Previously, in DNA, after much persuasion from Marcel and Rebekah and Hope's drawing, Hayley was convinced to drop her plan and come back to New Orleans for the Christmas holidays. Klaus pleasured himself in the hands of another woman which led to the revelation of a very special painting. He ordered the vampires to terrorize the Crescent wolves, while Elijah and Camille dealt with their first problem with the elderly woman, Eleanor Tate. Finally, after smelling her family out, Hayley ended up in the bayou, where she saw them being savagely tortured by the New Orleans vampires, and finding out on whose orders.

PLOT: Klaus is placed in a difficult spot when Rebekah and Marcel show up at his doorstep with his 6 year old child, waiting to be cared for and spoiled. Rebekah goes on a search for Hayley, and discovers something shocking, after which Hayley has her very first confrontation with Lizzie, who threatens her. After interacting with the man who killed her husband, Hayley demands to move into the apartment next door, while Klaus spends some interesting time with Freya and Hope. Finally, after a talk with Elijah, someone visits Cami in her dreams with a warning.

He didn't miss Lizzie one bit. She simply represented a way for Niklaus Mikaelson to kill time. He had heard the howls from the bayou and his heart ached. He knew what he did was a mistake. He commanded the torture and probably deaths of the wolves he had always hated, for getting in the way of his relationship with Hayley. He hated them, but they were still innocent people. "Enough self-torture!" Klaus nearly yelled at himself and threw his glass to the floor, turning around to grab another and pour himself a better drink. "FREYA!" he called his sister's name. He wanted to see her, realizing how much he had been neglecting her. But he did not hear her voice. He heard nothing. He was alone in the compound now. Turning his head sideways so he could get a clear view of the outside world, he growled to himself, remembering his dark words, "Have yourselves a little wolf hunt." There was no doubt that Freya could have found out what he had done…and he would hear her yelling in seconds.

But it never came. Was it possible that she was in the bayou at that moment? There were footsteps which could be heard behind him and Klaus immediately turned around again to see that Elijah had walked by his room and he looked like he was in a hurry. Frowning, Klaus set down his drink, realizing that he hadn't spoken to his brother since Hayley and Hope's departure. "Elijah!" he called out and his brother turned around to face him, after much hesitation. "Niklaus! It is good to see you!" "Any particular reason why you are rushing out of here at this moment?" "What is it to you, brother?" "I am simply trying to make small conversation…" "We are not to make small conversation when you are responsible for Hayley leaving town with my niece." Elijah told him, with a serious look on his face. Klaus chuckled and wiped his thumb over his bottom lip. "Yes, of course. How could I have thought differently? Both you and Freya are under the impression that I am the one who ended Jackson's life."

Elijah felt something inside of his throat but he couldn't bring himself to say more than necessary. He couldn't say anything. "No, brother. Freya and I do not believe that you are the one who killed Jackson. However, you are still responsible for Hayley and Hope leaving, because you chose to lie and tell her that you have killed her husband. And I can never really understand why." Klaus pointed a finger at him to make himself seem more clear. "I absolutely did not say that I did kill Jackson. I let her assume…of course she assumed the worst of me! It was a test…a test to see if she truly believes that I am capable of doing such things…of doing something this terrible to her. She believed I have…and I let her. I let her have her own impression…and if she sees me as the monster, then she can go right ahead! See if I care!" "Niklaus, you are impulsive and unreasonable!" Klaus chuckled and nodded at his brother's words. Elijah was constantly checking his watch realizing that he had to terminate the conversation or he would be late.

His brother continued speaking. "I believed so as well…until I thought of it more carefully. I thought differently of Hayley. She was everything I ever wanted and everything I ever needed. I showed her the care and passion I had not shown any other woman. I welcomed her…given her very own special place in my heart, because I thought she was different. I thought she was unlike any other woman I've ever encountered. She understood grief, violence and supreme pain, because her past life has resembled mine. At the same time, she had managed to bring out the worst but also the best of me throughout the time…but her body as a wife belonged to Jackson at the time…and I know that you desired her…it was impossible for me to reach out to her. And then…year after year…everything changed and I renounced on Cami…because I saw Hayley in a different light. I craved her, and I took her. She wanted me just as much. Trust was something we broke and then rebuilt between us. Or at least I thought it had been rebuilt." Elijah licked his lips and looked at the ground.

"I really must get going, Niklaus. I understand you feel betrayed by Hayley's mistrust but imagine how she must be feeling, now that she is under the impression that the man she had grown to care for this much, was the one who killed her husband. When the time is right, you will know what to do, and you will be able to tell the truth." The last part, Elijah was beginning to wonder if he was referring to his brother or to himself. He checked his phone and realized that he had received a message from a desperate Cami. Where are you? You're not seriously going to leave me here alone all day, are you? Eleanor wants me to read her a story, but she is getting bored with all her books. I told her you would like to tell her some of your many adventures and acquainting important people in your past. Please get over here. Elijah smiled a little, almost able to hear the sound of her voice, scolding him as if he were just a child. "I must go, Niklaus." Elijah turned and left before Klaus could stop him and ask him where.

