Erotomania
Chapter 1

Summary: Beauty, power, money. Some can separate the person from their position in society. While in others, it inspires madness.

Disclaimer: I don't own Legacies, or the song that this story is loosely based off of, which is Rude by MAGIC!. This is an AH/AU story to Legacies, and therefore Hope, and all of her friends are the same age, and all attend University together where Ryan is a TA for one of their classes.

Erotomania: A delusion in which a person believes that another person (typically of higher social status) is in love with them.

Hope and her friends were hanging out in the back of their last class of the day. Despite having 7 different majors among her group of friends, all of them had gotten the same elective course to fill their schedules for the semester. But Hope rarely paid attention to the class itself. It was boring, and the professor always went off topic on things that never pertained to the class anyway. Instead, Hope usually entertained herself by making faces at the TA, Ryan.

He was a few years older, and he was Hope's friend, Landon's, older half-brother. Everyone in her group of friends knew about Hope's crush on the older male… except, it seemed, Landon. At first, Hope had tried to keep it to herself, but her friends knew her too well, and when she started finding excuses to show up to class early, or stay later, or show up for Ryan's "office hours", they knew she had fallen hard for him. But, she never actually outright told any of her friends, so as far as Hope knew, they didn't actually know, and none of them brought it up.

But Landon… Landon clearly didn't know Hope as well as the rest of their friends did. But on this particular night, Hope had lingered at the end of class, waiting for Ryan to be done talking to the professor, and her friends hung back with her. Josie and Lizzie were looking between Hope and Ryan, while Kaleb, MG and Rafael just smirked at Hope. Landon was completely oblivious. Hope was trying to be inconspicuous about her glances in Ryan's direction, but every time she glanced at him, he was glancing at her, and she quickly turned back to her friends. When Ryan was done with his conversation, he made his way over to the group.

"Either you all really love this lame class, or you all need a ride." Ryan commented with a smirk as he threw an arm over Hope's shoulders.

"Are you offering us a ride?" Hope asked.

"Well, you see, when three pretty girls wait around at night, they usually want a ride somewhere. And since I know for a fact none of these four have a car, I'm the only one in a position to offer a ride." Ryan replied. "Unless in the 12 hours since I drove Landon to school this morning, one of you boys miraculously acquired a vehicle… legally?" He added.

"Why do you have to bring that up all the time?" Landon asked as he eyed his brother's arm around Hope's shoulders. "Mom is saving up to get me a car." He added.

"Right, and Dad will stop being a deadbeat father. Grow up, Little Brother. You want a car of your own, you have to pay for it yourself." Ryan said as he started leading Hope and the others towards the exit.

"Is anyone else famished?" Kaleb asked.

"Starving. I haven't eaten since lunch." Hope agreed, trying to keep cool about Ryan's arm still draped over her shoulder, but seeing Lizzie and Josie giggling behind their hands out of the corner of her eye.

"Pizza's on my, kiddos. Hop in." Ryan said as he opened the passenger door to his SUV for Hope and offering her his hand to help her up.

By the time Landon got to the car, the only spot left was in the very back seat, next to Josie. Trying to imitate his brother's calm demeanor, Landon draped his arm across the back of the seat and lightly rubbed Josie's shoulder with his thumb as he watched Hope and Ryan's animated conversation up front.

"Um, Landon? Can you, can you stop rubbing my shoulder? It's making me uncomfortable." Josie said.

"Hands to yourself, Little Brother. This car as a PG rating." Ryan said, glancing in the rearview mirror.

"Sorry." Landon mumbled as he pulled his arm back.

When they got to the pizza parlor, Landon tried to move closer to Hope, but Ryan had once again tucked Hope into his side, and MG was rambling about something on her other side. Landon couldn't get close enough, so he hung back with Rafael.

"Bro, come on. Your brother is getting us pizza; why are you moping?" Rafael asked.

"Why does Ryan always have to go for the girl that I like? And why isn't Hope pushing him away? He's too old for her." Landon whined.

