The dreams had never been so violent. Her visions were usually filled with pictures of pure joy, happiness, freedom, love - always showing her the life she wished she could have had, what she was missing out on and so desperately craved to experience. Until now, at least.
Blood. Death. Bodies on top of bodies lost deep in the woods, piled on the stump of an old tree. The way she watched with empty eyes as her friend laid helplessly on the ground before walking away with him, turning her back and leaving her to die slowly, out in the cold of the night, in the dark and all alone. The scream - her scream, as she found her on the forest floor nearly dead. How she crumbled to her knees in pain as the person she loved and trusted the most betrayed her, ripping her heart from her chest as though it was nothing.
And then it all went black.
Hope Mikaelson jolted up in her bed, her ears ringing and chest heaving as she tried to catch her breath. Sweat lined her forehead as she stared at the wall in a daze, trying to sort out her thoughts, becoming too distracted to even notice when her family began piling into her room with varying looks of worry on their faces which only worsened when she didn't even seem to hear how they called her name. She was too caught up in her head and the worry that she only snapped out of it when she felt hands gently being placed on either side of her face, cupping her cheeks and turning her head until she was looking into her mothers concerned eyes.
"Hope? What's wrong?" Hayley asks.
Hope's eyebrows furrow as she shakes her head, blinking out of her daze she pushes her mothers hands away and begins wiping away the sweat from her forehead with the sleeve of her shirt. "Nothing." She mumbles. "What're you all doing in here?"
Rebekah frowns. "What do you mean? We heard you scream." She answers, watching as Hope's confusion only deepens.
"What happened?" Klaus questions, walking to his daughters side and looking her over for any harm.
"Nothing." She repeats, once more shaking her head.
"Then why are you crying?" Kol points out with a smug look, slight amusement flooding in when Hope discreetly glares over at him.
"I'm fine, it was just a nightmare." She lies as she wipes away her tears, not missing the unconvinced looks being shared between her family who no doubt heard the way her heart jumped.
Klaus sighs. "Hope, what's really going on?"
She stays quiet for a minute unsure on what to do. Her family wouldn't buy her lies, she knew that, she knew that they would keep pushing until they got answers and that eventually she would crack and come clean, but she didn't want to. She was scared, scared about what she had seen in her dream, scared about telling the truth and admitting what has been going on for years behind her family's back - what she had kept from them, and scared about what they would do when they found out. How do you tell your family you've been lying to them for two years? Keeping secrets from them? What if they hated her for it? What would she do then?
