Klaus + Hayley (+ Tyler and Stefan): Alternative TVD 4x09
It was late and people where having fun at the Christmas party. Hayley was standing with Tyler in the crowd as Tyler was getting text messages from Caroline. "What is she saying?" Hayley asked and Tyler shook his head. "Nothing really important." Hayley rolled her eyes. "I know that you are up to something and you are not telling me, Tyler. What are you and your girlfriend planning?" she asked him and Tyler whispered "We are going to take down Klaus…tonight. Early Christmas present for Caroline." He told her with a wink and Hayley's eyes widened. "How do you plan on doing that?" she asked.
Tyler showed her and explained to her every single step and how he was planning on putting all the hybrids that they had managed to unsire against him. "It's a great plan! Klaus has taken so much from me, Hayley and now, I finally have the chance to pay him back for this. He played with my life and he almost took my girlfriend away from me. We are going to dagger him and keep him in another body until we figure out what we can do with him." Hayley was still in shock. "Which body?" she asked. "His sister, Rebekah's body. We got her daggered and it's only a matter of time now."
Hayley bit her lip and really began to think this through. Tyler was going to take down the one person other than him that she had chosen to be secretly in contact with. After that Miss. Mystic Falls Pageant, Hayley had decided to go with it and see what Klaus can find out for her. She had tried to trust other people in the past and it didn't work. She had a hard time trusting anyone but she somehow found herself slowly starting to need Klaus' help. She knew he could help her, even though she had no idea how he was going to help her. He gave her information and she gave him other information. This was their deal. Hayley looked over at the phone in her pocket that he gave her. She remembered that day when they stood on the small bridge and talked about what they wanted and needed.
Klaus smirked and then said, "I couldn't help but overhear your 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.
This was indeed about what they wanted. "Tyler, what are you planning on doing exactly?" Hayley finally asked him and he turned towards her with his eyebrows raised. "We are going to take him down, Hayley. We are going to take him down once and for all." "In what way?" "We are going to find a way to kill him, get rid of him forever. Then we can all go out for a bottle of scotch and celebrate. It's going to be glorious and we are going to go down in history with this." Tyler licked his lips for effect and this begun to really scare Hayley. This wasn't the Tyler she knew. He was not that revengeful.
Klaus had been trying to get to Caroline that night but she seemed to avoid him and no matter what he tried to do to impress her and get her attention, he couldn't succeed. As Caroline walked away from him, Stefan appeared and smiled at him. "Why, Stefan! To what do I owe the pleasure?" he asked and Stefan smirked. "You're feeling kind of secure tonight aren't you?" he asked him and Klaus frowned at the question. "Is there something that you wish to tell me?" "No, not really, no." Stefan answered. They smiled at one another and Klaus decided that it was probably nothing. It was Christmas time after all and he should enjoy it. He walked away from Stefan and got himself a drink.
On the other part, Hayley had been looking for him all night, going around places and trying to find him but there was no luck for her. She had left Tyler's side with a confused look on his face. The only excuse that she could come up with at that moment was that she needed to get herself something to drink. She pulled out her phone and was ready to dial his number when she saw him standing there with his usual grin and a glass of something in his hand. She got herself some confidence in her and stepped over to him and touched his shoulder. He turned around with a surprised look on his face by the gesture.
"Well, hello there, love! I would have thought that we would limit the relationship in public." Hayley kind of took that statement in the wrong way and he knew she did which is why his smirk grew. "Klaus, I am not here to be funny." Klaus took a swig of his drink and then said, "Of course not. You are here to talk business. That is what we agreed on. Let's do it. What do you need, love?" She almost smiled at his way of wanting to help her like this but she pulled herself together. "Do you know that Tyler is planning on taking you out with his hybrids tonight? They are going to put you in Rebekah's daggered body and then kill you." Klaus drank some more until he finished his glass and his expression was serious.
