"Hayley come with me" Elijah told her offering her his hand. Hayley hesitated just for a second and then took it without noticing different colors that had passed on Klaus's face. "Where will she be Niklaus?" Elijah asked him.
"Probably in the witch yard" Klaus said annoyingly and went to his car.
The drive to the witch yard was really quiet. Stefan wanted to talk to him about Damon and Davina but he knew that in his mood Klaus is not approachable so he kept quiet. Then he couldn't help it and said "why don't you tell her?"
Klaus looked confused and asked him "Tell who? What?"
"Hayley who else?" Stefan said with amusement.
Klaus asked him still confused "What the bloody hell are you talking about?"
"Klaus do I have to spell it out for you? It is so obvious that you care about her so much" Stefan said with exasperation
"She is not mine Stefan" Klaus said in almost a whisper
"She can be" Stefan simply said
Klaus turned and looked at him and said "She loves Elijah"
"I don't think so" Stefan replied which left him lost at words. They drove silently to the witch yard.
Elijah looked at Hayley who was gazing out of window of the car and held her hand. Hayley turned towards him and smiled. Elijah lifted her hand to his lips and gently kissed it which made her smile more openly.
"How are you feeling?" Elijah asked her. Hayley looked at him with exasperation. She was really starting to get annoyed by this question but she knew how much Elijah cared about her and she didn't want to discourage him. She sighed and said "I am fine Elijah"
"You must miss her a lot" Elijah asked her
She felt her heart being squeezed. She felt weird discussing Hope with Elijah which came as a surprise to her. She didn't feel weird talking to Klaus about it a couple of days ago. She remembered his white knuckles on the steering wheel at the mention of her. She tried to get that image out of her head and tried to smile at Elijah. She nodded and then shifted her gaze to out of the window.
They reached the witch yard. Klaus and Stefan were already there. Stefan was leaning against the SUV whereas Klaus was sitting on a rock outside the cemetery. He looked up when the car stopped and got up. They entered the cemetery but Stefan couldn't. He looked at them in surprise and realized that he has to be invited in. He shrugged his shoulder and said "well I can't come in then". He strolled to the rock where Klaus was sitting earlier and sat on it.
Klaus, Hayley and Elijah walked towards the witch yard. Klaus entered the witch yard and saw Davina doing some magic with some herbs and a pot with a young man.
"Hello Davina" Elijah said gently
"You!" the girl with Davina gasped and said
Everyone turned to her. Elijah looked at her and then at Davina questioningly
Davina said to Elijah "Hello Elijah. This is Cassy and Joshua". She then turned towards Cassy and asked her in surprise "Do you know them?"
Cassy regained her composure and said "This must be Elijah Mikaelsons. I have heard about them right!"
"Stop with all this nonsense. Davina give me back my stake?" Klaus said angrily advancing towards her.
Elijah said "So you are the fourth harvest girl? And Niklaus stop"
"I will not until you give me my stake back" Klaus said to Davina angrily
Davina was not looking at him. Her eyes were fixed on Hayley who was glaring at her with pure hatred on her face.
"I am sorry for your loss Hayley" Davina said to her
Before she could stop herself Hayley had whooshed to her and grabbed her by her thin neck.
"Hayley" Elijah said in a loud voice whereas Klaus chuckled. Elijah gave him an angry look. Klaus became serious but before anyone of them could do anything Cassy raised her hand sending Hayley to her knees. Hayley groaned in pain. Elijah whooshed to Cassy but she raised her other hand and stopped him.
"Enough" Klaus yelled seeing Hayley and his brother on their knees. Suddenly Elijah started bleeding from his mouth.
Klaus whooshed to Cassy and grabbed her from her back and said in her ears "leave them". Then he suddenly smelled something strange – a very familiar nostalgic smell. Cassy dropped her hands making Hayley and Elijah get up from their knees. Elijah whooshed to Hayley who was coughing now. He held her from her upper arm and asked "are you okay?"
"Yes Elijah I am fine. Thanks" Hayley said and then she caught his eyes looking at them from over Elijah's shoulder still holding Cassy in his grasp.
Klaus quickly looked away and asked Davina "where is my stake Davina? Tell me otherwise I will break your friend's neck"
She looked at Klaus and then she looked at Cassy's neck in his hand. She nodded angrily and went to the cub board in the room and took out the stake. Klaus felt Cassy's body flinch when they saw the stake and then he felt the same weird feeling that he was having a couple of seconds ago. Davina walked up to them and gave the stake to him. Klaus took the stake from her and pushed Cassy away from him and said
"See it was not that difficult" Klaus said with a smirk on his face
"I will still get you. Your father is still in my control. He will get you" Davina said hatefully.
"Yes you do that" Klaus said sarcastically and then he turned to Elijah who was glaring at them with her hand still in his "and you thought that she will listen to reason"
Davina said angrily "It is all your doings Klaus. You made your own enemies. You are the one who made Hayley lose her baby"
Hayley freed her hand from Elijah's and advanced towards her but Elijah stopped her whereas Klaus walked out of the witch yard but not before Hayley had seen his face turning white.
