A/N: TD you ask really interesting questions. Are you in my brain or something? LOL. yes he will get sired to Finn. I am explaining that in this chapter and your other question about Caroline is spot on too but that is being discussed in the next chapter. Aria I knew some fans will get upset about him being a hybid. I have been playing around that idea for the past few days too and that is why it took me so many days to post this chapter. I honestly think that family dramas and supernatural dramas can go hand in hand and that is what I have been expected from TO too. I am trying to find a balnace between these two lives. Dont worry, It is still a Klayey story and there will be family drama. More so now Klaus and Hayley have to find a balance in their two lives. I hope you enjoy the story and dont give up on it. We only have at most 3 more chapters. Other guests thanks for leaving such nice review. It is a really long chapter with nothing serious going on. It is mostly about how Klaus and Hayley handle this change in their life. I hope you enjoy and appreciate what I am trying to do here - finding balance between two lives.
Synopsis: Klaus has difficulty adjusting to his hybrid nature. He and Hayley come to an agreement about Caroline and how to cope with is situation. He discovers a weird connection with Finn Manning.
Hayley took a step towards unconscious Klaus but Finn whooshed to her and grabbed her arm pulling her aside and hissed "stop. He will come back. He needs to come back."
Stefan took a step towards him and said through gritting teeth "Finn you ass what have you done?!" while Hayley asked with tears steaming down her cheek "come back? what do you mean?"
Tyler looked from Klaus to Hayley to Finn and then said "Finn let her go. She is sick."
Finn looked at Hayley but Hayley moved suddenly and elbowed him in his ribs catching him inattentive and managed to get herself free. She stepped towards Klaus but stopped as she saw him stir and then trying to get up and in that instance realized that she was crying . She wiped her tears and exclaimed "Klaus!"
Stefan looked at Elena who was looking at everything shocked and said in a loud voice "Elena, run."
Elena looked at Klaus and then at Tyler who nodded and then darted to the door.
Klaus stood up looking around in confusion and to Hayley's horror she saw veins starting to appear under his eyes. Finn whooshed to Klaus and grabbed him from his throat and put something in his mouth while he gagged and Hayley screamed. Finn said in a cold voice "you didnt think I would let her run without having some insurance. I didnt need her for the experiment Stefan. I needed her blood."
Hayley looked at Stefan in confusion as he held Tyler trying to get out of his grasp when he said angrily "remove this damn compulsion Finn. You have done what yo wanted to do."
Finn stepped away and Klaus started spitting the blood out. He looked up but to Hayley's horror she saw Klaus's eyes turning yellow.
Stefan asked "what the hell happened Finn?"
Finn said proudly "this gentlemen is my first successful hybrid experiment."
Klaus stepped back from Hayley as he saw horror on her face and said "no. no"
Hayley took a step towards him and said "it is okay. You are okay".
She looked at Tyler who was still in Stefan's grasp and asked "what does he mean by hybrid?"
Tyler said "half werewolf, half vampire Hayley."
Hayley said with anguish "no."
She walked to him as he fell on his knees to ground.
Finn looked at them and then at Stefan and said "you can let him go now. He is next on my list. "
Klaus looked up and said angrily "you touch him and I will kill you."
Finn walked to him and said "considering you are the first of my specie. First rule, don't ever tell me what I can or not do."
He was about to say something when his cell rang. he picked it up and then after listening to the other side for a minute he barked "what?! I will be there". His gaze stopped at Klaus and he said "I will get in touch soon" smiled and left.
After he left klaus asked Stefan "what the hell he did?"
Stefan said "you died with a hybrid's blood in your system and then he fed you the blood of human doppleganger, Elena and now you are a hybrid Klaus."
They all turned towards the door as it opened and Elijah came in.
Elijah looked around and knew something was not right. He darted to Klaus and asked "what happened?"
While Stefan was telling Elijah what had happened as she checked Elena, Hayley tried to touch him but he moved away from her breaking her heart.
When he was done telling Elijah, Stefan walked to her and said "Hayley now that he is a part vampire, he will burn in sun. I will get him a ring - daylight ring which will protect him from burning in sun. You should leave now. Go from the back door before Finn comes back. He is the original hybrid, the first of his kind and is very dangerous. I suggest you guys leave for New Orleans as soon as you can. I will go and tell Caroline what happened and get you a bag of blood if he needs it?"
Hayley asked "why does she have to know?"
Before Klaus could say anything Tyler said "because she is a vampier like Stefan here."
Hayley looked at him in shock, instantly stepped back from Stefan in horror and looked at Klaus and caught him looking at her but didnt say anything. She shook her head and said to Elijah who was still stunned trying to absorb what was happening "help me please."
They both got him in the car and Hayley said "I will go get Hope."
She realized that her hands were shaking. As she entered the hall, Caroline walked to her. Hayley suddenly remembered what Tyler had told her about Caroline and stepped back from he as fear grabbed her heart and asked "where is Hope? We are leaving."
Caroline asked "where have you guys been?"
At the same time she noticed Stefan walking to them.
He said "I have got it. I will give it to you outside. Hayley just remember dont get him out in the sun until he gets that ring. He is in for a rough road. I will get the ring to the penthouse by morning and then I will help you with it. I dont know how he will act. He might need some blood. I will get you some blood before you leave."
He looked at Caroline and said "Finn Manning turned Klaus into a hybrid."
Caroline head spun in Hayley direction and the look on her face confirmed her suspicion that she knows about her too.
Meanwhile Hayley spotted Hope, darted to her, picked her up,thanked the baby sitter, hastily bid farewell to Kol and left for her car again. Elijah was now joined by Tyler and they were waiting for her. Elijah said "you are in no condition to drive. Let me drop you." Hayley nodded, buckled Hope in with shaking hands and sat on the passenger seat and buckled herself in.
She turned back and held his hand but he freed it.
