Klaus + Hayley: First Hybrid Lesson
"You promised to help me." Hayley complained. Two more days had passed since Hayley had her emotional breakdown and murdered someone on the side of the road. Elijah was still very much worried but Klaus wasn't. He knew exactly what he needed to do to help Hayley. "Yes, and I will, love. Just as soon as I take care of a more important matter of business." He commented making Hayley looked annoyed. "You are kidding me right? What kind of a sick dick are you?" Klaus looked at her, surprised by her insults. "Love, you will get your hybrid 101 when you are ready." "I am ready now." Hayley complained and saw him leave her room and go downstairs. She followed along.
He chuckled and said, "You may be ready, love but I'm not. In case you haven't noticed, I have a town that I risk to lose because of the Guerras. We have to take them down." Hayley scoffed once again and looked from the stairs down at a smiling Klaus, who was heading for the door. "Things would sure as hell been a lot easier if I had just killed Francesca when I had the chance." She muttered under her breath and thought that Klaus hadn't heard that comment but he had. "What?" he whispered, softly. Hayley didn't say anything and Klaus crossed his arms over his chest. "Go ahead, love. Is there something you would like to share with the class?" he asked her with a smirk on his face he enjoyed.
"I caught Francesca in her car a couple of nights before and bit her. I tried to kill her…but she out bested me with that ring of hers. I don't know how she did it but she did. And it's a shame because she is just a werewolf and I am supposed to be a hybrid now!" Klaus looked almost impressed at Hayley for going all on her own to try and take down Francesca. "Well, I do appreciate your enthusiasm, love, but taking down the Guerras is not going to be so easy. I have plenty of things to do first." "Like what? More drinking and more partying to hide your sorrows?" "I am going to pretend like I haven't heard that. Goodbye now, little wolf." Before Hayley could say anything more, he left the house. Hayley growled under her breath. "I just remembered why I hate him so much." That remark didn't go unheard by Elijah, who looked a little relieved to find those feelings of Hayley towards his brother. Ever since Klaus had brought her back home a few days ago, he had been meaning to speak to her.
Hayley caught Elijah looking at her from downstairs and went down the stairs to meet him with her arms crossed over her chest. "Are you okay?" she asked him. "That was exactly what I've been meaning to ask you." Hayley ran a hand through her hair. "Elijah, listen! I understand that you are trying to help. I really do. But you just have to back off once in a while, you know?" "How can I do that when you know in what state you are in? You're a hybrid now, Hayley and you need to learn how to control all of these emotions. I can't just have you running around New Orleans whenever you please and kill people." "Klaus is going to help me train to be a good hybrid and he will help me learn to control my emotions. It is not up to you anymore, Elijah."
"I would not advise you to do as Niklaus would tell you to." "Why? Because you find him untrustworthy or because you're pissed because he has the ability to train me and you don't?" Hayley didn't mean to snap at him like that. She wasn't herself and Elijah looked taken aback but he regained his composure with a sad smile. "I don't want to see you getting hurt. That is the last thing that I want. After losing Hope, I understand how hard you must be feeling, but take in mind what I said about Niklaus. He was acting the same way you are acting now when he first became a hybrid and I have spent years trying to get him to be the man that he used to be and failed. I keep trying even today, but I cannot see success in his future. I do however see a lot of potential for you to be the person you once was and I want to help you with that." "I don't need you to tell me what to do, Elijah. I am more than capable of taking care of myself and in case you haven't noticed, the old me is gone. This is the new me. Take me or leave me." She had said the same thing to him once at a party and he had accepted her. Now, Hayley was sure that Elijah would never be able to accept her the way she was.
"It's what I thought." She moved him out of her way and picked up her phone, dialing his number. There was music playing in the background and she could hear many girls yelling and having fun. "Klaus, where are you?" There was bitterness in her tone. "I am at a party, love, taking acre of some business." "I need you to come back and I want to start my hybrid training now." "Little wolf, it's the middle of the night." "I said now, Klaus!" She was very demanding and she could tell that he didn't like that but he didn't complain either. "Meet me in the bayou in seven minutes." "Why seven?" He hung up right away.
Klaus' secretive ways were pissing her off but she accepted these reactions none the less. She didn't complain as much. She knew that he was going to help her, but she didn't know how. "Seven minutes to be precise." Klaus called out to her and waved as he stood near a tree and she came over to him. "What are we doing here?" she asked and he responded, "Teaching you about your senses. They are heightened now, little wolf. You are going to need to control them if you can ever hope to be in the same room as other humans." "And how exactly do I control my senses?" "Hearing, smelling, touching, seeing and tasting." "Yes, I know all the senses, Klaus. I am not stupid." Klaus grabbed her arms and pinned them to her sides to keep them still. "What do you hear?" he asked her and she concentrated really hard. "Nothing." "Try again." "Klaus, this is ridiculous." "Try again." "Fine! I hear…I don't know…it's faint…maybe it's…a deer." She finally said and Klaus smiled. "Can you smell her out?"
"I think I can." Before Klaus could respond, Hayley was already using her speed to track down the deer. She was terribly hungry and she needed to have some blood inside of her, even if it was not that juicy human blood she so desperately wanted. "I see it!" She called out and she could. From a distance. The deer was standing there and it was looking really helpless. Hayley knew she could get it. She was good at this. Klaus was beside her and whispered in her ear, "Can you feel it?" "Not unless I touch it." "So what are you waiting for?" In the next second, Hayley had the deer pinned down and she was looking at it hungrily but deep down, she also felt guilt as she knew she would hurt it in seconds. The deer felt different and by feeling, Hayley was beginning to understand what Klaus meant. The blood that ran through the deer's veins. She could feel it. "Go ahead, little wolf. Try it."
The last sense. Taste. Hayley showed her hybrid fangs and sunk her teeth into the deer's flesh while hearing her call out in pain. It was hurting her deep inside. Her mind told her to stop. She felt bad for the poor animal but her body told her to keep going and drain the deer dry. Klaus just watched her closely. A few seconds had passed and to Klaus' astonishment, Hayley pulled away from the deer that had so little blood left in her. Hayley began crying a little as she bit her wrist and pushed some of the hybrid blood she had down the deer's throat. She hoped it would work. She was really hoping. Klaus was just looking at her, admiring her with a smile. In a couple of minutes, the deer was slowly standing up on its feet and it ran away from them. This time, Hayley started crying out of happiness. She was happy that she had managed to heal the deer with her blood even though she thought it was impossible.
"Well done, little wolf." Klaus whispered holding out a hand for her to take. Hayley took it without question and wiped the blood off her face and smiled at Klaus as he smirked as well. "I never thought that you would keep the control and pull back before draining that animal. I guess your humanity is not completely gone as Elijah believes." "What was the point of this night?" "The point was to show you that you are in control, little wolf and there should be no one telling you otherwise, not even my big brother. You're going to be alright, love. I promise you." Hayley nodded a little as Klaus pulled her into his arms for a warm hug. He rarely hugged anyone but his siblings but Hayley was an important person in his life now. He felt the need to help her. He had to help her and he knew he would.