Happy Monday everyone! Hope the weather where you are sucks less than here! I swear my hands had frozen over for a while, it is a good job I wanted to make toast, therefore I could heat my fingers up from the heat while I waited! LOL
Major thanks to all of those who has reviewed|followed|favourited|supported me on this journey, You are all precious gems! xD
So a lot of you answers may be answered here...Some will be in the next few chapters, but she has arrived! excited much?! Let me know what you think. I still have a few more chapters to go after this (Maybe 6ish?)
My drabble Testify was chosen as 'drabble of the week' too by Klaroline Magazine and I am still shocked and surprised!
Hope sat in the large dining room with her family, enjoying a lovely three course meal. Everyone was chattering away and discussing topics such as the kingdom. She, however, was reflecting back on the previous day. Despite Rebekah throwing her a massive masquerade ball for her 18th birthday, it left her in a somber mood
She had an awesome time dancing and dining with her friends. Her father even allowed a few alcoholic drinks, but it wasn't enough to get drunk on. It had distracted her from that morning's events.
Hope and the rest of the Mikaelson family had gathered as usual in the family living room to open her presents, and celebrate her birthday as they patiently waited for her normal gift box from her secret sender.
But nothing arrived all day.
She was very anxious as to why they had stopped, and put out. She was fearful that the person had been hurt, or worse.
The masked ball distracted her from most of her thoughts on the subject, and also getting into an argument with her father over her dress didn't hurt. It was a stunning gown. The top part was a colourful, intricate floral design that opened up into a low cut v around her breasts which was useful so she could show off her two precious necklaces that she had been gifted over the years. Her father nearly had a heart attack at that part of her dress, along with the slit that joined the bottom half of the dress from the waist down. The white floor length dress was beautiful and lacy with a split at the left hand side that went just above the knee. That placement was too far for her father's liking, but with her aunts rallying that she was an adult who could dress and defend herself really well. Klaus really had no choice but to let it go.
She also wore a gorgeous laser cut mask cluttered with diamonds that looked almost like angel wings. It was the most beautiful mask she had seen, and she loved it so much because it was a gift from her father.. He said it helped conceal her identity for the purpose of the ball, but not too much that every guy wouldn't notice it was her to flirt with. He was still overprotective.
He was still getting used to her being all grown up and not his little girl anymore.
There seemed to be an almost timid knock on the door that brought her out of her thoughts as she stopped subconsciously playing with her charm bracelet.
Kol got up and went to answer the door and by the time Hope looked up from her bracelet, there was a beautiful woman with bright blue eyes and long blonde locks that framed her face perfectly standing shyly in the room.
She almost looked like an angel.
A very specific guardian angel that the spirits had shown her. The same woman as the picture her father drew and hidden away.
"You're real?" Hope whispered so quiet that barely anyone could hear her.
"I'm so sorry for interrupting your meal. I was supposed to come yesterday, but I kind of chickened out and I didn't think I'd make it here today either, or that you'll hear the door. I did try to knock it as quiet as I could," The blonde rambled whilst nervously twiddling her thumbs.
"What are you doing here, love?" Klaus asked her, forehead wrinkled in confusion.
"Umm, yeah, right. Here goes," she whispered practically to herself as she gained confidence to say whatever she had come here for.
"I have the key to Hope's immortality," the blonde woman announced, raising her chin in confidence.
A few shocked gasps rang out throughout the room as Hope and Klaus perked up at the news. Silence and tension flowed through the room before Elijah eventually broke the silence.
"Miss Forbes is it? That's impossible. We have our mother's spell close and guarded. You cannot make her an Original like us as there is no more human doppelgänger blood out there."
"Oh, please, it's Caroline. But, there are two other ways she can become an immortal," she paused, making sure everyone was listening while she gathered her thoughts.
"One, she could become an Original by using your mother's spell. That would cut her from her powers, and she would become a hybrid like Klaus and her wolf can be triggered afterwards like he had done after his first kill. She could still die from the white oak stake, which I assume you have gotten rid of?" She pointed her question at Klaus, who nodded.
