Maya meets Hope 2
For the next few hours, Maya and Riley studied the books. Riley took the time to show her best friend the basics of using Magic and her blond friend quickly found out that she was a natural at this. Maya quickly understood how it worked and managed to do simple spells without trouble. Spells that gave Riley a small nose bleed were no trouble for Maya and the best friends quickly learned how to channel each others to try out bigger spells. They even planned to look for a way to channel each other even when the other wasn't there through their friendship rings.
"That's great Maya! You should be able to do more complicated spells on your own soon. It took me much longer than this to manage to do them on my own but it doesn't surprise me to find out you're that good at it." Riley smiled up at her.
"I hope so. I want to be ready to save my family and I'll probably need to use strong magic to do it."
"And you will be Maya. So... I wanted to ask you... Do you want me to keep on calling you Maya or do you want me to start calling you Hope?"
"I'm not sure. I got used to being called Maya but Hope... It's the name my father chose for me. Maybe you could call me Hope when it's just us, or people who know the truth, and you call me Maya in public. This way I'll start getting used to this name and answer to it naturally when I find my father." She suggested.
"Good idea. Hope." Riley smiled.
"I'm glad I have you Riley. You're my best friend, I don't want it to change." Hope told her.
"It never will. You and I, we're forever, no matter what." Riley smiled before they hugged each other.
"Always and forever, like my family." Maya/ Hope whispered with a small smile before she added:
"I think we should call Farkle and Lucas, ask them to come over as well. I mean, they know most of this already. If they really want to help... Maybe Farkle can even help us with the potion to heal my uncles. He might also have an idea on how to heal my aunts." Hope suggested.
"You're right. I'll call Lucas, you call Farkle." Riley nodded before she took her cell phone out.
They were 13 and about to plan an attack on much older supernatural creatures but they weren't afraid because they weren't alone.
Of course, as soon as the girls told them what Maya had learned about herself that day, Farkle and Lucas promised to come over. Farkle even told them that he'd bring a few of his family's grimoirs to try and research Rebekah's curse, Freya's poison and find a cure for them all.
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The boys arrived less than 20 minutes later. Lucas was already at Farkle's playing video games when the girls called and so he helped his friend carry more books and Farkle's mother dropped them off to make sure that they didn't get delayed in the subway.
They all took a few minutes to catch up on what everyone knew about the others, Maya even showed them the box her mother had left for her, and once they were all on the same page, they started reading the different books.
"It's a good thing your aunt left notes for you because otherwise I don't think I'd know what to look for." Lucas told them to break the silence.
"I think she left the notes for my mother. She's the one who was supposed to look for all three cures. I hope she's fine." Hope replied.
"Why don't we try a spell to contact her? Or at least to see where she is." Riley suggested.
"She's right. If we can't find her, it means that she's in a place protected by a cloaking spell or that she's dea... well, we'll deal with that if we can't locate her." Farkle replied, stopping himself before he suggested that Hayley might be dead.
"What do we need?" Lucas asked.
"Maps, candles and Maya's, I mean, Hope's blood." Riley replied.
"I have maps. Of the world and the country." Farkle replied.
"Let's start then." Hope exclaimed happily.
She knew that it could be a dead end but she didn't want to think about it. Her name was Hope and she decided to hold on to it. Hold on to the hope that everything would be fine, that she'd find cures for her family and be able to find them, free them and finally be reunited with them all.
Riley and Farkle quickly settled everything they needed to do the locating spell, using Hope's blood. They told their friend what to do and let her do the spell on her own, knowing that she could do it and they all watched as the small drop of blood moved to America and then, when they did it on the map of the country, on New Orleans.
"Katy was right then. She's still alive and Marcel has her. Or at least someone in New Orleans does. She's probably locked away with my father, I mean, who else in New Orleans would want to keep her prisoner other than Marcel?" Hope said with a smile.
"That's good news then, isn't it?" Riley asked her.
"Yes, of course it is. Now we know where to look." Hope nodded.
"We can get a more detailed map of New Orleans later and do the spell to check where they are exactly." Farkle suggested.
"What do we do first then? Go after them?" Lucas asked Hope.
"No. First we find cures for my uncles and my aunts. When they're awake and fine, then we can try to save my parents. All together." Hope replied.
"Where are they?" Farkle asked her.
"In a storage unit. Riley's mom will take me to them tomorrow. We'll bring them here. Maybe we can find a spell so I can talk to them, enter their mind or something. It would help finding cures if we can discuss it with them." The young hybrid told them.
