A/N As promised, this is a short chapter well not too short :) about Klaus and Hayley on run with their daughter and how they finally admit their feelings to each other. I had fun writing this chapter. I hope you will enjoy it. It is written a little different from traditional writing style.
at last the end of "Save the last dance for me". She did save the last dance for him and him for her.
Thanks for reading it and reviewing it. It is always a pleasure to read that you guys enjoyed the story.
Six months later
Hayley picked up Hope and put her against her shoulder and walked to the window. It has been three weeks since they had gotten this apartment. Klaus had decided to get this place in this small town near Phoenix, Arizona. They have been running for six months now but when he didn't see any threats coming in their direction he had decided to stop running for the time being. It had been three peaceful weeks. They had gradually bought the things that they needed for Hope and themselves and now they were comfortable in that two bedroom apartment.
Klaus walked into the apartment and went straight to their room and stopped at the sight in front of him. Hayley was holding Hope against her shoulder and she was swaying side to side which she has been doing to make her sleep. He walked to them and wrapped his arms around her from the back.
She turned around to look at him and smiled. She asked him "have you talked to them yet?"
"Not yet?" Klaus said touching Hope's head.
Hope nuzzled her head against her mother's chest and looked at him and then she started crying softly.
"I think because she is teething and the heat is unbearable, she is restless" Hayley said.
She shifted Hope in her arms but her crying intensified and now her tiny fists was in her mouth too. Hayley sighed and took her to the rocking chair near the window and balanced her in her lap and opened the buttons of her shirt and exposed her breast to her. Hope at once latched onto her and became quiet. Hayley looked up and saw him looking at them. Both of them suddenly had a fleeting memory of when Hayley had nursed Hope for the first time.
Flash back
First day after their run
After driving for a couple of minutes Hayley suddenly said "what is this bag here?"
She picked up the bag from the floor behind the passenger seat and opened it and then heart filled with emotions for Rebekah as she saw Hope's stuff in it. Couple of clothes for her, the diapers, the formula.
"What is it?" he asked her
Hayley looked at him through the rearview mirror "her stuff. Rebekah must have kept it here in case they have to run again unexpectedly"
She saw his knuckles getting white on the steering wheel and realized the loss he had to endure; walking away from his family.
After it seemed like hours of driving he stopped the car outside a motel, looked towards the back seat and saw that she was sleeping with her hand on Hope's car seat. He said to her softly "Hayley"
Hayley opened her eyes and looked around and asked her "where are we?"
Klaus said "Sacramento, I am going in to get a room. Do you want to come in or wait"
"I will wait" she said.
Klaus went in there and luckily got a room. He came back and got out her car seat. It took him one minute to figure that out but then Hayley and he went upstairs to their room.
Hope was still sleeping so she put the car seat on the bed.
She looked at Klaus who was standing by the window looking out.
She walked to him and said "what are we going to do?"
He turned towards her and said "everything will be okay". He then added bitterly "This is not the first time I had to run for my life".
He looked at her and said in a gentle voice "but this one is different. I am not scared this time. I am not alone like the rest of those times" and then on impulse, by the look on her face, he pulled her in a hug and whispered "she is with us now. She will be safe"
Hayley felt his arm around her. Her head was on his chest. She put her hand there. She could feel his heart beating and she felt warm. They stood there for a minute and then they heard her cry.
She separated her from him and went to pick her up. Klaus went to the bathroom to take a shower.
Hayley picked Hope up in her arms, changed her diaper. Somehow she knew what she was supposed to do. And then she made the bottle like she did once when she woke up in the car and gave her the bottle but she didn't take it and started wailing louder. Hayley was getting frustrated by the second. She asked her with frustration but trying to keep her voice soothing "Hope, sweetie, why aren't you taking it? You took it last time I gave you in the car" and then she felt something. She looked down at her chest and was shocked to realize that she was leaking. On impulse she pulled her bra down a little bit and put her against her breast and to her shock she latched on and started sucking it making her gasp.
