Chapter 18- We've found Josie.
Alaric was stood outside the cellar that housed Alyssa, talking with MG and Kaleb when Lizzie came bounding down the stairs.
"DAD! WE KNOW WHERE JOSIE IS!" Lizzie huffed as she came to a halt after running through the school to reach her dad.
"Geez, girl. There is no need to scream like that. I think I might be deaf now." Kaleb groaned as he covered his ears.
Lizzie rolled her eyes at him then quickly turned back to Alaric. "Dad! We need to hurry!"
"Okay Lizzie. Let's go. Kaleb, MG, keep an eye on Alyssa. Don't let anyone come down here. And don't feed her. We need to dry her out for the time being." Alaric stated before he took off up the stairs with Lizzie in tow.
It didn't take long for the two of them to arrive at Alaric's office. They walked through the door and were greeted by the remaining five women. Hope was leaning against Alaric's desk talking with Bonnie and Freya. "Alaric. We've come up with a plan. Bonnie, Davina and Freya are going to stay here while You, Keelin, Lizzie and I are going to go get Josie back." Hope pushed herself up from the desk and tried to regain her balance. She was still experiencing some of the side effects from the spell.
"Okay. Great. When do we leave?" Alaric asked.
"In ten minutes. So get what you need to from the Armoury and we will meet you out by the car. Keelin is going to drive us." Hope replied before she walked out of the office.
Hope quickly rushed up to Josie's and Lizzie's bedroom. She made her way over to Josie's dresser and pulled out a jumper. She pulled a blanket off the bed then turned to head back downstairs. Hope paused momentarily and picked up a backpack off the ground and shoved the items she had accumulated into it then continued her journey.
She arrived at the car to find Alaric, Keelin and Lizzie already sat in their seats, waiting for her. Alaric had a duffle bag resting at his feet. "Sorry." Hope muttered as she climbed into the backseat of the car, slinging the bag into the empty seat next to her.
The drive out to the middle of nowhere was long and slow. Hope was getting more restless with every passing second. She couldn't stop her leg from bouncing, much to Lizzie's annoyance. "Jesus, Hope! Please stop with the incessant leg bouncing, it is driving me crazy." Lizzie seethed.
"Fuck you Lizzie! I actually care about Josie's life you know? I know she's in pain. I can feel it. She needs me." Hope retorted.
"And you think that I don't care? I can feel her pain too!"
"Girls, please stop! How many times do I have to tell you!" Alaric spat. "Sorry. Look we are all stressed, and we all want Josie back. But can you please behave, for Josie's sake."
"Sorry Dad." Lizzie sighed.
"Sorry Doctor. S." Hope huffed as she turned her head out the car window.
Keelin pulled the car onto a dirt road about a mile away from the building. They all climbed out and started the trek. When they got halfway, Hope stopped walking. "I'm going to wolf out, I want to scout the area to make sure it is safe before you all arrive. I don't want any surprises. Keelin, can you keep an eye on these two? I don't want either of them to do anything stupid."
"Sure Hope, no problem." Keelin smiled. She gestured Hope towards the woods for cover so she could transition in somewhat privacy. Alaric and Lizzie ventured forward slowly.
"Keelin please protect them. I know Lizzie has power and she might have to syphon from you, but Alaric is human. He's been through a lot and if something goes wrong, he will blame himself. Please keep him safe." Hope spoke softly as she stripped her clothes off her body.
"I'd do what I can. You know that. Be safe out there." Keelin smiled as she watched her niece transition. Hope, in her wolf form, approached Keelin and stretched out her front paws so it looked like she was bowing. Keelin ran her hand across Hope's snout and neck. "Go and save your girl Hope. You deserve to be happy."
Hope howled in response then took off running through the woods. It didn't take Hope long to pick up Josie's scent, it drove her forwards and she reached the building in no time. Hope stopped just short of the treeline and surveyed the area before she tentatively approached. She sprinted towards the building and stopped just shy of the door. She quickly ran around the building to make sure it was safe before she jumped through the door.
There was no one in the building other than Josie. Josie was wavering in and out of consciousness, from the pain and the loss of blood. Hope rushed over to her, placed her paws on Josie's arm and started licking her face. Josie was groggy and only briefly opened her eyes before she closed them again.
