A/N Based on the characters of "the one who got away" and "Getting to know you".

A week later Elijah had gone back to US. Hope has still not recovered from her injuries. The cast is still in place. But she has gotten close to Jake again. Had started to come out of the shell in which she was encaging herself after the loss they both had suffered.

Hope looked at him with a smile on her face as he entered the room. He looked lost in thoughts. She went towards him to kiss him. As she was kissing him he noticed something different and then he was pushing her against the wall. Hope looked at him with a smile which disappeared as she was his expressions changing. She asked him "Jake what is going on?"

Jake's eyes traveled all over her face and he whispered "why would there be anything wrong? I am making love to my wife".

Hope smiled and pulled him closer to her and kissed him again. She felt his hands glide up her dress on her thigh and she gasped as they touched her. She grabbed on to him and then they were tearing each other clothes. He savored her body with his eyes for a second and then he was kissing her neck and he plunged into her before she was all ready for him against that wall. She clung to him wondering what has happened!

When he was done and was holding her against the wall she cupped his face and asked him "Jake?!"

Jake said "I am sorry. I just felt I was going to explode. I am sorry if I have hurt you"

She said with a smile "no, you have not".

He rubbed his eyes with one hand when Hope gasped and grabbed his hand. She looked at the black cross on the back side of his hand and asked him urgently "where did you get this from?"

Jake stared at the cross trying to think where he had gotten it but for the life of him he couldn't remember. He shook his head in confusion and said "I don't remember".

He tried to rub it off but couldn't. He looked at Hope whose expressions were telling a different story. He asked her "do you know what this is?"

She nodded as if she was still in shock and then asked him "did you shake your hands with someone today?"

Jake said "yes, I have a new case. This woman…"

Hope cut him off and said "a woman! What did she look like?"

Jake said after thinking for a while "brunette, tall, wavy hair… ".

He stared at Hope when she said with sinking heart "she has a mole on her left cheek?"

Jake nodded slowly and then grabbed her from both arms and said "who is she?"

She looked at the mark on his hand and said with a sinking heart "my teacher I told you about and I presume from this mark that she is a witch".

She then added "Jake this is dark magic. Davina told me about it when I was learning about dark magic a couple of summers ago. This is not good. I have to talk to someone, daddy but he … Cami. She needs him, Uncle Kol yes I will call him"

Jake looked at her lost expressions and realized that she was talking to herself. He shook her startling her out of this state of mind and said "listen we will be okay. Call Kol. Don't call Elijah, he will still be reeling with what happened with Cami"

Kol looked at Elijah angrily and said "they will never agree to that".

Elijah rubbed his fatigued eyes and said "then what do you propose?"

Kol said "Jackson and Cary need to come up to one decision that can benefit both of their packs. It is not your job to find peace between them all the time. Let them deal this one on their own". He stopped for a second and then asked him "how is Cami?"

Elijah said "she is fine. Actually copping really well. Much better than I would have accepted".

Kol opened his mouth to say something but his cell rang. Elijah looked down at the bayou's layout again whereas Kol put the cell against his ears absentmindedly while looking at the papers Elijah had given him a couple of minutes ago. He said "hello"

His eyes which were fixed on the paper in his hand snapped in Elijah's direction when he heard Hope saying "I want to talk to you right now".

Kol said "okay give me a minute" while his mind was racing about why she wanted to talk to him and not to Elijah. He put the paper on the desk and said "I have to take this one. Will be back in a while".

Elijah nodded without looking at him and Kol left. He left the compound and asked her "what happened?"

Hope looked at Jake who was rubbing his hand in agitation and said "someone hexed Jake with Revenge curse".

Kol stared at the road and asked "Revenge Curse! What the hell is that?"

Hope said pleadingly "please go ask Davina, how to get rid of it? She told me about it and said it is unbreakable but there must be a way and don't tell daddy".

Kol heard the tension in his niece's voice and said trying to keep his voice calm "I will have to tell Elijah. He needs to know. How is Jake?"

"No, please daddy does not need any more tension from us. I have already worried him a lot with this accident and all and now with Cami becoming a vampire. By the way how is she doing" She asked while her eyes were still fixed on Jake who was doing an unsuccessful effort to rub it off his hand.