Elijah saw him through the rare view mirror and said "Niklaus it will be okay. We are here for you." but he just stared out of window.
Elijah looked at the blood bag in her hand and said "is that for…"
Hayley said "Stefan said he might need it. I dont know what to do."
Elijah said "lets take one step at a time."
He helped Hayley take Klaus up to the apartment. Klaus said dejectedly "I am fine Elijah, go."
He stood there for a moment, hesitating and then left after saying "Hayley if you need anything call me."
After he left Klaus looked around furiously. Hayley asked him "what do you need?"
Klaus said "something to eat."
And walked to the kitchen. He looked at Hayley and saw the throbbing vein in her neck and stepped back as he realized the thought that had crossed his mind.
Hayley said "Klaus what?!" but he told her harshly "Hayley stay away. I can smell your blood. stay away. Keep Hope away from me."
He stepped back from her until his back touched the door. He closed his eyes and tired to block the rushing sound of the blood but he couldn't so he darted to the bathroom and closed the door. Hayley stood there feeling helpless when her cell rang. Hayley picked it up and groaned as she saw Tyler's name. As she said "hello" Tyler asked "how are you doing?"
Hayley sighed, looked towards the bathroom and said "I dont know" and then asked exasperated "what should I do?"
Tyler said "Hayley, talk to Stefan. His number must be in Klaus's cell. If I know vampires and I know some, then he needs to feed on blood right now."
Klaus took the phone from her hand and switched it off saying "no i will not drink blood. I can cope with without blood. Stefan does it all the time."
Hayley took the phone from his hand and said "okay." She paused for a moment and then asked "how are you feeling?"
Klaus stepped back from her saying "I think I want to be alone right now."
Hayley snapped "no. Not at all. You will stay with me in this room."
She turned around as she heard a timid voice "mommy".
She walked to Hope and said "hey sweetie. I am sorry. Mommy got distracted about something. Come lets go to sleep."
She looked back at Klaus who was still standing there looking at them with agonizing expressions. She took Hope to the other room and after changing her clothes, bedtime routine put her to bed.
Klaus didnt know what to do when he heard Hope's saying "I want daddy to read to me."
and Hayley replying "baby, daddy is having a headache right now. May be tomorrow. Okay?"
He picked up the blood bag she had put on the counter.
After making sure Hope has gone to sleep, Hayley left the bedroom and walked out to see Klaus holding the blood bag and staring at it and then as she saw him holding the blood bag and then as she saw he threw it across the room and yelled in anguish. She gulped her tears and walked to him and grabbed his arm and said "listen everything will be okay."
Klaus turned to her and shouted "Hayley nothing will be okay. I had just started getting used to being a wolf and now this! I think I am being punished for what I did to you."
Hayley said "no please don't go there. Listen you should rest. I will call Stefan. He can help. Why don't you lie on that sofa if you don't want to go to bedroom. I will stay with you. Let me clean that and then I will be with you in a second."
He looked at her in anguish. Hayley hesitated and said "do you need blood?"
Klaus looked at her in confusion and asked "what?"
Hayley said "you threw the blood bag so I was thinking do you want blood?"
He looked at her for a moment and then his mind cleared up and he snapped "dont be an idiot. I will not drink from you!"
Hayley said with a slight smile "well I am glad to know that but you dont have to sound offended. It is not like my blood is poison."
Klaus abruptly looked away making the smile slip from her face.
She asked "what?"
Klaus held his head and said "your blood in fact can kill a vampire. It is the cancer in the blood that can make them sick. Remember that vampire who drank from you. He was getting sick with your blood so Marcel put him out of his misery."
Hayley asked "why didn't you tell me about it before?"
As he laid down on the sofa she dialed Stefan's number and said "hello Stefan, this is Hayley. I was wondering when will you come with the ring? We have a flight at 12:00. I was wondering maybe you can help Klaus with this bloodlust thing."
Klaus listened to her with closed eyes and then sat up as he heard a sound which sounded very much like a heart beating. He looked at Hayley and realized that it was her heart. He sighed as he realized that his hearing has intensified by becoming a vampire. He got up and walked towards the bedroom knowing well Hayley's eyes were following him as she continued to talk to Stefan. He stopped at the door and saw Hope sleeping on the sofa. He could hear her rapid heartbeat and that was just making his own heart race. He put his hand on his chest to feel his heartbeat and looked around as he felt her hand on his shoulder. He looked at her and smiled helplessly and asked "when is he coming?"
Hayley said "he said his friend is working on it. He will come around 10ish. Why dont you sleep Klaus?"
Klaus walked back to the sofa and fell on it.
He looked around and said "can you hear it?"
Hayley said "what?"
Klaus said "that tick tock."
Hayley said "you can hear it from the room?"
Klaus said "I can hear your heart beat Hayley. I know you are scared of me"
Hayley walked to him and sat next to him and said "go to sleep please. Dont think about it."
He closed his eyes and tried to sleep but he couldnt. All he could think of was about what will happen to Hope and Hayley if he loses control on everything. 'How can he gain control over it? He is dead. He is a vampire. How can Hayley tolerate him now?' He didnt know when he drifted off to sleep.
Hayley stared at him for a moment and after making sure that he had gone to sleep she got up and cleaned up the blood from that blood bag and then went to sleep in the bedroom.
Next morning when she woke up, she looked towards the bedroom door and saw him standing there. She said "you can come in you know."
Klaus shook his head and said "no I think I shouldn't. I felt hungry and ate some cereal. Feel better. That means I should be able to control my blood lust."
Hayley said as she got up "that is great. Let Stefan come and you can ask him."
She did the packing while Klaus unwillingly kept Hope busy. He looked around after a few moments and realized that she had kept the curtains closed and smiled sadly and looked at her as she put Hope's toys in her carryon. Around 10 she called Stefan again but no one attended the call so she put it down with frustration and said "if Stefan cannot make it before our flight then we might shave to postpone our flight Klaus. You cannot go without the ring."
