Give Me Hope ~ Stefanie Salvatore

~chapter 26~

I let MG stay at my house for a few hours, and just let him talk. He told me that after him and I had the conversation the other day, Ethan came back to the hideout and was pretty banged up because he decided to take on a "superhero mission" himself. MG gave him some blood to heal him, then after, he compelled Ethan to forget about everything... even their friendship. The image of Ethan on the brink of death was a wake up call to MG, and he wanted to assure it didn't happen again.

Then, shortly after MG left, I got a call from Ric... The necromancer decided to resurrect Da Vinci, but of course, Ric couldn't communicate with him to get answers, since Da Vinci spoke Italian. While having a desperately failed attempt with Jed, who claimed (and clearly hyped up his skills way too much) that he spoke Italian, and could translate, it was interrupted by Cleo, saying she needed some sort of weapon to help Hope. Well, during this interruption, Cleo started speaking in Italian to Da Vinci.... And he knew her name. Ric said it seemed like they both knew each other, but before he could get answers, Cleo left with a weapon and locked Ric in his office.

But that's not it folks! Once Ric finally managed to escape, he ran to the woods where the abandoned barn is on school grounds (Cleo briefly mentioned that's where Hope was when she first walked into his office). He was met with Cleo passed out (Cleo tried to kill Hope, and clearly failed), and Hope, preparing to face off some guy dressed like some crazy dude who is part of some apocalypse video game. His face was covered with a animal skull they used as a mask. Just when Hope was ready to fight... the person took the mask off and revealed themselves as.... Landon. The true Landon.

Turns out, the Landon that we thought was saved by Cleo, was a fake. It was some sort of false creation that Cleo somehow managed to make. He also discovered that Cleo was the thing locked in the artifact.

Now, Hope has the real Landon, and Cleo is locked up in the school while Ric decides her fate.

It was a long phone call to say the least.

"Lunch." My mom smiles as she hands me a brown paper bag as I walk downstairs. I look inside it and hesitate.

"Did you try a new recipe from the Salvatore cook book?" I question. I am not exactly sure what food I am looking at, or if it is even edible for that matter.

"Yes..." My mom crosses her arms and glares at me, "what is that face for? I thought it looked good..." She asks me.

"Well..." I begin, but I am interrupted when my dad walks into the room.

"I am sure it is delicious, hun." He says as he kisses my moms cheek. "Don't knock it till you try it, Stef." He says to me, encouragingly, and I silently groan.

He smiles at me, then when my mom has her back turned towards us, he hands me a twenty dollar bill. "Go get something edible" He whispers, and I mouth a thank you to him.

"See you guys after school" I say to them as I walk out of the door and into my car. Today is the first day in a while I am driving to school alone... and it feels wrong.

Jo and Finch kissed and made up... sparks flew. No, like literally, sparks flew. When they kissed, Jo's magic went haywire and bursted some lights at Mystic High.

When I do make it to school, I see a huge crowd surrounding something going on right out front of the school. I start to walk over, curious as to what everyone is staring at. And that's when I see Landon, punching Blake. Blake is covered on blood, clearly having no fight left in him, but Landon isn't stopping. When Landon did go to this school, before he knew about the supernatural world, I know Blake bullied him quite a bit. But this is so not like the Landon I knew before...He would have never done this much damage.