After you got the first taste, each one of these chapters are going to contain some couples that you might enjoy, but Klaus and Hayley remain the main pair and obviously, they will get more writing.

After his talks with Marcel, Klaus returns home to be with Hope when he gets confronted by Hayley. Elijah will meet up with Gia for old times' sake and discuss certain things about them, while Kol keeps bumping into Davina every time he gets chances to get laid.

December 14th:

Klaus & Hayley:

Klaus could remember staying out all day and all night drinking up a storm at Rousseau's. He had tried calling Camille a couple of times, hoping that she would change her mind and give him the time of day again as she used to. But it seemed that she was once again too preoccupied to listen to his sorrows. Marcel had also called him, after some shopping and asked him to go home and get some rest. It was pointless to stay outside if he was that pissed. In the morning, deadly drunk, the Original Hybrid came home. The front door was open and he could easily get in, but as soon as he did, he fell to the ground.

A groan escaped his lips as he felt the pain rise into his brain. He may be an all-powerful immortal but drinking affected him just as much as it could affect anyone. "Klaus?" Came a whisper that he heard and he turned his head to see her blurry face. She looked like she had just woken up, with tired eyes and ruffled brown hair. She came over and picked him, taking him over to the couch in the living room. He could hear Rebekah's voice as well. "Oh, great! The perfect moment he decided to get drunk! I was just about to call him and tell him that he has some Christmas shopping to do." "He is not Marcel, Rebekah." Hayley's voice was heard again as he groaned from the headache. "I know but he is my brother. And he is behaving like an asshole. Leave him here to rest." Rebekah replied.

He reached a hand out, hoping that someone would grab it but no one did and he just stood there and passed out. Hayley stood there with her hands crossed over her chest and sighed as she saw him pass out into deep slumber. "Damn you, Klaus." She whispered and went upstairs as soon as she heard Hope crying for her milk bottle. "I'm coming." Hayley whispered and reached the stairs. The baby was there with a wild grin on her face. That grin reminded her of the way Klaus used to smile at her. Of course that was a very long time ago. Not that long, but long enough. She took Hope out of the crib and decided to breastfeed her. It was safer and she wanted her child to be healthy…but the more she stared down at her, the more the child reminded her of Klaus.

He had that grin on his face the day they decided to make their relationship official. Hayley couldn't understand how in just 13 days, they had managed to separate so much. He refused to speak to her and she would not tolerate his cruelty any longer. Who could tolerate that sort of cruelty, living with him under the same roof? But he had been extremely charming to her, which is why she wanted to make this work. Because she saw the potential. She saw the greatness in him. He was a King with pride, but he was protective and attractive. Hayley nearly blushed as she remembered that day with him.

"I can see that you are keeping yourself occupied eying my brother, little wolf." He whispered from behind me and startled me as I turned around to face him. "I was not looking at him." She bluntly stated and Klaus smirked as he slowly nodded his head, looking at her from head to toe. To him, she was the most breathtaking woman at the party tonight. He was throughout happy. New Orleans was his…Hope was back into his arms and his family was whole again. "Power, loyalty, family. Can you believe it, little wolf? I have succeeded." "Yes, you have." Hayley responded, smiling at him, her cheeks turning pink as his legs began to feel like jelly and would have collapsed right there.

Before she could say anything else, he was right there in front of her, pinning her to the wall and they had been sped away from the crowd so no one would see them. He gently kissed her lips and she ran her hands over his chest, over his tux as he wrapped his hands around her waist. She kissed him back as she felt the pleasure rise in her. What was going on with her? Why was she behaving this way? She shouldn't. Not with Klaus. Klaus was not any good for her. Elijah was…but they weren't the same. She felt everything that she felt for Elijah, had just disappeared in a couple of months. "I am glad we get to spend Christmas with her this year." Hayley whispered between kisses as Klaus finally released her.

They lay their foreheads on one another as they breathed in deeply. He frowned as she smiled. "What are you talking about?" "This year…our first Christmas with Hope." "It was last year, love. We had that bonfire. You…I remember it perfectly well." Hayley bit her lip and said nothing as she looked away. She wanted to tell Klaus the truth about her and Elijah, but she never felt like she could. Every bone in her bone was telling her that she should not tell him, and keep him guessing. She shouldn't let her guard down. Not even now. "Klaus…" He kissed her again before she could continue. She let her lips mold onto his for a minute before pulling away as she felt his hands massaging her thighs under her dress. "What are we doing?" she asked in a breathless tone. "I have no idea, love." He responded and grinned at her.

He was in the mood for something. He wanted to be with her in that moment, but she was not going to just sleep with him. No, she couldn't. He could feel her rejection and slowly put her down and took a step away from her. Hayley rubbed her hands together and whispered, "I have a proposition for you." He smiled at that and stepped over to her, caressing her cheek softly. "Which is?" "I want us to have a commitment." Hayley responded. "As in…a relationship?" "Yes. I have been thinking about Hope. She would really benefit from having her parents together. I was hoping that we can try…for her." Klaus nodded and said, "What if nothing works out? Can you imagine what a scandal that will create?" Hayley nodded and said, "But something might come out of this. You never know." He smiled. He was in a very good mood, otherwise, he would have never agreed to this…but he did…because he wanted her.

