Chapter 23- It's Old Magic
Lizzie woke up a couple of hours after they had arrived back at the school. "Hope!" She shouted as she woke up, completely startled by her surroundings.
"Hope's injured, but she's okay… She's in the infirmary. Mom and Dad are looking after her. You need to rest." Josie replied as she sat down on the bed next to her sister.
"I need to see her." Lizzie stated as she rolled off the bed and landed on the floor with a thud. "Ugh, fuck." She groaned as she pushed herself up, rubbing her head.
"See? You need to rest; you can even stand up." Josie laughed as she watched her sister groan on the floor.
"Ugh… fine… Are you going to help me up or are you just going to keep laughing at me?" Lizzie huffed.
"Okay, here." Josie smiled as she held her hand out for her twin and helped her up from the floor. "Since you're stuck here for a little while, do you want to watch a movie or something?"
"Sure… I'm in the mood to watch Lord of The Rings." Lizzie laughed to herself. Josie just rolled her eyes but got up from the bed, walked over to the TV and started the DVD.
"I'm going to go and quickly make some popcorn and get us some drinks. I won't be long." Josie smiled as she headed out the door and down the hall. She stopped by the infirmary on her way to the kitchen. "Hey, so… Lizzie's awake and she's asking about Hope… What should I tell her?" Josie asked as she greeted her parents who were huddled over Hope who was still in her wolf form.
"Hey Josie… There isn't much to tell her. She's still not awake but she's healing. We gave her some of her blood, but she hasn't returned to her human form yet. We're not sure what is happening." Caroline replied. "Tell Lizzie she can visit her in a few hours, if she's up for it."
"Oh, she's up for it… She fell out of the bed trying to get here, but I cast a spell to trip her up and make her stay in bed longer. I wanted to talk to you both first before I let Lizzie lose down here." Josie smiled.
"Josie! It's not nice to cast spells on your sister." Alaric stated as he looked disappointingly at his daughter.
"I know but do you really want Lizzie on a rampage down here when you don't know what is happening yet?" Josie replied.
"I guess you're right." Alaric replied. Josie said goodbye to both her parents and headed for the kitchen. She grabbed the popcorn from the cupboard and 2 cans of pop then headed back up to her room. When she entered the room, she saw that her sister was curled up, fast asleep. Josie smiled as she walked over to her own bed, sat down and started watching the rest of the film. Every so often she would look over at her twin and watch her toss and turn against the mattress, occasionally muttering in her sleep.
Lizzie had come too after getting knocked out by Hope, she quickly got changed out of her dirty clothes and into a nice, patterned shirt and a pair of knee-length shorts along with some white trainers. After she was finished getting dressed, she made her way down the infirmary to visit Hope. When she walked in Hope was curled up on the bed.
"Hey, my love… how are you?" Lizzie asked as she approached the tribrid who was only dressed in a pair of shorts and a tank top but had a blanket draped over her legs as she pushed herself up to a seated position.
"I'm doing better now that you're here. How are you?" Hope smiled as she held out her hand for the younger girl to take.
"I'm good, I'm a little sore. I guess that what happens when a wolf kicks you in the head." Lizzie laughed.
"I'm sorry, but I was trying to save your life… If you haven't forgotten, someone had a knife to your throat and was planning to kill you." Hope replied as the taller girl sat down next to her. "I'll kiss it better for you." Lizzie bowed her head slightly as she let the older girl place a small kiss on her forehead. "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too." Lizzie smiled. "Shall we break you out of here? I think you've been held captive long enough."
"Oh God yes." Hope grinned as she pushed herself off the small bed, her feet landing on the floor caused her to wince slightly. "Ugh shit." She groaned and lifted her shirt up to find what was causing the pain. She looked down and saw a 5inch scar just under her ribcage, she traced her fingers along it as she recalled the memory of how she got it.
"Shit, Hope… I didn't realise it was that bad." Lizzie frowned as she moved closer to her shorter girl. Her fingers danced across Hope's scar. "Is it painful?"
"Not really… I've had worse. I just need time to heal." Hope replied as she pushed her top back down and retook hold of her taller girl's hand. "Let's get out of here."
"Where do you want to go?" Lizzie asked.
"Anywhere quiet so we can be alone." Hope smiled as she ran her thumb across the back of the younger girl's hand.
"Well, It's sunny outside, so maybe the lake or the Old Mill?"
"The lake." Hope hummed as thoughts of their previous times spent there came flooding back to her. "As long as you don't push me off the dock again." She laughed.
"I can't make any promises." Lizzie grinned in response. The two girls took their time walking down to the lake, they wanted to savour every second they spent together. They arrived at the lake after about 20 minutes of walking, they didn't need to talk because their silence spoke volumes. Hope sat down on the edge of the dock, she took off her shoes and socks and let her feet dangle at the water. Lizzie lingered above her for a few seconds before she decided to slide herself in behind the tribrid. She let the Hope's back rest against her chest and her head fell into the blonde's shoulder. Lizzie placed a kissed on the other girl's temple as her fingers danced across her thighs. Hope moaned slightly at the touch, she felt starved from not having her girlfriend's hands on her body for almost two days. "Did you miss that?" Lizzie smirked.