Hope transitioned back to human, she removed the knife from Josie's hand and placed a cut across her own wrist. "Baby. Josie. Wake up, my love. You need to drink my blood. It will heal you." Hope brought her left wrist up to Josie's lips.
Josie gagged slightly as the taste of blood assaulted her lips, but after a few seconds she welcomed it. Josie drank until her pain had stopped and her wounds had healed. When she opened her eyes she was greeted by the sight of Hope's naked body. "Wow. If I knew getting kidnapped meant I could see you naked I would had done it a long time ago." Josie laughed.
"Ha. Ha. Very funny. If you wanted to see me naked all you had to do was ask." Hope laughed back. "Now, hold still. I need to remove these chains from you." Hope pulled on the chains for a few minutes before they broke.
Josie stood up immediately and pulled Hope into a hug. "Thank you Hope." Josie mumbled against Hope's neck.
"Baby, you don't have to thank me. I'd do this every day of my life for you. I will never give up on you and I will never leave you. But you gave me a heart attack, so please don't get kidnapped again." Hope replied, her hands resting on the sides of Josie's neck, her thumbs gently flowing along the brunette's jawline. "I love you Josette Lucas Saltzman."
Josie lifted her head and looked into Hope's ocean blue eyes. "I love you too Hope Andrea Mikaelson." Josie pressed her lips softly against Hope's. This kiss was different from all their others. It was patient, caring and so full of love. There was no urgency, no rush, no hunger. It was peaceful and tender, and they took their time.
And just like always, they were interrupted when Lizzie walked in. "Oh God! Hope please put some goddamn clothes on!" Lizzie huffed.
"I would do, but aunt Keelin has my bag." Hope groaned as she turned around, placing Josie in-between them.
"KEELIN! HOPE NEEDS HER BAG. SHE'S NAKED!" Lizzie shouted over her shoulder. A few seconds later Josie's backpack came flying through the door and landed just before Josie's feet. Josie bent down and picked it up, purposely shifting her hips back into Hope's. Almost instinctively Hope's hands found their way onto Josie's waist and she tugged back slightly, causing both girls to moan in the process.
"Ugh. FOR GOD SAKE. CAN YOU NOT DO THAT?!" Lizzie spat.
"Well you could stop being such a pervert and turn around." Hope laughed.
"Or you could just stop constantly trying to fuck my sister." Lizzie muttered quietly enough so only Hope could hear. She made a dramatic show of turning around to face away from the other two girls.
"Never going to happen." Hope smirked.
"What's never going to happen?" Josie replied as she straightened up then turned to face Hope, giving her the bag.
"Nothing!" Lizzie replied.
"Oh you know. It's just Lizzie being Lizzie and she wants me to stop trying to fuck you all the time." Hope grinned as she leaned in to kiss Josie.
Josie smiled into the kiss. "Oh yeah, I totally agree with you. That's never going to happen. One of these days I will succeed." Josie replied as she dropped her hand from Hope's waist to her ass, giving it a full-handed squeeze.
Hope moaned at the sensation and the words that escaped her girlfriend's lips. "Is that a promise or a threat?"
"Can it be both?" Josie laughed. "But for now, you need to get dressed before Lizzie has an aneurysm or something."
"Well I kind of don't want to now you've just said that." Hope beamed as she took an impossible step closer to Josie and kissed her again. Hope's eyes shot open and she bit down on Josie's lip, moaning, when she felt her girlfriend's hand slap across her ass cheek. "Fuck. Do that again." Hope moaned.
"Can you two please stop with this weird kinky foreplay? You're actually starting to make me feel sick." Lizzie groaned.
"I actually forgot she was here." Hope groaned. She quickly kissed Josie again before she took a step back and started to take her clothes out of the bag. She took her time getting dressed. She put on a little show for Josie. She slowly pulled her red laced thong up her legs, followed by her favourite jeans. She pulled on her matching bra and secured it. Hope pulled her shirt out of the bag and slowly pulled it over her head, leaving it bunched up just above her abs before she winked at Josie and pulled it down.
