Chapter 25- All's Well that Ends Well.
Hope knocked on the door to Alaric's office with her right hand because she had carried two takeaway cups of coffee and some cakes in her left. Caroline answered the door. Josie was already sat inside talking with her dad. "Morning Hope." Caroline smiled.
"Morning Caroline, Alaric… Josie, how are you?" Hope replied as she spotted the twin sitting on the edge of a chair in the corner of the room.
"I'm doing better, thanks for asking." Josie nodded in response. "Where's Lizzie? I thought she would have been with you."
"She was putting her face on when I left… I needed some food… and coffee." Hope replied as she walked across the room, placed her items on the table and sat down at one end of the sofa.
"Worked up an appetite this morning I take it?" Alaric asked, seemingly unaware of this morning's antics between Hope and Lizzie. Caroline smirked quietly to herself, but it wasn't quiet enough because Hope heard and looked at the older Vampire before she blushed and turned away from only a slight embarrassment.
"What are we talking about?" Lizzie asked as she swanned in through the door to the office.
"Hope being hungry." Josie chuckled.
"Ah yes… Hope is always hungry." Lizzie smiled as she sat down next to her partner on the sofa. "Ooo, what did you get me?" She asked as she leaned forwards to pick up one of the coffee cups from the table and a small chocolate muffin.
"That's not a very healthy breakfast Elizabeth." Alaric frowned.
"Eh, shoot me." Lizzie replied.
Alaric's mouth dropped open in a slight shock, he shook his head as though he was trying to erase the memory of the past few minutes from his head. "Moving on… Hope, how are you feeling? How is your wound healing?"
"I'm okay, glad that the events of the past few days are behind us. And I'm healing okay, I get twinges every so often but it's manageable." Hope replied.
"Good, I'm glad you're healing… Lizzie, how are you? Any nightmares?"
"I'm good and no nightmares." Lizzie replied.
"Good… Good… That's good." Alaric repeated, there was a beat of silence before he continued. "So, Caroline and I thought it would be good to do a de-brief to make sure that you are all okay, given the events of the past couple of days. So… Is there anything anyone wants to talk about?"
There was a small concert of "No" that filled the room. Alaric looked disappointingly at the girls and shook his head. "You know these types of things don't happen all that often, so you girls need to start relying on each other if you don't want to talk to me or Caroline."
"We do talk to each other." Hope replied. "And these things do happen quite a lot, we go to a school for the supernatural… things like this happen, and will continue to, sadly."
"Yeah, we do… Hope and I actually talked through some things last night. She helped me to understand things." Josie smiled towards Hope.
"You guys talked last night? Where was I?" Lizzie replied, slightly shocked as she only just heard the news.
"You were asleep, and I didn't want to wake you up." Hope smiled as she took Lizzie's hand in her own and gave it a small squeeze.
"You could have at least told me." Lizzie laughed.
"It wasn't my story to tell. But you should find time to talk and listen to Josie." Hope replied.
"Okay, so if you girls aren't going to talk to us… I guess you can go." Alaric stated. The three teens stood up and left the office, they all headed off to their classes for the day.
The evening light was starting to set in when Lizzie knocked on Josie's door, after a couple of seconds Josie still hadn't answered so she twisted the door handle and pushed the door open. Josie was curled up in a ball on her bed, sobbing quietly, unaware that her sister was stood in the doorway. Lizzie sighed deeply as she made her way over to the bed and joined the other girl. Lizzie didn't say anything as she slipped in beside Josie. Josie's eyes fluttered open momentary as she felt a weight against the mattress, before she closed her eyes again and rolled into her sister's arms. Lizzie picked up a book that was on Josie's nightstand and they laid like this for a couple of hours, neither of them speaking until Josie couldn't cry any more.
"Hey." Josie croaked as she finally opened her eyes.
"Hey." Lizzie replied.
"How long have you been here?" Josie asked as she tried to dry her tear-stained face.
"A couple of hours, at least." Lizzie replied. "This is a weird book by the way." Lizzie gestured to the book in her hand.
"Which one is it?" Josie asked, she tried to get her eyes to focus but she couldn't.
"It's called… Evermore? It's kinda freaky that it has so many similarities to Elena's life? Do you think she secretly wrote it but changed some of the details?" Lizzie laughed as she closed the book and placed it back where she got it.
"Yeah, kinda, I guess. To be honest I haven't really thought about it, it's just a book that I keep nearby in case I feel like reading." Josie shrugged, pushing herself into a seated position, she crossed her legs as she turned to face her sister.
"Seriously? The man's name is called Damen…" Lizzie replied.
"Okay, yes… It's kinda strange, but it's just a book, it doesn't have mean anything." Josie smiled.
"Okay, fine." Lizzie nodded.
"What are you doing here anyways?" Josie asked.
"I just wanted to check in on you… Haven't really spoken to you since Hope got healed and Hope told me to come and see you… to listen to you, so that's what I'm doing, I'm here for you with whatever it is."
