AN: So, for those of you who follow me on twitter, this is the bitch of a chapter I was complaining about. For those of you who don't, I wrote 2,500 words and deleted them, twice, and the only reason this chapter was completed, was because I went full fanfiction writer on its ass. I took some Harry Potter and some Charmed (OG), and smushed it in with the Legacies. It took me two weeks to complete the chapter, but I think it turned out okay. Thankfully.

(I do not own the Harry Potter and Charmed ideas and creatures mentioned in this chapter.)

Just so you are aware, I have decided to forgo the whole Malivore backstory, and go with my original plan, for the most part any ways.

Thank you for all the review. Y'all have been amazing, and have helped my muses immensely.

Chapter 7: Running Wild

Hope was running through the woods in wolf form. It was the first time since her wolf decided Josie was her ideal mate that she had been able to run free without the fear of ending up in a different town. Now that she understood what her subconscious had been trying to tell her, she was one with her wolf again.

She was a little nervous at first, which is why she had Penelope cast a boundary spell around the back acres. It gave her just enough room to test the theory, while still giving her room to stretch her legs. So far, she felt normal.

She felt the bond between her and Josie much stronger while in that form. She could feel that Josie was sleeping soundly in her room. Hope longed to be with her, but the tug that had plagued her while Josie had been in Europe was gone. She knew where she was, and she was certain that she was safe and sound. She even knew that Josie was dreaming peacefully.

Hope spent an hour chasing one animal after the next, never actually catching them, despite being able to. She just wanted to play tonight, not eat. She would have spent longer, but Penelope was waiting for her at the old mill.

She returned to the mill and gave a little howl to alert Penelope of her presence. She couldn't go any further until Penelope dropped the boundary spell. A few moments later, her friend exited the mill, with Hope's clothing in hand. "About damn time," she grumbled. She waited for Hope to change back, as Hope's orders, just in case her wolf decided to make a break for it, then dropped the barrier spell. "I was beginning to worry you broke free."

Hope took her clothing and quickly changed. "Sorry. I wanted to run for little."

"You back to normal?" Penelope asked.

"The bonds stronger when I'm in wolf form, but I don't feel the tug to go to Josie," Hope answered. "At least not like it was before we knew what was happening. I can feel that she is peacefully sleeping, which puts my wolf at ease."

"Is it weird being tied to someone else?"

"Yeah," Hope replied. "But at the same time, I feel complete. Like this is how it was always supposed to be. The stronger the bond grows, the more complete I feel."

"How is Josie dealing with it?" Penelope asked softly.

"She feels okay with it," Hope answered. "We haven't really talked about what it means. I think she's content with just exploring our relationship. The bond is a separate entity at the moment."

"What are you going to do for your date tomorrow?"

Hope smiled widely, "I convinced Dr. Saltzman to let me take her into town. A simple dinner and a movie. Like normal teenagers who aren't connected by a magical bond."

"How'd you manage that?"

Hope chuckled, "I enlisted Caroline's help. She's going to take us into town, and then go visit the Salvatores." She smiled as she thought about her plans for her date. She actually had this whole romantic evening planned but felt a little awkward about sharing the details with Penelope. "So, hey…"

"Don't," Penelope warned. "I told you we're good. You don't have to keep checking to make sure that hasn't changed, because it hasn't."

"I know, but still… I just want to make sure you're okay. You know in a general, 'I'm your best friend and you just had you heart crushed, and I want to make sure you're alright because I love you and I'm dating the girl who crushed your heart,' kind of way."

"Say that three times fast," Penelope joked. She grabbed Hope's arm, halting their steps for a moment. "I'm okay Hope. I promise. I knew she was never going to take me back, but I got my hopes up. You though, you've been great, and I'm choosing to focus on our friendship and your relationship with her, rather then the past."

"Okay." Hope said. "You'll tell me if it gets too awkward or if you're hurting though, right?"

"I promise," Penelope agreed. She stuck out her pinky. "Always and forever?" she asked shyly.

Hope smiled widely as she inked her pinky with Penelope's. "Always and forever."

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Hope was having the most wonderful dream about Josie, or perhaps with Josie. They were sitting on the docks by the lake. The sun was just beginning to set, casting a warm orange glow over the water. They were giggling over silly things and enjoying each other's company. It was simple, but so wonderful.

When out of nowhere dark clouds rolled in, thunder rolled deafening their conversation and lighting cracked striking the water, causing ripples to roll over the surface. Josette, Josie's biological mother stood in the center of the lake, walking across the surface with an evil look on her face.

