Metanoia

PROLOGUE

HOPE'S POV:
I was standing there, looking down the pit that had started stirring and then back to Landon's lifeless body. It's for the better, I thought to myself. I was thinking back to the phone call I just had with Dr.Saltzman and Angel.

FLASHBACK
"Hope. Did you find Landon?" Dr.Saltzman's voice rings through the phone. "Yeah." "Okay, we'll, tell me where you are." "Fort Valley, Georgia. Landon's gonna need you when I'm done. You have to write it down." I said, my voice shaking slightly. "Wait. You're at Triad Headquarters?" "Yeah. Uh, don't worry, though. Everyone here is dead." I say looking down at the black pit of Malivore. "Okay, listen, you're not making any sense. Just put Landon on the phone." Dr.Saltzman said and I heard someone entering his office, "where's Hope?" I immediately recognized Angel's voice and sigh.

"I can't. Uh, he would have tried to stop me, so I had to kill him, too."  Dr.Saltzman sounded surprised and angry, "What?" Whilst I heard Angel snickering in the background. "Finally she did it. Tell the little psychopath I'm proud of her, and will buy her that disgusting milkshake she likes as a reward." I heard Dr.Saltzman scold him, "not now Angelus."

"He'll come back. Don't worry. Even if I don't." I say and the silence both Dr.Saltzman and Angel has told me they figured it out. "Hope, tell me what the hell you're about to do right now before you do it." Dr.Saltzman said and I heard Angel go dead silent. "Clarke won. He found the final artifact, and he tossed it into the pit, which is Landon's father, by the way. And now Malivore's gonna rise unless I stop him." I told him, and I heard Angel grabbing the phone from Dr.Saltzman. "Stop him how Hope?" His cold voice spoke over the phone and I sigh. "Landon got all the answers, but, basically, Malivore was created by the blood of a werewolf, a witch and a vampire. It used to be that only they could destroy what they created, but nature found a loophole. By making me. The Tribrid. I'm the loophole." Angel's angry voice came through the phone. "Hope you better not fucking do it." But he was cut off by Dr.Saltzman. "Hope, you listen to me. Now this is a theory, okay, and you don't even know if this is gonna work, so you just sit tight, and you wait for us to get there." My voice cracks. "There's no time. I've always thought that I was a cosmic mistake, someone who should never have been born. But after all this time, I mean, my purpose is finally clear. Think about it. I'm the answer to all of this. I can remember things about Malivore that no one else can. That Triad weapon didn't affect me. Did my blood heal Josie?" I spoke leaning against the wall, closing my eyes hoping silently I won't cry. "I am not okay with this." Dr.Saltzman said but Angel interrupted him. "Hope, God no. You're my cosmic miracle, okay? So you better fucking wait, alright? You're going to wait your pretty self until I get there. I will jump with you. Just don't bloody go, I need you!" Angelus voice raised as he spoke and tears streamed slowly down my face.

"You don't get to leave me Hope. I swear to hell I will find you, I will always find you. You can't leave me, you're like the only one who is allowed to call me Angel. Or get my clothes dirty with your bloody paint. Who else am I supposed to go to when things get bad?! Hope, I can't be without you." A small sob escaped my lips. "Angel, I know.. okay? I know, but you'll be fine. Because once I toss myself into that pit, no one at school will remember me. Including you. So you'll have to be extra careful and take care of yourself when I can't do that anymore okay?" I said to him, with an heavy heart. Dr.Saltzman spoke again. "Hope. You listen to me." But I cut him off. "I've spent years torturing myself, asking myself why my father sacrificed himself for me, to get to this point where, I mean, I totally understand it. And I don't want you to have to go through that pain, Dr.Saltzman. You've been through enough. Same for you Angel, I can't bare the thought of knowing you're hurting, and it's my fault. And I don't want anyone at school to miss me, because they're my friends. Maybe I would have seen that sooner if I hadn't been beating myself up all this time." I let out a sigh as I wipe away my tears. Angel voice comes through the phone again. "I'll let it slide for once, that you'll miss other people in this school more than me." And I laughed softly. "I'll probably miss you the most, believe it or not." And take a deep breath. "This is where you tell me that even though you wish you could change my mind, you know I'm doing the right thing."

