It was late afternoon, and the Saltzman twins were preparing for one of the biggest events of the year: the annual Halloween party. Thankfully, this wasn't an official school event, meaning it would simply be a boosted Old Mill party with the right amount of booze and weed.

"Ok Josie, we need to choose lipsticks now!" Lizzy said, delighted, pointing to about 10 different lipsticks placed on her desk. Josie came closer and immediately picked up the dark red one.

"This is perfect, matches your soul."

Lizzy rolled her eyes, "Shut up… But really, is it the best?"

"Lizzy, you will look super hot no matter which lipstick you wear."

"You are so not helpful." Lizzy grunted and proceeded to put on the dark red lipstick.

With Lizzy busy perfecting her lips, Josie finally had some time to try on her own outfit, the Greek Goddess dress. It was an off the shoulder, white, flow-y toga style dress, showing just the right amount of skin on her chest, and ended right above her knees. She put it on and smiled at herself in the mirror: yeah, this was definitely going to catch Penelope's eyes. As a final touch, she put on a golden crown made of leaves she enchanted to look extra real, and wore brown greek leather sandals to match the outfit.

"Josie!" Lizzy called her over, "it's time to make my hair." Luckily for Josie, she started getting ready way before time, knowing her sister would consume her time right before it's time to go. She herself opted to wear her hair down in dark waves.

She did Lizzy's hair and make up until around 9PM, when there was a knock on the door, immediately opening, not waiting for an answer.

"I'm here to pick up my lovely date," Hope came barging in, looking around for Josie. "Damn girl, you look sexy as hell!" She exclaimed as she saw Josie's attire. She herself was sporting a simple witches hat and generic trendy clothes.

"If it isn't the Grinch of Halloween," Lizzy threw an offhanded comment, "too good for a costume, Hope?"

"Precisely, Lizzy! You always get me."

"Josie please remove this leech from the room before she ruins my mood," Lizzy pointed at Hope, obviously tired of her antics.

"Well Liz, we were just going to leave anyways. When is MG picking you up?" Josie asked, knowing MG was preparing way too much for this party in order to impress her twin.

"I don't know, hopefully soon or I'll get bored of him before the party even starts."

"Damn, what a lucky guy!" Hope said, drowning in sarcasm.

Lizzy simply responded by turning Hope's hat bright pink, with Hope quickly flicking her hand and returning it to its former state. "Nice try, Saltzman. Next try to actually use powers." Hope responded with a mocking tone.

"Bye, Lizzy, see you at the party!" Josie said and quickly grabbed Hope by the arm, dragging her outside before this could have escalated further.

—-

As they arrived at the Old Mill the party was already in full swing. Everyone were wearing endearing costumes, revealing a little too much. The wolves were already kegging, vampires flirting with witches in order to get a little bit of that delicious human blood, and Josie and spying around for that one person she can never manage to get out of her head.

Hope went to the drinks table and got them each three shots to take the edge off.

As soon as she spotted Penelope, who was participating (or rather winning) in a beer-pong match, the raven haired witch seemed to sense her presence and immediately returned Josie's stare, winking at Josie as she threw the winning shot.

Penelope was set out to kill her.

As if they secretly matched, Penelope was dressed as what could only be described as an incredibly, extraordinarily, extremely sexy gladiator. She was wearing a painfully tight and short golden dress that pushed out her breasts, with a brown satchel diagonally across her torso, which had a long (probably fake) sword hung upon it. Her arms were sporting brown leather bracelets fitting the outfit, and of course she was sporting a long red cape. Josie had to catch her breath after a few moments of blatantly staring.

"Earth to Josie?" Hope snapped her fingers in front of Josie's face, "stop staring, you can't give her the attention she is seeking so badly."

"Don't worry, Hope," said Josie, snapping out of her trance, "I am not into her, and I will not succumb to her silly games."

"Ha! Only lies are coming out of your mouth, my Goddess."

"Fuck you…"

"Ok, but maybe a drink first," Hope smiled flirtatiously and winked at the blushing Josie.

"Jeez, Hope, I have enough of this from Penelope, I don't need it from you too."

"You know I'm only kidding, right? As much as I hate to admit it, my heart currently belongs to a certain curly and awkward human." Hope said, getting a dreamy look in her eyes. "Anyways," she held out her hand to Josie, "may I have this dance?"

Josie gladly allowed Hope to pull her into the dancing area, and for a few minutes they simply enjoyed the music and the fun atmosphere of the party.

"Look behind you," Hope finally said in a more serious tone. Josie swiftly glanced backwards and saw Penelope staring at them, the cup in her hand being squished from anger. "Jo, this is our chance, just roll with me."

