Klaus + Hayley: Falling for Him

Klaus and Elijah came inside of her room and startled her. "Let's go, little wolf!" Klaus demanded and packed her up a suitcase as Hayley got out of bed and looked around her to see that it was very early in the morning. "What is going on, Klaus?" She then looked over at Elijah who had pity written all over his face but for some reason, he couldn't say anything. "We have a slight situation, sweetheart. It involves our daughter." Klaus responded and Hayley sat right up. "What happened? What is going on?"

"Apparently, we just got confirmation that our mother knows her whereabouts. We called Rebekah and told her that we will be there shortly to pick Hope up. We will not leave her unprotected." Elijah told her and Hayley's eyes widened. "What are you talking about? Klaus, you told me that she was perfectly safe with Rebekah and how did Esther find out where she is?" Klaus moved out of the room without an explanation. Hayley had no choice but to go to Elijah. "What exactly happened?" she asked him.

"Mother, what are you doing here?" Elijah asked, completely taken aback by Esther, who was now showing herself in the form of a smaller witch. "I am here only to finish what I've started." She raised her hands and set a fire between her and her two sons, as Finn, the sacred brother, hidden in another's body was with her. "You are never going to get away with this. I ended you once, Mother! I am going to do it again!" Klaus called out to her and she smirked. "If only you'd know what I know, Niklaus. It seems you have forgotten what I am capable of doing. Your daughter is alive!" She exclaimed and the fire stopped as Elijah and Klaus both looked at her in shock. "How do you…?" She cackled up a laugh and disappeared but not before saying, "I know everything…even where she is right now."

Hayley clapped a hand over her mouth as she looked up at Elijah and the eldest Mikaelson brother pulled her into a firm hug. "I am so sorry, Hayley. I promise that I will not let anything happen to Hope." Klaus walked in with the intension on telling them to hurry up when he stopped in his tracks and witnessed Hayley and his brother embracing. Hayley's eyes met his and Hayley pulled back from the hug, thanking Elijah for a moment before stepping over to Klaus. "Let's get going. I need to see my daughter right now. Where is Rebekah? Where has she taken her?" "Far away, little wolf." Hayley picked up her bag and headed out to the Range Rover and saw the engine on. Klaus was far better prepared than she had hoped he would be. Their child's life was at stake here, why wouldn't he be?

Klaus got into the front seat and got everything ready, refusing to let Elijah drive. He wanted to do it himself. Elijah would never admit it though that out of the two of them, Klaus was definitely the better driver. He was expecting his brother to join him but by surprise, Hayley was looking at him all buckled up. She was ready to go and Elijah had no choice but to get in the backseat. "Hurry, Niklaus." He said the best he could and the car started before Hayley could pull the door shut. The hell was she going to let anything happen to her daughter because of her psychotic grandmother. She rested her forehead on her head as she looked out the window and tears were already filling up in her eyes. "How long?" she finally whispered and Klaus looked at her in surprise. "A couple of hours." He finally responded.

Hayley looked over at him at last and once their eyes met, Klaus could see crystal clear that she had been weeping to herself. "Hayley, I am doing the best I can here…" "Do it better!" She snapped and then looked back out the window. Elijah was watching them from the backseat and decided to fumble around with his phone as Klaus and Hayley talked. "I don't even understand why we are so frightened. I trust Rebekah with my life. She is brave and strong and she wouldn't let anyone get to Hope and especially not my mother." Klaus mumbled under his breath and Hayley looked over at him. "We should be worrying. She just told you that she knows where is hidden." "That is always my mother's way of intimidating us, making us believe that she has the upper hand. I know how she operates, little wolf." Elijah rubbed his temples as he heard Hayley snap back, "I know how you operate. With neglect!"

Klaus gave her a long look as she avoided his gaze. "Now would not be the appropriate time to go against me, sweetheart. We have to get to our daughter and I am in no mood to fight with you. Just because that I am not acting as desperately as you are, that does not mean that I treat my own child with neglect. I love her and I am going to protect her." He stated, keeping his eyes on the road as Elijah requested. Hayley looked over at him for a moment and noticed the tension in his voice and the way he gripped the steering wheel tighter. He was going with full speed and if some officers would stop them, he knew that all he'll need to do would be to compel them or rip their heads off. "I'm sorry." Hayley whispered after a while, even catching Elijah by surprise at her choice of words.

"What are you sorry for, love?" "I am sorry for what I've said to you. I said it out of anger and confusion, Klaus. I am worried terribly about my child and I miss her. I haven't seen her for months. I have no idea what she looks like anymore. I just want to be able to protect her and I feel so useless and hopeless." Elijah was about to intervene but he was stopped by Klaus who put his hand on hers and whispered, "I promise you that she is going to be okay. I am not going to let anything happen to Hope. I am not going to let my mother get to her. We get there and we protect both my sister and our daughter. Everything is going to be okay, Hayley." She looked at him in the eyes and without realizing, Klaus ran a hand through her hair to soothe her and she looked at him intensely.

Finally realizing what he was doing, he pulled back and looked at the road again but he could feel Hayley still watching him with tearful eyes. She didn't know what she felt now as she looked at him. Before, she used to feel such anger when he contradicted with her, but now she felt relief, because he was the one keeping her feet on the ground where they belonged. She couldn't understand how things have changed so much between them since they gave up Hope to Rebekah. They were living under the same roof for over a year now, almost two and she had gone from hating him to supporting him and caring for him. She didn't know what that feeling in her gut said to her but she didn't want to follow it. What made it even worse was when he put his hand over hers, keeping one hand on the steering wheel.

She smiled as she looked over at him and that smile didn't go unnoticed by Elijah, who looked taken aback by the entire conversation and the way his brother was watching Hayley and vice versa. Hayley didn't remove her hand and felt the warmth in her heart as he kept it there and she knew what it was for. It was another way to soothe her. He has been doing that a lot lately and she liked it, but she was going to deny any sort of feeling that she could ever get from his close proximity. She looked in the rearview mirror and saw Elijah looking right back at her. She knew that she had been rejecting his advances for quite a while now. She didn't understand why. She used to feel butterflies around him when she was pregnant but now, she felt nothing. He had kissed her once as a hybrid and surprisingly, this was the first time that she didn't kiss him back. His mouth on hers brought nothing inside of her anymore. It wasn't even lust anymore, much less love. She felt sorry for him and didn't know how she was going to tell him that her feelings for him have diminished.

As her strange feeling got inside of her once again, she looked at Klaus and feared that she knew the answer to her questions deep inside of her heart. She feared knowing the answers because this was the last path that she wanted to take but her heart was telling her that. "We're almost there." His sexy British voice told her and she looked up into his eyes with a smile. What mattered now was Hope, their daughter. She was in danger from one of her own family members and they had to protect her. That was their top priority right now and whatever was going on between her and Klaus, they would have to figure it out later on.