Klaus + Hayley: Comforting the Woman

He had done nothing, even though he said he would. He had drunken nights out with his best friend, Marcel, who was grieving for his city just as much as he was. Klaus couldn't care less about the city. He just wanted his daughter back. That was the one thing on his mind, nothing else. It had been months already and he had done nothing. With Hayley, he had barely spoken, except that one night when she saved him from himself after a drunken night. She had told him what she wanted and he did nothing.

Elijah had not been any easier on him. He would remind him many times that this kingdom was his responsibility now and he had to protect it from the gangsters that were trying to control it. He had given up everything to protect the ones he cared about. He had sent Hope away with Rebekah, to keep her safe and he had ruined his friendship with Camille to keep her safe. He knew that there should be no one he could care about in his life at this moment. Klaus didn't need any weaknesses if he was going to take down the Guerras. He needed strength and him caring for someone made him weak.

There was only one problem, Hayley. The woman who had bared his child in her womb only to have her taken away from her the next second she was born. Hayley had been traumatized from that night and there was nothing anyone could say to make her recover. She was going through her own hell and needed to be left alone. His brother, Elijah was the only one who couldn't understand that. Ever since Klaus had had his moment with Hayley that night, Elijah had not let her alone. He had walked in on them fighting in her room one night and he could actually hear Hayley's voice breaking up as she spoke.

"I don't need your help and I don't want it, Elijah!" Hayley yelled at the top of her lungs. She was exasperated. Klaus knew how that felt. Elijah had tried the same thing with him the moment he became the first hybrid. He had lost complete control of himself and he would not be put down by anyone. Elijah wouldn't give up on him though and knowing his feelings for Hayley, Klaus knew he wouldn't be giving up on her now either. "Hayley, listen to yourself! This isn't you! Just please, come towards me and let me be there for you. Let me help you!" "NO! I just…want…to be…left…alone. Is that so hard for you to understand, Elijah? I have lost so much that night and I cannot take it as easily as you think I can." "You know you can, Hayley. It has been over three months. You need to…" "What Elijah? I need to what? Leave me alone! I don't want to hear one more word about me being fixed!"

She was dreading the same thing he was. She was dreading what she would become after so much time without knowing her identity or without seeing her daughter. Their little daughter, Hope, whom he had only gotten the chance to hold two times, before her aunt had come to get her, to protect her. All of the pain and suffering…he knew it would be worth it, if Hope would be protected and cared for. This town wasn't ready to have her and not even her mother was ready to have her. Not yet. Elijah just wouldn't understand… "Can you please leave?" Hayley finally asked and covered herself with a blanket.

Elijah looked over at her longingly. He missed her in a way, but Klaus knew just as much as he did that the old Hayley was gone now and she was never coming back. That old Hayley was just an act she pulled in front of his dear and noble brother, to make him think that she was innocent, just the way he wanted. Hayley was beyond innocent and he knew that. Klaus had known her for so much longer than his brother. She was kind and she was generous but she was also very cunning and smart, just like him. Elijah turned around and noticed Klaus staring at him and he sighed, leaving. Klaus took one more look at the sleeping Hayley and remembered how she was the one to tell him that they would both recover from what needed to be recovered. Now, without any help, she was more broken than ever.

The following day, Hayley was nowhere to be seen. She had snuck out into the night and there was no telling what she might have been doing out there. Klaus was sitting in the living room, reading a book when Elijah stormed in and looked at him. "What are you doing?" he asked. "Reading." Klaus responded, simply. "I can see that Niklaus but it's been months…and nothing has been done. I talked to Camille. She is worried about you." "She shouldn't be and if she knows what's good for her, she would stay away from me." "Niklaus, she is worried because gangsters have been running our city and you're doing nothing about it." "I am too tired to do anything about it, brother. Let me rest now." "Rest? You've been out drinking and partying with Marcel for days. You need rest from that?" Klaus closed the book silently. "I know you, brother. I know that you did not come here for this. Spill it already."

Klaus and Elijah were looking at one another sternly until Elijah spoke up and Klaus picked up his book to read again. "I am concerned about Hayley. She grows more savage by the day. Yesterday, I walked through the compound and I saw dead witches lying around." Klaus chuckled as he heard that but Elijah snapped at him. "Can you not see that she is falling apart? She told me yesterday when I confronted her that the witches mean nothing more than food to her now, after what they've done to her baby." "And she is absolutely right." "Niklaus, how can we even hope to make peace between the factions of this city if all you do is sit around while she goes out on witch hunts every night? She is hurting innocent people." "Those witches are hardly innocent, brother." Klaus responded, not taking his eyes off the book.

"I am begging you, Niklaus to go and find her. She is out there somewhere and I am worried." "I am not worried. She is giving in to her desires as a hybrid. She is hurting and she is grieving. Let her get it out of her system." "How? By letting her continue to kill the people of this town? Go and find her Niklaus!" "Why don't you do it if you're so worried?" "Because she won't listen to me. But she might listen to you." Klaus looked up into his eyes and whispered, "Why do you think that?" Elijah wanted to respond but decided against it, as the image of his brother and Hayley asleep and wrapped up in blankets came into his mind. She didn't want to say anything then and he surely didn't want to say anything now.

Before Elijah could ask again, Klaus disappeared into the night. He searched all the places where she could be. HE even entered Rousseau's to see Cami there. "Where is she? Where is Hayley?" Klaus asked, a bit of desperation in his voice. "She came in here a couple of minutes ago for a drink and she left. I don't know where she went. I'm sorry." Klaus growled and left the bar. He couldn't believe that one woman could cause him so many problems. He was concerned about her, but he refused to show Elijah that. He tried calling out her name but he got nothing.

At long last, he found her, on a road, near the outskirts and rushed to her. She was sitting on the road in front of a car, whose engine was still on but there was no passenger. He looked and saw the man sitting on the ground, without any sort of life left in him. Klaus would have healed him but it was too late. He wanted to call out her name but believed that would frighten her. "Little wolf?" he whispered and she looked up into his eyes, and he believed that he saw a little relief on her face before she burst into tears. Klaus went over and took her into his arms. She had blood smudged all over her face from the kill. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." Hayley whispered into his chest as she cried and Klaus hugged her. "I know, love. No need to shed tears like this, please." He whispered and she nodded for one moment. "Teach me." She was saying and Klaus looked startled. "What?" "Teach me, Klaus. Teach me to be a hybrid, please." He sighed and picked the broken girl into his arms.

She wasn't weak but she felt more safe being in his arms. "I will help you, little wolf. I promise. You just hang in there, love. You promised me that we would get through this together." He soothed her and gently took her back to their home. There was a lot to take in just one night.