Checking his phone, he realized there were no messages left for him from Freya. Walking out into the parlor, Klaus couldn't help but smile when he saw all the decorations. Of course he knew that Freya had been the one to take care of everything, since no one was feeling the Christmas spirit any longer. He knew that he would have to seize an opportunity and thank her for standing by him…even through all of his mistakes. "DADDY!" he heard her voice…the voice of his little angel. Turning towards the entrance, he could see Rebekah and Marcel standing there, and Hope was dancing around with a stuffed wolf in her hands. "Sweetheart!" Klaus called out from the balcony and he finally made eye-contact with his daughter.

Hope grinned and immediately rushed upstairs and used her speed to land directly in her father's arms. "Daddy! Mommy and I missed you!" she exclaimed and Klaus held her tightly to him but his smile disappeared at the mention of Hayley. "Is that so?" he asked in a whisper and Hope pulled back, nodding. "Mommy took me on vacation. I told her that Daddy had to come and she said no but now we came home!" she spoke rapidly and hugged him again. He appreciated his daughter's efforts to speak as correctly as possible and she was too smart for her age. He was waiting to explore all the wonders of this miracle child, because the world has never had a tribrid before. "Daddy, why was Mommy mad?" Hope suddenly asked and Klaus snapped out of his trance. He didn't know how to respond, but the simple thought of Hayley made his heartbeat quicken and his eyes to darken. He was desperate to see her, but at the same time, he couldn't ever phantom to accept her back into his heart.

Rebekah and Marcel stepped forth and Klaus had to let go of his daughter in order to hug them both. He could sense that they both seemed distant and barely said a word to him, keeping their attention on Hope and he soon realized that they must have heard about Jackson. "Where have the two of you been?" he finally asked them and Marcel put his hands in his pockets. "We made a quick stop in all the great places this world has to offer…and then we got a call from Freya, telling us exactly through what tragedy Hayley had to go through and how she left town with Hope. Rebekah was insistent and we ended up sacrificing our vacation to search for Hayley and bring both of these gals home where they belong…but that doesn't mean that she is open to the idea of being a family with you again. That is out of the question, Klaus." Marcel warned him. "I really do not care what Hayley implies, as long as I get to see my daughter and she understands that she had no right to take her from me."

They all tried to lower their voices, because Hope was watching them closely…and she was smarter than she looked. They didn't want her to think that her family was arguing this close to Christmas. "We will talk about this later, Nik." Rebekah whispered and pulled out her phone. "Who are you calling?" Marcel asked her. "Hayley. She said that she was going to the bayou just to check on her pack, but I want to know what's next now that we're back." "Do you think that she would want to move in here again?" Marcel asked and Klaus cackled. "Over my dead body!" he hissed. Rebekah closed the call and looked worried. "She is not answering." "Maybe she's busy chatting with them." Marcel suggested. "No. They took away her right to be Queen after Jackson's death. Why would she want to stay longer than she should? Something's wrong." Klaus' mouth parted in realization of his order directly to the vampires…to torture and eliminate the Crescents.

"Something you would like to share with the class?" Marcel asked, noticing the look on his face. Klaus frowned and closed his mouth, saying, "No, I don't believe so. I do not care where Hayley is and what she is doing. Like I said before, the only thing that matters to me is that Hope is in my house and she is with me on Christmas, as every child should be." "Nik, please don't start." Rebekah whispered and looked over at the decorations surrounding her with a half-smile. "It's lovely. It's a shame I wasn't around to help Freya with it." She then paused and turned to Marcel. "You take care of everything here. I am going to the bayou to see what's wrong." "How do you know something's wrong? Maybe Hayley's just making conversation." "Like I said, I doubt that she would stick around to talk to the people who ruined her life…well, some of the people who ruined her life."

Rebekah made sure to frown at her brother before finally taking off, out of the compound and racing into the bayou as fast as lightening. The sight before her made her gasp. The werewolves all had blankets around them and they were shivering slightly, especially the children. Some vampires were trying to hide behind the trees, as some were laying dead on the ground, with their hearts pulled out of their chests, and now Hayley was holding on to another's throat, threatening to pull out his heart too. "Hayley!" Rebekah called out and everyone gasped and turned around to look at her. Hayley rolled her eyes and let go of the vampire she was holding. She brought the blood on her hands to her lips and tasted it savagely. "What do you want, Rebekah? I thought I told you to stay with Hope." "I was staying with Hope. She is at the bloody compound with Marcel and Nik! You didn't answer your bloody phone and I had to bloody drag my best boots through this horrid and bloody snow." "And repeating the word bloody countless of times doesn't make it look even more tragic."

