Chapter 34: The After Party

~~If you're like me, I tend to connect songs to stories. I meant to say two songs inspired this story. Bottom of the River by Delta Rae and Let it Burn by Red~~Reanna

Hayley was practically tripping over her dress with every step she took carrying Marcel. She didn't think wearing a scarlet red dress was going to be a problem. He was getting weaker every minute and she definitely didn't think he was going to be that heavy. Dragging both of them through the compound, it was dead silent so she knew that no one had to be there. She believed Freya had taken Violet on one of her escapades again.

"I've just got to get you up the stairs, to the bedroom and you need to tell me where Klaus's blood is because I don't think no one is here"

She looked over her shoulder at him and he had his eyes closed. Of course, leave her with the blood hunt. Hayley took a breath and raced upstairs laying him on the bed. She searched for her phone in her little black purse to text Violet.

"Hayley, why are you all…What happened to him?"

Violet had been standing in the doorway before running into the room at human pace. Violet was in the shower when they stepped in and was only wrapped in a towel. Her blonde hair was still dripping wet and she gave her a confused yet angry look.

"You need to give him Klaus's blood now, I'll explain it all in five seconds but he's going to die if you don't give it to him right this second"

Violet was gone out of sight as even she was never even there at all. When she returned, she asked Hayley to give him the blood so she could get dressed. Marcel eagerly drank the blood from the little glass tube and Hayley made she that her bite was disappearing. He sat up on the bed and Violet had just returned sporting a pair of black sweatpants which Hayley assumed was his as they were a little baggy. She had on a white tank top and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. Violet glanced at her then him once she sat on the edge of the bed.

"This better be a damn interesting story because I got out of a hot bath after hearing footsteps, I thought someone wandered in"

"Long version or short version?" Marcel asked.

Both Hayley and Marcel finished each other's sentences as they told the whole story. Violet just kept flickering her eyes between them and didn't say a word through it all until it was finished.

"So let me repeat this back, you decided to join the group of vampires who we assume arrived in the coffins floating in the swamp. You asked Hayley to go as your date since she is a hybrid and has ties to the Originals. You fight some vampire, ask her to bite you and practically die…Are you stupid?"

Violet had no idea what was going through his mind. They had never had a situation where a group of vampires mysteriously show up and not know anything about them. He had just gotten the city back months ago and didn't understand playing with it. Due to the look of the coffins, they had to be very old, high class vampires like Elijah. She worried that he was going to put the city and limbo and easily die again. Who said you could be brought back more than once?

"I wanted to take you but I thought if Hayley went" Violet stopped him.

"I'm not mad about not going to some psycho vampire party. You don't even know these so called Strix people and now you are a member? How come I didn't know any of this? I didn't even know they came to you and asked you to become Elijah 2.0"

Hayley tilted her head at the words then gave Marcel a look, that wasn't the story she was told. He told her that Violet knew everything that was going on and knew about the Strix. The two girls were never on each other's bad side but she didn't want to get in the middle of anything. Marcel spoke but Hayley really didn't pay attention to the drama.

"Look, I'm sure you both have a lot to discuss but I'm going to go change out of this dress…"

Neither one of them heard her as they were too busy arguing over the Strix. She turned around to leave but then Violet called out her name. Hayley sighed and turned around.

"Before you go, I did a little snooping and I found out about your wolves"

She raised an eyebrow and moved over closer to her for more information. The other night when there was a full moon, she found out that some of her pack was killed or injured due to the bear traps that were scattered around the swamp. It took a few days for the wolves to find them and get rid of them.

"The hunters are from a company called Kingmaker Land Development and the papers I read didn't have a name of the owner so whoever it is I'm guessing is supernatural by hiding it. I'll do some more digging but I did find a last name. I'll handle this and I'll let you know so don't worry about it"

"A Development company? What would they want with Jack's pack?"

"Maybe they want to clear out the swamp and build buildings or something. Even if, I'm not going to let them build anything in my city"

"And I won't let that happen either. I'll personally take care of the problem myself, you've got a lot on your plate with Hope anyway so don't worry about it"

Hayley thanked her and knew that this would make Jackson somewhat happy at the situation. She just worried that he wasn't going to trust Violet's word and snoop around himself. She knew it was one less thing she had to deal with and was glad that the vampires and werewolves were on good terms and working together. Even though the city did belong to Marcel, Hayley didn't mind it as long as the wolves were treated fairly. And everything seemed to be going good minus the Strix coming into the picture. She laughed lightly as she heard the couple begin to argue once more.