Chapter Ninety Five: A Life For A Life

Hayley's POV: Me and Elijah saw the knife drop above our baby, we tried running to save her. But we were to late, the knife landed in her chest and our baby was dead. I ran over there and started crying, Elijah was too! Our baby, the one shot any of us had at true happiness was gone, the miracle baby, the one chance we had at a child in our stupid vampire lives was just killed in front of all of us. I pulled the knife out of her chest even though it wouldn't do anything I still did it, I couldn't bare seeing this, I buried my head in Elijah's chest, we both fell to our knees and everyone crowded around us with surprised faces. Why did this have to happen, what did I ever do to deserve the loss of a child? How many people had to hate me and what Elijah and I are to kill our baby? I grabbed my baby's dead body and ran out of there without leaving a trace of where I was going...

Elijah's POV: Hayley just ran out of the cemetery without saying where she was going, she took Annabelle's body with her, we figured she was going to the house to mourn her baby. I wanted to also but I knew I needed to be there for Hayley even though I was just as sad and heartbroken! So we all headed back to the house, but when we got there Hayley wasn't there...

Hayley's POV: I took Annabelle's body and myself to Elijah's mother's grave, I was in the cemetery back at Saint Falls now, and I stood over her grave and prayed that she would do something, anything to bring my baby back! I could hear whispers, Nadia was listening, her and other witches from the other side, they listened and I could hear what they were saying, they said a life for a life, mine for my baby's. I agreed, even though I'd be dead I couldn't let my baby die, I wouldn't put Elijah through that. So I wrote a note saying what deal I made, what the witches said, and put it in a cradle I brought. I put Annabelle in the cradle, put the note in there and got down on my knees and prayed for them to do it! And my wish was their command...

Katherine's POV: I couldn't deal with all the tears so I took a run, to run off all the sadness and run away from all the emotions and problems. I came across the cemetery and I like to see if anyone's in there, there usually is, but I didn't see anyone so I tried to hear if anyone was there. I heard a bunch of baby noises. I walked into the cemetery and saw a baby in a cradle, the same one Hayley and Elijah planned to use for Annabelle. This baby looked exactly like her too. Then I saw what I most feared...

Elijah's POV: I got a call from Katerina, she said to come to the cemetery in town it was urgent. I arrived and saw Katerina crying. I saw Hayley laying on the ground above my mother's grave, and a note. Saying she sacrificed herself to bring back our baby. Then I saw Annabelle in her cradle looking happy with a smile on her face. Hayley said she pleaded to the witches and she'd do anything to bring back her daughter, so she put herself in a coma, binding her time asleep to a normal lifespan, Tanners. He was to be unharmed and able to live his full happy life and when he died she'd awaken. Possibly being able to meet her daughter and if not then it was worth it for her to be able to live. That's all her note said. I couldn't believe what Hayley did. I didn't know whether to be sad or happy, actually I was both, I was thrilled that our baby was alive, but now her mother was in a coma for the next 60 years and I would live over half a century without seeing my wife. And I'd have to raise Annabelle without her. I wanted to kill Tanner right then and there. But I had to respect Hayley's wishes, I'll let Tanner live a little while and whenever the time feels right I'll kill him. Simple...

Klaus's POV: We put Hayley in a coffin and put her in the basement of her and Elijah's house. They let Annabelle rest peacefully in her nursery room. However on the back of the note Hayley left it read, "The witch spirits will have spoken with the alive witches by the time you find me, and they tell that Annabelle is to be unharmed by anyone. And that if the alive witches try to harm her that they'll use magic from the other side to kill anyone who tries to harm her. ~Love Hayley" And that's all that was left besides what she wrote on the front! I was sad but also I knew that we'd see her again one day, and until then we all get to help raise her and Elijah's daughter...