A/N two years after Hope is born. Based on the characters of "The Originals Second Chapter of their lives"

Klaus felt someone shake him. He opened his eyes and saw her standing next to him. He asked her "what is it Hope? Are you okay?"

Hope shook her head in negative. Klaus asked her "what happened? Can't you sleep?"

Hope said "no"

"Where is mommy?" he asked her

Hope turned around and pointed out of his room. Klaus sighed and said "Do you want to sleep with me?"

Hope nodded. He picked her up and put her next to him in the bed covering her with the duvet.

Hayley woke up and realized that it was still dark. She went to her room to check on her and then she panicked as she saw her toddler bed empty. She immediately came out of her room and seeing the door of her room open she ran out and then on impulse went to his room. She stopped as her gaze fell on the wavy brown hair on his chest and his arm around her. She smiled and walked over to them when he opened his eyes. He looked at her and then at hope's head on his chest and said to her "Come sleep with me"

Hayley smiled at his words and then after closing the door she got under the covers next to her.

When she woke up next morning it was still early but she had learned that with kids you cannot sleep beyond 7 in the morning. She saw Hope sitting in between them playing with her doll's hair. She looked at him and saw that he was still sleeping. She slowly got up and was about to leave when he whooshed to her and stood in front of her and whispered "sneaking off again little wolf"

Hayley laughed and said "Not sneaking off. Just going to my room seeing that you were asleep"

Klaus leaned in to kiss her when he noticed a pair of green eyes looking at him. He thought for a moment and then smiled at her and looking at the doll in her hand asked her "this is pretty. Who gave it to you?"

"Aunt Bekah" Hope said with a grin and then she fell into his arms which were not ready to take her but when she landed in them they were.

Klaus kissed her and asked "did you say thank you to her?"

Hope shook her head slowly. Klaus said to her with a mischievous smile on his face "why don't you go and say thank you to her now?"

He put her down as she nodded. Klaus and Hayley stood at the door looking at her heading towards Rebekah's room. Hayley said to him "You are mean you know"

"Yes I know" he smiled and then he they saw her bang the Rebekah's room door open he turned to her and cupped her face and kissed her passionately.

Hayley moaned and said "this is not fair. I have to…" she couldn't finish her sentence as his lips had moved to her neck and then they both smiled when they heard Rebekah's shout "I will get back to you for this Nik"

Klaus pinned her against the wall and continued kissing her where he closed the door with his feet. Hayley felt herself going weak. She murmured while arching from his passionate kisses on her lips and neck "she will be back Klaus"

"No she will not be. Rebekah knows why I send her there" Klaus murmured back moving his lips down to her burst.

Hayley gasped as they touched her breast on top of her dress and said in a rasped voice "she knows? Oh my god this is so hum…."

But Klaus stopped her by kissing her on her lips and then he started to unbutton her night shirt and slid his hand under them to the back of the shirt and unclasped her bra. Hayley gave in and pull off his shirt from over her head. She linked her arms around his neck and let him carry her to the bed. She let him make love to her in the same passionate way that she had gotten used to; the way that she never expected Klaus to be familiar of. She didnt even realize when their clothes came off. he was so gentle with her. If anyone had told her a couple of years ago that Klaus Mikaelsons was capable of having a soft side she would never have believed it but after seeing that side for herself she knew how kind and sweet he was but she also knew that he liked to present him as the big bad to the world and she didn't mind that.

She said "I love you Klaus" as he entered her.

He looked into her eyes and said "I love you too" and then he gently started to move in her. Hayley matched his movements and smiled broadly as he kissed her neck while finishing off.

Klaus laid next to her and whispered "happy birthday"

"You remembered?" Hayley asked with a smile

"Of course but don't tell Rebekah. She thinks that I have forgotten again" he winked at her and then giving her a big kiss he wrapped her in his arms and pulled her on top of him.

Hayley put her chin on her hands resting on his chest and said "hmm. You are becoming very romantic Klaus Mikaelsons"

"I have always been romantic little wolf. You just have started to break my walls" Klaus said placing with her hair.

"I like that" Hayley said with a smile and then on impulse kiss his chest and ran her fingers on the bird tattoo on his arms.

Klaus smiled and then flipped her over and buried his face in her neck bestowing kisses and lightly biting her making her moan and want him more but the both knew that they had to get up. As if on cue they heard Rebekah saying "Come sweetie I will change you today"

Hayley put her hand on her mouth to stop the giggles that were trying to escape her throat and pushed him away a bit.

Klaus groaned and got up from her. He put on his pants and threw her clothes to her. Hayley hastily dressed up as she saw him going to the bathroom.

She fixed his bed quickly and went to her room just in time to see Rebekah bringing Hope out of the bathroom after giving her a bath.

"Thanks Rebekah" Hayley said with a smile and went to the nursery to take her clothes out.

Klaus came out of the bathroom and listened to his sister and Hayley talking

"You guys think it is funny right?" he could hear laughter in Rebekah's voice

But he smiled when Hayley said "a little bit yes" and then she laughed

"Wait when I will send mi…" Rebekah stopped

Klaus hand stopped while buttoning his shirt. He listened carefully as Hayley said "Hope is your child too Rebekah. You were her mother at the start of her life so she is yours too"

He didn't hear Rebekah voice so he gathered either she had left or was not in a mood on talk on the topic. He knew how his sister felt about having a family of her own and his heart ached for her.

Klaus had some business to attend to with Marcel so he left the compound.

In the afternoon when he came home and entered the sitting room Rebekah said "Now come we have been waiting for you to come and cut this cake"

Klaus looked around and saw that everyone was there except for Hope. He asked Hayley "where is Hope?"

