A/N: thank you for the wonderful comments. It is interesting that I read two comments about the possibility that Caroline might be behind the attacks. Great idea but honestly it never crossed my mind LOL. No the attacks are not done by Caroline. it is something from his work. I hope you like this chapter. The story is going a bit slow in time frame wise. Remember it has only been one month since they have gotten married. So much has happened during that time but yes it has been just more then a month since they got married. Guest who liked the balance between the supernatural life and the human life, I really want TO to go in this direction - balance between family life and supernatural life. td she is getting treatment. Unfortunately she will not trigger her gene anytime soon and even after that there is no guarantee that she will cure from her cancer. Sorry :(. Just old fashion way of curing her cancer in this story.
Synopsis: Hayley gets herself familiarized with her pack. Klaus and Hayley had their first argument. Hope starts preschool.
Next morning when Klaus came out of the bathroom after the shower he had made up his mind to dissuade Hayley from going to the bayou and to meet Marcel but before he could voice his opinion Hope came running in and asked "daddy where are we going?"
Klaus looked up just in time to see Hayley saying "when are we leaving?"
Klaus asked "Hayley are you sure?"
He almost laughed when she gave him a look saying "really!"
He said "11. Lets have breakfast."
He held Hope's hand and went to the dinning table.
Hayley asked seeing him lost in thoughts "what is it?"
Klaus said "Joe has captured the guy who attacked you but I am really curious about who ordered it. But still we don't have any leads."
Hayley put the omelet in front of him and asked "but still are you looking into it?"
Klaus asked bitterly "Yes I am and as for the second attack, I cannot even file a report about it considering they were vampires. I talked to Marcel about them but he had no idea"
as he took the slice of bread for himself and poured juice for Hope. He looked at Hayley who was lost in thoughts now while drinking her cup of coffee.
He said a bit sternly "Hayley, sit down and eat something proper. I am noticing you are not eating properly."
Hayley smiled and said "I am fine Klaus" sitting down and continuing "I have been thinking about getting a wig. I think I might lose them in a week or so and I dont want her to see me without hair and dont want to scare you too" she added with a laughter.
Klaus reached across the table and held her hand and squeezed it and said "that can never happen. I don't think you will need a wig. They are just thinning out, not falling all together and even if they do, you will still look beautiful."
She squeezed his hand back and started eating with a heavy heart.
After breakfast Hayley got Hope ready and even though Klaus had doubts about the plan he decided to take her for her peace of mind.
During the ride to the bayou his cell rang. They both looked at it. Seeing Caroline's name on the caller Id made reminded Klaus of their last conversation and he had felt irritated so he cut the call whereas Hayley wondered 'may be he does not want to talk to her in front of me' but didnt ask anything to Klaus's surprise. She was already anxious about meeting the remnants of her family, feeling fatigued and that call didnt help her morale.
Klaus stopped the car in the forest in bayou and said "I should tell you I have already met Eve. She is an untriggered Crescent wolf. I came here a couple of days ago and asked her if your triggering your gene will cure you cancer but she didnt know."
Hayley looked at him with surprise and felt touched by his concern and the way he was trying to help her. She said "thank you but even if cures me I dont think that is a good way to cure my cancer."
He said "that is what I thought too but she is still doing her research to find out anything."
He got out, took Hope out of the car seat and walked towards the woods while Hayley walked with him into the woods. They stopped as they spotted the woman Klaus had met some days ago.
She said to him smiling "you are back! But unfortunately I have not found anything."
Hayley said "that is fine. I am Hayley. I wanted to ask you about the pack. The thing is I have this birthmark on my shoulder."
Eve looked at her curiously and then said "show me."
Hayley pulled the shirt down and showed her the mark. She said "you should keep it hidden. Marcel and his men if they find out that you are Crescent, it will not be good for you or your child." Her gaze went to Hope snuggled close to Klaus.
Hayley nodded and said "so it is true that I am Crescent wolf."
Eve said to her smiling"yes and as you have the mark you are not just any wolf, you are a Labanoir, a royal family of the Crescent pack. If you are a human right now then you have not triggered the gene yet. I am sure your daughter carries the gene too considering you are both wolves."
Hayley said "yes, I have not. I don't know anything about myself. I was adopted so I had no idea who my parents were. I recently found out that I am a werewolf and as for my daughter she has the mark too on her shoulder."
Hayley looked at Klaus and realized from his expressions that he was not surprised making her wonder 'did he know about that mark too?'
Eve said "I dont know who your parents are but Labanoirs were the alpha of the pack before an infighting in the pack killed them. They did have daughter. I dont know what happened to her. But this is your pack and that mark shows that you are a Labanoir. You are welcome to live with us."
Hayley noticed Klaus shift next to her again. For some reason she could feel him getting anxious about her reply and almost laughed when he relaxed down as she said "I am married to Klaus. I cannot live in the bayou but I am living in the city so I would love to visit the pack whenever I can. Is there any way I can find out who I am?"