"I think I know a way. According to Freya's notes, they're all linked and must be together in some way. We can send you in alone or link ourselves temporarily and join them long enough to talk about everything. One of my ancestor learned magic with your uncle Kol and I can't wait to meet him. Half of the grimoirs we have, we got from Kol who gave them to us. Well, to them I mean. Neither I nor my father were born back then but my name, Farkle, it came from Kol. One of my ancestor was named Farkle by Kol. The parents had been saved by Kol and they gave him the honor of naming their newborn. Apparently it was a thing back then. They only asked that the name be original and a name that would be remembered and unique." Farkle exclaimed.
"Well, job well done. You're probably the only Farkle in the world." Hope smiled.
"Just the way I want it." Farkle smiled back proudly.
"It's like he put Fart and Sparkle together to make Farkle." Riley added in a dreamy voice, making them all, including Farkle, chuckle.
"I can assure you that I don't fart sparkles." The genius chuckled.
"Maybe there's a spell for it." Lucas suggested, giving them ideas of he fun they could look forward to in the future.
"After what I've seen of my uncle Kol in the dreams, it wouldn't surprise me if it was what he meant with this name." Hope/ Maya told them with a smile.
The four friends spent the rest of the night going through the books and taking notes on possible ideas of cures. A few times, Hope tried spells that should have allowed her to see her father but none of them worked, probably because of the powerful magical blade in his chest. Of course she wanted to see her mother as well but she already felt closer to her father. In the dreams she had had, she had always marveled at the relationship the powerful hybrid had with his daughter and now that she knew who she was, she wanted to feel it.
She knew that it wasn't right for her to love her father more than her mother, maybe things would change later, once she met them, but at the moment she just wanted her father. To hear him tell her that he loved her with a love that had no limits, that nothing was too hard to get when it was for her. She wanted to hear him calling her his Littlest wolf like he did in her dreams. She wanted to look him in the eyes and see herself in them.
She loved her mother too of course but she couldn't help but think about all the things her mother had done against her father. She saw in her dreams that her mother tried to poison her before she was even born and that she had tried several times to get her away from her father. She was a bit angry at her for this.
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The next morning, Farkle and Lucas went home , leaving the books in Hope's room for later. Topanga arrived a few minutes later with a rented moving truck and a couple of strong men she introduced as werewolves willing to help and that Maya remembered having seen before in the building she lived in. Riley decided to go with them, she wanted to be there for her best friend, through and through.
"Don't be nervous Maya, everything will be fine." Topanga reassured her softly.
"Actually, I decided that I want to be called Hope again. It's the name my father chose for me and it's the one I should use. I mean, in public I should still be called Maya, not to confuse people or draw attention but... Yeah, I'm Hope Mickealson and I'm proud of it." Hope declared.
"Well, Hope, I'm proud of you for this decision and I'm sure your entire family will be as well." Topanga told her with a smile.
"Thank you. You're right though, I'm nervous. I'm half expecting the coffins to be missing or something."
"They can't be. Stuart and I placed a strong protection spell on the unit a long time ago, when Katy told us where it was in case something happened to her. We check on it every month when we go pay the bill and so far nobody entered it." Topanga replied.
"Thank you, really, for everything." Hope told her best friend's mother.
"Anytime Hope."
"I... Do you do all of this because you're just that nice or because of this prophecised new order I'm supposed to bring?" Hope asked her.
"Both. You're my daughter's best friend, an innocent child that has been torn away from her family for way too long and that makes me want to help you. Since the lawyer in me can't do much, the witch will. As for the prophecy, don't let it bother you too much. It will happen naturally. Forcing events is often the wrong course of actions and the best way to mess things up. Live your life the way you want to live it and the New order will happen on its own." Topanga replied.
"Thanks. I kept thinking about it since yesterday and I was afraid I'd end up disappointing everyone."
"You won't. As long as you stay yourself, everything will be fine." The older witch replied kindly before concentrating back on the traffic and on getting to the storage unit they needed to find.
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They finally arrived in front of the right storage unit and Topanga let Maya open it with the key she had found in the box. It obviously hadn't been opened in a while and the four coffins inside the room were covered in dust.
"Which one you want us to take first?" One of the werewolves asked Hope.
"Wait, I want to dust them off first. We can't transport then this way." Hope shook her head and Riley immediately went to help her.
Once they were done, Hope decided to open them, one by one.
"They look so peaceful..." Riley commented by her side.
"They're not suffering anymore. My father is the only one who's really in pain with that cursed blade in his chest. Them... They're fine. Aunt Freya probably conjured a nice place for them to wait to be awaken." Hope replied.
