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.
"I really don't have the legs for it," he admits, in a bit of a cheeky clapback at her comment.
He's practically hanging on with bated breath to listen to whatever it is she's going to say when his ears are assaulted with sharp metal sounds and a lot of clanging, banging, and screaming.
"Hayley?!" He stares at the phone as it goes dead and he has to think, how can he find her--
The GPS. Bloody hell, this century got some things right. Once he's got her location, he tells Freya he's leaving and to look out for their niece before speeding off into the night.
The scene was far back in a wooded area, just the cliche place that one would expect some heavy magic to be preformed in. Hayley's car was up against some trees looking much like someone or something had crumpled it. It reeks of Hayley's blood and the blood of something else, though that one was much older. The area is also heavy with dark magic.
The side of the car with the drivers door was pried open and blood from where something was dragged bloodied from the car. a few meters off was the source, Hayley staked to a tree trunk with metal from the car like some sort of crude offering to the night. Around the base of the tree is a magic circle made of several types of stones and herbs. Crouched near the tree is someone in a hooded cloak chanting, it's low and not clear if the person is male or female. Just that they are draining Hayley's energy.
Kol finds the scene easily enough and all the markers left there. The car in a crumpled mess, blood everywhere, and the heavy feel of darkness hanging in the air. In no time, his attention is brought to Hayley, pinned in an awful homage of a crucifixion to the tree, and the root of the problem not far from her feet.
Kol wastes no time in darting over in full vamp speed, grabbing them by the back of the neck and squeezing to guide them to stand up, "Party's over," he says in a low, menacing growl.
The chanting didn't stop even with the vamp grip on the back of the neck. A slender hand coming up as if reaching towards Hayley, though not struggling to get any closer, before moving back to touch Kol. If the hand does touch Kol, he will be bombarded with every bit of pain that Hayley would feel.
" You're wrong." the witch said, though now that he was close it was a females voice, a young one at that. " She has to be ready, she must be ready. Now, first one you will be too."
Kol's grip on the witch's neck falters before he's taken to his knees with the pain coursing through his body at the touch of her hand. He has no idea what she's done to him, but somehow he knows it has to do with whatever she's doing to Hayley.
The witch smiles to him, looking to him on his knees at her feet. " To die." she answers. Her free hand moving up, there is more chanting and Hayley jerks awake, letting out a horrible pained yell.
Her eyes moving to Kol, " Run! Get out of here! Please!" her voice no sooner leaves her mouth than a broken off branch slides toward Kol. There is more of a grin from the witch as the hand that was on Kol moves as she tries to force him through magic to pick up the branch.
Kol strains against the witch's magic hold, desperate not to do whatever she's trying to force his hand into, but she's powerful and it is no easy task and he still finds himself being forced toward the fallen branch.
Hayley's eyes widened, as Kol was forced to pick up that branch. She was trying to get free of her confines. The witch continued chanting, to force Kol toward Hayley with that branch aimed for her heart.
" How will it feel to take her life?" spoken as she held her stance in pushing Kol on. " I wonder who will be the one to end your life. Maybe the brother that shares a child with her,or the brother who adores her spirit or perhaps even the sister who found a friend in her? Or maybe you'll do it your self." the grin never faded once from the witches face.
" Stop it, you bitch!" Hayley shouted uselessly as the wood of the branch slowly tore through her shirt drawing first blood as it pushed on. She looked to Kol, trying to lock eyes with him.
" You have to remember your promise. You didn't do this, and I love you. No matter what." as the words left her lips, the twin tattoos would give off a warm feeling, and just like that the heavy weight of the witches spell would be lifted from both of them, leaving a very confused witch, turning to run.
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Date: 2020-06-18 01:52 am (UTC)" 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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Date: 2020-06-23 05:01 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2020-06-23 05:21 am (UTC)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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Date: 2020-06-26 03:08 pm (UTC)"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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Date: 2020-06-28 12:32 am (UTC)" 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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Date: 2020-06-29 04:47 am (UTC)"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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Date: 2020-06-29 02:57 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2020-06-29 03:04 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2020-07-05 12:57 am (UTC)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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Date: 2020-07-05 02:22 am (UTC)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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Date: 2020-07-22 04:17 pm (UTC)" 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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Date: 2020-07-26 06:16 pm (UTC)"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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Date: 2020-07-27 03:30 am (UTC)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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Date: 2020-07-28 04:34 am (UTC)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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Date: 2020-07-28 05:05 pm (UTC)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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Date: 2020-07-28 06:03 pm (UTC)He's practically hanging on with bated breath to listen to whatever it is she's going to say when his ears are assaulted with sharp metal sounds and a lot of clanging, banging, and screaming.
"Hayley?!" He stares at the phone as it goes dead and he has to think, how can he find her--
The GPS. Bloody hell, this century got some things right. Once he's got her location, he tells Freya he's leaving and to look out for their niece before speeding off into the night.
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Date: 2020-07-28 11:32 pm (UTC)The side of the car with the drivers door was pried open and blood from where something was dragged bloodied from the car. a few meters off was the source, Hayley staked to a tree trunk with metal from the car like some sort of crude offering to the night. Around the base of the tree is a magic circle made of several types of stones and herbs. Crouched near the tree is someone in a hooded cloak chanting, it's low and not clear if the person is male or female. Just that they are draining Hayley's energy.
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Date: 2020-07-28 11:42 pm (UTC)Kol wastes no time in darting over in full vamp speed, grabbing them by the back of the neck and squeezing to guide them to stand up, "Party's over," he says in a low, menacing growl.
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Date: 2020-07-29 02:03 am (UTC)" You're wrong." the witch said, though now that he was close it was a females voice, a young one at that. " She has to be ready, she must be ready. Now, first one you will be too."
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Date: 2020-08-16 05:44 pm (UTC)"Ready for what, you batty old hag?" He snaps.
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Date: 2020-08-17 12:32 am (UTC)Her eyes moving to Kol, " Run! Get out of here! Please!" her voice no sooner leaves her mouth than a broken off branch slides toward Kol. There is more of a grin from the witch as the hand that was on Kol moves as she tries to force him through magic to pick up the branch.
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Date: 2020-08-17 12:17 pm (UTC)"Hayley, I can't stop it!" He shouts.
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Date: 2020-08-17 05:20 pm (UTC)" How will it feel to take her life?" spoken as she held her stance in pushing Kol on. " I wonder who will be the one to end your life. Maybe the brother that shares a child with her,or the brother who adores her spirit or perhaps even the sister who found a friend in her? Or maybe you'll do it your self." the grin never faded once from the witches face.
" Stop it, you bitch!" Hayley shouted uselessly as the wood of the branch slowly tore through her shirt drawing first blood as it pushed on. She looked to Kol, trying to lock eyes with him.
" You have to remember your promise. You didn't do this, and I love you. No matter what." as the words left her lips, the twin tattoos would give off a warm feeling, and just like that the heavy weight of the witches spell would be lifted from both of them, leaving a very confused witch, turning to run.
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