The Originals: Hope For Hayley and Elijah?

When we put out the call on Twitter for questions for The Originals Executive Producer Michael Narducci, two things seemed to come up more than anything else: (1) Klaroline, and if we’d see Klaus and Caroline reunited (no answer on that, though a crossover between the shows seems to be a possibility); and (2) “ask him about Klayley (Klaus/Hayley),” for which we weren’t able to deliver, either. Some job we did, right!

But we were able to get some intel on Hayley and Elijah, so hopefully you all won’t leave empty handed. After all, the same challenge is in the way for Hayley with Elijah as it would be with Hayley and Klaus… that is, that she’s still married to Jackson.

So what’s the deal? On the eve of a new episode airing tonight (November 5) at 9PM on The CW, let us see what we can find out.. for starters, tonight’s episode “The Axeman’s Letter” features Hayley and Jackson making “a really great husband wife team,” according to Narducci.

“It is very clear that he loves her and has great affection and respect for her and wants to be a good husband to her and I think she has come a long way with her feelings towards him, but with all things that goes with our show, there are forces that will always conspire to destroy every single character in our series and along the way,” Narducci teased. “Alliances will be made, people will be placed in jeopardy and Hayley is going to find herself to deal with difficult decisions to choose between this man she married who is now her family, and the father of her daughter, and the brother of the father of her daughter of the other family who is also her family because they are the people who are connected to her daughter, so when people are making moves against one family and then making moves towards them, what does she do?”

“That is an important and impossible place to be!” he exclaimed. “Meanwhile, I think it is very clear that Elijah carries a major torch for Hayley and has respectfully decided to stay out of the way and he has suffered quietly. Elijah also has a love from his past and we will be exploring that and what that means to him and how dangerous it is for these people to return. The sins of our past have a great toll on our characters this season, and there are going to be a lot of obstacles before we see forward progress in the pairing you are asking about. I know we haven’t seen the end of that storyline and the affection between those people, so we are aware that is something we are building on and we are heading in that direction ultimately, I think!”

So, theoretically, if Jackson were to die, what would happen… would the magic go away?

“You’re terrible. We love Jackson,” Narducci told the reporter who asked the question in yesterday’s Q&A. “The specifics of the magic spell as long as these two people entered into a union, a ’till death do us part’ union, and they were true to one another that the magic of that spell would carry over to the other people. Now if, for instance, they were not true to that promise and vow a married couple should share, that could considerably devastate what they were able to render in that magical ceremony….”

Hmm…

The Originals “The Axeman’s Letter” airs tonight at 9PM on The CW. See some promotional photos below:

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