"Your brother is not that much older than us, Hobbit. He's 26, we're all 20." Lizzie commented, appearing out of nowhere next to Rafael.

"And as far as 'going for the girl you like'; he hasn't made a move on her, bro. He's just being friendly." Rafael added.

"Yeah, none of that is helpful guys." Landon commented bitterly.

Once they had ordered, the group found a big enough table and sat down before resuming conversations. Ryan sat with his back against the wall, his legs on either side of the bench, and Hope sat next to him.

"Tell me, kiddos, what was the takeaway from class tonight?" Ryan asked.

"You getting us pizza and driving us all home." Lizzie replied.

"Very funny, Lizzie. But I'm serious… what was today's lesson about?" Ryan asked and leaned forward just enough to discreetly run his fingers over Hope's thigh, just below the hem of her skirt.

"Is this a trick question, man? That old geezer never actually finishes explaining anything." Kaleb pointed out.

Hope couldn't focus on the conversation. All she could focus on was Ryan's fingers lightly massaging her thigh. She desperately wanted him to slide his hand between her legs and start finger fucking her right there at the table. But he seemed content to just have skin to skin contact. When he dug his fingers a little bit deeper into her skin, Hope's breath caught in her throat and Josie and Lizzie gave her an odd look. One that she responded to by shifting her eyes to Ryan, then quickly down to her lap, before looking back at the twins. With a matching smirk at their friend, the twins started whispering to each other.

"What about you, Miss Mikaelson?" Ryan asked in a low voice, directly in her ear, causing Hope to jump slightly.

"What about me, what?" Hope breathed out.

"What was your takeaway from tonight's lesson?" Ryan asked.

"I don't have one. The TA kept distracting me with silly faces. I couldn't focus on what the professor was saying." Hope said.

"Well that just won't do." Ryan replied with a small smile. "I guess you'll have to come to my office hours again before the next class so we go over the information that was hidden in the lecture today. Wouldn't want you to fall behind because you think I'm pretty." He added while he trailed his fingers down to her knee and squeezing it.

"I never said I thought you were pretty." Hope commented.

"But you did say that I was distracting." Ryan pointed out. "That's close enough."

Hope took a sharp breath as Ryan moved his hand to her inner thigh and gave it a squeeze before moving away from her. She was going to be imagining his hands doing all sorts of things to her body that night. For Ryan, the proximity he had just had Hope in had him turning to face the table once the pizza arrived, so as to hide his arousal. Once everyone finished eating, they all piled back into Ryan's SUV and he drove them home. After dropping everyone else off, leaving only himself, Hope and Landon in the car, Ryan pulled up in front of his and Landon's house and gave Landon a hard look in the review mirror.

"Out, Little Brother." Ryan demanded.

"Shouldn't we drop Hope off first?" Landon asked as he leaned forward between the front seats.

"We came to our house first, now, get, out." Ryan repeated.

As Landon took his time grabbing his stuff and getting out of the car, Hope sat in the front seat, playing with the hem of her skirt. She could still feel the heat and pressure from Ryan's hand on her thigh, and she could help thinking that he had purposefully taken the route that he had to drop everyone off so that they could be alone. Images of Ryan pulling her into his lap and having his way with her flashed in Hope's mind and she couldn't help the soft, almost inaudible, moan that escaped her lips as the images played on a loop. Once Landon had finally gotten out of the car, and had gone inside, Ryan pulled away from the curb and headed towards Hope's house.

"You look beautiful today, Hope." Ryan commented.

"Thank you." Hope replied with a smile. "You're not so bad yourself." She added as her eyes roamed his body.

"So you do think I'm pretty. I knew it." Ryan said with a smirk.

"I still didn't say that, Ry."

"Oh, you most certainly did, Hope. And my ego thanks you for boost."

Hope rolled her eyes as Ryan winked at her. She was just starting to think that the night couldn't end any better when Ryan pulled off of the main road, just before Hope's street, and turned the car off.