Kol said "don't worry about Cami, she is fine. Listen I will come after I find out everything. Don't worry but Elijah needs to know. You should call him".

Hope said with distraction "okay I will" and then she said "I have to go now" as she saw Jake throwing the lamp on the floor in anger

Kol stared at the cell when he heard the clashing sound and whooshed to Davina's apartment.

Kol stood staring at Davina in shock as she was reading about the spell from the book. Davina looked up at Kol with sympathy and said "I am sorry Kol, I cannot do anything. May be if we manage to kill that witch who casted the spell, maybe we can do it. I am not sure. Some spells are not broken if they have been rooted too deep into the body".

Kol said at once "I am going there. Do you want to come? May be you can help me".

Davina said "sure but what will we tell Elijah. He needs to know. This is bad".

Kol thought for a moment and said "right now we will not tell him anything. We just go. Will just tell him that we need a break from the city and are going to London".

Davina asked him in shock "you will not even tell him that you are going to Paris".

Kol shook his head and said "no, he will become suspicious".

Elijah looked at him angrily and said "now!"

Kol said feeling flustered "what is the harm? Everything is under controlled here. Davina and I need a break from all of this chaos. I am leaving tomorrow for London for a week. Just wanted to let you know".

He turned and brushed past stunned Rebekah who was listening to Kol thinking 'why he was talking to Elijah like that!' and then a smile appeared to her face.

Elijah asked him with irritation "what is so funny?"

Rebekah sighed and said "reminded me of Nik for a moment".

Elijah looked at her and nodded and said "Kol often reminds me of Nik and you should have seen Hope this trip to Paris, she has his temper but it is still under control" he finished with a laugh and then added "have you talked to her?"

Rebekah smiled and said "yes, yesterday. She and Jake are fine. Will be coming over on holidays".

Elijah nodded and said "she has been through a lot. And she would not let me heal her. I couldn't bear to see that cast. I told her if Niklaus was there ... and she laughed and said "yes she can imagine that". Cami did something great for her".

Rebekah smiled and said "yes, that was a perfect gift for her".

William looked at Jake and wondered 'what the hell?'

He had been working with Jake for two months now and knew that Jake wouldn't make this kind of blunder and naturally his reaction was that. He had been acting weird since morning and now at the end of the day his behavior was getting on his nerves. He signaled him to stop but Jake was not looking at him and then he noticed that his hands were trembling. He stood up and smoothly took over the charge of discussion allowing Jake to sit down and gulped down the glass of water.

After the client had gone he turned towards him and looked at his bend head in his hand and walked to him and said "what is going on?"

Jake looked at him and then showed him the mark and said "I have been hexed and it is affecting me somehow. I cannot control anything. I want to but I cannot".

William looked at the cross on his hand and said "hexed but who?"

Jake laughed and said "Mrs. Marymoor, our client. She came yesterday remember. She is Hope's chemistry teacher who knows about her past and by the looks of it, it seems that she is a witch".

William stood up in alarm and said "she is teaching in our school?!"

Jake said with frustration rubbing his hand "yes, Brad is also in danger if you both remain in our good books".

William who was thinking of Brad too at once said "we called you our friend and once I call someone my friend, they will always be my friends. I will find out everything about her".

He picked up his cell and told his secretary "get me personal files on first year chemistry teachers in our school ASAP".

After putting the phone down he looked at Jake who was staring at his hand. He cleared his throat and said "you should go home. It is already late. Hope must be waiting for you".

Jake looked up and William was taken aback by the look of wildness in his eyes and said "on second thought, I will drive you home".

He told his secretary that he will not be back and left.

Hope was pacing the room anxiously when the bell rang. She went to open the door and froze when she saw William standing there. She asked him "what happened?"

William shook his head. Jake brushed her aside a little aggressively and went inside. She looked at William and said "you know?!"

William nodded and said "will you be okay with him?"

She said with a smile "of course I will be. He is still Jake isn't he?"

She turned sharply as she heard a loud crash and wobbled towards the room with difficulty in the cast. William stood there for a moment and then he heard her says sharply "Jake, no. stop it".

William threw caution aside and went to their room and saw Jake holding a scissors in his hand and was pointing them towards himself and Hope was standing at a distance with desperate expression on her face.

