‘The Originals’ Phoebe Tonkin And Daniel Gillies Explain If Hayley And Elijah’s Relationship Will Ever Really Happen

The Originals returned Monday, Oct. 6, for its second season, and there was a lot going on. After Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) sent her daughter away last season, she has been trying to figure out how to survive as a werewolf/vampire hybrid and not fall apart. Unfortunately, that means her budding romance with Elijah (Daniel Gillies) could be stop before it actually starts.

Hayley and Elijah might not be the perfect romance right now, but the actors who play them are hopeful their relationship status will change throughout the season.

"I wouldn't call it cooling off. Relationships require work, and sometimes they require space and time and healing. If it is cooling right now I suspect it will heat up again and then cool and then heat up like a parabola, that mathematical graph. They dip and they travel up, and ultimately the graph is traveling up and they're making an ascent overall," Daniel told E! Online after the first episode of Season 2.

"And I hope that's the cast because I like them together. I think they're a sweet, dysfunctional, mismatched twosome who found each other in the storm and I love that about their love," he continued.

After having a baby with Elijah's brother Klaus (Joseph Morgan), it isn't going to be smooth sailing for this possible couple, even though fans are vocal about wanting them to get together.

"I think that Elijah imagines in some sense — I would like to think that he imagines — that he would become, at the very least, a mentor of sorts, if not another father to this child. I think he really does wish both his brother and ... the woman he loves, joy and peace," Daniel told Access Hollywood in regards to Elijah's attempts to help his brother help Hayley in the Season 2 premiere.

Even though Elijah's trying to help Hayley personally and through Klaus, Hayley's hurt by everything that happened in the past and is therefore remaining closed off.

"Both of them are dealing with the situation very differently — Hayley's being destructive and Elijah is being logical and she doesn't like that. She wants everyone to be angry and wanting revenge and she's disappointed that he's behaving so calmly about everything," Phoebe told E! Online.

"Also I think she's terrified of being hurt again and doesn't want to show who she really is to him now that she's a hybrid. It's a tragic love story right now. They're both putting up walls and are being defensive," she continued.

Tune in tonight for an new episode of The Originals on The CW.