A/N third part of First Step following the characters and storyline of "The Originals Second Chapter of their lives"
"Klaus you need to come to the compound. We were attacked and…" Hayley was saying. Klaus didn't listen to what she was saying and whooshed out.
Kol and Elijah hurried after him but he was gone and his car was still there. Kol looked at Elijah who nodded to him.
"I will drop Kaleb to the bayou and will come home in his car" Kol said and left with Kaleb.
"Thank you Cami and Davina. We will talk to you soon and hopefully you will have something for us Davina" Elijah said to them and left.
Klaus entered her room and stopped when he saw three bodies on the floor. One look at them told him that they were werewolves. His eyes fell on Hayley and hope sitting on the bed with Rebekah whose eyes were closed. He whooshed to her just in time to hear her say "I am so sorry Nik. I didn't mean too". Two puncher holes on her neck told him the story. He bit his wrist without a thought and put it against her lips. A couple of drops of his blood in her system started to cure her. She opened her eyes and saw him standing there.
Rebekah sat up quickly and asked while looking around "what happened?"
"You were bit bekah. Do you remember?" Hayley said
"Yes I do" Rebekah said
"Hayley are you okay" Klaus asked her
"Yes I am fine. Did you find anything?" Hayley asked him
"Davina is working on a spell to locate Lenore" Klaus said
"Lenore!" Hayley and Rebekah said together.
"Yes, Kaleb thinks that it is her that is causing all of this" Elijah said from the door way and entered the room.
Elijah looked around the room and said "what happened here?"
"Apparently those two are crescent wolves and that one I don't recognize" Hayley said shifting Hope on the bed. She stirred but Hayley put her hand on her chest which calmed her down.
"Why would crescent wolf attack you?" Elijah asked in surprise
"Jackson!" Klaus said angrily
"No Klaus. I don't think Jackson has anything to do with it" Hayley quickly said earning a smirk from Klaus.
"Oh come on you know deep down that he will not hurt me or hope" Hayley said a bit annoyingly.
"In any case I will talk to him and who is this other guy" Klaus said still annoyed and angry
"May be Jackson can tell us" Rebekah said
"So I have …" they all turned to Kol who was just entering her room. He looked at the dead bodies and asked "what happened here?"
Klaus gestured Rebekah to tell him and then turned to Hayley and asked "how is she?"
"Her temperature is 103 F. we need to do something now" Hayley said.
"Should we call a doctor?" Elijah suggested
"A doctor cannot do anything against the bloody spells" Klaus said angrily"our only hope is Davina and Kaleb right now"
"In the mean time I will clean these decoration pieces off the floor" Kol has been filled up with detail so he said
"Yes do that Kol but leave the bodies in the court yard. I need Jackson to recognize who these people are?" Klaus said touching Hope's body.
Hayley took Hope from him and said "I will give her bath and you talk to Jackson about what is going on"
Klaus nodded and left the compound with Elijah whereas Kol took care of the bodies.
Once they reached the bayou Kaleb came out towards them and asked "How is she? I was about to come"
"Where is Jackson?" Klaus asked aggressively
"What?" Kaleb said in confusion and then he added "he was here in the morning but just left a couple of minutes ago"
Klaus stood there sensing Jackson and then whooshed to one direction. He came to a stop in some bushes deep inside the bayou and heard his voice "You need to set your priorities straight. Hayley is Lebanoir and so is her daughter. You cannot go against your own pack"
"We are not going against them Jackson. In fact we want that child to join our pack and for that we are willing to do anything" someone said.
Klaus couldn't bear to hear any more so he decided to crash their party by saying "If any one of you touch a hair on her head I will make you pay"
He then grabbed Jackson by his arm and whooshed him out of there.
Klaus let go of Jackson once they reached Kaleb and Elijah and then nodded to Elijah.
"Let us go" Elijah said
Kaleb and Jackson looked at each other in confusion but followed them. When they entered the compound Kaleb and Jackson stopped. Jackson quickly advanced to the dead bodies of this pack members and asked "what happened here?"
"My sister happened here" Klaus pointed to Rebekah coming down the stairs
"But why?" Jackson got up and asked him
"Well perhaps because they attacked us" Rebekah said sarcastically
"So Jackson would you mind telling us how long this riot has been going on within your pack?" Klaus asked him sarcastically
"A couple of months ago. I thought it has gotten under control because there have been no recent incidences but apparently not" Jackson said
Klaus looked at Kaleb and said "this is what you were talking about months ago"
"Yes" Kaleb said.
"Will someone tell me what is going on here?" Elijah asked patiently
"Crescent wolves and Carry's pack, I am assuming that he" he pointed to the third dead body "belong to his pack, they both want a piece of my daughter" Klaus said sarcastically.
"Both packs seem to have forgotten that she is not a piece of toy that they can have. She is a living person" Klaus added angrily
"Klaus I am trying to handle it and I think I can handle it. Just give me some time" Jackson said calmly
Klaus laughed and said "give you time! Hmm" he then turned to Kaleb and asked him "Do you think Lenore is working alone?"
"What?" he thinks for a while and then asks him in surprise "You think she has been working with rogue members of our pack and that is why they attacked tonight"
"Yes that is exactly what I think" Klaus said aggressively.
"Can I see her? May be I can do something" Kaleb said
Klaus looked at him for a second. He has trusted Kaleb ever since he has arrived so why not. He led him to Hayley's room.