He didn't think twice and said "Jake" in a firm voice. As Jake looked at him for a moment his expressions cleared of which William took advantage of and tackled him and took the scissors away from him.

A gasp escaped her lips as she saw them fighting for scissors. She knew both of them cannot get hurt with this but the thought that he was willing to do something like that scared her to no bounds and then she screamed as William bumped his head against the wall making him unconscious. He stood up and looked at the cut on his hand and said "I am sorry but I had to. We have to keep him under until we resolve it. Do you have a rope or something".

Hope asked him in shock "what?!"

William said in anger "A rope, Hope. He can hurt himself or you".

Hope looked around in desperation and then pulled the curtain ties with which William tied his hands behind him and put him on the bed.

He said to Hope "you cannot stay alone with him"

Hope snapped "he is my husband William and you cannot stay here".

William snapped back "don't be an idiot. I will stay here but outside and you can sleep in the other room".

Hope said "no, I will not leave him alone".

He grabbed her uninjured hand and said "Hope, you are like Brad to me so for your own sake get the hell out of this room and I will stay here. I will call Brad if you want me too. Out now" he shouted at the end of sentence.

Hope stood there for a second and she said in a calm but firm voice "no, I will not go. But you can stay with me if you want to".

She balanced her arm in the sling and glared at him.

William stared at her angrily and then all of a sudden he laughed and said "I thought you would be sweet but I like this. Okay then, let me call Brad and inform him about our situation" then he added sarcastically "You can feel at home, after all it is your home".

She was still in daze with what happened to Jake and was looking at him with concern. William walked to her and touched her hand making her jump and said "I will find out about her".

Hope rubbed her eyes swallowing her tears. She was not weak and she didn't want to show her tears to someone she hardly knew. She said "alright then" and then looked around and then said "have you eaten anything?"

He looked at her with little surprise at the change of topic and said "yes, we had a late dinner. Any way I am just outside talking to Brad so don't worry".

He left the room. Hope looked at Jake for a few minutes and then taking a deep breath she spread a blanket on him. She ran her fingers through his hair.

William came back and stopped when he saw her doing that and a smile came on his face. It was so apparent how much she love him and he wanted to help them. It had been a while since he had felt this kind of bond like he had felt with Hope and Jake.

He cleared his throat and said "Brad wanted to come but I told him not to".

He then took off his shoes and opened the laptop which he had brought in from his car and settled down on the sofa chair in the room. Hope looked at him for a while and with a sigh took out her work and settle down next to Jake on the bed.

William looked at her after a couple of minutes and saw her lost in her work. As he saw she glanced Jake a look but then again looked at her work.

Hope was feeling tired, her arm was hurting, and her leg was hurting too. She looked at William and asked him "do you think he is okay? He has been unconscious for a while now".

William put his laptop down and went to check on Jake and said "he is fine".

He went to sit on his chair again and leaned in and asked Hope "so tell me about this teacher".

Hope took a deep breath and was about to say something when she felt his hand grabs hers. She looked at him but he was still unconscious. She then said "well, she is just weird. She knows my dad… I mean my biological dad so that means that she knows about our family and she know about daddy… I mean Elijah and she said that she had not contacted me before because of Elijah".

She then added "she just talked to me once but after that she had been ignoring me". They both looked at Jake when he saw him stir.

Jake opened his eyes and the first thing he realized was that his hands were tied. He sat up with difficulty and then saw William sitting there and said while showing him his hands "your courtesy presume?!"

William said "you remember!"

Jake said "a bit. Care to elaborate".

William said sarcastically "well let's see. You told me you were hexed. I brought you home and then you tried to kill yourself so Hope and I tied you up. Anything else?"

Hope looked at him angrily and said to Jake "it will be okay but we have to keep you like this so that you hurt yourself".

Jake said with irritation "this is ridiculous. What if I have to go to bathroom?"

William said with a smile "well you cannot go alone. Hope will go with you, she is your wife after all" and then he laughed when he saw Hope's cheeks running red.

They sat there in silence for a while and then Jake fell back on the bed saying "what are we going to do now? Has Kol or Davina contacted you?" he asked Hope.

Hope said "Uncle Kol will get back to me after talking to Davina".

She rubbed her arm. Jake looked at her and said "why don't you go to sleep? I am up". He looked at William and said "are you staying?"