"What?" he asked in a whisper as he stepped closer to her. Hayley didn't step back. "What I am telling you is the truth. Tyler is after you so you better watch it." Hayley said and ten turned to leave but Klaus grabbed her by her hand and pulled her back to him, shocking her. They were very close and she had her hands on his chest. He was staring at her intensely and she felt like she couldn't move from that spot. She was in his arms and she couldn't pull herself away, captivated by his gaze. "Is this really the truth?" he asked her and before Hayley was about to respond he said, "Please, be honest with me." "Why would you think it wouldn't be?" Hayley asked back and Klaus finally let her go but in a soft way that made her skin tingle and she was still very close to him. "Well do something." Hayley whispered and left. He was staring after her, not believing that she had told him. She was Tyler's friend. She was with him. She was supposed to be with him and against Niklaus Mikaelson…and even now, she chose differently.
Hayley watched from afar Klaus' face darken and he used his vampire speed to get away from there fast. She had mentioned the hybrids so she knew now what he was going to do. He was going to slaughter them all. She knew that she had to do leave Mystic Falls now. She had finally done it. She had betrayed Tyler. She moved through the crowd and suddenly, Tyler caught up to her with an angry look on his face. "Hayley, what did you do? Did you screw us all up? How could you?" He nearly screamed in her face. Hayley wanted to respond but nothing would come out of her mouth. They both heard piercing screams in the background. Hayley took advantage of Tyler's distraction to run away from him.
She tried to run as fast as she could. She went through the forest and ran as fast as she could until she felt a strong pair of arms pull her back and throw her against a tree. Tyler was covered with blood and he was angry. Hayley gasped and whispered, "Tyler…please go and you may stand a chance." "You're going to pay for this, Hayley." He warned and before he could make any sudden move on her, he was pushed against a tree himself. Hayley looked up into Klaus' eyes and he looked at her seriously. Tyler stood up and Klaus grabbed her throat, sliding his hand into the area of his heart. "NO! KLAUS DON'T!" Hayley yelled out as she tried to stand up but couldn't. Both Tyler and Klaus were surprised by her reaction. "You have betrayed me. And you know what happens to servants who do betray me."
Klaus' threat meant nothing to Tyler. Klaus turned his head to look at Hayley's horrified face and then looked back at Tyler angrily and slid his hand out of his chest without removing his heart and let him go. Tyler looked between them in a confusing way and said, "Why the hell have you saved her? What is she to you?" he asked as he wiped the blood from his face. "I am her enemy and I saved her life. You are her friend and you tried to kill her. What does that say about you?" Klaus asked him with a smirk and Tyler growled. "She is not my friend. She is nothing but a traitor! To hell with both of you!" At that moment, Tyler started walking and then running away from them.
After wiping his hands clean, Klaus turned around and helped Hayley stand up. She was feeling hurt but she knew that as a werewolf, she was going to heal soon. She stood strong in front of him as he smiled at her. "I guess I owe you for that piece of information, little wolf." Klaus whispered and Hayley turned around to face him. "I did it for myself!" she insisted and Klaus nodded with smirk on his face. He knew that she was lying at that moment. She pulled herself together and started walking through the forest. :Where are you going? It's dark out, love and it's very late." "I am leaving this blasted city." She wiped away the tears that were streaming down her face. She couldn't believe that she had betrayed her one and only friend. He had trusted her and look what she had made of their friendship.
"Hayley!" Klaus called out after her. "Just leave me alone. I have done enough for one night and so have you." "Be reasonable, love. You have nowhere to go and you look tired. You come with me." He told her and she couldn't believe what he was asking her. "What do you want?" she asked and Klaus chuckled at that question again. "It's not about what I want, little wolf. Come with me. We can talk. You saved my life today and I plan to repaying you the best possible way I can." Hayley stood there for a while and realized that she didn't really have any choice. She had to go with him for her own sake. She turned around and went over to him as he smiled in his bloody suite. "You killed them all?" she asked in a whisper. "Of course. I had no choice did I?" he asked. Hayley felt even more guilty. She had unsired those hybrids. They were her responsibility and somehow, Klaus had managed to figure that out.
She almost passed out onto the ground but she felt his arms around her as he pulled her up into his arms and he carried her bridal style the rest of the way to his home. "You are not my enemy." He heard her murmur as she closed her eyes and laid her head on his shoulder, rubbing herself into his neck without realizing it. He was her savior for the night. He couldn't be her enemy. Not anymore. "I know." Klaus whispered in response as he held her tightly, no bearing the thought of letting her go.