Hayley was in the nursery with Hope just in her diaper in her lap. She was drinking milk but she was exhausted. Her temperature has gotten down to 102.5 F only after the bath. Hayley looked up at the voice and said "Klaus thank God you are here. Have you found out anything …" She didn't finish her sentence as she saw Kaleb. She asked him immediately "Kaleb can you do something. She is burning up. I am afraid that she might get a seizure"
"Seizure?" Klaus asked in alarm
"Yes I was reading that if temperature gets pretty high like 104 F some kids get seizure" Hayley said desperately and then she turned to Kaleb who was taking out some stuff from his bag. He put the herbs in the bowl and started to chant while pouring some liquid from a bottle on it. He then dipped his finger in the bowl and rubbed Hope's stomach and her forehead. He said
"This will not lower her temperature but hopefully will stop it from rising for some time and give her comfort and she can sleep peacefully".
He got up and put the bowl on the table and said "You can apply it again if the temperature rises again"
"Has Davina found out how to locate Lenore?" Kaleb asked him.
He looks at Hope who has stopped drinking her milk and now it was seeping out of the corner of her mouth. He walked to her and gave Hayley a burping cloth from the crib. Hayley cleaned her mouth and put Hope across her shoulder. She then put her in the crib and said "I will be back in a minute"
Klaus stood near the crib and took out his cell. He called Davina. He was about to say something when Hope started to squirm. Klaus shifted the phone between his ear and the shoulder and picked up Hope. She was really hot. He felt really uncomfortable holding her warm body. He then asked Davina "Have you found anything?"
"I am sorry no. it is possible that she has done the cloaking spell herself" Davina voice sounded really frustrated.
"I will kill all the witches in New Orleans if you don't find out anything Davina" Klaus yelled angrily and put the cell down. His yelling woke Hope up and she started to cry but she was so exhausted from the fever that her crying was mild too. She rubbed her head against his chin and put it near it. Klaus felt the warm breath on his neck. He walked out of the nursery angrily and saw that the bathroom door was closed. He took her downstairs and said to Kol.
"You are coming with me. I need to have a chat with Carry".
Kol nodded and then touched Hope's back only to withdraw it immediately. He exclaimed "Nik she is burning. Did Davina find out anything?"
"No. she is still working on it" Klaus said.
He then handed Hope to Rebekah and said "tell Hayley I have gone to talk to Carry". He was walking out of the court yard when he turned and said "Rebekah she is your responsibility"
Jackson followed Klaus and Kol whereas Elijah looked at Kaleb and said "Let's go to Davina"
Klaus and Kol arrive at the other side of bayou where his pack was residing. They had dropped off Jackson with his pack. Klaus walked towards Carry's hut and shouted "Carry". Carry came out immediately and asked him in surprise "Klaus what is going on here?"
Klaus grabbed him by his neck which made some of the other werewolves advance towards them angrily but Kol grabbed one of them by his neck and growled "No one approaches us. Otherwise I will break each of your neck"
"What have you done?" Klaus asked Carry ignoring his surroundings.
"What do you mean?" Carry asked
"Some member of your pack attacked the compound today" Klaus tightened his hold on his neck and said aggressively "and I hope for your sake that you had no idea about it"
"Of course I didn't have any idea" Carry said with difficult "please let me go and I will find out what is going on"
Klaus looked into his eyes and then let him go. Carry coughed and looked at Kol who was holding one of the member of his pack. He looked around and then spotted the person he was looking for. He walked up to him and said "what have you done Sam?"
Sam said "Carry you know what we want. The girl is a danger to everyone else except to whom she has alliance… "
Kol couldn't hear any more he whooshed to him and took out his heart before he could finish his sentence. He showed the heart to Carry and the rest of the werewolves who were now looking at him with a little panic and anger. Kol said in a loud and clear voice "If anyone thinks about harming that baby, he will have to cross me and if you think my brother was ruthless killer then let me tell you compared to me he is a cute little harmless puppy so whatever you guys are planning you should seize to follow it further".
Klaus walked to his brother and stood next to him looking at the small gathering that had accumulated there now. As they were turning a voice came "you both dare come here and threaten …" Before he could finish his sentence Kol had whooshed to the direction of sound and jabbed his hand in the man's chest and taken out his heart. He threw the heart on the ground cruelly and walked to Klaus who stood there watching all the drama with amusement. Klaus said "anyone else have any issue with us?"
When no one responded Klaus said "okay good. Now who can tell me how to find Lenore?"
When no one answered again Klaus said menacingly "if I find out that one of you knew about how to locate her then you know what I am capable of"
HE turned and started going towards his car when he got a call on his cell. It was Davina who said excitedly "Klaus I have found her. Kaleb and I have been working together on a spell and we have located her. She is just outside French quarter. It is an apartment building. I can give you the address. Do you have a pen or pencil?"
"Tell me" Klaus said sternly looking at Kol who took the steering wheel. In 10 minutes they were standing outside the building. Kol looked at Klaus and then they both walked in and stopped when they spotted Kaleb there.
Kaleb saw them coming and said "Now that we know where she is you can simply walk in and see her. The cloaking spell hid her from us but it has been lifted now"
Klaus nodded and climbed the stairs two at a time with Kol following him. He stood outside the apartment 3b and kicked the door down. They entered the room and see a woman standing in the middle of the room. Klaus had seen her before on one of the pictures that Davina had drawn a couple of months ago so he recognized her to be Lenore.
He walked towards her and said "I presume you are Lenore"
"Yes I am and I am your worst enemy" Lenore said in a bold voice.
...to be continued….