"Just a bit." Hope smiled as she opened her eyes and looked across the sun-kissed water.
"Do you want me to stop?" Lizzie asked as she shifted her head so she could lay a few kisses on the tribrid's neck.
"No… never." Hope moaned as she moved her hands from her torso to the younger girl's legs, dragging her nails across bare skin as she felt Lizzie's teeth graze her neck. "Fuck… you know how to turn a girl on."
"I learned from the best." Lizzie muttered as she shifted her hands from Hope's thighs up to her stomach, her fingers lingered over the drawstring on the older girl's shorts.
She tugged on the string, and it unknotted, she slipped her left hand into Hope's shorts and ran her fingers along the folds as her right hand ran up her torso and captured a breast, her fingers pinching at the nipple. Hope's moans were intoxicating.
It wasn't very often that the tribrid let Lizzie have control but today… today she needed it, she wanted it. Hope arched he back and bit her bottom lip as she felt Lizzie's fingers touched her clit, it was like a shock of electricity that coursed through her body.
Hope hummed as the other girl started moving her fingers in circles, pushing over the bundle of nerves down to her entrance and back up again, dragging her nails. As her fingers dipped down, she lightly pushed her index finger inside the hole, getting it wet before she pulled it back out again. She did this a couple more times, each time her finger getting deeper and deeper until she couldn't push it in any further, that was when she added her second finger and repeated the same process.
Lizzie could feel Hope's chest heaving against the hand, she could feel the small moans escaping from her lips. With every thrust, Lizzie bit down slightly on her girlfriend's neck, never hard enough to break skin, but enough for the other girl's moans to get louder. When she could feel Hope getting close to climax, Lizzie withdrew her hand. She shuffled from her position behind Hope. "Why did you stop?" Hope whined.
"Move up the dock." Lizzie grinned as Hope did just that. Hope pushed herself back up the dock and away from the water as Lizzie positioned herself between the shorter girl's thighs. She grabbed hold of Hope's shorts and pulled them off in one quick movement. Her eyes lingered on her prize for a short while before she looked up and saw the golden eyes staring back at her, daring her. The blonde breathed in the intoxicating scent before she dropped her head let her tongue dance across the folds where her fingers had just been. She let her tongue flick across the other girl's bundle of nerves as she pushed the two fingers back inside the hole. Her right hand travelled up Hope's body passed her breasts and rested on the girl's throat.
Hope's right hand grabbed hold of Lizzie's hair as her left hand met the one at her throat. The faster Lizzie thrust into Hope's body, the harder she grabbed the blonde's hair, digging nails into the scalp, pushing her face deeper into her pussy. "Fuck… Lizzie… I'm… close… Fuck…" Hope huffed. Soon enough Hope's body bucked, she convulsed as waves of ecstasy filled her body. Lizzie's tongue filled with juices as she lapped up everything that came out. After she let Hope finish, she removed her face from between her legs and started leaving a trail of kisses up the girl's torso until their lips met. "I forgot how good I taste." Hope laughed.
"I forgot how good you taste as well." Lizzie grinned as she pressed her face back into Hope's neck and let her body sink down. "I love you." She muttered.
"What?" hope asked, knowing full well what Lizzie had said.
"Ugh…" Lizzie replied as she pushed her body up from Hope's. "I said… I love you."
"I know you do." Hope smirked as she grabbed hold of Lizzie's throat and flipped her over. "I love you too, Elizabeth… Jenna… Saltzman." She said in-between long, lingering kisses. "But we should probably head back inside before your parents send out a search party for us."
"Ugh… I wish we didn't have to leave." Lizzie frowned as she felt Hope's lips leave hers for the last time. Hope stood up and she held her hand out for the other girl to take, as she helped Lizzie up, her wound opened, and she collapsed into the taller girl's arms. "Hope… Hope… HOPE!" Lizzie called but Hope didn't respond. Lizzie laid her on the ground and tried to put as much pressure on the open wound as possible and started calling out for help.
"HOPE!" Lizzie woke up startled from her dream, she didn't even stop to put on any shoes as she ran out the bedroom.
"Lizzie!" Josie shouted as she chased after her sister.
When Lizzie arrived at the infirmary, she was shocked to see that Hope was lying on the table in her wolf form with her parents frantically trying their best to stop the bleeding coming from Hope's wound. "What is happening?!" Lizzie questioned as she ran over to her girlfriend.
"We're not sure… She was fine not that long ago but then her wound opened up out of nowhere and we can't get it to stop bleeding." Caroline replied.
