Haylijah

Haylijah is the het ship between Hayley Marshall and Elijah Mikaelson from The Originals fandom.

Canon
Hayley and Elijah met in New Orleans in the first episode of the show, when Elijah discovered that Hayley was pregnant with his brother's child. He shows Hayley their families history by entering her mind and then convinces Klaus to accept both the child and Hayley. He believed that Hayley and her baby could heal the scars that have plagued his family. He is also quite determined to keep both Hayley and her baby safe from harm. He vows to keep her safe, and she moves with him, Klaus, and Rebekah, to their family mansion.

Shortly after they move in together, Elijah mysteriously goes missing, which worries Hayley. Klaus tells her that he gave him over to Marcel to appease him, which angers her and both she and Rebekah work together to get Elijah back. Rebekah visits Elijah in his mind, and he makes her promise to protect Hayley and the unborn baby. This makes Hayley smile when she hears this. After Elijah returns home, the two bond over his return and she slaps him for making a promise he couldn't keep. She then welcomes him home and leaves the balcony, and he touches his face where she had slapped him and smiles slightly.

During their first few days of living together, Elijah makes sure that Hayley is comfortable in the house, even promising to buy milk and real food for her. With Sophie, who Hayley is still linked to, injected with a poison that creates a miscarriage, Hayley experiences severe symptoms that threaten her pregnancy. Elijah helps her into the pool and holds her close as she writhes in pain, trying to soothe her and calm her. He succeeds in doing so, and Davina is successful in unbinding Hayley and Sophie. Elijah then kills the witch responsible for poisoning Sophie, and consequently, Hayley.

During the first few months of living under the same roof, their friendship grows to be very close and strong. Later on, Hayley tells Klaus that she relied on Elijah because he was kind to her.

Elijah promises to Hayley that he will always protect her.

Their first kiss was in A Closer Walk With Thee, the twentieth episode of the first season.

They make love for the first time in episode nine of Season 2 after Hayley tells him that she has to marry Jackson in order to save her pack and Hope. Weeks later, Hayley marries Jackson in a unification ritual that unites all the wolves.

A while after Jackson dies, Hayley says, "I love you" to Elijah. He returned the statement in 4x03.

At the beginning of Season 4, Hayley saves Elijah and the rest of the Mikaelson and awakens them from their five-year slumber. Once reunited, Elijah gives Hayley his jacket to cover her bare body, and the pair shares a passionate kiss.

They were together in Season 4 but they had to break-up in order to protect Hope from The Hollow, as a piece of The Hollow was now in Elijah. Elijah, broken over the recent events, asks Marcel to erase his memories of "Always and Forever". Consequently, all over Elijah's memories, including those of Hayley, are erased.

Over seven years later, the pair is still broken up and Hayley still seems to care for Elijah, although she was dating Declan. Elijah, in France, became engaged to a new woman and was able to put his past behind him. That was until Klaus returned to France and asked for Elijah's help in saving a recently kidnapped Hayley, and bringing her home. Elijah didn't remember Hayley and coldly stated that the name meant nothing to him and that his loyalty and love belongs to Antoinette, his new fiancé.

Later, Elijah arrived in New Orleans with Antoinette to meet her radical vampire mother and family. After learning that Antoinette's brother is in danger alongside Hope, the niece he no longer remembers, he hurries to the abandoned house where they are being held, hostage. He arrives just in time to fight and later stop Klaus from saving Hayley, who is about to have her heart ripped out by Greta, Antoinette's mother. Hayley sees Elijah and calls out for him, hoping that he's there to save her. When she realizes that he isn't and that she's going to die, she sacrifices herself to both save Hope and kill Greta. She rips off Greta's daylight ring and the two crash outside and into the sunlight where they erupt to death. A confused Elijah watches from the doorway with a distraught Klaus, unable to remember who Hayley was or what she really meant to him.

Behind the Scenes
"They're a sweet, dysfunctional, mismatched twosome who found each other in the storm. I love that about their love."

- Daniel Gillies (Elijah) talks about Haylijah


 * Daniel Gillies, the actor who portrays Elijah, wasn't a fan of Haylijah at first. However, the ship grew on him to the point where he now openly supports it.
 * Phoebe Tonkin, the actress who portrays Hayley, thinks that Elijah is the best thing that has ever happened to Hayley.

Quotes
"Who the hell are you?"

- Hayley's first words to Elijah

"I will always protect you. You have my word on that."

- Elijah to Hayley

"You hardly know him, and yet you miss him."

- Klaus to Hayley about Elijah

"Everything has changed. And not just for me. I saw the way you looked at me before. And, I see the way you look at me now. I was a mother, and now I'm a monster. Things are different now. You can't tell me that they're not."

- Hayley to Elijah after turning into a hybrid

"No. You don't get to ignore me for days and then suddenly act like you're concerned, Elijah. Just, for once, please, will you trust me that I'll do something and it will get done? Thank you."