William nodded. Hope threw inhibition aside and leaned in and kissed Jake on his lips and stayed there for a while and whispered "we will find a way to break this curse".

She then moved her stuff aside and laid down on the bed feeling a little conscious that William was in the room. Jake sensed her tension and turned towards her and held her hands within his roped hands and said "don't think about anything. Just go to sleep".

William looked at them and smiled. They kept looking at each other and then Hope's eyes drooped and she went to sleep. As soon as she slept Jake said "I want you to take Hope away from here. I don't want to hurt her".

William sighed and said "I suggested that but she wouldn't leave you. It is strange but she really loves you" his tone has changed to sarcasm by the end of the sentence.

Jake said with frustration "William!".

He said "Okay" but smiled when Hope said in her sleep "No and you two I am not sleep that deep".

William was feeling flustered. She was being stubborn but to some extend he could understand how she was feeling.

Jake nodded. After a couple of minutes he asked William "have you found anything about Mrs. Marymoor or whatever her name is?"

William said "not yet. It is night time. I will find out more in the morning".

He then asked him after a couple of minutes "what do you feel when you lash out?"

Jake looked at the ceiling and said "Just want to lash out, hit something, do something and if I don't i feel as if my insides will burst".

William nodded and then they were quiet until they both fell asleep.

Next morning it was still early when his eyes flew open at the sound of the bell. He looked towards the bed and saw Jake sitting up but Hope sleeping next to him.

Jake showed him his hand and said "not yet?!"

William said after thinking "I don't think I should unless I know you are safe to yourself and us".

William got up and said "there is someone at the door. Can I leave you alone with her for a minute without you trying to kill yourself or her?"

Jake smirked and said "my wife here William".

William didn't say anything but just looked at him so Jake nodded and said "I think I am in my senses right now"

Kol stood there impatiently and then said "is that how…." And stopped when a stranger opened the door.

He asked him "who are you?"

William said "I am William Kirn, friends of Hope and Jake and you are?"

Kol said with irritation "her uncle, where is she?" and then he took a step inside but stopped as he couldn't enter. He rolled his eyes and said "really!"

He said to William "Please go ask Jake or Hope to invite me in"

William raised his eyebrows in amusement and said "I presume a Mikaelsons" making Kol's curiosity peek for the first time. Davina stepped inside whereas William went towards their room and came back with Jake whose hands were still bound. Jake looked at Kol in shock and said "Kol what are you doing here?"

Kol looked at his hands and said curiously "more to the point why are your hands in ropes?"

Jake said after some hesitation "I thought killing myself will break the curse but someone wouldn't let me. Why don't you come in?"

Kol looked at Davina who was looking at Jake with shock. He said after a while "are you crazy?"

Jake laughed and said "actually yes. Right now I am".

Hope's eyes opened and then she sat up at once when she saw neither Jake nor William were in the room. She got up and then gasped with pain that shot in her arm after being sleeping in that position for so long. She came out of the room and then her eyes blurred as she saw Kol standing there.

Kol turned around and the concern doubled when he saw Hope in cast. Hope walked to him and hugged him and let go. She said "thanks for coming. You didn't tell daddy right?"

Kol patted her head and said "of course not but you have to tell him sweetie".

Hope separated herself from him as she heard Jake yelled "what is happening? My head is on fire".

He was moving his head right and left as if that will help him. Davina touched his head and said hastily "we need to cool him down if we don't want his head to explored"

Kol looked at Hope who guided him to the bathroom. He whooshed him to the bathroom and stood him in his clothes under the cold shower. Jake started to calm down as the cold water fell on his head. Jake looked at Hope standing in the door way and said to William "I dont want her here. I might hurt her. Take her to your house until this is resolved".

William looked at her and then to his shock Hope shouted "don't you dare and William if you dare do anything he asked you, I will show you that I am my father's daughter, a Mikaelsons. I don't have to be supernatural to prove the blood that runs in my body".

Suddenly Jake was banging his head on the tiled wall to their shock and then before anyone could think of what to do Hope pushed Kol aside and walked into the shower and held his arms and turned her towards him and said "Jake, look at him. Listen to me".

Kol cursed and said "Hope come out" at the same time he saw Jake's eyes focusing on Hopes. They both were dripping in the shower when Davina said "we need to keep his body temperature down. The temperature is boiling his blood affecting his brain".

