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Josie was walking through the forest to the lake late at night the day after her Dad, Kaleb, MG, Raf, Hope and Landon`s body returned to the school. As she walked she thought about how MG had been beating himself up over Landon`s death since they had returned, How Kaleb had been awfully protective of MG since there return and was trying to help him through what he was feeling how Raf had avoided everyone but hope who seemed awfully close to now Josie supposed this was because they both had loved Landon, About how Her Dad had only left his office once since there return and that was for Landon`s funeral, and how Hope had been their but was worrying Josie ever since there return Hope had shown no emotions and Josie was worried that maybe one of the vampire things she could already do was turn her emotions on and off. As she was five minutes or so from the Lake the walk took a little longer as she took a longer route to try and sort through her thoughts as she went, she out of nowhere heard sobbing coming from deeper into the woods not too far from where she was now, Josie thought for a second that maybe she should just continue on her walk whoever this was probably didn't want her around but of course her caring nature takes over and spurs her to move deeper into the woods towards the sobbing as Josie got closer her heart started sink as it always did when someone was like this, it always pained to someone sad and all Josie wanted to do was hold them and tell them it would be okay. Josie found herself in approaching a clearing where the sobs where coming from. To her astonishment it was Hope, Hope was sitting curled up her arms holding her knees to her chest completely naked and crying. Josie supposed she had just been out for a run. Josie decides to make herself and say rather timidly but loud enough to be heard from the edge of “Hope what`s wrong?” she`s gets no reply she wonders how long she had been here like this, she thinks maybe she should just leave when something tells her that hope needs her right now and so without thinking Josie makes her way over to hope and sits down next to her when she is settled on the ground she pulls Hope in to her for a split second Josie feels Hope tense up but as soon as Hope sees Josie she relaxes they sit there like that for the next few hours saying nothing just holding each. Josie doesn't what is telling her what she should there is no real thought to it, but something tells her to just wait for hope to speak first. Out of nowhere Hope says really quietly and in such a way that Hope feels so small that it scares Josie “you shouldn't be here I’m a monster who gets everyone she cares about killed first my Mom, then my Dad and Uncle, now Landon you should go before you die –“ Josie interrupts her “you are not a monster your Mom and dad died to save you, your uncle died because he wanted to be with his brother and you had nothing to do with Landon`s death it was an accident” “But –“ hope starts to say but Josie stops her “ YOU. ARE. NOT. A. MONSTER. Hope you are a teenage girl who has gone through more pain and horror than anyone should ever have had to live through that is all and I am not leaving you because my friend needs me right now”Hope is shocked at this first Josie yells at her that she is not what she thinks she is and then calls her a friend when did that happen “you consider me a friend? Hope says on such a way that makes her feel so small. Josie replies instantly “Yes Hope, you are my friend, have been for a long time” she has stopped crying now she’s still sad and grieving but Josie has made her feel better. Hope gets up without warning and walks over to a nearby tree and retrieves her clothes she had stashed there before going on her run and gets dressed.When hope finishes getting dressed she turns to Josie looking down at her feet Hope asks Josie a question she was not expecting “ could you stay with me tonight I don`t want to be alone” Josie does not even need to think about her answer she just gets up and go to Hope`s room together. When they arrive Josie waits patiently while Hope opens up her room and lets Josie in first, Josie's never really seen Hopes room before it is immaculate everything seems to have a place and is in said place “I’m going to go have a quick shower and be right back do you want to borrow some PJ's” Hope asks catching Josie off guard “uh yes please if that’s alright” Hope says nothing but grabs some PJ's for Josie and hands to her “Be right back” hope says as she leaves the room Josie changes and waits for Hope on her bed and watches things on her phone. Hope returns 20 minutes later and moves toward the bed Josie quickly says I`ll take the floor, hope stands there looking embarrassed when she asks “Could you sleep with me cuddle with me please” Josie looks at her sad that someone so strong looks so small in that moment that Josie just nods and climbs into hopes bed and cuddles with the tribrid until they both fall asleep.Josie skips breakfast the next she is worried about hope specifically someone she thought about last night, Josie is worried that hope try and off her self and so she seeks out Miss Tig to ask her about it. Josie finds her in her office Miss Tig is surprised to see her there so early but just says “have a seat Josie what`s on your mind” she explains everything about last night and that she is worried for Hopes health and the older witch agrees someone with Hopes past probably would be very susceptible to that kind of mental states and encourages her to be there for Hope, and says that Family is also really important and that one of the bests things she can do everyday is tell Hope that she cares about her. So as Josie leaves Miss Tig Office she is determined to make Hope feel loved by as many people as she can get.
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Over the next few days Josie spent most of her time with Hope they very rarely spoke and Josie felt a little awkward most of the time as she and Hope were spending a lot of their time together and they only recently started to become friends every night Hope would curl up to Josie and Josie would tell her she cared about her and she would be there for her and she always would be but was always carefully to never say anything that even resembled ‘Always and Forever’ knowing that phrase meant something special to the Mikaelson’s and Josie didn’t know if she was aloud to say that to hope although she wanted to because it was true. The day after Josie had found Hope crying Hope had gone to Alaric and said that she did not want her Family to know about what was going on and that for a few days she wanted to take a break from training as she was concerned she would lose control and hurt Alaric and Alaric agreed so for a few days Josie had no chance to talk to her sister or friends without leaving Hope all alone and she did not want to do that for what she felt like was obvious reason. Almost a week later Hope had said to Josie “I’m going to go and find Dr. Saltzman and train” Josie was glad that Hope wanted to train again she thought that was a good sign and went with her to find her Dad once Josie had left Hope with her dad to train Josie went to find her friends and her sister to ask for their help with Hope. Josie found her sister in her room “Hey Lizzie I know I haven’t been around but I need to ask for a favor” without even saying hi as was usual for Lizzie “what have you been up to I haven’t seen you for almost a week it’s almost like you disappeared on me” Josie looks at her sister a little conflicted which apparently shows on her face because Lizzie says “alright Jo you know you can tell me anything right” “I know it’s just this is about Hope” Josie says hesitantly the change in Lizzie is instantaneous as soon as Josie mentioned Hope to Lizzie whose look becomes conflicted, it was recently that Lizzie found out what she thought Hope had done that made her hate her so much was really a lie that Josie had told and she was still sorting through what everything meant after a moment Lizzie nodded and said “wait’s up how can I help” Josie knew that her sister was trying to be a better person so she was confident when she asked “if Hope ever puts herself down or calls herself a monster just please tell her she isn't and that you care and you will be there for her I am worried about her, I went out for a walk the night before I started to spend all my time with Hope, the night after Landon’s funeral and I found her crying in a clearing after a run and she told me she was a monster and that everyone she cares about die because of her and it really scared me Liz I think she might try and off herself so just please make sure she knows you care Miss Tig says that’s one of the best things that we can do” Lizzie stands there for a moment with a look of shire shock at her sisters words and says “Of course Jo I may not have always liked her but she has saved both us plenty” she looks at her sister with a grateful look, a warmth flooding her knowing that her sister is there for her and more importantly Hope.Next Josie finds Penelope, MG and Kaleb sitting at a table and on the other side of the room Raf staring at MG clearly trying not to kill the Vampire who killed his brother she walks over to Raf and says “I need to talk to you