"Soon." Riley told her and, with a smile, Hope closed the coffins and let the werewolves carry them to the truck.
"Yes, soon." She nodded with a smile.
"Your uncle Kol's cute." Riley commented when the werewolves carried his coffin.
"More than Lucas?" Hope asked her with a smile.
"I think so, yes." She nodded with a blush.
"Well, I'll be sure to let them both know." Hope teased her.
"Please don't." Riley started to panic.
"Don't worry, I was kidding." Hope nodded.
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When they arrived at the apartment, Maya asked them to place the coffins in the living room.
She had asked Katy when she finally came back from work the night before and the woman who had raised her told her that she could place them anywhere she wanted, that this was her home more than hers and that she'd do anything she could to help her reunite with her family. Already she had started moving her belongings to one of the free apartments in the building to give the Mickealson's more space and privacy.
"So, what now?" Riley asked her best friend while Topanga looked at the notes they had taken the night before.
"Help me open them all. It seems wrong to leave them closed up." Hope declared and Riley nodded before she helped her open the four coffins.
"Farkle and Lucas will be back in about an hour with everything we'll need to talk to them." Riley informed them after she looked at the text she received on her phone.
"Good. Misses Matthews, do you think it'll work if we all go in?" Hope asked her.
"I do. You've all done your researches well. It should work. I don't even think you'll need my help with this, I'll go. I have to meet a man from one of the werewolf bloodlines to collect some venom. Call me if you need anything, don't light a candle close to the curtains and don't be nervous Hope. Everything will be fine and they'll be happy to see you." Topanga told them before she hugged them both and left.
"Are you sure you want us to go with you though? I mean, I want to meet them but maybe for the first time you should go alone..." Riley asked her.
"No, I want you all there. I don't think I'll be able to do it if I'm alone. I'm too nervous. Please come with me." Hope pleaded.
"Of course. You want me there, I'm here. Always." Riley nodded happily.
Both girls sat down with grimoirs on poisons and curses and read until their friends arrived. Once they did, they settled everything, linked themselves together and Hope recited the spell that would send her into her family's joined minds.
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Hope, Riley, Farkle and Lucas opened their eyes in a large and beautiful garden, in front of a just as beautiful house. Before they could say anything, they were surrounded by Elijah, Kol, Rebekah and Freya.
"I can't believe it worked." Lucas stated.
"Of course it worked. I'm a genius and I said it would work, so it did." Farkle replied while Hope nervously took Riley's hand for silent support.
"I'm sorry but, who are you and how are you here?" Elijah asked them, stepping forward.
"Go on Peaches." Riley encouraged her best friend.
"I... Hi. My name is Hope. I'm your niece."
"Hope? Oh my... You look so much older!" Elijah replied.
"You're so beautiful Hope!" Rebekah exclaimed before she went to hug her niece, followed by the rest of her siblings.
"I'm 13 now. These are my best friends. This is Riley Matthews, a witch and the best friend I could have ever asked for. Farkle Minkus, a witch as well. And this is Lucas Friar, a werewolf but you can call him Huckleberry." she finished with a mocking smile.
"No they can't. It's Lucas." He frowned.
"You let her call you Huckleberry." Farkle mentioned.
"Only because she scares me. Slightly." Lucas replied with a smile.
Kol and Rebekah smiled, amused by the group's complicity.
"Nice to meet you but... Why didn't your mother come with you?" Elijah asked her.
"I... I don't know where she is. I barely remember her. I was raised by a childhood friend of hers named Katy Hart, to protect me she renamed me Maya Penelope Hart and I only just found out who I really am. I mean, I know all of your stories because I saw them in my dreams every night but I didn't know that I was Hope Mickealson until yesterday." Hope explained quickly.
"Hayley left you?" Freya asked, surprised.
"Apparently someone was on her trail and she left me with someone she trusted to keep me safe. I don't know what happened after that but we did a location spell last night and found out that she's in New Orleans. Alive for now." Hope informed them.
"Marcel has her?" Elijah asked, obviously worried, as Kol invited them all to sit down around a garden table and Hope took a few seconds to notice that their surroundings were beautiful.
Later, she'd try to draw them as close to memory as she could.
"We think so, otherwise she would have tried to at least contact Katy." Riley replied while Hope looked down.
"Hey, it's not your fault darling. We're happy to see you, and not only because it's a nice change from the usual monotony of our days here." Kol told Hope when he saw her starting to look down.
