Freya POV

I am engaged, I am engaged to the love of all my lives.

"Keelin, you have made me the happiest woman in the world. I cannot imagine my life without you. When I was stuck with Dahlia most of my life, I dreamed of finding a great, amazing, epic love in my life and now I did. I found you. We may not have met under the best of terms but I felt that connection. When I lost my first child I wanted to end it, when Dahlia killed the father… I wanted out. I had nothing left, but again, I met you and for that I'm grateful… so Keelin, will you marry me?"

She wiped the tears from her eyes and caught her breath. "Yes."

I may not have done it at the best time, I still think that someone is going to show up at one point or another. A new threat opposed against Hope or Klaus… someone. But for now, as everyone else in this house says, I'm going to take a break and live my life, with my future wife.

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Hope's POV

"So guys, now that we're alone do you want to go take a tour of New Orleans, trust me, I know the best spots," I suggested proudly.

Keelin and Freya just got engaged and after a lot of celebrating, everyone finally retired to their own quarters to chill out for the rest of the night.

"Yes!"

Outside

"This place is seriously beautiful…" May awed as we walked past the spot next to Mr. Taylor's place from earlier.

"I know, I love living here. Granted, I hated it as a kid."

"Why?" Ash asked.

"Whenever I was trying to read or sleep or something the music would always play and screaming people would disturb me. Plus, my mom would always yell at them and I was scared they were going to get into a fight."

"Well, she would win," Ash reminded me.

"Well, of course, she's a hybrid."

"Your family is really nice Hope, despite their reputation," May said.

"Thank you. Honestly, they are good for people who are good to them, which you guys are. You're good to me which is good for them. When it comes to their enemies, they will not hesitate to lash out or kill. They lash out at each other too sometimes, I've witnessed it, but they love each other, we love each other."

"I get it, you guys have a good family dynamic. You all care about each other and you're lucky because a lot of people don't have it," Ash said.

"Yeah, my friend from my old school had a horrible home. She couldn't talk to her parents about anything, not crushes, not grades, stress. Nothing."

"That must suck, having to keep everything to yourself…" They looked at me. "What?"

"You kept the fact that you are a Mikaelson hidden from a whole school for like 10 years!" May said.

"Yeah, it may be hard to keep crushes and stress a secret from your peers, but you literally had to keep the fact that you are better than pretty much everyone else out there. You had to keep the secret that you were the daughter of the all-powerful original hybrid and the crescent wolf alpha," Ash said.

"I'm not better than everyone else… I'm not better than you guys."

"Yes, you are Hope," May smiled.

"No, you guys are so nice and—"

"We don't mean just personality wise, we mean strength wise. You can probably wipe out the whole town of Mystic Falls, hell the whole city of New Orleans with the wave of your hand!"

I chuckled. "Thanks, guys. I'm not that strong yet, but I appreciate it."

We walked around and talked about meaningless topics. I got to learn a lot more about them.

They love to quarrel, that fact I already knew but they tease each other just like my dad and his siblings.

May's favorite color is purple and Ash's is red, the same as me…

When Ash was two he was dropped down the stairs and May says that's why he's so stupid and messed up. '

When Ash was 5 he got lost in Disney World for an hour.

When Ash was in 5th grade he spilled fruit punch all over the teacher… by accident.

When Ash was in 8th grade he tried to leave school through the bathroom window as a dare and ended up being caught, using the excuse that he saw something outside, tried to get a closer look and ended up falling.

When Ash was… wait why am I thinking about his story so much?

When May was a baby she used to play with dresses and dolls, she dressed her twin up and made him play with her.

Ha. Ash in a dress playing with porcelain cups and his sister's dolls.

I can't even imagine that, but I would like to try.

"Do you have any pictures?" I asked.

"Actually my mom might…" She clicked on her mom's contact.

"May no!"

"Um, mom?" She said into the phone, putting it on speaker.

"May? Where are you?"

"Oh um— we're taking a walk."

"Still? We are going out to dinner in two hours!"

"Okay, mom we'll be back then… I just—do you have a picture?

"What picture?"

"When Ash and I used to dress up as kids?"

"You mean when you dressed me up as kids," Ash muttered.

"Oh hello, Ashy!"

I laughed but quickly caught it, getting an unamused look from Ash. I just shot him a grin and mouthed 'Ashy'.

"Yeah, yeah hi mom. Don't give her the pictures."

