A huge shout out to AngelColdHeart for this story idea! I hope I do it justice.

Chapter 1

Hope woke in a cold sweat, her aunt sat on the other side of the room,

"Mom?"

"Hope." Freya's voice sounded tired and yet full of relief.

"Mom?"

"I'm here." Freya responded, moving to sit beside her niece.

"What happened? Where is she?" Hope's voice was frantic and full of fear.

"Breath. You're safe now."

"Where is my mom?" Hope half yelled, magic surging around her in her fear. Freya paused for only a second before continuing to move and sit by her niece. She was trying to hold back the tears that had threatened her all day. Her silence caused Hope to speak again,

"What?"

"She's gone."

"No, no. No, no." Hope began to cry, her tears forming like hot lava on her face. Her aunt pulled her into a hug, yet it was as if Hope was in another world entirely. Her heart ached as it never had before, pain fighting it's way through. She wanted her mom, and she wanted her dad, and now she couldn't be near one, and she would never see the other again. Because of her.

She was going to turn, for the first time ever she was going to turn into a wolf, she was scared, and yet relieved all at the same time. Her father was dragging her out into the woods, he seemed upset, but Hope was too focused on what was about to happen to think anything of it.

"Dad, what's going on?"

"We shouldn't do this inside. Your mother would have wanted you to be out here, in nature, under the moonlight. Here. Drink this," Klaus said, handing his daughter a glass vial. Hope drank it, and as soon as she had finished, her ankle broke, and she fell to the ground.

"It's starting." Klaus explained, "Hope, listen to me. This is going to hurt. So you need to concentrate on the air in your lungs, and the ground beneath you."

"AH. Dad!"

"The first time, it can take hours."

"Hours?" Hope asked, fear filling her words

"If you fight it. The pain will make you want to delay it because you think that's all you can take. But if you let it in, if you allow it to swallow you whole, then it cannot break you."

"Yeah. I can do this."

"When you're done, run wild and free. I am so proud of you." Klaus watched as the darkness left his daughter, as she turned for the first time. He couldn't help but remember the first time he turned, the screams from his father that he would die for this. He wanted his daughter to have the opposite, to know that this was something he wanted for her. He smiled at his daughter before watching her run away. His smile faded into sadness, it was the last time he would see her, he was going to do what his father never would, he was going to take her place. After just a second, he ran off to where the spell would happen.

"Where's Caroline?" Klaus asked, as she approached Alaric.

"Well, she's a vampire, and there is a baby werewolf roaming the woods. She just… She couldn't watch you die." Alaric explained. Klaus then stepped within the circle of the spell, he had made his peace with his fate, and he wasn't going to back down. Only a second later it had begun, and before he knew it he had fallen to the ground, the darkness resting inside him.

"Alright, come on, girls. Come on, let's go." Alaric's voice was the first thing he heard, his face still buried in his arms.

"Niklaus." At his brother's voice, he stood. "Niklaus." Elijah continued to try and get his brother to focus on him, but with a quick look at Elijah, Klaus grabbed the white oak. "Don't." Elijah tried. "Put it down."

"Walk away, Elijah. You shouldn't be here for this."

"Put it down and let's talk"

"There is nothing left to say. It's time to end this chapter, get rid of this dark magic once and for all." Klaus replied, anger that his brother was trying to stop this flashing through his voice.

"Dad?" Hope's voice broke through the brothers' conversation. Klaus turned in shock, "What's going on here?" Hope asked.

"Get her out of here." Klaus commanded Elijah.

"Your death is not the answer." Elijah replied.

"Death? What are you talking about?" Hope asked, fear in her voice. After a moment, though, she connected the dots, "They put it into you. But you told me that they put it into something safe, and instead, you use my first transition to trick me. So what happens, you just kill yourself and the magic goes away? And you're going to let him go through with this?" Hope turned to Elijah at the end, her fear causing her voice to rise.

"I don't need his permission to save your life!" Klaus answered.