As he stood under the steaming hot water, he heard her say "Hope, sweetie, why aren't you taking it. You took it last time I gave you in the car" but she was crying harder and harder. Klaus couldn't listen to her cries but he knew that Hayley was trying her best under the circumstances and then she stopped crying.
Klaus came out of bathroom and stopped at the sight in front of him. He walked to them and sat next to them. She looked up and said "I don't know what happened. I was drying up and now I am ..." she suddenly smiled at him.
Klaus was awed by the sight. He moved her hand over Hope's head whose eyes were drooping now and gently rubbed her head and then his fingers brushed against her bare breast. Hayley looked up at him and their eyes met for a second and then he removed his hand and walked to the other side of the bed and fell on it to sleep
End flash back
He walked to them and kissed her on the top of her head and went to the bath room to take a shower. He took off his clothes and stood under the cold shower to wash away the heat from this body and his mind went back to the first time when he had let go of his feelings for her and did something on impulse that he had not done before.
Flash back
Two week after their run
The past couple of weeks were difficult. This was their third hotel in the last three weeks but they didn't mind. They have realized that they could do anything for their daughter. Klaus couldn't believe it that he had a life before Hope
He was loving his life on run with Hayley and Hope. Seeing them together was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in these 1000 years. He loved it when she nursed him. Many times he would stare at that amazing sight with Hope in her lap and her tiny fist on her bare breast. Many times she didn't even notice that he was looking at her. The look on her face when she fed their daughter has always been amazing. The smile on her face, the smile that he last saw when they felt Hope's kick together for the first time in that nursery before she was born was starting to appear more and more and he realized that he loved seeing that warm smile.
He woke up in the middle of night and looked towards her and saw that she was sitting on the bed staring into the space. He propped himself up and said "Hayley what is it?"
"I cannot sleep" she said without looking at him
"Why?" he asked her
Suddenly she started crying. Klaus sat up in alarm and asked her "is hope okay? Are you okay?"
She nodded her head and said while wiping her tears "If I sleep someone will take her".
Klaus now sat up and said "Hayley no one will take her. Don't you trust me? I will never let that happen" and then on impulse he pulled her into a one arm hug. Hayley went willingly into his arm and said into his chest "I trust you but I am always so scared"
He rubbed her arm which he was holding with his fingers and said "I know but just a couple of more weeks and then we will find some place safe and all this fear will look like a dream" and then he moved his lips on her head and kissed her hair.
Even though he couldn't see her but he felt her smile and then he pulled her down on the bed with him in that one arm hug and closed his eyes and for the first time ever she slept in his arm. When he woke up she was still sleeping so he stayed there holding her in that position.
Some feelings have started to awaken in him, the feelings which have been there for a long time but he was burying them deep in this heart but now they were trying to come out with force that he had not known before.
After about 30 minutes, he heard Hope cry, she lifted her head from his chest and looked at him, smiled and then she got up and picked up the crying Hope and changed her diaper and sat on the sofa and started to nurse her. He stared at her face and that tiny fist on the naked part of the breast and then suddenly she looked up and caught his eyes and smiled.
End Flash back
When he came out of bathroom in his jeans, she was putting Hope in her crib. He threw the shirt that he was holding on the bed and grabbed her from back and pulled her towards him and said "now she is asleep, can we can we make out?"
"Yes we can" she smiled and turned to kiss him.
Flash back
Four weeks after the run
Hayley looked up at him as he rushed into the small room with sleeping Hope in his arms. He grabbed her by her arms and asked her "What happened?"
She took Hope from his arms and said "Some drunken driver crossed the red light and hit the car from the driver's side. I am fine, I have compelled everyone that was at the accident as I started to heal but this one guy who incidentally was a doctor in this hospital wanted me to come to the hospital to check if I have any internal bleeding which of course I don't have but the car Klaus, it is totaled"
"It is okay" Klaus said casually "as long as you are okay"
She smiled and looked down at Hope who was sleeping in her arms and said "I am so glad I decided to leave her with you"
She looked up and saw him looking at her and then he cupped her face and then for the first time ever since that night when they had conceived their daughter he was kissing her on her lips. She didn't know how and why but she suddenly realized that she was kissing him too. He broke their kiss and stayed there for a minute and said "I was so scared when I got the call even though I know you will be okay but …" he then kissed her again.