"Ryan… what are you doing?" Hope asked slowly.

"Did my actions tonight at the pizza parlor cross a line?" Ryan questioned.

"No, of course not. If you had done anything that I was uncomfortable with, you would have been sporting a broken wrist." Hope replied.

"Good, that's good. Because I never want to make you feel uncomfortable, Hope. So if I ever do, just tell me, yeah?"

"Of course, Ry."

Leaning across the center console, Hope pressed a quick kiss to Ryan's cheek. Once she had settled back into her seat, Ryan started the car again and took Hope's hand in his to give it a light squeeze. When he pulled up to Hope's house a minute later, Ryan turned the car off again and got out, moving to the passenger side to help Hope down.

"You don't have to walk me to the door, Ry." Hope said.

"I'm a gentleman, Hope. I was raised to walk a girl to her front door when I drop her off at the end of the night. Especially when it's a pretty girl." Ryan replied.

"You didn't walk Lizzie and Josie to their front door." Hope pointed out.

"True, I didn't. But MG lives next door to them, and I made sure that he made sure they got inside before I pulled away from the curb." Ryan agreed.

"Do you have any plans over the weekend?" Hope asked as she shifted her book bag on her shoulder.

"Just work. You?" Ryan volleyed as he brushed a lock of Hope's hair behind her ear.

"Studying. Family dinner. Probably being dragged to the mall by Lizzie." Hope replied. "Maybe getting to see you?"

"Tell you what… if your family dinner gets to be too much or too boring, you call or text me, and I'll come rescue you."

"What if being dragged to the mall by Lizzie becomes too torturous?"

"I'll just happen to cross your path."

"Keep your phone close by, Clarke. I might just have to take you up on your offer."

"For you, Miss Mikaelson, I'll always keep my phone close by."

When they finally made it to her front door, Hope wrapped her arms around Ryan's waist and pressed her body as close to his as she could. Ryan wrapped his arms around Hope's shoulders and was contemplating pressing a kiss to her forehead when the front door flew open, and Hope's father, Klaus Mikaelson, stood in the doorway with an amused look on his face.

"Dean Mikaelson, always a pleasure seeing you." Ryan said as he and Hope quickly pulled away from each other.

"Ryan, how many times do I have to tell you to call me Klaus when not on campus?" Klaus questioned with a smirk.

"Sorry Sir, force of habit." Ryan replied before he glanced at Hope who was biting her lower lip.

"Apology accepted. Thank you for making sure Hope got home safely." Klaus said as he stepped to the side so that Hope could step inside.

"Any time. I'd hate if anything happened to her." Ryan replied before promptly closing his mouth before he said something inappropriate.

"Goodnight, Ryan." Hope said.

"Goodnight, Hope. Goodnight, Sir." Ryan replied with a nod.

After watching Ryan walk back to his car before closing the front door, Hope turned around and ran upstairs. She was not up for her dad's teasing tonight. Upon reaching her room, Hope closed and locked her door, stripped down to just her bra and panties and grabbed her vibrator. Grabbing her phone from her bag, Hope pulled up the only picture of Ryan that she had and turned her vibrator on. He had gotten her all worked up and he didn't even know it. As she pleasured herself, Hope's thoughts wandered to Ryan and what he was doing.

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When Ryan got home, he headed straight to his room, ignoring Landon and Seylah's attempts to talk to him and find out what seemed to be the matter. As soon as his door was close behind him, he scrolled through his pictures until her found his favorite one of Hope. He knew that he shouldn't be doing this. Spending yet another night jacking off to a mere picture of Hope. He knew that he should just tell her how he felt and pray that she felt the same way. But he didn't want to open himself up to rejection. Hope was the Dean's daughter. Her family founded, not only the University, but the town surrounding it as well. He wanted more than anything to be with Hope, but she was out of his league. So he had no choice but to settle for just being in her life in any capacity, and jacking off to a picture of her in a bikini.