Crescent Queen

“It’s okay,” he muttered, taking a shuddered breath. “I made my choice.” He looked to the little girl. The one that the pole had been meant for. He smiled this time. The laugh was going to hurt too much. He knew that. “You sound like her. She had hope too. Mari. She would like you.” He moved to grasp something next to him, when he knew she wasn’t going to listen to him about death.

“And I’m making mine.” Hayley was stubborn to a fault, at times ( much like this one ) it was a good thing. Moving a few things out of the way, being careful to not jostle Nicholas she looked up to him with a small chuckle. “I met her, we had a drink together. She was nice.” Just as she was about ready, Hayley looked to the little girl. “This isn’t going to be pretty, look away for a moment okay?” Watching as the girl did just that, Hayley took the other end of the pole between her hands and bent the pole until it broke. “Okay we need to get you up and to a hospital.”

He looked up at her with a chuckle. “Pretty sure i’m gonna die either way,” he muttered with a weak chuckle. “She was dead in 2. I might have 5. Just…” He winced. “Don’t move the wall with the yellow on it. Looks safe, but it’s not.”

"Please don’t laugh, I’m really not that funny and I don’t want you in any more pain than you already are.” Looking to the wall he spoke of, Hayley drew a sharp breath in. “You’re not dying today.” She wouldn’t let him. “Okay, we can do this.” If Hayley healed him, the risk of him dying and coming back in transition was too high. “I’m going to break the other end of this pole, you might want to hold my hand.” It would be a painful process but if it worked in the way she had hoped, she could at least get him out of here.

“I guess I just don’t get it. For being bein’ a vampire was instead of bein’ a wolf. You didn’t get to do both. And given it gives you more time with your daughter. Just…” He sighed, he knew he was being foolish about if. If she could get her wolf back. “Give it some time. I just would prefer a few moments of calm before we get involved in witches rubbish.” But looked to the place where her birth mark should be. “Though i do know some healing stuff for your birthmark if they…” He wasn’t sure what they did to it. To her. He laughed. “Of course. Though I am going to miss Connie’s diner so much. That place was the best, even if i didn’t cook there.” 

“I wasn’t meant to be a vampire, I only became a vampire because I was killed not even five seconds after I held Hope for the first time. But because I had traces of her DNA left in my system, I came back in transition.” Hayley knew in order to get her wolf back, it was going to take some time. “I could protect Hope better when I was a hybrid. And if I get my wolf back, I can go on runs with her. Maybe even you if you wanted to.” Hayley suggested. Looking to the shoulder that her birthmark would have been on, she shook her head with a sad smile. “She carved it completely off. It’s just scar tissue now.” God help the day that Greta came back. “I’m not sure what that is, but they do have a Mystic Grill here. Has pretty good food.”

“That’s really good to hear,” She knew the dead being back was something scary but if it meant people reunited. She was happy.”I think Alaric might have been that person. He’s great witht he kids,”

“It seems like I owe Alaric a lot more than I thought.” Hayley chuckles, taking a drink from the whiskey. “He’s a good guy. He could have denied Hope’s enrollment for the hell of it but he still took her in.”

“But you have your family now, baby. You have us. We are here. You don’t need your wolf when we are right in front of you. I would prefer you alive and safe then looking for a way to get your wolf back if it involves those witches. We can find someone else. Find me the answer and I will do it myself.” He nodded. “A good mother would say that, and a good father is going to know it’s hard for you if we don’t connect.”

"I know,” She smiles, “And I’m glad that I have you guys back. Before I bound my wolf, I had Hope promise me that she wouldn’t deny any part of herself. I was born a wolf, and they took that away from me. Both my birthmark and my wolf, I can only get one back. I’m not sure how, but I at least have to try.” Hayley bit at her lip, deciding on not telling him that being apart of the Mikaelson family put a target on her back. “It would be hard for me if you guys hated each other and were at each other’s throats. But I doubt that’ll be the case.” At least she hoped not, “Are you hungry?”

                   THE DAYS  OF KLAUS PRETENDING  he  didn’t  care  for  hayley  were  over  .   she  was  family  &  losing  her  was  a  lost  he  couldn’t  live  down  .   he  had  mourn  her  in  a  way  that  was  different  from  the  other  he  had  lost  before  .  she  had  FOUGHT  for  him  &  for  his  family  in  a  way  no  one   EVER  had  before  (( regardless  of  the  hell  he  put  her  through  ))  .    yet  ,  despite  it  all  she  still  cared  for him  .  klaus  knew  he  didn’t  DESERVE  her  LOVE  or  her  LOYALTY  .    ❝  i’ve  miss  you  too  hayley.   ❞  he  breathed ,  eyes  closed  shut  as  he  held  her  close  ;   A F R A I D   that  if  he  were  to  let  her  go  she  would  disappear  .   klaus  exhale  softly  .  the  original  hybrid  still  felt  guilty  about  not  being  able  to  save  her  on  the  day  she  died  ;    a  mistake  he  vowed   NEVER  to  let  happen  AGAIN  .   ❝  it  seems  we  both  get  a  second  chance  with  are  daughter  .  ❞

Allowing hazel hues to fall shut, Hayley holds onto Klaus a little tighter as she relaxes in his hold. Before coming to Mystic Falls, Hayley went to New Orleans in hopes of finding both her parents and her family; only to be greeted with people gloating of his and Elijah’s death and an empty home. She was hungry then, and watching as people were happy about their deaths, Hayley wanted to rip their throats out but she was so consumed with sadness as the news laid heavy on her mind. When she found out just how they died, Hayley wanted nothing more than be able to see him, to express just how proud of him she was. And now, here he stood -- here THEY stood. Hayley pulled back only a fraction just so she could look at Klaus, the hint of a small smile played out across her lips. “We get a second chance with her because you saved her, Klaus.” Her tone came soft, “And I couldn’t be any more proud and thankful for you than I am now.” She wished it never had to get to that point, that Hope could grow up with both Hayley and Klaus in her life together at the same time. “We can finally give Hope the life we wanted for her, and I will fight tooth and nail for it.”

