A/N: Second part of "First Step, Chapter 10"

After some time when he looked at her, he saw that she has gone to sleep and it was getting dark outside. He could hear Elijah and Kol's voices coming from down stairs. He shifted a little which woke her up. He whispered "Go back to sleep love".

Hayley suddenly became fully awake and then advanced to the bed to check on Hope. Hope was still warm but was sleeping peacefully. They both turned towards the door when they heard a knock. Klaus went to open the door.

Elijah looked into his face and said "Niklaus we have a problem"

"What?" Klaus asked

"It is Hope" Elijah said entering the room. He went to the bed and touched Hope's bare chest which was rising and falling rhythmically.

"What about her?" Hayley asked him anxiously

"She has been hexed as per Kaleb" Elijah said with hesitation

"Hexed?" Hayley asked him and then looked at Klaus who just stared at Elijah and then asked him "what kind of hex? Does it have anything to do with the temperature?"

"Yes I am afraid" Elijah said.

"Elijah Kaleb called. He want us to keep her temperature down" Kol called from the door.

"What kind of spell is it?" Klaus asked

"It will raise her temperature gradually until it reaches its peak" He looked at Klaus hardened expressions and said "but we wouldn't let that happen okay?"

"Who is doing that?" Klaus asked with his fist clenched.

"Kaleb is trying to find out. Kol, Rebekah and I are working on it too. You stay here with Hope and Hayley" Elijah said and then be bent and kissed Hope on her head and then left.

Hayley turned to Klaus and said "Go" after looking at his face. He looked into her eyes and then nodded. He stepped up and held her by her upper arms and said "I will not let anything happen to her I promise"

Klaus then kissed his daughter and went after Elijah and Kol.

Elijah was going down the stairs when he heard Klaus calling "wait for me"

He looked back and said "Niklaus …"

"I cannot stay behind and do nothing Elijah" Klaus said and side stepped him and walked towards the door.

"Listen we cannot do anything right now. It is late and Kaleb will contact us when he finds out anything. Why don't you go up and stay with them. Just keep her temperature down. We will do something in the morning" Elijah said trying to reason with him. He knew if Klaus left in this mood he will kill half the city without any thoughts.

"I will kill all the witches if I have to break this spell" Klaus said angrily.

"I will help you Nik" Kol said "but we cannot do anything right now"

Klaus opened his mouth to say something when they heard Hope cry. Elijah looked at Klaus's distressed face and said "Go"

Klaus walked up the stairs and entered Hayley's room. He followed the sound to the nursery. Hayley was changing Hope who was crying very hard. Klaus walked up to her and touched her body which was burning. He looked at Hayley's worried expressions and said "Hayley". She looked up at him and said "I will not lose her Klaus"

Klaus suddenly held her by her forearms and said angrily "who said anything about losing her? Don't you trust me or anyone else for that matter? We wouldn't let anything happen to her"

"I just hate these witches and their curses" Hayley said wiping the tears that were falling on her cheek. She freed herself from his grasp and went to make her bottle whereas Klaus picked up crying Hope and put her warm body against his shoulder. Hope calmed down a little but didn't stop crying all together. She was rubbing her face against his neck and face restlessly. Klaus rubbed her back and said 'shh, love. Everything will be okay". He gave Hope to Hayley when she came to them and followed them to her room.

Hayley looked up at him while feeding Hope and seeing him pacing the room made her realize that he was tense too. She said "why don't you sleep for a couple of hours as I am awake right now and then I can sleep and you can wake up with her"

Klaus looked at her and then nodded. He was about to leave her room when she called "Klaus". He turned and looked at her and then read the silent request in her eyes. He smiled and moved to her bed. He took off his shoes and shirt when she asked him "can you get me her medicines from that chest of drawer" He got the medicine and the thermometer, give it to her and got under the cover.

Hayley looked down at Hope in her lap and saw her eyes drooping. Hayley took the almost empty bottle out of her mouth and put the thermometer in her armpits to check the temperature. The touch of cold on her hot body startled her so she put her hand on her chest to calm her down. She checked the reading on the temperature and looked at Klaus who was looking at her from that laying position.

"It is 102" she told him and then she gave her few drops of Tylenol and put her in between them.

She got up from the bed to bring some extra clothes and towel from the nursery in case of vomiting. When she came back she stopped as she saw Klaus's finger in her tiny hand. She put the things near her on the floor and went to change her clothes. It was pretty hot so she wore a soft pajama with a flannel half sleeve shirt and came out. His eyes were closed when she came back and his finger was still in her grasp. She picked up a book and started to read it. She kept on checking her by touching her body. There was no difference but it was not increasing also. Soon she got lost in her book. Around 1 am Hope woke up crying. Hayley picked her up and took her to nursery so that Klaus can sleep but she wouldn't stop crying. Hayley hugged her tight and felt on the verge of crying herself too when someone took the baby from her arms gently. She looked into his eyes and sighed.