Eve said "I have a ledger going back to the last living member of the royal family. May be you can find out who you are."
She went towards the hut whereas Klaus and Hayley looked around the bayou with Klaus still carrying Hope. As Hope disappeared into the hut Hayley said "you didnt tel me that you know about Hope's birthmark too!"
Klaus "yes I saw it after I found yours. She is definitely a Crescent too."
Hayley said "seems that way. I hope I get to find more details about my family."
Klaus said "you will" and walked to the water with Hope still in his lap. He stared into the water and wondered 'will she leave him after finding her family? It is not as if they love each other. They are in this together only because of Hope."
He looked at Hope telling him about the cartoon she had watched yesterday and smiled. He turned toward Hayley as he heard Eve come back and saw her giving her an old ledger.
A couple of minutes later she came back and gave the ledger to Hayley.
Hayley thanked her and they went back to their car.
When he sat in the car Hayley said "now Marcel."
She looked at the ledger in her lap and said "I cannot believe it I am about to find out about my family. Do you think…" she looked up at Klaus and caught him staring at her. She asked "what?"
Klaus said "Just looking at you. I don't know what you are expecting but I dont want to see you getting hurt Hayley."
Hayley smiled and said "oh don't worry about me. Very few things hurt me. I am very strong in that way. You came into my life when I was at my lowest. You have not seen me before that. I can handle anything. I was going to ask do you think that Marcel knows anything about my family. Eve said that he put the spell on them but why?"
Klaus said "I dont know. We can ask him today if you want to."
Hayley said "no, I dont want to ask him today. I want to know him first. I want to see if I can trust him with mine or Hope's life because clearly we will be seeing him a lot considering he is your friend and we are wolves living outside the quarter."
Klaus took out his cell and dialed Marcel's number. He asked him to meet him outside French Quarter. Thirty minutes later Hayley was sitting with Klaus, Marcel and Hope. And to her surprise she had a nice time even though Klaus could feel that she was scared but she didn't show it.
Marcel found talking to Hayley really pleasing. Within a few minutes seeing them interact he gauged how much Klaus liked Hayley and by the end of their casual conversation he was starting to see what Klaus liked about Hayley. Not once from her behavior he got the impression that she was scared of him which was really surprising considering she was meeting a vampire for the first time in her life. He looked at Klaus and caught him looking at Hayley, at the same time Klaus looked at him and smiled. When they got up to leave Marcel said "I am impressed Hayley."
Hayley asked smiling "what do you mean?"
Marcel said "that you are not scared of me."
Hayley said bravely "well you have not done anything scary so far so there is not reason to be scared. I wanted to meet you seeing that you are Klaus's friend and get to know you if you ever decide to visit us."
Marcel laughed and said "well the first rule about vampires and werewolves Hayley. They are mortal enemies. We are friends but that is rare. Second thing never invite a vampire into your house. Once you have invited them in, you cannot uninvited them."
Hayley asked curiously "really! so what happens if we invite a vampire into our house?"
Marcel said "we cannot enter a house owned by a human or a werewolf in your case unless we are invited in."
Klaus looked at him and then out of blue image of Caroline walking in the apartment came into his mind but he shook his head and looked at Hayley who was absorbing the information.
Marcel smiled and said "it is good to meet you and Hope you too."
Later that night Klaus was busy reading the file Ben had given him for a sting operation they did last week so Hayley took out the ledger and started to read it. She soon realized that they were names with the date of births. She flipped to the last page and looked at the names. Her gaze stopped at the name Labanoir.
. Victoria Labonair - (July 19, 1975-)
. Cyrus Labonair - (November 1, 1978-)
. Louis Labonair - (December 6, 1987-)
. Calvin Labonair - (March 3, 1988-)
. Holly Labonair - (July 19, 1984-)
. Craig Labonair - (November 1, 1986-)
. Andrea Labanoir (June 6th, 1993- )
Her eyes got focused at the last name. Seeing the year of birth she wondered 'is she Andrea Labanoir?' but then she shook her head saying "it cannot be that simple" and then wondered 'why dont they have end years and why weren't there no names after her? Did the Labanoir family parishes after her."
She was lost in her thoughts when she heard Klaus ask "so have you found anything?"
Hayley said thoughtfully "may be. I think I am Andrea Labanoir."
Klaus said "Andrea? hmmm I like it"
Hayley laughed and said "You know anything about these Labanoir's" giving him the ledger as he gestured for it. He looked at the pages and said "no but I can find out about them. Marcel would know them. He had been living in this city for the past 100 year."
He paused for a second and then said "so Andrea, it seems your birthday is coming up. How do you want to celebrate it? If I am not wrong you buy Hope her favorite stuff on your birthday."