and the others” gesturing hesitantly at Penelope, MG, and Kaleb “Please it will only take a few moments and it is about Hope” Raf is hesitant but after hearing it’s about Hope he says “5 Minutes any longer and I am likely to kill MG” they make there way over to MG and the Others. Penelope greets them both with a happy “Hi Guys what’s Up” while MG just looks away and makes to move away but before he can Josie say “No stay I need to talk to you about Hope” when MG has sat back down she tells them all of her concerns with Hope and they all agree to do whatever they can to help. After there conversation about Hope and ways to help her it’s been a few hours and Josie returns to Hope’s room to wait for her.When Josie arrives she finds Hope with what looks like a white oak stake Josie see this and yells “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??!!” she siphons magic from the walls around her and cast a quick spell to pull the stake to her and another to Knock Hope out to stop her from trying to get the stake back, one of the only offensive spells her father would let her learn. She quickly calls her father “Dad I need you in Hope’s room I found her with a white oak stake and it looked like she was going to use it on herself I thought she was getting better Dad that she stopped seeing herself as a monster, that I had been helping her” “Josie sweetie I will be right there and I know you have been helping but Hope is going through a lot and I should have seen this during training, never doubt that you presence has been helping her” Alaric hangs up and moments later is rounding the corner towards Hope room and it’s then that Josie realizes that she is still standing in the doorway as her father gets closer she hands him the stake with trembling hands and Alaric pulls her into a big hug and says “it’s okay and Hope will be okay” it takes a moment for her to understand why he is saying it, when she feels the tears running down her face and realizes she is barely holding herself together. Alaric moves into hopes room picks her up and moves her down to one of the transition cells, Josie just follows him saying nothing, she is using all her strength to not break down. When Alaric locks the door he turns to Josie and says “she will be alright, I am going to get Emma to keep her unconscious for now until we work out what to do” Josie looks at him with a serious look that Alaric has never seen before and says “I need to make a call and need you to give me their number”Hope wakes up a little confused and not sure where she is when she sees the familiar walls and of the transitions cells when she gets up she hears a familiar voice say “what the hell where you thinking trying to stab yourself with this thing” she turns and sees not only her Aunt Freya but also Kol, Davina, Marcel, Rebekah, Keelin and surprisingly to her at least Josie and Lizzie. “We need to talk kiddo” Kol says not looking happy.
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Freya was playing with her son Elijah. when her phone started to ring something told Freya to answer it instead of ignoring like she usually would, when she is playing with Elijah. When Freya answered the phone, she said “What has happened with Hope” “I didn't mention Hope how do you know I was calling about Her” said an unfamiliar female voice Freya simply replied, “whenever the Salvatore boarding school is calling me it is about Hope so what has happened with my niece?” Freya started to get concerned when the silence between the two started to extend it self when final the women said “I think you should come to the school Hope tried to stake herself with a white oak stake in her room” as soon as Freya heard that her niece had tried to stake herself she collapsed and started to cry amidst the tears she manages to choke out “I’ll be right there” and she hangs up and drops the phone.A moment later Freya’s wife rushed into the playroom to see her wife curled up on the floor crying. Keelin moves over to Elijah and places him in his playpen than picks her wife up and pockets her phone knowing she will need it in a moment and takes her to their room and puts her Phone on the side table. After Freya managed to pull herself together enough to talk, she looked at her wife and told what she had been told and that she had to go to mystic falls to be there for Hope. Keelin was in shock after hearing what Hope had tried to do “I’ll call Vincent see if he can take care of Elijah while you call your brother and sister probably best to call Rebekah first and see if they can join us. Keelin left the room before Freya could say anything and called Vincent. She had to call Vincent twice before he picked up “Yes Keelin what is so important” Vincent said exasperated Keelin replied with her voice cracking “we need you to look after Elijah, Hope tried to kill herself and we need to go to Mystic Falls, she needs us” when Keelin had finished speaking Vincent was silent when he final stated as calmly as possible but he voice still cracked “I’m on my way” and hangs up. When Keelin returns to her room after going and playing with her son for a bit to give Freya time to make the calls, she finds Freya just getting off the phone with one of her siblings when Freya looked up at her with tears still in her eyes “they are all on their way to Mystic Falls now”As Keelin left to call Vincent, Freya picks up her phone which her wife had grabbed for and called Rebekah, Freya relayed everything that the girl had told her only now realizing that she had not gotten her name with great difficulty as both women could not help the tears flowing, final having enough and hearing everything Marcel picks up the phone and while barely holding himself together at the news of what Hope had tried stated calmly and clearly “where do you need us Mystic Falls or New Orleans” “Mystic” was all Freya could say before bursting into tears again. Before hanging up “she is going to be alright Freya we will make sure of that” Freya thanks her brother in law and hangs up to call Kol.It takes a couple of minutes for Freya to pull herself together enough to call Kol. How did she not see this happening, how did she not know that her niece was breaking from the inside out. She was meant to be the head of the Mikaelson family the oldest, she is supposed to be able to fix anything and now her niece had tried to join her brothers and Hayley in death.As soon as she spoke Kol knew something was seriously wrong “what’s happened Freya where do you need me” Freya was overjoyed at this response she knew that Kol didn’t always fit in with the family but as soon as he knew one of his family where hurting she knew he would be there. “I need you in mystic falls Hope has found a white oak stake and tried to use it on herself” Freya could tell that her brother was barely holding together at this news but said without a sign of weakness in his voice “I’m on my way and I’m sure Davina will come to, she always had a soft spot for Hope” as Kol finishes Keelin comes in “Thanks brother see you soon” with that Freya looks up at her wife and says “they are all on their way to Mystic Falls now”It took Kol and Davina the longest to arrive as they where on the other side of the world and it was now that Alaric was annoyed that they were so far away he had to hold Freya, Keelin, Rebekah and Marcel off until they arrived, he knew he could only have this conversion once and had flat out refused to tell them who had made the call until then either as she was fairly broken up over the whole thing so Freya and Rebekah had taken to spending all there time done in the basement with Hope while Marcel and Keelin worked off some pent up emotions by fighting for hours on end to only end up done with the other two to wait for Kol and Davina.When Kol and Davina final arrive at the school Alaric calls them all to his office and also calls His daughter Josie to the office as well. They guess correctly that she made the call to Freya. Alaric clears his throat and begins “first off please let me finish before the bombardment of question that am sure you have until myself and Josie have told you everything we know”Alaric waits for a moment to let what he has just said register on those gathered in the office when each give him a quick nod in understanding and a slightly annoyed Freya “Just get on with it Alaric” which turns into a “Please just tell us how this happened” when both Rebekah and Kol rest their hands on her shoulder.