Klaus walked down the stairs and into a room where Elijah, Hayley, and Rebekah were sitting in chairs together. Hayley was researching something on her laptop while Elijah was reading a book that was most likely centuries old. Rebekah, as usual, was watching the two in boredom. Elijah looked up at his brother, noticing that he was angry about something. "Something wrong, Niklaus?" Elijah asked. "Hope was practicing magic again.", Klaus answered in a tone that suggested it was the worst thing in the world.
There was silence until Rebekah joined the conversation between the two, giving her opinion. "You can't keep her from living her life Nik. Maybe if you let her practice simple spells, she wouldn't be so obsessed with it." She felt bad for Hope even if she knew her brother's reasons for not allowing her to practice magic. They were expecting a teenager to give away what a witch considered one of the most important things in their life. It wasn't fair to her.
"She's not just practicing simple spells, Rebekah. She was using spells from our mother's grimoires." Elijah looked up at this, "Where would she have learned them from?" Klaus sat in the remaining chair across from Elijah. "I checked the spot where I left the grimoire and it was still there untouched. I don't know how she even knows that it exists. I certainly never told her about it." "And where was our mother's grimoire hidden?", Elijah questioned. Klaus had been the one to keep up with it during the past several years and Elijah didn't recall seeing it since Hope was still little. "It was amongst the books in the library. I never expected for her to come across it", Klaus said shrugging. "Next time try a safe or something a bit more secure brother." Elijah commented returning to reading his book.
"She wasn't supposed to know this much about magic in the first place. She's not letting this go." Klaus got up and started pacing around the room frustrated. "Well, of course, she's not. She's a teenage girl who grew up in a family full of vampires and has witch powers. Did you think she would just ignore her powers?", Rebekah asked. "Maybe Rebekah's right. I've always hated my adoptive family for not accepting my werewolf side. I don't want Hope to hate us over something as simple as practicing a couple of spells, Hayley commented. "She can't handle it, Hayley. All the witches in our family are extremely powerful. It will be too much power for her and she'll lose control.", Klaus answered getting slightly more stressed by the situation.
"Well, perhaps we can explain that to her in some way and a least discourage her from trying any new spells." Elijah suggested. It wasn't like they ever really did give her a reason although Klaus never believed that they should have too. Hayley always had seem fine with keeping anything supernatural out of Hope's life except for every once in a while when she felt bad for Hope and suggested that they should let her try some things which of course Klaus would always argue with her about. Rebekah was always the most in support of Hope when it came to magic, she always thought it was unfair to Hope. Elijah always tried to find a compromise between all of them, but this never seemed to work with his family.
He did understand his brother's fear though, Dahlia had warned them that Hope would have uncontrollable powerful magic and she was pretty much proven right when Hope started using magic when she was only a toddler. This was completely unnormal for a witch. Even the powerful witches in New Orleans could hardly light a candle as children. Their family never got the chance to practice magic so they knew little about it. They wouldn't be able to help her learn how to control it. The only sibling they had any experience with magic was Kol but he only had a couple of years as a child and a couple of months when he was put into another body, but now he was back in his vampire body and seemed to forget all about magic aside from occasionally mentioning of it to Divina. Elijah was for the idea of having Divina teach her but Klaus was opposed to that idea, saying he didn't want to take any chances. Elijah eventually just let the idea go, knowing his brother was too stubborn to agree to it.
That left them in the end just telling Hope that she wasn't allowed to practice spells anymore, of course, they all knew she wasn't completely following that rule most of the time. "We can't tell her anything, Elijah, it will just cause her to see it as another reason to practice more difficult spells because she will know she has the power to", Klaus said interrupting Elijah's thoughts. "Well, then tell us brother, what do you suggest?", Elijah questioned. They suddenly heard footsteps coming down the staircase and quickly ended their conversation. "Hello Hope.", Rebekah said happily, trying to act like they didn't spend the last 5 minutes arguing.
Hope was well aware that they were talking about her but she couldn't possibly eavesdrop with her family. They would hear her within the first step she took out of her room. She learned that when she was little and she used to try to overhear her parents talking about some crazy thing that was going on but they would always catch her doing it before she got the chance to hear anything. A least coming down here would get them to stop talking about her. She walked over and sat down next to Rebekah. She was still pissed at her father for getting mad at her. She was kind of pissed off at all of them because they were all lying to her. She thought she a least deserved a reason behind all their rules.