Hayley looked at him in surprise and said "how do you…" when he smiled, folded his hands behind his head and said "Frozen dvd, Best buy" causing those images to flash through her mind and she remembered how scared she was of him at that time not knowing that he was thinking the exact same thing.
He looked at her back and said "When I think about how you used to step back from me or wipe your sweaty palms on your pants when ever you were in my presence, I think it is a miracle that we are sitting on his bed."
She turned to him smiling and said "yes look at us" and noticed that his eyes had gone back to the ledger. She smiled when suddenly he looked at her and their eyes met. He put the ledger aside, pulled her towards him and kissed her and before they knew it they were out of their clothes and very passionately responding to each other.
Later Klaus stroked her naked shoulder and said "listen I think you and Hope should go to Mystic Falls for a few days. We have been attacked two times in the past two weeks. And one time was a supernatural attack. Now that you know about that side you know how dangerous it is. Vampires are really blood thirsty."
Hayley shook her head and said "no, I will not go without you."
Klaus looked at her determined face and said impatiently "Hayley listen to me…"
But she cut him off by saying with finality "if you are not going then we are not going"
Klaus said "I will talk to my captain. I think I can make a case."
He paused for a second and then said "Hayley I think we should move from New Orleans."
Hayley said "why?!"
Klaus said "Crescent wolves are cursed. If you ever trigger your gene you will be affected by that curse too and so will Hope if that happens to her. I dont want that for either of you."
Hayley said with a smile "I am touched klaus. I never thought about that. But I cannot leave. I have found a connection to my parents' family. I cannot leave Klaus."
Klaus said with slight frustration "Hayley come on. We cannot stay here. I can get transferred to some place else if you don't want to live in Mystic Falls."
She sat up and put on her shirt and pajamas and said with determination "no Klaus. I am not moving from here."
She laid down and said to him "dont you have work in the morning?"
Klaus stared at her angrily getting the hint that she does not want to discuss it further. He said through his grinding teeth "we are not done here."
Hayley smiled and said "sure we are not." and turned away from him.
A couple of minute later she felt his arm go around her waist and pulling her towards him. She smiled in her sleep and continued sleeping.
Next morning Klaus was buttoning his shirt before leaving for work when Hayley walked in the bathroom said "I want to go to the bayou and get to know the remnants of my family"
Klaus looked at her, walked to her and said "Hayley are you sure you want to get to know your pack? I don't want to see you hurt."
Hayley said with a teasing smile that brought an automatic smile on his lips too "aww so sweet of you but I will be okay."
Klaus said "can we talk about it when I get home? I have to go somewhere and I am getting late."
Hayley asked curiously "but it is Sunday where are you going?"
Klaus said "Ben, Alexis and I are working on a sting operation and we have to wrap that up today. Did you listen to what I said."
Hayley looked at him for a while and then nodded.
Klaus said while leaving the apartment "no going to the bayou right now."
Later in the after noon when she came back from the park Klaus was not home. She fixed dinner after settling Hope down in front of TV.
She was siting with Hope in the living room reading a book while she was watching cartoon when the door open and Klaus came in. She turned to look at him and smiled as Klaus put a finger on his lips. She looked at Hope lost in her cartoons not noticing that he was back.
He smiled as he walked to them he tickled Hope causing her to jump. She spun around and squealed "daddy is home."
Klaus picked her up and settled own next to Hayley putting Hope in his lap. Hope put her head on her chest and continued to watch the cartoon while Klaus put his arm around Hayley and said "listen I have been thinking all day and I don't want you to take Hope to the bayou until we get to know them Hayley."
Hayley said "Klaus we?"
Klaus said while kissing Hope's head "She is my daughter too and I get to decide too who she can meet and who she cannot. I know you have been her sole beneficiary from the start and I acknowledge your authority in her upbringing but now that I am part of her life then I get to have a say in this too. Last month had been really busy and we have not time to sit and talk about Hope and what our marriage will do to her life but we need to start talking about that too. For example I was thinking that you said that she will start school in September. How about we put her in a preschool. She is almost five. She should be going to school. How about for a few hours every day. By September she will get used to it too. That way you will get to have some time to yourself too and you can go and visit Eve and others during that time but unless I and you both know those people really well I dont want you to take Hope there. We have already been attacked once by someone whom I suspect is supernatural so lets not make the attacks more tempting. "
He looked at her and didnt say anything until she nodded.
Hayley said "okay I will look for a school for her near the apartment. But it just occurred to me that it is good that the security is gone. Otherwise sooner or later they would have figured out our secret."
He put Hope on the sofa and got up saying "yes but considering we dont know why those vampire attacked us or who ordered that idiot to attack you it is not exactly safe to have no patrol."
Hayley said "not as dangerous as them finding out that we are wolves and also I know how to fire now." pausing for a second and the continuing with a mischievous smile as she recalled their firing lessons "Remember you taught me so well."
