Last Dance
Pairing: Elijah Mikaelson x Hayley Marshall
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This is an afterlife AU where Hayley and Elijah reunite. Aka, one of the last scenes we should have seen on the Originals.
Elijah was not expecting to open his eyes again; he wasn't sure he should have expected anything. The other side was destroyed years ago, and who could truly guarantee there was any life after death? Even if they saw visions of the dead while he was alive. For all he knew, he was making them up.
When he opened his eyes to find himself in the woods, he pinched himself to make sure it wasn't some kind of dream. He could still feel the quick sensation, and as he stood up, he brushed the dirt off of his suit. It felt just like it had when he was alive, except he no longer felt emotional pain or guilt. It was as though a huge burden was lifted off of his chest, like he had paid enough for his wrongdoings.
It was then he remembered how he died and how Klaus came with him. He looked around for his brother, but he could not see him anywhere. This was the first time he felt frantic. If he truly lost his brother now after everything, what was the point? He died with Klaus so he wouldn't be alone, even though having an afterlife was not guaranteed. He at least needed to know that his brother was no longer feeling the burden of his old life, too.
He ran through the woods until he approached an old cabin. It was then he realized this was where the wolves all congregated. It was then he knew he could find her.
He gulped as he stepped forward to knock on the door. He was nervous; who knew if she would even want to see him. After all, he knew she would be with Jackson. He probably helped her adjust to what was after death. How would he even compare? He never did before, so he definitely would not now. If she was happy with Jackson even now, he would let her go and search for his brother. It would be just like his previous life.
He hadn't realized he had knocked until the door opened. It was Hayley in all her glory. She smiled once she saw him with tears in her eyes. Before he could say anything, she wrapped her arms around him and buried her head into the crook of his neck.
"Elijah," she whispered, "We have been waiting for you."
Perplexed by the thought of Jackson waiting for him, he raised his brow as he pulled away. It was then that Klaus came around the corner to greet him.
"Hello brother," he said, "Took you long enough to wake up and find us here."
Filled with relief, Elijah moved towards Klaus and put his arms around him.
"Isn't it an amazing feeling, brother?" Elijah asked him, "To no longer feel guilt and only the good things in life?"
"Yes," Klaus answered him, "It does. I never thought I would deserve this type of ending."
As they pulled away from each other, Klaus awkwardly cleared his throat as he looked between Hayley and Elijah.
"Well, I'm going to see if Jackson wants to enjoy my company. We probably still have a few kinks to work out, but everyone always warms up to Klaus Mikaelson."
He winked at the two of them as he walked out of the cabin, and when he shut the door behind him, it was eerily quiet.
"So, it looks like we met in another life," Hayley said casually, "Just as we hoped when all your memories were gone."
"Hayley, about that-"
"Don't Elijah," she said softly, "I have found peace, and you have too. It doesn't matter anymore. All that matters is that we are here together and that we can be together."
"What about Jackson?"
Elijah held his breath for Hayley's answer. She walked towards him and wrapped her arms around his neck, "I love him, Elijah, but I'm in love with you."
She leaned forward and pressed her lips softly to his. In that moment, Elijah felt more alive than he had ever felt when he was actually alive. To be at peace and to be with Hayley was all he could have asked for after everything he had done and endured.
As she pulled away he whispered, "I love you, too. I always have and always will."
She smiled and pressed their foreheads together. Elijah shut his eyes to relish in the moment, until he heard her softly say, "I believe you promised me a dance in our next life. I have been waiting."
Elijah then took her hands in his and heard music playing in the background. He wasn't sure if Hayley could hear it too or if it was of his own making. But they danced, and they danced for as long as they desired.
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Chapter 9: “Half step forward, five steps back”
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“Is this always and forever?” Masterlist
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A/N: Hey, guys! It's been a long time since I last posted stuff on this blog. I 'm sorry, but I had THE BIGGEST WRITER BLOCK in the world, but today I came back to post this new chapter <3 Thank you so much for waiting! Hope you like it~
It would've been naive of me to believe nothing would ruin Christmas day, especially in NOLA, while being involved with the Mikaelsons. It was about 4 a.m when Elijah called me and told me to go meet him at the compound since he wanted to tell me something important. His voice didn't make me feel calm at all, since he sounded a bit worried. I knew it was something critical, so I ran immediately to the Abattoir.
It felt awkward, being outside the house, waiting for Elijah to show up, while knowing Klaus and Camille were inside, perhaps sleeping together. It shouldn't feel this way, I knew since I got here that he loved her, that he moved on, then why was it so hard for my heart to completely accept it?