There was a knock on her door and Hayley noticed that Hope was already asleep in her arms, and had stopped drinking a while before. Rebekah entered the room and looked at Hayley for a moment before smiling. "Nik is still downstairs…asleep. What are you planning to do today?" Hayley sat up and put Hope in the crib. "I don't know what I should say to you. I know that you will convince me to go shopping with you eventually." "Well what do you expect me to ask you to do? It's just us. Elijah left early. I don't know where. Kol is probably out there, trying to find a hot date by Christmas and you and I are stuck here with a baby and a drunken passed out King." Rebekah explained and sat down on a chair.

"If we go, Klaus has to wake up and look after Hope. Otherwise, no. There is no one that I can leave her with." Hayley explained. "Would it be so bad as to give Davina a call?" Rebekah asked. "Are you kidding? You want to leave her alone here with Klaus? Do you realize that this house will be burning by the time we come back?" "Come on, Hayley! It's Christmas! Cheer up!" "Not yet it isn't. And no Christmas is going to outshine the pain we all feel in this retarded family." "Retarded? Thank you!" Rebekah scoffed. "You know what I mean." "Nik, huh? Just leave him with his drunk self. I am sure that he is going to see the light…one of these days." "I am not asking for us to be involved romantically…" "Then what did you mean when you asked him to have a relationship with you?" "It was a moment thing. We were…too happy and we…we were about to have sex…" Rebekah gasped as she sat back down. "Do tell." "No, thanks." "Come on! I love the dirty details." "You are not going to get them. Let's just go."

"So, you wanted a platonic relationship?" Rebekah asked, still confused, as they grabbed Hope and headed downstairs. They had called Davina and she would be here any minute to look after Hope. Hayley shook her head. "I want an involvement for Hope…but that doesn't mean that we would have to start acting like we're in love when we're not." "So, just in front of Hope?" "Yes. I think that was on my mind. I don't really know. The details are still blurry. I think I was drunk when I made that proposition. And he looked more than eager to sleep with me." "You two have always had that sexual frustration with one another." "Sexual frustration? What is that supposed to mean?" Hayley put Hope in a chair and ran a hand through her hair. "Don't play dumb with me, Hayley Marshall…" Rebekah warned her.

Hayley smirked and then laughed when the door opened and Kol walked inside, with a bottle of whiskey in his hands. "Oh no. Another drunken brother." Rebekah mumbled under her breath. "Hey, gals!" Kol exclaimed when he saw Rebekah and Hayley standing there with their arms crossed over their chests. "You better knock him out and place him on the couch along with Klaus, before I do it." Hayley insisted but Rebekah shook her head. "I have a better idea." The doorbell rung and Rebekah rushed to get it. "You're here! I'm glad!" She exclaimed when she saw Davina standing there with a smile on her face. "Anything I can do to help?" "We did call you. We have two drunken vampire brothers around here and a baby who needs special attention." Hayley explained and handed Hope to Davina. Davina eyes directed to Kol at that moment and was about to protest when Hayley and Rebekah already left.

Elijah & Gia:

There was nothing much that the holiday spirit could bring her. There was only something that she felt she left behind when she came to New Orleans. Marcel told her that she was destined to become a vampire. But she still believed that she did it out of desperation. She didn't want to become anything. She was just looking forward to letting go of the past and moving on to the future. It had been a year now…since her husband had died. He was too young to die. And he left her, hopelessly in the dark. Gia said to herself at that moment that she would never let herself feel that kind of pain again.

She was going to live through this and she was going to make it. Christmas was only reminding her of what she lost, but she hoped that it would soon remind her of what she gained in one year. Not just lost. She had a new status, a new home and new friends who looked out for her. And then, there was the noble Elijah, who has been speaking with her on the phone every day since the first training to be a vampire session. Gia could remember. There was something very magnifying about him the moment he whispered, The head or the heart? What was she supposed to choose? She went for the heart…because maybe that was what she was longing to have, a heart, beating just for her, after she had lost so much. Elijah had been very kind to her and she would forever be grateful to him for what he offered.

"Jingle Bells" rung all through the store and Gia remembered just how much she used to love the spirit of Christmas with the tree, the fireplace, friends, family, the spirit of Santa Claus and so on. "Fancying yourself some early Christmas shopping?" Came a very charming voice from behind her and Gia smiled slightly as she turned around and saw Elijah standing there, in his regular suite with a smile that did not reach his eyes, but still caring. "I didn't know that you were following me, Elijah." Gia said with a smile on her face. "I have not. In fact, I came here willing to ask you to spend the holidays with me." Gia raised an eyebrow at him. "Really? I thought you would spend Christmas with your family…and with Hayley."

