"So, Kayla offered to look after hope tonight, she said that if we needed to go out for a… meal and a drink, she would help us out, so… you wanna join me?" Hayley said with a smirk to Klaus as she walked over to him and rested her arms on the sofa where Klaus was sitting, he turned his head to lock his blue eyes with her green ones and smirked back.

"I think thats the best idea you've had in the past 3 years little wolf."

"Ha. Ha. now grab your coat." Hayley shouted towards him as she walked away to get her jacket.

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It wasn't an old bar, but it was old enough for only a few people to be inside. Sat in one of the booths at the back where a tall man with dirty blonde hair wearing a red flannel, with dark jeans, and a beautiful brunette woman wearing near enough the same.

"Okay, idea. Lets play 20 questions." Hayley smirked towards Klaus. Both were drunk, well, what do you expect after drinking probably 3 bottles of whiskey, scotch and vodka between them. Klaus downing his drink nodded, and continued to pour another one.

"Okay then, I'll start. How old are you?" Klaus's eyes shoot up to look at Hayley, and he sighs, Of course she would have asked that.

"1031"

"You're 1031! holy crap, i mean i knew you were over 1000 years old but i never expected it to be… ugh.. so close to the age you look." Hayley smiled at Klaus as she tried to hide a small laugh. Ignoring her laugh Klaus immediately jumped to his turn, after pouring himself a drink of course.

"So little wolf, tell me, Jackson or Elijah?" Klaus replied with a big grin on his face, silently getting back at her for making fun of his age.

Shooting a look of annoyance Klaus's way, Hayley sighs, she grabs the bottle of golden liquid and fills her glass up 1cm from the top.

"Honestly… neither." Klaus's eyes widen in shock, his eyebrows raised as he stares at her black expression.

"Elijah, he seems like one of those guys who wants a relationship to just be sitting around all day reading poetry, and discussing political issues, you know blah blah blah…he's just too boring for me, and Jackson, he was too controlling, he was kind of misogynistic a few times, and his voice got on my nerves… so no. Neither. Now its my turn. Cami or Caroline?" Hayley's smile was probably as big as Klaus has ever seen it, sighing, Klaus sat back in defeat, he should have expected this.

"For your information love, I happen to share the same opinion as you. Neither. They were both silly infatuations, crushes, like a magpie with a shiny object."

The brunette started to laugh. "Neither? Seriously?" she giggled yet again. "what, did another blonde catch your eye?"

Now klaus sat forward, elbows rested on the table, his hands clasped around his glass, the blonde looked straight into Hayley's eyes and whispered "Not quite, little wolf, she wasn't blonde"

Hayley's giggles died down after Klaus spoke, her eyes had fixated themselves on Klaus's blue ones, her breathing somehow becoming heavy as she continued to gaze upon him, but she couldn't stop. He couldn't have been talking about me, could he? no of course not. i need to stop doing this to myself, getting my hopes up just to be destroyed. Suddenly Hayley was jutted out of her trance by Klaus clearing his throat. he sat back, slid out of the small booth in the bar and started to stand up, picking up his coat to put it on.

"What do you say about a few more drinks little wolf." Klaus smirks at her, knowing he had just sent goosebumps all the way down her spine.

Hayley stands up, slightly stumbling, but manages to stay a float. "Im not sure, i already feel like i've drank enough." She says as she puts her arms through her jacket. Klaus steps forward and puller her close to him by her waist and whispers in her ear so noon else around them can hear "Not that kind of drink love, something a little more satisfying, and fulfilling." He pulls back to look her in the eyes, raising his eyebrows toward her in a questioning look.

"Sounds like a plan, lets go."

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"I cant believe she just got on the bar like that, oh my god, Im so glad I got that on snapchat. She's going to kill me when she sees it in the morning." A young female laughed on the phone as she stumbled along the road. Perfect.

"Help!" The young girl heard, she looked around to see where it was coming from, but it was all echo to her.

"Help! Please." There it was again, suddenly she saw a woman, there are 4 of her, nope, thats probably not right. the young girl blinked a few times before looking Hayley.

"Whats wrong?" she questioned as she slurred a little.

"You need to help me, my friend, he, he was stabbed, i need help please." The woman grabbed her arms and shook her slightly while shouting in her face, without thinking the young girl ran with the woman towards her friend. It was a dark alley, too dark to be walking in alone. Thats when she saw the man on the floor. She froze as the girl began to cry kneeling down next to her friend. She then ran over knelt down too. Even if she was drunk she was still a med student and knew what to do, she pressed against the blonde guys neck with two fingers.

Hayley started to laugh, she couldn't stop, the young girl was confused, she pulled back and then suddenly the guy started to laugh as well.

"What the hell is going on here!" She shouted in fear her eyes widened as the guy started to stand up, she started to run, but she jumped back as the guy stood in front of her with glowing amber eyes surrounded by red. Then his teeth sunk into her neck, drawing blood from he neck, then it happened again on the other side.

Klaus and hayley were draining the life out of the girl as they fed on her blood, once they fed completely, the girls body fell to the floor in a slump.

Klaus and Hayley stared into each others eyes both high on blood, the adrenalin rushing through their veins, excitement, lust… love.

Klaus walked over to Hayley and grabbed the back of her neck with his hand and pulled her into him, smashing his lips into her own, kissing her with passion he never thought possible. Hayley snaked her hands up to Klaus's hair, running her fingers through his curls, pulling on them as the kiss became more intense. They both pulled away gasping for air, resting their foreheads against each other, panting as they try to catch their breath.

"Kayla said she would watch Hope overnight if we needed her too." Hayley breathed as she lent against Klaus. She opened her eyes to see klaus smiling at her.

