Mrs Mikaelson One Shots

Hope's First Heartbreak - Part Three

Katherine threw Emma onto the stone floor of the courtyard as Isa yelled out, "Honey, we're home!"

Nik, Hope, Kol, Finn and Elijah then emerged from a doorway at the opposite end of the courtyard, Hope instantly tensing as she saw Carter, and her father, noticing and feeling her discomfort, wrapped an arm around her.

"What are they doing here, love?" Nik asked.

"Carter, stick out your tongue," Isa ordered as he obeyed, revealing the purple stain on it.

"Carter didn't cheat on you Hopes," Rebekah announced softly.

"The purple stain on his tongue means that he ingested a potion, a powerful one too," Davina explained.

"And this parchment," Keelin began as she and Katherine unrolled it.

"Is the spell Genevieve created to make you fall in love with her and leave Isa," Katherine finished, and Finn and Hope looked at Nik strangely.

"A witch tried to make you leave Mom for her?" Hope asked and Nik furrowed his brows.

"Why is that so hard to believe?"

"Have you met you?" Kol added. "I don't know how Icy has put up with you for so long. "

"Oh, because you're such a picnic?!" Nik fired back.

"When did this happen?" Finn interrupted, Elijah smiling at his side at his brother's bickering.

"Well the spell itself was created in 1919," Freya said.

"But it wasn't cast until 20 years ago when Genevieve came back from the dead after I killed her, only to repurpose the spell and bewitch Nik into trying to kill me," Rebekah finished.

"Why haven't I heard this story before?" Kol asked.

"It wasn't the most pleasant of memories, Kol. And one all who were involved would rather forget than reminisce," Elijah answered.

"How do you break it?" Hope piped up, her voice barely more than a whisper as her father hugged her closer, rubbing her arm.

"Well, that's the thing," Keelin said.

"Genevieve designed the spell to be unbreakable. There is no loophole," Davina answered and Hope's face fell.

"Except one," Isa added, eyes on her daughter. "You."

"Me?"

Isa nodded as she held out her hand and Hope came over to her, their hands intertwining.

"I was pregnant with you with Genevieve casted her spell on your father. And when I kissed him, you used me as a conduit. Your magic broke the spell."

"I can break the spell?" Hope asked uncertainly and Isa nodded, a supportive smile on her lips.

"Only if you want to. I imagine that if you can do it, then so can Henrik, Torin and Lydia. But I know you love Carter, so I'll give you the choice if you want to do it first."

"And it's completely fine if you don't want to," Nik said as he appeared behind Hope, a hand on the small of her back.

She took a deep breath.

"I want to."

Isa spared Nik a quick glance before looking back to her daughter. "Ok. Try talking to him first though," her mother advised before she settled under Nik's arm, Katherine and Rebekah holding an arm each of Emma's, her voice again silenced by Davina's magic. But as she walked by Davina, her aunt slipped the necklace back into her hands.