"Penelope left. I told her that I loved her and that I would stand by her no matter what… but then she left, and I didn't give her a chance to explain why, I told her that she should just leave and not contact me because it would break me, and I need to heal. I shouldn't have to heal, she should still be here with me, and she shouldn't have left, she should have fought for me. It just makes me mad the more I think about it, then it makes me sad because she's not here for me to be mad at. I just… I don't know." Josie replied, her tone changed several times throughout her speech, never being able to fall on the right emotion for how she was feeling.
"She left because those batshit crazy Elders of her coven made her. They didn't give her a chance. They saw how me and Hope in her wolf form were, and they were… disgusted? by it. So, they told her she wasn't allowed to stay." Lizzie spoke. "I think you should call her… or text her. This isn't her fault. She did everything she could to fight for you and… even though I'm not her biggest fan, she did everything she could to save Hope and I will always be grateful for that. So, you should reach out and let her explain. She might surprise you. This isn't your fault Jo, and it never will be."
"I didn't know… That's messed up… Yeah… I'll give her a message." Josie replied as she pushed herself up from the bed and walked across the room to grab her phone from the table by the door.
"Do you want me to stay?" Lizzie asked.
"No… It's okay… I'll come find you if I need to." Josie replied as she spun her phone in between her fingers a couple of times nervously, and she smiled at her sister who was still on the bed. Lizzie lingered slightly longer than was necessary before she took the hint, stood up from the bed and left the room, giving Josie a silent goodbye as she left.
Josie fiddled with her phone for another couple of minutes as she tried to work up the courage to call Penelope. Josie took a deep breath as she unlocked her phone and scrolled to find Penelope's name. Her thumb hesitated for a few seconds before she pressed down on the screen and the call screen popped up.
"Hello?" A strange masculine voice answered the call. Josie freaked out slightly and ended the call before the voice could say anything else.
What the fuck is wrong with you? Josie berated herself, she threw her phone down on the bed and continued to pace up and down her room, muttering to herself. After a few minutes, her phone rang but it was a number that she didn't recognise. She wavered slightly before she picked it up.
Josie: "Hello?"
Penelope: "Hey Josie." Her soft voice resonated through the speaker.
Josie: "Hey Pen."
Penelope: "Is everything okay? Is Hope okay?"
Josie: "Yeah, yes… everything is fine… I just… I needed to hear your voice and… Lizzie told me everything, she told me to call you and…" she trailed off as she heard a loud commotion in the background of Penelope's call. "If this is a bad time…"
Penelope: "No it's fine… Let me just get somewhere that's a bit quieter."
Josie: "Okay." There was a beat of silence between them.
Penelope: "Okay, it should be better here… Sorry about that."
Josie: "It's okay… How come you're not calling me from your number?"
Penelope: "I had to give me phone to the Elders when I arrived, they said that they wanted me to do a purge of all negative energy." Josie could hear the eyeroll through the phone and it made her smile. "I nicked this phone from one of the children, they are none-the-wiser and fast asleep."
Josie: "I'm sorry." Josie's voice broke slightly as she choked out the words. "I'm sorry that I didn't give you chance to explain what happened."
Penelope: "It's okay, honestly. I'm glad you called."
Josie: "I'm glad I did too."
Penelope: "I can't stay on the phone too much longer or they will be wondering where I sneaked off too, but… will it be okay if I call you tomorrow?"
Josie: "Oh… erm… sure, yes."
Penelope: "Okay… I love you, Josie. Don't ever forget that."
Josie: "I love you too." The phone beeped three times after Josie had finished speaking, signalling that the call had ended. Josie let out a sigh of relief as she laid back on her pillow with a smile on her face. She might not have got to say all that she wanted to tonight, but Penelope will be calling her tomorrow so they could talk some more, and she was okay with that.
Lizzie headed back to the room she shared with Hope after she left Josie. When she arrived, Hope wasn't there, it didn't look like Hope had been here since the morning. Lizzie shrugged before she exited the room and went on her journey to try and find her girlfriend. She looked everywhere inside the school, but Hope was nowhere to be found, she asked a couple of the students, but they said that they hadn't seem Hope all day. Lizzie was starting to get slightly worried, so she decided to try one last place before she raised the alarms.
The moonlight was bright when Lizzie stepped outside the school doors. The wind was slightly bitter against her skin which made her wish she had put a jacket on. She folded her arms across her chest, trying to conserve some warmth as she headed over to the Old Mill. As she neared the rundown building, the wind began to still and warmth crept back into her body. As Lizzie walked up the steps, she noticed candles laid out around a blanket that was placed in the middle of the room and Hope's clothes were folded neatly in a pile on the sofa.
Lizzie wasn't waiting long before Hope appeared in her wolf form. Hope padded excitedly over to her girlfriend, dived on her and used her long tongue to lick all over Lizzie's face. "Hope, that's disgusting!" Lizzie laughed as she tried to push the wolf off herself. After a couple of minutes, Hope walked away and transitioned back. Once in her human form, she returned to Lizzie.
