The Family Tree

By: Nikasilva

Disclaimer: I do not own the show or its characters.

A/N: Hope you enjoy. Please review.


Hope stood in front of an empty room. It had been stripped down, seemingly wiping away the existence of who the two half breeds who stayed there. She felt her mind spin trying to make sense of how it happened. More importantly she felt broken.

"Hope" Jasper called out in a harsh tone. He changed when they left, it was as if they took a part of him with them.

"Jase, tell me this is a joke. They're coming, back right?" asked Hope.

"Coryna and Wyatt made their choice, now they are going to live with it and so will we. Now get away from the room, the last thing we need is a reminder of their betrayal." Jasper spoke as he forced the door shut.

Hope could for the life of her understand, how they had gotten to that point. Everything finally started to feel a little normal then, Coryna and Jasper started to step on each other's toes. Unnoticed to the Original, Coryna started to use magic on Jasper to keep him in line, which create tension between them. The entire family felt the drift, but no one could get it would go that far. Hope had woken up in the middle of the night and overheard Coryna, Jasper, and Wyatt were arguing, it got so bad Coryna and Jasper got physical with each other. That was what changed everything, those two never laid a hand on each other before and the fact that they did meant there was no coming back from it. Two days later Coryna and Wyatt packed up their things and left without a single word to the rest of them.


Cami was startled when she heard a knock at her door. Her mind was still ringing with the conclusion she had come to about Coryna and Jasper. She didn't have the slightest clue on how she was going to go about confronting them about or more over tell Klaus and Elijah her findings. When Cami opened the door, she was shocked to see red-eyed Hope standing in her doorway and felt her heart drop seeing her that way. Cami's therapeutic instincts kicked in and she guided Hope to a couch in her living room.

After sitting next to her, Cami asked "Can I get you anything?"

Hope just shook her head "I'm sorry, I just didn't know who else to go to. My adopted family has been so tense lately and my birth family, just wouldn't understand.

"Okay, take you time" Cami said comforting "when you're ready to talk, I'm here to listen."

Slowly Hope explained everything that happened within the past few weeks. She finished off by asking Cami a single question "is this my fault?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, if I never convinced them to move here, this never would have happened. Ever since we got here it has been one fight after another and to top it all off one side of my family hates the other."

"Hope… you can't do that to yourself. That is a lot of weight to put on your shoulders. Wanting to know where you come from is a normal desire, nothing you should ever be ashamed of. Family had a weird way of bringing out the best and the worst out of people" Cami paused for a moment "Can I tell you something?"

"Okay?" Hope answered question.

"I had a twin brother named Sean, he was studying to become a priest like my uncle. One day he suddenly went mad and slaughter innocent members of the church and even took his own life. It wasn't until much later that I learned, the reason behind why he went mad was because he was cursed by an elder witch who was angry with my uncle."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because you mentioned how unreal this all way, the same mentality I had when I was trying to figure out the truth behind what my brother had done. Perhaps there is more to the story that you are not aware of, another side to the story. The main thing is, this is not on you and maybe this needed to happened to make other things fall into place."

"Like what? getting Coryna and Jasper to come clean about who their fathers are." Hope spat out, but as soon as she had realized what she had said, Hope quickly place a hand over her mouth.

"So, it's true? Jasper is your older brother and Coryna is Elijah's daughter."

"You knew?"

"Just recently figured it out. Now the big question is how we are going to tell every –"

"Stop!"

"What?"

"We can't tell them. If we could, trust me I would have done it by now. It is the one rule that never changed since we came here. By telling them it could put my adoptive family in danger, and who knows what vampires would do if they learned that they could have children. At least for now it has to stay secret." Hope explained.

"Okay, I get it. Just back to the reason you came here, don't give up…I'm sorry there is literally no other word I can think of right now" Cami chuckled "just don't give up hope, I don't think it that cut and dry."