“just over a week ago during the full moon an incident occurred between two student Landon Kirby and Milton Greasley where Milton who was angry at Landon killed Landon who Hope had been dating for some time after finding his body and returning it to the school with the help of other students we held a funeral for Landon which Hope was not present for shortly after the funeral I was about to call you all and let know what had happened when Hope came in and said I don’t want my family to know yet and that she wanted to stop training for the time being as she was not sure that she could control herself and did not want to hurt anybody, I agreed with her I do not know why it may have been the look she gave like she just want time to deal with this one on her own, almost a week later Hope comes to me and asks to do some training I now suspect that was to get away from Josie with enough time to use the stake on herself about 20 minutes after I had finished training with Hope, My daughter called me to tell me what she had tried to do and from then on she has been in a magical induced dreamless sleep in one of the transition cells” Alaric finishes looking to Josie to tell them all her side of the storyJosie took a few moments to continue taking a deep breath Josie continued “ After the funeral I had been shaken I have known MG for a while and had known that Hope had been close to Landon and so I had to deal with all the thoughts so I had decided to go for a walk through the forest towards the lake when I heard sobbing and I moved towards it and Hope was crying, I moved toward Hope and comforted her until she was ready to return to the school and came with her to her room and stayed with her at her request I had stayed close to her till she wanted to train again, that’s when I went to find my sister and my friends to tell them what had been going on and ask for their help in letting Hope know that we care about her and that we are their for her, when I returned to her room to wait for her I found her on her knees with the stake a few inches from her chest I then siphoned magic from the walls and used it to grab the stake and knock out Hope I then called my Dad and you know what happened next”Freya spoke up first “where you the one who called me?” “yes” Josie stated plainly and before she knew what had happened Freya had engulfed her in a big hug. Freya whispered in her ear “Thank you for telling me and thank you for being there for her when we weren’t” Freya released Josie who had tears in her eyes but for the first time since the event Alaric saw tears of joy from his daughter “why were we not told about had happened or that it had affected our niece so profoundly” Alaric was taken aback at the tone Freya had used it seemed almost angry which he knew meant nothing good “Hope is seventeen and is almost an adult not to mention a powerful witch and wolf I saw no need to go against her wishes” with that Alaric began to choke “My niece had just lost someone she loved did it not occur to you she was in no place to make decisions for herself or that maybe she did not know what she truly needed at that time”With her father still choking Josie did something she knew would probably get her killed and siphoned Freya’s magic from her until she was unable to continue the spell, Freya turned to her while Davina lifted her hand clearly ready to cast a spell at Josie, while the rest bared there death and Keelin’s eye glowed gold who stood there “None of us had any idea hope was suicidal please don’t kill my dad he has been beating himself up over what had happened since it happened” with that Freya turned back to Alaric gesturing at her family who stopped their actions toward Josie and understood that Josie meant no harm to her and stated “My apologies Alaric I just wish I had known sooner than maybe I could have prevented this”It took Alaric a few moments to regain his breath when he did he stated “I understand Josie was buried alive recently and I felt hopeless, but luckily hope was around and with the help of others managed to save her, do you have any other questions”“Where did she get the white oak stake I thought the last one was used on Klaus and Elijah 2 years ago” the man Alaric knew as Marcell asked “I have no idea how she got it or how long she has had it” “Where is said stake now” Kol asked and took it from Alaric when he produced it “I think we will hold on to this, so that we can I don’t know destroy preferably” the others nodded“Why was hope not able to try and kill herself at night was she not alone in her room” Rebekah asked“No I was by her side all the time training was the first time she and I had not been together in the since that night” Josie stated who went a little red when Rebekah gave her a knowing look“For now, I think that is all the questions we have the rest must be answered by Hope” Keelin stated with nods from the others“well then” Alaric started and produced a gold bracelet “we were hoping you get spell a bracelet to block her magic so that she can’t try and use a spell to kill herself” Freya nodded and looked to Davina who grabbed the bracelet and cast the spell to block magic and a strength spell to ensure Hope’s wolfs side could not break it when the spell was complete, they all made there way done to the cell where hope was sleeping on the way Lizzie ran into who asked Josie “where are you all going and are those the Mikaelsons” “We are going to see Hope and lift the spell keeping her asleep and yes these are Hope’s family, could you come with me Liz I think I need my sister right now” Lizzie did not respond but grabbed her phone sent a quick text and followed her sister. When they made there way to her cell Freya entered and kissed her Niece on the forehead and put the bracelet on her as she left she lifted the sleeping spell and stated “it will take her some time to wake up I don’t think it is a good idea to magical wake her up right now given her state of mind” the others looked at her and nodded, Alaric had left a couple hours after taking them all done their saying “I have a school to run, let me know when she is awake” with that he lift. 20 minutes later Josie got a text from her mom that saidHold in their sweet heart Hope will be fine, I’m on my way home I think my daughters need meShe showed the text to Lizzie who was really happy her mom was coming home, as midnight was coming around hope began to stir and the Mikaelson’s and the twins lept up to greet hope it took her about 30 minutes to stir
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It had been a couple of hours since Hope had woken up and she was yet to say anything even though her family had been trying everything they could to get Hope to till them why she had tried it and where she found the white oak and such. Freya noticed that Hope looked ashamed of it. “I think Hope just needs some time guys maybe you could go and talk to my Dad about what happens next, I will stay with her” Josie says without taking her eyes off hope Freya thought she saw something in the young witches and thought that she may be integral to helping Hope “Like hell we’re going anywhere – “Kol starts, starting to get angry “yes, I think that is a good idea Miss Saltzman thank you for staying with hope while we talk with Alaric about what happens next” Freya starts to leave and turns when everyone is looking at Freya with a look of disbelief Josie and Lizzie included “Come along Mikaelson’s” and with that Hope and the twins are left alone in the transition cells Freya pulls into an empty classroom and puts up a boundary and privacy spell so that she can talk to her family without being interrupted and without being heard by anyone. “So, want to explain why we have left our suicidal niece with only those two witches while she needs us” Kol starts as soon as the spell is complete, looking like he wants to kill someone. “Because We need to take care of a couple of things before we can continue to help Hope, such as convince Alaric to let Hope leave with us, and prepare a property here in Mystic Falls, I think part of the problem is the school and I don’t think hope can begin to heal while here” Freya stops and Rebekah looks with a look of confusing and concern at her and ask with concern evident in her voice “Why do think that this is the last place she needs to be when we thought the opposite when Nick and Elijah died?, and why here and not take her home to New Orleans or a different city, especially when there are plenty of people in town that would like each and every one of us dead?” Freya explained “I think that Josie is going to be someone Hope will need to help her heal and it would be wrong to ask Alaric to let her come with us that means we must be in Mystic Falls to help hope. We thought that after Nick and Elijah died that she needed a normal life away from all our enemies but now for hope this place is linked with the death of someone she cared about and we will just have to deal with those people when the time comes Hope is all that is important now” Rebekah and Keelin share a look, they can see how this has affected the oldest Mikaelson which gets even clearer as Freya walks over to a chair in the room and sinks into it and puts her head in her hands, Rebekah thinks she sees tears start to fall but when Freya looks up she speaks with confidence “Okay well I think we should split up and take care of everything at once” Freya states standing up “Kol can you take care of the house, it doesn’t need to be anything fancy like Rebekahs penthouse in New York or anything large like the compound but it does need to fit all of us” “Yeah I will head out now” Kol says looking like it is the last thing he wants to do, which turns into a sort of grateful look when Marcel steps forward and says “I will go with and help set everything up” “Thanks” Rebekah say walking over and giving her husband a kiss “well I think that the rest of should go and have a conversation with Alaric about what is next, this should go well” Rebekah says as she turns back to look at her sister, thinking back to how Freya almost killed Alaric the last time they properly spoke “Alright will let’s get started” Freya says as she drops the spells on the classroom and walks