I heard Angel speak up angry again. "I don't care about the right thing Hope! I'd let the whole world die, if that meant that you'd be safe back here. Please.. please don't do it. Wait until I get to you." He said and I heard him handing the phone to Dr.Saltzman. "This is the part where you tell me you're proud of me." I said and Dr.Saltzman answered with his voice breaking. "You know I'm proud of you. You know it. What is it you need me to do?" He asks me, I heard Angel yelling at me through the phone. "Don't do anything Hope, I fucking mean it. I'm coming to you." And heard a door slam, I sigh with tears in my eyes again. "Call maintenance. Have 'em pack up my room. Take my files, all those notes I know that you keep about me, and burn them. Along with Landon's journal. And hide the photo of me and Angel on his nightstand in his drawer beneath his desk, I can't bring myself to ask you to burn it. And I know he won't look in that drawer since he always forgets he has it." I hear Dr.Saltzman sigh. "Listen, if you want to erase yourself, that is on you, okay, but you can't ask me to do it, too. Especially for Angelus." My voice breaks again. "I'm sorry, Dr.Saltzman. But I trust you right now the most since Angel isn't going to listen now, and is probably already on his way to here."

Then the pit started roaring, I panic a little. "I got to go." I say, "Hope, listen to me. Wait." Dr.Saltzman said, "not an option. Uh-uh. Uh, promise me you're gonna do what I said, and take care of Angelus for me." When I didn't hear him say anything for a moment I spoke a little louder this time. "Promise me." I finally hear his voice again, "all right. Fine. I promise." And I hang up.

END OF FLASHBACK

As I hold the railing ready to jump into Malivore, Clark suddenly arose from the death. He cracks his neck back, "Ooh. Sorry. I was eavesdropping. Can't say you really know how to swoon a boy off his feet, well what are you waiting for?" I looked at him puzzled for a moment, ignoring the comment about Angel. "I assumed you were gonna try to stop me." "Hell no. I was only trying to raise my father because I'm terrified of him, and I knew he's find a way out someday. But if you're right about this loophole— can actually kill the bastard once and for all— be my guest. And if you're wrong, well, no harm done because you'll be dead." He says as I walk towards him to the edge of an opening at the railing. "So go on. I'll be rooting for you." He says and I smile sarcastically. "That's not all you'll be doing. Imitantor Pupulus." I casted a spell, he smiles amused. "Whatever you think you just did, didn't work—"

As he said that I cupped my hand over my mouth, and he mimicked the exact same move shutting him up. "How'd you do that?" He asks now, "why did I do that?" "It's a basic mimic spell. We learned it in second grade. Also in second grade..." I say walking closer as Clarke follows my movements, slightly groaning as we we're standing now in front of each other. "Follow the Leader." "You don't have to do this." He silently begged and I smirked. "I know. But it's the only part I'm actually enjoying." I say as we stepped onto the railing with one leg, and grabbed each other's throats. "Too bad you're so clumsy." I say mimicking his words from before. And we jumped into the pit.

ANGELUS'S POV:
I was sprinting through the woods trying to get to Hope, my heart beating fast, adrenaline pumping through my veins, my eyes golden as my wolf side had now been taking over my senses. Please wait for me. I thought to myself. I couldn't lose her. I couldn't lose Hope.

Then I suddenly stopped running, breathing heavily I looked around confused. My heart suddenly started hurting insanely as I started clutching it through my shirt falling to the ground. Where was I? Why is my heart so badly hurting. I wince in pain as I rolled onto the ground.

I breathe heavily, unable to steady my breaths. What was happening to me? I looked around panicking. Trying to calm myself, I started breathing slowly. After almost 10 minutes of calming myself down, the pain right in my heart was still there but I managed to get up and walk to the school again.

When I returned to the school I saw Alaric, near an little fire burning something. I just shrugged it off, it was probably some things left of Triad. And went to my room. Once I got into my room, I locked the door behind me and layed down on my bed. I looked up at the ceiling before turning over looking at my nightstand, it was all the same except there seemed be to dust on an particular spot that seemed like it had an photo stand. I looked briefly around my nightstand, if I saw an picture anywhere but when I didn't I just shrugged it off and layed back down.

After who knows how long, I managed to fall asleep. Only to get awaken by intense heart pain, and flashes.

Flashes of a girl.