Reign in Hell (Klaus Mikaelson FanFic)

Chapter 25: Letters

Celia's POV

"As you know I'm no stranger to death, but that doesn't mean I want to talk about it." Hope said as I looked around and saw everyone was writing on little notes in the library and putting them in a little basket that had other little notes, all nice and folded up.

"Dear Grandma, I've been thinking of you, wishing you were here." one of the kids was writing as we were passing by the library.

"Hope, what is all of this?" I asked as I turned around as she half smiled.

"Once a year for Remembrance Day, we're asked to write letters to our lost loved ones..." she said as we see Rafael writing on a little piece of paper as well.

"Dear Cassie, I miss you every day" Raf was mumbling as he was writing.

"We sign our names, fold them up, and scatter them throughout the cemetery... I usually don't see the point in it. Why write to the dead?" she asked as I frowned at her, she has lost a lot, more if I didn't step in for when her dad was about to off himself as well.

"I'd rather not think about it at all, except..." I looked at her as Raf walked with us on our way out, he put his little letter in the basket.

"Except?" I asked as I nodded my head for her to keep talking.

"Except lately... Death keeps knocking on my door" I nodded.

"Hope, I'm sorry you feel this way, I and your father never wanted you to feel like this, like you have to hold your breath and wait for the next shoe to drop" I said as she shrugged her shoulders.

"How is dad anyway?" she asked as I shrugged my shoulders.

"Hope, your father... he has been busy, after everything that happened with Jo and the girls, he is with Caroline back in Europe, Care is with her daughters and so Nik is taking lead on her... recruiting" I said carefully as I know Hope wouldn't blab the secret but Ric and Caroline do not want any of the kids knowing about the merge, and knowing Hope, with her slight hero complex, she will try everything in her power possible to help Josie and Lizzie out, as they have helped her before (when the poison was in her).

Just as we were about to walk through the mall hall, a woman comes walking in, she was barefoot and slightly wet. She looked in a complete daze and she had tears running down her face.

"Cassie?" Raf said out loud, the girl whipped around and she gasped.

"Raf?" she asked as Raf dropped his school bag and ran up to her.

"Cassie? Isn't that your...?" Hope asked as Raf just hugged her and she clung onto him like it was life or death, but then again she is now alive so...

"My girlfriend" Raf whispered and he just cried as he held his recently killed girlfriend. They held onto each other as I quickly walked over and pulled them apart.

"Professor!" Raf yelled as I shielded him from his so-called girlfriend.

"Just before we all celebrate the rising of your dead girlfriend, let's see what is happening, why she was resurrected, and how it will end, shall we?" I said as Hope nodded, and we brought Cassie to the couch in the main hall.

"Sorry about this" I said as I quickly (with my vamp sped) plucked a piece of her hair out, she yelped and Rafael got protective, his eyes glowed but Hope quickly closed her hand into a fist and he was subdued.

"Thank you" I said to Hope. I quickly spelled it so that she was unable to leave the room, but just her as the reason why I needed her DNA. If she is anything like how Jo was resurrected then that means she is controlled by someone and wants the knife, and with her like Ric, their views will be biased as well as not thinking clearly. Lucky for me all those who have passed, I am not attached to, and those who I am are still here with me.