"Are you mocking me?" Rebekah asked her with her hands on her hips. "Maybe. What do you want? I have something to deal with here." Hayley asked her one last time, getting frustrated. "What I want? I want you to come home? And why did you destroy three of them?" she asked, pointing at the vampires who were hiding. "Because they came after my family…and guess who put them up to it." Rebekah looked at Hayley as the hybrid girl pronounced his name, "The all-time leader of destruction, Klaus Mikaelson." "I don't think Nik…" "Well your Nik has been giving out these orders. If I hadn't gotten here in time, my pack would have been slaughtered, all thanks to your psychotic brother!" Rebekah sighed and looked over at the vampires who were still cowering. "What in God's name are you waiting for? Scram before I get my own perfectly polished fingers into your intestines and pull out some more of your precious little hearts!" she exclaimed, making the vampires run out of the bayou.

"Thanks for the threat." Hayley muttered under her breath. "So, what are you going to do with them?" Rebekah asked, pointing at the werewolves who were looking for help from them. Hayley shook her head and said, "They can handle themselves for now. I just did what I had to do because I am still a Crescent even if I lost my position as alpha after Jackson died." The tears were now threatening to fall from her eyes as she whispered, "He killed the man I married and now he sent his lackeys to murder the rest of my family. I can't believe…I can't believe that he would do something like this to me." "Hayley…" "NO! I WILL KILL HIM!" she raged and stormed out of the bayou with Rebekah high on her heels. The snow was not going to stop Hayley from getting the revenge she deserved. "Hayley, please, look at me!" Rebekah urged once she grabbed Hayley by her shoulders. "What? What do you want now? You want to stop me? That's the extent you would go to protect this bastard, huh, just because he's your brother?" "I am not protecting him. I just think I should remind you that you have a daughter in that compound."

"Then you better rush and get Hope out of there because there will be a blood bath and it will be now, whether it's in Hope's presence or not." Hayley warned. "HAYLEY!" Rebekah called out and then used her speed to catch up with her. The compound was quite, quitter than usual and Hayley could understand why. The vampires had no desire to show their faces again after what happened in the bayou. Hayley thought that it was for the best. She gasped as someone stepped in front of her. It looked like a girl with little to no respect for herself, dressed in clothes which could only reveal any man's desires. "I have no time for this…" Hayley begun but the girl cut her off and said, "He is over you! You don't have to rush back here anymore and beg him to take you back." She told her with an attitude.

"What are you talking about?" Hayley asked her, in the quietest way possible. "I am talking about your little slutty butt! You dare betray him like that and then run off with his daughter?! You should be ashamed of yourself for not even listening to his poor heart! But now he has me and that is how it is going to stay from now on so don't you go…AHHHH!" Lizzie screamed in pain as soon as Hayley's fangs made contact with her skin and she bit her. The venom raced through the girl and stopped her heart at once. "You were one of Klaus' twits? Now, he is going to lose someone, just as he ordered for me to lose my family." She whispered and set the body to the ground, storming inside the compound. She saw him downstairs, with his eyes in shock when he saw her. Marcel and Hope were nowhere to be seen and neither could Rebekah be seen, or Freya. "YOU BASTARD! YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!" Hayley screamed with all her might before she lunged at him.

She threw in the first punch but Klaus grabbed it right away and set her down on the ground. "GET OFF OF ME! GET OFF!" Hayley yelled aloud and bit into his hand, making him yell out in pain but the hybrid venom could do nothing to another hybrid, especially the Original Hybrid like himself. "COWARD!" Hayley screeched and finally released herself from him. Seeing her in this state made his heart break for her. "YOU ARRANGED FOR MY FAMILY TO BE KILLED!" she yelled out again and threw in a few good kicks which sent him flying against the walls. He was too entranced by her to speak and too much in shock to move, as he let her throw in even more punches to his face. "FIGHT BACK!" she yelled out and punched his face again, making him bleed. Klaus remained against the wall, with his face covered in blood, but there was no intention for him to make a move against her. He couldn't, because of Elijah's words from earlier which racked his brain.

He knew he was at fault, at least partially for what was happening and to make things even worse, he had made a move against the people she cares about. Another punch from her came and she yelled out, "YOU COWARD! FIGHT BACK!" Suddenly, her fist was stopped by his own hand, who tried holding her in place again. In a matter of seconds, with a little more force applied from him, Hayley was pinned to his chest and she was unable to move. "Fight back. Fight." She whimpered this time, realizing that it was over. She took deep breaths and whispered, "You ruined my life. You bastard. You ruined it." Klaus took deep breaths too and leaned into her, whispering, "You should have never taken my daughter from me…again." Hayley let the tears fall from her eyes and pulled away, just as Rebekah and Marcel entered the compound again with Hope and Freya by their side. "What has happened here? Hayley, are you okay?" Freya asked, checking Hayley's injuries.