A few minutes passed when I heard growls and screams coming from the compound, I easily recognized they were Klaus's. I made my way inside the house, looking for the hybrid, feeling more and more worried with each step I took upstairs. I could smell the blood coming from Klaus's bedroom, and I could hear all the things he was throwing and tearing down.
My hands went to my mouth immediately after I saw why Klaus was making all this scandal: Camille was dead. She was laying on the bed, all covered in blood, with a big and deep cut on her throat. It took me a second to process all the information I just got. But how was this possible? I mean, how did Klaus allow this to happen? I was outside and saw no one entering the house. Unless… No, he would've never hurt her, right?
The hybrid hadn't noticed me until he accidentally threw a vase in my direction, and I stopped it with my right hand, carefully setting it down. He looked at me with eyes full of sadness, before letting himself fall to the ground, leaning his back against the wall, crying silently as he looked at Camille's lifeless body.
“Niklaus, I'm so sorry, ” I said carefully, not knowing if that was the right thing to say to him. Since he stayed silent, I grabbed my phone and quickly called Elijah, telling him to come as fast as possible, not knowing how to handle this situation by myself.
Klaus suddenly got up and walked towards Camille's body. He sat on the bed, and hugged her, gently caressing her face with his fingers, “She was fine, ” he said, “I don't know what happened, I heard nothing…” His tone of voice went from sad to angry in a millisecond.
I was about to say something when Camille opened her eyes, suddenly sitting on the bed. Niklaus and I, both gasped in surprise. Her eyes were all over the place, trying to recognise her surroundings, then she touched her neck, looking down just to see herself covered in her blood.
“Klaus…” She said, now looking at him in the eyes with fear.
I quickly ran to the bathroom, looking for some towels to clean her up a bit. Someone must've given her vampire blood before killing her, and by someone I mean one of our enemies, possibly the Martel siblings, it was so obvious.
When I went to the room again, I handed the towels to Camille, while Klaus interrogated her to find out who did this to her. It turned out it was Aurora's fault, like I suspected. That woman was definitely crazy, and I felt so sorry Camille got involved in all this, she seemed like a really good person.
“I died, ” She sobbed, as I sat next to her, and placed a hand on her back, as a gesture of support. She looked at me before saying, “I’m dead” The disbelief in her voice made my heart ache, remembering when I went through the same shock many years ago.
“Well, you will not stay dead,” Niklaus said in a bitter tone of voice, looking at her, “She will pay for her actions, I swear to you!” He yelled in anger, making Camille look at him.
“Klaus, I don’t think this is the moment for reven…” I tried to say, but Camille let out some painful moans as she grabbed her belly. I tried to explain to her that she was in the middle of the transformation, so her body was asking her to feed, but Klaus interrupted me.
“You need to feed on blood soon,” He said, “Or you will die again, this time for good,” He said, and Camille’s eyes widened in horror.
“Don't you want to take a shower first? I think being covered in blood isn't helping,” I said to her, getting up from the bed. She nodded and walked slowly to the bathroom, where I left her a new towel and some clothes at vamp speed.
I sighed, getting my phone out of my pocket, texting Elijah again, asking him to hurry. I walked out of that bedroom, and Klaus followed me, mumbling things about his revenge.
Camille must be so confused about what to do. I don't think she has ever considered becoming a vampire in her life, and now she's been forced to choose...
“I’m going to rip her head off,” He said behind me, “She's going to pay for this!”
“Could you stop?” I asked him, crossing my arms over my chest, “Camille is upstairs, and she’s still in shock,” I took a few steps towards him, placing my phone inside my pocket, “She’s scared, Klaus, she needs you now….”
“I’m not having this conversation about her with you,” He said, interrupting me and walking past me, “Where is Elijah?” He asked, looking around, ignoring me.
“Of course you're not, you hate being told how unconsidered you can be,” I mumbled without thinking, not expecting him to hear me. But he did, and he looked at me with even more anger.
“Oh, stop projecting your own problems with me onto her already!” He snapped, looking at me with an annoyed expression.
“I'm not— I'm just trying to help, Klaus,” I exclaimed, frowning.
“Right, because you care so much about me and Camille?” He said with a sarcastic smile.
“I don't hate you, and I sure don't hate Camille,” I said, “I really thought we were past this after last night discussion,”
“Well, maybe if you didn't ruin every progress we make...,” He said, making me clench my jaw and fists.
“How exactly am I the one ruining everything?” I asked, feeling offended.
“You say you want to stay but you run away every time, Nikole,” He said, and I knew exactly what he was talking about.
“And you're the one who make me run away, Klaus,” I said, swallowing hard before taking a deep breath, “I'm not Aurora, I'm not going to hurt you” I said after a few seconds of silence, “I know you care about her now, and I'm...”
