The Villain in Whose Story (Phosie Fanfic)

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"Nightmares and Fears"

Penelope POV

 Time skip to the end of the day cause I'm lazy

    Hope and I have almost every class together, except for Intermediate Magic. We were walking towards our room to change cause we wanted to take a walk when we saw Mg. He's looking around with a sad expression. "Hey Mg, come over here!" I shout to him. He vamps over here and I ask "Why do you look so sad?" He looks around before talking, "Apparently there's a mummy somewhere and Dr. Saltzman wants to go over there to kill it." I look at him and tilt my head. "Why are you sad about a mummy? I thought you'd be happy." He looks at me with a frown. "I was, but then Mr. Saltzman said to gather the Super Squad. But I'm not going, he said he needs someone responsible to look after the school. Yall leave soon so go check in with Dr. Saltzman." We nod and go over to his office. 

    We knock on his office door and it swings open to reveal Kaleb, Jojo, Lizzie, Raf, and Landon. Hope walks over to Josie and starts talking to her. I slowly come from behind Hope and try to scare her, but she whirls around at the last second. She points to her ears. 'Bro, I'm a vampire remember?" "Right." My cheeks are tinted pink and I feel embarrassed. I try to get rid of the feeling by asking, "What were yall talking about?" "Oh we were just talking about the possible ways to get rid of a mummy," Hope says. I nod and they continue talking and I pitch in a few times. Eventually, we just talk and laugh about stories about our younger selves and Hope starts telling a story. "When I was about 8 my father made a plan to prank my uncle. He called me over and explained what to do.  We put food coloring on his toothbrush and some skin stain in his soap, so when he came out of the bathroom, his teeth were green and his skin was bright purple. It was hilarious." 

       We all burst out laughing until Lizzie spoke. "Wow, Hope what an amazing prank that was. Ha kidding, that was the lamest prank ever. Your father thought he was cool for his idea but he's just lame. " I looked at Hope as her expression changed. It went from light and happy to dark and angry in a second. She moved so fast that I didn't see exactly what happened but when she stopped moving she had Lizzie's shirt in her hands and she was pushing Lizzie against the wall. Lizzie's feet were off the ground and she was looking at Hope with fear. "Don't ever talk about my father in that way," Hope said icily. Lizzie just nods because I'm guessing she was too scared to talk. The doors burst open and Dr. Saltzman walked in, his face changed when he saw what was happening. "Hope put her down!" He shouted. Hope looked at him with a sly smile. "As you wish." She drops Lizzie and she falls to the ground. 

      Dr. Saltzman gives Hope a look and she looks down. "Alright, we'll be leaving in 5 minutes. We believe the urn is in the river in the small town of Maple Hollows. Now go and pack whatever you need." We all nod and disperse. Everyone goes to their own room to get things and meet at the parking lot. Kaleb grabbed a blood bag, Raf didn't take anything, Landon didn't take anything but he was holding Jojo's hand, Jojo had earbuds, Lizzie had snacks, and Hope took a sketchbook. I got a Harry Potter book, my favorite. Hope laughs at my book choice. "Really, you're a witch reading a fictional book about wizards and witches." "Yup," I say popping the "p". She just shakes her head and laughs. Dr. Saltzman walks up with Mr. Williams behind him and Ms. Tiggs, the counselor. We all get into the car with Hope, Lizzie, and I in the middle, Raf, Jojo, and Landon in the row between the middle and the back, Kaleb in the passenger seat, Dr. Saltzman driving, and Mr. Williams, and Ms. Tiggs in the back seat.

      Right, when we started driving Dr.Saltzman started asking questions. The questions were like what's this state's capital? Or when did this novel come out? Or some hard math question. Surprisingly Hope answered every single one. But everyone soon got tired of his questions and fell asleep. Lizzie and Kaleb were first. I could tell by the loud snores that they made. Lizzie was sleeping with her mouth open and she took up about half the chair. So Hope, and I were squished against the right side. Hope's leg was touching mine and for some reason, butterflies flew around in my stomach. I heard Hope mutter "Fuck it." She unbuckled her seatbelt and sat.on.my.lap. 