"Or two, She can keep her wolf and limited powers through Qetsiyah and Silas' immortality spell. There is no other cure made, so she will not be able to die. All that you would be need is a Bennett witch."
"I have the spell for the immortality, and Bonnie is willing to perform the spell with no catch and I also have human doppelganger blood. My only requirement is that Hope, and only Hope alone, can make the decision as to what she want to happen to her, or if she doesn't want the spells at all. It will be her choice only," she finished.
Everyone instantly looked at Hope for answers, who was thrown by all the new information. Her mind spun with the new knowledge, coupled with whom the woman was to her family, and how she found answers her father had been searching for years with no results.
"And why should we trust you after everything you've done to our family? I want proof first." Rebekah demanded.
Caroline nodded assuredly, pulling a dark, locked wooden box out of her bag and moved towards the table to place it down near Hope and Klaus.
"I am going to need your charm bracelet," Caroline told Hope quietly. While Hope took off her protection bracelet that she had gifted her at nine, Caroline did the same to her left wrist and fit the two half keys, joining them together to make one whole key.
Everyone put the pieces of the puzzle together, instantaneously figuring out that Caroline had been the one to send all the presents to Hope.
"So did you do all this out of the goodness of your heart or to turn my daughter against me and make me jealous?" Hayley growled at the blonde vampire angrily.
"None of this was to do with you, Hayley. I wanted to help Klaus and his daughter. You being jealous over this is just a happy accident." Caroline replied back amusedly.
Hayley's eyes narrowed before lunging at the blonde. The only thing stopping her from hitting Caroline was Klaus' quick reflexes and strong grip on her arm.
Everyone calmed down once the shock passed, so they sat back around the table. Klaus was practically comatose in shock but Hope was excited and nervous to ask Caroline the thousands of questions she had ever since the first package arrived all those years ago.. Klaus thought along the same wavelength still hoping he wasn't dreaming of her arrival to New Orleans and being in his house to grant his daughter immortality.
Rebekah snorts out a 'of course it would be her' under her breath, half in distaste and the other half in amusement at Klaus' dumbfounded expression.
Caroline finally put the key into the lock on the box and opened the lid to reveal a vial of blood and a very aged parchment paper rolled and tied with ribbon.
"After Silas drank the cure out of Katherine, she began to aged rapidly. She gave me a sample of her blood for safe keeping and told me that I would know what and who it was for. It was her parting gift to me after I helped her and we became friends," Caroline explained as she closed the lid on the box.
She took the two bracelets apart and gave Hope hers back along with the box and put her own back on her wrist.
"Think very carefully of your options," She advised and turned to leave.
Before she was able to leave the room, Klaus woke from his stupor and flashed in front of her.
"You're here," He whispered almost to himself, confused and still questioning if she was real.
He zoned out for most of the conversation since she had turned up. Only his instincts were working long enough to stop Hayley from attacking his love.
Caroline read Klaus' confusion and reached up, as if to cup his face with her hands, but stopped.
"Of course I am, Klaus," she replied softly. "Come with me and I can answer your questions, then maybe you could send Hope over. I'm sure she has a lot of questions for me too."
After a few moments, she hesitantly placed her hand in Klaus' who instantly clenched her hand firmly in his grasp to make sure she didn't disappear and leave him.
Kol threw something at Caroline, which she caught and placed in her back pocket of her jeans.
"It should be up to your standards darling," Kol gave her an encouraging smile, breaking up the awkward silence that blanketed the room.
She lead him out of his house, Klaus thankful that his legs were still able to function after the shock of the afternoon.
A few blocks away from his home, Caroline pulled him into a townhouse and he looked at her questioningly.
"Oh, I've bought the house and had my stuff moved in a few months ago," Caroline turned around to him with a massive grin, and Klaus couldn't help his heart double in size at the implications of her buying a house in New Orleans.
She was home.