out towards Alaric’s Office ----------- “Why Can’t I feel my magic” Hope says not even looking up from her hands in her lap It has been about an hour since Hope’s family left to talk to her dad and it is the first thing that Hope has said since she has woken up and it catches Josie off guard “What? Oh, the bracelet its spelled to block your magic, your family and my dad where worried that you would use your Magic to try it again” “oh” was all that Hope said as she laid down and stared at the ceiling “Why” Joise’s almost pleads with her “Why would you try that, I know it hurts Hope, I know that after everything that you have been through that it hurts to think about all that you have lost but you have some many people who care about you” Josie looked as if she was about to cry. Hope sat up and looked at Josie for the first time since her family left and wondered at what point Josie entered the cell and why she did not hear the cell door open “Lizzie can you go ask the Miakelsons and Dad if it is alright if I take Hope up to her room” Lizzie just nods and makes her way up to do as she was asked After Lizzie had left Josie walks over to hope and sits down next to her, as she sits down next to her Hope starts to cry uncontrollably and pulls Josie closer to her while the Siphoner just holds Hope until she is ready to talk. It takes about ten minutes for Hope to calm down enough to talk when she has she says “I am sick of the pain, I am a curse on everyone, everyone who tries to get close to me gets hurt my Mom, my Dad, my Uncle, Landon, all died because of me, my family sent me away because of the monster I had become even though they say otherwise and can't stand me because of what I have become, and I have pushed everyone away because it is what is best for them even though it hurts so much, and then you just won't stop trying to be my friend and it hurts because I think I can be happy when you'r around I think I could even fall in love when you are round and then I remind myself the only way that ends is death and I hate myself for not caring and just wanting to be with you even though I know how it ends and then I remind myself that it wouldn’t matter if I like you or not because who love a monster like m-” and then she is crying again and can’t stop. Josie holds her while Hope cries herself to sleep Josie is sitting on a cold stone floor with a now asleep Hope Miakelson wrapped up in her arms, who she thinks just told her she likes her, and that she thinks she's a monster. She thinks to herself ‘Hope is more broken than I thought I need to help her, but how'
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It had been about 20 minutes since Hope had fallen asleep when Lizzie returned with Rebekah “Hey, lets get her up to her room” with a quiet whisper as to not wake her niece, and with that Rebekah walks over to Josie and Hope and picks up her niece, Rebekah manoeuvres Hope with very little efforts so that she is giving her a piggy back ride and starts off towards Hopes room with Josie and Lizzie in toe, while they are walking Josie decides to talk to Rebekah about what Hope has said.“Hey Rebekah, Hope said some things before she fell asleep, I think you should know” says her nervousness evident in her voice “And what would these things be, dear” Rebekah asks kind of nervously Josie suspects that she is worried about how her niece sees herself “She said she was sick of the pain, she thinks she is a curse, she thinks that anyone she gets close to gets hurt, she blames herself for her mom, her dad, her uncle and Landon’s death, she thinks you all sent her away because she is a monster, and that you all were only lying to her when you said otherwise, she thinks that you guys can’t stand her because of what she has become, she thinks she is a monster which is obviously not true, she says that the reason she has pushed everyone away is because it is what’s best for them but it hurts her, and she said that she likes me and hates herself for it because she doesn’t want me to get hurt but also doesn’t care if I get hurt, and she thinks that it doesn’t matter either way because she thinks I could never love her even though I have loved her for a long time” after Josie is finished speaking she realizes that Rebekah and Lizzie are crying and also that she must be to, if the salty taste in her mouth is anything to go by.“Thank you for telling me” they reach hopes room moments later and Rebekah lays Hope down on her bed “I will stay with Hope, your Dad and my sister Freya would like to see in your Dad’s office” Josie looks a little hesitant to go she wants to be there when she wakes up “She’ll be alright love but my sister does need to talk to you and please tell her what you told me” “Alright I will be back as soon as I can” Josie leaves the room giving her sister and Rebekah a hug and makes her way to her Dad’s officeWhen Josie enters her dad’s office there is silence from all there, she spots her mom and rushes over to give her a hug, Caroline returns the hug and trying to put as much love into as she can. She knows this has been hard on Josie she has always cared for the youngest Mikaelson. Alaric and the others give her this moment of comfort knowing that what comes next will be hard on the young siphonFor Josie it feels like she spends hours just standing there in her mother’s warm embrace until Freya clears her throat to get everyone’s attention. “So after much discussion we think we have a plan on how to help Hope but it does require you to be there for her” Freya says a little nervously unsure whether or not Josie will want to help, Freya and indeed everyone’s worries are put at ease when Josie interrupts and says “Whatever I can do to help Hope I’ll do” Caroline beams with pride at her daughters reaction “Good well then, Hope will no longer be sleeping her, she will move in with all of us in the Mikaelson manor here in Mystic Falls, she will only be attending class Tuesday through Thursday and will have limited access to her magic for when her class requires it, Alaric has assured me that this will be handled discreetly by the teachers” Freya pauses for a moment, looking pointedly at Alaric, as if saying if not then I will rain hellfire down upon you and Alaric just nods “All other time she will be with one of us or you, it has also been agreed that should you agree to it you will be staying with us from Friday night to Monday morning each week” Josie does not even hesitate when she says “of course I will stay for the weekends as long as Mom and Dad are okay with it” if at all possible Caroline seems to beam even more than she already is at her daughter proud that she is so eager to help Hope and Alaric says “Yes it was my idea in fact” this surprise Josie a little bit, she knows how Alaric still feels about Kol and Rebekah and the stories they had all heard about Marcel, but she supposes this is due to his love for Hope and feeling as though he failed her “Great um so when Rebekah Lizzie and I were taking Hope to her room I told Rebekah some things that Hope had said to me before falling asleep and she wanted me to tell all of you as well” and Josie relays everything Hope had said to her and by the end of it Caroline and Alaric looked shocked and the Mikaelson had tears in their eyes. After this Josie asked if she could leave and go back to Hope, they agreed and Josie left to return to Hope’s side, the adults sat there for a while all thinking the same thing how had they let this happen, how did they not see this.Freya was hit the worse she was sobbing into Keelin, Davina stood and walked over to Caroline “I am going to step outside and update the boys give me a yell if you need me” “of course”------------Hope had been asleep now for almost 8 hours, Josie had return just over 6 hours ago after talking with Freya, when Josie returned she said nothing and just walked over to Hopes bed and laid down next to her and allowed sleep to take her, Freya and the others came up to Hopes room a couple of hours later, after getting the Manor ready and finalising details with Alaric and Caroline, they had each taken up spots around Hope’s room and was just watching her sleep, Rebekah and Marcel were sitting next to Hopes bed, hoping beyond anything that their mere presence may help their niece, Freya and Keelin were sitting next to her desk, both women quietly reading trying to find ways to help their niece, shocked after the revelation that they had heard from Josie earlier that day, and Kol and Davina were sitting near Hopes door almost as if they were on guard to ensure no one or nothing could get to Hope to hurt her.Hope screamed herself awake knocking everyone else out of their stopper and quite literally throwing Josie out of bed, Rebekah was trying desperately to calm Hope down but she was not fully awake and was seemingly stuck in her nightmare, she kept saying “I didn’t want you to die” over and over again. Almost as if she was being tormented by those she felt responsible for. When Josie reclaimed her senses after being knocked out of bed and subsequently awoken after she hit the floor, she raced to Hopes side and pushed Rebekah out of the way and started trying to move the screaming girl so that her Head was resting on her lap, where she stroked her hair and whispered reassurances to Hope until final she awakened from the dream.
