Chapter Sixty One: We Have Today

Klaus's POV: Hayley has been waking up and passing out over and over again for a few hours. Then when she woke up and stayed awake we asked her what happened. She told us how it was slippery and Caroline took a turn to fast and we ran off the bridge, that's all she remembered. But what I was confused about was how she seemed basically dead when we got her, but then she woke up fine...ish? So I asked Elijah and his answered drew fear to everyone's face...

Elijah's POV: I told Niklaus and reminded Hayley of our afternoon together today, how we got drunk off champagne and how she cut herself on accident. Then I mentioned that Hayley allowed me to drink her blood, and I offered to cure the cut by giving her some of my blood to heal it, but I gave her a lot, like a lot more than just to heal her! That's when it hit us, my blood was still in her system when they ran off the bridge, and she was dead when we pulled her out...Hayley was a vampire in transition...

Hayley's POV: Elijah and Nik just told me what was happening to me. I was becoming a vampire, I died on that bridge and came back in transition of becoming! I started to panic. I walked at a fast pace down stairs of the Pierre mansion into the kitchen and searched for anything wood and breakable. I would stake myself in the heart before I'd ever fully become a vampire. Then I found something, a huge supply of stakes and I grabbed one, and as I was about to kill myself a tear ran down my face. Then Elijah and Nik ran down, they took the stake from me and hid all the rest of them. I was angry, this should be my choice, so I yelled at them saying that I would kill myself before I EVER became a vampire! They looked scared of how angry I was, and to be honest I was scared of myself right now, and they also looked sad and sorry for me, I know Elijah and I were drunk when we drank each other's blood, but they didn't want this to happen to me, and they were just as sad about it as me. The same thing happened to them 500 years ago, so I know they understand what I'm going through. But the real problem was that I had to now choose if I would feed on blood and become a vampire, or let myself die. Of course I wanted to die right then and there, but then I started thinking about everything that I would miss and not get to see, and who would miss me. My brother Matt, Jenny, Caroline, Elijah, Nik and probably most of the people at my school, giving I'm a cheerleader and pretty popular-ish. So I told Nik and Elijah that I would take the day to decide what I wanted to do, because that's all the time I have left, by sundown if I don't feed then I'm dead. So I better make a choice fast and decide if I'll let that happen, or if I'll become a...a vampire!

Klaus's POV: Hayley just told Elijah and I her plan, she would take the day and before sundown she'd make her choice. I told her that we could track down a witch and see if there is a way out of vampirism, but Elijah said there wasn't and that she just needed to feed already, I disagree, I wanted to take the day to track down a witch nearby and ask about any sort of loop hole around this mess! Hayley agreed with me, she wants to take the day with me to find a way out, Elijah said he was completely against this and thinks she should just feed...

Elijah's POV: Hayley has to feed by the end of the day, it's the first basic rule of vampirism, you feed or you die. There isn't a loop hole, and even if there was, where would they find a witch in time, and one willing to do the spell, if they even know it! They're being impossible, so I had a backup plan, I told Hayley something very important for along the long, boring road with Klaus to find a different way...

Hayley's POV: Elijah told me something, he said that there was no way out of this and that I would have to feed if I wanted to live, even though I'd be dead, but still. And he gave me a little jar filled with human blood, I felt weird carrying it around, but Incase I did, I wouldn't be killing anyone for it. So that would be good, but that's if I decide to live and feed on blood for the rest of my life. Luckily, Nik and I have hope, he has a witch tracker, he used it in the 1500's to find witches to find one of his sisters, Tatia, I guess she was a witch. But anyway, we got in the car, said goodbye to Elijah, and left, the witch tracker led us to the high school, which is weird because only the cheerleaders are there right now for practice. So we went in there and it pointed to Kaylee, one of my other best friends, we haven't been very close lately though. So I asked if we could talk with her in private for a few minutes. She came with us willingly, and when we were somewhere where we could talk, Kaylee gladly listened to everything we had to say, she said that her mother tells her all kinds of stories about her being a witch, which gave it away that she doesn't practice, and that she was also told all these stories about vampires. So she knew a lot more than we thought. She took us to her house where her mother kept spell books of one of her ancestors, a powerful witch called Maria. She looked through the spell book and couldn't find anything about vampires being in transition besides that they have a day to feed on human blood or they die. That's when I realized that I couldn't leave everyone like this. My death would be epic, this isn't a very epic way to die. So I took out the tube of human blood Elijah gave to me this morning and drank all of it without thinking twice...