Give Me Hope ~ Stefanie Salvatore

~chapter 24~

A/N!!!!! PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING!!

Hey everyone, so this chapter talks about Finchs' werewolf curse and how it was activated, so for those who have watched the show will know that it involves suicide/murder. I wanted to put a trigger warning due to this. It is a super short part of the scene, but I wanted to have the warning nonetheless. I have put a warning right before the specific part in bold, and a note in bold once it ends, so if you feel most comfortable on skipping over that part, please do!

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"And Landon..." I stare blankly at the two of them, who are apparently just as unsure what to say as I am.

"What are you doing here?" Hope says gently, after a few moments of silence. She is just as shocked as I am. This is the first time we've seen each other since our fight. Our first real, huge, fight.

"I could ask you the same..." I state, which brings Landon to look down at the ground.

My eyes follow his and I see a beautiful picnic-like setup on the dock. How did I miss that earlier??

"Right" I let out a breath and try my best to let out a light smile, "always had a thing for romantic gestures, Landon" I look at him, and he just tightly smiles and nods.

I look at Hope, and she looks as if she is about to say something, but I speak up before she can. I'm not ready for whatever conversation she is trying to start.

"I should get going" I say as I wipe my hands on my jeans, ridding my hands of the annoying sweat that has built up, "It's getting late" I whisper as I squeeze past them and quickly walk off, leaving no opportunity for Hope, or Landon, to spit out a 'goodbye'.

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I wake up the next morning and stare at my ceiling for a few moments before I gain the courage to get out of bed.

"Goodmorning, sunshine" Josie says as I walk into the kitchen, mocking my tone from the morning before.

I rub my eyes and put a hand up to tell her to wait a moment. "Coffee, first" I groan as I open the cupboard and grab a cup to pour myself some coffee.

"Theres my daughter that I love and know so well" My father sarcastically says, and I jokingly glare at him as I sit at the kitchen table.

"Hey, so, I was wondering if you could drop me off at the Salvatore School before school today? I just wanted to talk to Lizzie quick. But don't worry, I can get a ride to Mystic High with her, so you don't have to wait up for me" Jo asks.

"Yea, sure" I whisper, with my eyes half open. I shake my head to wake myself up, then go upstairs to finish getting ready.

Once Jo and I are both ready, I drive her to the Salvatore School, then head over to Mystic Falls High. When I pull into the parking lot, I see Ethan, getting out of his truck. MG not in sight... Maybe MG did take care of it, but I just have to be sure...

"Hello" I say as I stand behind Ethan. He is startled as her turns around quickly and sees me.

"Um, hi" He says, nervously eyeing me up.

"So, whatcha do last night after we left?" I ask casually as we start to walk towards the school.

"MG didn't tell you?" He says, and I stop in my tracks.

"Tell me what" I turn to him and ask. If he wasn't nervous before, he definitely is now.

"Oh, well, um... I kind of, didn't listen to you two when you said to stay behind and by the time I got to the school a werewolf was on top of MG about to bite him, or something, and so I hit it with a fire extinguisher to get it off him and then soon enough the wolf turned into a human and it was..." Ethan rants