Then, all of a sudden, she's being buried alive next to Josie. She tried to dig her way out, but the more she dug, the heavier the dirt felt. She knew it was a dream, but she couldn't calm herself enough to recognize that fact. She was stuck, trying to dig her way to the surface, but never succeeding.

Hope woke with a start, accidentally throwing Penelope, who had been cuddling with her, off the bed. Penelope groaned in pain, but Hope didn't have time to apologize. She was out the room before her friend even realized what happened. She didn't bother knocking on Josie's door. She flung it open with magic. It banged loudly against the desk, startling Lizzie awake. Not that Hope noticed. All she cared about was stopping the dark dream her girlfriend was having.

Josie was thrashing in her sleep, obviously still trying to fight her way to the surface. Hope gently placed her right hand on Josie's neck and stroked her thumb soothing over her cheek. "It's okay, Josie. It's okay," she said comfortingly.

"What's going on?" Lizzie asked, but Hope ignored her. She would explain after she coaxed Josie from the nightmare.

Josie calmed almost instantly. Hope could feel the panic lessen, leaving behind a deep sadness. She wasn't sure if it was her who was feeling that, Josie, or a mixture of them both.

She sighed in relief when Josie opened her eyes. "You had me worried," she sighed.

Josie didn't respond with words. Instead, she sat up and pulled Hope into a deep hug and started crying softly. Hope rubbed her back as she cried, and whispered, "It's okay now," over and over again.

Hope could hear people talking softly around her, but she was too wrapped up in comforting Josie to comprehend what they were saying.

After a while, Josie calmed again, and quietly asked Hope to stay. Hope agreed instantly and crawled into her bed. It was then that she realized who the voices belonged to. Penelope and Rebekah must have followed her after she darted from her room. They were both sitting on the Lizzie's bed. Josie was already cuddled into her chest and didn't realize they were there.

"Nightmare," she quietly explained. "She's okay now. You can go back to bed."

"Are you okay," Penelope asked.

Hope looked down at Josie, who's breathing had evened out. "I will be as long as she is."

Rebekah smiled softly at Hope. She stood and moved to Josie's bed. She stroked Josie's cheek lightly, then dropped a kiss on her niece's head. "I'm proud of you."

Hope smiled softly at her aunt, who turned and left with Penelope. Lizzie on the other hand was giving her a death glare. Hope chose to ignore her. She closed her eyes and focused on Josie. Having her cuddled in her arms was one of the best feeling she had ever had to pleasure of feeling.

She listened to Josie's even breaths and allowed it to lore her back to sleep.

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Hope decided that the best thing in the whole damn world was waking up (fully clothed this time) in the arms of her girlfriend. She was warm and safe and knew that her mate was the same. Josie was cuddled into Hope's chest, breathing easily.

What wasn't so nice was waking up to a pair of eyes glaring at her.

Lizzie was sitting on her bed with a glare on her face. She didn't say anything when Hope gave her a questioning look. Instead she sat there glaring at her. It was making Hope uncomfortable.

Thankfully, Alaric chose that moment to barge into the room in a panic. He stopped briefly when he saw her cuddled up with his daughter but waved her off when she went to explain. "Later," he said. "We'll discuss this later. Right now, I need you in the dining hall."

She carefully slid out from beneath Josie, who was just starting to stir. "What's wrong?"

"Pixies," he roared, causing Josie to jump awake and nearly fall off her bed. She only managed to stay on thanks to Hope's quick reflexes.

"Dad," she groaned.

"Pixies? Like from Harry Potter?" Lizzie asked hopeful.

"Exactly like Harry Potter," he said. "Now come on. They're over taking the school."

Hope ran past Alaric, with Lizzie hot on her trail. They made it to the dining hall's upper landing just in time to see a group of multiple colored tiny pixies about the size of the average hand, raise a screaming Pedro up to the ceiling.

"Rigescunt indutae," Hope yelled, and all the Pixies froze in midair. Pedro on the other hand did not freeze. "Léviter," she yelled pointing at Pedro, who suddenly slowed to a near stop just above one of the tables. She slowly lowered him to the floor.

"Thanks," he said, looking up at them.

She held her hand out for Lizzie to take. Lizzie took the hand and siphoned some power from her. "Repeat after me, but make sure you're pointing at a Pixie. Your dad will be pissed if we blow the school up." She pointed at the nearest pixies and calmly said, "Praemium evanescet."

