"Well done mate" Klaus said to Stefan as he sat into the car. He pulled the car out and drove it to the compound.

Stefan didn't say anything. He was really thinking about what to do. He was having doubt that Davina would help him. When they reached the compound they got out and went inside.

Hayley looked up from her chair in the court yard when he saw them coming in. she walked to him and asked him "what did Jackson say?"

"I don't know" Klaus said indifferently and started to go to his room when she pulled him back by holding his arm and said "what do you mean you don't know? Have you talked to him or not?"

"I have but I didn't wait to listen to his answer love and when I left he was standing on his two feet perfectly healthy and if you don't trust me you can ask Stefan there" He said prying his arm from her grasp. He then turned and saw Elena and Caroline coming down the stairs. He looked at Elena and said "You cannot stay here any longer. I want you gone by tomorrow morning. Caroline you can stay if you want to" and then ignoring Elijah "Niklaus!" for the first time ever he walked up to his room.

Hayley looked at Stefan in surprise and Elijah looked at Klaus leaving the court yard. Elena walked to Stefan and said in an accusation style "You told him"

"I didn't tell him anything Elena. You were shouting and he overheard you" Stefan said with annoyance and then he added "I think you should leave and let me handle things here. I don't want to lose his help if he decides to take it back. I am pretty sure that we will get help in New Orleans"

"I am not leaving anywhere Stefan unless I find a way to bring him back" Elena said with anger

"You can stay here Elena. I don't know what is wrong with Niklaus but you can live here as long as you want" Elijah walked to them and said

He then turned and walked upstairs to his room. He stopped just for a second outside the opened door of his room and entered.

Klaus picked up the brush and started putting angry strokes of paints on the empty canvas. He sensed Elijah but didn't turn.

Elijah looked at his back and said "Elena is a guest in our house. You cannot talk to her that way"

"If she is not gone by tomorrow then don't blame me later when I kill her" Klaus said without looking at her

"Niklaus" Elijah said in a warning

"Elijah I don't want to talk about it" Klaus said "and if we don't have anything else to discuss then leave"

Elijah looked at his back in surprise. He could sense the anger boiling under the calm his brother was showing right now. He would have preferred a shouting and tantrum throwing Klaus to this calm and anger suppressing one. He knew from his past experiences that when Klaus was like that he would always turned vindictive.

"Niklaus" Elijah said it again but Klaus turned and said very seriously "Brother please leave"

Elijah just looked at the picture forming on the canvas, of a young child of about 4 or 5 years old sitting on the grass. Her hair were flying in the air and she was laughing at something. Elijah looked at the painting and then at Klaus and then left.

Klaus put the brushes down and went to lie on the bed. He took off his shirt and laid on the bed when she barged into his room. He got up and said angrily "Bloody hell. Can't I get a privacy in this house?"

"Why did you tell Elena to leave by tomorrow?" she asked him

"I have my reasons and I am not obligated to tell you Hayley" Klaus sat on his bed and held his forehead in his hand "now you will leave and close the door on the way out"

"Go to hell Klaus. I only wanted to tell you that I am thinking of going to Francesca to get her stone tomorrow and if you are interested you can join me" Hayley said in anger. She turned and was about to leave when he whooshed in front of her and looked into her eyes and said "yes I will come"

"Am I interrupting something?" Klaus turned to look at Caroline standing at the door and turned back to Hayley with a smile and said "Nothing love. Come in. we are done here"

Hayley glared at him and then left the room brushing Caroline aside on the way out.

Caroline smiled at Klaus and entered his room. She went to him and looked around. She saw the painting he was making. She walked to it but Klaus went to it first and picked it up and put it in the corner where he was keeping the rest of the paintings. He turned and saw her standing there still. He walked to her and stopped right in front of her.

"You look good Caroline" he said to her

Caroline smiled at him and said "Better than the last time when you visited mystic falls"

Hayley sat on her bed steaming about what had happened with Klaus right now. She went to change her clothes and came back to lie on her bed. Her thoughts were still reeling about Klaus and her interaction when suddenly she heard her voice "…. In the woods that was memorable"

Her eyes widened as she heard that. She put her hands on her ear as she heard him laugh and said "yes and that was what I wanted from the first time I laid my eyes on you. How long has it been? 5 months?"

Hayley sat up in disbelieve and thought 'while she was carrying their child!' she remembered his trip to Mystic Falls when Katherine was dying. She didn't know from where but a disappointment and fury came over here. She laid back again and tried to muffle the sound out with the pillow on her head but the voice were still coming and now it seemed that they were kissing each other. She got up from her bed and went to the nursery, closed the door behind her and put the mobile on the crib on. She sat on the rocking chair and while hugging the pink blanket and the wolf and closed her eyes. This time she was successful and soon she drifted off to sleep.

Klaus was kissing Caroline when he felt her hands slide on his bare torso. A sudden image of another pair of hands tucking his shirt off of him and running it over his bare torso came to his mind and he suddenly held her hands. He stepped back and said "Caroline I cannot. Not right now" he looked into her eyes apologetically.

She looked at him and asked him "Is it because of your daughter?"

Klaus looked at her and said "hmmm"

"Okay I will not pressurize you then" Caroline said. She leaned forward, kissed him on the lips and left.

Klaus just stood there looking at her thinking what had happened and then closed the door and went to lie down on his bed again.

Hayley shifted in her sleep. "She saw a young woman with brown wavy hair flying the wind trying to grab a man's hand but he was walking away. She opened her mouth to warn her as she saw his hands moving away from hers. She heard her call him. She couldn't hear what she was saying so she took a couple of steps forward to hear them but she couldn't. He was moving away from her, out of that woman's reach, so she reached out to stop him but he suddenly vanished. She gasped and looked at the woman who had stumbled on the ground".