She then leaned in kissed him.
Klaus kissed her back and said "well you cannot kill anyone. You know that. You can trigger your gene so I would prefer if you keep your happiness in check.".
Hayley laughed whereas Klaus said "I will freshen up and then we can have dinner."
She was putting dinner on the table when was joined by Klaus so she called Hope and they had a pleasant dinner.
Next morning while klaus was fighting off crime, Hayley searched on the net for some good schools and got an appointment to have a tour of the school. She wondered 'should she try to take Klaus to the tour too but then shook her head and got the first available for the tour.
After doing her house chores she sat down with a book in her hand when she suddenly smiled and took out her cell and called Amy.
As the call connected Amy squealed and said "hey where have you disappeared to? I have friends who have gotten married but none have done something you have done."
Hayley looked at Hope playing with her toys and said "well you will not believe what type of month I had. First we had a guest then Elijah came over and then my chemotherapy and then…" she stopped as she realized that she was about to tell her about her wolf family. She thought for a moment and then said "and between all that I got to know Klaus and settled down in my new life as a married woman. I'm sorry."
Amy said "how is Hope? I miss her so much."
Hayley smiled and said "she is great. Klaus is so good to her that you cannot even imagine. Hey happy birthday."
Amy laughed and said "you remembered!"
She was quiet for a second and then said "I want to tell you something."
Hayley sensed hesitation in her tone. She asked "what is it?"
Amy said after some quiet moments "Tyler proposed to me and I said yes."
Hayley felt a tug at her heart but she said "that is great. Are you happy?"
Amy said "yes I am. I thought you might…"
Hayley said "oh come on Amy. You know I have no problem with you being with Tyler. I think it is great. He cares about you and you are clearly in love with him then who better to spend your life with than with someone whom you care about."
Amy asked "then how come you married Klaus? I know you dont love him. You cannot. You just met him."
Hayley sighed and said "you are right. When I got married to him it was because of Hope. He loves Hope and I couldn't afford to be picky with my condition. I wanted some stability in Hope's life. She needed a father figure and Klaus has been that. But now I am falling in love with him and it has only been a month since our wedding. I wonder if that is how arranged marriages used to work?!"
Amy said excitedly "you are falling for your husband. Oh that is so cute and sweet. Okay now on a serious note how are you doing? How did your last chemo go?"
Hayley decided not to tell her better then the previous one because of Klaus being there for her so she said "I felt so relieved that I had someone to take care of me like you have always been."
Amy said "aww that is just great. hey when are you visiting. I want to see Hope."
Hayley coud hear the smile in her voice and said with her own smile "next month. Klaus wants to visit his family. I will definitely come and visit you too. So what have you been up to?"
For the next thirty minutes she listened to Amy talking about the new job she had gotten, changes in her life, Tyler some what with a smile on her lips feeling content with her life after many days. After talking to her she took Hope to the park.
For the next few days things went very smoothly. Hayley got Hope got accepted to the school. Hope had some adjustment issue for the first two days but then she settled down. At home front things were great. She and Klaus were making progress in their relationship. That bathroom stall incidence was just a bad incidence for them which they both wanted behind them and they were succeeding in doing so. Her nausea had improved tremendously albeit the speed with which she was losing her hair and weight was remained same which was not joined in my the dizziness she was feeling a lot. She got an appointment for the next chemo which was immediately after the full moon. She was supposed to get a memo gram after that chemo which was making her anxious but she pushed that thought out of her mind for right now and concentrated to things at hand. Sometimes when she was sitting alone, it was hard to believe how much her life had changed just in the past one month. there was a time when she want to spend time with Hope and had none and now she had all the time in the world to give it to her. She started thinking about getting a job and started applying for it.
Klaus on the other hand was seeing how satisfied she looked with each passing day. Even though she had not started visiting bayou he could see the excitement that she showed whenever the topic was brought up during their conversation. He was impressed by the way she was handling all of that and for some reason it reminded him of the Hayley he had met before he found out more about her. The determination, the stubbiness, the will power, the fierceness, the control. It was all coming back. So one day he complemented her on those qualities and also added "I don't know how but I am glad I got to see your vulnerable side too Hayley and I have to admit that I am falling for you much more quicker then I had first realized."
To which she had just laughed, left the room while saying "we will see about that when I am bald" not knowing how her callous sentences like that were breaking his heart. It was not as if he had not thought about that. He knew about the hair thing but he also knew that he was not bothered about all of it.
On those occasions he felt glad that he was really busy at work. It seemed to him as if all the crimes in the world had chosen to come to New Orleans but as he loved his job he realized he didnt mind it. The only regret he was having these days was when he got home, Hope was already in bed as she had started school so she was sleeping earlier then usual. But the big plus was that he and Hayley got to spend more time together.
