Klaus took a deep breath as he stepped out for the first time in years seeing the sky and the outside world after being trapped in there for so long he had almost forgotten how the world looked with all the torture Marcel had been inflicting upon him
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Hayley must have noticed too since she put a reassuring hand on his shoulder as she saw him looking around
Her mind went to what he must have went through being daggered with Papa Tunde's blade which was literally made a person go through hell
Their worst nightmares
Relieving ever single moment they've felt guilty for
She wondered what he saw while he was daggered but decided not to bother him with questions reminding him of the pain
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Turns out Hayley had moved to a city next to New Orleans known as Baton Rouge and had been living in the Bayou there for the past 5 years with Hope
He remembered when he once said that he would not let his daughter be raised in a swamp but in reality he couldn't care less about if it was a swamp or not as he and his siblings had grown up in the same environment but it was the people
He wanted his daughter to remain with Him and Hayley as somewhat of a family not that his pride ever let him express it in a kind way as he had believed caring would make you weak
He also once believed that he wasn't weak
He just didn't want his daughter to be brought up by Jackson being her father figure
You see Klaus was a incredibly insecure person for a being who had lived for over a 1000 years
That was what he had feared since he found out about his daughter
The miracle baby
At first he feared that his own flesh and blood would grow up calling his brother
Father
Due to the romantic bond between his baby mama and his brother
Which he also was quite envious of as the woman carrying his heir loved his brother and not him
He sometimes wondered maybe if he had let his pride go and let his feelings show maybe this might have gone down differently
Maybe He could have fled the city with Hope and Hayley and enjoyed their lives in a paradise on the other side of the world free from all the dangers of the world he lived in
Maybe he could have been present to see his daughter say her first words , witness everything he always dreamt of every since he learned of the miracle the world had given him
Only if he had shown how much he truly cared for both his child and her mother
Things could have been so different
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Hayley could see the hurt look on his face as she drove the car towards the bayou
"Hey, You okay?" She asked placing her free hand over his
She had to admit that was a stupid question to ask someone who had practically been living in hell for the past 5 years but she didn't know what else she could say
"Does Hope know why I've been gone for the last few years?" He asked
"She knows that her dad sacrificed his own happiness to save his family in their time of need"
Hayley paused for a moment
"She also sees you as a hero of some sort" She let out with a small laugh
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If only he wasn't always the villian in everyone's story
but his own
and maybe in his daughter's
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"Klaus I know that you're worried but please don't ever think that Hope hates you"
He wondered how she could almost always read his emotions without him saying a word
He also sometimes wished that everybody else could too
But they couldn't
She was special
He felt her hand slowly making it's way towards his hand and softly giving it a light squeeze while her eyes remained focused on the road
They stayed like that for the rest of drive no words being exchanged between the two both of them lost in their own thoughts
Finally they arrived at the place where Hayley and Hope lived surprisingly for Klaus it was more like the governor's house they had lived in during while Hayley was pregnant than the huts he saw in the New Orleans Bayou where the crescent wolves once lived
His heart was racing rapidly as they walked closer to the house
He felt as if his stomach had been flipped inside out
The very moment he had been waiting for for 5 years scared the living daylight out of him as he finally stood infront of the door
Hayley said something snapping him out of his thoughts
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"She might get a little too excited so-" but she stopped seeing the look on his face
She really didn't know what to say he was once again scared of being rejected by someone he loved
His paranoia wasn't exactly something he had just because of his nature
He had been through so much
He was rightfully scared
Anyone who had even witness what he lived through would be
She knew there weren't any words that could offer him comfort so she just hugged him
For the second time in 2 hours
"She knows you, trust me."
She reassured him
Before any of them moved or said anything the door was opened by a small girl
"Mommy, You're ba-"
She stopped noticing the man her mother was hugging
Reddish-Blonde hair
Blue Eyes
That's all she needed to know before the photograph she treasured so much of her father came into her mind
This was her father
And the embrace between her mother and him that they had abruptly backed out of a second ago only confirmed that
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Klaus stared at her in awe
His little baby daughter was standing before him
after 5 years filled with torture that he had spent imagining this moment it was finally happening
She had grown so much
She was a tiny little 2 year old that needed to be carried around everywhere the last time he saw her but here she was standing infront of him all by herself
"Dad"
That's all it took to trigger all the emotions he thought he had lost the capability of feeling washed over him he knelt down to her height and Hope almost immediately wrapped her small arms around him
His daughter knew him
She knew who her father was even after 5 years of not seeing or having any contact with him
She knew
All his fears faded away as he hugged his daughter and the only thing he felt was love
Something extremely rare for someone like him
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Hayley stood there watching him and Hope and for the first time in her life she felt that everything was perfect
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Klaus felt tears starting to well up in his eyes
Tears of joy
Everything might turn out good for him after all
She was his Hope
I'm crying writing this.
I can't wait for season 4 to air
THE KLAYLOPE REUNION BETTER BE THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN ON THIS SHOW OR ELSE IMMA CUT A HOE
&
I'm so done with this Haylijah bullsh*t happening on the show
-C✨
