Salvatore War

Chapter 12 - I Was Worried

Landon's pov

"Touch her and you're dead," Marcel said to me as we were waiting for Hope to get dressed behind the trees. It surprised me how tempting it was to add 'too late', but I would obviously never say that. I knew he wasn't actually going to kill me because Rick would've warned him about threatening or hurting students and from what Hope has told me about him he sounds like he's actually a nice guy, just a little overprotective.

Hope walked out of the trees in her uniform, running her hands through her slightly knotted hair in an attempt to brush it.

"Come on, it's getting late," he said, sounding annoyed and we began walking back toward the school.

"What's your problem?" Hope asked him and we struggled to keep up with his fast walking.

"My problem is that you've been out for hours and I had no idea where you were. I was worried about you, I thought you were upset but apparently you were just hanging out with this guy." Marcel replied, motioning to me.

"Seriously Marcellus," she sighed, purposely using his full first name, "You're acting like Dad,"

"Well I bet if he were here you wouldn't sneak off to the woods to talk to any boys!"

"Yeah but he's not here!" Hope stopped in her tracks, clearly getting cross with her brother now. "And I was upset, Landon was helping calm me down, you're not." She crossed her arms across her chest and glared at him.

He sighed. "Look, I'm sorry. We were just getting worried, we haven't seen you in a while and things usually don't end well when Mikaelsons storm off in fits of rage." Marcel apologized, he seemed genuinely sorry for yelling about Klaus like that.

"It's fine, I get it." Hope said and continued walking. "I'm sorry I've had such a short temper today," she looked at me, "And for the past week," she added and we all fell mostly silent for the rest of the walk back.

Rebekah's pov

I was in Stefan's memorial library looking around when I saw my necklace in one of the cases with Elena Gilbert's name next to it. I subtly reached into the case and grabbed it, placing it in my pocket for safekeeping before walking over to one of the windows. I saw Marcel, Hope and that Landon boy walking back over the field towards the building and I went downstairs to see them.

"Hey Baby," I said when I saw Hope, she looked like she was okay now but I couldn't be sure. "You ran off hours ago I was worried, are you alright?"

"Yeah," she nodded as the three of them walked the last few steps to the entrance.

"Hey, I think it's time you and I talked alone." I suggested and she smiled.

"Sure,"

"I'm going to go look around anyway," Marcel added and walked past me into the building.

"I have to go find Seylah, I haven't seen her today," Landon said and he kissed Hope's head before walking away.

I smirked at her, "He seems nice," I said.

"He is," she replied and I could tell she was trying not to smile.

"See this is what I wanted to talk about." I added and we began walking around the perimeter of the school.

"Your headmaster's kind of a dick," I said after a while and she laughed.

"He's not always, he's just a little stressed lately - we all are."

"Which is a great segue into you telling me what the hell is going on around here," I replied and she stopped and looked at me.

"What do you mean?" she asked and I rolled my eyes at her.