She freed herself from Elijah and left after him.
Klaus walked through the cemetery steaming in anger with the stake in his hand and told Stefan who was still sitting on the rock "Come we are leaving"
"So you have gotten it" Stefan said while getting into his SUV "is she alive?"
"Yes precious Davina is alive. If only Elijah had let me kill her before the harvest" Klaus said angrily putting his car in reverse gear.
"So where are we going now?" Stefan asked a couple of minutes later snapping him out of the anger he had been feeling from what Davina has said earlier.
He took out his cell and called Jackson and asked him aggressively "Do you know anything else about those stones?"
"Not yet" Jackson said "I am trying to reach out to Oliver. He might start seeing the light"
"I don't care about him seeing the light Jackson" Klaus cut him off "Find out her plans about the two stones she has left and if she had already used them then who are those werewolves or we have to wait for full moon"
He cut him off. He stopped the car right in front of compound and got out
Stefan asked him "why do you have to wait till full moon to find out?"
"What?" Klaus said a bit distractedly.
"I was asking…" Stefan started again but they were both cut off when Elijah and Hayley entered the compound.
One look on Klaus's face told Hayley that the hurt was still there. Klaus ignored her and asked Elijah "what did you find about Francesca?"
"She has her ring so I think Oliver will have his too. From the way she was talking I don't think that she has used the other two rings yet" Elijah said to him.
Klaus turned and left for his room. Stefan nodded at Elijah and Hayley and went to his room too.
Hayley was sitting on her bed still not over the anger she had felt when Davina was talking about Hope. She could still see the image of anguish on Klaus's face when Davina had blamed him for killing their daughter. Whoever Klaus was Hayley was sure that he loved his daughter as much as she loved her. She got up and started to go to his room when her room door opened and Elijah came in.
"Elijah!" Hayley said in surprise
"I came in to check on you" Elijah walked to her and said "Davina said something really hurtful about Hope today. You must be hurting"
Hayley flinched at the memory again. She found it strange that she was not willing to talk about it with Elijah. She shook her head and said "I am fine Elijah"
Then she told him "I am tired, I think I want to sleep". Elijah looked at her for a second and then stepped forward and kissed her. He then left her room before she had a chance to say anything or return the kiss.
After waiting for a couple of second, she touched her lips absently and sat on her bed thinking about the events of last two weeks ever since Hope had gone. She then got up and went to his room. The door was closed. She knocked and waited but no one answered her so she came back.
She changed her clothes and got under the covers and went to sleep. She had the same dream she had been having for the past two weeks.
"A man was trying to approach her to help her baby but someone was stopping him. She tried to look at the face but she could not. It was all blurry and then she saw his lips moving but she couldn't hear him. Then she felt someone choking her. She struggled and screamed Noooo"
With that her eyes flew open. She was covered in sweat. She got out of bed and rushed to the bath room to wash her face.
Klaus was unable to sleep. He got up and started to paint. After a couple of minutes of putting meaningless strokes on the canvas he was still unable to form any picture so he put the brush down in frustration and went to his bed again. He was tossing and turning when he heard a knock on his door. He could sense her but he was not in a mood to talk to her so he didn't respond and as expected a couple of seconds later the footsteps retreated. He sat up and pulled off his shirt. He was feeling really agitated. Davina's words were going in his mind like a film. He turned on his stomach and closed his eyes.
"Hayley was lying on a table. Her eyes were closed. He walked towards her. He could hear the baby's heart beat very strong and then it started to fade and then it stopped and to his horror she was not pregnant anymore"
Klaus yelled 'No' and woke up covered in sweats. He wiped his forehead and got out of his bed.
Klaus sat on his bed rubbing his eyes as if rubbing them will get that image out of his mind. His mind turned to Hayley and what she might be going through. They have not talked about it properly yet – the big elephant in the room. He had not been able to bring himself up to comfort her. How could he? They had to send her away, they were supposed to protect her, keep her with them but they send her away so how could he comfort her. He felt guilty for not keeping Hope with them safe and sound. He got up angrily from the bed and started pacing at his failure. He, the immortal invincible hybrid, couldn't keep their daughter save with her mother.
As he was lost in his thoughts they wondered again to Hayley currently sleeping in her room.
Hayley got out of the bathroom after splashing her face with cold water and wiping it when she halted as she saw Elijah standing in the middle of her room. It seemed that he had just woken up too. Hayley smiled and walked to him and asked him "Elijah what are you doing here?"
"I heard you" Elijah said simply "were you dreaming again?"
Hayley's eyes hardened at that. She looked at him just for a second and then nodded and went to sit on her bed again. She got under the covers. It was still night and looking at the clock told her it was just four in the morning.
"Do you want me to stay with you?" Elijah asked her once she was under the covers
Klaus wanted to close his ears to each and every word. He knew what her answer would be so he just got up and went to the bathroom and stripped out of his clothes and stood under the steaming hot shower.