"We put the brat to sleep" Rebekah answered as she put a small chocolate cake on the center table. "It has been a few days that we all have sat down in quiet. Don't get me wrong I love that child but I would like to finish one sentence without her cute jabbers"

Klaus laughed wondering 'only if Rebekah knew that it is not just the sentences that kids interrupt'. He thought of all those times when he and Hayley wanted to do something romantic but Hope wouldn't let them. A smile crept on his lips and he looked at Hayley whose eyes met his and they both smiled as they realized that they both were thinking about the same thing.

Then among the shouts of "happy birthday" Hayley cut her cake and then to his astonishment she put a small piece into his mouth.

They settled down on the sofa with her sandwiched between Klaus and Rebekah as Elijah poured everyone drinks.

As she sipped her drink Hayley suddenly felt his hand which was resting on the sofa back finger her hair and that made her shiver. She looked at him and realized that he was not aware of what he was doing.

Klaus noticed her eyes on him and looked at her questioningly but she shook her head.

"Okay there is a game that I want to play" Rebekah suddenly said excitedly.

"Rebekah we are not kids anymore" Klaus said getting up

"Okay if you don't want to play it is you loss. We can play right Kol, Elijah?" Rebekah said

Klaus smirked and went to shelf and took out a book. He then came back and sat next to Hayley again who said "I am in"

"So this is her birthday and I wanted to do something special for her so I have been asking her questions that she wanted to ask you lot but because of some reason she had not. Now this is the list of question I gathered from the last week of pestering her and you have to answer her. One question per person so no biggie" Rebekah said taking out four folded pieces of paper.

Kol said "I am in but I am wondering what couldn't you ask me and that is making me really excited. I hope it is something dirty" earning him a look from Elijah.

He laughed and got up from the sofa and sat down on the ground and pulling her down too. They both sat with their legs crisscrossed. Kol leaned against the sofa.

Elijah just nodded when Rebekah looked at him whereas Klaus didn't pay them any attention.

Rebekah sat down next to Hayley on the carpet and gave her the first paper. Hayley opened it and then asked Elijah "Okay I have been dying to ask this one. Why don't you ask Camii out?"

Klaus smiled which didn't go unnoticed by Kol but didn't look at his brother. Elijah smiled and then said "as it is your birthday so here goes. Because nothing will come good out of a human falling for a vampire"

"That is not true" Hayley said in a protest

"We will see" Elijah said with a smile but in a firm voice that told her that he didn't want to discuss anything further with her.

And then Elijah gave her a small package and said "happy birthday"

She opened it and took out the beautiful diamond bracelet and scooted to him so that he can put it on. Elijah looked at Klaus who was still not looking at him and clasped the bracelet on her wrist.

Hayley took the next paper from Rebekah and said "so Kol your biggest crush?"

"Current? Davina" Kol said looking at Klaus and then smiled broadly as he saw his angry look at him and gave Hayley his gift with a kiss on her cheek which turned out to be an elegant wrist watch. Hayley put that on too.

She turned to Rebekah and looked at the paper and asked with a smile "white picket fence or Hollywood?"

Rebekah looked around at her small family and said "compound"

Hayley noticed a smile on his lip that warmed her heart. She opened the gift that Rebekah had just handed her over and screamed with joy as she saw her favorite brand purse. Rebekah laughed as Hayley fell on her and hugged her.

She separated herself and looked at Klaus who was lost in his book and then opened the paper as Rebekah said "Nik your turn. Put the damn book down"

She looked at Hayley who was staring at the paper.

Hayley looked at Rebekah who was smiling at her. She said "are you kidding me? That was a joke!"

"Well you said you would like to ask him" Rebekah getting up from the floor and sitting on the sofa.

Klaus looked up from his book as he heard Kol says "Come now there is nothing we don't know about dear old Nik" and saw him snatching the paper from her hand. To his surprise after reading it he started to laugh and said "this should be fun".

He passed the paper to Elijah as he himself relaxed on the sofa looking at Hayley turning red.

Elijah read the words and then looked at Hayley who was looking at him and had turned red. He smiled at her and gave the paper back to her and went to sit behind his desk.

Rebekah said "ask him. And Nik you have to answer"

Klaus closed the book slowly and looked at Hayley. From her blush he had realized that it was something to do with his relationships or something that she doesn't feel comfortable discussing in public.

He got up and in front of her on the floor with legs crisscrossed and said "go ahead ask me. I will answer anything you ask today"

Hayley stared into those green blue eyes and said soft "will you marry me?"

Klaus looked at her in shock and then very slowly he took out a box from his jacket pocket and handed it to her.

Hayley felt so disappointed by his response that she didn't hear Rebekah's gasp. She saw the serious look on his face and then steered her eyes away from his face feeling humiliated and depressed. She looked down at her present. She opened the small velvet box and gasped as she saw a beautiful diamond ring in it. Klaus gently took the box from her hand, took the ring out and while keeping his eyes on hers, he held her left hand and slipped the ring into her finger and said "yes"

Hayley looked at the ring and then looked up at him and then a smile started to spread on her lips.

Klaus leaned in and kissed her on her lips for the first time in front of his family. He smiled when he felt her kissing him back.

They both broke the kiss and realized that everyone was looking at them.

Hayley looked around at Rebekah who still had her hand on her mouth. As their eyes met Rebekah jumped up from her seat and hugged her tight whereas Kol and Elijah smiled at them.

Elijah walked to Klaus who had gotten up from the ground and said "congrats brother" and shook his hand.

Klaus smiled at him, went to the sofa and picked up his book again. He smiled when he heard Kol "Hayley are you sure you want to get married to that"

Hayley smiled and said "with all my heart"