He smiled while turning the pages of the file as he realized how far their relationship has progressed and he was sure now that the day when he will fall for her was not far. He looked up and question himself "or has he already fallen for her?"
He startled out of his thought as he heard "yo Mikaelsson what are you thinking?"
He looked at Alexis and said "nothing."
Alexis smiled and said sarcastically "yeah sure" and then said with a smile "I hope Alex thinks of me this way too."
Klaus laughed and changing the subject Klaus started talking about their current case "I cannot believe that someone will open a hotline for confessions."
Alexis smiled registering how he ignored Hayley's topic and said "actually I like the idea. It is like confession."
Klaus leaned back and said "what if someone gets hold of those tapes? Like our perp got hold of and it ended badly for the person running the show."
Alexis said "well the same thing can be said about that priest too."
Klaus said "they have a higher power to take confessions. But this one is just not legal. what did he think, this…" he looked at the file and said "Anderson Damian."
Alexis think "in his mind he was helping people. Confession is good for soul. We dont even know if these people are religious and if they are do they even go to confessionals. May be they feel comfortable doing it on the tape ambiguously. No one knows who they are. They call this number and confess to whatever they have committed a crime too. We have not listened to a single one about an actual crime or something. Most of them are petty things and unclear. Seriously some are so ambiguous that I dont even get what the confessional is talking about."
Klaus snapped the file on the table and said "well that got him killed. Who told him to do something he was not trained for?!"
He got up and went downstairs.
Next morning Hayley told Klaus "I am going to the bayou after dropping Hope off to the school."
Klaus looked at her and then said "First sign of trouble you call me! Okay?"
She nodded and was turning away from him when he grabbed her hand and pulled her towards him and gently kissed her on her lip and whispered against her lips "I missed you when we were estranged. I never thought I will miss you this much."
Hayley said softly "and I never thought we will be at this place."
Klaus smiled, stepped back and said "I have to go now."
He stepped past her, picked up his coffee from the kitchen and left.
When he reached the office he found a very sick Alexis with her head down on the desk. He walked to her and said "hey, why are you here if you are so sick."
Alexis said with annoyance "I thought I will be able to handle it but it seems like I cannot."
Klaus said "Why dont you go home? You cannot help me in this condition. Hey only two weeks left for the wedding! Are you ready for it?"
Alexis smiled as she collected her stuff and said "of course. I have been looking forward to this day for the past two years. I am off Klaus." She stopped and asked "hey how is Hayley doing?"
Klaus smiled and said "good."
He was looking at Joseph Barton's file when he got a call from the downstairs that he had a visitor. When he entered the visitors room, he was surprised to see Joseph Barton waiting for him.
He asked "Mr. Barton what are you doing here?"
Joseph said "I wanted to tell you something. An friend of mine like me, stopped by and told me that he hired a man to attacked someone else whom he considered a threat to me and a client of mine. Care to guess Mr. Mikaelson which threat he was referring to?"
Klaus said "me" without hesitation.
Joseph sat down opposite him and said "bingo. Now care to guess which client they were referring to?"
Klaus smiled and said "Brain Hanley."
Joseph smiled while scribbling something down on a piece of paper and said "your reputation does you justice Mr Mikaelson but I want to make sure you know that I had nothing to do with that attack."
Klaus started pacing thinking and then turned to him and said "I get that they want me taken care of so that I dont give testimony in Hanley's case but why would they attack me to protect you?"
Joseph said getting up "because apparently someone asked him to do so. That someone who knows that you are a werewolf and my friend thought that in doing so he is protecting me too" patted Klaus's shoulder and walked towards the door when Klaus asked him curiously "why are you telling me all of this?"
Joseph turned and said "because someone crossed a line when he attacked your family. Families are off limit in my book. His name is Emil Stanton. My name should not come in."
Klaus said "how will I be able to link him to you."
Joseph looked towards the table in the center of the room. Klaus followed his gaze and saw a paper on it. He went to it, picked it up and read it "subpoena my phone record: 504-987-3421."
He turned towards the door with a smile but he was gone.
He walked to his desk and took out the file about Barton and in a few moments he got up and went to the Ben's office and said "I need a warrant for Barton's cell phone. I know you have cleared him but I have found that he has another phone and I think he is involved some how."
Ben said "wasn't he here in the station right now."
Klaus said "yes and something he said made me think that he is hiding something."
A week went by during which Hayley went to see Eve every other day after dropping off Hope to school. Later at night she would tell Klaus about what she had found out about her pack and her family and ask him if he had gotten a chance to talk to Marcel yet. Hope was adjusting to school really nicely and apparently loved it. Hayley felt a bit relieved that she was getting some personal time for herself.
He was getting in the bed and stopped when she said "Klaus I want to break the curse on my pack" and then sneezed.
He looked at her as she took her pills and asked "what?"
