The secret Mikaelson child

Astral projection and school uniforms

"So... how was your date baby sis?"  I cringed at the name Hope had coined me with. We were only a little bit into a year apart of age. She leant over my side of the table and stole one of my melons with her fork.

"It was amazing, kinda scary how perfect it was." I turned the chair that I was sitting in around to face her instead of the old victorian style painting that I'd been staring at for the past half an hour since I came downstairs. "Hope he knew my favourite movie and took me to see it then, blindfolded me and took me to our spot and we danced, and swam and it was just like magic." I laugh at the irony, he probably could have set it all up with magic, but the moment felt spontaneous. 

she chuckled at me as I grinned from ear to ear "so you had fun then."  

"Yeah I had fun" Hope wriggled her eyebrows at me and laughed as she served herself pancakes with more bacon than a girl should typically be able to consume. "Do you know what we're doing today?" 

She just mumbled no with a mouth full of pancakes and bacon syrup pooling out of her mouth. I laughed as she rolled her eyes back and swallowed, instantly going for another bite straight after. "Oh! today," she paused to swallow her mouthful and continued, "today, I remember, I am taking you to get fitted for your new school uniform." 

"So soon? But the school year hasn't even started yet."

"No but it will soon, plus our uniforms need to be specially tailored to handle certain... substances,"

"What type of substances?"  I raised my eyebrow at her letting my mind run wild with different guesses, but all she did was give me a coy smile and chuckle at me. "You know what I don't even want to know, where do we need to go for this type of stuff?" 

"Virginia"

"Where?" 

"There's a town next to mystic falls, that's where the school is, that creates our uniforms, all we have to do is an astral projection to the town get fitted and boom all that you would need is school supplies which most of will be provided by the school." Hope beamed at me, how effortlessly she told me what we had to made me believe this was not the first time she guided a new student.

Astral projection. We just learnt about that with Freya. It's the one thing that came easy to me, being able to transport my self conscious to another place... at first, I used it to see my mum, it was easier than going in person, mainly because I knew if actually went to see her in person I'd never leave. "Okay I'll get the candles you get the-"

"Location and something from the shop no problem." Hope proclaimed as she darted out the dining room. 

I created a circle of white candles in the library with clear quartz in the centre. I walked over to the table and mixed mandrake, a bay leaf and my least favourite of ingredients, yellow dust, into a pestle and mortar. I kept muddling it all together until it was at the consistency of toothpaste, as if on cue I heard Hopes footsteps as she strode into the room. "Got the map and my uniform" I raised a confused eyebrow "it's from the store so it should work." 

"Okay let's do this," I grab two spoons and scoop the paste out passing a spoon to hope and grabbing the last for myself, "you ready?" Hope gave me a short nod before guiding us into the circle, I brought the spoon to my mouth failing at trying not to inhale the horrid smell that erupted from it

"Just swallow quickly believe me, holding out will only make it worse" 

"I know but it doesn't make it any less sucky." I squeezed my eyes shut and shoved the spoon in my mouth so fast that I heard it clack against my molars, I must've left it in my mouth for too long because I felt myself throwing up,  fighting the urge to spit it all out I took a deep inhale and swallowed hard, "okay quick say the spell before I throw up!"

"Spirit to body, body to mind, as I chant undo the bind, what now holds my soul to me, with this spell now set it free."

"You know I' never going to quite understand why this spell isn't in latin..." I felt my body get heavy as I dropped to the ground, my body curled into fetus position as I felt my subconscious follow to where the map was marked.

I materialised in a broom closest and Hope shortly followed, she peeked out the door and waited for the coast to be clear for us to exit the already overly cramped space, once we got out the closest she led us to a set of stairs, going down into the basement "Hey Russel!" 

The short blonde practically jumped out of his skin, "Hope I thought we talked about knocking... like everyone else."

"And I believe I said no, this is Y/n and she needs a uniform as soon as possible so like now."

I waved at the poor shivering man, he not stepping too close, he was the type of man that if you got too close to him he'd run for the hills leaving behind only his shadow.  He tiptoed before me inspecting me up and down his large circular glasses over framing the rest of his face, newfound confidence slightly peering out of his timid shell. "Well i-it-it's a little late in the season, but I-I can try to um to help your help, your, your um friend here"

"Okay well let's be quick, we don't exactly have a lot of time here." I was a little surprised by Hope's response, she's never spoken to anyone like this... well not around me. 

I stood still having my waist and chest fondled by measuring tape and seamstress pins. Russel was kind and gentle as he took my measurements always asking if I was okay, once he got to work that shy introvert persona melted away, before I knew it my fitting was over and I was at the broom closet door with Hope beside me, Russel mentioned that my clothes would be delivered to the school before I arrive and would be handed to the faculty there. 

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I sat in my room by my window with a book open barely even acknowledging the page, my mind elsewhere. I was so close to leaving for the Salvatore school, so close to losing everything I had just recently gained. my home in New Orleans, my relationships with my family, my grandmother, I haven't seen her in so long I don't want to leave before saying goodbye, then there's Benji, our relationship is so new, I don't even know what we are... but I know I don't want us to end, Virginia is so far from new Orleans, but I don't want to make him hold out onto false hope of us working, because I know better than anyone that life doesn't always give you what you want or make things work out as you planned. Then there's the person I don't want to leave the most, my mum. She's my best friend, not only my mum but my first sister, living away from her in New Orleans is bad enough but moving to another state and having to leave her behind, my heart would just break I couldn't take it. I know it has to be done though, I've only recently discovered magic and even though my aunt Freya loves to boast that I'm well gifted at it in her words I still have a lot to learn. I'm not only a witch but I'm also a werewolf and a vampire, there's so much history behind all there that I'm only scratching the surface of and as much as my family has been around for a long time there's probably so much more I could learn at the Salvatore school... and I think a part of me actually wants to, no is excited to go and discover these things.

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