Chapter Eighty One: Birthday Wishes

Hayley's POV: I got up this morning to see Elijah laying down next to me, he must've just got here because he didn't come home with me last night. He was staring at me, so I kissed him. Then he said the thing I was most dreading. Happy birthday. It's supposed to be my 18th birthday which obviously isn't true since I was turned into a vampire. Anyway, I asked him how he knew it was my birthday today, he said Caroline told him and can I really be shocked that she did? Caroline can't keep her mouth shut about anything, when I went to kiss him again he said that everyone was downstairs so we couldn't do anything. Well, right now anyway...

Elijah's POV: I made Hayley get up and get dressed nicely so she would come downstairs with me. She seemed upset that it was her birthday, and can I really not expect her to be sad, she'll be 17 for the rest of her life, no matter how many birthdays she has nothing will change now that she's a vampire. I told everyone else and they were waiting downstairs for her to come down. She got a nice dress on and her hair was curled then we went downstairs, and might I say she looked beautiful...

Katherine's POV: I watched as Elijah and Hayley walked down the stairs, linked arms, he was smiling but Hayley looked sort of upset, I knew what this was about because I went through it too, I'm 17 also, same age as her and when I didn't get to have my 18th birthday I was on the verge of killing myself, so all before she came down I made sure to tell everyone to keep her happy today! It was me, my brothers Nik and Elijah, a human girl named Caroline, a witch named Kaylee, and Hayley's brother, the towns Hunter, Matt. They all seemed pretty sweet, and they agreed to keep Hayley happy. I know how she's feeling right now and I'm glad that she'll have people like us here for her, especially now that I'm back, I'm so happy I got to meet the love of my brothers life...

Hayley's POV: I felt sick, there was nothing that could possibly make me want to have a birthday that won't make me older! I wanted to kill myself at this point, nobody understood how I felt because they've all gotten used to this feeling and it's like nothing for them, but this is everything for me. I should've been 18 today, I should be able to grow up and die like everyone else, and since I couldn't I made a plan. When the time was right, I would take out the white oak stake I stole earlier and stake myself in the heart. Now that I'm basically an original thats the only thing that can kill me!

Klaus's POV: I could see a look in Hayley's eyes a few hours later, she was sad and hurting, I knew Katherine knew because she told me all about this before she died, and now that she was back I had to ask her about it. She never could finish the story about her first vampire birthday, she always stopped at the part where she felt like dying or something like that! So when I asked her she said to keep a close eye on Hayley because if it was the same thing Katherine went through then Hayley would try to kill herself. But the only thing that can kill her is the white oak stake. We needed to find it and keep it away from her, I had to tell Elijah...

Elijah's POV: Niklaus just told me everything about Hayley and what she might be planning to do, we went to my house as a distraction so we could look in my bedroom for the stake, I usually kept it in a locked box under my bed. I got it out but the lock was broke and the stake was gone, Hayley was going to kill herself today! We immediately went downstairs...

Hayley's POV: I got out the white oak stake since everyone was in the kitchen and Katherine, Nik and Elijah were in his room, probably looking for the stake. It was now or never. I grabbed the white oak stake and held it against my heart, Matt walked into the room asking what I was doing, I turned around and he saw a tear run down my face, I didn't deserve this, so I had to die! I started pushing the white oak stake into my heart, Matt screamed for everyone else to get in there to stop me...

Katherine's POV: We heard Matt yelling, we ran downstairs all of us as fast as we could only to find Hayley stabbing her heart with the stake. She can't die, even though I barely know her, Elijah and Nik would be crushed. I ran over to her and before the stake touched her heart I told her to stop and that I'd help her, she didn't listen and without giving me time to grab the stake from her, she shoved it into her chest...

Elijah's POV: I ran over to Hayley crying, she can't be dead, there's no way she's dead. I ripped the stake out in hope that it didn't work, she was laying on the floor with blue veins through her body. I could still feel a pulse, either she's very slow at dying or she's still alive! I grabbed her and ran her up into my room making Kaylee following me. I laid Hayley on my bed and gave Kaylee a spell to do, a reviving spell, the love of my life is not dying, not without a fight! She told me this was dark magic, to bring back the dead but I didn't care, I told her to do it but we were stopped before anything could happen by Katerina, she ran up, threw me against the wall so I was away from Hayley, she told Kaylee to move and obviously she listened, I watched Katherine reach into Hayley's chest and it looked like she was about to rip her heart out. I knew my sister and I knew she wouldn't do that but what the hell was she doing. I was to sad to try and stop her, Hayley was already dead, ripping her heart out wouldn't do anything. And then Katherine ripped her hand out without Hayley's heart and told me she was alive. She hit her heart with the stake, but she was alive, how...

Hayley's POV: I thought I was dead! Goddamnit why wasn't I dead! It should've worked, why didn't the stake work on me. It's the white oak stake, the one thing that can kill me and it wouldn't! I noticed Katherine and Elijah standing beside me, a tear drained my eye, I wanted to die, I was ready to die. Elijah told Katherine to leave, I was scared because he looked mad, but I knew he wouldn't hurt me. Once Katherine left he put his hand on my throat and pushed me up against the wall, he started saying how ridiculous I was being for trying to kill myself without thinking of everyone that would miss me, people like Matt, Jenny, everyone with us right now, and him. Elijah wanted me to feel bad but I don't, I wanted this, I may not have thought it all through, but I couldn't keep living like this!

Elijah's POV: I was angry but also relieved that Hayley was alive, but how could she just try to kill her self like that. She didn't think about who would miss her, and who she would miss and never get to see again! I reminded her of that and she said that she wouldn't try to kill her self again. I wanted to believe her but I couldn't, I told her that we had different things to worry about. Since she didn't want to celebrate her birthday, then we'd figure out why the last remaining white oak stake couldn't kill her...