The pink pixie disappeared in a tiny explosion. Lizzie repeated what Hope had said and smiled when the green pixie she was pointing at disappeared. Then she looked at Hope sadly. "But it was cute."

"Tell that to Pedro who was second away from falling to his tiny little death," she snarked.

"True. I like Pedro," she said, then pointed at the nearest pixie and sent it off into the afterlife.

One by one they carefully disposed of each of the pixies in the dining room. Some of the witches in the room carefully copied them, helping to remove the dozens of colorful creatures.

"That's new," Lizzie said, once the last of the pixies was banished. "They've never attacked in a group before."

"The pixies aren't the monster," Hope said.

"How can you be sure?" Lizzie asked.

"Call it a hunch," she said. "We need to lock the school down, until we find it. If I'm right, pixies will keep coming."

"We need to teach the rest of the students that spell then," Lizzie said.

"Good idea," Hope said. She looked over the banister at the witches still congregated. She looked around for any signs of Josie or Alaric, but there were none. "We need to find Josie and your dad."

She didn't wait for Lizzie to respond before turning around and head back towards their dorms. They found Penelope fighting a group of Pixies who were attacking Rebekah. She was using a book to knock them out. Hope quickly froze them and taught Penelope the spells they used to take care of the dining hall.

"Have you seen Josie and Dr. Saltzman?" she asked, once the Pixies were taken care of.

"Yeah. They were heading to his office to safe guard the urn," Penelope replied.

"Okay," Hope said, then turned and went back the way she came, with Lizzie following right behind her. On the way they encountered the stray pixie here and there, which they easily took care of.

They found Alaric in his office with Josie. He was flipping through one of the books still littering his office. "Here… Here," he yelled triumphantly. "I knew I saw it."

He smiled widely at Hope and handed her the book, who read aloud, "Pixie Master. A demon with the ability to create Pixies from his own body. Kill the Pixie Master and all the pixies will die too. Sounds simple enough. We'll explode him from existence just like his pixies."

"We have to find him first," Lizzie said.

Josie picked up the urn off her dad's desk and smiled widely. She reached for Hope and quietly asked for some magic. Hope reached out so Josie could take some power. Once Josie was properly powered up again, she proudly said the spell Hope had taught her during a free period the morning before, "Locus silentium."

A blue barrier spread out from her feet around the room to the ceiling where it disappeared again. "Silencing spell," she explained to Lizzie and her father. "If it's here for the urn, then let's give it the urn. We can stash it in the old mill and wait for it to come for it."

"Lure it out," Hope summed up. "Perfect idea."

"Don't you think it's a little obvious though?" Lizzie pointed out.

Hope took the urn from Josie. "Maybe, but so far, where ever the key goes the monsters follow. They literally have one goal in life. Get this thing and they get their freedom."

"I'll take it out," Alaric said. "It won't suspect the human to put up much of a fight. You girl's split up. Hope and Josie follow me out, just make sure you aren't seen. Lizzie, you go find Penelope and Rebekah. Explain what's going on and help them to fend off the pixies."

Josie nodded her head and grabbed Hope's hand. She siphoned a little more power and then whispered the reversal spell. The blue shield dropped from the ceiling and disappeared into the floor. She then pulled Hope from the office and lead her back to her dorm room.

Hope watched as Josie went into her closet and dug through several boxes she had on the floor. She returned with two very large black robes. "You cannot tell anyone I have these. Especially Lizzie. I've been working on them for our birthday, but things have been so hectic I haven't had a chance to show her them yet. She'll be so mad if she finds out you got to try it out first."

"What is it?" Hope asked.

Josie handed one to her and then flung the other robe over her shoulders, pulling them closed. Her body disappeared leaving only her head exposed.

Hope's eyes went wide. "You made an invisibility cloak!?" she exclaimed. She took the robe in her hands and put it on and looked down at the body in shock. "How?"

"It wasn't easy," Josie said. "I've been working on it since I was six. I only recently managed to get the spell right. I had to be careful because I kept making them banishing cloaks instead of invisibility. I still have no idea where I banished the test subjects to. Then there was the year I kept making the cloaks invisible and kept losing them."

"This is incredible," Hope said in awe.

"Harry Potter is Lizzie's favorite books. I've made her dozens of magical Harry Potter inspired gifts."

Hope looked at Josie in awe. Josie may not have power of her own to use, but she sure did make up for it with her smarts. She leaned forward and captured Josie's lips in a kiss. "This is genius," she gushed.