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Hope had been living at the Mikaelson Manor for about a week now and the only nights she would be able to sleep without being plagued by horrible nightmares was when Josie was there holding her while she slept, she felt safe with Josie in a way she didn’t around any of the other except Rebekah maybe she wasn’t sure why, but then Hope wasn’t surprised by this fact as she was always closer to her Aunt Rebekah than anyone, it was currently one of the nights where Josie was sleeping at the school and sure enough Hope had been awoken yet again by her nightmares, this time of her father burning with a white oak stake sticking out of his chest asking her why he had to die, she is thrown awake when her grabs he and she goes up in flames with him.Hope does not try to go back to sleep last time she did that Freya had to wake her with a spell and that didn’t happen till the morning an experience she was not willing to repeat, so she got out of bed like she did most nights Josie wasn’t there and went down to the kitchen grabbed a tub of her favourite ice cream, one of the many necessities that Kol and Davina had kept stocked since they arrived, specifically for Hope since no one else in the family liked the stuff, she whispered a quite thank you to her uncle and aunt and then went into the living room and turned on the TV onto a random channel to keep her mind occupied.-----------Rebekah had woken with a start she wasn’t sure why, but she knew something was wrong, so she got out of bed and walked over to her Nieces room to make sure she was okay. When she opened Hopes door, she found her room empty, Rebekah ran around the house like a mad woman at her top speeds until she final found Hope curled up on the couch eating some Ice Cream. Rebekah walked up to her Niece not wanting to startle the poor girl “Hope, are you” there is a series of loud thunks as Hope launches herself first hitting the ceiling and then crashing into the coffee table shattering it into pieces “Alright” Rebekah finishes ever so slightly dazedIn the next few seconds several things happen, Hope jumps up and sprints into a corner of the room curling herself up into a tight ball and rocking herself back and forth, Kol and Marcel reach the living room first having used there vampire speed, followed by Keelin, Freya and Davina. Rebekah not caring that the rest of her family had just shown up rushes over to her Niece and wraps her in her arms which seems to calm Hope but when Freya or anyone else starts to approach she rocks faster. clearly scared Rebekah says simply “Go back to bed I will stay with her” The other seem reluctant but seeing that at least at the moment that the only one who can help her at the moment is Rebekah the others agree, Hope and Rebekah sit like this for the rest of the night, not saying anything and when the others come down the next morning Hope is sitting at the Kitchen table while Rebekah makes Hope’s Breakfast. The others smile and decide that giving that neither woman has seen them to walk back up stairs and give them another couple of hours togetherOver the next couple of days Rebekah gets into the a routine, she gets up around 11:30 and goes and gets the ice cream leaves a note for Hope telling her that there is already ice cream in the Living Room and sets up the TV so that it is ready to play something, Hope walks in around 12:00 and sits down on the couch without a word and starts watching whatever Rebekah has turned on they sit in silence as Hope is still having trouble talking around them, which hurts Rebekah, who just wants Hope to know that no matter what she is there for her and when morning finally comes around Rebekah asks Hope if she would like some breakfast to which her niece nods and they both move to the kitchen where Hope watches her Aunt make her breakfast, and the rest of the family wait for the sounds of dishes being cleared to come down not wanting to intrude on something that has clearly become something special to each woman, this seems to help Hope as she has started give her family hugs which when they arrived would terrify Hope for some unknown reason which she still has not even told Josie, and when Josie left for school the next week, Hope actually spoke to her aunt Freya and Rebekah which made both women overwhelmingly happy for the first time since they had arrived.
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It has been a month since the Mikaelson’s moved to town to try and help Hope with what she was going through. Josie had gotten into a routine since then for her Friday afternoon’s which was race up to her room grab whatever books she needed and place them in her pre-packed bag and then race down to the front of the school where one of the Mikaelson’s were waiting with Hope, if she was having a good day or alone if Hope was having a bad day.Josie knew that even with all the progress she has made with become herself again she still had the odd dark day were Hope would struggle to even get out of bed. Hope however was starting to talk to her family again they had successfully got her to talk to Davina and Keelin she had yet to talk to the guys and there were the odd moments were Freya would ask Hope something that would make her burst into tears and the only person who could help her than was Josie, which Josie had told them was due to Freya saying things in a way that Hayley would have or when she would use an overly mothering tone that reminded hope about her Mom. Even though hope had started to talk to her family again Josie was the only one that she would talk to about what was going on in her head, which would take Josie all weekend long to get Hope to talk to her about.Josie was feeling proud about herself this weekend it had taken her less than a day for Hope to talk to her about the latest demon that was haunting her dreams, this one shocked Josie a little because it seemed to always appear as the same person Herself, which terrified her but it seemed to have a worse effect on Hope, because for the past week or so whenever Josie was with Hope she tried to get Hope to talk about her feelings about her and Hope would always shut her down and end up staring off into space at some unseen terror more than once at school this very demon the demon that was Josie would appear wherever Josie happened to be at that moment and torment Hope ending with Josie or one of the teachers magically sedating Hope and calling Freya to send someone to take Hope home early. But this week Hope manged to open up about that particular demon and Hope even kissed her admittedly she ran screaming from the room after but at least hope confronted her feelings, for the younger witch. So, all in all Josie was feeling great about herself on her walk home normally Rebekah or Kol would take her but today she wanted to walk to school she knew a shortcut that would get here there before the first class startedIt was Monday afternoon when Freya received the call telling her that Josie was missing thankfully Hope was out with Keelin who was messaged and asked to keep Hope away from the house for a little longer while she talked to the others.When the final Mikaelson was seated in the study Freya broke the news to everyone “Josie is missing” there where several things that happened in quick succession Rebekah, Marcel and Kol stood up abruptly knocking there blood onto the 14th century rug completely destroying it with the stains none of them seemed to care, there was a sudden burst of magical energy from Davina which only Kol and Freya saw as anger personified, everyone talking quickly over each other trying desperately to get any and all information Freya had and then everyone stopping when they heard a blood curdling cry quickly followed by the vampires in the room falling over in immense pain, the witches and wolf in the room protected by spells to stop it from affecting them, Freya’s idea given Hopes vulnerability and strength in the mystical arts she knew this was a possibility, Keelin rushed over to the young tribred and enveloped her in a bear hug allowing her calming scent to wash over hope. After 5 minutes or so hope calmed down enough the bracelet supressed her powers and not long after hope passed out Rebekah scoped up her niece and took her to her room where Hope could rest peacefully, Davina quickly followed so that she could give the witch a dreamless sleep, knowing what would happen if hope were allowed to dream. While both women stayed with the youngest Mikaelson, Freya was issuing orders to the rest of the family both Keelin and Marcel would search the route that Josie walked home and all surrounding areas, while Kol and Freya went to Salvatore’s to address the school and retrieve the super squad as they were calling themselves given they were Josie’s closet friends, after a quick stop in to let the 2 woman with Hope know to not leave her side until the others returned which neither intended to do anyway. Kol vamp sped Freya over to the school. When at Salvatore’s Freya had the school gathered to address the students and faculty telling them all “Anyone with any information that leads us to finding Josie Saltzmen alive and well will earn a single favour from the Mikaelson’s no questions asked, while should you be responsible for her disappearance in any way and rest assured we will find out, you will be hunted down by every member of this family and you and anyone you have every known will die, painfully” Freya emphasized the word painfully and as she was saying it allowed a burst of magical power that had everyone clutching their heads in pain, with that Freya left the stage and called Vincent so that he could let every Vampire, werewolf, or witch in the country know about this deal the Mikaelson’s have made. With that taken care she gathers the super squad as the are so cutely called and they all discus a game plan while heading to the Mikaelson Manor