Around 10:30 Hayley started getting anxious and was going to call Stefan again when they heard the bell. She darted to the door and saw Stefan and Elijah standing there. Elijah said "I wanted to come earlier but I thought you guys could use some alone time to deal with it. How is he doing?"
Hayley said "he is fine right now. Stefan where is the ring? We have to leave."
Elijah said "Hayley I think you should postpone your trip."
Klaus said taking the ring from Stefan "no I think we should leave. There is nothing we can do over here. I have a friend in New Orleans who can help me with this. I just have to make it through the flight."
He looked at Stefan and said "is it normal that I am not having bloody craving since last night?"
Stefan said "I am not sure. You should be. I dont know why you are not craving blood but if you are not then well and good. Just make sure you have proper diet so that you dont feel hungry."
An hour later after Elijah dropped them at airport and said "if you need anything call me."
Klaus said "Elijah I wanted to tell Kol and Rebekah about our curse, now I cannot. You should tell them. Call Mason and Tyler. Seeing them will help."
A few hours later they were driving towards their home. She kept glancing at him while he was driving the car noticing that his mood had changed during the journey. She looked towards the back seat and saw Hope was asleep so she asked him "hey are you okay?"
Klaus looked at her and said angrily "No I am not bloody okay."
He hit his hand on the steering wheel and then said regretfully "I am sorry. I shouldn't have shouted."
Hayley held his hand on the steering wheel and said "it is okay. Everything will be okay. I will talk to Marcel and he can help you deal with this. I will be there with you all the time. Remember we are in this for better and worse."
Klaus chanced her a glance and then removed her hand from his breaking her heart but she said "Klaus don't do that. You were fine yesterday. What happened? We will figure something out."
When he didn't say anything she got quiet and started staring out of window thinking of what had happened in the past three days and how her life has totally changed again. Suddenly she remembered that Caroline was a vampire and that was just too shocking information for her. She suddenly realized that the event of last 24 hours had managed to keep her mind off of that fact but now it had started to sink in that she was a vampire and she stayed in their house for three days with Hope in the house. She looked at Klaus angrily for hiding this form him but saw that he was already brooding so she decided to talk to him later.
He parked the car and took Hope out still not saying anything to her. He picked up their bag from other hand and carried it upstairs to their apartment. He laid her on the bed and turned around and bumped into Hayley. She said tentatively "Klaus!" but he cut her off by saying "not right now Hayley" and left the room.
She stood there looking at Hope wondering 'how will she be able to support him now'. At last she fixed her blanket, kissed her on the forehead and retreated.
When she entered her room, he was already in the bed. She went to change her clothes and sneaked under the covers with him.
She tired to reach out to him but he was too aloof.
Next morning when Hayley woke up she saw him standing near the window and then she jumped out of the bed as she recognized the thing he was holding in his hand. She shouted "Klaus!"
She ran to him and pulled him back from the sun and continued shouting "are you crazy? Don't you ever do that again. You told me never to quit and now you are quitting on things."
He said "nothing happened. Sun does not harm me. Perhaps because I am part werewolf. Damn it."
He tried to free himself but she held him tight this time and said sternly "listen. This is crazy. I love you."
She leaned in and planted a fierce kiss on his lips. As she was kissing him she felt drained of energy all of a sudden and it become softer. She broke the contact and looked into his eyes and said "I know it is a huge thing. I cannot even imagine what you are going through but please if not for me then for Hope fight this. We can fight this together."
Klaus said "I don't know how to deal with this. I know what I am now. A vampire- a blood sucking vampire Hayley. I cannot be that Hayley. I will not be that."
Hayley said in a calming voice "okay. You dont want to be that then we can do something about it."
She thought for a moment and then said "how about Marcel? May be he can help. May be there is something vampires can do if they dont want to drink blood."
She suddenly realized what she had said and started laughing.
He looked at her with annoyance and said "what is so funny?"
She said "this. This is so ridiculous. A few months ago my biggest concern was my cancer and Hope and now I am talking about vampires and wolves. And it does not even sound weird to me."
He asked "how come you are so calm? Why aren't you panicking? I am a monster now."
Hayley shook her head and said "no Klaus. You are the same person you were when we left for that damn party. Damn it. I knew nothing good will come out of going to Caroline's party."
She saw a smile appear on his lips. She asked "what is it?"
Klaus said "at least you are not angry with me about Caroline."
Hayley said "who said I am not angry?! I am still angry. You hid such a big thing about her from me! How could you Klaus?"
Klaus said with exasperation "Hayley, I wanted to tell you but then I decided against it because I wanted you and her to be friends. I wanted you two to be friends. She will always be part of my life."
Hayley said adamantly "no Klaus she will not be part of your life any more. Either her or us, me and Hope. It was already different for me to have in your life before but not now. She is a vampire. She cannot come to my house again. On that note we cannot uninvited her from our home so we have to change this apartment now. We have a daughter. I will not expose her to Caroline. Klaus trust me women know other women better. Caroline is playing some game to get you back. I know you will not believe me but she told me that she will get you back at any cost. Until now I didn't know the extend that she can go to but now that I know that she is a vampire I am afraid that she might use her vampire abilities to get you. Please listen to me once. I will not put Hope's life in jeopardy."
Klaus looked at her wondering 'how dumb of him to not realize all of that. Even if Caroline was not playing the game Hayley suspects her of playing he shouldn't have invited a vampire to his home, the home where Hope and Hayley who are both human are living.'
He said "alright. You are right. I will start looking for a house Hayley but how are we going to get through this Hayley? I am a vampire now."
Hayley said "no. As I understand you are part vampire, part werewolf. Just remember to never take this ring off until we are sure whether Sun will burn you ro not. I think we need to talk to Marcel about this. How about while you are at work I will call him and ask him to come over. You trust him right?"
Klaus said "yes, I do. How can I go to work in this condition. What if I need blood?!"
