl and that memory was a dream she had lived.

"Say something." Elijah spoke closing his eyes for a second and reopening them again to find his composure.

Hayley turned from staring into the distance to look at him, her face sombre. She then slipped off the table and stood faced away from him for a second before turning around.

Elijah watched her in intently, turning his head over his shoulder to follow her. He then stood up as she turned, waiting.

"I can't." Hayley croaked, her head lowering and Elijah's eyes immediately widened with worry as he involuntarily took a step near her.

However Hayley quickly gestured him away and he stood forcibly rooted to his spot.

Elijah's mind scuttled with millions of thoughts and each confused him and frightened him more.

"I want to, but I can't." Hayley confessed this time looking at him directly. She looked so vulnerable when he spoke about how she felt, probably because she didn't do this often. She stressed the word "can't" since it frustrated her the most.

Elijah's eyes softened as things began to make sense.

"I love you." she forced each syllable fighting the sudden anxiety and awkwardness to speak the words inside her.

Elijah gazed at her knowing how difficult she was finding it to speak and ached to have her near him this instant.

"But Elijah, this won't work." She then sighed in defeat and frustration; her arms raising to her head and then falling down to her sides as she pivoted on her heal unable to look at him.

Elijah neared her now his coolness now returned. His hand lifted hers and guided her tired self to face him.

"Do you honestly think I can stay away?" He spoke and Hayley opened her mouth to speak though was interrupted.

"Do you really think things will work if I don't have you? Elijah questioned her again.

"Elijah. I am pregnant with your psycho brother's child." Hayley spoke bluntly and Elijah was glad her sarcastic frank persona was back.

He smiled ever so slightly.

"Yes. The circumstances aren't exactly ideal." Elijah agreed.

"But then again, might I add, they never really are." He spoke in a low tone, a glint in his eyes.

Hayley looked at him, narrowing her eyes in fake annoyance.

Elijah knew she was holding back a smile and that made him smile and soon enough Hayley was forced to give in and her own lips curved as she watched his eyes brighten.

The tension in the air reduced and it was honestly remarkable how they could recover from such raw intensity in such a short space of time.

However, their stare was then unexpectedly interrupted by a blast of thick rain which began streaming down outside in an instant.

Hayley's eyes darted outside and she bolted towards the door immediately concerned for the pack outside. She stubbornly ran out and was met with the heaviest rain she had ever witnessed. Her hair was soon soaked and her clothes followed with being drenched. Hayley gasped as she felt the cold droplets hit her.

Elijah followed after her soon to be standing at her side as she searched and surveyed the camp through the rain. Oddly no one was to be seen. The doors to the cabins flapped open and shut with again no one inside. They all seemed to have been evacuated.

"What is happening?!" Hayley yelled to be heard.

"Water." Elijah spoke to himself.

"We need to get back to the compound." He yelled back.

"I'm guessing this is something to do with those stupid witches!" Hayley thought and she began walking in the right direction and for a second her mind drifted to Celeste and her face grew sad. He hadn't mentioned her much. "Was that good or bad?" "Was he still mad?"- Well, she had expected him to be.

Hayley walked even more ahead now due to these thoughts though then turned discovering Elijah's hand around her wrist pulling her back, as he so very often did.

She looked at him confused.

"I forgot something." Elijah told her over the racket of the downpour as they stood in the middle of nothing less than a monsoon. He ran his hands through his soaked hair and looked at a very confused and now irritated Hayley.

"I love you too." he spoke and Hayley's scowl turned into a smile; it was almost like with the rain her doubts were being washed away too.

She then suddenly felt an arm twisting possessively around her waist and pulling her so very close. Her lips found their counterpart and she forgot about the chaos around her despite the fresh blast of rainwater soaking her further and further. Similarly Elijah while knowing this was the third element could not think of anything more than that his missing piece had been found.

He wished this kiss didn't have to end but the pressing danger meant it must. Although neither was satisfied by such a brief dose of each other they compulsorily stepped away, heading for the compound.