I'll Be Your Last

Plan B

Elijah asked if we could all talk, even though it was just after two in the morning. I reached the living room first. Pressing a glass of wine laced with blood in my hand, Elijah smiled at me. He so wasn’t making this easier. I really dreaded telling him and Rebekah about Hayley. At the moment he seemed very pleased about something.

“Rebekah was quite convinced that Niklaus was torturing you upstairs,” he said. “I was happy to find that wasn’t true. Although I do regret interrupting what appeared to be a… special moment.”

I couldn’t fight the grin that spread across my face at that. “It didn’t start out so special,” I assured him. “And good to know you’d intervene if that had been the case.”

“Absolutely.” Elijah took a seat in one of the arm chairs, motioning for me to take a seat on the couch next to him. “Not trying to pry, Caroline, but can you tell me what happened while I was away? And can you tell me where Haley is?”

I blew out a sigh. “I’m so sorry,” I started.

A large, warm hand slid over my shoulder. Klaus stood behind the couch, leaning over me. Elijah’s expression sobered as he looked to his brother above me.

“Tyler Lockwood was here as Kol predicted,” Klaus explained. “Haley left with him.”

I shook my head. I tried to ease people into bad news. Klaus just applied that news with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer.

“What?” Rebekah asked. She marched around the couch, looking more put together than she had when she’d come in earlier. “Hayley left with Tyler? Are you serious?”

Elijah’s surprise registered on his face. “She left with him willingly?”

The eldest original was looking at me for confirmation. I nodded.

“Hayley just left with him?” Rebekah was in complete disbelief. “Did you do nothing to stop them, Nik?”

I felt tension in Klaus’ hand as he curled his fingers into the fabric of my shirt. I was tired and not in the mood for another round of explosive Mikaelson family fighting.

“Yeah, he did but… it was my fault they got away,” I explained, keeping my gaze on Elijah because I felt like Haley’s exit would have the biggest impact on him. I couldn’t help but believe he had feelings for the she-wolf. “Tyler tried to bite me when I tried to get Haley back in the house and Klaus saved me from him. Tyler had friends with him who took off with Haley the minute Klaus was distracted and… he got away too. I’m so sorry.”

Elijah’s expression was pained but he held up a hand to me. “Caroline, please,” his tone was kind. “This wasn’t your fault. I’m just glad you weren’t hurt.”

“That little bastard tried to bite you?” Rebekah was incredulous as she took a seat on the coffee table in front of me. “Is that an official break up then?”

I snorted. “As far as I’m concerned.”

Everything he’d said to me, how he’d acted. It still stung. But it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. A small part of me was even relieved it was over.

“So what happened?” Leaning forward with her elbows on her knees, Rebekah waited for the story.

Klaus came around to sprawl out next to me on the couch as I told them everything that happened. He never once said anything as I told his siblings what happened from the time I realized that Tyler and Haley were in the garden up to their escape.

Rebekah was clearly furious when I finished my tale. “We took care of that little –“

“Rebekah,” Elijah cut her off.