"I'm happy to meet you all too... I... We have an idea on how to cure you two uncle Elijah, uncle Kol. We have Aunt Freya's notes and they were completed with my mother's. We'll try it as soon as we have venom from the 7 bloodlines of werewolves." Hope explained.
"We trust you Hope." Elijah told her with a smile, trying to hide his worry for the woman he loved.
"What I want to know is which one of you fine gentlemen is dating our Hope?" Kol asked, making everyone turn their head toward Farkle and Lucas.
"I'm not dating anyone. I'm too young, I... I don't feel that way for anyone yet." Hope replied before the boys could say anything.
"But she'll marry me later. I'll marry both her and Riley because I love them both and can't decide." Farkle informed them, making the Mickealson's smile.
"But she like my uncle Josh a lot. I know it sounds like he's old but he's only a few years older than us. He's in High school and she calls him my uncle Boing." Riley stated with a teasing smile.
"It's just a crush." Hope waved it off with a deep blush.
"Say, Farkle, are you related to the Minkus family that used to live in Philadelphia?" Kol asked.
"Yes, I am. I was quite excited to meet you, I know that you taught them a lot and that I inherited my name from the one of my ancestors that you named." Farkle nodded.
"I'm glad to see that this family line went on but I'm asking because I remember giving some grimoirs to your family. Rare grimoirs. One of them could help you find a cure for Freya's poison and Rebekah's curse. If I remember right, it was the oldest I gave them." Kol told Farkle.
"I figured. Lucas helped me carry some of the oldest grimoirs my family had to Maya's... I mean to Hope's place." The genius replied.
"So far we focused mainly on the cure for Marcel's bite since we already had an idea about it and we figured that having you two to help heal Freya and Rebekah would be best." Riley added.
"They also had to help me understand how magic worked. Apparently I'm a natural at it." Hope informed them.
"Of course you are." Freya smiled.
"I'm not surprised." Kol added.
"She's also a great artist. I gather she gets it from her father." Riley informed them.
"I can't wait to see your work then." Rebekah told her niece who blushed and looked down.
"So, how long do we have you for?" Kol asked.
"A couple more hours I think." Farkle replied.
"You think? You're never wrong Farkle." Lucas chuckled.
"True, I am a genius after all." The boy smiled.
"So, tell us more about your life, Hope. We want to know everything." Elijah asked her and so the youngest Mickealson launched herself in the tale of her life.
She insisted on her friendship with Riley, wanting them to understand that her friends came with her and were important to her. She told them of what she heard about that new order and the prophecy that said she'd bring a new peace in the supernatural world, she told them that it made her nervous to think about it and told them that she couldn't wait to be reunited with her family. She also didn't hide the life she had, she knew they'd find out eventually so she told them the truth. She insisted that she knew Katy did her best on her own and that Kermit, the man she initially thought was her father, even though he left, never gave her away to her father's enemies.
As they talked, she realized that her birthday wasn't the one she thought. The one she had been celebrating so far was the date Hayley had dropped her off at Katy's place. Her real birthday was actually a few months later.
"Yay! I'm older than you now!" Riley exclaimed.
"I'm still older than you three." Lucas joked.
"That's because you redid your year, Huckleberry." Hope teased him.
"And sadly I'm still the youngest." Farkle replied.
"There's something else that's been bothering me since yesterday. I mean, not really bothering me but I thought about it and couldn't find a reason behind it... I... A couple of years ago, a bracelet I had had all my life broke and ever since my dreams of this, my family, have been stronger and came more often. Riley's mom told me that you enchanted it for me Uncle Kol, to hide my magic. It just broke on its own, without any obvious reasons. Of course she took over to protect me but I wondered... How could it break? Was it because my magic was too strong or something else?" Hope asked her.
She only looked at her Uncle Kol but she meant the question for everyone.
"It should have protected you still, even as your powers grew. The only one who could have taken it off or broken it should have been a witch from our bloodline." Kol replied with a frown on his face.
"But you're all in coffins and her parents are trapped in New Orleans!" Riley exclaimed.
"Could there be another witch in our family? One that we don't know about?" Rebekah wondered.
"Maybe our dear aunt Dahlia had a child after all." Elijah shrugged his shoulders.
"No, she couldn't have children. It was the price to pay for her power and she was still a virgin when I joined her." Freya shook her head.
"Could they reach Hope from wherever they are now? This Dahlia and your mother?" Riley asked her best friend's aunts and uncles.
"Maybe, I mean, anything is possible." Freya nodded.
"I thought they were peaceful now that they were united." Kol stated.
