Royal, H. Mikaelson

Different & Same.

Next morning Hope and Nathan came to the school together, and like you'd expect. They were turning heads.

Even though, they were dressed extremely casually. Hope hadn't had the time to go shopping for clothes, she had found one of Nathan's grey sweatshirts which she wore with blue jeans.

While Nathan had opted for normal tee and jeans as well.

"Why are they looking at us?" Hope asked, worried that they were judging her for the way she was dressed,

"We came together." Nathan answered while he held her hand in his own, while she squeezed his hand as she held it, she questioned what he meant by that.

"So?"

Nathan chuckled as he looked down at her with a smirk, as they entered the school halls.

"We are hot Hope, people turn around to look at us." He clarified as Hope blushed and looked away from him. While she did, she noticed something which Nathan didn't.

"Nate." Hope said seriously trying to get his attention, thinking he went too far he said.

"I'm joking."

However Hope ignored it and got his attention again - this time he saw what she was pointing at and saw a couple of drops of some purple goop. Goop which looked awfully similar to blood of the thing they fought the night before.

"Isn't that?" Nathan said knowing full well what it was but he still asked.

"Blood of that troll thingy? Yup."

Hope answered as she discretely moved towards the blood and noticed that it was not just a couple of drops, it was a trail of blood.

"Ok, this is what we do -!" Nathan said, noticing the trail behind her as he was interrupted by Hope.

"We follow the trail."

"Or we ignore it because it has done nothing wrong apart from come in contact with us."

Nathan said and Hope couldn't believe what she was hearing as she looked at him exasperated, they both had a little stare down as the bell rung behind them.

"Look, none of these monsters end up doing nothing. They all cause trouble, one way or another."

She tried explaining, forgetting for a moment that he remembered everything. A frown came to his face for a second and as soon as it came, it went away as he asked.

"You mean Landon?"

Hope got a frown on her face as she asked.

"Are you jealous?"

Nathan smirked in return as he bent down to kiss her and said;

"A cold day in hell madam."

She smirked at him, as she went on her toes to kiss him and started following the trail after a; "Come on."

Nathan sighed to himself as he said.

"Why was I against a hero girlfriend again?"

Then the two of them found the trail end up near a door, what was behind them they didn't know. So without another word to each other they prepared to open the door.

Hope noticed as Nathan put his hand out and the space around it started to distort. He nodded at Hope as she held a hand out and whispered under her breath.

"Dissera Portus."

The door swung open revealing a broom cupboard - both of them sighed and shared a look as the distortion went away just then they heard.