"It's already sent!"

"Mom!"

"Thanks, mom see you soon!" May quickly hung up and moved away from Ash's incoming hand, reaching to grab the phone away from her.

"Don't you dare show her."

"Why? Embarrassed?" She teased.

"Um, yes! Give it May!"

I sat back, watching them squabble over her phone. May won and ended up showing me the picture.

"Haha is that really you?!" I giggled. "You look so different!"

"That's because I'm wearing her stupid dress!"

"Ash shut up you loved that thing!"

"Actually, I despised it."

"No, actually, you slept in it."

He blushed. "No, I didn't!"

"Want me to ask mom for another picture?"

"NO!"

"Then shut up."

He looked so young, so innocent. He was probably about three, maybe early four. He didn't look miserable, maybe a bit annoyed? Thinking back to what I was doing when this photo was taken, I was probably with my mom, in the safe house waiting for her to wake everyone from Marcel's grasp.

"I didn't do this often," He said nonchalantly, sitting on a bench nearby.

"Yes, you did!"

"Oh my god—"

"Oh my god, you two make my head hurt," I joked, though I was half serious.

My head was killing me.

"Nah, he does."

He scoffed and deleted the picture from her phone.

I held my head for a second, trying to get the throbbing to stop. Little sweat beads were forming, but why? Why out of the blue like this?

"Hope are you okay?" Ash asked, putting his hand on my shoulder.

I nodded. "U-uh huh. I'm fine."

I sat next to him and May sat down on the other side of her brother.

"You look a little pale…" May said.

"No, it's okay, really…" I moved away from the topic.

"When do you guys need to meet up with your mom and dad?"

"In about an hour, we need to be back at the hotel to get ready. Apparently, we're going to this really fancy restaurant that will take a while to get ready for," May said.

I nodded.

"So let's go back to you," Ash started. "What was the scariest moment in your life?"

"Well I don't really remember it, but probably when Dahlia came."

"Dahlia was the who was going to take you when you were young right?" May asked.

"Yes," I clarified. "My dad said that he had to side with her in order to protect me. My mom told me that I was scared and just wanted to be around her or my dad. But when dad was off tricking the rest of his siblings to fool Dahlia, I was left mostly in my room, with supervision of some of my aunts and uncles, my mom too. Dahlia wanted me so she could live up to her bargain with Esther, that she would take every first born in every generation on the Mikaelson bloodline. Until 15 years ago, there was no new generation."

"Oh god I cant imagine having to go through that…" May sympathised.

"Me either. The scariest moment in my life was when I got lost at disney world."

May started to chuckle. "N-no… t-that was the fun-funniest moment of your life."

"It was for like a whole day!"

"Hey liar, just a few minutes ago you said it was like an hour!" I teased and hit him on the arm playfully.

"Sorry, so back to Dahlia…"

"Oh well she never actually did end up taking me obviously, my dad forged his plan perfectly and ended up putting her and himself to sleep with a dagger Kol created to put him down."

"He daggered himself?" May asked.

"He did, for us. You see, Alaric may think that he is an awful person who cares for little, and should be nowhere near Mystic Falls at all times, but really he just wants to keep us safe…"

"I get it. Up until now I thought he was just the most powerful creature in the world," Ash admitted.

"Me too," May agreed.

"Well, he still is. That title will never be taken from him…. Just sometimes though, I feel like he's lonely."

"How so?" May asked.

"I don't know, I just have that feeling… That's why I was so pro christmas party this year, so we can invite people from Mystic Falls."

"What does the party have to do with your dad?" Ash asked.

"There's this girl, her name is Caroline Forbes and I think my dad is in love with her..."

"She's the head mistress of the school right?" Ash asked.

"Yeah, she runs it with Mr. Saltzman," May remembered.

"U-uh yeah..." I put my hand to my head and felt the sweat beads grow. My body got hot and my mouth got dry. My insides felt like they were being twisted into knots and pricked with tiny needles. Incoherent whispers filled my ears and cluttered around inside of my head.

I could faintly hear Ash and May screaming my name. Ash was shaking me, his hands on my shoulders only making my body feel hotter.

The only thing I could hear were those whispers.

I'm coming for you, my sweet child. Trust me, this is for the best.

Then everything was black.

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AN: who did that to Hope? How will her family react, especially Klaus?

Seems like a problem for a certain potential witch trio to solve ;)