Josie's eyes followed Hope's every move. "Reminds me of when we first met, after I lost my memories."
"Remember what you did that night?" Hope smiled and raised her eyebrow.
"Of course, how could I forget that?" Josie grinned.
Hope stepped closer to Josie and brought her lips up to the brunette's right ear. "I'm going to make you scream my name again tonight." She whispered.
Josie physically whimpered, her legs gave way slightly and she reached out to Hope's waist and steadied herself. Hope couldn't help but laugh at the display. "We should really be heading back now. It's going to take us a while to get back home." Hope smiled as she kissed Josie, once.
The two girls' hands joined as they turned and started walking towards the door. Lizzie huffed and walked out when she heard the girls' approach her. Outside the building, Alaric and Keelin were stood waiting patiently. Alaric ran up and hugged Josie, practically squishing her. "Are you okay?" He asked, checking her over.
"Yes Dad. I'm fine. Hope let me drink from her. I'm all healed up and not in any pain." Josie replied.
"Oh okay. That's good then. We should probably head back to the school now." Alaric stated.
Back at the school, all things seemed quiet for the time being. It had been about an hour since Alaric left with the three women and all the students were on lockdown in their rooms. Freya, Bonnie and Emma were doing their checks on the students when the boundary alarm went off. The three of them rushed downstairs and joined Davina and Dorian.
A few seconds later Kai was at the door. "Is someone going to let me in?" Kai laughed as he set one foot over the threshold. "Oh, it looks like I don't need an invitation. Bonnie, you look lovely as always." Kai vamp-sped over to Bonnie but was quickly bounced back by a barrier spell.
"Fuck you Kai." Bonnie retorted.
"Have you missed me?" Kai smiled as he stood up.
"Like a hole in the head. What do you want?"
"I wanted to see my best friend obviously. We had so much fun together. I thought we could play another game."
"What makes you think that I won't kill you right here, right now?"
"Oh because I have Stephanie Salvatore stashed away somewhere, bleeding out. I think by my estimates she has about five hours left to live."
"Somehow I don't believe you."
"Just give it a minute." Kai laughed. And sure enough, Bonnie's phone rang. It was Elena calling. Elena was panicking, she asked Bonnie if she had seen Stephanie and that there was a note in her bedroom written in blood, telling her to phone Bonnie. Bonnie told Elena that everything would be fine, and she quickly rushed to end the call.
"What the fuck do you want Kai?" Bonnie spat.
"Why is everyone being so boring today? You know, I escaped from a prison world. I thought you guys would be more fun."
"Kai, you are really testing my patience right now."
"Fine, fine. I want us to dance. I want you to do something for me. I need the twins here though. I need you to kill one of them."
"I am not going to kill one of the twins!"
"Oh but you have to Bonnie. It's to save Stephanie's life. Don't you care about her at all?"
"Right at this very second, I don't. You are not going to hurt another person, even if I die in the process, I will come back and haunt you. I will make your life hell. Worse than any prison world could ever do."
"Oh honey. You forgot I came from the literal hell and I still survived. I think it's cute that you think you could actually keep me down." Kai winked.
Davina and Freya both casted a spell that sent Kai flying into a wall and was pinned in place. Kai started laughing as he started to syphon the magic away. Once he had syphoned the magic away, he dropped to the floor but was quickly knocked out, by a spell casted by Bonnie.
"We need to put him somewhere where he is away from magic and the students. Where's the best place for that?" Bonnie asked.
"The transition cellars. But I think we have Alyssa Chang down there at the minute." Dorian replied.
"What about the tunnels? There's no magic down there and we can minimise the student's access." Emma replied.
"Okay, let's go." Bonnie stated.
Bonnie, Davina and Freya picked up Kai's body and dragged him down to the tunnels. Dorian followed shortly after with chains he had collected from the Armoury. They tied Kai up and retreated to a safe distance. Davina and Freya placed a barrier spell around him and sat on the stairs watching him as the rest of them went back upstairs to check on the students.
Another 30 minutes had passed by before Alaric, Hope, Josie, Keelin and Lizzie arrived back at the school. They all came down to the tunnels and met up with Davina and Freya.