"You should sleep" he said to her gently rocking Hope in his arm. She looked at him and then nodded thinking that there was no point in both of them being awake and worrying. She went to her bed and went to sleep in no time whereas Klaus kept on rocking Hope gently until he saw her eyes drooping. He then took her to the couch. He put a towel on his shoulder and laid her on it on his chest and closed his eyes.

Hayley's eyes open and she saw the sunlight coming in her room. She laid there for a couple of seconds and then she remembered Hope being sick. She turned quickly and saw Klaus and her on the couch. She went to them and touched her back. It was still hot but felt the same kind of warmth as last night. She lifted his hand from her back to lift her.

Klaus and Kaleb join forces

Klaus felt someone holding his hand. His eyes flew open. Hayley's dark wavy hair were curtaining her face.

Hayley looked into his eyes and whispered "I thought you might want to lie on the bed"

Klaus shook his head with a smile "No I am fine". He then said mischievously "Can I have my hand back?"

"O yeah" Hayley said with a blush. She picked Hope up and took her to the bed. Klaus got up and rubbed his eyes. He then said "I am going to Kaleb now. Will be back after a couple of hours. If anything happens call me"

He then left without listening to her response. He went to bayou just in time to see Kaleb coming out of his hut.

Kaleb looked at his face and said "I think I know who is doing it"

"Well?" Klaus asked him with annoyance

"It is Lenore" Kaleb said

"Oh good she is back" Klaus said

"The thing is I am unable to locate her" Kaleb said "I had an idea last night. The reason why we have not been able to locate her was that she is using a cloaking spell"

"Okay well that is a good news then. You can undo a cloaking spell right?" Klaus asked him

"No the only witch who can undo a spell is the one who did it in the first place" Kaleb said.

"Well that is fantastic. What if she is the one who did it?" Klaus asked him

"It is quite possible" Kaleb said.

Jackson came out of the hut and walked towards them. He asked Klaus "how is Hope doing?"

"When I left the house she was burning up" Klaus said trying to keep his voice normal.

"Davina might be able to help as she uses ancestral magic" Kaleb said after a couple of minutes of silence.

Klaus looked at him and then said "Okay let us go". He then took out his cell and called Elijah

"We are going to Davina's. Kaleb think that she might be able to work. Also he thinks that it is Lenore who is probably using a cloaking spell to hide herself"

Elijah listened to Klaus while buttoning his shirt and said "I will be there in 15 min with Kol"

"Does he have to? I cannot stand both of them giving each other romantic stares and losing perspective of situation" Klaus said with annoyance.

"Niklaus" Elijah said and then cut him off.

He called Kol and then went to Rebekah's room and knocked before entering. He said to groggy Rebekah "Kol and I are going with Niklaus to Davina. You are home with Hayley and Hope. Keep an eye on things"

"You guys don't need me?" Rebekah asked yawning.

"No" he then left and after calling Kol they left the compound.

An attack on the compound

Rebekah got up and looked at the clock on the wall. It was 11 am. She got dressed thinking about what Elijah, Kol and Klaus must be doing when she heard Hayley screaming her name and Hope crying.

She whooshed out of her room towards her room. She could see crying Hope on the bed and Hayley engaged with what seemed like a werewolf but it was not full moon so she got confused. She grabbed the man from the back of his neck and sunk her fangs into his neck. Hayley turned quickly to get to Hope when another man entered her room. Rebekah turned towards him and said to Hayley "you stay with Hope. I will take care of it"

She stood there waiting for him to attack. Her attacker jerked his neck and suddenly his fangs were out and the eyes had turned yellow. She took a step back and prepared herself to be attacked. The man lunged at her but Rebekah was faster than him. She jabbed her hand into his chest and took out his heart. Hayley quickly turned now calmed down Hope's face to other direction. Rebekah turned to her when she got jumped on by another guy who had come out of nowhere. She felt his fangs in her neck. He knees buckled. Hayley whooshed to them and shifting Hope to one arm she jabbed the man's chest from his back and pulled his heart out. She threw the heart on the ground and then threw the man whose fangs were still in Rebekah's neck away from her.

"Rebekah" she knelt down next to her and asked her.