What was I supposed to say? That I was fine with it? That would be the best thing to say, but it would be a lie. When I saw them kissing, he followed me, but I ran away before he could talk to me. Why? Because even though I know he loves her, I wasn't ready to hear it from him. It makes me so mad that I can't let him go, that my heart doesn't want to let him go…
His eyes were on me, waiting for me to finish that sentence. I couldn't tell if he wanted me to say I was okay though, perhaps he wanted to tell him I was not okay at all, but that would be extremely awkward and risky to say right now, or ever.
I was about to say something else about Camille, to change the subject, but Elijah appeared, and Klaus hurried to tell him what happened.
“These attacks need to be answered! Our retribution must be swift, and it must be brutal!” Klaus said, angrily pouring himself a bourbon when we entered the living room.
“Agreed,” Elijah said calmly, “After the Serratura has been recovered.” He added, taking off his coat, throwing it onto a chair, “Oh, and Freya's pendant is also missing,”
“Wasn't Finn inside that pendant?” I asked, speaking for the first time since the oldest arrived.
He looked at me and nodded, but I noticed something weird about him. He seemed uncomfortable, maybe it was because of that thing he wanted to talk to me before all this happened.
“What does he matter? Let the imbecile stay lost!” Klaus exclaimed, frowning at me, “Our business for today is to finish off the de Martels.”
“I need you to think, brother, think,” Elijah said, trying to calm him down, “Tristan needs the most powerful witch in the city to activate that weapon…”
“He'll need Vincent,” I said. He was the only powerful witch in the city, besides Freya.
“Who used to be possessed by Finn,” Klaus concluded, and started walking towards the door to leave.
“You stay here,” Elijah grabbed him by his shoulder, trying to stop him.
“You can take care of Aurora later,” I said, “Right now, she needs to be your priority,” those words felt like swallowing sharp glass.
“Nikole is right,” Elijah said, “While you take care of her, we are going to find out more about Tristan's plan and see if we can get Vincent to be on our side,” He said, grabbing his coat again, and walking towards me to offer me his arm. When I intertwined mine with his, we left the compound at great speed.
Looking for the Regent wasn't as easy as I expected. Elijah and I had to talk to at least six people to finally find out where he may be. While we were walking around the quarter, looking for more information about Vincent or Tristan's location, Elijah decided to talk to me about why he called me before.
“My younger sister told me to keep this as a secret, but I don't think it would be fair to hide it from you,” He said, walking next to me, “Rebekah did not leave town last night,” He looked at me.
I frowned confused after hearing his confession, “What do you mean? I saw her getting inside the cap, Elijah”.
“She asked me to put her down,” He said, as my eyes widened in surprise, “She thought it would be better if we got rid of the ‘family’ part of the prophecy. I couldn't bring myself to hide this information from you, but I'm going to have to ask you not to share it with anyone else.”
“I won't tell anybody, Elijah,” I promised, but I was still surprised. “It must've been so hard for you to put her down, thank you for telling me,” I said, caressing his arm as we crossed the street.
“I'm sorry I didn't explain why I called you before, Nikole,” He apologized, but I shook my head, letting him know that I understood the situation.
“Klaus and Camille needed our attention earlier, it's fine,” I said, “Now I just hope all this ends soon, and we can bring Bex back, that's all I have to say,” I looked at him with a tiny smile.
The sun had already come out when we finally got the information we required and immediately headed to the Lafayette Cemetery. In order to enter the place, we had to kill four vampires, luckily I was already getting a bit too comfortable fighting.
“This is for your ancestors!” I heard Vincent's voice, followed by painful screams, “May they judge you harshly” He said to the witch before she died from the hex he cast.
Elijah and I looked at each other, knowing exactly what to do before we walked in opposite ways. That was one of my favourite things about our dynamic: We were easily on the same page. It was mostly because we were excellent at making plans.
I saw Vincent trying to run away, but as soon as he turned, one of the Strix grabbed him. The vampire broke Vincent's arm, just when he grabbed a pike to try to stab him. Kits before that vampire killed the witch, Elijah appeared and ripped the vampire's heart out from behind.
“Vincent, we should chat,” I heard Elijah say, as I made sure no more witches or vampires were around the cemetery. Once the ground was clear, I went back to where Elijah and Vincent were.
I saw the witch trying to grab Freya's pendant while Elijah was cleaning his hands with his handkerchief. Vincent groaned, trying to crawl over to grab it first, but I was faster.
“No!” Vincent let out a groan when he saw I placed the pendant in my pocket. I felt bad for him, so I offered my blood to him, “I don't want your damn blood!” He said, tired.