Hayley gasped and opened her eyes. She put the blanket and the wolf in the crib and left the room. The sun light was coming inside telling her it was about to do something productive. She stretched herself as to relieve the twist in her back because of sleeping on her chair when she heard a knock on the door. She walked to the door and opened it just to face Klaus standing there all fresh and ready. Seeing him all dressed and ready reminded her of tired, grumpy and shirtless Klaus of last night. She assumed that the smile on his face was because of his night with Caroline. She stepped aside and let him in.

Klaus walked in her room and the first look at her bed told him that she didn't sleep there or she had just made it. He turned to her and saw her yawning so he ruled out the second possibility and went to the nursery. The last time he was in her room was when they had decide to give Hope away.

Hayley looked at his back for a while and then went to the bathroom to change.

Klaus turned and saw that she was not standing there anymore. He went inside nursery and picked up the wolf from the crib. The memory of her laying her down in the crib holding his finger came flooding in his mind. He rubbed his fingers and touched the pink blanket when he sensed her in the nursery too. Klaus put the wolf down and turned to her and said "Okay good you are ready. Let us go then"

Hayley just stared at the sad expressions on his face for a second. They lasted for such a short time that she thought it might have been her imagination but she had seen him holding the wolf, touching the blanket. She nodded and then turned to put on her shoes.

Klaus stopped at the door and turned to look at her putting on her shoes and then walked out. He stood there in the corridor waiting for her.

Hayley came out and said to him "Okay let us go"

He looked at her and walked with her downstairs. She asked him "where is everyone?"

"Don't know" Klaus said indifferently without looking at her and then walked towards the kitchen.

Hayley looked at him in annoyance when he came back with two blood bags in his hand. He handed her the blood bag and went out the front door. Hayley sat on the passenger side when Klaus put the car on gear. She asked him "where are we going?"

"Palace Royale Casino" Klaus said while backing up the car.

"Will she be there right now? It is still early" Hayley asked him looking at her wrist watch

"We can wait in the parking lot and have our breakfast" he said without looking at her.

Hayley looked at him to see if he was joking but his facial expressions were very serious.

They both sat in the car quietly until he pulled it in the parking lot and turned the engine off.

Hayley looked at him when he said without looking at her "drink the blood. You will need energy to fight"

"I don't want to" Hayley said with annoyance thinking 'why isn't he looking at her?'

At that Klaus gave her a cold stare and said "Hayley drink the blood or I will cram it down your throat" and then looked away

"What is wrong with you? Didn't you get to sleep last night with all that busy activity with Caro…" Hayley burst out in anger when he gave her another cold stare that just stopped her from completing her sentence.

He stared at her and then said "drink"

"I don…." When suddenly he leaned forward. She got scared. She had not seen him that way before. She said "alright but if I am drinking so are you"

"I don't drink from blood bags love" Klaus said with a smirk.

Hayley looked at him in horror and said "you are a monster you know"

Klaus looked out the window and after a couple of second said "yes I know"

In a few seconds he smelled the blood and realized that she was drinking it. He smiled still looking out the window and then looked at his watch. It was still early. He said to her without looking at her. "I am sleeping for a couple of minutes. Wake me up in 30 minutes" He leaned his seat back and closed his eyes

"I am not your damn wife" Hayley said with annoyance

"I know love" Klaus said with his eyes stills shut and a smile on his face.

Hayley glared at him in anger

"Don't look at me like that, you might fall for me" Klaus said sarcastically still with his eyes shut.

Hayley said sarcastically "In your dreams"

Before he could stop himself the words were out "every day"

Hayley looked at him and asked "what did you say?"

"Nothing love. You drink your blood" Klaus said "and let me catch some sleep"

She stared at him for some seconds and then started looking out the window. In a couple of minutes she realized that he had gone to sleep from the sound of his rhythmic breathing. She turned and looked at him and realized all the fury and tension had gone from his face. He looked really peaceful right now.

Klaus felt calm as he drifted off to sleep. He has not felt that calm for a few weeks now. When suddenly he saw her falling. He reached out and grabbed her hand but she was still slipping and as the harder he tried to hold on to her the quicker she was falling and then she looked up and he gasped and opened his eyes.

Hayley was looking at his face when suddenly a hand grasped her hand tightly. She felt the hard pressure of his hand on her. She felt the squeeze. She saw the sudden terror on her face replacing the calm that had been there just a couple of seconds ago. She moved her other hand to wake him but he opened his eyes and sat up.

Klaus looked into her eyes still confused at the face he had seen in his dream. He wondered whether he saw her face in the dream or in reality. He heard her lips moving. He concentrated on the words and then as if clouds were drifting apart and he could hear them "are you okay?"

And then he realized that he was holding her hand. He looked at their hands and then let it go slowly wondering 'was he trying to hold her hand in the dream too?'

Hayley's gaze moved to his hand letting go of her hand. She suddenly felt the warmth leaving her. She looked into his eyes again and asked "are you okay?"

Klaus looked at her and then suddenly he opened the car door and got out. He closed the door with a bang and stood facing towards car with his hands at the edges of the roof of car. He took some long breaths to get that panic he had not felt for a very very long time out of him.

Hayley got out of the car and walked around it to him and touched him gently on his shoulder.

Klaus sensed her hand moving towards his shoulder from the corner of his eyes and he moved away from her without looking at her. He said almost in a whisper looking at his reflection in the window of the door "I am fine. I am fine"

Hayley opened her mouth to say something when her cell rang.