Lizzie speeds through the city, she has to get to Hope. Lizzie has known for a while that Landon has been abusing her. She's seen the concealed bruises with all the different excuses a battered woman would say. Oh I fell over. I accidentally hit my face with the cupboard door, she's heard them all. She's also wanted Hope to leave him, to up and leave and never see that piece of shit ever again. Hope would always say "No, I'm all he has" and "No matter what he's still Ava's father" Hope has managed to keep this all from Ava over the last few years but by the sounds of it for Hope to be asking for Lizzie's help, He's taken it way too far.
Lizzie walks up to the house, it looks dark and eerie, she opens the front door and sticks her head through, making sure Landon is nowhere in sight. "Hope" she yell whispers" No reply. She walks in further surveying the rooms as she goes. She walks into the living room and her jaw drops. Yes Landon has taken it too far. Hope is lying down on the floor, barely conscious. Blood dripping from open wounds and her breathing is laboured. "Oh my god Hope, can you hear me Hope?" Hope moves her hand to Lizzies and squeezes, a comforting touch that tells Lizzie she's still there. "I'm calling an ambulance"
"No!"Hope yells hoarsely. "It'll wake him up, please no". Lizzie sees the fear in her eyes and rethinks. "Fine but I'm taking you straight to ER" Lizzie grabs Hope's hands and pulls her up slowly, she feels Hope wince and hearing Hope moan with pain with every movement is like someone squeezing at her heart. "You are leaving him Hope, I mean it. I'm afraid if you don't and this happens again you'll be dead. I lose my best friend and Ava loses her mother forever.
They arrive at the hospital in about 20 minutes, because of Hope's laboured breathing the nurses triage her through so she's seen by a-doctor pretty quickly. She's helped into a hospital gown and into the bed. "Mrs Mikaelson, I am Doctor Machado I'm sending you down for xrays and an mri, after that ill send in a nurse to take care of all these cuts and bruises. I'll get a hospital orderly to come and get you asap. One thing before I go, you haven't put what happened tonight on your paperwork. Hope looks at him with no emotion, "I fell down the stairs". He looks at her knowing that is far from the truth. "Ok I'll write that down but please if there's more to this we can help you." Hope looks in his kind eyes, she knows he means it but telling the truth would be dangerous, she knows it would then involve the police
and that would have unimaginable repercussions. "No, I just fell down the stairs Doctor, nothing more." He sighs and gives her a comforting rub to her arm, I'll get that orderly for you.
"Thank you doctor" Lizzie says. She sits on a chair next to the bed and grabs Hope's hand. "you're going to be ok" she says with a reassuring smile. "And after all this you and Ava can come and stay with me. He's not laying a hand on you again."
Hope's too exhausted to respond but again she gives Lizzie's hand a squeeze.
"Hello Mrs Mikaelson, I'm here to take you down to xray and radiology. I'm just going to wheel you down on your bed if that's ok?"
Hope nods her head and looks at Lizzie. "I'll see you soon" Lizzie says with a sad smile.
Lizzie sits in the room for what feels like hours. Her level of concern is growing and growing the longer the time goes by. She rings MG and fills him in on the nights events, he wanted to come and join her at the hospital but Lizzie tells him to stay home and get two guest rooms ready for Hope and Ava. He says he will and to let him know if there's anything else he can do. She hangs up and thinks to herself how lucky she is to have such a loving, caring husband.
She then makes a call she has been dreading, she scrolls through her contacts and pushes the call button. "Hi Lizzie is everything alright?" Ava wonders why she's getting a call from Lizzie so late on a Friday night. "Ava I'm at the hospital, it's your mother..."
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A Life Once Broken (Hosie)
General FictionElite business woman Hope Mikaelson has had to pick up her life and leave after her violent husband nearly ended her life. She and her daughter move in with her best friends sister Josie, in Mystic Falls. But it doesn't take long before feelings...