They both broke apart as the door opened.
"Oh I am sorry" the nurse said
"It is okay" Hayley smiled and said.
The nurse said "You are so lucky you didn't get hurt". She then turned to Klaus and said "It is a miracle you know that you wife is fine"
"I am ..." Hayley started but Klaus cut her off by saying "yes thank you"
End Flash back
She broke the kiss and said "I love you"
Klaus smiled at those three words that no one had said to him with the sincerity with which she said and said "I love you too"
Hayley smiled and said "and it only took us 16 months for us to get here. Not bad"
Klaus asked her "Sixteen months?" kissing her on her neck making her moan and moving his lips down to her neck making her arch her back.
Hayley said between the quiver and arching her back and grabbing her hair in her fist and letting him kiss her body "Since we conceived Hope".
He stopped doing whatever he was doing and looked up into his eyes and said "technically love, we reached that stage four months ago" and then he took her mouth with passion she was starting to expect from him
Flash back
Two months after the run
Hayley entered the room and shifted sleeping Hope from one shoulder to another. She put the shopping bag down and went straight to the portable crib at the foot of the bed and gently laid her down. She turned around at the sound of the bathroom door.
She looked at him and realized that this was the first time she was seeing him without a shirt even though they have been on the road for two months. She couldn't look away from the bird tattoo on his arm and the muscles that normally hid under his shirt. She caught him looking at her and then she blushed and looked away.
She was looking down at Hope when he said with a smirk "don't be shy it is not like you have not seen me shirtless".
Hayley didn't look back. She didn't even smile. She was feeling really weird. She had tried to control feelings for him that had awaken before they had started that journey to see Hope. She had been successful in doing that for the last two months and then he had kissed her on that accident a month ago and then nothing for a month to her disappointment. She thought in frustration 'If he is going to roam around shirtless, it is going to get really difficult for her'. She took a deep breath and was about to turn when he turned her towards her.
She couldn't look into his eyes because she was sure that if she did he would see the passion in them and then he lifted her chin and then he leaned in and kissed her gently on her lips. She stood there surprised and when Klaus leaned back and looked into his eyes, he smiled and leaned in again and kissed her more passionately this time. She couldn't help but kiss him. Her hands found his firm chest and then he whooshed her to the bed and was kissing her neck, her face, her body making her moan and want him more. She tugged at his jean's buttons whereas he snapped all the buttons of her shirt and pulled it apart and then he said and his eyes looked at her heaving breast "I want you to remember this time"
Hayley looked into his eyes and said "I remember the last time too" and she gasped as his hands touched her bra and moved down the navel.
That made his face broke into a grin and he said "I thought you said that it was one drunken night…"
Hayley said with a moan as he gently bit her on her neck "I did but that does not m… ean that I don't remember that"
She flipped them over making him laugh. Her gaze locked on to his lips which always fascinated her. The softness of them always made her wonder 'how can a man like him have such soft and inviting lips' and she leaned in until her met his.
He was returning her kiss and his tongue was moving inside her mouth, his legs were wrapped against hers and then he flipped her over and pulled her jeans down. He pulled his jean down too with eyes still locked with hers. There was so much passion in them that Hayley never believed him to have. She couldn't take it anymore. She lifted herself up and pulled him down to her.
To her surprise, his lips found all her weak spots, on her neck, on her breast, on her belly. Hayley was stunned to realize that he knew how to torture her and go weak in her knees. She ran her hands on his firm back as he was kissing her neck and moved them a bit on his ribs and then she smiled as she discovered that she had found his weak spot.
Klaus looked up and then looking into her eyes, he entered her. She held on to him and let him move in her and then before long she was matching his movement. His lips were roaming on her face, on her neck, on her lips and then he looked up into her eyes for a second and whispered "you are mine now" before kissing her lips and let himself go as she smiled back.
Later when she laid in his arms he said "Hayley I think I am falling for you" while brushing his fingers on her arm.
"Me too" she said fingering his chest.
End flash back