Crazy

Chapter 1

🛑: abuse

No One POV:

     Rebekah Mikaelson walks up to a beautiful white house with a baby carrier late at night. She set the carrier in front of the door step and kneeled down staring at her baby niece with a soft smile.

"Hey sweetheart I see you're awake," she coos at her niece who's looking at her with big innocent blue eyes, "you're going to do amazing things, Hope Andrea Mikaelson. I just know it."

Rebekah fixes Hope's blanket and adjusts the letter that contains Hope's name,birth date, age, and gender next to her niece. She leans forward and kisses Hope's forehead, "I love you, little one."

She stands and rings the doorbell then knocks loudly on the door scaring her niece in the process. Hope starts crying making Rebekah wince, "sorry sweetheart." She speeds out of there just as a couple opens the door.

    The woman gasps, "oh you poor thing." She gently picks up Hope and rocks her making Hope quiet down to just whimpers. The man looks around trying to spot anybody but there's nobody in sight. He picks up the carrier and follows his wife inside.

4 year old Hope.........

      Little hope is helping her mother Julie Simpson set the dinner table before her father Dale Simpson comes home. "Mommy why daddy mean?" She asks looking up innocently at Julie after setting the napkin down.

      Julie set the food in the middle of the table before smiling sadly down at her daughter. "Daddy's just.... He's having a hard time with work is all. Don't worry about it, honey. Everything will be okay again," Julie reassures Hope pushing a strand of hair behind her ear.

     Hope bites her little lip in worry before hugging Julie, "love you mommy. I protect you from daddy, kay?" Julie's eyes got blurry with tears and she has to blink them away before her daughter can see.

     The sound of a car driving up made Julie compose herself quickly. "Go wash up, honey," Hope nods quickly and lets her mom go to go wash her hands, "Hope," she turns back, "I love you too, my little warrior."

Hope grins before running to the restroom to wash her hands. After making sure her hands were all clean and dry she ran back to the dining room trying to beat her dad. Her breath hitched as his dark eyes look at her while her mom looks on in fright.

"What the hell have I told you about running in my house?" He stalks towards Hope making her breathing turn rapidly as she looks at him with wide fearful eyes. He looks down at her with disgust before backhanding her in the face instantly splitting her lip making Hope cry out.

"Dale!" Julie yells running and picking up her crying daughter. He just looks at them without an ounce of regret shown and sits down at the dinner table. "Shut her up so we can eat in peace," he commands his wife waiting to be served.

After a quit and tense dinner Julie and Hope cleans up while Dale sat down in the living room to watch TV. Julie picks up Hope letting her daughter wrap her limbs around her.

She took Hope to the bathroom to fix up her lip and take her a bath. Julie washed her hair and body before wrapping Hope up in a white fluffy towel. She carriers her to Hope's room and sets her down on the bed.

Julie gets her clothes and turns around finding her very naked daughter jumping on the bed. She giggles slightly and catches Hope mid jump, "come on my naked little warrior. Time to get dress."

As Hope finished getting dressed Julie tucked her into bed handing Hope her favorite teddy bear then leans down kissing her head. "Goodnight Hope. I love you. Remember?" Julie holds up a pair of noise canceling out headphones.