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Take Me Home Part 2

May 2036

Hope's POV

It hadn't been more than two months since I lost the only person that made me feel human, but to me it felt like two minutes. Two months of being locked up in my room at the Mikaelson mansion. Two months of not being fed. Two months of crying myself to sleep, if I'm lucky enough to get sleep. Two months of hearing the way my family had learnt to move on.

Suddenly I heard footsteps outside my bedroom door, then came the voices.

"She didn't eat her breakfast again. How long is this going to go on Klaus? I'm worried." I heard my mother speaking, "She's grieving in the only way she knows how, there's nothing we can do right now." my farther replied. "Hope honey, lunch is ready, if you want maybe you'd like to join us for dinner later, there will be a seat waiting for you."

I stayed quiet until the footsteps were gone. They always say that. Like it's supposed to make everything better so suddenly. I felt like they expected me to be over this by now, but how do I get over the loss of my wife?

I had never left my room unless I needed to shower, or my family was out, and I had the house to myself. But today I wanted to see what it was like outside the war in my mind. And what I saw made me so angry.

There was my family having a barbeque, Lizzie, Mg, Kaleb, all laughing by the pool. My parents smiling grilling the meat, my aunts and uncles play fighting each other while Freya and Kol bet on who will win. Alaric and Caroline were actually having a conversation for once instead of fighting. The Salvatores and their friends also seemed to be joining on the fun.

I understood the Mikaelsons on why they moved on quickly, they weren't close with Josie but still, we were family, she meant everything to me. Don't they know that?

I was so confused. So frustrated, the sight of this brought tears to my eyes, as I stood there, unnoticed.

"What is this?" I spoke with venom burning my tongue. And it went quiet, every pair of eyes found themselves interested in mine. "What in the hell is this?" Kaleb was the first to speak. "Well Hope, we're having a little fun. Glad to see you finally climbed out of your bat cave." the glare that my family and I gave him shortly after made him shut up.

I chuckled, feeling the anger bounce off of me like bullets. "Yeah Hope, it's what Josie would've wanted. She wouldn't have wanted us to stay sad forever, so we climbed out of the dark and into the light to honor her wishes. This was her wish Hope, to bring together a group of remarkable people. Our family." I laughed.

Josie. I hadn't heard or said her name in so long that it hurt to hear it from someone who wasn't me. " Her wishes?! Ric, Josie is dead! What she wanted doesn't matter anymore! She's dead okay! So, stop pretending that you're doing this for her."

Alaric seemed to be angry by my words. "Oh my god, none of you actually care, do you?" What I said seemed to anger him even more and everyone else in the room just seemed hurt. Too knowledgeable on how right I am, to even begin to speak.

"Are you kidding me? We've been by your side this whole time, and this is the first thing you say?! That we don't care?! You are beyond ungrateful you know that?! I am fully aware that my daughter is dead, but she would have wanted us all to move on, maybe you should try that sometime." my eyes widened as the tears seemed to fall.

"Move on?!..." everyone jumped at the tone of my voice. "She didn't dump me Alaric....she died." Lizzie shook her head at her father's choice of words. "You have no idea what your dead wife's bloodline took from me! My wife, my children's mother, someone to hold me when I'm scared and to call me when I'm lonely! The first person to ever really see me! I mean my best friend! I promised her a lifetime and she's dead. Do you have any idea what it's like for me Alaric?"