"Hey babe, how are you?" Hope asked as she started to get dressed.
"I'm good, was wondering where you were but I guess you were out here." Lizzie replied. "What were you doing out here?" She asked as she looked around.
"I wanted to do something special for our anniversary." Hope smiled.
"It's our anniversary?" Lizzie asked, confused and concerned… She doesn't usually forget things like this.
"Kinda… It's been six months since we first had sex and I wanted to celebrate it… I guess." Hope shrugged.
"Six months? Wow… Who would have thought that Hope Mikaelson would be monogamous for that long?" Lizzie laughed as she lay back on the blanket.
"You're just lucky I guess." Hope smirked.
"Bitch, I am not 'just lucky'… I am special and I am a motherfucking queen, don't you ever forget that." Lizzie stated as she propped herself up slightly.
"Oh, you are most definitely my queen." Hope grinned as she repositioned herself, so she was sat on the taller girl's hips. "Now stop talking."
"Why, what you gonna do?" Lizzie retorted.
"What did I just fucking say?" Hope's voice steadied.
"You told me to stop talking." Lizzie stated.
"Then why the fuck are you still talking?"
"You asked me a question… What do you expect me to do?"
"Stop. Fucking. Talking." Hope growled as she placed a hand around Lizzie's throat and their lips crashed together.
"Fuck me." Lizzie moaned at her girlfriend's touch, she learned a long time ago that when Hope wanted something, she got it but at this moment in time, she wanted Hope and she was willing to let Hope do whatever she wanted to do.
"With pleasure." Hope moaned as she started to leave a trail of kisses and nips along the blonde's cheekbone, starting at one ear and working her way to the other. Once she reached the other ear, she slowly worked down Lizzie's neck to her collarbone. Hope had removed her hand from Lizzie's neck and had started to inch up the taller girl's shirt with both her hands whilst being deliberately slow with the movements, taking in as much as the other girl that she could. She was so glad that Lizzie had decided not to wear a bra today as it was one less thing she had to care about.
Her thumbs gently flittered over the hardened nipples. "Are you cold or just happy to see me?" Hope smirked, not expecting an answer as she pushed the shirt over Lizzie's head but didn't pull it off and took one of the nipples into her mouth. She flicked her tongue across it a few times before she started to lightly graze and tug it with her teeth as her hand played with the other side. With her free hand, she flicked her wrist and the strap-on from this morning came flying out of the cabinet. Hope laid it just out of eyesight from Lizzie's head before she switched her mouth over to the other nipple.
As Hope continued to work, she quickly took off her shorts and replaced it with the toy. She had become quite skilled at multitasking especially when it came to fucking Lizzie. Lizzie moaned loudly as the sensation of the cold strap-on rested against her stomach. After another minute of playing with the other girl's nipple, Hope continued to work her way down Lizzie's body leaving a trail of kisses across every inch on bare skin she could see. She stopped at the top of Lizzie's waistband and undid the buttons on Lizzie's jeans, in one swoop Hope had pulled the jeans off and was surprised to find that Lizzie wasn't wearing any panties either. "Someone's a naughty girl today." Hope grinned at the sight before her then dipped her head to Lizzie's inner right thigh. She traced her tongue up the side, stopping just shy of her glory before she repeated it on the other side. She could see that Lizzie was glistening. "Take off your shirt. I want you to watch this." Hope growled and Lizzie followed her instruction.
Their eyes met as Hope lined herself up in front of Lizzie's slit. Hope took hold of the base of the toy and pushed it deep into the younger girl causing them both to moan. "Fuckk… Now I know why you love to use this so much." Hope grunted as she started to build up speed, their eyes locked on each other. Lizzie's fingers twisted themselves in Hope's shirt as a way for her to keep leverage as Hope continued to thrust away. Hope felt like she was in ecstasy as she could feel Lizzie's walls tightening and loosening against the enchanted toy.
After a couple of minutes of Hope pounding inside the other girl, Lizzie gathered all her strength and managed to topple Hope over. With Hope now lying on her back and Lizzie straddling the older girl's hips, Lizzie leaned forwards and captured Hope's mouth with her own as she started the ride her. She broke their embrace and pushed herself back up, using Hope's abs for leverage. It didn't take long for Lizzie to start coming undone.
Hope lifted her hands from the floor and placed them on either side on Lizzie's hips, her nails digging slightly into the bare flesh as she helped the younger girl ride her. "I'm close… fuckkk… I'm close…" Lizzie moaned as her eyes kept fluttering to the back on her head. Hope lifted her back up off the floor and moved her arms further up Lizzie's back. It was only a few seconds after that, that Lizzie reached her climax, she forced her eyes open and stared into Hope's. Lizzie collapsed forwards into Hope as she rode through the waves. "I love you." Lizzie whispered as she tried to steady her breathe.
"I love you too." Hope smiled.