Hayley said while sneezing "I want to break the curse on my pack."
Klaus said in exasperation "Hayley!"
Hayley said "yes I have been thinking about this curse for the past couple of days. every time i meet eve I think it is not right why the curse has been put on them."
Klaus sat up and said in a confused tone "have you gone crazy? You just met them. How can you think that?"
Hayley said calmly "meeting them for the first time in my life does not mean that I cannot help them with whatever they need. And right now I want to help them break the curse. Why can I not think that?"
Klaus snapped "You cannot do that for many reasons. Number one you are still a human, number two we don't know anything about the curse and how dangerous it will be to break it and lastly, overall Hayley, it is very dangerous. You have to think about you health...and Hope Your health condition does not allow you to put yourself in such a dangerous position."
Hayley brushed her hair and said "I am fine Klaus apart from this damn sneezing!" as she sneezed.
Klaus said sarcastically "really" and handed her a couple of hair that had come apart on her brush.
Hayley took them from him, threw them in the bin carelessly and said "I have to live with it Klaus. My cancer will not stop me from living my life. You dont know me. I can handle anything except if something happens to Hope because I'm not here to protect her, to love her. I think I couldn't handle that, but then you came in my life and things got better. You being in my life has given me courage again to do this thing."
She took the tissue from the box and sneezed into it again and said "I think I am coming down with something."
Klaus asked still annoyed "what do you mean?"
Hayley said in between another bout of sneezes "these sneezing and coughing. Flu I think and I it is getting worse."
Klaus stared at her and then said in a calm trying-to-reason voice "Hayley supernatural world is not safe especially if you are causing conflicts in it. Some witch put a curse on your pack. We cannot deal with a witch. We are not equipped to do so. Then dont forget about vampires. You remember the day we went to the French Quarter a man approached us and I shielded Hope." when she nodded he said "he was a vampire. Werewolves are not allowed in French Quarter. They kill them on Marcel's order. We have a child to take care of. If you try to break this curse who knows how many enemies you will be making. Isn't it enough that enemy from my work are following us home."
Hayley said as she walked out of the bathroom "listen I will think about Hope before doing anything questionable. Right now I just want to get to know my pack. I just wanted to share what I want to do with my pack in the long run. I am not going to do it right away."
Klaus ran his fingers through his hair following her and said "okay Hayley I realize that I cannot stop you from doing anything that you are determined to do but promise me whatever you are thinking about doing you will tell me before doing it."
Hayley said "of course" as she laid down in her bed.
He got in the bed when his cell rang. He picked it up and then looked at Hayley and said "I will be back."
He got up and left the room.
Hayley's heart dropped as she realized it must be Caroline. She closed her eyes and didnt know when she fell asleep knowing well that he had not come back.
While she laid in her bed torturing herself thinking it was Caroline calling, Klaus ran his fingers through his hair in frustration and said "Mother, I cannot visit right now. I have already taken a lot of time off. Next month."
Esther said "Niklaus, what that girl has done to you. You used to visit once every month but ever since you married her, you dont even call."
Klaus said exasperatedly "mother, she has not done anything. I will visit next month. I have some holidays coming."
Esther said "Niklaus next month was your wedding with Caroline."
Klaus said "yes mother. I am sorry you are not happy with with my marriage but I am happy with my life and I would appreciate it if you accept her and Hope as my family."
Esther said adamantly "that will never happen" and disconnected the call.
Klaus sat in the living room for a long time thinking about the mess his life was and then some time later retreated to the room only to find her already gone to sleep. He walked to the bed, gently removed her hand form his pillow, fell on the bed and in no time fell asleep.
Two days later it was Saturday, Hayley took Klaus to the bayou with her. After spending a few hours in the bayou with Eve and other untriggered wolves which included kids too he started to see why Hayley wanted to break the curse but looking at Hope he knew it was too dangerous. He realized at that moment that he will never be able to stop Hayley so it is better that he helps her and keep an eye on her during the process. On the way back from the bayou Hayley said to him "I want you to talk to Marcel and find out about the curse on my pack. If Eve is right and he is the one who put the curse on them then he would know about my family too."
Klaus said "Hayley it is not safe. I dont want Marcel to know about you or give him the impression that you are trying to break the curse. Marcel might be my friend but he definitely will not like that you are trying to break the curse. We dont even know why he put the curse on your pack."
Hayley said adamantly "then find out. If you will not go then I will go and talk to him, but I will find out."
Klaus ran his fingers through his hair while stopping the car at the bottom of his apartment and said with frustration "Hayley I have told you that I will get information from him. Give me some time. I dont want to make him suspicious of you. We met him just a few days ago. Lets wait a few more days."
He nodded at the cops standing at the door and opened the door carrying Hope inside and said after closing the door "are you listening to me."
Hayley looked at him, took Hope from his arms and said "no" and went to her room.
