Hope woke up early the next morning, as usual. It was not every day that you find yourself in the legendry town of Mystic Falls. Thirty-five minutes later she found herself at the cemetery, staring at the headstone of Bonnie Bennett with a bouquet of white roses. She was not a sentimental person. After all she was her father's daughter. But as her father told her once, you may dislike or even hate your enemy, but never disrespect or underestimate him. And that was what brought her father victorious on various situations.

That was why she was here, looking at the tombstone of one of the people her father respected, even if he found her a pain in the ass. "Hello, Miss Bennett. I know I am not who you might expect to stand here. With a bouquet of all things," she chuckled. "But my Father respected you. I grew up hearing about you lot. The problem-attracting Elena, self-loathing Stefan, ever-cocky Damon, self-righteous Bonnie and of course, the light Caroline. As far as I heard, you sacrificed your life for Elena. I can only assume that you learnt your lessons and put yourself first. I came here for Caroline. I know they both love each other. Well, at least my Father does. I will find Caroline and if she still has feelings for my Father, I will do everything I can to bring them together. I can only ask for your blessing, Miss Bennett"

Hope sat there for sometime and then decided to go back to the Boarding House. She must talk to Aunt Freya about their plan. And call Aunt Kat. The doppelganger would know what to do. With that thought she left the cemetery.

Once in the Boarding House, she saw Damon in the living room with a drink in his hand. Typical. "Good Morning, Blondie"

"Really Damon. You definitely are lacking in the nick-naming department. From what I heard you were a pro." Hope said, forgetting that she revealed that she heard of him. Once realised she bit her cheek. Oh, boy.

Damon raised his eyebrows, "Ah! So, you've heard of me?"

Hope pulled every ounce of her Father's advices to improvise, "Unfortunately"

"Mmmm. Now be a good girl and spill why you really are here" Damon said with a smirk as he gestured for her for sit on the sofa.

Hope obliged. She debated internally what to say. "I believe you figured out that I am not human?"

Damon nodded.

"Well," she tried to improvise her story, "I was born a hundred years ago. My entire family is vampires, except for Aunt Freya. She is a witch. We are joint family. When a vampire arrived at our doorsteps, we let him stay. And in return he turned my entire family, save for Aunt Freya who was away. When asked why he did that, he simply said he was bored. My family struggled, but they helped each other. The vampire who turned my family thankfully didn't turn me and my adoptive brother, as we were children then. I didn't go to school. My Uncle personally tutored me. And now he gave me an assignment. The assignment is about the Founding Families of Mystic Falls. That was why I am here. My brother and my sister-in-law might join me. I don't know. It's up to my Father and his over protectiveness."

Damon grimaced, "Not that I find this sap story entertaining, but why should I believe you?"

Hope returned with her father's smirk, "Because whether you like it or not, this is what I am giving you." Hope was losing her hope that she could throw lies at Damon for so long and get away with it. It was time to bring in some reinforcements. With that thought she left to the Grill. She has some serious phone calls to make and it can't be made with the raven-haired vampire in the vicinity.

Once she was sure that she was at a safe distance from the Boarding House, she called her Aunt Freya and told her to meet her at the Grill. Twenty minutes later they met at the Grill and left to the Mikaelson Mansion. She was glad that her Father had the forethought that only someone with Mikaelson blood or with a personal connection with a Mikaelson could enter the property. Seeing as that both her and Aunt Freya were Mikaelson by birth they entered the Mansion that was locked for a century now.

With a little use of magic, they cleaned the living room and sat in the couch with a glass of scotch. Hope relayed Freya what she told Damon and of her decision.

"You are right," Freya said with a thoughtful expression in her face. "He is too intelligent for his own good. We need someone to help us or distract him."

"I was thinking Marcellus and Cami" Hope said, taking a sip of the scotch.

Freya hummed, "I am leaning toward Elijah and Katerina"

"It could work," Hope said, "We can bring in Marcellus and Cami first in the disguise of them helping me with the project. Then a week later we can bring in Uncle Elijah and Aunt Kat. When we are sure that he would help us, we could tell him the truth. Maybe he would help us."

"Maybe" Freya said.

Bonnie was watching the two witches talking from the Other Side. She knew that she must hate them, seeing as they were both Mikaelsons. One Klaus' sister and the other Klaus' daughter. But when you were dead for more than half a century, you are forced to see life in whole new perspective. She was so narrow-minded about the safety of people who didn't deserve it, that she ignored that the others have their own lives. She even forgot that she had a life herself. It was only after Elena demanded that Damon choose between her and Bonnie, that she guilt-tripped him into seeing that she was the most important being seeing as she was the doppelganger, that Bonnie saw the err of her ways.

Damon to her and others' surprise he chose her. They fell in love. They both knew that they were meant to be, but for some reason she couldn't turn into a vampire. She couldn't keep the vampire blood down. They knew they had to let go of each other. And they broke up. Bonnie was so distraught and had a one night stand. Resulting in the birth of her twin children. Damon was there for her all along. He played the father figure to her children, when the father of her children refused to take responsibility. He also took over the job keeping the Bennett line safe.

Caroline and Stefan left town the day Damon chose Bonnie. They went to Paris, as that was where Caroline wanted her whole world travel to start. After Paris, Stefan and Caroline drifted apart. Caroline only visited to see Bonnie's children. She still kept contact with Stefan and Damon. But even though she was travelling around the world as she wished, Bonnie knew there was someone she craved for deep down. And Bonnie also knew that Caroline still felt guilty about falling for him. But it was time Caroline had her own happily ever after. She may be dead, but she would do everything in her power to make sure that Caroline was reunited with the man she loves. She owed it to Caroline.

That night, Hope made a phone call to New Orleans. On the third ring, she heard, "Hi sis"

"Marcellus, you and Cami are needed. I need your help" she said. She tried to keep it as short as possible. She would fill her brother in on what was happening once he hit the road.

"See you in a couple of days," Marcellus said.