Hayley looked at him helplessly and then said "take a sick day then. I will go and drop Hope to school and call Marcel. He can come over and we can figure out something."
Klaus nodded and sat on the bed again and fell down. She said "you should eat something. Just anything."
He looked at her and laughed helplessly and said "I think I am okay for right now."
She looked at him for a moment and then went to the bathroom to change.
She stood there in front of the vanity and then out of blue started throwing up. After she was done, she washed her face, took a quick shower, changed her clothes, tied her hair loosely at the base of his neck and then came out.
She saw him still lying on the bed with eyes closed. She walked to him but she has not reached him when he said "I can hear voices from next apartment."
Hayley said "what?"
Klaus opened his eyes and said "I can hear voice from next apartment Hayley. This is not normal. I can hear you heart beating like crazy right now. Are you afraid of me?"
Hayley suddenly said "don't be an idiot. Have you called in sick? Called Marcel yet?"
Klaus said "no. I have not. It is still early. Vampires don't start their day so early!"
She said "okay I am going to get Hope ready and take her to the school. Will be back in an 40 minutes."
She got Hope ready while wondering 'how to deal with Klaus.' She sighed as she gave her breakfast, told her daddy was sleeping when she asked her about Klaus, left the apartment to drop her to the school.
While Hayley had gone to drop off Hope Klaus spend the time thinking about how to handle this thing in his life. He got up from the bed reluctantly, went to take shower. After shower he dialed Marcel.
By the time she came back he had already taken shower and was sitting in the living room looking composed.
He turned to her and said "Marcel will be coming in half an hour. I decided to call him after you left."
Hayley said "good. Listen Klaus Hope was asking about you. I told her that you were sleeping but you have to see her. Tell me you can control yourself around her."
Klaus looked a her thoughtfully and said "yes. I can Hayley."
She walked to the sofa and kissed him and said "and dont bite me either too."
Klaus stared at her wondering if she was joking or serious but realized that she was joking so he just kept quiet.
Hayley smiled but Klaus noticed the smile not reaching her eyes. He was about to say something when she gulped and put a hand to her mouth, closed her eyes for a second and said "I will be back."
Klaus sighed knowing well where she has gone. When she came back, he saw her going to Hope's room. He got up after a few moments and walked to Hope's room and saw her making her bed.
She turned around at a sound and saw him leaning against the door. She asked him "what is it?"
Klaus said "I am sorry that you are already not feeling well and now you have go through all of this too."
Hayley said "It is okay Klaus."
Klaus stood there for a minute and then turned around and left. She stared at that spot he was standing and suddenly realized that he was not staying in the same room with her ever since she has come back. To test her theory she quickly fixed Hope's bed and went to the living room. She asked him after a few seconds of observing him pacing in the living room agitatedly "have you talked to Marcel? when is he coming?"
Klaus said "10:30" and headed towards his room. She walked to him and stopped him by holding his arm and asked "running away from me?"
Before he could say anything they heard a knock at the door. Klaus sighed and went to open it. When Marcel didn't make an effort to come in he looked back at Hayley and then back at Marcel and said tentatively "come in."
As Marcel entered Klaus took a sigh of relief and led him int he living room.
Klaus said "Marcel, something happened during my visit to Mystic Falls."
Marcel stared at him and then stood up slowly and said "yes something has. You are not a werewolf anymore."
Klaus sighed and said "yes I am not. I met someone by the name of Finn…." he paused as he saw shock on Marcel's expressions and asked "you know him?!"
Marcel said "you met Finn Manning?!"
Klaus said "yes! but how do you know him?"
Marcel said "he is the one who sired me when he was just a vampire. You know he is in New Orleans right now. He came back yesterday. What happened?"
Klaus said "he turned me into a hybrid; part werewolf, part vampire as I understand."
Marcel looked from Hayley to Klaus and said "what?! when?"
Klaus said "day before yesterday. Now he is in New Orleans?! Now that I remember, he did get a call after he did all of this and he left so he came to New Orleans?"
Marcel said bitterly "yes, he came here. Any way so that is why you called me? You a Hybrid. interesting."
Klaus couldnt help but detect bitterness in his tone but before he could ask anything Hayley said "how can he control his urges for blood."
Marcel said "well if he were just a vampire, I would say that he has to have blood to not decay… sorry you have to get used to this terminology" at the look of disgust on Klaus's face. But then he continued "but now that you are a part vampire, may be you can live on just food for a few days but eventually you will have to take it otherwise your body will lose energy. I think if you keep a balance diet with proteins, carbohydrates and all that crap you might live a few days without blood. If you feel very lethargic even after the regular food and you crave for food then you have to indulge yourself in blood. Considering your line of work, you will be seeing quite a lot of blood so you need to control your craving for blood if you get any."
He looked at Hayley who was looking nervous but composed too and continued "and you have to very careful about her blood. Her cancer can kill you."
Hayley said "yes Klaus told me that. Thanks for doing that for us" as Klaus stood up and walked to the window. She looked at his back and asked Marcel "anything else Marcel that we need to know?"
Marcel said looking at Klaus "no. Unfortunately I dont know a lot about hybrids but I can find out from Finn. I will not tell him about you Klaus. He is very dangerous man. You should stay away from him."
Marcel got up and said "I have to leave. If you need anything do call me. Also I would suggest that you put this apartment in Hayley's name because you being a vampire cannot be legal owner of any property. Any vampire or Finn can come to you house."
Klaus looked back at him and said "I will take care of it."
Marcel nodded and left.
After seeing him off Hayley came back and found him in the kitchen making coffee.
Klaus looked around and said "I needed coffee."
He poured himself a cup of coffee and left the kitchen.
Hayley kept glancing at him sitting in the living room working on his laptop. His calmness about all of this was starting to unnerve her and she knew in her heart that it was the calmness before the storm. At last an hour later she walked to him and asked "what are you doing?"
