Klaus Mikaelson didn't believe in wolf mates, there was no way that he had a mate. It was impossible Klaus Mikaelson the evil original hybrid couldn't have a destined mates, there was no way anyone could love him, not after everything he's done. If he did have one she died a long time ago when he was still human that was the only explanation. Even if some pack elders had told him differently he wasn't even sure if he believed in mates, he hadn't seen any in his thousand year long life. They didn't exist and even if they did, he didn't have one.
Hayley Marshall is a lone wolf, she doesn't have a pack and she doesn't have any family, she's been on her own since she was fifteen. She wanted to know where she came from, she wanted to find her family it was all she had left. She bounced around packs for a long as she could remember, that's how she met Tyler she was going to see him. He's a hybrid, which meant he knew Klaus Mikaelson, she was always intrigued about the original hybrid. Hayley had heard whispers about mates, werewolves version of soulmates in away, she wasn't even sure if they were real only talked about in legends by the elders. She sure as hell didn't have one, she knew that, sometimes though she couldn't help, but to wonder if she did. She secretly hoped she had a mate so she wouldn't be alone anymore, however people always told her to be careful what she wished for.
When Klaus Mikaelson met Hayley Marshall he knew, everything just seemed to click like she was a missing puzzle piece the feisty little wolf. He wouldn't admit that though to anyone not even himself, because after all he always told his siblings that love was a vampires greatest weakness. He wouldn't let her become his, he wasn't sure if it was some twisted way of protecting her or him.
Hayley knew something was different about Klaus when they met, it was like she couldn't stay away from him no matter how many people warned her too, even his own siblings.
When Hayley is reunited with Elijah, she is finally going to spend the rest of eternity with her true love. Happy to be back in his arms, she keeps her pain and desperation of being with her daughter again locked away. She spends time as a wolf to try and stay calm, but she knows that Elijah will never truly accept that part of who she is, even in death. When she thinks that she will spend what seems like forever alone in her longing for Hope, Klaus suddenly appears in the bayou. With someone to finally understand her pain fully, she starts to feel better. But when they are brought back to the living, what will happen when they all have a second chance to live?