"We better get going, before dad has to fight the pixie master by himself," Josie said.

They pulled the hoods over their heads and carefully made their way out of the school. It wasn't easy with every student in the hall ways fighting off the swarm of pixies. Once they reached the front door, they were able to move more easily.

When they reached the old mill, the pixie master, who was about Hope's height and balding, was encroaching on the building. They snuck in without him noticing and came in from behind Alaric. This way he didn't see them remove the cloaks.

Alaric sighed in relief when he saw them. "I forgot my crossbow," he cried in panic.

"Well it's a good thing we are the weapons," Hope said. She grabbed Josie's hand, who instantly began siphoning some of her magic.

It started slowly, with a single green pixie. Then another one, then a couple of blue, then several purple, until the entire structure was filled with little pixies.

"Shit," Hope said.

"Language," Alaric scolded.

"Now is not the time to be scolding me for my terminology," Hope growled. "You need to get out of here."

He gave her an insane look. "No."

"You're the one who forgot your crossbow," she yelled. She blew up two pink pixies who were going for Alaric. "Never mind," she said, and grabbed his hand, and pulled him from the building, with Josie following along behind them.

"Josie give me you hand," she said once they were a safe distance away. "Saepem incendio," she yelled. A see-through wall of fire rose up around them. The pixies that were had been following them crashed into the wall, incinerating on contact. She looked to Josie and said, "I'm happy that you knew this one, but we really need to talk about your prevalence to fire."

Josie blushed, but shrugged her shoulders with a little smile.

"What?" Alaric asked, not understanding what Hope had meant.

"We'll explain later," Hope said. "When we drop the wall, we're only going to have a small window to kill the master, before he sends another round of pixies at us. Dr. Saltzman stay behind us. I don't want to accidental blow you up."

Alaric gave her a frighten look and immediately moved behind them.

"Okay on the count of three, I'll drop the wall and you blow him up. Do you have the spell in your mind?"

"Yeah. That's weird," Josie commented.

"I know," Hope agreed.

"What's weird?" Alaric asked, from his place behind them.

"We'll explain later," they both said. They shared a look and then giggled. Alaric rolled his eyes at their ill-timed giggle fest but didn't comment. The girls gave each other a serious look, then turned to the wall of fire.

Hope lowered the wall of fire and a second later Josie was yelling, "Praemium evanescet," at the pixie master. He froze and grabbed his chest. Hope grabbed Josie's hand and said the incantation with her. Fire erupted from his eyes and mouth. They repeated the incantation a third time, and he exploded it a fire blast. Then just as quickly the fire was sucked into nothingness.

"Is he gone?" Alaric asked. He was looking at the spot where the pixie master had been standing unsurely. There wasn't even a speck of him left.

"Yeah," Hope said. "He's gone."

"Good. Now would be a good time for you to explain what is going on between you two," he declared, with a look on his face that emphasized his words. It was his 'dad' look.

Josie smiled awkwardly at him, then looked to Hope, who could feel how nervous Josie was. They hadn't really talked to Alaric or Caroline since the big reveal. They did know that they were seeing where thing took them, but they hadn't fully discussed what the bond meant for each of them. Yes, they were aware that Hope could feel what Josie was feeling, but they weren't aware that the link was also somewhat mental. It was hard to explain something that they haven't fully grasped either.

"I'm hungry," Hope declared as she looked at Josie. "What do you say we explain it over breakfast."

"Breakfast sounds good," Josie agreed. "What about you Dad? Are you hungry?"

"You're staling," he said suspiciously, as he glared back and forth at them.

"More like we don't want to explain it a bunch of times," Hope explained.

He eyed her wearily, then said, "Fine. I have to make sure the school is still standing, but after we'll have breakfast with Caroline."

"And Rebekah," Josie added, then looked to Hope, who almost immediately nodded and said, "That's fine. I should see if I can get my family on video chat, just so I don't have to explain it ten times."

"I'm not going to like whatever you have to tell us, am I?" Alaric groaned.

"Um… It's just weird," Josie said, and then grabbed Hope's hand and started to lead them back.

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An hour later, Hope and Josie were sitting at the head of the conference room's table together, uncomfortably looking at their families' reactions. Caroline and Alaric were sitting to the right of them, plate of untouched food in front of them, and with looks on their faces that neither girl could quite place. Rebekah was sitting to the left of them looking impressed, while sipping away at a mug of Hope's blood. Across from them was a monitor where the remaining of Hope's family were being display. Freya and Keelin were on the right, Kol and Davina were on the left and in a small box between them was Marcel.

