Klaus entered the compound and saw Stefan sitting in the court yard. He was about to head to his room when they both heard Elena voice "well may be she is alive. How can an Original's baby die? Why would they let her die?"

Klaus looked at Stefan's confused expression and narrowed in his eyes in exasperation. Then they heard Caroline saying "Elena she is dead. If she were alive why would they spread this rumor that she has died and where is she if she were alive. We have been in this house for a couple of days now and I would have noticed a child if I had seen her. Klaus and Hayley are really grieving. No one grieves like that if there child is still alive"

Elena says in frustration "I just wish she were alive. We could have …."

Klaus couldn't hear any longer and before Stefan could do anything he had whooshed towards the sound of the voices and grabbed Elena from the throat. He hissed with his fangs out and yellow eyes "and people think I am monster"

Caroline hastily moved towards them and said "Elena didn't mean it"

"OF course she didn't" Klaus said sarcastically "how can Saint Elena say anything like that"

He then squeezed his hands on her neck and said "You dare talk about my daughter like this"

Stefan said "Klaus let her go"

Klaus laughed and said "You said that you will talk to her. If this is the result of your talk then I would rather handle the situation myself"

Stefan took a step but Klaus looked into her terrified eyes and then said "this is my first and last warning"

Elena looked into those yellow eyes with terror and before she could say anything she felt her neck snap and the last thing she heard was Caroline's scream.

As her body slid on the ground Klaus felt a hand on his shoulder and him being thrown across the room. He got up and growled at Stefan and lunged at him who had knelt down to check on Elena.

Stefan fell down but then kicked Klaus away from him. They both glared at each other measuring each other when they heard Elijah saying "what is going on here?"

Elijah and Hayley stared at Elena's body on the floor. Elijah walked in and went to Elena to check on her. He then turned to Klaus and Stefan who were still glaring at each other. Klaus suddenly laughed and retreated his fangs and his yellow eyes turned to blue again. He gestured to Stefan and said sarcastically "You want to take this one?"

Stefan just stared at him and then after taking a deep breath he went and picked up Elena from the floor and put her on the bed. He turned to Elijah and said "Elena and Klaus had a difference of opinion on something"

Klaus laughed sarcastically and then giving Caroline an angry look he left the room brushing a stunned Hayley aside on the way out.

He was seething in anger when he reached his room. He wanted to kill someone right now and then. He started pacing his room. Then his gaze fell on the empty aisle and he walked to it and put an empty canvas on it and started to paint. With each stroke of paint he felt himself getting calm.

Elijah turned to Caroline and Stefan and asked them "what has been going on here? There is something going on between Elena and my brother and I want to know right now what is it?"

Caroline looked at Stefan who shook his head which didn't go unnoticed by Hayley and Elijah.
Elijah looked at Stefan and said again "You will tell me right now what is going on"

Stefan just looked at Elijah and said nothing and then he saw something zoom at him and grab his neck

Hayley pushed him against the wall and hissed "answer us"

Elijah walked casually to Stefan and Hayley and then turned to Caroline who was looking shocked at the turn of the events and said "Caroline?"

Hayley said without looking at her "and before you answer Caroline let me tell you that I am a new hybrid. I don't have that self-control like Klaus has"

Caroline suddenly said "it is just that someone told us that if we kill an Original they can help us bring Damon back". Ignoring Stefan's warning voice "Caroline" and Elijah and Hayley's stunned expressions she continued "at first we thought it was Klaus but then when we got to know that he had a child so we thought maybe it was supposed to be her but she had died so…"

Elijah regained composure and asked in a confused and surprised tone "what does my brother have to do with all of this?"

"He knows" Caroline whispered "and that is why he wanted Elena gone from here"

Hayley suddenly growled and let go of Stefan and whooshed out of the room.

Caroline ran to Stefan who was massaging his neck and saw Hayley's finger marks on his neck heeling. They both looked up to see Elijah who said in a cold voice "I take it that you all are conspiring to kill a member of my family AGAIN. I don't have anything else to say other than I want you all gone by tomorrow morning and unlike my brother I am not asking"

He then left the room.

Klaus was painting when she entered his room. He knew why she was there as he had heard everything that Caroline was telling Elijah. He put the brush down and turned to face her calmly. Painting had brought on some calm to him.

Hayley burst out angrily "Do they know?"

"No love. If they knew you think I would have let them live?" Klaus said with a smirk wiping his hand on a cloth.

"And why would you choose not to tell us?" Elijah asked from the door way

"Because I was handling it" Klaus said with a smirk.

"And that is your way of handling? Apparently it didn't go as you planned right? All of them want her dead!" Hayley said sarcastically

"Just Elena and that is why she has to leave" Klaus said lying down on his bed.

"Now if you two will excuse me I want to rest. It has been a long day with being getting shot at, talking to imbeciles like Jackson and breaking necks of stupid people"

Hayley glared at him angrily and then left his room.

She was pacing her room when she sensed Elijah entering her room. She stopped and looked at him and asked him anxiously keeping her voice in whispers "what if they know?"

"Nothing will happen Hayley. She is safe and protected" Elijah said in whisper closing the door behind him.