I could understand his hatred towards vampires and his tiredness after all he'd been through, it must be horrible to be used and threatened this way… Right now, we needed him too, so I needed to think a bit colder.
“You should be grateful she's kind, offering you to heal your broken arm,” Elijah said, shaking his head with disappointment. “I will ask you now, Vincent, where is the Serratura?”
“Look, I don't know what to tell you, man,” Vincent said to him, shrugging, “If you want your big, bad Serratura, you're gonna have to go after Tristan because he took it with him after he forced me to activate it,”
“Can't you deactivate it?” I genuinely asked.
“I couldn't even if I wanted to, and just for the record, I'm all done with vampire demands for the day,” Vincent said, looking at both of us with a frown, “Push me and see what happens” He threatened, trying to get up.
“You don't want to see what happens,” Elijah said, walking towards him, “My family's in jeopardy, you're responsible,”
“That's on you, man,” Vincent said, “If Tristan didn't have the pendant, then he wouldn't have any leverage over me,” He said.
I looked at the pendant in my hands and waved it in front of him. Elijah couldn't help but smirk when Vincent saw me and instantly sighed, knowing we were going to use the pendant again to make him do whatever we needed to stop Tristan and Aurora.
Elijah kept chatting with Vincent, explaining to him how we're going to work together unless he wanted us to put Finn inside him again, but the sound of my phone ringing interrupted the conversation.
“We need to go back to the compound,” I said after I hung up the call, “It was Freya, and she didn't sound any good,” I said, looking at Elijah, who quickly fed Vincent with his blood, so he could heal faster and get up to go with us.
Once we got to the Abattoir, Elijah immediately ran towards his sister, “Freya? What's happening?” He asked, seeing her in that state.
The Mikaelson witch was standing in front of a table with a small box on top. She was crying silently, while her eyes looked at the box with horror. I approached her and caressed her arm, she looked at me and then at Elijah and Vincent before speaking.
“A messenger came,” She said, tears still falling down her face, “Some compelled tourist. He left this…” She pointed to the mysterious box.
Elijah gently lifted the corner of the lid to the box. I couldn't help but let out a gasp when I saw what was inside the box: It was a bloody heart. He immediately closed the lid and took a deep breath before asking Freya who did that heart belong. The answer left all of us, the three of us, completely shocked.
“Who did this? Does Hayley know about this?” I asked, but Freya didn't say anything, she just held me a note that came with the box.
“Courtesy of the Strix, obviously,” Elijah said after reading the note at the same time as me.
“So, unless we do what they want, Hayley will be next?” I said, looking at Elijah with concern.
While I was consoling Freya, we all heard Klaus and Camille having a big discussion upstairs. I wonder why, since I didn't really payed attention to the words they were saying. A few moments later, Klaus came downstairs and asked what was happening.
We needed to do something, plan something real quick. We couldn't let them hurt Hayley anymore. Klaus got worried about Hope, so I offered going to the bayou and see if she was ok.
It turned out Hope was with Mary all this time, I didn't have the hear to tell her about Jackson, so I just tried to not to talk to anybody and watch Hope from far. Once I got sure she was ok, I went back to the compound and found everyone in he living room, discussing the plan.
“Two Original vampires, a regular vampire, and two powerful witches against an army of miscreants? I'm rather looking forward to it,” Klaus said, with a smirk.
Vincent and I both gave him an annoyed, “Just keep in mind that I'm mortal, and, as much as I want these guys out of my city, I like breathing,” He said, walking around the sofa in front of us, “So, let me go to the covens,” He proposed an alliance, “They hate you guys, but if I explain what's going on…”
“There's no time,” Elijah said, sitting on a chair, looking at his watch.
“Before we rush into battle, I think we should keep in mind that Tristan may be the very foe to lead you to your doom,” Said Freya, approaching his brother, “Isn't this exactly what the prophecy foretold? Rebekah's on the run, and I will not lose the two of you, as well.”
“Rebekah's safe” Elijah said, glancing at me. I clearly noticed he felt uncomfortable when Freya mentioned their sister, but he quickly covered it up, before looking at Klaus, “Brother, perhaps you should stay…” He said, hesitating.
“And what kind of father would I be if I didn't fight for the mother of my child?” He scoffed, “I have no intention of being outmaneuvered by Tristan de Martel, of all people.”
“Intention's got nothing to do with it,” Vincent said, “As long as Tristan de Martel has the Serratura and your baby's mama, the advantage is all his,”
“Well, then we should take that advantage from him,” I said, making them look at me intrigued, “I may have an idea to win this.” I said, looking at Freya.
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