Hope's Powers.

Author's Notes.

The characters do not belong to me the only plot is mine.

Thanks to Scarlett 2112, Damonfangirl, Leanne Nickerson, Tia Salvatore, Delana4ever25 and guest reviewers for your lovely reviews. Also thanks to my readers who follow or favourite this story.

Special Notes.

This chapter will have few parts of season three episode six (Smells like teen spirit ) but keep it in mind that I will be alerting these storylines to fit around my story.

Deep in the woods, Ric was training Elena after Stefan and Klaus attacked her last night.

She felt anger burning deep inside her whenever she remembers Stefan's words from last night.

Closing her eyes she took a deep breath to calm herself down before resuming her training with much more determination than before.

Later when she returned home she selects her clothes out for her first day of senior year but just like last year, there was no enthusiasm that a normal teenager should felt.

"You are not some normal teenager, Elena." She reminds herself as her reflection stared her back with sad eyes.

She quickly got dressed in a short purple dress and wear a scarf around her neck to cover her attack wounds.

It was then her eyes fell on her phone and she picked it up to call him once again. "Hello."

"Damon. Thank God you picked your phone! What happened last night? I've been calling you but you didn't reply." It's strange how much hearing his voice calm her down.

"I, I'm fine. As for last night well that will be tough one to explain."

She frowned as she heard how worried and tired he sounds. "Where are you right now?"

"Going Home. Umm, look, Elena, I have to go but I will see you once we settled in."

"We? What do you mean by?" but he already hung up his phone.

She wanted to call him again but then stopped herself and decide its time to start her senior year. 'Let's see what surprises this day has stored for her.

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Meanwhile, Damon just returned with Hope who was sleeping peacefully at the back seat. Stopping his car he took a deep breath, he then got out and open his trunk, from where he pulled out shopping bags.

It took him three hours to search before he came across an open Target store from where he bought her clothes and a few necessary items.

Although he has to compel salesperson when Hope suddenly ask "Do you have laser mask sunscreen for sensitive skin?"

The salesman stared at them with a dumbfounded look and before he can ask any further questions, he quickly compels him to forget about them.

To Hope's credit, she quickly realized her mistake and then stayed quiet until he told her about dropping her off at his friend's home.

( Flashback)

"No, I won't stay with someone else! At least not until I can find my Grams."

He felt really annoyed as he stopped his car street over to Ric's place. "Okay fine! Then tell me who is this Grams? So I can drop you there."

She unconsciously tapped her jacket as she said. "I can't tell you who she is. Before we left my Grams strictly told me to not reveal anything except to those people I'm here for. She said that it can confuse the timelines or even worse change the future."

That kind of make sense but that still doesn't solve his problem. "Okay so then tell me how you are planning to find her?"

"She will have a vision from her future self on the full moon of this time," Hope replied as if that's the most obvious way. " My Grams told me to wait until then and stay with someone called social services."

'Ah! So they deliberately abandoned her in the woods. If it was someone else on the duty instead of Liz then he was sure Hope would be safer staying at a social service centre.

He then thought about dropping her there. 'I mean that was their plan all along.'

Yet somehow one look at her innocent face banished any thoughts of leaving his granddaughter at some gloomy place. 'She will probably land in an asylum with her future talk.' He reasons with himself.

Still, that didn't solve his problem because he can't take her home where his ripper brother is being world-class Jackass!

He then thought about leaving her with Elena but once again reject that thought because she was Danger magnet herself.

"It's only for one week." He heard Hope voice as she gave her a puppy look. "I will then leave with her to search my aunt and brother and then we will return back to my time."

He was still weighing his pros and cons when she said. "If its help I can Zap my Grams name to search her."

"What the Hell is Zap?!" He asks while staring at her incredulously.

"Oh!" Her eyes lit up in realization. "Its haven't invented yet? It's actually a really cool site that can send you anyone's current location by just saying their name."

"Okay, that's it! You are coming home with me but first, swear that you won't say Future stuff anymore!"

She then gave her a beaming smile and bring two of her fingers together to touch is heart before bringing it to her lips as she kisses her fingers and Said. "Salvatore Swear."

His dead heart thudded against his chest as he remembers his mother teaching exact swear sign to him a long time ago.

"Who thought you that?" He asked hoarsely while still processing what this means.

"You and my mom thought me that, although I am pretty sure that Aunt Davina knows about it too. Oops!"

She clamps her hands over her mouth as he asked. " Now who the hell is Davina?" But she shakes her head still covering her mouth.