She quickly grabbed one of Hope's towel and put it on her neck

"I am fine" Rebekah said "is hope okay"

"Yes she is fine but you definitely are not" Hayley said "why don't you lie down on the bed and I will call Klaus to get here as soon as possible"

"No leave them be. I will not die of this bite. They have gone to Davina to figure out what to do with this spell thing" Rebekah said walking to the bed. She laid down on her bed and pressed the spot where the werewolf had bit her with the towel.

"Who could they be?" she asked Hayley.

Hayley was about to say something when Hope started crying again. She went to the other room and made a bottle for her. She put her in the crib but that made her cry more so she took her back to her room.

Rebekah could see Hayley was tired. She asked her "did you get to sleep last night with her temperature and all?"

"Yes Klaus was here so we divided our time with her" Hayley said rubbing the back of her neck.

She sat on the couch with Hope in her lap and said "Can I do something for you to make you comfortable because I remember when Klaus bit Elijah. He had hallucinations"

"Yes I know. Just don't tell Nik or Elijah or Kol about these hallucinations. They will never let me live in peace then" Rebekah said

"Hayley put bottle in Hope's mouth and looked at the man lying on the floor. She said after a couple of seconds "He looks really familiar" and then as if a light bulb switched on in her brain. She knelt down still holding hope and turned him. She pulled back his shirt from his shoulder and gasped when she saw the light moon mark on his shoulder.

"He is crescent wolf" she said to Rebekah

She got up and gave Hope to Rebekah and then checked the other two men. One of them had the mark whereas the other one didn't have it.

"What is going on here?" she said to herself "Should I talk to Jackson about it?"

"No wait till Nik comes back" Rebekah said rubbing her forehead. She said "Hayley I think I am starting to feel bad. Please take hope from me. She is burning up again do you know that"

Hayley got up and took Hope from her. She picked up her Tylenol and thermometer. She gave her medicine and checked her temperature. It was 103 F. She said to Rebekah "I am going to give her bath so that the temperature comes down"

Rebekah nodded and closed her eyes.

She eyes flew open when she heard Hope's cries in a couple of seconds. Hayley called out "she is fine. I just put her in water"

Rebekah's mind half registered to it. She was back in 1919 and she and Marcel were making out. He was kissing her neck when she said "Marcel do you think Mikael was not located from that spell"

Marcel looked at her and said "I don't know. I just hope that he was not and does not come here"

"yes. I am so surprised that Nik gave us his blessing"

She heard a sound "Rebekah". Her eyes flew open and she said "I am sorry Nik"

"he is not here Rebekah" Hayley said kindly. She knew what Rebekah was hallucinating about.

Rebekah said groggily "don't tell him okay" and then closed her eyes.

Klaus was screaming at her "Admit it that you wanted to kill me"

She heard her lips move "maybe I did" and then she saw the horror and disappointment on his face. She wanted to take the words back but she couldnt. She saw the damage it had done. She tried to reach out to him "Nik"

He screamed and stabbed her in the stomach

Rebekah screamed and opened her eyes.

Hayley looked over at her while changing Hope's diaper and heard her say "I am sorry Nik. I didn't mean to. I was not thinking".

She picked her up and put her against her shoulder without changing her clothes. She then went to her room and saw Rebekah lying on her bed with eyes closed. Her forehead was shining with sweat. She picked up her cell and called him.

Davina tries to locate Lenore

Kaleb and Klaus got out of his car and went upstairs to Cami's apartment when they heard Kol and Elijah follow them too. Klaus knocked on the door. After a couple of minutes Cami opened the door. She was still groggy. It looked like that they had woken her up. Klaus said "we need to talk to Davina Cami"

"She is sleeping Klaus. Do you have any idea what time it is" Cami said with annoyance.

"Yes we do" he said "Hope has been hexed and I need to find out who has done that so I don't have time to do the formalities. Can you go and wake her up?"

Cami went to the room and after a couple of minutes she was back with Davina. Davina looked at Klaus with annoyance. Their relationship in the past have been improved but still sometimes there were bumps and that was because of their personality clash. Klaus smirked at her and said "You need to find out where Lenore is hiding and how to break this cloaking spell"

Davina sighed and said "Okay I need something from her"

"How would I have something of hers? I have not even met the bloody witch" Klaus said angrily.

"I have" suddenly Cami said remembering the number of times she had met her in the bar. Once she had given her a bracelet saying that she had made it for her.

She went inside and came back with a bracelet. She gave it to Davina and said "Lenore said that she had made this bracelet"

She went inside and came back with a bowl and some herbs. She said "it will take some time so if you guys want to go you can go or stay"

Klaus looked at Elijah who shrugged and as they were leaving his phone rang.

….to be continued….