Her Pain (Sequel To His Mate) (Book#2)

Chapter 19: Hope

Skylar's POV
New Orleans Cemetery

"It's ingenious." Klaus frowned scratching the tomb. "I can see them, I can feel them. And yet they are not real."

"There has to be a way. Even if we could just push through." Emmett sighed.

"What we need to do is focus." Klaus suggested.

"My only focus is that baby girl and her safety!" I stated.

"Skylar's right. This, all of this, this is the world that you have created, Niklaus." Elijah frowned.

"Brother....."

"All of your scheming, all of the enemies you've made every single day of your miserable life. What results did you expect?! That your child would be born into a happy life, that the mother would be alive to even know her daughter, and to live and thrive as some sort of family?!" Elijah yelled.

"That was your fantasy brother, not mine!" Klaus growled.

"NO, brother! This was our hope!" Elijah exploded. "This was our families hope!!! And now she's gone."

Klaus, Emmett, and I just stayed quiet.

"Do you understand? I...... let this person in. I let her in. I hardly never let people in." Elijah just about cried. "You knew this. And you've taken her from me. I needed her and you've broken me."

We all sat next to Elijah on a tomb step as Klaus grabbed his arm.

"You can tell your niece how much you've cared for her mother when we save her." Klaus nodded.

We all got up and started searching the tombs together.

Later

"Ugh! We already passed through here twice already! We're running out of time!" I growled getting worried.

"Hey, we'll find her." Emmett assured.

"Then we move faster." Klaus said putting a third scratch in the wall.

"Or smarter." A familiar voice said making me quickly turn around.

"Hayley!" I smiled in shock and ran and hugged her. "Thank God your okay! How are you here?"

"I woke up in the church. I felt this hunger. I knew what I needed." Hayley sighed then looked around at all of us. "I can feel her. She's here. I can feel my baby."

"You died with the babies blood still in your system." Klaus stated. "She's in transition."

"Which means you'll have to drink the blood of the child if she's to survive." Elijah realized.

"To be reborn a hybrid." Emmett nodded.

"I don't care about me." Hayley stated. "I'm gonna go find our daughter."

And with that we followed Hayley through the cemetery until we saw the witches performing the ritual.

"No!" Hayley screamed as they held the knife above the baby.

Emmett quickly grabbed a concrete plant and threw it, making the red head fly back and dropped the knife. We all ran towards the baby but went flew back as they used their magic.

"You fools. To come against us in our place of power in our strongest our." The young brunette stated. "You don't face three. You face us all."

We all went separate ways to try and get the baby. I went left with Hayley while Emmett went right with Klaus as Elijah stayed in the front.