CHAPTER ONE: always and forever

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SEBASTIAN MARSHALL STOOD BY HIS SISTER, HUFFING, AS HE HAD HIS ARMS CROSSED. "I still can't believe that you slept with Nicklaus Mikaelson, the original hybrid."

Hayley rolled her eyes, sighing as she looked at her brother. "Can you please stop talking? You're being annoying."

"Whatever." Sebastian fought back an eye roll, putting down one of the cards. "Go." The two-out down the cards. "Your cards." He watched Hayley take the two cards and had them to her deck.

"I can't believe you brought playing cards to play war."  Hayley laughed.

"You're bored. I'm bored. I like to play cards."

He played the next card down, Hayley following and placing her card, Sebastian taking the cards this time. The two continue to play the cards. "I declare war." The two spoke, putting each card after another. "My cards."

Hayley rolled her eyes, seeing her brother place the cards in his deck and look at her's to examine the difference.

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"Bring her out." Sebastian rolled his eyes at the sound of the witch's voice. He followed behind his sister, three witches leading them.

"Do we know this guy?" Sebastian asked, leaning to his sister as he saw the man.

Hayley shook her head, looking at the man. "Who the hell are you?"

The man stepped forward, pausing before he turned his head to the witch. "Give it a moment, please."

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"So, have they been holding you here against your will?" Elijah Mikaelson asked.

"They lured me out to the bayou and grabbed me. Then they did all these weird, witchy tests, not that I understand how this could happen. I mean, vampires are dead. They can't have children."

"Klaus didn't get the memo." Sebastian shuffled the cards, lifting them. "Want to play?"

"Seb..." Hayley sighed.

"Perhaps if you knew my brother's story, it might explain how this is possible. Here," he lifted both hands, bringing it to the sibling's heads. "if I may."

Sebastian grabbed the wrist, wishing he could control his werewolf side. And Hayley moved back. "What are you doing?"

"Relax. If you open your mind to me, I can show you." He put a hand on the side of Hayley and Sebastian's head. "In the beginning, our family was human, a thousand years ago."

The scene of a young boy and long hair with a girl whose hair was blond ran through the woods. "Our brothers are fighting again." The girl laughed. Two young men, one who king blond hair and Elijah with long hair.
"Although our mother dabbled in the dark arts, we were largely just a family trying to survive at a time when it was quite difficult to do so..."

The blond-haired boy cut at Elijah's belt.

"And for better or worst, we were happy. That is, however, until one night. Our village's greatest enemy killed our youngest brother."

"Mother!" The blond-haired boy ran on the dirt ground, holding a limp body—a boy, with dark hair. Long gashes across the boy's chest, blood soaking his shirt and up to his chin, blood leaked from his nose.

"Men that could transform themselves into wolves during a full moon. Our family was devastated, none more then Niklaus. Desperate to protect the rest of us, our father forced our mother to call upon her black magic in order to make us stronger."

Niklaus watched as his father slit a woman's wrist, screaming at a blond-haired girl. "Drink! Drink!" he demanded, grabbing the hair of the blond and putting down on the bleeding cut.

"Thus, the first vampires were born. But with this speed, this strength, this immortality, came a terrible hunger. No one felt this hunger more than Niklaus." Elijah informs them.

"Pretty much expected that," Sebastian muttered.

Klaus is feeding off of a person, ripping his teeth away before tossing the person to the floor.

"When he killed for the first time, we knew what he truly was."

Klaus begins to turn into a wolf. He screams, his bones cracking. Mikael and Elijah come running. Elijah yells in worry. "Niklaus!"

"What is happening to me?" Klaus asked, fearful and in pain.

Elijah wants to run to his brother, but he can't as he is held back by his father. "Don't!"

"Father! It hurts!" Klaus yelled, turning his head up as his bones continued to break,

"He's a beast, an abomination."  Mikael says.
Klaus growled.

"He wasn't just a vampire." Elijah speaks.

"He was also a werewolf. That's how the werewolf curse works. It isn't activated until you take a life." Sebastian speaks up.

"Niklaus was the result of an indiscretion our mother had hidden from us all. An affair, with a werewolf-like yourselves."

Esther, the Mikaelson sibling's mother, stands in front of a fire, casting a spell.

"Infuriated by this betrayal, my father forced our mother to cast a spell that would suppress Klaus's werewolf side, denying him any connection with his true self."  Elijah speaks.