Shaking his head he found the biggest reason to keep her close to him. "You are really bad at keeping secrets." He told her to which he gets a sarcastic remark from an eight-year-old. "I'm eight years old! Sue me!"

And for the first time after a really long time, he genuinely starts laughing, and he put that on Pros list.

( End of Flashback)

So here they are now as he carefully picked sleeping girl into his one arm and her bags in another hand as he walked inside his house.

He almost stepped back when the scent of blood hit him with full force meanwhile he can clearly hear loud music coming from the parlour.

Making sure she was sound asleep he protectively hold her close and zapped towards his room. Once there he gently put his sleeping granddaughter on his bed and tucked her under his bed covers.

"I'm going to protect you from everyone." He then after a very long time make Salvatore swear sign and touch her heart.

Making sure she won't wake up. He walked downstairs to see the damage his brother has caused.

Sure enough, he found two of Burnett's dead bodies staining his thousand dollars worth Persian rug. He then saw a few other compel girls, who were busy playing bloody twister with his brother.

"Do you know there is two dead Burnett's who owed me Persian rug?"

"Aww, Is my older brother getting angry with me?" Stefan mocked while munching on girls wrist.

Damon quickly compels girls to leave his house before turning to glare at his brother. "What are you still doing here if your master has fled the town?"

"Keeping an eye on his human blood bag." He told him in bored tone and once again he missed his moody/broody brother.

He was about to say something when he heard knock on the door.

"You should get that," Stefan told him while giving him smug smile.

Feeling more irritated by his behaviour he went to open the door when he came face to face with a gorgeous blonde girl.

"What took you so long to open the door?!" She snapped and saunters inside as if she owns this place.

She then starts complaining about being abandoned again and it was then Stefan introduced her. "Meet Rebekah, Klaus's sister."

He watched a girl in question who was carrying shopping bags on both her hands as she asks. "So where is my room?"

"Excuse me?" Damon was really taken aback by this girl's audacity. "Motel six is down the road."

"Very funny, I will find room for myself." She turned away but then stopped as she noticed soft steps coming down the stairs. "Who else is here?"

But before she or even Stefan could move a muscle Damon zoomed passed them and in seconds the front door was opened and then shut.

"What was that?" She inquires as fresh scent still lingers in the air while they heard car zooming away from the house.

But Stefan didn't reply as he stares suspiciously at the close door.

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Damon felt able to relax once they reach school premises which were far away from that madhouse and filled with other students.

Hope was still confused but luckily stopped asking questions after a few minutes as she once again succumbed to sleep.

Shrugging his jacket off him he covers her with it. He then quickly compel a group of students to guard his car.

As soon he stepped inside Ric's class he found Scooby gang was waiting for him. "Sorry, I'm late."

His eyes fell on Elena who didn't waste time as she explains Stefan return to school. "Stefan is here?"

"So is Klaus's sister. She is already corrupting Tyler." Caroline complains but his brain went straight to his granddaughter who was sleeping peacefully while two dangerous maniacs terrorizing the school. "Look, if they are here then we have to regroup somewhere else for this meeting."

"But what about Stefan? Because I can't hold my emotions with the way he is acting." She was on the verge of breaking down but Damon knows how much strength she truly is.

Before he could answer Tyler Lockwood arrived and to everyone shock start praising Klaus.

"What's wrong with you?" Caroline screams at her boyfriend but Damon figures it out and quickly snapped his neck making everyone gasp.

"He is sire to Klaus. It's rare but he owns his allegiance to his master."

He advises Caroline to take him away and told Ric to continue with this meeting after school.

He then ran back to his car and luckily he couldn't find his brother or Barbie Klaus anywhere nearby.

Seeing they will be at school he drives back home to clean the mess his brother left behind.

Once he was finished cleaning everything up. He went to wake Hope up. "Come on kid, get dressed, its time to hit on the road."

He has to admit it was impressive how quickly she was dressed before him. Once again they were back on road and as soon they stop at the grill, she was extremely hungry to get some lunch.

"I want a cheeseburger with fries." She told him and he ordered the same for himself.

Its seems she was really hungry when she licked her lip at sight of her plate.

"Dig in kid, we have places to go." He soon starts eating but then stopped when he noticed her picking pickles out of her burger. "You don't like pickles?"

"No, never liked them." But as he watched her his mind went straight to another girl who didn't like them.

'Its just coincidence.' He thought and besides children hate many things.

As soon as their lunch was finished they drive straight to Ric's apartment. Upon opening the door he makes shushing sign to Hope who giggles but zipped her lips.

He then walked closer where they saw Elena lifting some weights.