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Josie wakes up in the dark, she’s being help upright by something she just isn’t to sure how, she quickly learns how when she moves her hands or more accurately tries they have been secured above her head, the shackles appear to be the same kind that her Dad uses to secure new werewolves to stop them from hurting anyone and she knows that her Dad spells those shackles so she tries to siphon from them and nothing they aren’t spelled she stuck her until her captor or someone finds her and releases her from them.It is then that Alyssa Chang enters “Don’t bother trying to siphon anything there is nothing to siphon” Josie looks at her with nothing but pure hatred in her eyes that are normally so kind as she spits out at her “Let. Me. Go.” Alyssa just laughs “Before the guest of honour can arrive, I don’t think so” Josie looks puzzled at this and Alyssa seemingly noticing says in a conspiratory whisper “Hope Mikaelson” “Why do you want Hope?” “Ohh my dear why else Revenge” Josie is taken aback by this she can’t think of a single moment that Hope has been cruel to anyone at the school “What do you mean what has Hope every done to you?”“Let me tell you a story” Alyssa sits across the room from Josie making sure to stay out of Josie reach “You see when Klaus was forced to stay away from his Family he went on a killing spree around the world trying to eliminate all of the Mikaelson’s enemies 2 of those people were my parents, when I found out I started plotting his destruction starting by taking everything he help dear starting with his Daughter Hope Mikaelson, but then he went and took his own life for that bitch, then Hope comes back to school as a Mikaelson even more of an outcast then before, and thought that the end of it but no then the monsters start showing up and the quiet, shy tribred starts saving everyone from the monsters and everyone starts to think that because of one persons ‘good deeds’ that redeemed her whole good for nothing family well when I am through the world will see the Mikaelson`s for what they really are monsters nothing else”Josie just sits and stares at unable to think of what to say then suddenly Alyssa looks at her watch jumps up “Well now’s my chance to get that bitch your search party is starting soon be back in a jiffy” she walks over to the door Josie is only now seeing and closes it behind her, she throws over her shoulder “Don’t go anywhere” and starts cackling like a madwoman at the joke she made. Josie just stays still knowing she doesn’t have the strength to get out and cries.
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Hope had been a sleep for about 2 hours, when she finally wakes she’s uncertain of where she is or how she got there, the last thing she remembers is running home after she heard something about being kept away from the house for a bit but after that it is a complete blank, as she stirs 2 figures move from where they were sitting to stand by Hope’s bed “What happened?” Hope asks groggily “You don’t remember?” Davina asks concerned that Hope doesn’t remember that Josie is missing “No, I remember running home and then nothing” Hope stares into nothing and appears to be trying to remember what happened, she’s dragged back to reality, when she hears her Aunt try to tell her what happened but stops right after she says “Hope” Rebekah looks at Davina with a pleading look clearly not sure how to proceed, Davina continues carefully trying to jogs Hope’s memory with “Hope something bad happened and you kind of freaked out on us and passed out” Hope is sick of this whole let’s hide something Hope thing so asks “What happened Aunty D?” “Josie is missing Hope” Davina braces herself for what she is sure is going to be another explosion from the young Mikaelson that never comes.Instead Hope feels a rush of emotion rush through her sadness, anger, fear, and hatred towards who took her and towards herself for letting this happen. She is barely holding it together, she can no longer see with the tears clouding her vision yet she refuses to let them fall, she needs be strong like her Mother and ruthless like her Farther right now, her resolve doesn’t last long when Caroline walks in, Caroline seemingly ignores the other 2 women in the room and walks straight over to Hope and gives her a big bear hug one that would break someone else’s spine, she is one of the only people outside Hope’s immediate family that is allowed to hug the Tribred. The dam holding back Hope’s tears brusts when, Josie’s mom asks “How are you holding up dear” as the sobs wrack Hope’s body, Caroline just stands their giving her all the warmth and love she can in just that simply hug. They stand there like that until Hope is able to halt her tears once more “We will find her Hope” “I hope so”After a few more minutes, the four women make their way downstairs, where hope is assaulted by a very angry Lizzie, Lizzie is pulled off of Hope by Caroline, she fights her mother’s grip when she can’t break free she screams “This is all your fault, if she dies so do you” “If she dies, I’ll help you end my pain” “Lizzie that is enough this is not Hope’s fault that honor lies only with those who took her” Caroline scolds her daughter, Hope was in a very vulnerable place and she did not need this, she also didn’t want to break her promise to Klaus, that she would lookout for his daughter given that she wasn’t sure if death could hold him if something bad happened to Hope, she was determined to keep her promise”“we need to focus on getting Josie back, Freya you were saying earlier that the only thing you could confirm was that she is still in Mystic Falls” Caroline says clearly trying to remind everyone that, they still need to find her daughter “Yes and I don’t think she will leave either” “Why, couldn’t they be waiting for the right moment to get out of the city?” Penelope asks “No, that time past when Kol and I showed up at the school with our threat” “It would be too risky now everyone that is supernatural will be on the lookout for her now a favor is far too valuable to pass up especially from a Mikaelson” Caroline supplies, reminding the group that she did in fact have extended interactions with the original family when she was younger “Freya’s right, and now that they know she matters to us, they know we will never stop looking, I mean we hunted Kathrine for 500 years” Rebekah says off-handedly as if this is the most natural thing to say in the world“So we start a search party, we search anywhere and everywhere that she could be” Hope says with a fire in her eyes “Hope” “No Aunty Beks I am not sitting around her while we argue, Josie needs us” “Hope” Caroline tries again “Fine while you all argue I am going to find her” and with that Hope storms out of the study where they had all been arguingHope is outside when she hears people coming up behind her she stops and turns and see the super squad and Caroline running to catch up “Freya and Davina will work on magically finding her while Kol heads into the city to ask around about Josie, while we search the forest” Caroline explains “Alright Caroline your with me the rest of you split into teams, anyone finds her you call and the rest will make our way over to you”They had been searching for an hour when Hope and Caroline hear students from the school enter the forest and start looking for Josie. They continue Hope and Caroline never speaking just listening trying to hear something that might help them find Josie. Hope doesn’t hear when Caroline’s neck is snapped but does hear someone right behind her as she spins around to attack the intruder, her vision goes black.When Hope comes too, she is in some cave and she sees Josie looking at her with concern covering her face “Hope are you all right?” Hope tries to move but finds herself unable to she is bound to the cave wall. “Yeah, I’m fine, what about you” “I’m okay for now but I don’t think Alyssa intends to let me live” “Alyssa is the one who did this”“Surprise” Alyssa