Kol looked at Davina while running his hand through his head and snapped "well they cannot stand there all day. Can they?"

William said "how about we immerse him in the ice in the bedroom". He looked at Davina and said "you are a witch I presume. Any spell".

Davina nodded and said "yes there is but this hex is very powerful".

While they were talking about how to keep him cool Jake had his forehead pressed against hers and said "your cast is all wet".

Hope whispered "I don't care".

Jake whispered "you will get sick"

She smiled and said "I don't care".

He said desperately "oh Hope" and then touched her lips with hers gently and said "I am so sorry for putting you in this situation".

Hope smiled and touched his cheek and said "you didn't Jake".

She with her forehead still touching his leaned in and touched his lips gently with hers".

Jake said "me too".

Kol felt his heart was breaking. He couldn't bear to see his niece in so much trouble.

He then said "Okay we need to get them out of there".

He handed her the towel and they all stepped out when the bell rang. William said "let me check"

He came back after a couple of minutes with Brad.

Brad entered the room and took in the scene; Kol tying Jake's hand with the head board, Davina drying Hope's cast with a hair dryer.

Kol asked in general "any suspects?"

Hope said "my teacher".

Kol said "the same teacher who threatened you?!"

Hope said wincing "daddy told you?"

He said "of course he told me. Anything that harms you, we need to know. Speaking of you need to call him right now". He then turned to William and said "I want to check out this woman who casted the curse. One of us will remain with Jake and the other will come with me".

Brad said "I will stay with them right now. You and William can go".

William looked at Kol's questioning glare and said causally "Brad Kirn my brother, brad meet another Mikaelsons. I didn't catch your name with all this going on. You know mine but just in case William Kirn and I am Jakes boss in Paris office".

Kol said "Kol Mikaelsons". He walked to Hope and said "I will find out what is going on".

William and Kol were gone most of the day. Near the evening when Kol entered the apartment in anger and said "she is not in the school anymore and no one knows anything about her. We searched the apartment at the address she had given the school but cannot find anything".

Davina came out of their room and said angrily "keep your voice down. She just slept. We had an episode behind you".

Kol brushed her aside and went inside and saw Hope sleeping on the bed with a bandage on her head. He turned towards Davina and said "where is he?"

Davina said "Brad is sitting with him in the other room. He started to warm up again and then he managed to break free and before I and Brad settled him down Hope got hurt. Brad is also hurt. His head. Jake banged him against the wall. You should have seen the aggression . So after that we decided that Jake shouldn't be in this room. but the good thing is that I have made the connection. He loses it when he gets hot so we need to keep his body temperature down like I already said".

William saw as Kol bend over Hope and kissed her forehead gently and left the room.

Kol came out of room and stood at the open door of the other room as his eyes went to Jake whose feet were immersed in ice and he was shivering so clearly. Jake asked him "how is she? I didn't mean to. You know I didn't mean to".

Kol said "yes I know. We are working on it" and then groaned as a cell rang. He looked at William who nodded and after looking around he found Jake's cell ringing. He picked it up and said with distraction "Jake's cell. Who is calling?"

Elijah looked into the cell and said after recognizing the voice "William, what are you doing with Jake's cell?"

He heard him ask "who is this?"

Elijah said "this is Elijah, I am Hope's father. We met a week ago when I was visiting".

William's head snapped in Kol's direction who was talking to Jake. He walked away from the room and into the kitchen and said "Oh Jake is busy right now".

Elijah said "Oh okay, Can I talk to …." He stopped and then slowly stood up from his chair as he heard "Jake what the hell are you doing. You need to put your feet in there". He knew that voice by heart.

He said while trying controlling his anger "William let me talk to Kol right now".

William said "Kol! He is not …"

Elijah cut him off by saying "I can hear him. Now let me talk to him".

William sighed and took the phone to Kol who snapped at him "what?"

William said "it is Elijah. He knows you are here and wants to talk to you".

Kol sighed and then said angrily "you make sure he does not get out of that tub and snatched the phone from his hand.

Elijah knew something was wrong and he knew it was related to Hope and Jake. He said to Kol in a no nonsense voice" I don't want to hear anything else Kol start from the beginning".

