Severity

<9>

"How's your speaking?" Elena asks after Josie had finished taking her vitamins.

"Not 100%." She responded.

"How many sentences could you say at a time?" Elena continues to question.

"...Two." Josie reveals.

"By the time her face heals I'm sure it will be back to normal." Freya notes.

"I'm hope so." Elena walked over to a cabinet while Freya was typing away on something on the laptop until she had set it aside.

"I'm disabling the illusion spell." Freya announces and Elena nods but noticed the expression on Josie's face.

"No pouting." Elena shakes her head and Josie replaces her pout with a smile when Hope walks in.

"Aunt Keelin needed to go help around the hospital since Elena is here, so I'm watching Nik." She explained with the sleeping boys in her arms as he lays on her chest.

"Well I won't deny you from your aunt duties." Freya pecks both her son and niece head before going back to examining Josie's wounds.

"I'm his cousin though." Hope rose an eyebrow.

"Practically his aunt." Freya says, seeing some of the bandage had faded and Josie's hair is more visible.

"I—" Hope was immediately cut off by Elena.

"Maybe after we are done with the check up, you and Josie could watch after him together." She suggests and they can see Hope thinking about it briefly before she turned to Freya.

"He's your son so it's your choice." Hope tells her aunt.

"You two can handle him." Freya finished examining the brunette then went back to her laptop to record the results.

"Oh, your nose should be the last thing to heal." Elena added and Josie nods before she gets off the bed.

"Flower field." Josie directed Hope and Hope gives her a nod in return. They head off to the flower field where they spend most of their days together. It wasn't a secret that the two are friends now but people still questions what happened to Josie for her to disappear and hide from everyone. Once they sit down, Josie grabs Hope's hand and place it on her face which took Hope a minute to register what the girl wanted, she reapplied the illusion spell. "Thank you." Josie mutters.

"Of course." Hope nods.

"He's cute." Josie turned her attention to the boy still sleeping in Hope's arms.

"Yeah, a bit of an adventurous spirit though." Hope mentions.

"Must run through the family." Josie noted and Hope laughs a little.

"I suppose, are you tired?" She asks.

"No." Josie shook her head.

"Great, wake me up when he wakes up." Hope yawns then laid her head on Josie's lap making the girl blush.

"I—" She cuts herself off seeing that Hope already closed her eyes.

Watching Hope's breathing steady, she began raking her hand through the auburn locks. She took the time to also take in every little detail on Hope's face, from the faded freckles to the small veins that made a heart on Hope's temple. Josie thought it was cute, she thought it was like a metaphor, maybe it can be implicated into a song, she thought and so she began writing until Nik woken up. He was still fairly quiet so Josie didn't notice until he laid on her lap too then yawned signaling that he was still tired before going back to sleep. Josie only shrugs and continued to write and she was nearly finished when Hope shoots up in panic. Josie gave her a confused look and Hope looks around until her eyes landed on the small boy curled up on Josie lap and sighed in relief.

"Was I not comfy enough for him?" Hope jokes and Josie giggles.

"Maybe you're too warm for him, wolf gene and all." Josie tells her and Hope goes to lay down but Josie stops her. "I'm hungry." She says, picking up Nik this time.

"I think you would be a good mom." Hope claims and Josie gave her a confused look since the statement came from nowhere.

They made their way back into the school and to the cafeteria where they grabbed their dinner, swiftly, since Josie is still uncomfortable with interacting with her peers then made their way back to Hope's room. Elena had left sometime earlier and Freya was still typing away on her laptop but Keelin was now there.

"How was he?" She asked.

"He slept, and is still sleeping." Josie watched as Hope set down their food on her bed.

"Wow, what did you feed him?" Keelin wondered, walking over to Josie to rubbed her baby boy's back to signal for him to wake up.

"Nothing yet." Hope spoke this time.

"I'm shocked, maybe he's still full from breakfast. We did have a big breakfast." Keelin took Nik who was now awake but laying his head on her shoulder.

"He is still a wolf, whether that curse is activated or not. Having to had fed these three was torture." Freya teases and Hope scoffs playfully while Keelin roll her eyes and Nik giggles.

"Is Nik a werewitch?" Josie questions.

"Potentially. He hasn't showed any sign of magic yet so I don't know." Freya reveals and Josie only nods before she sits on Hope bed.

Hope being Hope, moved Josie until her back had hit the headboard then laid down between her legs before grabbing the food.

"Oh okay." Josie took the food container Hope held up.

"We should go eat too, goodnight if we don't return." Freya stood up.

"Goodnight." The duo says in sync and watched as the small family exited the room.

They began to chat and discuss about Christmas since that was the upcoming holiday and the Mikaelsons wanted to host a Christmas ball.

"Would you be comfortable in going?" Hope asked the brunette and Josie thought about it.

"I think my face would be healed so yes." She responded and Hope nods slowly.

"You two should go together." Lizzie appears out of nowhere, literally just popped up next to the two.

"Hm?" Josie thought.

"Hi Lizzie." Hope greets nonchalantly.

"Yes hello, but it would make things ten times easier if you two would go together." Lizzie shrugs.

"How so?" Hope wondered.

"You don't have to look for a date." Lizzie started.

"Why would we need a date?" Hope asks.

"You can protect Josie." Lizzie ignores her question.

"Why would we need—" Hope was cut off by Lizzie.

"You can spend Christmas together and get each other gifts." She continued to list off.

"Okay, jeez." Hope grabbed Josie's trash as well as her own and threw it away. "Do you have a dress picked out?" She questions once returning to the bed, lying right back on Josie's stomach.

"Surprisingly no." Lizzie sighed.

"Great, I have a good dress for you both. You can choose if you want to wear them or not." Hope turned so she could lay her face on Josie's stomach.

"This better be good." Lizzie twirled her hair as she secretly took a picture of the two.

"Mhm." Hope hums, letting her eyes flutter close and cuddle into Josie.