Klaus + Hayley (+ Tyler and Caroline): Alternative TVD 4x07 (Once again, for Tina)
Klaus had been looking forward to his date with Caroline since he first set foot in Mystic Falls. Even though she only agreed to let him take her to the Miss Mystic falls Pageant in order to get him to let Jeremy kill Chris and complete hunter's mark, he was grateful for getting this chance. But as he spoke with her, more and more had he started to see himself as a pathetic Original, obsessed with a high school cheerleader. Maybe he just wanted to feel young and alive like he used to feel when he was human. He could see Caroline staring with jealousy at Tyler and Hayley, who came together.
He diverted his eyes to the young werewolf in the red dress and her hair pulled back in a glamorous way. She looked stunning and it was incredible because he had never seen her in anything more formal or glamorous than a pair of short jeans and a rusty shirt. She was very wild, that Hayley but very beautiful for a girl like her. When she put something beautiful as that dress on, she looked different.
"Why is he here with her?" Caroline mumbled under her breath and Klaus wanted to answer but chose not to. Soon, the two discovered that they had been both staring at the other pairing rather than paying attention to one another. Klaus finally found himself moving towards the two when he heard Caroline call out for him. "Hey! Where are you going?" She was disbelieving the fact that he was going to bow out on their only date. But it's not like she wanted to have this date with him anyways.
Tyler and Hayley chose to take a seat on the staircase with two glasses of champagne. "Now that we are settled here, why don't you tell me more?" Tyler asked her with a smile and Hayley closed her eyes for one moment, trying to change the subject. "Isn't your girlfriend going to be mad that you came here with me?" Tyler frowned when he heard that. Hayley knew that they have been having some problems and it was all because of Klaus, who had been trying to break them up for good. Hayley didn't like Caroline at all but she cared for Tyler and she wanted to see him happy.
"Why would she be mad? She chose to come here with Klaus, hadn't she?" Tyler asked like something got stuck in his throat. Hayley could tell that there was jealousy written all over his face. Nevertheless, she put her hand on his and said, "Let's talk about something else." "Good. You tell me about your past. I told you all there is to know about me. We've known each other for quite a while and now I began to realize just how little I know about you." Hayley nodded with a smile. "Well, there's not much to say, Tyler other than the fact that I've been running with different werewolf packs for as long as I can remember." Hayley whispered. Tyler shook his head. "I don't think that's it. I think that you are just afraid of saying something." At that, Hayley frowned at him. She hated being called scared.
"Fine! What do you want to know?" she asked him and Tyler rubbed his hands together. "About your childhood for example. Where have you lived? Who were your parents?" Hayley gulped when she heard that word. Parents. She couldn't even remember the definition anymore. What did it take for a person to be a parent? She didn't know and she hoped that one day, she would be able to figure it out when she had her own children. "Tyler, I was not raised how children are supposed to be raised." "What do you mean?" "I mean that my biological parents abandoned me when I was born." She finally whispered and Tyler's eyes widened. "That's terrible! What happened?" he asked her. "I don't know. They just left me when I was a baby. I was taken in to an adoption center. I spent some time there before a couple adopted me. They took me into their home and loved me. They cared for me and treated me like I was really their daughter. Then one day…" "What happened?" Tyler asked, curiously.
Hayley took a deep breath and said, "I don't know what to say other than…I triggered my werewolf gene when I was 14 at a party." "How did it happen?" "I can't remember very well but I did kill someone and when I got back home, I turned into a werewolf for the first time. My adoptive parents were so afraid of me that they kicked me out the next morning. I tore up their living room." "So you had no idea that you were a werewolf up until the moment that you triggered your gene?" Tyler asked and Hayley nodded. "Damn it, Hayley! I wish you would have told me about this earlier. I would have liked to know a little more about you." "You have been keeping secrets from me too, smart ass." Hayley teased.
"And then what happened to you?" Tyler asked in a gentler tone. "I found out what I am and kept myself distanced from the rest. I was starving on the streets for days. I started stealing, learning how to manipulate people for my own good. I taught myself all sorts of things to survive. Then at last, a werewolf pack found me and took me in. They taught me everything I needed to know and…that's that." Tyler was looking at Hayley with pity in his eyes as he held the glass of champagne in his hand. Hayley took a sip of her own and tried to hold back the tears. She never cried in public and she wouldn't dare to do so now. The two hadn't even noticed that Klaus had been listening in to their conversation.