Klaus said without looking at her "preparing document to transfer my assets to your and Hope's name. I had already done to our accounts but had not gotten time to do for other things with everything going on in our lives. Now is the time to do it."
Hayley said "what?"
He looked up towards her and said "I am making document to…" but she cut him off by saying "I got that but why?"
Klaus asked "did you not hear Marcel, Hayley?"
Hayley said "yes I did but that does not mean that you should transfer all your property in my name."
Klaus looked at her surprised expressions and couldnt help but smile and said "why so surprised Hayley? You are my wife. You have right to everything I have. It was always going to be all of us but I never felt the need to put it on your name but now I think it should go to your name considering technically I am half dead."
Hayley snapped "stop. You are not dead so stop. I dont need anything from your property."
But before he could say anything she had gone to their bedroom. She felt so angry at him that she was happy that he didnt come after her.
Around noon she was about to go out to get Hope when he said "I will go."
Hayley looked at him for a moment and then said "sure."
When they came back, they had lunch together and then went to the park. She could see that he was acting normal around Hope but she often caught him lost in thoughts staring at that ring many times.
That night Klaus was lying on the bed cursing his bad luck when he felt her hand on his torso. He tried to push it away when she said "Klaus please. Just let me be with you."
He sighed and put his hand on her hand and for the first time ever since he had declared his love for her he didnt put his arm around her and went to sleep.
Next morning when he got up, he looked at Hayley and saw that she was still sleeping. He sneaked out of bed quietly and went to take shower. By the time he came out she was up. He asked her "you want me to drop Hope?"
Hayley said "no, her summer break started today. How are you feeling?"
Klaus said "I am good. I dont have any craving which is good. I am leaving for work."
Hayley said "I was thinking of doing the house hunt today. What do you have in mind?"
Klaus said "wait. I was thinking of talking to Elijah about moving to his house. He is not living there so we can use that house."
Hayley said "okay" as she got out of bed and walked to him and held his arm.
She said "listen you will tell me if something changes or you find something odd right?"
Klaus nodded and then turned away and left without saying anything.
During the drive to work he called Elijah and said "I am looking for a new house but until then I need a place to live so I was wondering can I move into your house."
Elijah said "yes you can actually. This is perfect timings. I have already transferred that house in your name. It was done over the weekend but with everything going on I didnt get a chance to tell you. Consider it a late wedding present."
Klaus said "Elijah you didnt have to do it."
Elijah said "yes I didn't have to but I wanted to."
Klaus said "thanks."
He was about to cut him off when Eljah asked "how are you doing?"
KLaus said "peachy" and cut Elijah off.
He thanked his luck as Ben gave him some paperwork to do so they were saved from running around after perps and solving cases for that day.
Two days later they moved to Elijah' house and Hayley took a sigh of relief. For the next few days Klaus tried to manage his new condition just like he had managed the werewolf thing but he realized that it was not the same. As the days were passing by the reality of what had happened was setting in and it was becoming harder and harder to cope with it. There were days when he felt he couldnt manage anything and there were days when it seemed everything was fine but deep down he knew that he will never accept it. The biggest change he noticed in him was he was losing his temper at every small thing at home as well as at work and that he sometimes craved for blood which he satisfied by taking a gulp from the blood bag, hidden at the back of the freezer. At work he could see that Alexis was noticing the change in him but felt glad that she didnt ask him about it. At home he was starting to get angry at Hayley and shouting at Hope for making noises and playing with toys that make sounds. In those instances Hayley would just grab Hope and leave home leaving him to ponder on what he was going to do. He had stopped reading to Hope before gong to bed, stop responding to Hayley when she tried to reach out to him.
He lost control one day at work and ended up breaking the arm of a perp who was trying to resist the arrest so Ben called him in and asked him what has been going on but he didnt know what to say so Ben let him go after advising him to control his temper considering he is werewolf and it can cause serious damage to someone if he does not control his behavior. Before they knew it a week went by and the weekend came. During this time he got a call from Elijah every day which sometimes he attended whereas other time he would just ignore it. Klaus was watching television when Hope came running in the living room saying "mommy, can you fix this?" but she stopped as she saw Klaus sitting in the living room.
Klaus looked at her as she stood there holding her blocks in her hand.
She asked after some hesitation not moving from her spot "where is mommy?
Klaus looked around and said "she must be taking shower. What is it?" rather annoyingly.
Hope shook her head and said "I want mommy."
Klaus whose eyes were fixed on tv suddenly looked at her and realized that she was scared of him. He said "Hope come her" but she shook her had and in fact took one step back to his heartache.
Hayley had just came out of the room when she saw Hope step back from Klaus. One look at Klaus's face told him that he had noticed that. She hastily said "Hope , come have some snack."
Hope gave Klaus one last look and followed her.
Klaus turned towards the tv as he heard Hope say "mommy can you fix these blocks?"
He sat there listening to Hayley saying "yes, give it here. Now tell me what do you want to do after we have snack."
Hope said "park."
Hayley said "do you want to go and ask daddy to come with us."
He groaned as he heard that but the next sentence just made the pit in his stomach bigger as he heard he say "no."
He turned the tv off and went to his bedroom and banged the door shut.
Hayley turned around and looked at Hope who was not playing with the blocks that she had attached and asked "why?"
When Hope didnt answer she walked to her and knelt down next to her and asked "why not Hope? You know daddy has so much fun with you."
Hope said without looking at her "daddy is angry."
Hayley felt her heart sink. She said "Hope he is just busy sweetie."
Klaus was lying on the bed thinking about the conversation he had overheard when the door opened and Hayley came in.
Hayley looked at Klaus and said "listen Hope and I are going to the park. We will be back in one hour."
As she turned she stepped back as he appeared in front of her. She asked "how?"
Klaus said angrily "I have super speed now. Hayley I dont appreciate you turning her against me."
Hayley looked at him in confusion and said "what?"
