"What hex? You didn't have one earlier, or did you just fail to mention it, at the time?" He can't fathom what could have happened in such a short time. Surely they would have caught wind of something like this before...
"Hayley, wait." He frowns and reaches to grab her shoulder and spin her around, inspect the mark left by the hex and at least get an idea of what what they're dealing with.
" I was asleep, it woke me up burning into my skin." she's pretty confused as to who she pissed off this time. Why they would pick *now* to enact their revenge.
He reached out to her shoulder and it was like electric, this warmth and when he spun her around she had this dumb founded look on her face. " I don't want to hurt anyone here, except Klaus sometimes but this is deeper than that." but she did pull up the sleeve of her shirt showing that mark on her wrist.
Unfortunately, revenge has no timecard, and people generally do pick the worst moments to lay it upon you.
He's about to say something, probably snarky or charming or that weird combination of both only Kol can manage, when she pushes her sleeve up and shows him.
Now it's Kol's turn to have a dumbfounded look on his face as he blinks and stares at it in confusion. "I don't...understand." Except, that he does. He does rather instantly, and he doesn't know what to feel about it. He shows her the inside of his own wrist, bearing the same mark. "It's-" He sighs and shakes his head, "It's not a hex, Hayley... it's the mark of a soul bond."
" I don't either." she said quickly " That is why I have to..." her eyes move to his wrist and in a rare moment the wolf with a mouth is gob smacked. Lips parting as if they really want to say something, but nothing comes.
Her eyes pull from the ink on his arm that matches hers and look to him. " Kol..." finally comes out. Almost breathless, part of her was screaming that is was nothing like that, that magic didn't exist. Yet, she knew it did. Hell, she'd been bonded to Sofie. Her eyes shifting awkwardly " So, So what does that even mean?"
"You don't know?" His eyes slide up to her face again as he realizes she has no clue the meaning of it. Well, this is awkward.
"It's leftover from a ritual done centuries ago. It's a soul bond, Hayley, as in soulmates." He drops that and leaves it and lets it sink in before anything else is said at all.
Awkward indeed to have to be told about magic's equivalent of the birds and bees like this. She'd heard somethings like this about Stephan and Elena but even then thought it was just a lot of crap, that was before everything though.
" I won't pretend like I don't have an attraction to you..." she began " But we don't have to fall in love and all the other stuff, nor are you obligated to me in any way. No, not just because some witch had a bag of bones and some herbs and said so."
The supernatural world is made up of a lot of fucking bullshit, Hayley.
"No, it's not... necessarily the start of a love story," he admits. It's easy enough to avoid that aspect, but there are other things, as well. "But it might draw us together in other ways. I've heard before that there's a possibility of a sort of... emotional tether in the whole thing? I don't know much about that, it was half-rumors and centuries ago... whatever we do with it, we're linked, in a way."
She looked thoughtful for a moment. " so, not much will change. " I am Hope's mother and she is a Mikaelson, we're all in this crap show together." she said.
" Emotional tether? Don't we already sort of have something like that?" she didn't understand that it went deeper than just the bond they all share as family esc unit that they were.
"No," he shakes his head slightly. "it's more literal than that. I don't know how to explain it, but if it's true, then you feel it soon enough." He doesn't know if that comes with time or it's more instant, he's never seen a soul bond happen in all his years. It's been little more than something of a rumor for centuries. Not that he ever really doubted it, but he didn't think anyone would spark it appearing in him.
"I can't imagine feeling the emotions of two people at once is pleasant." He says, unhelpfully, his tone a bit flat. That's hardly the least of their problems right now.
" I've..." the brunette started before shifting her head up to look at him. " I've felt an attraction, like a pull towards you in the last few weeks." there is a soft smile. " I thought it was just the way you are with Hope, and how you've made time to call her and talk with her."
Hayley is quiet for a moment mulling over what he's said. " It sounds like an advanced type of linking spell." a small step towards him. " The bigger question is what are we going to do about it?"