"So, let me get this straight," Kol started. "I don't talk to you for two bloody weeks, and in those two bloody weeks you go and magically bind yourself to a witch. And why has no one bothered to let us in on what is going on?"

"I thought Aunt Freya was keeping you in the loop," Hope defended.

"Hey now. I've had a lot going on," Freya defended herself. "I was going to tell you when we knew for sure what was happening."

"You've known for days what's going on," Kol accused.

"Well I haven't seen you calling any of us," Rebekah spat.

"You know very well that I call regularly. Davina and I have been busy preparing for the baby. I rely on the two of you and the people who are supposed to be taking care of her to apprise me of any situation that arises with Hope in between then."

"And we have," Alaric said. "This is a new thing that we are all trying to grasp. Let's not start fighting over who's to blame."

Josie leaned over and rested her head on Hope's shoulder and watched in amusement as everyone started talking at once. Hope leaned her head and rested it on Josie's. "So, this is what I have to look forward to by becoming a Mikaelson," Josie chuckled lightly.

Hope smiled. "This is them on a good day. We are a very dysfunctional clan."

"I can handle dysfunctional," she said, then thought about Lizzie, who was the only person missing from their meeting. She was going to feel so left out. "I'm going to give Lizzie the cloak today," she said quietly. "I don't think she's handling us very well and could use a pick-me-up."

"Do you want me there? Maybe getting something she loves with me there will help soften her up a bit," Hope joked.

"No," she lifted her head and looked at Hope. "I have something I have to tell the both of you, that I don't think either of you will like," she mumbled.

"Well what is it?" Hope asked. She could feel the guilt Josie was feeling coming through their bond in waves.

"You don't already know?" she asked.

Hope shook her head.

"I thought maybe you did, because of the bond," Josie admitted.

"Maybe nothing personal will come through, just general knowledge," Hope remarked. "So far the only thing that has come through the bond from you is feelings, your extensive collection of fire spells, and something about a dog named Scooby Doo."

Josie blushed, "It's an old cartoon Lizzie and I love."

"Well then, I'll have to look it up," Hope smiled.

"Do you think we can control what goes through the bond?"

"Maybe," Hope said. "Think of something."

Josie thought for a moment than smiled. Hope smiled at her smile, but nothing seemed unusual in her mind. "What are you thinking about."

She leaned over and whispered into Hope's ear, "What it felt like when we kissed, and what it'll feel like to go further."

"Oh," Hoped blushed.

"Hey, what are you two whispering about?" Rebekah asked suddenly, causing everyone to finally stop arguing over them, and turn to look at them.

Hope coughed, "We were just testing the bond out. Seeing what information we can share."

"And?" Freya asked.

"We can't hear each other's thoughts," Josie answered.

"But there is general knowledge coming through the bond. Simple stuff like spells we both know and tv shows apparently."

"But we can't send certain things through the bond."

"It's more like we just know things, when we need to know them most," Hope summed up. "Though I don't know why the bond would want me to know about Scooby Doo."

Caroline snorted.

"Mom," Josie said warningly.

"What? I didn't say a word," Caroline said, throwing her hands in the air.

Hope looked to Josie curiously. "What don't you want me to know?"

Josie blushed again. "I…" she coughed. "Scooby Doo was your code name… for when I wanted to talk about you… without Lizzie knowing."

"Um…"

"It was your necklace," Josie explained. "You always had it on, and I was obsessed with Scooby Doo, who wore a tag with a S on it, and I was seven. It made sense to me then."

"That's bloody adorable," Rebekah gushed. "You had a crush on Hope all the way back then. Maybe there's more to this bond than we realized."

"Auntie Bex," Hope whined. Then looked over at her girlfriend who was suddenly feeling very guilty again. "Did you have a crush on me?"

Josie bit her lip and nodded her head.

"But you…"

"Not now girls," Caroline said quietly. She understood this wasn't a conversation for them to have in front of their entire family. She turned back to the rest of the group. "So… Now that everyone is caught up on everything, do we have questions?"

"Just one," Davina said. "How is the bond completed."

Josie and Hope both blushed heavily at that question. Freya and Alaric both groaned, Keelin looked away, while everyone else, except Caroline, looked confused.

"Sex," Caroline says casually. She had come to terms with the fact that her daughters were at that age now. It had taken a couple of days, but she found peace with it. Well, she was able to put the idea into a neat little box and bury the ick factor away. "Speaking of which. Have you gotten the spell right to see if Hope can impregnant my daughter?"