Klaus shouted "you are turning her against me. After all I have tried to do for her and you are trying to instill fear in her for me!"
Hayley looked at him in shock and then she tried to calm herself but couldnt so she said coldly "look at yourself. If anyone is scaring her that is you. Not me. Go and look at yourself."
She turned to leave when he grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him and continued in the same tone "I am warning you Hayley if I find out that you are telling her not to come close to me then …"
Hayley looked at his grasp and said in a detached voice "Klaus you are hurting me."
Klaus looked at her face and then followed his eyes and saw the tight grip on her arm. He removed them and then cursed "damn it" as he saw angry finger prints appearing at the spot he was holding her.
Hayley massaged her arm and went to the walking closet.
He looked up when she came out and saw her back in a full sleeves shirt. He said "Hayley…" but she said coldly "calm yourself down by the time I am back and then we can talk."
After she left he sat on the bed thinking about what had happened in the last one week and for once he could see things clearly. He could see that things were slipping from his control. Work, Hope and Hayley.
He got up and started pacing and then he changed and left the house. He spend the next few hours trying to calm himself down and to change his attitude with Hope.
When he got home, Hayley was putting Hope in bed. She looked around as she sensed him and asked "where were you?"
Klaus walked into the room saying "just driving around. How was the park?" He looked at Hope at the end of the sentence but she didn't answer.
Hayley who was looking at Klaus noticed his eyes narrowing. She followed his gaze and saw him staring at Hope's hand holding hers. She wondered 'is she that scared of Klaus? that is not good' and her heart broke for both of them. She suddenly felt sorry for him and said "do you want to read to her? I can clean up her room in the mean time."
Klaus nodded and walked to Hope's bed and picked up a book from her side table.
As he was reading it, he noticed her looking at Hayley again and again and that just broke his heart. At last he closed the book in anger and left.
Hayley sighed, finished the book for Hope, tucked her in, kissed her on her forehead and left the room after turning on the night light.
She went to the kitchen and saw that he was standing near the dishwasher holding a dirty plate and lost in thoughts. She walked to him and said "are you okay?"
Klaus looked at her and laughed humorlessly and said "do you bloody think that I am okay?! My daughter hates me. My life has been turned upside down and you are asking me if I am okay."
He put the plate in the sink and went to their room.
Hayley sighed, completed the task he was doing, cleaned up the kitchen, mentally prepared herself to talk to him and then headed to their room.
As she entered he was lying on the bed. She walked to him and sat down and said "I cannot even begin to imagine what you are going through because until you share with me I cannot but I want to tell you one thing. If you keep on at this you will push her further away from you."
When he looked at her she continued "she is already going through a lot because of my cancer and has been relying on you a lot because in her mind I might die… no let me continue" as he opened his mouth to say something "you brought on some stability in her life. She didnt know a father figure who could love her like you do. It is because of you she has been opening up more and more, happy and talking more. I can see the difference in her from the time when we got married and now for the past week she is seeing you as a different person. I might have some idea what you are going through but she does not. It is not her fault what is happening to either of us."
When he continued to remain quiet she continued "the way I see it Klaus you have two paths here. Either you dont deal with it and crawl in some cave and spend your life regretting what had happened to you or learn to love with it. I took second path in the two major events of my life and not a day has gone by I have regretting taking that path. I am not telling you to take the second path but I would love it if you try it for Hope's sake. This is the first and the last time I am telling you all this. I will never leave you because frankly I am being selfish. I need you in Hope's and my life. I love you so I am selfish motive for staying with you . I came into your life for Hope's sake. Now you have to decide what are you willing to do for her. You already did one thing for her sake- marrying me, letting go of love of your life. Is it too hard for you to do another thing for her?"
She looked at him for a moment and then went to change her clothes. By the time she came out he was not in the room. She sighed and fell on the bed and cried herself to sleep knowing well that he had not come to bed all night.
Next morning when she woke up he was not in the room. She changed her clothes with heavy heart wondering where he was, slightly starting to get worried about him. When she came out she saw him sitting in the living room with Hope snuggled close to him - both of them watching Tom and Jerry.
He turned towards her and mouthed "I am not promising anything but I will try."
She smiled and went to the kitchen.
For the next week he tried different approach, taking option two and to his surprise it was effective approach. Children are resilient, he understood the meaning of that when Hope started to warm up to him again and he realized all that little girl needed was love and reassurance and that Hayley was right it was not her fault that her parents were sick, one can be cured but other has no cure so he has to learn to live with it. While things seemed same on the surface but he and Hayley both noticed his change in taste for meat. He has started liking a bit underdone and occasionally he craved blood which he satisfied by taking a sip from the blood bag that Marcel had dropped by one day.
As the days were passing by he was becoming bit more confident that he can deal with it. With this confidence he started to relax around the house too. He was still avoiding Hayley and he realized that it was hurting her but he thought 'how can he with her? he is not worthy of her anymore' and stayed away from her. He could see her trying to reach out but giving him space at that same time and be there for him too whenever he needed her. He did all the research on vampires and discovered his new abilities, compulsion, speed, improved healing ability. He even managed to stop a bullet in mid track one day and ended up saving a child's life. That day he realized that his new powers could be very handy in his line of work even though he had to go through a bogus explanation that bullet hit his jacket but after that day he started to feel more receptive towards his abilities. He was also realizing that all of this was happening because of the continuous support Hayley had been giving him even though he was keeping distance from her, Elijah calling him everyday showing his support. During this time, despite their lack of communication, to honor the support she was giving him and the promise he had made to her, he had made it a point to tell her if he made some new discovery about himself like heightened sense of smell, speed and healing ability which he already had but now his blood could heal others too. He felt relieved every time when she wouldn't show no sign of fear or apprehension after those discussions or demonstrations.