Klaus stood there feeling frustrated and then took out his cell and dialed Marcel's number.
She was changing Hope's clothes when she heard him say "I am meeting Marcel tomorrow but I am not promising anything. I might have to manipulate the information from him."
He saw her coughing and said "you are getting worse you know. You need to see a doctor for this."
Hayley said "i will be okay. It is just a flu."
Sunday full day they spend together as a family. Had brunch out, took Hope to the park, ate dinner out too and by the time they came back it was dark so she went to Hope's room to get ready for the bed. As she pulled the blank over Hope he walked into the room and said "I am going to meet Marcel", looked at Hope and said "good night love. Daddy has to go somewhere so I cannot read the bedtime story for you. Mommy will do it today." He bent down and kissed her and was leaving when she said "I had fun today."
Klaus turned smiling and said "me too." he squeezed her hand gently and looked up catching Hayley looking at him with a smile on her face to. He nodded and left .
Thirty minutes later he was sitting opposite to Marcel and very cautiously he asked him "I wanted to know about Crescent pack. Really curious about different packs of wolves."
Marcel said "the chief of the pack, Alexander Labanoir was a friend of mine. Good man. He had one daughter and a son. Son was older then his daughter. One night there was an infighting in which someone killed him and his family. By the time I got there, only a child was in the hut - Andrea. I took her to father Kieran and we put her up for adoption and then to control the riot that had erupted in the pack I got hold of a witch Brynne Deveraux to put a curse on them considering I couldnt very well kill children."
Klaus sat up and asked in confusion "what?"
Marcel laughed and said "I have a rule. I dont kill children."
Klaus nodded as he recalled Joseph's comment about not hurting the families. He wondered 'do all vampires have this code?' but then asked carefully "do you know any thing about Andrea Labanoir?"
Marcel was quiet for a moment and then said "well you tell me?"
Klaus detective skills told him not to indulge in this conversation but he asked "what do you mean?"
Marcel laughed and said "really! you dont want to acknowledge that Hayley is Andrea?"
Klaus asked "how …?"
Marcel said with annoyance "I am more than a hundred years old Klaus. I was turned by the first vampire in the history of vampires who taught me well. The rest I picked up. Considering our recent conversation last week and you inquiry about Andrea Labanoir and then your concern about her killing that vampire I added two and two."
Klaus said "yes she is. And she will stay that way."
Marcel said coldly "Crescent pack is cursed Klaus. Make sure she does not trigger her gene…" and walked away from there before Klaus could react.
When he got home he was steaming in anger with Hayley and Marcel. He cursed himself for getting under pressure by her insistence. He entered the apartment angrily, at once glance knew that Hope had gone to sleep. He went to his room and saw her sitting on the bed. He walked to her and hissed "happy now, Marcel knows about you. He deduced it from our conversation."
Hayley felt a little alarmed by his anger and about Marcel finding out about her but said controlling the gag that was building up in her throat "so what? How long do you think you could have hidden it from him. He is the vampire of the French Quarter. He has those wolves cursed. He would have found out why I am meeting them."
When he didnt say anything and continued to glare at her angrily she walked to him and said calmly "Klaus I have been on my own since I was seventeen and you have no idea how much I wanted to meet my real parents. Now I have gotten a chance so yes I will go and meet them with or without you. You cannot be with me all the time."
Klaus looked at her in frustration and was about to say something when she put her hand on her mouth and ran to the bathroom. He said "blood hell" and immediately went after her pushing open the bathroom door that she had closed behind her.
Hayley felt his hand on her back as she was bend over the toilet and leaned against him.
Afterwards she got up with his help and washed her face, brushed her teeth and looked at herself in the mirror an said "I need to find my family before things get out of control."
Klaus looked at her and saw she was looking pale and in his anger he had not seen that. He said sounding worried now "what you need to do is get a doctor's appointment. How long have you been feeling this way?"
Hayley said walking out of bathroom "since you left."
Klaus said "let me bring you something to eat."
Even after Klaus forced down food in her stomach she could see how annoyed he was with her but the worry and the care he was showing triumphed all his anger. While she ate Klaus told her about what he had found about her pack and the curse. To Klaus annoyance and worry she didnt feel better and continued to stay sick throughout the night.
After her last vomiting spree she at last managed to sleep for a few hours peacefully in his arms.
Next morning when he woke up he was already late. Even though he didnt feel like leaving her alone in this condition he knew he had to. He was in a fix thinking about what to do when he felt her slip her hand in his hand and heard her say "go. I am okay. I will be okay."
He kissed her on her forehead and whispered "I am sorry Hayley that I cannot stay with you but I have to go. I will try to come early today. If you feel worse please call me. Now rest. No need to take Hope to school today. "
Hayley grabbed his hand, kissed it and said in groggy voice "no, go. You were wonderful last night" and closed her eyes.