She had heard it before, from Klaus. He had made sure that everyone knew of this…inconvenience that Elijah slept with the mother of his child. She knew damn well of the relationship these two have had. Elijah and Klaus have not seen eye to eye since. Elijah frowned at her comment and went over to her as she was putting Christmas decorations in a basket. He grabbed a hold of the basket to make her look at him. "I would like to assure you that nothing has happened between me and Hayley." "It did. I know all about it. Klaus already mentioned it." "But nothing has developed from that." Gia smiled and shook her head. This was something that she definitely wanted to avoid this Christmas.

"Listen…I don't want to have to go through this, okay, Elijah? Thank you for training me and helping me to be the best vampire that I can be but…" She ran a hand through her hair and continued shaking her head. Elijah stepped even closer to her and wrapped his hand around her arm, rubbing it gently with his thumb, making her shiver. "If I have done anything to upset you, I hope you understand that…" "Elijah, believe me, I understand what you want to do here. But it just can't work. I think that I want to spend Christmas with Marcel and the other vampires this year. Just me and them." "Forgive me if I have not seemed the most trustworthy person lately, Gia." "You have, but I am not interested in anything right now. Goodbye, Elijah." Gia whispered and left.

He was left standing there, with a frown on his face as he saw her heading to the cashier so she could pay for the decorations. Why was she rejecting him this way? What had he done to upset her so much? Was his former relationship with Hayley such a big importance to her getting closer to him? Elijah knew what he wanted. For once in his life, he wanted to have someone special with him for the holidays, someone other than his family. Someone else, someone who was his to have. Conversations and vampire training concluded for him the one thing he was feeling certain of: Gia was the one.

Kol & Davina

Davina sighed as she watched Kol drink up a storm in the living room. She was holding Hope in her arms and rocking her gently, thinking about what she should be doing. "Kol, you shouldn't be drinking! You have your niece here who is just a baby!" Davina called out to him. Kol was ignoring her, not giving a damn about what she was saying to him. His phone rang and he left the room, using his vampire speed to talk to that person. The little witch took a seat right next to a sleeping Klaus and rolled her eyes at the Original Hybrid. Taking care of Hope was something that he was supposed to be doing, while Hayley was out, not her. She had other problems on her mind, Kol being one of them. She could remember their fight from before.

"What do you mean that you want to take back your body? It's not possible." Davina asked him, this boy she thought she knew, Kaleb, but as it turns out, inside of him was the one and only Kol Mikaelson. "I am not satisfied with this body, Davina. You have to get that. I want to be the vampire that I was before." "The obnoxious and selfish one? I thought you cared about me and wanted to be with me." "I do care." "Then why would you want to become immortal again?" "Because that is when I truly feel alive." "That is what you said about me." Davina snapped back to him. "I did, darling. You do make me feel like I've never felt before, but…" "No. In something like this, there are no butts!"

Kol got angrier and pushed himself against her. "What do you want me to do? You want me to spend the rest of my mortal warlock days in this body? That is not what I want. I want to be immortal, just like the rest of my family. That is what is important." "And what about that kiss? That meant nothing compared to what you want? Immortality!" "Argh, you're impossible." Kol said and left the room, banging on the walls in anger. Davina felt confused and worried for that one moment. How did they end up like this?

Klaus Mikaelson stirred in his sleep and woke up to the sound of Kol laughing on the phone as he came back downstairs. He looked up and saw Davina sitting there, holding Hope. "What are you doing here? Where is Hayley?" Davina smirked and said, "Your wife is out shopping! You would have known that had you not slept your way into this house this morning! What is wrong with you? You should be taking care of this baby! Not me!" "Then what are you doing here? And she is not my wife!" "Hayley asked me to come here and look after her daughter, seeing clearly that you can't. I am not leaving now! Hope is staying with me." Kol came downstairs with a grin on his face as Klaus saw him. "What are you smirking at?" Klaus growled.

"Nothing, brother! But I guess tonight, I have a date." He dropped down on the couch and stared over at Davina for the first time. The little witch felt like she was going to start crying in that precise moment. What was wrong with him? How could he be so cruel to her?" She picked up Hope and went up the stairs and to her room, slamming the door shut. "Congratulations! You have brought more drama into this family. Exactly what we needed! Who is this girl you're seeing anyway?" "Princess." Klaus frowned. "I beg your pardon?" Kol scratched his head. "That's her name…or so I think." Klaus shrugged and got up. "Sounds trashy enough. But I am sure that is just a cover up for her to get in bed with you and make sure you don't contact her again."

Kol groaned and threw his head back in anger, "Hey, you got some problems with your damn wife, you better fix it and stop throwing your shit at me, brother!" he exclaimed and made Klaus turn back around and grab Kol by the throat, pushing him against the wall. "Let me make one thing clear to you, brother. Hayley is not my wife. We are not married." "You're still in a relationship." Kol said once Klaus let him go. "Not exactly." Klaus grabbed his coat and left the house. Kol whistled and whispered, "Happy holidays to me!"

A/N: Next chapter will have Klayley again but it will reveal the problems of Cami with Finn and Rebekah with Marcel as relationships. Hope you liked this one. Please review and let me know what you think!