HOPE AND HENRIK.

CHAPTER 4.

Klaus is scaling the rooftops of various buildings in the French Quarter when Elijah calls him from the Compound, with Hayley. 

"Yes, Brother, what is it? " Klaus asked.

"It appears our wolves have gone astray, Brother. "

"They should have been back hours ago," Hayley interrupts the call.  

"We need to find them. " Elijah announces. 

"Well, that might be a bit tricky. You see, we've located their car on a back road in the middle of nowhere. I suspect they've been shanghai'd." Klaus dicloses.

"And you didn't feel the need to share this information? " Elijah rejoined.

"It was my intention to present you with a problem only after I had found an appropriate solution," Klaus casually replied. 

"Do enlighten us," Elijah demands. 

"I'm closing in on it as we speak. The only person who would be bold enough to snatch my wolf allies is the one who has the most to lose." 

"Marcel," Elijah sighs.

"No, he'll kill them! " Hayley says fearfully.

"Genevieve assures me that Marcel has procured a cloaking spell. The only witch who will aid Marcel is Davina. I just need to get one last bit of leverage before I pay her a visit," Klaus replies from the rooftop, Klaus looks down below and watches as Josh carries a duffel bag to his car that is parked on the Street. Josh pops the trunk to his car to put away his stuff. 

"And there it is," Klaus drawls, as he hangs up and jumps down behind Josh, which startles Josh. 

"Hello, Joshua," As Klaus grabs Josh and bites him on the neck before Josh can react.

Klaus opens another crate to find that it contains at least six bombs, "Okay," he gestures around him,  "Exercise extreme caution in this general area. Bit of a mess." 

Elijah's cell phone rings. He sees Hayley is calling him, and he answers it 

"Impeccable timing. "

"What's going on? " Hayley asks.

"Jackson is fine. He's...a little tied up right now. Can we call you back?" as Klaus sniggers at Elijah's joke, and flips open another crate. Inside are another handful of bombs, with a folded slip of paper on top. Klaus frowns, just as the red blinking light on the bomb turn green. 

"Time to leave Klaus says vamping out of there."

COMPOUND.

Hayley is pacing around in the study when Elijah, Klaus, and Jackson, all looking very disheveled and covered in ash, return home. 

Jackson groans, and turns to Elijah, "I got it. "

Hayley runs toward them, "Thank god you're alive!" and gives Jackson a hug, and looks at Elijah over his shoulder and whispers, "Thank you," Elijah nods at her and watches as Hayley and Jackson sit down to tend to his wounds. 

"I'm fine, too, thanks for asking." Klaus grunted, completely being ignored by her.

"What about the stones?" Hayley asked instead.

 Elijah sighs, "Scattered across the bed of the Mississippi, I'd imagine." 

Klaus pours himself a drink, "Marcel's not a fool. He knows an empowered werewolf army would mean the end of vampires in New Orleans. The explosion is his way of saying he means to prevent that. For all the good it'll do him."