Hayley looked at him and then seeing the expression on his face, she sighed and said "Please don't Elijah"

Elijah just looked at her

Hayley said with exasperation "You are here because of what happened with Stefan and me. I don't want to hear that I lost it or I was out of line"

Elijah said "Hayley I just…"

Hayley said with frustration "No Elijah. Just no. Please leave me alone"

Elijah stood there for a few seconds and then left her room.

Klaus laid on his bed listening to her and Elijah talking. He then closed his eyes with a sigh and soon he was drifting off to sleep.

Klaus eyes opened at a slight sound which seemed to come from nearby.

Caroline was pacing her room that she was sharing with Elena thinking about Klaus and what happened earlier. She then walked out of her room and went towards his room. The door was slightly opened so she pushed it open and entered his room. He was sleeping on his bed with no shirt on. Caroline stood there and looked at his peaceful pace.

Hayley couldn't sleep. She was feeling really agitated so she went down to the kitchen to get a blood bag. Just for a fraction of second she thought about drinking Elena's blood but then she shook her head and took out the bag from the freezer. She sat there on the floor and drank the whole bag. After drinking it she wiped her face and washed the after taste with the water and then she started to go back to her room when she saw her going into his room. She felt a pang of annoyance in her stomach and turned back. She thought for a moment and then then left the compound.

Klaus opened his eyes and saw Caroline standing there. He propped himself up and asked her "what is wrong?"

Caroline said "I came here to apologize to you about Elena. She is grieving and does not know what she was saying"

Klaus stared at those eyes and then sat up. He picked up his shirt and put it on and said nothing.

Caroline stood there for a moment and then she said awkwardly "Okay then. I just came here to say that". She then turned and left his room.

Hayley was walking on the bourbon street. Her mind was haunted with Hope in her arms, Caroline walking into his room, Elijah's disapproving sentences. A young boys and girls were walking at a distance from her laughing and joking. Seeing them so happy and carefree she suddenly snapped and she whooshed to them and before she knew it she had her fangs in one of theirs neck. She drank from him ignoring the girl who was screaming at the top of her lungs. After a couple of seconds of feeding she pushed him away in disgust. The boy turned around with one hand on his neck where she had bit him, looked at her in horror and then holding the hand of the girl he ran away. Hayley looked at them running away feeling kind of relaxed. She then walked home. She stood in the court yard for a couple of minute lost at what she was going to do and then she walked towards Elijah's study. She scanned the study and then spotted what she was looking for. She went straight for the liquor cabinet and opened it.

Klaus couldn't sleep after Caroline left his room. He sat up on his bed for a while and then he picked up a book from the side table and started to read it. He lost track of time and then he heard a crashing sound coming from downstairs. He put the book down and got out of his bed and went down stairs in his bare feet. He could hear sounds from Elijah's study so he walked towards it. The door was slightly opened so he went inside and stopped there when he saw her sitting on his chair holding a bottle of bourbon in her hand. She looked towards him and asked "Do hybrids get drunk?"

Klaus pursed his lips and noticed the broken lamp and some files on the floor. He nodded and then walked to it. He picked up the files and put them on the desk. He then started picking up the broken pieces of lamp base and put them in the trash bin under the desk.

"I don't feel drunk. I have finished two of these bottles and I don't feel…." She said in a slurry voice.

Klaus looked at her while picking up the broken pieces and then to his amusement he saw two empty bottles of bourbon on the floor next to the chair she was sitting on. He walked to her and winced as a glass shard went into his feet. He took it out threw it in the bin. He tried to take the bottle out of her hand but she pushed him away and said "this is my new friend. This will never leave me"

"Love you don't need to make friends with a bourbon. You can be friends with…" Klaus said with a smile on his face

"With whom? Elijah or you?" Hayley asked trying to be sarcastic but she was too drunk to convey her sarcasm.

Klaus looked at her for a second and then said "Elijah"

Hayley started to laugh and said "Friends with him! He is not happy with me right now". She put the bottle to her mouth and took a sip from it and then said in a slurry voice "does not approve of a single thing I have done since I have become a hybrid"

Klaus stood there for a minute and then said "Give him …"

Before he could finish his sentence she whirled around with the bottle in her hand and said "what? Some time? For what? To accept me for who I am"

"Yes" Klaus said softly.

"Hmm. How much time do you think will be appropriate for him to approve of the change in me?" Hayley asked sarcastically.

When Klaus just kept quiet she walked to him with the bottle in her hand and said "at least one of us is happy!"

Klaus looked at her in confusion and extended his hand to take the bottle from her hand when she stepped back and stumbled but before he could hold her she held the edge of the desk and leaned against it and said in a slurry voice while waving the bottle in the air "You"

Klaus stayed quiet. She said to him with sarcastic tone "Sleeping with Caroline must have cathartic for you. To forget about her right?"

Klaus felt as if someone punched him in the stomach. He used all his will power to control the anger that had arose suddenly in him.

She continued in the slurry voice which was becoming more and more incoherent by the passing second "at least you are sleeping like a baby now. To hell with Hope right?"

She got up but then she stumbled and her knees buckled and she fell into his strong arms with the bottle slipping out of her hands.

Klaus picked up the unconscious Hayley and then took her to her room. He laid her gently on the bed and left her room. He went to the study and cleaned up the mess she had made thinking 'Elijah didn't need to know about all of this'