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.

Fanon
Haylijah is a pretty popular ship in The Originals fandom. The two are shipped based on their mutual understandings of one another, as well as their need to protect each other. Their mutual support of each other also, made them popular among fans. The slower pace of the pair also made many anticipate the ship as the series went on.

On AO3, Haylijah is the most written ship for Hayley and Elijah. It is also the second most written ship in the The Originals (TV) tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Hayley/Elijah tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Hayley/Elijah tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Hayley/Elijah tag on FanFiction.Net

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