And with that, Hope grabbed Josie's face and pulled her into breathtaking kiss. Not a peck, a full blown out kiss. With tongue and everything. Josie was so shocked, but she couldn't help but succumb to it, as Hope was actually a pretty great kisser.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" They suddenly heard a very specific voice yelling from behind them, and soon after Hope was blown backwards into the drinks table by some very practiced offensive magic. Both the twin and the tribrid were in complete shock. Everyone stood around them and whispered about what the hell was going on.

Just then, Penelope ran towards Josie, roughly grabbing her arm and pulling her towards the inside of the forest.

—-

After a few minutes of Josie letting Penelope drag her around, probably due to her slow reflexes from the intake of alcohol, she stuck her feet in the ground and the pair came into a halt.

"Penelope what the hell?! You can't just drag people around and knock people off their feet because you feel like it!"

But Penelope was just as angry, "Well you are one to talk! You just made out with Hope fucking Mikaelson in front of everyone just to spite me!"

Josie was incredulous, "Why do you always turn everything about you? Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I kissed Hope because I like her? Because I'm over you?"

"No one gets over me, Jojo. My love is a drug. Even if you get clean you will always be an addict."

"You are such a narcissistic, self-absorbed bitch who thinks the world revolves around her with no regards people's feelings!" With every word Josie stepped closer to her ex, her face reflecting the harshness of the words.

Their faces were inches apart.

"And you are a liar." Penelope said as she pushed Josie backwards against a tree. Stepping towards her and holding her shoulders against the tree trunk. "And I don't believe you."

Penelope pushed her entire body against Josie's, her lips a mere centimeter from Josie's.

Josie's breath hitched. She didn't know what to do. Making out with Penelope in the middle of the forest was not part of her plan, but she knew she had very little will power when it comes to the seductress in front of her.

"Face it, Jojo," Penelope whispered, "you could never resist me. You will always come crawling back to me, craving satisfaction," Penelope put one hand over Josie's hip, caressing her, "your heart and your body will always melt at my touch," she spread little butterfly kisses to Josie's neck, "and no attraction, no matter how new and exciting, will ever compare to what we had together."

Josie felt useless, drowning in the ocean of Penelope's touch and attention, almost crying at the way Penelope's words were spot on, no matter how much she hated them and hated herself for them.

Penelope held her cheek with one hand, bringing their lips unbearably close together, their bodies still pressed almost as one. "You can go now, if you'd like. I mean, you are over me, aren't you?"

Using all of her built up fury, frustration and unbelievable attraction, Josie pulled Penelope into her body and crashed their lips together.

This wasn't a gentle or loving kiss, this was raw anger and lust. Months of pent up frustration all released into one kiss. Their lips were brute and hands harsh, searching helplessly for every bit of exposed skin they could find. As soon as Penelope's tongue licked Josie's bottom lip and was granted access, both girls audibly moaned. Their tongues were clashing, bodies aching for the other, pressed together and moving in sync.

After a few long minutes of kissing, Penelope couldn't take it anymore. She put one leg in between Josie's. And pressed. Hard. As Josie's head flew backwards from pleasure, Penelope's mouth began attacking her neck, kissing, sucking and licking. Leaving plenty of marks to show everyone Josie's was her territory.

Josie was grabbing at anything Penelope. Scratching her bare back and leaving clear fingernail marks and scratches, moaning her name and grinding on her leg. Just as Josie thought she couldn't take it anymore, Penelope pulled Josie's dress down and began kissing and caressing her chest.

Josie grabbed Penelope's face and brought her to another searing kiss, while switching their positions and roughly pushing Penelope against the tree. Pushing Penelope's chest backwards with one hand, the other lifted the gladiator skirt and started squeezing her thighs and caressing the area. After a few moments of these teasings, almost touching her most sensitive spot and then pulling back, Penelope couldn't take it anymore.

"Josie…" She whispered.

Josie held Penelope's chin up, turning her face around harshly and whispering in her ear, "I want to hear you beg for me. It is not only I that can't stay away, you can't resist me either." She bit her earlobe and continued her teasing antics.

Penelope swallowed her pride, she was in no position to be cocky. "I beg you, please. I belong to you."

And with that Josie touched her where she needed her the most, making Penelope moan a little too loudly, undoubtedly grabbing people's attention.

—-

After a few minutes, Penelope coming down from her high, they both stayed in the same position, looking into each other's eyes attempting to understand what just happened. Josie was with her dress down to her waist, no bra, and Penelope with her skirt hiked up, pressed between Josie and the tree.

"Well, well, well… Isn't this a sight for sore eyes?"

Both girls immediately attempted to redress and regain some of the dignity they had lost, turning around to find Hope Mikaelson's teasing smile.

"I was thinking you guys must have killed each other out here in the forest, but I guess you were too busy with a different style of fighting." Hope couldn't conceal her amused expression at the situation she was caught in.

"Shut up, Mikaelson…" Both girls said in unison, and walked back towards the party.