"She's my niece, of course I'd make time for her." He says it like it's obvious, a given and not something that ever had any other possible outcome.
"More or less, yeah." He nods a bit at her summation. That point earns a small, half-hearted smile that falls just a little flat. "I don't know... What do you want to do about it?" He tips his head a little. "I don't like the idea of being someone's obligation." A necessity. A prophecy. Only chosen for the soulmark.
" Yeah? You'd have thought her dad would have too , but..." she shrugged it didn't matter the reason he stayed away. She was getting tired of making excuses for him.
" Good. Cuz you're not my obligation, and I sure as hell aint yours either." she said looking down to the tattoo on her arm. " I guess the answer is.." looking to him " what ever the hell we want to?"
"It's not like it's for nothing," he reminds her softly. Nik never did anything for nothing, least of all things for Hope, no matter how hard they were to stick out and hold to.
"Exactly." Mikaelsons were never, and would not start being now, anyone's charity case. "Yeah, I guess so." He smirks softly. Hayley has a sort of spunk about her that's always been a bit entertaining to him. Determination stampedes through her like no other. He likes that.
" I know that, but it's hard to explain that to a little girl who just wants to know her Dad." Hayley said her head lowered a bit. She worried about Hope, she worried about Klaus, she worried about everyone in the Mikaelson clan. Then there was the case of her wolves which was a whole other can of worms.
She tilted her head a soft smirk playing along her lips. " Ya know, we never really got a real chance to get to know one another really well. If we're going to be more or less linked for the rest of our lives we should probably change that."
"I know." He gives her a sympathetic smile. He worries, too, he thinks they all do, in their own ways.
He chuckles softly once and nods, "Yeah, I guess you're right. Perhaps we should change that, yeah?" It's the most logical thing, isn't it? And they were a sort of family, even if they never do anything about this bond, they should probably know each other a bit better than they do either way.
She would try and make an effort to get to know him better. It had been weeks since that night, and for a while Hope seemed to improve. She had been sitting on the porch more, painting and starting to get back to the things Hope usually had done. Hayley had started to relax a little more day by day. Then all of the sudden Hope wouldn't wake up, the fever was back and this time the girl didn't even whimper. Just laying in her bed still, quiet and unmoving.
That was the reason there were letters written, one to Klaus, one to Hope and one for Kol. Saying that she couldn't stand by any more and watch her daughter die. She was going to fix this once and for all. That she was sorry it had to be like this. All of the letters left on the dresser in Hope's room and Hayley headed out into the stormy night. She had a plan about this, and she wasn't going to let any of them talk her out of this one.
Things genuinely seemed to be taking a turn for the better, for once. Hope was up and painting and doing child-things that Kol can't say he quite understood, but he definitely feigned 'cool uncle' interest in, while she explained, at length, why it was so important.
That couldn't last, though, could it? That isn't how the Mikaelson life worked, and things took a sudden, sharp dip for the worse. And to boot? Hayley had disappeared without a word, aside from letters she left Nik, Hope, and Kol himself. He isn't sure what in the hell she thought going off alone was going to accomplish other than sending all of them in their own brand of spirals, however.
He crumples the paper in his hand and pulls out his phone, dialing her immediately-- and if she doesn't answer? He'll just keep calling.
She'd ignored the ringing on her cell for a good forty five minutes before grabbing the phone. there was silence on the line for a few seconds less the sound of a car running before she speaks " I'm not going to let that thing take my daughter." Protective Mama wolf mode was a go. " So, if you've called to try and talk me out of this, it's already too late."
"I don't even know what the bloody hell I'm meant to be talking you out of, since you disappeared without a word!" Yeah, he's snappy. No, he doesn't care. "Not to mention, do you honestly think this hasn't completely upset the daughter you're so desperately trying to protect? What cost is she supposed to pay for this, Hayley?"
She was quiet as he went on, a stark change from the normally very argumentative Hayley everyone in their clan was used to.
