Enigmatic Distances: A Klaus Mikaelson Story {6}

Chapter 45: Tough Parts Included

"I guess." Fiore gave Hayley a kiss on the cheek before leaving for her room, but Hayley remained focused on the betrayals. And now she has started to think that maybe that wasn't Fiore's dead body there. Maybe it was Odessa's.

~Fiore POV~

I flopped onto my bed, drained by the day's events. I was tired, but I couldn't get to sleep. I was angry at Nik and if I woke up the next morning with him there, I would have been even more angry.

"Waiting for me I gather?" Nik said as he stood by the doorframe.

"To spontaneously combust, why yes I am." I said rolling my eyes at him. "This better be the part where you apologise."

"I feel like I've spent most of our marriage apologising." Nik said with a small chuckle.

"Well you do a lot of things that require an apology." I told him.

"Blossom, I am sorry, for the way I treated you earlier today." He told me. "I was scared. I still am. I don't know how I'll cope if we can't resurrect Elijah. If we lose him."

"Thank you for the apology." I told him. "But Nik, if in the event that we do lose Elijah, I hope you know how strong you are. You will survive."

He took my hand in his and kissed it, smiling at me as he pulled away.

"I love you, Blossom."

"I love you too, Nik."

~Hayley POV~

Hayley took a deep breath before knocking on her disgruntled son's door, only to receive no answer. She knocked again and received the same results causing her to sigh.

"Hey kid, can we talk?" Hayley said only to once again receive no answer. "Elliott, I'm coming in."

She broke the locked door in and when she entered, she found her son, looking sickly on the bed. She panicked and ran up to him, checking him.

"Hayley, you need to get out." He told her feebly.

"No, you need to get help, let me get Freya."

"No!" Elliott told her, waving his hand so that the door locked. "You can't tell anyone. You need to promise me you won't tell anybody."

"Elliott—"

"Promise me!" He told her, in between coughing fits.

"I promise." She told him as she sat beside him on the bed, holding tightly onto his hand. "Elliott, what's wrong?"

"I let out a lot of power when I was in there." He told her. "I changed the timeline, from outside the Loophole."

"Elliott, why would you do that?" She asked him.

"You were supposed to die." He explained.

"Kid, you didn't need to do that for me." Hayley told her son as he was shaking uncontrollably. "You're sick. I don't know what to do."

"I need you to go into my dresser, get the orange and the blue powder." He told her and she immediately dived for the drawer and brought out the two jars.

"What do I do now?" She asked him frantically.

"Stop panicking." He told her frailly. "I'll be fine, just put it on my head."

She obliged and as she sprinkled the substance on his head, his breathing began to normalise and his skin changed back from its sickly pale colour.

"Are you okay?" She asked him.

"I'm okay." She pulled him in for a hug and squeezed him tightly.

"What the hell happened, kid?" She inquired worriedly. "I was so scared! What do you mean I was supposed to die? None of this is making sense."

"I haemorrhaged a lot of power today." He explained. "Elijah was meant to kill you. I should've let you die. I should've brought you back from outside, but what with all the stuff going on with Inadu, I was scared I wouldn't be able to. So I panicked. And from inside the pendant, I changed the timeline."

"Elliott, you shouldn't have done that." Hayley told him. "If something had happened to you...I don't even know what I'd do. Especially if it was because of me."

"I'm fine." He assured her. "But I couldn't just let you die. I'll never be able to sit back and watch you die. Especially if I knew I could stop it."

"But you've changed the timeline before." Hayley said in confusion. "Why did this happen?"

"I'm being punished." He told her as he changed from his sweaty clothes. "The Loophole and I have been up to no good as of late. This is nature's payback."

"Elliott, please, don't do anything like that ever again, okay?" She pleaded and he gave her a small smile.

"I'm okay Hayley." He assured her.

"And here I thought you were mad at me because I yelled at you." She said with a dark chuckle.

"What?" He said laughing at her and throwing a shirt at her. "Of course I wasn't mad at you. That was probably the highlight of my life."

"What?"

"You never yell at me, you let me do whatever I want because you're not the doting mother type. I've come to get that. But for the first time in my life, you were perfectly okay with being my mom." He told her. "Tough parts included."

"Elliott—"

"You wanna see something cool?" He asked her before bringing up his wrist where she saw a tattoo of a thorn bracelet with three charms indented on it. One of a boar, one of a tree with five branches and one of a wolf and a cub.

"I didn't know you had a tattoo." Hayley said in surprise.

"It's a magical one." He explained. "Of people I've saved."

"What?"

"Look." He said as she took his hand and pointed at each one before explaining them. "The boar is Finn, the tree is Fiore and the wolf and the cub is you."

"Did you choose that or...?"

"Nope." He said with a smirk. "That is the power of the timeline. Yours is definitely my favourite though."

She looked back at him, completely in shock by what he had said her. She gave him another hug and smiled at him before putting him back into bed.

"Goodnight kid." She told him.

"Goodnight mom." Once he was lying down she gave him a kiss on the forehead.

"And Elliott." Hayley said as she stopped at the doorpost. "I want you to know that I do love being your mom because you are the most amazing kid I have ever had the pleasure of knowing."

"I love you too."