"If they could reach from wherever they ended up since the other side was destroyed, maybe Finn could too. It could be any of them." Elijah replied.
"Or all of them." Hope added and when they all turned to look at her, she added:
"The power in number, right? Maybe they could reach through because they united. But even then, there's still a question to ask. Did they do it to help me know everything sooner to reunite the family faster or are they planning something to hurt me, or us all?" Hope finished.
"No, I don't think they're trying to hurt you. If it's really them, I believe they're on our side. Finn wouldn't go against us now, not after everything. When he died he was finally with us, we were finally a united family." Freya shook her head.
"Isn't there a way for us to find out? I mean like a spell to call the dead or something?" Lucas asked.
"Well, it was much easier when the other side still existed but it can be done." Kol nodded.
"Then we'll do it and figure out if it was them and why they did it. I mean, if they did it to help us, maybe they know how to cure aunt Freya and how to take the curse away from aunt Rebekah." Hope replied.
"Good idea Honey. I'll show you what to do." Freya nodded.
"Better show Farkle, he has a better memory. His memory is flawless. I'm afraid I'd forget a detail and Farkle is a real genius, he remembers things after seeing them or hearing them once." Hope argued and her aunt nodded before she took Farkle aside and showed him what to do for it to work.
While her aunt Freya was speaking with Farkle about this spell, Hope decided to ask her uncle and Rebekah a question that she couldn't stop thinking about:
"Do you think there's a way for me to speak with my father? Before we rescue him I mean." She had asked in a small voice that showed her vulnerability and it broke her family's heart to have to reply that no, there was no way to contact him before he was freed from Marcel and the blade.
"Don't worry Peaches, I know your father will be with you soon." Riley told her best friend.
"I hope so but right now it just seems like it's going to be a while... It seems so distant..." Hope replied in a small voice.
"Well, if you join me in Riley-town, you'll see that your reunion with your father is very close." Riley insisted with a smile, making her friend smile back at her.
"Riley Town?" Elijah asked the boys.
"It's the place where Riley sometimes goes in her head where everything is pretty, everyone is nice and life is beautiful. It's her own little world." Farkle replied.
"It's what makes Riley special and the fact that Maya, I mean, Hope plays along is what makes her special. They're always there for each other, even when the rest of the world is against them." Lucas added while Farkle nodded.
In the end, Hope enjoyed this moment with her aunts and uncle. She could see of course that Elijah was worried for her mother, and since he was in love with her, she understood it but she was still happy to have been able to spend some time with them. She promised to visit them again once the cure for Elijah and Kol was ready and right after she had talked with her grandmother, her dead uncle and her dead great aunt.
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After the four friends vanished, Kol's face became serious again and he looked at his siblings:
"She's just a kid. She's 13 for God's sake! We should have told her to wait. Klaus wouldn't want her to take on this battle on her own."
"I agree but she seems determined and about as stubborn as her father." Elijah replied.
"She's not alone and I have a feeling that she's made of strong stuff. She's a warrior. I know that she'll be fine, though I still worry." Rebekah added.
"Farkle told me what they wanted to do, to cure the two of you. It's a good idea, it should work. They should be able to do it soon and then she won't be alone, she'll have the two of you to help her, on top of all the other allies this Katy has assembled around her." Freya added.
"I've got to say though, she's fun and I like her friends. They're loyal to her and fun." Kol nodded.
"She'll be fine, I know it. We don't need to worry about her." Freya decided.
"Am I the only one who noticed that when she speaks of rescuing her parents, she only mentions Klaus? She seems angry at her mother for some reason." Elijah asked them.
"I didn't really pay attention but now that you mention it..." Rebekah nodded.
"We can ask her about it the next time she drops by. It's nice to have her bring a little change in this place." Kol told them.
"I think she'll be back sooner than we think. She liked being here with us." Freya told them.
Hi there!
I'd like to take a minute to answer a question a lot of you asked in the reviews for the previous chapter. COUPLES. Well, it won't be a priority just yet, I'm sure you can understand that reuniting the Mickealson and everyone getting along is the most important here. In Girl meets world, I want Riley to end up with Lucas but here, I have someone new reserved for her, later (much later). Can you guess who? It's not Farkle. Hope/Maya might end up with Lucas but I'm not sure... Maybe she'll be with Josh. I guess we'll see how it writes itself...
Anyway THANK YOU for the love you gave the first chapter, I hope you'll like this one just as much, if not more.
Yes, there will be some issues between Maya/Hope and Hayley. Hope saw things in her dreams that made her a bit angry at her mother.
Review please?
Lorelei Candice Black
