HOPE AND HENRIK.

CHAPTER 3.

Elijah walking into the Plantation House. after healing the wolf bite, walks straight into, the living room and Niklaus,

"I contemplated a game of eenie-meenie-miney-moe. You betrayed me. My own Sister!" Klaus points at her with the silver dagger. 

"Niklaus, don't you dare! " Elijah says fiercely.

"Perhaps it should be you, Brother! Stealing my Child away with every fawning moment of tenderness you show to Hayley!" 

"This has nothing to do with Hayley." Elijah says. 

Klaus, pointing with the dagger at Elijah, "It has everything to do with her! She's adored you since she arrived. And now my Child, my blood will grow up to call you Father!" Klaus said seething. He hands the dagger to Elijah, who takes it. 

Klaus leaves the house, "You're coming with me, little wolf." 

"Why would I go anywhere with you?" Hayley snaps back from her position on the veranda sitting on the steps hearing all that had been said inside. 

"Because, Hayley, that Child you carry is the only thing on this Earth that matters to me. Now you can fight me on this, but you will lose." He ranted, as he opened the car door, for her, "As will anyone else who tries to stop you getting in this car." Hayley looked at him, he was serious, and she stood up going to the car and getting in.

Klaus walked with Hayley into the Abattoir, and Hayley looked around with distaste at all the burnt bodies and broken furniture,

"This is your Family's house? What the hell happened here? "

"A battle, obviously. They lost, I won. The World is right again. Why don't you find a bedroom. Preferably one that hasn't been contaminated by Marcel's miscreant pests." Klaus told her, still annoyed with the conversation between he and his siblings at the Plantation House.

"I'm not staying here. This isn't a Home. This-this is a war zone." Hayley said to him looking around at the gloomy place. 

"You see that Crest? My Heir belongs here. What you want is of no consequence." Klaus barks at her. 

"Klaus, I can be your hostage, or we can try and be better than that. For our Child." Hayley says as she strokes her belly and Klaus watches her. "We can try and make her feel safe." Hayley tells him with a small smile.

"I'll have someone clean this up. Why don't you take Kol's room. It has a fireplace." Klaus says to her more gently and starts to move to the staircase. 

"Klaus," Klaus stops as she calls him and turns back to Hayley, "I want to believe that this baby means something to you. I want to believe in you. Don't let us down." Hayley tells him sincerely, and Klaus looks at her intently, her words touching him, nods to her and resumes going to the staircase.

"To New Orleans!" Klaus toasts the table of vampires.

"New Orleans." They repeat raising their glasses and drinking.  

"I understand that some of you may have questions regarding the recent change in leadership, and I invited you here tonight to assure you that you are not defeated. No, my intentions moving forward are to celebrate what we have. What Marcel, in fact, took and built for this true community of vampires." Klaus said to the vampires at the dinner table.

"What about her?" Diego says pointing to Hayley at the head of the table, who looks at Diego stonily. "The wolf." Diego sneers with a curl of his lip.