By the time Kol finished Elijah's heart had sunk. He looked up and saw Rebekah standing there listening to the conversation. He said "I will be there in the next flight and Kol keep things under control".

After he put the cell down Kol looked at Davina and said "don't tell Hope that he is coming".

Davina nodded and said "I will sleep with her. You guys okay with Jake?"

Kol nodded and then kissed her and said "thank you Davina".

Davina said "don't be stupid. She is my family too".

When Hope woke up next morning. Her head was hurting like hell. She sat up at once and looked at Davina who was sitting on the bed next to her and said "where is he?"

Davina said "he is fine. Kol and William are going to go check on that woman again".

Hope said with exasperation while getting up "they have not found Mrs. Marymoor?!"

Davina shook her head and asked her "where do you think you are going?"

She replied "to check on him".

She opened the door and walked out and then stopped as she saw him. She looked at him desperately and walked into his open arms and said "daddy! when did you come here?"

He said "a couple of hours ago"

She asked him with a smile "how long did I sleep for?"

Kol replied "A day. Davina gave you something so that you could sleep".

She said to him "you called him?!".

William walked towards them and stopped when he saw Hope hugging Elijah and said "we have a problem".

Elijah asked him "what?"

William said "tonight is full moon".

Hope stared at him in shock and wondered 'how could she have forgotten about it?'

Before Elijah could say anything William said "Jake will turn so I have a solution". When no one answered he continued "we move him to my house. We have dungeons underground. We can chain him there so that he can turn without hurting anyone in this condition. We don't know what this curse will effect on him". He then asked her "are you okay?"

She said with a tired smile "yes my head is killing me".

Davina went to the room and came back with a medicine and then with a glass of water and said "with everything going on it is a wonder that it is just headache".

Hope felt relieved when no one said "everything will be okay". She said "is he asleep? Let me check on him".

She went to his room and stopped when she saw him sitting on the bed with wild eyes which were red right now either because of lack of sleep or the curse. He said harshly "don't come near me".

Hope stood there and said "Jake!"

Before she could say anything else Jake growled and tried to free himself from the bedpost against which he was tied with the ropes instead of curtain ties now.

Elijah and Kol dashed in the room and pulled Hope outside who screamed "I want that woman dead right now".

Elijah hugged her and said "Hope we are looking for her".

Davina entered the room and said "okay so I need something of hers personal item that has her body essence on it".

William nodded and said "first we need to move Jake to my house. Brad get his temperature down so we can move him".

Elijah said "I will go and find out that thing". He touched Hope's cheek and said "you trust me right?"

Hope nodded and said desperately "I cannot lose him. I cannot".

Kol said fiercely "no one is losing any one here".

William couldn't help but feel his heart stop at this family moment and looked at Brad who was also looking at them and nudged him.

Elijah looked at kol and said "do you know where she lives?"

Kol nodded and after patting Hope on her head and looking at Davina they left.

Hope looked around helplessly cursing her leg and arm in the cast thinking 'I cannot even help anyone' and stood there as she saw Brad pushing Jake's feet in ice. Both William and Brad had to hold him down to keep him from struggling. IN about thirty minutes Jake started to calm down.

William let him go and said Brad in an authoritative voice "tell Alfred to get the dungeon ready. We will be there in forty minutes". He groaned when his cell rang. He picked it up and said "I cannot come today too Cynthia. Cancel all my meetings and tell James to take over on my and Jake's case" and then without waiting for a reply he put the cell down and saw her looking at him. He said before she could even say anything "don't worry about that"

Hope said "your office and work!"

William said with a smile "exactly my office".

An hour later William and Brad were chaining up Jake against the wall. William turned to Hope and said "call Elijah and give him this address and tell him to come here when he is done".

Elijah was feeling really frustration and this weird sensation was nagging him and then he turned a vague memory came to his mind and walked to the window and looked at the Lilly plant and was looking at it when he heard Kol's aggressive voice "there is nothing else except for that damn plant".

Elijah separated the leaves and pulled out the paper placed in the soil and started to read it "I knew you would come. He took you away from me. I will take his daughter away from you but not after I kill everyone she loves. Starting with the love of her life. Always and forever- Celeste".

Kol snatched the paper from him and then looked at him after reading it and asked "who is she?"

