Severity

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"What's wrong?" Josie watched as Hope nervously walked back over to Josie.

"How sure are you that they are mine?" Hope wondered and Josie smiled softly.

"More sure than anything." She reassured.

"Okay..." Hope trailed off, looking down.

"What's wrong?" Josie asks again, grabbing Hope's hands.

"I guess I was a little jealous, I feel like after all this time, effort and energy I put into this whole process would've been for nothing if they weren't mine. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing or a waste of time, I just would rather stay in this role than have someone else replace me." Hope admits and Josie moves to hug her.

"No one can replace you, you've done so much for me and I didn't even need to ask. You just know what to do and I appreciate you every second of the day, you make all of this so much easier than I know it is." Josie connected their forehead and Hope smiled.

"It's nice to feel appreciated." She looked down at Josie's lips then back up into her chocolate pool eyes.

Josie eyes had a sense of contemplation then she bit her lip. Hope watched as Josie's eyes trailed to her lips so she disconnected their foreheads making Josie pull away. Hope listened, looked around then turned back to Josie who held a blush and a smirk appears on the auburn lips. Hope lean forward and connect their lips taking Josie by surprise. They slowly fell onto Josie's back and Hope climbed on top, cautiously because of the belly bump. Josie lets out a soft moan as Hope's tongue slipped into her mouth. The kiss was firm and passionate, a full blown make out session as the air in their lungs became toxic. Hope pulled away to let each other breathe while their lips tingles.

"Oh..." Josie trails off, still collecting her breath.

"I wanted to do that for a while." Hope bit her lip as she helped Josie up.

"Hm, you should've. It's hard being horny 24/7." Josie mutters, Hope's eyes widen and a blush crept across her face.

"So...are we going to keep this on a low or?" Hope wanted to know.

"As much as I want to shout to the world that we have something going on, I want to take it slow so keeping it a tiny secret would be ideal." Josie explains briefly.

"Okay." Hope agreed.

"We should head back." Josie held out her hands and Hope helped them both up.

They made their way back to the room to see some people gone.

"It would be best to tell Lizzie since she will end up finding out anyways." Hope whispers to Josie who nods.

Hope goes over to her family and they went off somewhere while Josie drags Lizzie somewhere as well.

"So what's going on? What did you and Hope talk about because I did get Mg to ease drop but he said that he couldn't hear anything." Lizzie admits and Josie giggles then puts up a spell.

"Well we went to talk and she confirmed to me that she was the white wolf then we talked again and she kissed me." Josie reveals.

"Oh my God. Oh my God! Did you kiss back?" Lizzie asked excitedly.

"Of course I did, we were like full blown making out. Your best friend is an excellent kisser." Josie smiled happily.

"Finally! Hope was in such denial about her feelings for you and now she acted on them. I'm so proud of her. Also I knew something was going between you two, don't know why it took so long." Lizzie shakes her head.

"We are stubborn people." Josie giggles again.

"Very, I feel bad for your twins." Lizzie jokes to which they both laugh...

"We will be returning back to New Orleans soon." Rebekah informs her niece while wiping red lipstick off of her lips catching the attention of the rest of the Mikaelsons.

"If I remember correctly—" Keelin smirked.

"Please don't." Hope sighs.

"Finally! You my dear niece needs the connection, I'm telling you now that it will only change you for the better." Kol threw his arm around Hope's neck.

"And she is a good girl." Davina backed her husband up.

"Okay enough, jeez." Hope pushed Kol off then let out a heavy breath. "Josie wants to take things slow and I do as well so no nagging." Hope tells them and they look at each other then smiled at their niece.

"Fine fine sure." Rebekah continued to walk and so does the rest.

"I was scared and thought that you would end up with Elizabeth." Marcel let out a sigh of relieft.

"What ew no." Hope pulled a face.

"You and her do playfully flirt a lot." Freya stated.

"You mean fight?" Hope rhetorical asked.

"No we mean flirt." Rebekah agreed with her sister.

"I don't see it, but Lizzie is like my sister...actually that's weird, Lizzie is my best friend and my partner in crime. That'll never happen." Hope clarified and they just shrugged or nodded.

They continued their walk until they returned back to the meeting hall and found only the Saltzmans still there.

"I'm guessing they know." Josie gestured and Hope looked between her family and Josie briefly.

"Left evidence." She pointed to her lips and Josie giggled.

"Same, my lipstick was smudged and Lizzie failed to inform me about it." Josie opened her arms and Hope took the spot next to Josie then fell into her arms.

"Now that you two are dating—" Alaric begins to say but is cut off by a man.

"Alaric!" A man yells as soon as he enters the room.

"Dorian?" Alaric stood up.

"We have a problem." Dorian tells him and Alaric eyes widen.

"Uh oh, Hope let's go." He ushered and Hope sits up then stands.

"Be careful." Josie grabs Hope's hand capturing Hope's attention.

"Will do." She reassured, giving Josie a peck on her cheek.

She followed Alaric to where Dorian went while Caroline raised an eyebrow at Josie. The brunette had a blush creeping up on her face as she hid the grin edging to show.