Make Quiet Things Heard

Chapter 55 : This Is Forever (Epilogue)

Josie's POV

I rush to my dad's office, Freya and my dad right behind me, I see Hope layed out on the sofa. I run over to her, getting on my knees, grabbing her hand and I gently nudge to see if it'll wake her up.
"Hope... Hope! Hope, please... Baby, please wake up." I plead desperately. But no matter how much I shake her she won't budge. "W-what happened to her? Wh-why won't she w-wake up? What's wrong?" I ask sniffling. "Oh my god! It's all my fault. M-my... I turned her to stone in my subconscious." I sob and bury my head in Hope's chest. Freya slowly walks towards me, pulls me apart from Hope and she gently cups my face, saying comforting words and wipes away my tears. She gestures for me to follow her breathing and I do and my heartbeat soon slows down. Before my horrible guilt could consume me, Freya smiles and whispers something in my ear. "You should try kissing her, maybe." Kissing her? How would that help? Just then I feel Hope squeeze my hand.

It was so soft that I could barely notice it, but I did. Freya smiles at me again, looking between me and Hope before she takes my father and leaves the room. What the hell is going on? What Freya said earlier echoes in my head. "You should try kissing her, maybe." That's when it hit me. Those are the exact words I said to her in my subconscious. Ughhh. I wipe the tear stains on my face and kiss her softly, she kisses back instantly. I pull back, smiling, and lean my forehead against hers. "I hate you."
I mumble against her lips. "I fucking hate you. I thought you were seriously hurt, and that it was my fault. I fucking hate you." I say hitting her arm non-stop. She sits up and, grabs my hands, holding them up. "I love you too, princess." Princess, ughh that nickname isn't going away anytime soon. She kisses my forehead and I physically melt at the forehead kiss and Hope drops my arms, smiling. I could never stay mad at her.

"I'm sorry I scared you, Princess." she apologizes but I can tell she's not sorry at all. "You're lucky I love you." I say moving to sit next to her. "How did you even manage to convince Freya in on your little prank?" I ask pouting.
"Let's just say I owe her one." she smiles.
"I'm gonna get you back, just you wait."
"I'm sure you will. But hey, at least we know true loves kiss does work." she smirks. "T-True love?" I ask nervously.
"True love." she smiles and cups my face. "...You are the love of my life, Josie Saltzman." she states. I stare at her speechless, staying that way for a while until I remember I have to respond too.
"And you are mine, Hope Mikaelson." I pull her into a passionate kiss. My hands go to her neck, and hers go to my waist and she moves me into her lap, so I was straddling her. This kiss was different from the ones we shared, this held more love to it and most importantly this kiss held a promise. That we were gonna be together, Always and forever.

Hope's POV

After that day we all worked on a way on how to fix all our problems. Together. Starting with the first problem right in front of us. The almighty pain in the ass Necromancer, since Landon, Raf, and Alyssa's life are on his hands and since he controls Malivore we needed to deal with him first. Find a way how to kill him, and if that wouldn't work, a way to get rid of him. Preferably for good. We also needed to make sure that killing him wouldn't kill our friends in the process. So it was an all-hands-of-deck research problem. The super squad, Freya, we even asked aunt Davina and Uncle Kol to help us, but they could only join us by Astral projection since they were all the way from Paris, France. Nonetheless, they helped us a lot. Especially Kol and his centuries worth of knowledge on witchcraft. After a few weeks of research, we found a solution to our problems. It was as simple as an ancient resurrection spell and a magical dagger that was luckily located right here in mystic falls and an ancient black magic resurrection spell.

We left searching for the dagger up to the adults. We didn't really have much of a choice in the matter since Dr. Saltzman forbids us from helping, telling us to work do our school work. I hate when he does that. Playing the "grown-up rule" when he doesn't need us anymore. I wanted to protest and give him a piece of my mind but Josie stopped me, saying something about needing rest and that she missed being in class too. With a long sigh, I agreed to her request. How could I not when she was looking at me sweetly with those cute puppy eyes and signature pout of hers? Not that it would even matter, because I can never say no to her. No matter how much I try, so I stopped trying altogether. It's easier. So in the end, we attend all our classes and acted like everything was normal just until they found the dagger. I was happy during that time. But I can never fully be happy until I know that Malivore and the Necromancer are out of our lives forever and luckily, the search for the magical dagger only lasted for a week.