"Come back with me to New Orleans, Niklaus. We'll find another way." Elijah tried.

"We both know that's not going to happen. I'm sorry, Hope. I've made my decision." Klaus spoke, before moving to stab the oak into his heart,

"And I've made mine." Hope replied, using her magic to knock her father out.

When they made it back to New Orleans, they tied Niklaus up before bringing the family together to figure everything out.

"Just when I thought he was showing the vaguest signs of maturity, our brother makes a unilateral decision that leaves the rest of us stewing in his melodrama." Kol began as Elijah checked the darkness spreading on his brother's arm.

"His death is not a melodrama." Rebekah replied.

"Well, he's spiraling. This energy feeds off anger, and our brother- as we know- has enough to set the world on fire." Elijah explained.

"How many times are we going to play this game? Right, calamity and doom approaches our brother, and then, all of the sudden, a trapdoor appears and, poof, he escapes. He's a cockroach that will outlive us all. And we're immortal." Kol replied.

"And what if it's different this time? What if he figures out a way to end it all?" Rebekah asked, disbelief on her face as she faced her brother.

"I don't think he would notice or care that I wasn't there to witness it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going home." Kol finished before leaving.

"He'll be back." Elijah assured.

"Will he?" Rebekah responded before following after her brother and leaving Elijah standing alone.

"Your dad is strong, but that is working against him here. The energy will feed off of that strength. He'll quickly go mad, and… it won't be long before he's unrecognizable, and impossibly dangerous to all of us." Freya explained to Hope.

"Okay. Well, how long does that take? Days?" Hope asked, she needed to form a plan to save her dad, and she needed to know how long it would take.

"More like… hours."

"So, today?"

"Yeah."

"All right. Then we're going to have to pull the darkness out of him, divide it up again." Hope tried.

"And then we end up where we started, with the family scattered to the corners of the world until something calls them back."

"Well, then we keep him asleep, okay? He won't be angry when he's asleep. We'll just brick him up in the head garden. That'll at least slow it down."

"I need you to hear me on this, Hope. There's not enough magic in the world to slow this down." With that and a small smile, Freya left the room. Hope spoke to the silence,

"Then we will just have to keep it from happening in the first place." With that she opened her spell books and grimoires looking for a spell to work. It took her hours, but at last she found a time spell. She had to have a time though,

"I could, go back to when they took the darkness from me and take it back. Or, I could go and try to stop it from the beginning." Hope spoke to herself, trying to figure it all out. She continued to think through all the different opportunities until she realized that everything that had threatened their lives were her. Just like she had told Elijah, she wasn't even supposed to be alive. She would make it to where she wasn't, she would go back and make sure her parents never even had her in the first place. Once she had the date she needed, Hope set up and began the spell.

"I am not sure what we need to do, Freya. Besides being there for both he and Hope, there isn't anything else we can do." Elijah explained, pouring a drink before going to sit next to his sister on the couch.

"We have to prove to her that she will be okay. That we won't leave her." Freya explained. Once they had fallen into silence, the house began to rattle,

"What is that?" Elijah asked, looking at his sister.

"It's magic. Hope is doing something." With that, Freya stood and began to run up the stairs, Elijah followed close behind. When they finally made it up the stairs, Freya was met with a locked door. The lock didn't last long, though, as Elijah ripped the handle off of the door. When they broke through, though, the rattling stopped and everything was silent. Hope was laying on the floor, knocked out.

"Hope!" Elijah yelled, running to his niece's side. Once he checked that she was still breathing, he looked up at his sister, "What happened?"

"It looks like she sent herself back in time."

"To when?" Elijah asked.

"August 2011. Do you know what was happening then?"

"Klaus was in Mystic falls, that's when he met Hayley. That's when Hope was conceived." Elijah replied, pausing to look at Hope before turning back to his sister, "Why would she go back there?"

"You told me she was blaming herself, that she said she deserved to die. She blamed herself for her mom's death, too. She must be trying to undo it."

"Undo what?"

"Undo her existence." Freya answered.