Chapter Seventy Three: The Curse

Klaus's POV: After a little while Elijah came down and we asked how she was doing. He told us about the hallucinations and the freaking out. He said she was long gone, the curse consumed her. And that right about now all we could do wait it out, lock her up, and try to track down another potential hunter! We started by locking Hayley up. We gave her enough blood to last awhile. She was staying in Elijah's room since it's the biggest and she'd need some room to scream and talk privately among the hallucinations. Then we decided we'd search for anyone in Saint Falls that could be and we stumbled across one specific home that had a hunter inside. We knew this because Kaylee helped us using her powers to track a Hunter. But the house was Hayley's house, where Jenny and Matt lived, it couldn't be Jenny since she was a girl and it's a brotherhood of hunters, so it had to of been Matt that was chosen. He was a very muscular guy, he looks strong enough to take on a vampire and be a hunter, now he just had to kill one to complete the transition into a full hunter! We'd have to teach him not to kill any of us though, we just needed him to kill one vampire and Hayley's curse would be gone. So we asked Jenny if we could talk to Matt for a second, we heard her tell him not to go outside and to stay inside the door while they talked...

Elijah's POV: Matt didn't come outside and since we couldn't come inside our threatening plan didn't work out. But after we explained everything that happened with Syran and Hayley, he looked sad and really wanted to help which was surprising until he told us that Jenny wouldn't let him leave the house, only to go to school and straight back. I told him to come with us for awhile and see his sister. He gladly came with us and once we got to the house we walked up to my room where she was locked up at and saw how destroyed it was, Hayley had about 5 blood bags in there with her, all of them we splattered all over the wall, and there were lamps and other stuff thrown on the floor everywhere. Then right before we approached her she grabbed a stake about to stake herself, I ran as fast as vampire speed would let me and I grabbed the stake, threw it on the ground, and grabbed Hayley. She kept trying to like kill me or something but since I was behind her she couldn't get me. I was yelling over her screaming to Matt saying that he needed to stay here for the day if he wanted to help his sister. He agreed without hesitation.

Hayley's POV: Stop! Get away from me! LEAVE ME ALONE! Go away! Please, please stop. I don't want to die! I can't kill myself, it's not right! The only thing I can think of is staking myself because of the horrible things I've done...

Klaus's POV: Elijah asked me to take Matt to kill a vampire, after all the nearby towns were crawling with them. In the meantime, him, Kaylee and Caroline would stay behind keeping an eye on Hayley. So off we go...

N: About an hour later Klaus and Matt arrived in the next town...

Klaus's POV: Matt and I just arrived and one of the first people we saw was a vampire. I brought our stash of stakes so that we could kill a vampire. We basically kidnapped the vampire, he was sacred but he knew a lot about himself and his enemies, he knew I was a vampire and that Matt was a potential Hunter. We took him in the middle of the woods, I gave Matt a stake, grabbed the guys arms so he couldn't leave, and told Matt to drive the stake through his heart! He stuttered which is a bad thing, but he managed and once the guy was dead Matt started feeling a lot of pain, he said it was by his arm. Then I saw a mark appear, it was way bigger than Syrans, maybe it gets bigger by each generation, his took up almost half his arm and it scarred all at once, that explains the pain. Anyway, we were on our way back to the house, I dropped Matt off at his house, and when I got to the mansion I told everyone about mine and Matt's day...

Elijah's POV: Kaylee came upstairs and told me that Hayley should start to calm down soon since Matt killed a vampire and was now the new Hunter. I stuck Hayley on my bed like when she first came in here this afternoon, and told her to focus on me, her love for me, anything about me. I needed her to focus and the curse would go away faster. She looked deep into my eyes and before I knew it she kissed me, it seemed...different, she was scared but relieved, the curse was gone. Hayley told me everything she saw and felt...

Hayley's POV: I was back, I told Elijah everything, how Syran was haunting me telling me to kill myself for every bad thing I've done, and all the people that I killed while my humanity was off showed up during the hallucinations. It was terrible and they were all saying such horrible things about me and my friends. I told him all that, he embraced me in the biggest hug ever. I immediately felt better in his arms. We went downstairs to assure everyone that I was ok, but now we had my brother, the new Hunter apparently, to deal with. But in the meantime everyone else went home, Elijah and I went back up to his bedroom to clean up the blood bag mess I made. And as far as Clarissa, nobody's seen her for awhile, we think she left but nobody's sure...