Elijah said as if in daze "Celeste".

Kol said "yes I know it is Celeste but who is she?"

Elijah said "I loved her when we were in New Orleans in 1700's and Niklaus got her killed" and then as if he came out of trance and said "that cannot be it. She is dead. I buried her myself".

Kol said angrily "apparently she is back and if Nik got her killed then she will want the revenge. She knows Hope is Nik's daughter and she knew you would come because how important Jake is to us".

Elijah felt as if he was sinking deeper and deeper in a mud and said "but…"

Kol shouted "Elijah snap out of it and tell me how to resolve this issue"

Elijah looked at her and then his cell rang. He picked it up and after listening to the other side he said to Hope "we will be there".

He looked around, crumpled the paper and said "we need to find her". After a thought he picked the Lilly plant and headed out saying "we might be able to trace her through this".

William looked at Elijah, Kol and Hope and said "I have to go. If you want, I can stay". He stopped and then he said "okay on second thought I will stay".

He added "I will be back in a minute".

A couple of minutes later he came in and saw Hope snuggled against Elijah who was looking at the plant and Davina had a book in front of her and was reading from it and Kol was pacing the room deep in thought and Brad just sitting there looking at them.

He cleared his throat and said "I have told my uncle. I am going down in dungeons but you guys stay up. Brad come. Lock me up".

"How will you staying here and getting locked up will help Jake" Hope started to get up but Elijah pulled her back.

"Wolves can communicate. I am hoping I will be able to keep him sane." William said and then said to Brad "come".

Elijah said firmly "No, Hope you are not going down. Sit"

Hope said angrily "but…" and then stopped at Elijah's look reminding her that she had raised her voice in front of him. She slummed back on the sofa.

A couple of minutes later Brad came and said "so they are both locked. Dungeon excess is closed. It cannot be broken".

They waited until the moon reached apex and then Davina suddenly said excitedly "I think we can control his temperature without having to immerse him in ice after every damn five minutes".

Jake looked at William across his cage and said "what are you doing here?"

William checked the door again and said "giving you company".

And then Jake started to shout and scream and was trying to free himself from those chains but he couldn't. William kept on looking at him knowing well that although those chains were strong but the way Jake was pulling and trying to break them he might succeed. He watching hoping that he wouldn't though and observed his behavior as he growled, cursed and pulled at the chains.

William felt the moon effect on him and he started to change keeping his eyes focused on Jake who was changing too and then as he had expected werewolf Jake pulled the chains hard and broke the door apart and came towards his cage. He managed to break the bars on this cage too and attacked him. The two werewolves growled at each other- tried to take each other out. After a couple of attacks on each other, making the receiving party injured, Jake turned and ran towards the main entrance of the dungeon with William at his heal. He was gnawing at the door of dungeon with his paws when William jumped at him and took him to ground. They rolled around each other and then William felt Jake's teeth on his neck but he twisted sharply and freed himself from Jake's grasp. Jake bared his teeth at William and then William jumped at him and hit his neck with his paw so hard the he fell and after a couple of gasps he became unconscious.

Hope spread a blanket on Jake and asked William "what happened? We couldn't hear anything".

William wiped the blood of his healing arm and said "that is because the dungeon is sound proof and for your first question you husband is a nut. He attacked me".

Hope stood up and said angrily "that is because he is not himself right now".

William realized that Hope is really tense if she could recognize the humor in the situation and said slowly "I know and we will find out a solution. But right now we need to keep him cool so that he does not have another attack".

Hope felt embarrassed at her outburst and said "Davina has found something".

Later that night Hope got under the duvet next to him when he pulled her towards him and said "Davina's herbs are working and I am feeling myself right now but I don't think that is the long term solution".

Hope said with a sad smile "and that is why daddy wants me to tie you up".

He looked at her in surprise but the nodded. He presented her with his hands. She started tying them up and said looking into his eyes "and that was the only way I could stay with you at night".

He laughed and said "hmm come to think of it, it is sort of kinky. You tying me up and now you can…"

He smiled as Hope said with a mischievous grin on her face "exactly but right now I just want to hold you and lie next to you".

He smiled as she put her head on his shoulder and he closed his eyes. Their lips had smiles on them but their heart were very heavy and both were wondering 'what if they cannot break the curse!"