- Hayley lashes out at Elijah

"By the way, thanks for your help tonight, Elijah. I'm sorry that it takes me being in danger for you to even talk to me."

- Hayley snaps at Elijah

"You must be afraid that-- that loving you will destroy her! As it destroyed Celeste. Tatia. Take my offer. Both of you. In new bodies, you will be alive again! You could give her a child, to replace the one she lost."

- Esther appeals to Elijah's hopes

"Listen to me. The only way that this city will be safe for Hope's return is if you have unified your people, and I have unified my own. Now, Davina will eventually lead her witches, and whatever that girl may be, she is no enemy to your child. Do what you need to bring your daughter home. This is my wish for you."

- Elijah gives Hayley her freedom to marry Elijah

"Everyone knows you're in love with her. But, Hayley has a duty to this family, and so do you."

- Klaus to Elijah about him and Hayley

"Don't. Don't say it. You know, ever since the first day that I met you, I have felt everything for you. And all this time, you were never able to say how you feel about me. And I get it -- you can't just be the guy who says how he feels. But Jackson is. And I think that I can be happy with him. And I just wanna be happy, Elijah. So, whatever you're going to say to me... Please don't say it."

- Hayley tearfully asks Elijah not to admit his feelings

"No. But, I'm not blind. It's pretty obvious you had the guy all bent out of shape. Look, after you guys got married, we started hanging out. He was just so... Wound up. I guess it must be tough to spend a thousand years being the shoulder everyone else leans on. Maybe he... Just needs to live his life for himself, for once."

- Gia to Hayley about Elijah

"Elijah, I’m calling to say goodbye. Hope and I, we can't be part of your family anymore. All Hope’s life her family has tried to destroy her. That can't be my little girl’s story. Family is supposed to love you. Even if she is free of Dahlia's first-born curse, Hope would still be Klaus' daughter. She'd inherit a thousand years of enemies. All his anger and rage. I don't want Hope to be a Mikaelson. All the pain that comes with that name. She doesn’t deserve that. Elijah I... Goodbye."

- Hayley's voicemail to Elijah

"I want you to make me another promise, Elijah. I can't let Klaus be the only thing that she knows. I need you to be there for her. Promise me that. She needs you."

- Hayley asks Elijah to watch over Hope

"I thought only of you. Every day, I fought for your return and searching for a way. You were not forgotten."

- Elijah to Hayley

"Listen to me. Now, you have grieved enough. You promise me... If not for yourself, then for Hope... You will get as far away from this place as you can. I want you to be happy."

- Elijah asks Hayley to leave

"So we do that. Together. In jean shorts."

- Haylijah makes plans for the future (continued from the previous quote)

"Elijah..."

- Hayley's last word before her death

"But despite what you might think, you did love her and not because of some family obsession. Because of her. Because she believed in something better for all of us and because she fought for it when we couldn’t."

- Klaus tries to get Elijah to remember

"She still held a candle for the guy."

- Declan on Hayley's remaining feelings for Elijah

"A smile to end a war. So now you see her face everywhere you go, you hear her voice in your dreams, and you feel the lingering ghost of her touch."

- Elijah to Declan about how he feels now that Hayley's dead

"Elijah, I wanted to thank you for giving me a beautiful day just when I needed it. You helped me more than you can ever know. I realized I’d been holding on to things that I shouldn’t. If I had met my ex under different circumstances, without the legacy of pain that haunted him, things would have been different for us. My time with you helped to forgive him for the pain that he caused me, and remember the best parts of our lives together. And though I can’t honestly say I’ll ever get over him entirely, I can finally look forward, because of you. I’ll never forget my time in France. And if by some chance we do meet again in another life, I’m gonna hold you to that dance. Until then, be happy. And as you grow and find the parts of your life that fit you perfectly, make sure you never let them go. Andrea."

- Hayley's letter to Elijah

"In the few hours that we spent together we had a... Profound connection."

- Elijah about meeting Hayley while he had amnesia

"It was probably just some white-light hallucination but... She told me to tell you that she's still holding out for that dance."

- Hope delivers Hayley's message to Elijah

Trivia

 * She was pregnant and birthed his half-brother Klaus' child.
 * They hugged and almost kissed several times before their first kiss.
 * Klaus referred to Elijah as the person Hayley shares a true connection with.
 * He saw her naked for the first time in "Alive and Kicking", when she stood up in the bathtub.
 * On the day of her wedding, Hayley told Elijah that ever she met him, she has felt everything for him.
 * While Hayley was cursed by Klaus, Elijah brought Hope to her every full moon so the two could continue to bond.
 * He killed the rest of the Strix on her list for her, so that she didn't have to hold that pain.
 * Hayley stayed loyal to Elijah for five years while he was slumbering.
 * Marcel inadvertently erased all of Elijah's memories of her. This leads to Elijah not knowing anything about Hayley or even remembering her, which broke Hayley's heart.
 * Elijah was heartbroken when he remembered Hayley and realized that he could have prevented her death, to the point where he openly sobbed.