"What? Are you going to bench press a vampire?" He asked sarcastically.

She then starts complaining about Stefan stalking her when suddenly he put pressure on the bar. "Damon" She moaned in the struggle to keep it above her.

"Fight back Elena." He taunted her. "Show me what you got Buffy."

"Okay stop it!" She screams and he pulled away while she scrambled away from him.

"I can't take this anymore." She finally admitted. " I want him gone until this Mikael guy comes through."

"Its no use. He is too high to come back." He tried to make her see sense but apparently, she didn't want to as she stepped closer. "Then do it for me because every time I see him a part of me breaks down and I don't know how to fight him."

Her teary eyes were enough to weaken his resolve as he grabbed her hand and place it on his chest.

"Feel that? It's sternum." He explained while staring deeply into her eyes. "Solid plate of bone." Suddenly he pulled Elena towards him and spun her around so she was standing in front of him with her back to his chest as he gently placed his fingers on her back in a gap through her top. "Right here, just below the rib-cage, next to the spine, that's your way to a vampire's heart."

She turns her face to stare at him and he was sure they were going to kiss when suddenly they heard crashing noise.

Elena turned around and found an eight-year-old girl staring at them with wide eyes while Ric's trophy laid on floors near her.

Damon watched as Hope faces lit with recognition for few seconds until she watched him staring at her.

She bit her lip for second as she pointed at the trophy. "Sorry. I was just checking out this antique cup."

Elena heard Damon groaned as he told this little girl in a stern voice. "Its trophy, princess."

"Damon, who is she?" She asked and he quickly made his excuse. "She is Zach's Daughter. Apparently, he has a secret girlfriend somewhere that neither I nor Stefan knew about.

Only Liz knew and sadly her mother passed away so now we are the only family she has."

Elena felt sympathy for this child as she can understand what losing parents really meant. She walked closer and held out her hand. "Hello, pretty girl. I'm Elena."

The girl instead stares at Damon as if looking for his permission and when he nodded his head a smile form on her face as she shakes her hands. "I'm hopeful."

"You have a lovely name, and your hair is really pretty."

"Your hair is pretty too." She compliments her while reaching out to touch her long hair. "I don't understand why would you cut it?"

"What?" Elena asks not sure she heard it right but Damon suddenly starts coughing. "Damon? Are you okay?"

"Yeah." He quickly walked passed her and picked Hope in his arms. "Tell Ric, I will meet you at the born fire."

Elena watched as he head for the door. "But? Where are you going?" She called after him.

"I'm going to ask Liz to watch over her for a while." He told her as he opened the door.

But apparently, Hope didn't like that plan. "But you said we will get ice cream! You also promised we will stay together!"

Elena watched with amusement as Big Bad vampire tried to placate an angry little girl. "Some other time Hope. Today I have some important grownup stuff to do."

It was then her lips start quivering as her eyes start tearing up and to his annoyance, his heart starts clenching as a fat drop of tears start falling from her blue eyes.

Elena stepped forward to help, only to stop when he gently embrace her and quickly apologize. "Don't cry, princess. I'm really sorry."

He ignores as Elena gasp, her eyes getting wide as he tried to apologize this crying child in his arms.

"Help me!" He mouthed when she sobbed harder against his neck.

As much it was amusing to watch Damon like that, Elena decides to help the poor guy.

"Hope? sweetie. How about we all go for ice cream?"

She didn't know what kind of power this child's smile held over him because when she beamed in happiness, her happiness can also be seen in his smile.

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If last night was something he never dreamed in millions of years then right now he is still dreaming.

He was so sure this being a dream because there is no way that Damon Salvatore is winning stuff animals at stupid Carnival stand while Elena and Hope were cheering for him as they enjoyed some chocolate chip cookies flavour ice cream.

It would have annoyed him if the sight was not so adorable. He was happy that Hope was able to distract them from the madness that is waiting back at Mystic Falls.

At first, he only planned to get them ice cream but then they heard about Carnival in Richmond and sure enough, Hope ask once again. "What is Carnival?"

This time he was quick to explain that her mother was ill for years and that's why she didn't know about Carnival.

Once again he can see sadness and sympathy in Elena's eyes as she kissed Hope's cheek before asking her. "Would you like to check it out?"

He mentally kicked himself and refused them straightaway but as he watched both girls excited face turned down into disappointment he was once again powerless to refuse them.

So here he was the Big Bad Vampire, murderer of many, nightmare for his victim found himself carrying stuff bunny and bears as both girls strolled hand in hand in front of him.

"Look! Merry-go-round!" Elena exclaimed as she dragged them towards it.

