Three's a crowd.

"Stop reading you nerd and eat your food."

Josie POV

Hope had been lying in a state that was similar to a coma. I knew what it really was though. It was the state of  vampire who hadn't had blood in ages. Hope was desiccated. 

I had read enough about from the diary of Stefan Salvatore. Also Damon and Elena had shown up a couple of months ago. Damon had at one point desiccated himself to wait for Elena to wake up which was kind of romantic or weird. Whatever way you looked at it really.  He had explained how it was near death to starve yourself to go into a kind of space inside your head. 

Hope was no in that state and had been for months. We tried to keep in her in it until she was better. After learning the news of Lizzie's passing she turned into a murderous lunatic. Nearly killing Penelope and me while fighting everyone else. 

I remember that day well. 

I had only just come out from seeing Lizzie lying in bed. Devastated and heart broken to the point where nothing made sense. Seeing her like that and there was nothing I could do about it. All I could do was watch and feel like I was obsolete from doing anything to help my sister.

I love Lizzie so much. I felt like I hadn't told her that much that I loved her or even expressed how impressed I was with her everyday. In that moment I knew that we hadn't shared enough moments and that thought would hunt me forever until I saw her again.  The loss was devastating and after Hope came out of the room I could tell that Lizzie was no longer alive. 

Hope was staring off into the distance not even looking at me. In fact I am not sure what she was looking at. Dead eyes that showed no emotion and lips that weren't down or quivering but set in a thin line. The look scared me and it took me a few seconds to walk forwards to try and break her out of whatever spell she was under right now.

I touched her arm but still nothing. I heard movement behind me and turned to see Penelope walking. She looked at us weird and then approached closer. 

"Hey. Are you guys okay?"

I was about to speak when the tension in the room suddenly changed. I looked back to Hope whose eyes were now glowing a mix of red and yellow. I turned to warn Penelope but a burst of magic had already burst out of Hope in a wave that felt like it could destroy everything in  it's path. I was threw back against the wall and had enough of a glance to see Penelope get thrown backwards as well. Only there was no wall there. 

Penelope went over the balcony and was now flying through the air. I reached out a hand to cast a spell but my head hit the wall with a thud and I heard the back of my skull break. 

I was dead in an instant.

I woke up sometime later and didn't know how much time had passed but I got up and felt the back of my head. It was no healed. Thanks to the power Isabella had transferred to me. I ran over and descended the stairs two at a time. What I saw was a horror scene.

Penelope was lying on the floor where I assumed she landed after going over the balcony. Isabella was at her side and I saw a scratch mark down her cheek. as well as a broken nose which had blood running down from it. Stefanie was lying off the side. She coughed and blood came running out of her mouth. Jed was tending to her. 

Then I looked at what was still happening.

Hope was in a fight with Jade and Rafael. She had just kicked Rafael in the gut and sent him flying back into a pillar. There was a crunch and he lay motionless. Then she advanced on Jade who blocked her offence and then pushed her before advancing on Hope with her teeth out. Hope avoided her and then got her in a headlock. Hope quickly snapper her neck and let her fall.