Hope POV
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"Are you ready for your third first day of school?" Freya Asks
"Ask me again when we're one hour away from mystic falls" I take a sip of my Dr Pepper.
" I wanted to talk to you about something" Freya looks out at the road and then quickly glances at me.
"Is that why they're all taking different cars" I ask quietly.
"Yes, it's nothing bad I swear you're not in trouble."
"What happened"I ask anxiously.
Freya takes more that a couple deep breaths.
"Auntie Freya you're freaking me out" I look over as she anxiously moves her hands up and down the steering wheel.
"Hope when I was around your age I tried to kill myself" Her voice catches in her throat and it comes out as almost a whine but she clears her throat after the first word to make it seem like it's not difficult for her to talk about. I'm stunned but I try to be tough like she's been trying to be for me. She looks over at me and then back at the road again. "I loved this man and since I couldn't be free from my 100 year slumber I swore never to love another human being but I loved him and I told.." she stops to try to conceal the pain and emotion behind her voice. " I told dahlia I was in love and with child" her voice catches and a cold painful atmosphere sets in and I try to give her the respect of not staring at her while tears slide down her face like small beads of glass.
"Dahlia did not like this she killed him right where he stood. I feared Dahlia would use my child for its power and hold it captive like she held me captive for all those years. I couldn't take it anymore I wanted to be free so I drank a bottle of one of dahlia's strongest potions and I was out and then I was back. Dahlia had taken my ability to die. It was the only freedom I had left and she took it and with my death and return she took my child." I couldn't help but look over at her I was in tears to at this point. She wiped her eyes and started again "Hope I don't know exactly what you were and are feeling but I have had similar feelings and sometimes have similar feelings and I want you to know I'm there for you and I understand. I'm sorry if I haven't been completely there since you've gotten back..." her voice cracks "It's just been a hard couple of months and I've never seen you loose that much blood before and it's like I just couldn't do anything and in kept trying to take the scissors out but they were stuck and you kept crying and I didn't want to hurt you but your skin couldn't heal" she cries.
"Freya you don't have to keep talking about it" I try to comfort her while she sobs next to me trying to focus on the road while also wiping her eyes
"I need to talk to you about it" she chokes back "You're like a daughter to me and I don't know what I'd do if you died. It was like loosing my baby all over again." She tears slide down her face " I know you can't promise me you won't do it again but promise you'll call me and I promise I'll answer" She looks over at me eyes overflowing with tears
" I promise Aunt Freya" my voice cracks and tears pour out of my eyes too.
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FanfictionFor most of her life, Hope has sat back and watched the world spin around her trying to fit into the picture. She tries to lay low like she does every year, but an accident causes her to see another student in a different light.