" She'll get to live, and grow up with out this darkness inside of her." she said after a pause and a soft sigh as the car engine came to a stop. " I know she is upset right now, and I know you are too, I said I would find a way to save her. I never said it would be pretty or easy. If I carry it until we can get rid of it, she will be free of it."
Kol can't see it but her eyes did close. " I wouldn't leave her if I had another way." she was calm not at all angry at Kol. " Kol, I know, just from the last few weeks that you wouldn't let her down. I know right now Klaus loves her, but he can't seem to connect the way you have."
It was odd this connection that even she felt to Kol, Kol the one who had bloodied many a people with out care. Kol who could be ruthless to the core. It was such a short time, but she was curious as to what it would be like to kiss him. Maybe it was that side of her that craved the blood and the violence?
" I wish I had kissed you before I left." and there iwas, out in the open.
His shoulder presses against the wall as the silence envelops the phone call again. They're so, so bad at this, aren't they? "I'll do my best, obviously, of course I will, but... I'm not you..."
He pushes off the wall and sighs softly, sinking down onto the bed. He doesn't know what to do, he doesn't know how to fix any of this. His eyes slide shut at that confession and he sighs her name out, "Hayley..." he doesn't have to say anything else, not really; it's all there in the way her name falls from his lips.
" Of course you're not me. You for sure couldn't pull off a mini dress." It was so much easier to resort to her sarcastic joking than to focus too much on what she'd said, or how her name fell from his lips like that.
How Klaus had managed to bag a wolf girl who was just as broken and fucked up inside as the rest of the clan, heaven only knows. She took a moment to look at the tattoo on her wrist, it was much more than just a linking spell. She could feel the weight of this he was feeling. It was enough to make her feel like she would puke.
" Kol, I..." her words were cut off by a solid bang and a crunching of metal as Hayley dropped the phone and could be heard yelling and pounding on the side of the car. More crunching and Hayley yelling out in pain. There were those settings on her phone to which it could be located if Kol remembered about that.
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She took a breath, " It's okay, I'll find the witch." she nodded more to her self. " Might be able to find something to help Hope too."
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"Hayley, wait." He frowns and reaches to grab her shoulder and spin her around, inspect the mark left by the hex and at least get an idea of what what they're dealing with.
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He reached out to her shoulder and it was like electric, this warmth and when he spun her around she had this dumb founded look on her face. " I don't want to hurt anyone here, except Klaus sometimes but this is deeper than that." but she did pull up the sleeve of her shirt showing that mark on her wrist.
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He's about to say something, probably snarky or charming or that weird combination of both only Kol can manage, when she pushes her sleeve up and shows him.
Now it's Kol's turn to have a dumbfounded look on his face as he blinks and stares at it in confusion. "I don't...understand." Except, that he does. He does rather instantly, and he doesn't know what to feel about it. He shows her the inside of his own wrist, bearing the same mark. "It's-" He sighs and shakes his head, "It's not a hex, Hayley... it's the mark of a soul bond."
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Her eyes pull from the ink on his arm that matches hers and look to him. " Kol..." finally comes out. Almost breathless, part of her was screaming that is was nothing like that, that magic didn't exist. Yet, she knew it did. Hell, she'd been bonded to Sofie. Her eyes shifting awkwardly " So, So what does that even mean?"
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"It's leftover from a ritual done centuries ago. It's a soul bond, Hayley, as in soulmates." He drops that and leaves it and lets it sink in before anything else is said at all.
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" I won't pretend like I don't have an attraction to you..." she began " But we don't have to fall in love and all the other stuff, nor are you obligated to me in any way. No, not just because some witch had a bag of bones and some herbs and said so."
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"No, it's not... necessarily the start of a love story," he admits. It's easy enough to avoid that aspect, but there are other things, as well. "But it might draw us together in other ways. I've heard before that there's a possibility of a sort of... emotional tether in the whole thing? I don't know much about that, it was half-rumors and centuries ago... whatever we do with it, we're linked, in a way."