"What are we going to do with him?" Josie asked.
"What do you want to do with him baby?" Hope asked.
"I kinda want to set him on fire. Can I do that?" Josie grinned.
"You can do whatever you want." Hope smiled as she took Josie's hand in her own.
"You can't kill him just yet. Bonnie needs to find Stephanie first." Freya chimed in. "We can't seem to find her. We've tried doing a locator spell but had no luck."
"Surely if we kill him then any spell that he has cast will become obsolete?" Hope replied.
"I don't know. Let Bonnie do what she needs to do first, okay?" Freya said.
"Okay, fine." Hope returned before she turned back to Josie. "You can hurt him, but you can't kill him. So what do you want to do?"
Josie grabbed hold of Hope's hand and syphoned some magic from her. "INCENDIA." Josie stated with force, a smile formed on her lips and she bounced up and down slightly like a happy puppy. Josie burned half of Kai's body with the spell. Not enough to do any real damage though. She knows her limits and she would never intentionally kill someone.
"You're so hot when you set things on fire." Hope whispered into Josie's ear.
"Are you trying to turn me on?" Josie whispered back.
"I have to try now?!" Hope feigned being shocked.
"Never." Josie whispered as she placed a simple kiss just below Hope's ear. Hope whimpered slightly and her knees felt weak at the touch. It took everything in her not to rip Josie's clothes off right there.
Freya was amused by their little interaction, she turned to Keelin and said, "Do you think if we met when we were teenagers, we would have been like that?"
"Well considering that you're over a thousand years old, it would have been very hard to meet as teenagers. But maybe in another life?" Keelin laughed.
"I still can't believe you stayed with me after I held you captive, drained you of your venom and tortured you. I love you, you know that, right?" Freya smiled.
"Yeah, I know. I love you too." Keelin agreed.
"Girls, why don't you go and get yourself something to eat. We'll let you know when it's time to come back." Freya said.
"Okay, Aunt Freya. Do you guys want anything?" Hope replied.
"No, it's okay. Thanks for asking though." Keelin replied.
Hope, Josie and Lizzie made their way upstairs to the Kitchen and got themselves something to eat.
"Ugh, why do I always have to be stuck with you two?" Lizzie grumbled.
"If we're that much of a burden Lizzie, why don't you go and find MG or something and leave us alone?" Hope laughed.
Lizzie huffed, picked up a bag of crisps and walked off.
"You could be nicer to her, you know." Josie said once she was sure Lizzie was out of earshot. "I know she can be a pain in the arse, but she is still my sister."
"I know. I'm trying to be nicer to her… But she makes it so hard at times." Hope frowned. "Here's your phone back, by the way. So, what do you want to eat?"
"Oh. Thanks… That's a tough one. I could eat some poached egg on toast, but I could also eat you." Josie took her phone from Hope and placed it in her pocket before she grinned as she wrapped her arms around the front of the shorter girl's waist, pulling her closer and started to leave a trail of kisses down her girlfriend's neck.
Hope moaned at the feeling; her fingers interlaced with Josie's as her head fell back into the brunette's shoulder. "Baby, as much as I love you and what you are doing to me right now. We need to stop and have something to eat. We both haven't eaten for well over a day by this point. Plus we need to talk as well."
"What if I don't want to talk?" Josie mumbled against the skin on Hope's neck, she was clearly preoccupied with one thing, and one thing only.
"Jose, I'm being serious. We need to talk. We are going to have plenty of time for this later, okay?" Hope replied as she separated her hands from the brunette's and stepped away from her embrace. She turned to face Josie and she saw the pout forming across the taller girl's lips. "Look baby, these past few days have been really tough on all of us. Especially for you. Something happened between us before you were taken. We never got to talk about what happened with Landon."
"Why should we talk about it? You're here. He's not. That seems simple enough." Josie shrugged.
"Josie. You know that there is more to it than that. You've been through an ordeal and you're not thinking things through clearly."
"Are you calling me crazy? I'm not my sister, Hope! You know what. I can't deal with you right now." Josie spat as she stepped away from Hope and walked out of the room. Leaving Hope stood in the kitchen with a very confused look on her face.