"Hope Mikaelson, I swear to God if you die… I will kill you myself." Lizzie threatened, her words caused Hope to whimper slightly. In normal circumstances that sentence wouldn't make sense, how could you kill someone who was already dead? But in this circumstance, if Hope died… she could become a full tribrid, which in all fairness, no one present wanted to be witness to it. Lizzie stood over her girlfriend, stroking her snout.
"That is the weirdest thing I have ever seen…" Josie looked half shocked, and half amused as she stood in the doorway to the infirmary watching her sister and her parents gathered around the injured wolf. "It's just a bit strange to watch someone stroke a wolf's nose."
"What are you doing here?" Lizzie hissed, turning her face towards her sister.
"Well, you practically flew out of the bedroom, if we weren't witches, I would have suspected that you were one." Josie laughed. "I just wanted to make sure that you were okay… How is she doing?"
"Well, she's bleeding, and we can't get it to stop." Caroline replied. "We've tried giving her her own blood, but it doesn't seem to be helping."
"Could it be because she's still in her wolf form? Has she even turned back since we got her here?" Josie asked.
"Possibly… What happened in the Prison World? What caused her to turn might have something to do with why she can't turn back…" Alaric replied.
"Nothing caused her to turn. She wanted to. It was a full moon, she said she was feeling itchy, and she said she could sense Lizzie better in wolf form… We walked for a while before we found Lizzie, she charged into the cabin… I went in afterwards and found Lizzie and Jade tied up… Hope fought two men then ran outside… I didn't see what happened after that. Penelope might know." Josie replied.
"Great! Do you know where she is?" Alaric asked.
"Last time I saw her, I left her at the Old Mill when we brought Lizzie and Hope in… I haven't seen her since." Josie replied.
"I'm here…" Penelope smiled weakly as she brushed the last of her tears off her face.
"How do you keep doing that?!" Josie replied, startled by the sudden arrival of her girlfriend, who, once again, seamlessly appeared out of nowhere.
"It's part of my devilish charm." Penelope smirked as she reached her hand towards Josie- who recoiled slightly without being fully aware that it happened. Penelope's hand dropped to her side and stiffened her body. "Wendy and Hope fought… Wendy stabbed her with a machete that she got from her husband. I don't think it was anything special, it just looked like an ordinary knife."
"Nothing about this situation is normal… That knife might be the reason why Hope is still stuck like this." Caroline replied.
"So, what do you want me to do?" Penelope asked, but she already knew the answer and judging by the look on Caroline's face, she knew as well. "I will need someone to come with me… as an anchor. If I go alone, I will be stuck there."
"Okay… Josie will go with you." Caroline replied.
"Fine." Josie replied before she turned and headed out the
door with Penelope.
"I don't understand what happened…" Penelope stated as she kicked the leaves on the ground. "I don't understand how not twelve hours ago you said that you would stick by me through becoming Coven leader, whatever happened. And now… Now you've barely said more than five words to me since we got back… I just don't understand."
"I do stick by you and I will stick by you… It's just… I thought Hope would've woken up by now and… this whole situation is a mess. I think once Hope wakes up and things go back to normal…" Josie trailed off, unsure of what she wanted to say next. She knew she loved Penelope but this situation… this very bad and messy situation were making things harder, and her mind was racing.
Penelope knew better than to try and push the issue with Josie, so she nodded and walked in silence for a while until they reached the cabin. As they approached, the smell of decaying flesh and rotting blood filled their noses. "Ugh, that fucking stinks." Penelope choked as she tried to breathe through her mouth.
"How can it decay that quickly? They look and smell like they've been dead for about a week… This isn't normal." Josie replied as her hand quickly covered her mouth and nose as they walked closer to the bodies. Josie grimaced as she reached out for the machete that was still stuck in Tobias' hand. As her fingers wrapped around the handle, she could feel her palm start to burn and blister, she quickly dropped the machete on the floor. "Fuck me, that burnt my hand."
"Let me have a look." Penelope stated as she held out her own hand. Josie did what she was told and placed her hand on top of her girlfriend's. "This looks familiar… the blister pattern is in the shape of a crescent moon. It will heal in a day or so. But it's best if you don't pick up the knife again. It's been charmed with some old magic… Magic that I have only read about when I was doing my studies for the coven. From what I can remember… the spell would be placed on an object that would be used in battle… Like a sword or an axe, something like that… the spell, it meant that anything that wasn't of natural making… basically anything that wasn't human, would perish a death so great that even their families would suffer. Kinda like the stake that could kill the original vampires and their entire sire line. Except with Vampires, it would cause their bodies to decay to such a state that only the blood from the person who cast the spell in the first place would be able to revive them."
"So… what you're basically saying is that Hope is fucked and she's going to die?" Josie replied.
"Not necessarily… But we do need to get back home as soon as possible and I will need to get the elders of my coven to come to the school… They should be able to help." Penelope replied as she took off her jacket and wrapped the machete inside it. "Come on, we need to get back." Penelope stated as she walked into the cabin, stood in the same place she did not that long ago and transported herself and Josie back to their world.