      My face was a dark red color and I was trying to look away to hide my face. She didn't have a seatbelt on and she was moving a lot so I put my arms around her waist and pulled her closer to me. We sat like this with Hope tense against me for a while before I felt her relax and she melted into me. Her body moved up and down at a steady pace along with her breathing. Her breathing lured me to sleep. 

     When I woke up Hope was still sleeping on me. I just listened to her breathing trying to go back to sleep when Hope started to whimper. "Please. Stop, stop." It sounded like she was begging. "Please, I don't want to die." She was begging in a bleak voice. I realized that she was dreaming of the night she died and turned. I gently shook her to try to wake her up, when she didn't I roughly shoved her. She jolted awake and glared back at me. "Sorry, you were having a nightmare," I whisper. She nods and leans close to my face. I feel her breath on my ear and she whispers "I'll take about it when we get there." I nod and we go back to our original position, with her body against mine and my chin on her shoulder. We sit like this until the car slows to a stop and Alaric talks loudly. "Alright, we're here!" Everyone wakes up to his loud yelling. 

       I open the door for Hope and we get out. Everyone eagerly gets out and stretches. "So the plan is for Dorian to go to the river bend and look for the urn. Emma will be with him, while everyone else looks for the mummy. Everyone will go in a pair." He started listing the pairs. "Josie and Landon, Hope and Penelope, Raf and Lizzie, and Kaleb and I. Does everyone understand?" We all chorus "yes". "Good, now off you go." We all went out own ways. Hope grabbed my hand and pulled me into a bar. Really, a bar. I know, I know. Probably not the best place to go singe we're both minors. We sat down at a table for two and said nothing. I looked at Hope's face, her brow was furrowed and her fingers played with the napkin the cafe provided. "Hope you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." She finally looked up at me. "Okay, I won't tell you, I'll show you." She grabs my hand again and pulls me to the bathroom. She leads me to a bathroom stall, locks the door, and puts her hands around the back of my neck. 

      Suddenly I'm in a cave, chained to the wall. A woman with brown curly hair that comes just above her shoulders is standing in front of me. "Please, stop, stop." My mouth opens but it's not my voice, it's Hope. Then it dawns on me. She's showing me her memory. I feel a sharp pain in my side and I see multiple knives digging into my side. Hope whimpers in pain. She's bleeding Hope out, I realize. She wants to be able to compel Hope, but she can't if Hope was vervain in her system. The woman comes close to my face until her eyes are looking into mine. "You're going to kill yourself when your parents arrive." WHAT. Hope said that the woman killed her. But if the woman compelled Hope then she killed herself. My heart breaks at the thought of what Hope has gone through. "I will kill myself when my parents arrive." The woman nods and says, "Good." Then I'm back in the bathroom stall.

      "Hope," I say sadly. She's looking at me with tears in her eyes. "Her name was Greta." Hope's voice wavers and she just looks down. I cup her jaw with my hand and lift her face up. We just look into each other's eyes. It's only now that I realize our position. If someone were to walk in it would look like we were kissing. She leans in and I can feel her breath on my face. I lean in as well, and our lips almost touch when her cell phone rings. We both jump apart startled that we were just about to kiss. Hope's phone rings until she snaps out of her trance and picks it up. "Hey, Jo." Ah, so Jojo called her. I secretly curse Jojo for ruining the moment but I still love Jojo. Ughh my feelings are so confusing. I love Jojo but these feelings I have for Hope, I can't ignore. Hope nods and hangs up. "So what happened?" Hope looks me dead in the eye and says, 

"There's a mummy on Main Street." 

A/N: AHHH they almost kissed oop- I hope you enjoyed the chapter and if you have any suggestions or ideas comment them.