Hayley was getting desperate with each passing day as she noticed the distance he was creating between them. She wanted to be there for him but she wanted to give him some space to cope up with things too so she did the best she could; be there for him when he asked for her, needed her. The fact that he was sharing things with her about his new abilities was some relief. The fact that he was not letting this thing come between him and Hope anymore was a relief too. Seeing them together bonding while watching cartoons, reading books, playing, telling each other stories, chatting, him putting her to bed, finding her cozied up to him while watching cartoons after she would come back from kitchen was such a great sight that she would forget half of her heartache and just smile. She tried her best to show him that she was not scared of his new abilities but when late at night she laid in the bed with no sleep in her eyes she let the fear control her heart which she realized was somewhat cathartic for her. All of tension was building up in her and the apprehension of what kind of life they will have was starting to take a toll on her and she knew that she was near her breaking point. The only relief she had these days was that Hope was home due to summer break otherwise she would have gone crazy by now being alone home all day nothing to do but to think about their situation. During the past one week she had started taking her to the bayou again. Eve was really happy to see her and bonded with Hope in no time. Hayley realized that the highlight of her day was the time she spend in the bayou with Eve finding out more about her pack and the lives wolves lead. She even got in touch with Marcel and they talked a lot about Klaus and what does becoming a vampire means. The more she learned about werwolves and vampires form Eve and Marcel respectively, the more she realized the difficult road ahead of him and with extension her too.
On Thursday, two weeks after moving to their new home, when he came from work he was feeling very light. He and Alexis had managed to catch a man who had been robbing some rich old women in an old home. While Hayley continued to clean the kitchen he helped Hope in bed. When he came out she had retreated into the room too. He thought for a moment, of past two weeks, about how much he had ignored her, how much effort she had been showing and how sad she had been looking for the past a few days. When he entered their room, she was pulling the bedcover off of the bed. She said "I am really tired today and I have a radiotherapy appointment tomorrow so I was thinking of taking an early night."
When he asked "radiotherapy? Are you ready for it?" she turned to him and said "Dr Dole did my blood work a few days ago and said that I am okay for the next step so radiation starts tomorrow. It will be every day from Monday to Friday for the next six weeks. I have to go for a half an hour every day. They say that it will take 10-15 minute each session but for the preparation etc it might take longer. I have gotten appointments at 7:30 am so that you can stay with Hope while I am away."
She was walking towards the walking closet when she felt a pair of hands go around her waist making her stop in her track. She gulped the sudden tears that were threatening to come to her eyes but didnt turn around and slumbered on his chest as she felt his soft lips on her neck and heard him whisper "I am sorry Hayley for the past two weeks. I just needed some time to deal with all of this. Thank you for giving me that space. I dont know if I ever be same or not but I will try."
Hayley put her hands on his hand and said "as long as you try Klaus I can deal with anything."
He turned her towards him and leaned in to kiss her which she almost returned. As the kiss started deepening he felt weird energy and before he knew it he had whooshed her to the bed to her surprise. He said "Oh god. I am sorry. I keep on forgetting I have super speed now."
Hayley said "it is fine. Please don't stop."
She started unbuttoning his shirt with shaky hands. Klaus held her hand and asked "you nervous?"
Hayley said "a little bit but that is to be expected. No? I remember when we made love after I found out about you being a werewolf. I was nervous at that time too."
Klaus kissed her neck while saying "you never looked nervous to me."
Hayley said "well I am pretty good at hiding my feelings most of the time" and moaned loud as his hands sneaked under her shirt and grabbed her breast while his mouth travelled down her body. She pulled his shirt off and then started on his pants while his hands got busy with her bra and before they knew it they were out of their clothes.
Even though he was making moves on her but Hayley could feel something different in their love making. She could feel his hesitation so she asked him "why are you holding back?"
Klaus said as his lips moved on neck "I am afraid. I might hurt you."
Hayley touched his cheek and said "you will never hurt me Klaus."
Klaus said "I dont know. I feel that I will lose control."
She could feel him getting hard against her body. She ran her hand on his back ideally and said "the very fact that you feel that you are losing control means that you are not losing it."
He looked into her eyes and caught her left nipple in his lips and sucked on it before moving to the right one and then after many weeks he kissed her scar making her moan and grab onto his back. She had her eyes closed when she suddenly felt her back off the mattress. She opened them and realized that she was on top of him. She stared into his eyes as she straddled him and threw her head back as he gently squeezed her breast again. He pulled her close to him and said "you look beautiful" as his lips caught her lips. As he was gently sucking on to her lips she felt his hand travel from her back to the ass and grabbed it gently and squeezed it. She moaned as she felt his tongue move into her mouth and his hand went down between her legs. She waited for his fingers to touch her but they never and sensing his hesitation she said "do it". She moaned as his fingers touched her and ran her fingers through his hair and felt his mouth leave her mouth and move to her breast as his left arm engulfed her body tightly. She felt the jolt as he switched the positions again using his newly discovered vampire speed and pinned her under him and he parted her legs with his right hand while with left hand he caressed her breast and he took her.
When he climaxed with her, both of them knew they had never felt this way ever before. She said as he was panting against her neck "oh god this was wonderful. This was great. I must tell you that I like your new vampire speed" she finished off laughing and running her fingers through his hair.
Klaus said "have I hurt you? I lost control."
Hayley said "dont be an idiot. You were perfect. It was great. I am fine. Dont worry about me."
He smiled, his first relaxed smile after many days. When he got off of her he pulled her towards him and said "I dont know what would I have done if I didnt have you."
Hayley said "crash and die I suppose", winked and continued "I think you would have been great on your own too" as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him softly.
He kissed her back and said "this was actually great."
Hayley said smiling ear to ear "I know. I mean it is always great but something was different today. I wonder what that is?!"
Klaus laughed and pulled her close to her tighter and said "so tell me about this radiation thing. How will they do it? Any more side affects? Why not on weekends? Do we have to keep Hope away from you?"
