Lost Hope

~Prolouge~

2 months ago

Hope hasn't seen light in days, she hasn't even eaten. It's been almost 3 months since her parents died. She's been locked up in her room. Her worried family would try to come in but she spelled herself in.

"Hope, darling, you can't be sulking in there for the end of time." Kol stated as he knocked on the spelled door. "You need to come out, grieve properly. Starving yourself and locking everyone who cares about you out isn't healthy."

Silence.

"Hope, we mean it. I know your sad, we all are but right now we need to stick together. Always and forever." Rebekah joined

Hope was slouched on the other side of the door, her eyes widened and rage consumed her pure innocence. 'Always and forever was a joke' she thought.

"Yeah, well Always and forever didn't last long enough." Hope shouted, "leave me alone before I make you." She pulled her knees into her chest and cried. She sobbed, she hated how weak she was. She hates how sad she was. She wished for everything to just go away. For every emotion that's left in her to wither away and never come back.

When the sun went down and the moon and stars were left to illuminate New Orleans. Hope snuck out her window to visit the bayou. She needed to talk to her mom.

Once she made it there she stared at her mother's name engraved on the stone

Hayley Marshall

She traced her fingers over it, "what am I supposed to do now mom?" She asked.

"I'm lost without you. I don't have you or dad and everyone is telling me it's going to be ok but it'll never be ok without you. I still need you, mom." The heat of her tears began to swell up in her eyes and she could feel them threatening to fall. She wiped them before they could. She couldn't let herself be weak.

"No need to cry. You'll be joining her soon." An unknown voiced said behind the auburn haired girl.

"What?" She asked, her red eyes puffy and her voice slightly breaking.

She looked at the tall muscular man that seemed to be maybe in his late 30s. He was holding on to a stake so tightly his knuckles turned white. Hopes eyes trailed to the stake and her eye widened. She tried to make a run for it but the man used his vampire speed to appear in front of her.

"Ventus." She motioned. The man went flying backwards into a tree. He grunted from the impact but quickly regained himself and got up. He sped to Hope and placed the stake near her rapidly beating heart.

"Do you have any idea what your father did to my family?" He questioned the young girl, pure rage was visibly seen in his eyes.

"Why does it matter, he's dead now. You got what you wanted. So, let. Me. Go." Hope warned coldly.

"I didn't get what I want, I can still take away the happiness the Mikaelson family does not deserve." He growled, menacingly.

Hope was in full rage. No one talks about her family like that and makes it out alive. She was preparing to mutter a spell to end this jerk but she felt a sudden sharp pain in her chest. She looked at her now stained shirt. Soaked in her own blood. The stake had been driven into her heart. Her body limps against the tree. The unknown man smiles, satisfied with his revenge. And with that he leaves Hopes body in the woods of the bayou.

Just minutes after the man had left, the remaining Mikaelson family spots the 16-year old teen. Slumped and lifeless.

"Oh my god. Hope." Rebekah rushes to her niece.