She shook her head and refused to say more than she needed to. "I want to leave." She whispered. "Hayley, you just got here." Marcel told her. "I can't stay here. The man behind me…he disgusts me…I can't pronounce his name…I don't want to know him…I don't want to see him. Please let me go." Marcel sighed when he heard Hope ask, "Mommy, why are you crying?" He got on his knees and told her, "Mommy is sick and she has to heal, okay, sweetie? You will stay here with Daddy for now. Okay?" "Okay." Hope responded, but her eyes were still on her mother, whom she saw, was hurting and she was trying to understand why. "We have set up an apartment for you already. But please don't leave the city. It's Christmas." Rebekah told her and Hayley nodded. "Fine. I will stay there, but you can't ask more from me."

Freya crossed her hands over her chest and with an angry look on her face when she faced her brother. "What?" Klaus asked her. "You know what. This is all your fault!" "It is not." "No? Then why are we in this mess, brother?" He didn't respond and just watched as Freya placed a hand on his cheek and immediately healed his wound. "She is going to move in the apartment next door, but Hope will stay here with you. That shouldn't bother you so much, should it?" "It won't." "Good. Because I am done trying to clean up your messes. And I have another bone to pick with my other brother." "What about Elijah?" Klaus asked. "You will find out soon enough. Now, can we please…for the sake of that little girl over there…can we please just have some peace and quiet?" Klaus looked over to see that Hayley was already leaving the compound after kissing her daughter's forehead. "Yes." He murmured.

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"I must confess that I did not expect her to open up to us like that." Elijah said softly, as he led Cami to her apartment. She stopped just outside the door and leaned her head against the wall. "I know. I am still affected by what she told us. How is it possible that she has no family left? You mean to tell me that she is going to be all alone for Christmas? That we are all she has?" "Eleanor's brother killed all the members of their family before he got himself extensive jail time. And I have heard news that he even killed himself only after a few days of staying in there?" Cami frowned. "How could this happen? You have an option to kill yourself while doing jail time?" "Apparently so." Cami pushed a strand of hair from her face and said, "I still don't feel okay with this. She is sick. She is very sick. She has to have someone…" "If it makes you feel any better, I will look into it. Maybe there is a member of her family alive somewhere." Elijah said and Cami raised an eyebrow.

"Doing me favors? Is that your way of making sure that I keep quiet?" "What are you talking about?" "I am talking about your secret, Elijah. How much longer are you intending to hide it?" "I don't know...I don't know what you mean." He received a disappointed look from her, after which she whispered, "Listen, it's not good for you. I thought that what you always wanted was to help and protect people and you have a chance to do that. You do…you will be saving your brother and Hayley too. I know that this is hard for you. Believe me, I know what it's like to keep it hidden, but everything is going to build up inside of you and at one point, you're just going to explode. There is no way out, Elijah. Just trust me when I tell you this. It's Christmas." She whispered and without realizing it, she reached out to him and touched his chest with her palm. Elijah did not take his eyes off of her for a long minute, before finally stepping back and saying, "Goodnight, Camille."

He knew that she was right, and he did not want to have to deal with that right now. He had a new goal in his mind, and he had an old woman to take care of. He was determined to find a relative of hers…anyone, who could be there for her, in case her last moments on this Earth would be approaching. Cami bit her lip and opened her apartment door, went inside and closed the door, leaning her head back so she could relax for a second. A warm bath was about to do her good. She stripped herself of all of her clothes and relaxed in the tub, with her head laid back. The warm water was very soothing to her skin and to her mind, and she couldn't resist to just close her eyes and drift off for a moment. But as soon as she did, her mind closed up and she heard a soft voice in her ear.

"He listens to you…but you are not safe. With such a Christmas come a price. Convince him to tell the truth, little sis, or there will be more to pay." The message came and Cami immediately recognized the voice very well. It was her late brother's voice, the one who died. "Sean." She whispered to herself and then immediately gasped and opened her eyes. She was dreaming. "Just a dream." She whispered to herself. This was the first time she had dreamed the voice of her brother, and he did warn her. He told her what would happen if she did not convince Elijah to tell the truth. However, she did hope that by telling him what she did, back there in that hallway, it was enough to convince him to at least think about it.

A/N: I wanted the first confrontation between Klaus and Hayley to be exactly how it was in the second episode of season three, only with a few twists. Has Cami gone through to Elijah? Will he tell the truth that he was the one who killed Jackson and will we find out how and why? We certainly will.

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