“Yes, I know exactly what the witches of New Orleans know about,” he said sheepishly. Death. Murder. Dark magic. They would never be someone he would turn to for this kind of thing. “Wanting a family to be together is going to cause some natural tension. More so, if Hope doesn’t want it after all the time.” 

Hayley gives him a pointed look with a small shake of her head, “When I had nobody, I had my wolf. When my adoptive family kicked me out and I didn’t have any family left, my wolf is the only thing that kept me connected to my real family. To you and my mom. I feel empty without my wolf, and I trust Vincent and Davina, they’re not like the other witches in New Orleans.” She offers a small shrug. “She’ll go at her own pace, and I’m okay with that. But you should still meet her.”

——   ☾   REBEKAH LAUGHED. She was happy to see her friend in good spirits, even though someone had just greeted her roughly. It was almost like they were back in New Orleans. “That’s the price of being alive, Hayley. You can die at any moment.” Rebekah sighed, focusing her attention on the fact that they were both alive. She took a step towards Hayley, pulling her into the tightest hug she could manage. A few years meant nothing to a vampire, but the original felt as though she had been separated from her friend for centuries. Holding her now, it was too good to be true. “Promise me you won’t vanish the second I let go? This whole resurrection thing is starting to make suspicious.” 

Now that she was back, she would prefer to not die again, but if she had to die to keep Hope safe she would without a doubt. “Well then I guess it’s a good thing I’m not afraid of dying.” Hayley breathes a small laugh. This time would be different though, she would fight harder to stay alive, she didn’t want to put Hope though the pain of losing her all over again. She didn’t want to miss out on Hope’s life now that she had a second chance to be there. Relaxing into Rebekah’s arms, Hayley returns her embrace as hazel hues fall shut. Before Rebekah, Hayley didn’t do girlfriends -- the catty behavior of girls was enough to send Hayley into an aggravated mood but Rebekah rubbed off on her. And the brunette loved the blonde to pieces. “I promise I won’t vanish, and if I do I give you full permission to have me resurrected just so you could kick my ass for doing so.” Hayley promises.

Elijah tried not to let his emotions rock his composure. After everything, she still forgave him. Hayley’s compassion was something he admired about her. “I think I did. But I didn’t deserve it. I think we all found peace in some shape or form. I would have rather been able to offer you that last dance,”

"I don’t think peace is determined off of what you’ve done in the past, I think when you find peace -- it’s because you were at peace with dying. There was nothing holding you back from it.” Hayley states, “And if by some off chance that’s not the case, even you deserve peace Elijah.” A smile tugs at her lips as he mentions the dance, “We can still have our dance.”

“There is always a way to do anything, though i’m not the best person to ask about magic,” he admitted. He had spent all his life hiding his magic, even binding it from Andrea when she was a child. “You can’t hope to control the actions and feelings of others. Only yourself. I won’t give Hope a reason to doubt me, but i can’t change her mind when she is set in her ways. You shouldn’t let it upset you.”

“I have a couple witch friends in New Orleans that know a lot.” New Orleans wouldn’t be a place she’d want to go to at the moment, but if she couldn’t find anything here she would. “I’m not looking to control her, and it doesn’t upset me. I’m just.. giving you a heads up to not be surprised if she acts in defense of any kind of way. She’s been through a lot, and now that I’m back I’m hoping I can help her work through it.”

“You’re Hope’s mom? Oh, have you you seen her yet?” She asked. “Kind of keeps to herself but is a good kid overall in my opinion,”

“I am.” A smile tugs at her lips at the thought of her daughter. “Yeah, we saw each other. It wasn’t exactly at my finest moment, but it’s all the same.” She chuckles. Licking her lips over, Hayley grazes her teeth over her lesser with a breath, “Yeah Jeremy said something like that too. She’s been through a lot, I just wish she had at least one person she went to talk to.”

        “How could you say that it wasn’t.” Hope looked at her sadly. “At the end of the day, it was me. I made it easy for them to take you. I’m the one who put you in a coffin. Both times. One of it being permanently when you died. All because I wanted to see my father. I wanted all of us to be together. And dad… He sacrificed himself. Killed himself to kill the hollow… I lost both of you.” 

“NO, Hope. Get that notion out of your head. None of this is your fault, what happened... it’s decades older than the both of us combined. You may have put me in that coffin, but I didn’t make it easy for them to take me.” She was sure the coffin was left in a bloody mess -- her blood. “I was fighting to get back to YOU.” Hayley bites at her cheek as she shakes her head, “I put myself in the coffin, and I would do it all over again if it meant keeping you SAFE.” Hayley felt a twinge of sadness run through her veins both for her daughter, and the news of Klaus and Elijah. “I know,” She replies softly, “And I’m sorry for all of it. I wish it could be different. I wish your father and I could have raised you together, with no threats and vengeful people wanting to put that at risk. But you have to know, we both love you so much. And we would die for you all over again.”