Damon watched with amusement how adorably they both settled on one horse.

He then saw a worker taking pictures with an instant camera to whom he paid generously to take their pictures as he went to join both girls.

He couldn't help but smile as both girls laughed and squeal throughout the ride. When they watched their pictures Both Elena and Damon realize that, they look as carefree and happy as Hope looks in these pictures.

But like every lovely dream, they soon head back to Mystic Falls as the sunset.

First, they dropped Hope off at Liz place and it took both him and Elena to assure her that they will return for her in few hours.

"It's great what you are doing for her." She told him once he starts driving towards woods. "if you need any help then you know I'm there for you."

He gave her a small smile but didn't say anything because he needs to find some safe place for Hope and he won't find that place in Mystic Falls.

Soon they reached their destination and Ric was there waiting for him.

They both got out of the car and saw Ric holding vervain injection in his hand. "Shall we begin?" He asks and just like that they were back into their mad reality.

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Stefan took the bait as he taunted her about being jealous while they watched Damon flirting with Rebekah.

And even though she was jealous, she sticks to the plan and pretends to be drunk.

After that, it was easy to lure Stefan towards the bench and just like they planned when she falls and he catches her they inject him with vervain.

Everything was going smoothly and she even texts Damon but suddenly car got locked up and then lit up in flames.

Alaric was able to get her out but the fire has spread throughout the car with Stefan still stuck in the back.

"Elena?" Damon rushed towards where she was standing shocked as she watched Ric's attempts to save Stefan.

"I don't know what happened?" She cried out but he was already rushing towards the burning car.

Suddenly they saw Sheriff's car arriving and from their Liz and Hope got out.

Both Liz and Elena watched as Hope stares at that burning car with fearful eyes.

Damon who was trying to open the door heard small footsteps approaching towards him and then to his horror he saw Hope walking towards him with her hands raised in front of her as she screams. "Motous Incendia!" Motous Incendia!"

Shocked he and Ric stepped away as the fire starts to extinguish.

With a jolt of his past experiences, he realized that his future granddaughter is chanting the same spell that he often saw Bonnie performing.

Like everyone else Elena was too shocked to react as Hope screamed out loud in the air."Motous Incendia!"

And just like that not only car stopped burning but it was in perfect shape as if it didn't succumb in flames seconds ago.

They all watched as she flicked her hand and the back door burst open from which his brother jumped out gasping for breath.

Stefan was surprised he was not feeling that burning anguish anymore but then his eyes fell at his captor and another kind of flame burned inside him.

"I'm going to kill you!" He roared as he stepped forward to attack Elena.

Damon who was shielding Hope suddenly saw veins popping under his brother's eyelid. He was about to jump between him and Elena when once again Hope raise her hand and like puppet she brought his ripper brother on his knees.

Stefan was once again feeling a tremendous amount of pain and in front of this pain, Gloria's attack felt like a pinch.

"Let me go!" He roared while clenching his eyes shut but then he felt soft hands cupping his cheeks.

Opening his eyes he felt he is hallucinating because 'What is a small girl doing near monster like him?'

Damon tried to hold her back but then she walked towards his brother. He felt beyond clueless as Hope stood in front of Stefan and the way she was staring at him its seems she was assessing Stefan.

Hope then cupped his cheek while asking him in her sweet voice. "Can you feel?"

Elena can see emotions in his eyes but he was stubbornly fighting it.

"It's not nice to be stubborn." She reprimanded Stefan and if Damon was not freaking out, he would have laughed how her face scrunches up again in anger.

She then closes her eyes and Damon couldn't stop his gasp as she opened her eyes only to stare deeply in Stefan's eyes as she began to compel him.

"Whoever is controlling you! You are now free from their control."

Stefan can feel the second he felt free from Klaus's compulsion and it was because of this little girl who freed him.

He was almost planning his revenge and it's great that his humanity has long gone but as soon that thought came into his mind the girl grip tightened on his cheek. "Bad thoughts Papa Stefan."

Damon can feel three pairs of eyes staring at him questioningly when her words came out but he was only watching as his powerful granddaughter compel his brother again as she commands him in a loud clear voice. "Turn that switch on!"

Once again Damon can see how helpless Stefan was as his eyes momentarily got shut.

They all waited anxiously when a few seconds later Stefan finally open his eyes again and with the way tears start forming on them, Damon knew that Hope's power just gave him his brother back.

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Author's Notes.

Here you go, another chapter of this story and I hope you enjoyed it. Please send me your reviews because they really motivate me to write more and more.