As one Kol, Marcel, and Davina yelled, "What?" Then each began talking over each other, all the while Josie was looking at Hope with wide questioning eyes, and Hope looked like she was trying very hard to disappear.

After a few moments, a loud whistle sounded through the room, causing everyone with supernatural hearing to cringe. "To clarify," Alaric said calmly, though you could see on his face that he wished he was about to say anything else. "It was brought to question the possibility that Hope's tribrid genes might, and this is a very big might, be able to…" He cleared his throat. "Get a girl pregnant."

"This is actually a thing," Josie whispered.

Hope nodded her head lightly. "I was going to tell you once we knew for sure," she said.

Josie's mouth dropped open in shock. "Wow."

"Uh huh," Hope agreed.

"Everyone can relax," Freya said. "When Keelin and I return to the school, I will perform the spell. Then we'll know for certain that she is just a normal girl with a normal reproductive system. We are only contemplating the possibility because we'd rather be safe than sorry."

"Nothing about me is normal," Hope chuckled dryly.

"Well here's to hoping your lady bits are," Rebekah said, and held her mug up.

Hope groaned and covered her eyes with her hand. She was ready to get back to her normal life, whatever that may be. She looked over at Josie.

"Freya," Kol said gathering the room's attention. He looked very much like an uncle who wanted to change the subject. Fast. "I've heard of this Malivore before, while I was traveling through Africa. There was a small clan of witches who were being hunted by an agent of Malivore. I wrote down everything they taught me. It was centuries ago, but the book should still be in the Claire crypt."

"Uncle Kol," Hope groaned. "We've been looking for information for weeks, and you've had it this entire time."

"Well you bloody well didn't bother telling me where the creatures were coming from. I have a thousand years of information stored in up here. I needed a little more information than creatures that don't exist are attacking us because your bloody boyfriend stole a knife."

"He's not my…" Hope growled, then took a deep breath.

"I guess this'll teach ya to call me more often," Kol sniped playfully. "Davina will send some of her blood so you can get in the crypt, but don't go bloody stealing any of my dark objects."

"Wouldn't dream of it, baby brother," Freya quipped with a sweet smile.

"You better not," he insisted. "Hope darling. I'll call you tomorrow, and you can tell me all about the pretty girl sitting next to you. Josie, for better or worse, welcome to the family." Davina waved lightly at them then their screen went blank.

"Marcel," Alaric said, shifting the groups attention to him. "Any news yet?"

"No portal here, or at the last three places," he said. "I'm starting to think this is just a standard magical clean up crew, but I've only checked black out sites. I'm heading into an active site tonight. We'll know better then."

"Let us know first chance you get," Alaric said. "We're pretty sure we've found a place for the girls to put the key's magic."

"And I'm almost positive we've found a way to, not only close the Malivore portal, but destroy the hell dimension all together."

"What will happen to all the creatures stuck there?" Hope asked.

"They'll move on, hopefully to a peaceful place," Freya said.

"So, no more permanent death?" Josie inquired.

"They'll be able to move on to a better afterlife, but I can't say for sure if the creature's existence will return to the collective conscious. Perhaps it will, but since some of these creatures have been gone for centuries, it's likely there aren't many people still left behind to remember them."

"That's sad," lamented Josie.

"Just think of them finally being able to find peace," Hope said quietly to her. Josie smiled weakly.

"I'm going to go retrieve Kol's books and double check all our information. Once we know for sure there is only one portal, we can make plans to close it. Which sounds a lot easier than it is actually going to be. There is a small army of humans guarding the portal. We'll need a small army of our own."

"And we will," Hope declared.

"Hope…" Alaric began.

"No," Hope interrupted. "This started with us, so it's going to be finished with us."

"Hope," Freya said, gathering her niece's attention. "We'll discuss it when the time comes. For now, just go be a normal supernatural teen, and spend some time with your girlfriend."

Hope looked like she wanted to argue, which is exactly what she wanted to do, but she knew it was futile at that moment. Instead, she nodded her head and grabbed Josie's hand. "Fine."

She got up to leave pausing only to offer her hand to Josie who accepted it. They left together and made their way to Josie's room. Lizzie was in the room waiting, so Hope offered to give them a little time alone. She gave her a kiss on the lips, then reminded her to be ready at six for their date.

Josie smiled widely and said, "I'll be ready, monsters be damned."