Bloodletting (1st revised version)

A/N: Got Elijah dying from the bite from the preview for the next episode.







        It was a beautiful day in New Orleans, as Elijah and Hayley stood in the woods not far from a cabin, with a mad Klaus.

        Suddenly, Klaus grabbed his elder brother and bit him, before throwing him to the ground.

        “Consider that my parting gift to you two. Enjoy your life together. At least, before the hallucinations start.”

        Elijah got to his feet and they watched him leave.

        “We should stay here until he cools off. He'll come around. He always does,” Elijah said to Hayley.

        “You think he'll come back after he does?” Hayley questioned him.

        “He's my brother. He wouldn't let me die,” he said.





        Meanwhile, Klaus and Rebekah were at home, Rebekah seated on the couch, Klaus seated on the coffee table in front of her. He had just informed her of where Hayley and Elijah were, what he had done to Elijah, and that she was going to help him plot against Marcel because they're family.

        “So, what secrets has Marcel spilled to you?” he asked her.

        “That he's in love with me still and would love to make a life with me,” she said truthfully.

        “Love. What a strong emotion. You and I can use that against him.”

        “Let's make a deal. I'll help you plot against Marcel, if you let Hayley and Elijah come home.”

        “You're really going to be like that, Little Sister?”

        “How would you like me to be? You bit Elijah over whatever it is that you won't say.”

        Klaus got up and went to stand by his drinking place not far from the doorway.





        Back at the cabin in the woods in the Bayou, Elijah was on his back on the bed, Hayley seated on his bedside, wetting his face down with a cool, wet washcloth.

        “You should go,” Elijah said.

        “I'm not leaving,” she replied to him.

        As he layed there, he wished his brother to get over being mad at him already and come to his rescue. But then again, he was an Original They didn't think a werewolf bite would effect or kill an Original vampire.





        Rebekah was walking her frustration off, when her phone went off.

        “Elijah.”

        “Actually, it's both of us,” Hayley replied.

        “Where are you, Rebekah?” he asked her.

        “Walking. You sound terrible. Where are you?”

        “We're still at the Bayou in a cabin. He bit me. I didn't think the bite could effect or kill me, since I'm an Original, but I was wrong. You have to make Klaus see what he has done before it's too late.”

        “I will. Hang on, Elijah.”

        She hung up and sped towards home and into the living room.

        “What seems to be the rush, sister?” he asked her.

        She through a sharp knife at him.

        He caught it with a hand, before it could stab him anywhere.

        “Is that all you can say!? Elijah is dying because of you!” she yelled.

        “He's just saying that to get you on their side. Originals can't die from a werewolf bite. Even if they could, they started it. He deserves a couple days of discomfort.”

        “What are you? A child? Do you hear yourself? You would seriously let Elijah die because of some feud? I don't care who started what. Fix it before he dies! If he dies, you will not be my family and I will leave forever!” she said in rage, before storming out.

        Klaus grabbed an empty shot glass and through it at a nearby wall in anger and frustration He knew she was right. He would lose what he had left of blood related family if he let Elijah die. It wasn't Elijah's fault he believed what Hayley believed. As he and Rebekah both knew, Elijah always had a thing for a pretty face, and that's what Hayley was.





        An hour later, Hayley looked up to see Klaus walk in.

        Klaus closed the door behind himself and walked over to the bed, as Hayley got to her feet and went to stand by the window. He then sat on his elder brother's bedside and bit his wrist, before putting it to his lips, making his blood go down his throat to cure him. He just hoped he wasn't too late. He was out cold and his skin was starting to look cracked-looking. He wasn't far from death. At this point, Klaus knew he had gone too far with his anger this time. He had nearly killed his own brother. Something he would never forgive himself for if he had.

        Klaus took his wrist away and it instantly healed. He then stood up and started towards Hayley.

        “You. How could you believe him?” he growled at her, speaking of Tyler Lockwood, the hybrid whom had said that Klaus was going to use his own child to make hybrids when it was born. .

        “Maybe because I know him better than you do. Besides, I know how you can be, and love doesn't exactly fit into your lifestyle.”

        Suddenly, he pinned her against the wall by the window, hand tightly around her throat, and growled.

        She gasped.

        Rebekah walked in to see the scene and through him off her at vamp speed.

        “Seriously, Nik?” she said to him, before looking at Hayley to make sure she was okay She then looked at Klaus again. “Did you do it?”

        “Of course I did. I wouldn't kill my only brother,” he replied.

        In the end, Elijah was cured, so everybody lived happily ever after.