Mikael binds Klaus to a wooden cross. "Elijah! Elijah, hold him down!" Mikael demands.

"Brother, please! Don't let them do this to me!"Klaus pleaded.

"Do it now, boy! Now!" Mikael yelled, clearly angry now. Elijah walked over, pressing Klaus's other arm down to the cross.

"Help me!" Klaus tried again, looking at Elijah.

"Your father was a psychotic bastard," Sebastian tells him.

"I'm Hayley, by the way. You should probably know my name if you're gonna tell me your whole life story. I mean, I know yours. Your family is legendary. Your brother is a notorious psycho... who I slept with. Classic me." Hayley ranted. "This is my-"

"awesome twin brother, Sebastian." the werewolf interrupted.

"I cannot excuse his behavior," Elijah spoke. "but you must understand that our father hunted him, hunted us for centuries. Every time we found a moment of happiness, we were forced to flee, even here in New Orleans, where we were happiest of all. Not long after Niklaus broke the spell which prevented him from becoming a hybrid, he defeated our father. I thought this would make him happy." Elijah shakes his head. "He was angrier then ever. I wonder if, perhaps, this baby might be a way from my brother to find happiness, a way to save him from himself."

"I'm glad you feel that way," Sophie spoke, which had Sebastian glare at her. "because we need your help."

"What, precisely, is it that you want, and what does it have to do with this young woman and man?"

"Oh, I'm only here for Hayley," Sebastian spoke aloud. "Would have ripped the witches's throat out, if they tried to take my sister."

Hayley hit him, telling him to be silent. Elijah didn't reply back to the other, but smiled slightly.

Sophia rolled her eyes at Sebastian. "We want to run Marcel and his vampires out of town. Klaus is the key. Everything Marcel knows about being a vampire, he learned from Klaus. Marcel trusts him, looks up to him, and he won't see the betrayal coming."

"Yes, well, as I'm sure you're aware, my brother Niklaus doesn't like to be told what to do."

"That's why I brought you here. Marcel drove the werewolves out of town decades ago. Do you really think he's going to welcome a hybrid baby to the neighborhood? Convince Klaus to help us, and no one has to know about the newest member of the Original family."

"Wow. I can't tell if that's idiotic or extremely brave," Sebastian spoke, getting and elbow in his rib cage from Hayley again.

"That sounds remarkably like blackmail." Elijah replied to Sophie.

"Like I said, I'm desperate."

"Well, then, I have my work cut out for me, don't I?"
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"Seriously?" Hayley questioned when Sebastian came back with a large bag, placing it in front of her and waving his hands to gesture to the bag.

"I got you're favorites," Sebastian hummed.

Hayley narrowed her eyes at him, gesturing to the other large bag behind her. "Thanks. But I don't need body bags filled with snacks."

"Well, there's also games and books," Sebastian smiled.
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"Should we offer her some chips? I mean, I feel it's rude to eat in front of her, but, she abducted you," Sebastian speaks.

Hayley shrugged.
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Elijah had returned with Klaus, who was in much denial about the information that was presented to him. "No. It's impossible."

"I said the same thing myself," Elijah told his brother.

"This is a lie. You're all lying," Klaus pointed to all of them. "Vampires cannot procreate."

"But you're not just a vampire," Sebastian spoke.

"But werewolves can," Sophie said. "Magic made you a vampire, but you were born a werewolf. You're the original hybrid, the first of your kind, and this pregnancy is one of nature's loopholes."

Klaus snapped back around, taking a step closer to Hayley. "You've been with someone else!" He yelled, Sebastian was immediately in front of his sister.

"Hey, I've spent days held captive in a freaking alligator bayou because they think that I'm carrying some magical miracle baby. Don't you think I would've fessed up if it wasn't yours?"

"Now, wait a minute, Hayley, your a hybrid? Klaus turned you and you slept with him? Is this what happens when I leave you for five minutes."

"No. Sebastian. Go to sleep. You're so stupid when you're sleep-deprived." Hayley snapped at her brother.

"Who do you think you are speaking of?" Klaus glared at the werewolf man.

"Ignore my brother, he lets his temper get the best of him." Elijah told Sebastian.

"I don't have to tell you everything that I do, and how are you just now processing this?" Hayley asked her brother.

"I've only known for three days," Sebastian says. "Counting today."

"Where were you? You didn't-" Hayley started.