He changed, went to Hope's room who was still sleeping. He picked her up gently and laid her next to Hayley and left.
For the next few days Hayley felt really tired, often dizzy and very weak, her cough was not getting better. When her condition persisted for three days straight Klaus insisted that she get an appointment to get checkup so on the fourth day she picked up her phone and called Dr Dole's office and got an appointment the very same day in the afternoon.
While Hayley was making an appointment with Dr Dole, Joe came to Klaus in the station and said excitedly "we got him. We traced that phone you subpoenaed to this Jacob Laroza. Apparently connected to Brain Hanley, one of your clients."
Klaus asked in confusion "what?" as he recalled what Joseph Barton had told him. He wondered 'what happened to Emil Stanson?" and then he realized that they were dealing with vampires so anything is possible.
He was lost in thought when Joe asked him putting his gun in his holster "are you coming or not?"
Klaus said "hell yeah".
He took out his gun and badge from the drawer and followed him with Alexis right behind her.
She was getting ready for her appointment when her cell rang. She looked at the number wondering who it was but couldn't figure out so she picked it up and said "Hello?"
She groaned as she heard "hello Hayley, this is Caroline."
Hayley groaned and asked in surprise "how did you get my number?"
Caroline said "oh Nikky gave it to me."
Hayley frowned at that name and asked "Klaus gave it to you! when?"
Caroline said "when we talked a few days ago. Didn't he tell you?"
Hayley said through grinding teeth "he did but he didnt say that you were interested in my phone number."
Caroline said "oh but I am interested in you. After all you are my best buddy's wife. We should get to know each other. I wanted to tell you that I met your mother yesterday."
Hayley's felt her breathing stopped. When she didn't say anything Caroline said "she has no idea you have a daughter. Why didn't you tell her that?"
Hayley snapped "none of your business Caroline."
She started to see stars of anger at hearing her laughter but before she could say anything Caroline said "any way that is between you and your mother. Klaus told me that you know about him being a you know."
Hayley felt a pit in her stomach as she recalled Klaus telling her about how much he trust Caroline. She took a deep breath and said "yes he told me. After all I am his wife. He couldnt very well hide that secret from me that long. Any way I would have loved to talk to you a bit longer but darn it I have to go. Good bye Caroline."
She sat down on the bed controlling her anger at Caroline and Klaus for some reason and then she thought of what she had told her about her parents and it hit her that they might figure out Klaus being Hope's father and so will Amy and Tyler. All of them knew about her rape albeit her parents never believed her or they did but didnt want to tarnish their family's reputation'.
She realized at that moment that they couldnt tell that story about Hope that Elijah and Mikael suspected without making anyone suspicious.
She called out Hope and said "Hope sweetie lets go. I have a doctor's appointment and then we will go to the park."
Two hours later she was looking at Hope playing in the park hoping that her blood results are okay but there was a sinking feeling in her stomach telling her something was definitely wrong.
When she got home Klaus was already there.
Klaus was lost in thoughts thinking if Jacob was involved or it was some compulsion thing and Emil compelled him to confess somehow when he heard the door open and Hope's voice "I want mac and cheese" and Hayley replying "I have made pasta today. We will eat that but tomorrow I can make mac and cheese."
She smiled as she saw him and then asked him trying to keep her voice calm in spite of the anxiety and tiredness that had taken over her all of a sudden "when did you come home?"
Klaus said kissing Hope as she ran to him and got on his stomach "just a few minutes ago. Did you go for your appointment?"
Hayley said "yes they did some blood work. Will tell the result in couple of days. How was the work?"
Klaus said "We apprehended the guy who apparently attacked you today."
Hayley said "what? who was he? what do you mean apparently?"
Klaus said "a low life trying to defend his asset."
At her confused look he said "my case. Well he confessed that he did it but something is nagging me about his confession."
Hayley said "well I am sure it is nothing. You caught him and that is enough. I can breathe now."
She started towards kitchen but stopped and turned around and saw Klaus listening to Hope intently as she told him what she did in the park.
She smiled and went to the kitchen but stopped as she saw dinner set on the table. She turned around and bumped into his chest. He smiled as their eyes met and said "I thought I should give you a break from cooking."
She leaned in and kissed him and said "thanks. I don't know why I am so tired these days."
Klaus looked at her tired face curiously and realized she did in fact looked extremely tired. He said "it is okay. You are going through a very aggressive treatment Hayley and you are doing really well."
He then said "Hope love, come lets wash our hands and then have dinner."
When Hope came to him with a doll in her hand he picked her up and washed her hand in the sink while tickling her in her stomach and feeling very light at the sound of her laughter.
During the dinner he realized she was really quiet. He asked her "what is it?"
Hayley smiled and said "nothing just tired. I want to sleep."
Klaus said firmly "Eat something and then you can go and sleep. I will clean up."