KLAYLEY SHORT STORIES.

THE RED DRESS.

CHAPTER 1.

Klaus was only half listening to Caroline as they sat on the bench together at Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, he unashamedly stared at the little wolf in her short red dress as she walked beside Tyler Lockwood. She was a stunning woman, looking at her long legs in the short dress, her beautiful unusual face, as Caroline blabbed about herself. Caroline was up to something, he knew Caroline had agreed to this date as a distraction, he also knew Hayley was not here just for Tyler. There was something desperate and ruthless about the little wolf he had seen and sensed it the moment he had met her in Tyler's study. He had not been alive a thousand years and a fool which is what Caroline and her little friends liked to think he was, and although pretty he had encountered thousands of Caroline's over the millennia.

Hayley excused herself from Tyler and went to the bathroom. After finishing in the toilet she stood at the hand basin washing her hands looking at herself in the mirror when the mirror seemed to wave and contort a kaleidoscope of colours shone before her eyes, she blinked, took a deep breath, closed her eyes pressing them tightly together then opened them again. She looked back at her reflection, those bloody witches in the Afterlife, what had they done?

Hayley had arrived in the Afterlife and had been there sometime when she had come across a group of witches. They had told her they could send her back to Hope, that Hope needed her. Elijah had just arrived in the Afterlife, he had told her Klaus had used the white oak to kill the Hollow to save Hope and Elijah had felt guilt at Hayley's death and had wanted to die alongside his Brother. Hayley had brushed him off, she had gotten over Elijah a long time ago. Elijah was not the Mikaelson for her, took her long enough but she had finally gotten there. Klaus had never arrived in the Afterlife so Hayley had consulted a coven of witches in the Afterlife, they had told her Klaus wouldn't find peace until their Daughter did. Hayley waited but he never arrived, which meant Hope wasn't at peace and this broke her heart and then they told her Hope had been killed. They had said they could send Hayley back to the Real World, to be reborn, they just needed her to do something for their Coven. Hayley had agreed not knowing they would be sending her back, so far back she wouldn't have even conceived Hope yet. And here she stood in Tyler Lockwood's Mansion in the bathroom back from the Afterlife, well before Hope and breaking the hybrid's sire bonds to Klaus and doing a shady deal with Professor Shane. She wanted to scream and rage and she was wearing a dress she wouldn't be seen dead in now that she was older. She tried to bring her wolf forward and couldn't. She was just a wolf, not a hybrid, she scowled, she had to get out of here. Walking briskly out of the bathroom and out of the house and walking briskly to her car, she inwardly groaned when she smelt him, whirled around and said in a hurry.

"I don't have time for this Klaus. I have to get to New York. And if you knew what was good for you, which you don't because you're as stubborn as a mule you would kill Professor Shane and leave this bloody place now," She snapped, yanking open the door to her piece of shit car that wouldn't make it to New York. She would need to steal another one or better yet, she turned back to him his eyes narrowed watching her, "Let's kill Professor Shane then you can take me to New York, but first I need to get changed," She said going to the boot of her car and pulling out jeans she pulled them on under her dress, then pulled her dress off standing there in her strapless bra she pulled a grey t shirt over her head.