"My sister gave her life to perform the spell she needed to confirm this pregnancy." Sophie spoke. "Because of Jane-Anne's sacrifice, the lives of this girl and her baby are now controlled by us. We keep them safe, or we kill them. If you don't help us take down Marcel, so help me, Hayley won't live long enough to see her first maternity dress."

"Wait. What?"
"I'm gonna kill her."
Both the Marshall siblings spoke at the same time.

"Enough of this," Elijah demanded. "If you want Marcel dead, he's dead. I'll do it myself."

"No," Sophie quickly said. "We can't, not yet. We have a clear plan that we need to follow, and there are rules."

Klaus was quite for a moment, before he slowly turned around, angered. "How dare you command me, threaten me with what you wrongfully perceive to be my weakness! This is a pathetic deception. I won't head any more lies." Klaus walked pass Elijah.

Sebastian pulled Hayley behind him.

"Niklaus," Elijah called out. "Listen."

Klaus turns back around, looking at where Sebastian stood in front of his sister, Hayley placing a hand over her stomach. Klaus's eyes widen once hearing the heartbeat before he looked up at Hayley, he took a step to the side. "Kill her and the baby. What do I care?"

"What the fuck?" Sebastian asked. "Screw this I'm taking my sister out of here."

Elijah stepped forward, following Klaus out. Before he quickly turned to face Sophie. "No one touched either of them. I will fix this," he then walked out.
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"Marcel and his vampires are out of control," Sophie told the gathering of witches. "Something has to be done."

"And the solution is to bring in more vampires?" A witch asked.

"These aren't just any vampire, Agnes. They're the Originals." Sophie replied.

"What made you think you can control the hybrid?" Agnes asked back.

"She can't," Elijah suddenly spoke, which had everyone turn to him. "Not entirely certain that I can, either, but not that your coven has drawn his ire, I have one question. What prevents my brother from murdering you instead of cooperating?"

Sophie turned around, grabbing a doll made of sticks and poking it. Hayley winced, looking down at her hand. "Ow! What the hell?"

"I'm gonna rip her throat out now," Sebastian spoke.

"The spell my sister performed, the one that got her killed, it didn't just confirm the pregnancy. If linked me to Hayley. So anything that happens to me happens to her, which means her life is in my hands. Klaus may not care about his own child, but it's very clear what it already means to you. If I have to hurt Hayley or worse to ensure that I have your attention, I will."

"You would dare threaten an original?" Elijah questioned.

"I have nothing to lose. You have until midnight to get Klaus to change his mind.
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Apparently Elijah had managed to get Marcel to return Jane-Anne's body to the witches. Which Sebastian found a bit surprising, given how Marcel is. He had met the man once before in person. But, the rest he knows, he's heard about the vampire.
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Elijah had told the witches that Klaus agreed to their plan, before telling both Hayley and Sebastian that if they wanted, they could stay at their place.

Hayley removed the covers from the furniture. She coughed when the dust flew back into her face.

"You all right?" Elijah asked, walking in as Sebastian started to remove more of the covers.

"Just dust," Hayley answered. "This place is ancient."

"Also, amazing," Sebastian added, having looked around when they entered and had seen many artifacts that the Mikaelson family had.

"Yes, it should serve our purposes. It's a sanctuary from our business in the Quarter. Right now, you are the most important person in this family. You need a good home. So I'm curious... in all this time, has anyone asked you how you feel?" Elijah asked.

"About having a miracle baby with a psychotic one-night-stand?" Hayley questioned back, sarcastically.

"About being a mother."

"I – I was abandoned when I was born and my adoptive parents kicked me out the second that I turned into a wolf. So... I don't really know how I feel about being a mother because I... I never really had a good one."

"I will always protect you. You have my word on that." Elijah told her.

When, suddenly Klaus appeared, leaning on the door. "And noble Elijah always keeps his word."

"Is it done?" Elijah asked back.

"As a matter of fact, yes. Your underhanded deal worked quite well. Marcel was only too happy to accept my blood even as he accepted my heartfelt apologies. His man, Thierry, yet lives and I remain a welcome guest in the French Quarter. My only concern now is this coven of impudent witches."

"I believe them to be honorable. They did release Hayley to me. Although, they haven't been entirely forthcoming. Marcel obviously has something that they need. They don't want him dead. There must be a reason why."
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Sebastian was helping Hayley with removing the covers from the furniture inside the house, as well as setting up her room. Either aware that Klaus had just daggered Elijah.
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