enters with a snarky comment, “That’s right its me, oh but you can blame your Dad for this” “Wait, what do you mean my dad, my dad’s dead you psycho bitch” “Yeah but he wasn’t when he murdered my entire coven including my parents, but I wasn’t there I was hanging out with a friend from school the day he tore threw my family, the only reason I know it was him, is my mom in her dying moments manged to write Klaus in her own blood for me, and I swore I would kill him and everyone in his family ending with you, but the bastard went and died before I could do it, so I swore I would take everything from you, so that you would feel my pain for eternity” Hope has been seething with anger, throughout Alyssa explanation but something keep her quite, she was trying to find a way to get Josie out of this alive, Alyssa smiles at the glaring Tribred clearly knowing what the young Mikaelson was thinking and walks calmly and with purpose over to Josie and holds her knife up against her neck Hope says a spell and the knife flies out of Alyssa hand and sticks in thin air? Hope is confused, she is even more confused when Alyssa starts laughing and says “Did you really think that I would kill Josie no, I wanted you to do that” and with that Alyssa allows the spell that has been mimicking Josie to fall and there where the knife was hovering is Josie with a knife in her chest “NOOOOOOO!!!!” Hope screams using her full strength to pull against the restraint trying to get to josie but it was no use, they were just to strong “Well toddles, I’ll leave you to let you watch Josie the love of your life, your savior die by your hand”Hope doesn’t even register her words, Josie is dying and Hope was trying everything to get to Josie but she was never taught a spell to deal with this, and she didn’t have enough strength to break free to get to her to use her blood, Hope listened to Josie's heart fade as she screamed for someone anyone to find them but no one came when final after what felt like an age Josie heart stopped beating and Hope fell silent and slumped against the chains holding her up and silently cried for yet another lost loved one
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It only took Freya a few seconds to find Hope when Caroline had gotten back to the mansion, Freya had Caroline take the kids searching back to the school, the super squad initially refusing right until 2 very angry vampires showed up telling them with very colourful language what would happen if they did not leave it worked even though Lizzie insisted some of the things they said they would do are not physically possible.The Mikaelson Clan as well as Caroline and Alaric gathered at the Cave entrance, when they gathered Freya and Davina felt the same thing, powerful magic that was unleashed in anger and sadness. Freya looks to Davina the two witches sharing a look, the two seemingly sharing a conversation in that simple look, when Freya speaks “There is magic here that was unleashed in a moment of great anger and sadness so powerful that has infected the area around us” “What could it mean Freya” Caroline asks afraid of the answer “Well, many things, but out of all the reasons I can think of only one that applies” Freya pauses for second and wishes that she is wrong and commands “Rebekah, Caroline, and Alaric your with me the rest of you stand guard” “Freya” Kol starts never liking to be left out “No Kol Stay here, stand guard it is to risky to take everyone in their when we don’t know what we are walking into” “Fine”The 4 enter the cavern and as they go Freya feels the power she felt outside grow, as they get further in they find them selves in a rectangular room one end is pitch black Freya light spell not reaching the other end of the cavern. The first thing they see is Hope limp against the chains holding her up, they race over to her to free her, they ask what’s wrong, where’s Josie but Hope can’t answer, Hope has broken and everyone can see it its then that Freya sees the wall scones around the room holding torches and lights them, it is then that they see what has broken Hope, Josie also limp against her chains, the normally cheerful face devoid of its usual smile and cheerful eyes, was replaced with a look of pain, the colour gone from her face, and her shirt covered in her blood oozing out of the knife wound in her chest where the knife that killed her still lay impaled into her, Caroline and Alaric scream in terror there little girl, was gone from this world they would never see her smile again, hear her cheerful laugh again. Kol rushed in with the others not far behind. Kol goes over to Hope and releases her from her bonds, when he has finished letting her go, Hope rushes over to Josie and clings to her like her life depends on it. It takes some convincing, but the others convince Hope to let Josie go, but when Caroline moves to pick Josie up to take her back to the school Hope stops her by shoving her up against a wall with her magic and holding her there just long enough for Hope to pick Josie up herself and walk slowly out of the cave making sure that Josie is as comfortable as she can be even though she can’t feel anything anymoreWhen they finally get back to the school, they enter through the front door, and find a peculiar sight, the entire school standing there waiting, for a shred of news of Josie, Hope ignores them and heads to the dorms towards Josies room, she faintly hears Lizzie and Penelope scream when they realize that the unmoving form in Hope’s arms is Josie, but Hope ignores them still she makes her way through the crowd and to Josie’s room, she lays the dead girl on her bed and removes the knife from her chest the bleeding has stopped now, so she decides to change Josie’s shirt, “she deserve to be in clean clothes at the very least” Hope says to the empty room when the shirt has been changed Hope lays down on the bed next to Josie, and holds her as she would when she was staying at the Manor and Hope was afraid to fall a sleep and weeps for a love she never got to feel.“Time to get up My Littlest Wolf”Hope Jumps hearing a voice she has not heard outside of her nightmares in 2 years “Dad” Hope sits up and sees her Father and Mother standing side by side “How are you here?” “You Called us Baby Girl” “What do I do” “This Alyssa thinks she can get away with hurting our Family you teach her a lesson she will never forget, you need to be Strong and Ruthless, no forgiveness, teach the world that the Mikaelson Family may have gone silent but we are not to be fucked with” Her Father says with a look of pure anger in his eyes “Teach the them that we fight for those we love Hope” Her Mother says with look of pure sorrow in her eyes “Thanks, Mom, Dad, I needed that”Hope says her final goodbyes to Josie and then makes her way to Penelope’s Room, when the crying witch opens the door she hugs Hope who hugs here back “Want to help me get revenge” “But we don’t know who” “I do” “Okay lets go” and the two leave the school, they cast a cloaking spell and make their way to a motel off the beaten path, where Hope does the one thing she has been afraid of since she was old enough to understand what she was and snaps her own neck, when she wakes, she completes the transformation and then much to Penelope’s horror turns her emotions off>
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It had been a week since Hope had lost her last link to humanity, Penelope left after a few days, saying that this wasn’t what Josie would have wanted after Hope ripped a man’s arm off to try and get information on the location of Alyssa’s child hood home as well as anyone she may have cared about, so now Hope has made her way to Alyssa’s home town, where she manged to find some of Alyssa’s old friends including an old boyfriend she apparently still had feelings for. So, while Hope waited for Alyssa’s arrival to try and find her old friends Hope began to set some things up. After two weeks of waiting and having successfully set up the game, that she was going to make Alyssa play Hope got bored of waiting and so she manged to trick the town into gathering at their only school, once they were all their Hope sealed them in with magic and proceeded to kill every Man, Woman, and Child, they were unrecognisable as people by the time Hope had finished. The Mikaelson’s arrived a few days later and were horrified by what their beloved niece had done they knew that they had to get her Humanity back, so they went looking.Rebekah was the one to find Hope’s hideout she was surprised when a voice from behind her said “well not the one I was expecting but it is good to see you Bex well it would be if I could feel anything” Rebekah was shocked by how cold her niece sounded she decided to try and tell Hope what really happened to Josie “Hope you need to stop this Josie- ““Is dead and doesn’t want anything that’s one of the beauties of being dead, is the dead don’t want anything”“That’s not true” but it was too late Hope had had