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" Emotional tether? Don't we already sort of have something like that?" she didn't understand that it went deeper than just the bond they all share as family esc unit that they were.
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"I can't imagine feeling the emotions of two people at once is pleasant." He says, unhelpfully, his tone a bit flat. That's hardly the least of their problems right now.
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Hayley is quiet for a moment mulling over what he's said. " It sounds like an advanced type of linking spell." a small step towards him. " The bigger question is what are we going to do about it?"
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"More or less, yeah." He nods a bit at her summation. That point earns a small, half-hearted smile that falls just a little flat. "I don't know... What do you want to do about it?" He tips his head a little. "I don't like the idea of being someone's obligation." A necessity. A prophecy. Only chosen for the soulmark.
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" Good. Cuz you're not my obligation, and I sure as hell aint yours either." she said looking down to the tattoo on her arm. " I guess the answer is.." looking to him " what ever the hell we want to?"
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"Exactly." Mikaelsons were never, and would not start being now, anyone's charity case. "Yeah, I guess so." He smirks softly. Hayley has a sort of spunk about her that's always been a bit entertaining to him. Determination stampedes through her like no other. He likes that.
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She tilted her head a soft smirk playing along her lips. " Ya know, we never really got a real chance to get to know one another really well. If we're going to be more or less linked for the rest of our lives we should probably change that."
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He chuckles softly once and nods, "Yeah, I guess you're right. Perhaps we should change that, yeah?" It's the most logical thing, isn't it? And they were a sort of family, even if they never do anything about this bond, they should probably know each other a bit better than they do either way.
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That was the reason there were letters written, one to Klaus, one to Hope and one for Kol. Saying that she couldn't stand by any more and watch her daughter die. She was going to fix this once and for all. That she was sorry it had to be like this. All of the letters left on the dresser in Hope's room and Hayley headed out into the stormy night. She had a plan about this, and she wasn't going to let any of them talk her out of this one.
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That couldn't last, though, could it? That isn't how the Mikaelson life worked, and things took a sudden, sharp dip for the worse. And to boot? Hayley had disappeared without a word, aside from letters she left Nik, Hope, and Kol himself. He isn't sure what in the hell she thought going off alone was going to accomplish other than sending all of them in their own brand of spirals, however.
He crumples the paper in his hand and pulls out his phone, dialing her immediately-- and if she doesn't answer? He'll just keep calling.
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" She'll get to live, and grow up with out this darkness inside of her." she said after a pause and a soft sigh as the car engine came to a stop. " I know she is upset right now, and I know you are too, I said I would find a way to save her. I never said it would be pretty or easy. If I carry it until we can get rid of it, she will be free of it."
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"How are we supposed to do this without you, Hayley? You're the one she knows, who has always been there, and never left her..."
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It was odd this connection that even she felt to Kol, Kol the one who had bloodied many a people with out care. Kol who could be ruthless to the core. It was such a short time, but she was curious as to what it would be like to kiss him. Maybe it was that side of her that craved the blood and the violence?
" I wish I had kissed you before I left." and there iwas, out in the open.
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He pushes off the wall and sighs softly, sinking down onto the bed. He doesn't know what to do, he doesn't know how to fix any of this. His eyes slide shut at that confession and he sighs her name out, "Hayley..." he doesn't have to say anything else, not really; it's all there in the way her name falls from his lips.
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How Klaus had managed to bag a wolf girl who was just as broken and fucked up inside as the rest of the clan, heaven only knows. She took a moment to look at the tattoo on her wrist, it was much more than just a linking spell. She could feel the weight of this he was feeling. It was enough to make her feel like she would puke.
" Kol, I..." her words were cut off by a solid bang and a crunching of metal as Hayley dropped the phone and could be heard yelling and pounding on the side of the car. More crunching and Hayley yelling out in pain. There were those settings on her phone to which it could be located if Kol remembered about that.
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