"Good"

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The motel room door slammed open, Klaus and Hayley walked towards the bed as they continued to kiss passionately, still kissing Klaus pried off Hayley's jacket and yanked it off of her skin, and Hayley did the same with Klaus, their bare skin sliding against each others, sending them into pure bliss. A few more steps back and Hayley's knees collided with the edge of the bed, compelling her to fall back onto the springy mattress, and separating her lips from Klaus's. Now lied on the bed, Hayley bit her lip as she began to move her hands to the button of her pants and move on to undo them, Klaus smirked, moving closer to Hayley he moved her hands away from the button of her jeans and ripped them off her body, leaving her in only her underwear and top. Smiling back at Klaus, Hayley sat up and pulled Klaus on top of her, their lips finally meeting again even thirstier than the first time. The undressing, the kissing, the touches carried on all night, sending them to the path of pleasure and love they never thought they could ever walk through, a pathway to their desires, a pathway to each other.

The yellow light-rays from the sun peeked through the motel curtains as Klaus opened his ocean blue eyes, as he scanned the room he noticed the large amount of soft brown hair flowing at the side of him, stemming from a girl who could only be described as perfect by Klaus. It was the mother of his child, the woman he spent 3 years with because she wanted to go with him. The woman he loved. His arms were wrapped around her, their legs tangles together as they rested.

Tilting his head slightly to look at his side, his eye caught the attention of his phone, he carefully pulled him arm out from underneath Hayley, gentle not to wake her and shifted it in order to grab his phone. 5 missed calls. All from Kayla. His eyebrows knitted together in confusion. Didn't Hayley say Kayla would watch Hope over night? Why would she need to call?

Confusion still written over his face he pressed the voicemail left on his device.

"Klaus hey… i know that i said i could watch Hope over night, don't get me wrong, i love Hope, but if you're gonna be staying out all day and possibly all night could you at least ring me first please, ring me back after you hear this message or get Hayley to. Bye.

Still confused Klaus checked the time only for it to read 15:26pm.

shocked Klaus began to sit up, which awoke Hayley from her slumber, she shifted herself around to face Klaus, she stared into his eyes.

"Hey." She whispered her voice full of passion.

"Hey." He whispered back. After finally noticing he was putting his clothes back on Hayley asked "what time is it?" Whilst sitting up and running her hand through her long brown hair.

"It's almost half 3 little wolf"

"What! Half 3! Oh my... Kayla!"

"She left me a message saying that she would at least like a call first before we stay out all night."

Hayley lightly laughed as she got out of bed. The brunette searched the floor for her jacket, finding it under the chair after she recalled that's were klaus had thrown it after ripping it of her shoulders, Hayley grinned whilst she thought about last night.

Interrupted she shot her head up at the sound of Klaus's voice.

"Ready to go home little wolf?"

"Yep, let's go."

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"Thank you Kayla, sorry for not calling you, i guess we just got caught up and forgot." Hayley said as she walked towards Kayla inside their home.

"Don't worry about it Hayley." Kayla replied as gathered her jacket and bag pack. Hayley sighed as she looked at Kayla's bag pack, Kayla was probably on her way on another adventure, and would probably show up again in a few weeks.

"Kayla… you know if you ever wanted to crash somewhere for a while, you can always come here."

"Thanks Hayley." Kayla said with a smile on her face. Kayla then hugged Hayley tightly, and even gave Klaus a small hug when he walked past from coming down the stairs. "Be careful." Klaus said to Kayla as she walked out of the house and onto her next travel destination. After bidding goodbye to Kayla, Klaus shut the door and walked over to Hayley, stopping close to 1 metre away from her.

"Klaus." Hayley breathed out, "Last night…" she tried to carry on but was interrupted by klaus.

"Stop Hayley, you don't have to try and comfort the damage you're about to do, just so you don't hurt my feelings, or my ego, you don't have to push me away, i don't want you to. Hayley, last night, i meant what i said when we were playing 20 questions, someone did catch my eye, but she wasn't blonde." Klaus stopped, he looked down at the ground for a second or two then looked back at Hayley with the up most passion in his eyes.

"Its you Hayley, your the one that caught my eye, you're the woman i fell for."

Stepping forward Klaus reached out and run his hand against Hayley's, capturing it into his own.

"It was last year on Hopes birthday, you invited a few toddlers from Hopes nursery, and at the end of the day when you came downstairs from putting Hope to bed, you sat on the couch and fell asleep, i was clearing a few things up when i actually noticed the bright pink lipstick Hope had drawn on you, and there were one or two stickers stuck on you shirt, seeing you lied there, you looked as beautiful as i have ever seen you, it was the moment i knew i was in love with you Hayley Marshall."

Shocked, Hayley is unable to speak, she's frozen on the spot, still staring into his blue eyes.

"Theres also something else i wanted to say, when we were playing 20 questions, i was going to ask you another question but i must have forgot, do you ever regret running away with me, from New Orleans?"

And as quick as the question had been asked the answer was given without even a hesitation.

"no"

Hayley stepped closer to Klaus readjusting their hands so their fingers were completely intertwined and so their bodies pressed up against each other.

"Klaus, running away with you was the best decision i ever i made in my entire life. These 3 years, these 3 years have been the best 3 years of my existence, because i have what i have always wanted. A family, my daughter is safe, i'm safe, you're safe, my family is safe, thats all I've ever wanted, and running away with you and our daughter, theres nothing more i could ask for. I love you too klaus, i do, i really do love you" Hayley untangled their fingers and reached up to snake her hands around Klaus's neck, pulling him down and crashes her lips against his, drawing him into a loving kiss, in which he gladly returned.