Introduction of a nightmare

"No! Please stop, you're hurting him."

The five year old girl screamed at the two people in front of her. It was useless, they couldn't hear her. She could only watch as the woman she'd come to know as her friend, her family, sprayed her uncle with water, though it wasn't just water because he was screaming and she could smell the distinctive fragrance of one of the two flowers she's not supposed to touch because it would hurt her too. Ver- something, is what it's called.

The other one was a stranger, a boy, he smelled a little like a regular person but different. He looked surprised that Katherine was spraying uncle Kol, she couldn't blame him it was shocking to her too.

Kol kept screaming, he was in so much pain, she had to help him. She could feel her magic around her but it wasn't doing anything. She tried to move the sprayer, or move Kol, or give Katherine a headache but nothing was working.

"Jeremy, now!" Katherine shouted to the boy. He moved to her uncle Kol and took something out of his jacket and she froze when she saw it. The oak stake. She'd only seen it once before, she didn't know exactly what it did just that it was bad.

Katherine moved and Jeremy took the stake and stuck it in Kol's heart.

"KOL!" She screamed at the top of her lungs when he caught on fire. His yelling hurt her ears, but she didn't care she tried to move but she couldn't. Kol tried to run but he didn't get far, he was on fire.

Then he fell and then he wasn't on fire anymore. At first, she was glad he would get up and be ok, after all they were Mikaelsons nothing could hurt them. But then she noticed he was gray and she couldn't hear the thump, thump, thump, of his heart and mommy said that only happened when someone was dead.

No! No! Kol couldn't be dead. Daddy said that Mikaelsons were special, that they couldn't die, and he never lied to her. No, Kol was okay he was just joking around like always, he'd jump up at her in a minute to scare her and then Elijah would lecture him for being so silly, and everything would be ok, she just had to wait. Seconds that felt years passed and she knew this was different, he was really dead.

Tears, hot, and big rolled down her face. Her tiny knees gave out and she dropped to the floor. She shook with sobs. She could feel magic coming out of her in waves. She had to get away, she had to find Daddy. She saw Katherine and that stupid boy just standing there looking scared. Good.

She let out something between a scream and a growl and pointed all of her magic towards them.

"Hope! Hope, sweetheart, wake up." Klaus tried to wake his five year old daughter. She had woken everyone up ten minutes ago with an ear pricing scream. Then the whole house began to shake, objects flew across rooms, windows broke and his brother's girlfriend, Katerina Petrova, dropped to the floor coughing up blood.

"Hope, it's just a nightmare wake up, love." He tried again. The tears running down her face broke his heart, he never liked seeing her cry.

Suddenly, her eyes opened and her normally blue eyes were golden then just as quickly they changed back. She locked her arms tightly around his neck.

"Da- daddy," She sobbed.

"What's wrong, love?" He asked hugging her to his chest.

"K-K-Kol." Is all she said before she began sobbing uncontrollably.

"I'm right here, darling." He said coming into her view, he had been on the phone with Freya telling her what was happening.

Hope looked up from her Father's shoulder and launched herself into Kol arms, with a speed that surprised all of them.

"You're okay." She said quietly.

"Of course I am, darling. What's wrong?" He asked walking back to her bed. She pressed her head against his chest and her sobs began to die down.

She saw Katherine on the opposite side of the room leaning against Elijah, as she was weakened by Hope's magic. Her eyes flashed yellow and she stuck her hand out and Katherine once again dropped to the floor, clutching her head in pain.

"Love," Klaus began slowly, "why are you hurting Katrina?" Not that he really cared that much, his relationship with her had improved over the last few years, but that was mainly due to Hope's fondness of her.

"She-she h-hurt Kol." Hope said, her voice still shaky.

The idea was laughable, even if she wanted to, Katerina couldn't hurt Kol. He was an original, she was a baby vampire with barely five years under her belt. Or well, technically she was five hundred years old, but when she somehow piggybacked onto Davina's spell to bring his father back to life, she came back human. She showed up at their door desperate and begged Elijah to turn her, and the rest is history.

"It was just a nightmare, sweetheart." Kol tried to reassure her.

"No, it was real. I saw it."

"What'd you see?"

"She was spraying you with a hose and you were screaming. Then this other boy stabbed you here," she lightly tapped his chest, "and then…" She got quiet.

Kol swallowed thickly, well that explains why she was so upset, she saw him die.

"Then what happened?" He knew perfectly well what happened, but he still hoped she didn't see all of it.

"You-you were on fire and I tried to help but nothing worked and- I'm so sorry, Kol." She cried.

"It's alright, love. It wasn't your fault. And Katherine didn't do it, let her go love I'll explain everything."

She dropped her hand and looked up at Kol, who was searching for a way to explain this to her.

"What you saw did happen, love, but it was before you were born, before you were thought of really, and the girl you saw wasn't Katherine."

"But you died," she said confused, "daddy said we can't die because we're Mikaelsons, you're a Mikaelson."

"Your father was right, mostly. You know what the witches always say, don't you?"

Her face scrunched up, "we're abominations?"

Kol chuckled softly, "No, the other thing they say: everything has a balance. And the stake you saw that's ours."

"Okay," she nodded slowly, "but if the girl wasn't Katherine, who was she?"

They all looked at Klaus' girlfriend, Caroline, to explain that one, mainly because she was the only one of them who could talk about Elena Gilbert without using foul language.

She stepped towards her, and crouched down to meet her eye. "The girl you saw, that was my friend Elena, not Katherine. She looks like her but they're different, I promise."

Hope seemed to believe her, probably because none of them had ever broken a promise to her, or just because weirder things than that happened in New Orleans every day.

"But why would your friend wanna hurt Kol?"

Caroline looked at Kol then back at Hope. If she gave some fluffy bunny reason like they were good and he was bad, he might have to slap her.

"She wanted to be human again. And Kol's death helped her find the cure that would make her human."

Hope's eyebrows furrowed, "Why would she want to be human? They're boring."

Caroline laughed, "I really don't know, sweetie."

"Hurting someone to get what you want, isn't that bad?"

"Yes it is."

"So did she find it?"

"She did."

"So, she's human now?"

"No, uh, she's still a vampire."

Hope's eyes flashed yellow again

"She turned me human, actually." Katherine said to her.

"Why would she do that?"

"I don't know, but if she hadn't I probably wouldn't have met you, in that way I'm sort of grateful to her."

Katherine came up to her and crouched down next to Caroline. Hope looked away from her.

"I'm sorry I hurt you, Kitty, are you mad at me?"

"No, I'm not mad I know you didn't mean it. Just promise to do that to Elena if you meet her."

"Katerina." Elijah warned.

"Okay, fine you probably shouldn't do that."

"I don't think I wanna meet her. She's sounds mean, and stupid, and selfish."

"That we agree on, littlest wolf," Klaus said, "come on love, say good night, you need some sleep."

"Wait," Hope said looking at Kol, "can I sleep with you tonight?"

"Of course you can, darling." Kol said already carrying her to his room.


AN: Like, love, hate let me know. This is my first drabble. And my first time writing Hope. Should I continue? I'll probably take requests if you have any ideas.