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[increscents]

Perfect's not really the word I'd use for it. But we made it work. Mostly because of Hope. Plus Klaus is half werewolf too, so.

I was in love with him, actually. Still probably am. But Klaus being Klaus made sure that would never happen. And Elijah being Elijah just did what Klaus told him.

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You're in love with your daughter's uncle.

And you're married to someone else entirely, is that right?

2/2

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Wait, what do you mean half werewolf?

[increscents]

Yes to all of the above.

As in half-werewolf, half-vampire. Did I totally skip that part?

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[ How do you just skip that part? ]

So that means.

What does that mean? You kill people, you drink their blood?

[ That's the myth, isn't it? She seems like she's all of the myths at once. ]

[increscents]

I don't have to kill. [ She's killed. ]

But yes. I need drink blood to survive.

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I didn't know.

[ It shades her in a new light. He doesn't know what to think. Hayley was a werewolf, but she was also strikingly normal. ]

How do you get blood? Hayley, please tell me that you don't hurt anyone.

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I don't think I have an answer that can make you happy.

Sometimes I don't. Sometimes I just use blood bags. Sometimes I bite people and make them forget.

Sometimes I'm not so good.

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You make them forget?

[increscents]

Yeah, it's called compulsion.

Shit. I shouldn't have told you.

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Yes you sh

I didn't

Why?

It's the truth, isn't it? I'd rather hear it from you than someone else.

[increscents]

You're clearly not okay with the vampire thing.

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That's not fair. I don't know anything about it.

What will you do now, make me forget I ever knew?

[increscents]

I'm not Klaus. I'm not a monster.

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So that's what he does.

[ The father of her child, dear God. She'd said he was controlling. She hadn't said he was this level of controlling. D'Artagnan has never met him, but dislikes him at once. ]

But taking from people, and making them forget that you did. That's no better.

[increscents]

Should I leave them with the memory so the next day cops or worse show up at my door?

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You could explain. And ask.

[increscents]

Don't have time. Don't have the supply. And the more people who know my secret the more in danger I could be.

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Danger, what danger?

Have you been threatened?

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Do you think people like being bitten or drank from?

Hunters exist. And other sorts of monsters.

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And you're afraid of them. That's why you won't ask permission.

I can't believe any of this. You have a daughter, how can you have a daughter if you're what you say you are? Vampires rise from the grave.

Don't they?

[ Has he been speaking with a dead woman all this time? ]

[increscents]

It's easier if I just tell you.

Hope's father is an asshole. Like he's really bad. He's the reason people fear vampires. He's also got a lot of enemies and is half werewolf, so killing him is like impossible. Everyone thought he was invincible.

Then there came Hope. The daughter of a werewolf and a hybrid with witch blood in her veins. She's everything someone shouldn't be and the key to so much. She's also the biggest asshole in the universe's daughter.

So a bunch of pissed off witches found a way to kidnap a pregnant me in labor, got me in a church, made me give birth to Hope on an altar, let me hold her for a tenth of a second before they cut my throat and took my baby.

But Hope's blood brought me back as a hybrid.

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[ She hadn't been a vampire when she gave birth.

But a vampire had sired the baby. And -

God, a witch's blood? This is everything the Church would have burned at the stake in his world. Suddenly, he's in no doubt about what she means by hunters. He knows far less what he thinks about it. He should think they're all monsters. That's the automatic thing.

Except that he knows Hayley. She's his friend. She's been his friend all these months. Does this really change what he thinks about her?

Should it?

What is the honourable thing to do, to side with what he knows others would say, or to trust his friend?

The thing is, d'Artagnan's friends always come first. Always. ]

They took your baby.

The witches. What did they want with her, would they have hurt her? Or was it something else?

[increscents]

They were going to kill her. Because Klaus' mother demanded it.

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So not such a perfect family.