At last, Klaus came into view and went to them with his hands behind his back as always and a smirk on his face as he looked at Tyler. Hayley was looking at him angrily and Klaus was avoiding her gaze. "Tyler, having a bit of fun, are we?" he asked and Tyler rolled his eyes. "What do you want, Klaus?" he asked and then Klaus cleared his throat. "I believe that Caroline wishes to see you. You better go to her. Do what is right." Tyler cackled up a laugh. "And here I was, thinking that you came here to brag about your one and only date you will get with my girlfriend." "Oh come on, now! I am not that cruel, am I?" The evil smirk had not left his face and there was a glimmer in his eyes as he finally looked at Hayley.
Tyler stood up from the ground and said, "Come on!" to Hayley. Hey both began moving when Klaus grabbed a hold of Hayley's hand to keep her from walking. "I believe that Caroline wishes to speak to you alone, Tyler!" he called out to him when he was about to protest and tell him to leave Hayley alone. Once Tyler had gone, Hayley took her hand away from his and rubbed it angrily. "What do you want now? Haven't you had enough torturing me or killing people that mean well and would never hurt anyone?" she asked him with a growl on her face and Klaus chuckled.
"Since when do you care, love?" "Since Chris was my friend and you gave him up for murder just to get yourself a date with that blonde bimbo!" Hayley exclaimed and started walking in the opposite direction. Klaus stood there, looking a little stunned. Usually, when someone was offending Caroline, he would just snap their necks right there but now, Hayley's hatred towards her didn't seem to bother him. He went after her and Hayley sighed. "Just tell me what you want already! I don't want to be followed the rest of the time I am at this stupid pageant." "If it is quite stupid then why did you bother to attend, love?" Klaus asked and Hayley didn't know how to answer to that question without revealing what she and Tyler had planned behind Klaus' back and that was to unsire all of his hybrids of him. They were going to set them free but like Klaus said, Hayley had another agenda, someone else helping her find her parents' location so she would be able to get back to them. She wanted to find her family. "I don't answer to you." Hayley whispered and started walking again. They reached the small little bridge just over a little lump of grass that would lead to the exterior of the mansion and Klaus followed.
"If you don't answer to me, then why have you kept the phone that I gave you?" Klaus asked, turning himself so that he was facing her right on the bridge and stopping her from walking. "I kept it in case I may ever need it, like you said, to contact someone." "Well, the only contact that you have on that phone is me, love." "I wouldn't bet on it." "Do you have some other special little friends helping you out on your quest?" he whispered close to her ear. "What friends? What are you talking about?" she exclaimed, outraged. She never had anyone confronting her about her business like that.
Klaus smirked and then said, "I couldn't help but overhear you heartfelt confessions to Tyler earlier." Hayley covered her face with her hands at that moment and the said, "That was private. You have some nerve listening in like that." "What is it too bad? Me knowing that you were abandoned as a child, left to live an orphan?" Just hearing the word made Hayley shiver. "I don't want anyone else's pity!" she finally snapped at him and Klaus nodded sighing. "I see that you have many things that you would like to share, love. Don't hesitate to press that call button when you need to get something out of yourself." Hayley raised her eyebrow as Klaus started walking away from her on the bridge. She caught up to him.
"What do you mean? What do you want?" "Ahh, it's always what I want. What is it that you want, Hayley?" he asked, turning around to face her. They were still standing on the bridge, the sunset reflecting on them. "I want hope…to find what I am looking for, what I have been looking for ever since I was 14." Hayley explained and Klaus couldn't help but smile when he heard that. "I am looking for something too, something that I've wanted ever since I was leading the world of New Orleans…100 years ago." Hayley frowned when she heard that. Him, leading a city? "Power, loyalty…family. Isn't that something you would want as well…little wolf?" he asked her and she shook her head.
"Family is enough for me. I can't ask for more." Klaus still smiled at her response and said. "But you have a great potential." "Forget about my potential. I don't care." Hayley argued but Klaus cut her off. "Family can be enough for a loner wolf such as yourself but for someone that I know you can become, if given a chance, can want more than just family." "That would be you." "Well then we seem to have a lot in common, don't we, little wolf?" She didn't understand what it was with this new nickname but somehow she couldn't deny that she didn't like it. "Perhaps." Was the only thing she whispered.
They had been sitting on that bridge, staring deeply into one another's eyes for minutes. The sun was setting very beautifully behind them, making the shine in the background of the field with flowers. They hadn't even noticed people staring at them as they walked by.