HOPE AND HENRIK.

CHAPTER 5.

Editor @SkyNeves

Klaus is listening to Mozart's Requiem in D Minor K 626 -3 on a record player while he furiously tries to stretch a canvas over a wooden frame for a painting. When he tears through the canvas, he angrily throws the canvas across the room, just as Elijah returns from his meeting.

Klaus thundered, "AGHHHHHH!"

Elijah picks up the canvas and inspects it, "I suppose we shall have to call this your "white period."

"I'm missing a crucial colour in my palette. That of my enemies' blood."

"Well, I recommend a Venetian red, with a dash of rust..." Elijah remarks.

Klaus loses his temper and yells, "It's been months! I've adhered to our plan, sit and do nothing, sell our grief. And now, my Children are safely away, and another Full Moon is upon us! Another night of pathetic weakness as the moonlight rings steal my strength!" Elijah gives Klaus a sympathetic look, and Klaus calms down slightly, "The nursery is killing me. I need to act. I -I -I need - I need to spill blood."

"Well then, you'll be pleased to know that I've located the last of the Twelve rings forged with your blood."

Klaus smiles weakly, "Then, it's time."

"And none too soon. I'm concerned about Hayley."

Klaus tenses up and returns to sorting through his art, "She looks well enough."

"She looks no better than you, Brother. Now, if the two of you would treat each other as more than just... passing acquaintances-" Klaus interrupts.

"She has you for that."

"Sadly, like the Father of her Children, she prefers to fight her demons alone."

Elijah is in the middle of packing up Hope and Henrik's nursery when Hayley finally returns home, Hayley enters the room.

"What do you think you're doing, Elijah?" She barks at him.

"Welcome back. What is it, the third night this week?"

Hayley annoyingly answered, "I don't need a caretaker. Hybrids are invincible, right? What are you doing, Elijah?"

"As we have discussed, our illusion needs to be flawless. Now, Months have passed. It's the appropriate time."

"What's next on the "appropriate" list? Klaus and I hold our heads up high and say we're ready to try again?" She hisses.

"I understand this is difficult for you-"

Hayley shouts, "What's difficult is knowing that Francesca Guerrera is still breathing after she was the one who plotted with the witches to kill my babies!"

"You will have your vengeance, I promise you this."

Hayley glares at him, "Well, until then, this is my room, and I'll tell you when it's appropriate to clean it out." Hayley, in an upset manner, moves out of the way so Elijah can leave the room.

Elijah, Hayley, and Klaus continue to plan their attack against the Guerreras that night.

"If they believe they can get their hands on the stake, they will come for me when I am weak. Each ring you retrieve will strengthen me, but I will still be at a disadvantage."

"Ergo, any hope of our success depends entirely upon our working together." Elijah looks at Hayley, "The two of you can no longer afford to retreat to separate corners." Hayley looks over at Klaus, who sighs and stands up to look at her.