Hayley kissed his ears saying "hmm so many questions and here I was worrying that you are losing interest in my health. So lets start with how does it work. They will focus it on that particular area by a radiation machine. It is generally painless and is like going for an x-ray. Now side effects of external radiation therapy, the one I am getting, are related to the area that is being treated and go away within a few weeks after treatment ends. Nothing serious and can be controlled with medication or diet. Many patients have no side effects from radiation therapy. It is just same old ones fatigue, skin changes in the treatment area e.g., redness, irritation, and dryness. Hair loss is possible if radiation is delivered to the head so no worries there. About damn time my hair stop falling. On weekends they don't give radiation because they want body to recover a bit. Normal cells recover. No you don't have to keep Hope away form me. only if she is sick or something."
Klaus asked "are you scared?"
Hayley leaned back, settled down in his arms as he pulled her in a hug and said "no but I am scared of it coming back Klaus. I cannot go through this again. I don't want to put you and Hope through this again."
Klaus said "I will take you to your appointment. Hope and I will wait there until you are done and then after dropping you off I will go to work."
Hayley said "thanks but Dr Dole told me that I can drive after radiotherapy session unless I feel very much fatigued."
Klaus said "well as long as I am available I will be with you."
He pulled her closer to her, buried his face in her thinning hair and went to sleep.
Next morning while driving back from the hospital after her first radiotherapy session he held her hand and asked "how are you feeling?"
Hayley said "fine. Nothing at all. No pain, no fatigue."
She looked back at Hope who was playing with her doll and asked "was she okay?"
Klaus said "yes."
He continued holding her hand but the rest of the drive was quiet. He got out of the car with them and said "I need to get something from inside."
Klaus was leaving the house after dropping Hayley at house, when he stopped in his track as he saw Finn Manning standing in his driveway. He stared at him and he started to see angry stars at the smirk on his face. His first instinct was to punch him on the face but he calmed himself down and asked with annoyance "what are you doing here?"
Finn laughed and said "you didn't think that I will not keep track of my investment. The day Marcel came from meeting you I could smell you on him. I have been keeping an eye on you. Cute family you have here."
Klaus said coldly "keep them out of it."
Finn smiled and asked "aren't you going to invite me in."
Klaus said harshly "no."
Finn laughed "I knew the moment I saw you that I would like you. I think you should invite me in."
Klaus opened his mouth to say no but instead the words that came out of his mouth were "why dont you come in?"
As Finn tired to step in he felt a force stopping him. He smiled and said "very clever. lets talk outside."
Klaus stared at him and stepped out after closing the door. As he closed the door and stepped out he wondered why was he not being able to say no to Finn Manning. Why is he willing to come out and talk to him?
As he stepped out Finn Manning said "you are the first of my kind but before I make more of us would like to see how are you coping with this new change before I make more."
Klaus hissed "If you think I will let you make more hybrids then you are wrong."
Finn laughed and said "and I would not expect any less from you. Next on my list is Tyler Lockwood. As I understand he is your cousin right?"
Klaus stopped closer to him and said "if you go near him I will kill you."
Finn said "first thing you should know about Originals. We cannot die. It seems that you are doing great. When it will be time to go to Mystic Fall I will inform you."
Before Klaus could say anything else he said "you know you should be grateful to me. I have saved you from the pain of turning every full moon, you have speed, heightened listening abilities, strength and healing ability" and whooshed out of there.
Klaus stood there steaming in anger thinking about what he has said and decided to warn Tyler to leave Mystic Falls.
During the drive to the station he picked up his cell and dialed Tyler's number but when Tyler didnt attend the call even after a few bells he dialed Elijah number in frustration and said "Finn Manning visited me today. Glad he couldn't get in. I am glad that I had transferred the house to Hayley's name a few days ago. He told me that he is planning to turn Tyler into a hybrid seeing his experiment with me has been successful. I want you to tell tyler to stay clear of him and first sign of trouble run. No need to be a hero."
Elijah said "okay but what are you going to do?"
Klaus said while parking the car "I dont do. Go with the flow right now and see where it takes me. How is Kol doing?" as he got out of the car.
Elijah said "Good. He is picking up things. I will bring him to New Orleans's office Saturday after next. He is wiling to move in to New Orleans. I will tell him about you before we come to New Orleans. Do you want to tell him about this latest development with you?"
Klaus thought for a moment as he climbed the stairs and said "no. Not right now. Let him get used to this werewolf thing first. I have to go now."
He felt grateful for crime that kept him occupied the whole day and he was saved from the trouble of thinking about Finn.
In the afternoon after dinner when they sat down in front of the TV as Hayley put her head in his lap Klaus said "something strange happened today."
Hayley asked "what?"
Klaus said "Finn Manning came to visit me."
He continued as she sat up "somehow he knew where I live and about you and Hope. But the strange thing was that I couldn't resist him."
Hayley asked "what do you mean?"
Klaus said "I dont know. he told me to do something and even though I didnt want to, I did it."
Hayley asked still confused "what did he say to you?"
Klaus said "nothing big. First he wanted me to invite him into our house and I couldnt say no but thankfully the house is in your name so he couldn't come in and then he asked me to step out and even though I didnt want to I did."
Hayley thought for a moment and said "hmm interesting. Doesnt seem like a big deal. Question is what was he doing here?"
Klaus said "he wanted to gloat that he knows about us and to gives me heads up that he is planning to make more hybrids."
As worry started to appear on her face Klaus said "there is nothing to worry about Hayley. He cannot get in our house."
Hayley said "I know but I dont like it that he knows about us and where we live. I am not worried about you or me. It is Hope I am worried about."
Klaus felt his heart squeeze and he pulled her closer "I know but he cannot touch Hope. I will not let him touch her."
They continued to watch their show but he could feel that she was lost in her thoughts. He wanted to tell her that everything will be okay but spending these past four month with Hayley has taught him that they can handle anything if they are dealing with it together so he just held her and continued to rub her shoulder trying to convey her that he is there for her.