enough “As much fun as this conversation is I have got work to do” and with that Hope surged forward and bit down hard on Rebekah’s neck, Hope than looked deep into Her eyes and said, “Go and kill the Mikaelson’s starting with Marcel” and to Rebekah’s horror the compulsion worked and she sped out of the hideout and raced to find MarcelRebekah easily found Marcel at the school where Hope had massacred this small town, where they had agreed to meet up, Rebekah strode into the school like a woman on a mission and made a beeline for Marcel “Beks did you find anything” Freya asked as her sister passed her “Okay” ‘what is going on’ a second later and Marcel was fighting for his life “Beks sweetie what’s going on” clearly something was wrong Rebekah had tears in her eyes, that’s when Kol saw it the bite mark “Freya this is Hope’s doing look the bite mark” “Okay but why is she attacking her husband” Freya asked confused “No idea but maybe knock her out before she finds a way to kill Marcel” Kol Stated matter of factly “Right” a second later Marcel was catching his wife in his arms as she fellIt took a couple of days of Freya trying everything she knew to try and help Rebekah until she had run out of options and finally had to enlist the help of Davina in amplifying a compulsion purging spell as the last thing she could try, when Rebekah next woke she explained that she had found her niece but before she could tell what had really happened to Josie she bit her and compelled her, when Rebekah showed them where Hope’s hideout was, she was no longer there so they agreed they had to go get the one person who could pull Hope back from this nowThey arrived in New Orleans just after midnight they had called Vincent to tell him what had happened and he was sitting in the courtyard of the compound when they arrived as well as Caroline “So, what happened?” Caroline asked with concern written across her face “Soon but first where is she” “In her room” and with that Freya marched up the stairs to one of the old unused bedrooms and knocked “she needs you, it’s bad” Freya said looking into the brown eyes of Josie Saltzman
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The Mikaelsons, Josie, Caroline, lizzie and Vincent convene to discuss the Hope Issue. Over the next few days, they all argue on how to help Hope, they all agree that Josie and Josie alone can get through to Hope now. Finally Josie has had enough, one night after the discussions that are more like shouting matches have concluded, Josie uses a combination of her new Vamp abilities and her Witch spells to leave the compound undetected. Knowing that Hope is trying to kill Alyssa she uses that.Josie contacts Alyssa under an assumed name and tells her that the New Orleans witches have a way to trap Hope, all she has to do is be bait. Alyssa wanting to kill the tribred quickly agrees, not stopping to question to much who knows about her hatred of Hope. The next day the trap is set Josie lets slip to a crescent wolf, Hope’s back that Alyssa the person Hope is hunting is in New Orleans.Josie is about to give up on this plan when she feels Hope’s magic enter the city, she knows that it is now or never. She makes her way quickly to the cemetery where the trap had been set, there she finds a chained Hope and crying Alyssa “What happened”“We weren’t fast enough, Hope managed to feed her blood to Alyssa and snap her neck” one of the elders says“So she is in transition, good” Josie says pleased that the one thing Alyssa loves has been taken from her“Josie, but your dead Hope killed you” Alyssa says the shock clear in her voice“Not quite” The new heretic smiledAlyssa’s words grab Hopes attention she stairs at Josie and suddenly pulls violently against the chains holding her in place “Whoever you are you better” Hope begins pulling furiously against the chains “better start running because I am going to kill you”“Hope, its me Josie, I need you to turn your emotions back on please do it for me” Josie pleads with Hope“No I saw Josie die, I killed her, you, you are an imposter” and to everyone’s horror Hope rips free of the chains, she proceeds to beat Josie to within an inch of her life until with her final breath, Josie says “I will always love you Hope” Hope smiles to herself believing she had just killed some imposter trying to get to her that is until she hears the muffled cry Caroline, who is currently in a bone breaking hug with her Aunt Rebekah, she sees Lizzie charging at Hope, when she reaches the Tribred, she hits her with everything you have“Why are you hitting me that isn’t Josie, it was some imposter bitch” Hope says, still without her emotions but clearly confused“No Hope it wasn’t, I had fed Josie my blood the morning she was kidnapped, it was still in her system when she died” Kol said, unusually serious“No” Hope sounds almost broken“Hope that was Josie, you just killed the real Josie Saltzman”“Nooooooo” Hope screams crumbling to the floor a wave of emotions hitting herThe next week they hold a funeral for Josie, Hope doesn’t attend she can’t, Josie had succeeded Hope’s emotions were back, but no one thought that was a good thing right now they all wished Josie was still alive.The following morning Hope is no where to be found, the Mikaelsons begin to freak out. Hope shouldn’t be alone right now they begin their search, unfortunately for Rebekah she choses to go to Josie’s Grave, and their slumped against the tomb stone is Hope Andrea Mikaelson, with a White stake sticking out of her chest. Rebekah breaks down the moment she sees Hope, soon her family is at her side in similar states, unable to move, knowing their last Hope, had just died.It is like that the Mikaelson’s are found by Caroline who had come down to see her daughter, instead of trying to comfort them, she calls Ric and tells him what had happened he quickly informs Dorian and Emma, his most trusted staff and they all head out to the cemetery. While Care walks over to Hope’s body with barely contained tears, she kneels down and picks Hope up, moving her a few feet away so she can be laid down nicely. She removes the stake from her chest and lays her hands they’re in its place, as she moves her hands she notices a piece of paper, she takes it and reads aloudTo whoever finds meI am sorry, I never wanted you to find me like this part of me wishes I could have just walked off into the forest go far enough that no one would find, but I can’t leave Josie, no not again I won’t. I failed to see this in life, but I see it now with the grim reaper watching over me getting ready to take me Home. I see now that I was never complete in this world, I see now that Josie is my other half without her, I am nothing. I wish things were different I wish I were a better person, but I wasn’t I became the worst parts of my family when I thought I lost Josie and ever since I lost her again, I felt that darkness growing without her. So now I go to join my other half in peace where none of this will matter. I do have one request I want to be buried next to her next to JosieI’m SorryHopeWhen she finishes Caroline is full on weeping unsure of how she finished reading the note. Alaric and the others arrive they help get everyone back to the Mikaelson manor where they lay Hope on her bed and Rebekah changes her into clean clothes. A few days latter they bury Hope right next to Josie as she had wanted and try to get on with their livesHope wakes up on a dirt road in the middle of no where alone, she isn’t sure what she should do, so she starts walking heading north along the road soon she sees head lights a car pulls up along side her sitting in the driver's seat is none other than Haley Marshall, her mother. She gets out of the car and gives her daughter a hug. “Hello little wolf”“Mom, I am so sorry, I couldn't be who you wanted me to be I couldn’t even be who I wanted to be”“I know sweetie, I know, but why don’t you get in and we can head home there are a few people waiting for you”“Okay Mom” Hope smiles getting into the car Hope isn’t sure how long they drive for time doesn’t seem to matter here, when they reach what her mom calls home, her father and uncle are waiting for her. She greets them both with a hug “Hey Dad, Uncle E”“Hello Hope, we had hoped you wouldn’t be her so soon pun intended” Hope laughs a little uneasily at Elijah’s words“Hello, my littlest wolf, you have nothing to be ashamed of come on, there is one last person waiting to say Hi” Klaus leads Hope into the mansion they call Home, and their waiting in the foyer is Josie Saltzman. When Hope sees her, she rushes in and pulls her into a mind shattering kiss “I’m sorry, I just it is my biggest regret, not telling you how I feel about you Josie Saltzman”“So, tell me now Hope” Josie says with a smile“I love you Josie Saltzman with all my heart, with everything I am, you are my other half’ Josie pulls her into another kiss and with that kiss surround by those she had lost, Hope’s humanity switch finally turned itself back on.