Hosie ~ Remember me

It had been a couple of months since Malivore kicked Hope out of his hellhole and she was still having trouble adjusting. She didn't understand why though, she had spent most of her teenage years alone, so why should this feel any different? Maybe it was because even though she was alone, people knew who she was, what she was.

Yes, people avoided her because of it but she was trying to fix it, she was slowly starting to let people in. Or maybe it's because her only real friend had forgotten her. But whatever the reason was, she felt like she was dying and she, she didn't like that at all.

It was Thursday. Hope has spent most of the day wandering around Mystic Falls High School, occasionally attending classes, just trying to find something to occupy her time and to stop her thoughts from eating her alive. As she wandered the empty hallway, she found herself drawn to Alaric's office.

Hope knocked on the open door and walked in. Alaric was sat inside, it looked like he was doing some marking, hope couldn't be too sure. Hope walked over to Alaric. She took a few seconds to gather her thoughts before she said "My name isn't Hope Marshall, it's Hope Mikaelson. I'm Klaus and Hayley's daughter. And I know you don't remember this but um, you're the closest thing I have to a father now. And the entire world has forgotten that I exist. And the boy I loved has moved on, so I have absolutely no idea what to do next." She tried to fight back the tears but it no good, she couldn't stop them, not for a lack of trying.

Alaric stood up and walked over to Hope, he looked sad, he sighed "It's okay, we'll figure it out together." Hope couldn't stop herself from hugging him.

It was the first time she had proper human contact in months. She missed the familiarity of it, the comfort. She just needed someone to know, and she's glad that the first person to know was Alaric. She knows deep down that he doesn't actually remember her but at least she told someone and that's all that mattered to her at this moment in time. After a few moments Hope stepped away. She made up some excuse to leave.

Later that day, Hope really wanted to wolf out, but she can't really do that anymore because there is no safe place for her to do so. When she lived at the Boarding School, she had full reign on the grounds to wolf out but since she is living in a little motel room, she has nowhere to be herself, well not completely. So, she settled on taking a walk around the town.

She hadn't really gotten chance to spend much time in the town before, in all fairness she didn't want to. She knew it's history, she knew how she would be treated if people found out what she really was.

She pushed that thought out of her mind and found herself heading to the coffee shop. Once inside she headed to the counter and ordered a Cappuccino, she picked it up and headed back outside and found somewhere to sit.

This little town is beautiful in so many ways. The buildings are old, but rustic, pleasing on the eyes. The centre of town looked like a massive open garden with the old town hall building perched on the edge of it. It felt peaceful.

Hope just sat there staring at the open space drinking her coffee, she was lost in nothingness, her mind blank for the first time in a long time. It was a while before her thoughts returned. She decided that one day she will sit here and draw her surroundings, she's not sure when she will get the time to though.

Especially not now that she told Alaric who she really was, he's probably going to want to start training her again. She groaned at the thought. 2 months without training every morning had given her some well-earned rest, she could actually have a lie-in without the thought of getting up at 5am. Not that she did much sleeping in that crappy motel. Her neighbours were always way too loud and in all honesty, she was just too lonely to sleep.