SIDE CHARACTER [ 1 ]| THE ORIGINALS & LEGACIES

[ H A L L O W E E N ] ONE

So, to get into the spirits of next week being Halloween, here is a series of Halloween chapters! The idea seemed fun to write, so... enjoy :) I'll try posting them all through until Halloween. Happy spooky szn everyone!

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Hope was only eight, and the entire town decorated for Halloween. For once, there was a time where there wasn't fighting going on, and we could enjoy a night dressed up as monsters, not being them, so she could go knock on doors and ask strangers for candy. It was before the Hallow had been divided in the Mikaelsons, so we were all still together.

For complete shits and giggles, we all switched supernatural creatures. The vampires were all dressed as werewolves, the werewolves were witches, and the witches were vampires. Hope and Davina both sat still letting Rebekah and I put fake blood around the sides of their lips while Klaus, Marcel, and Hayley debated what they should be dressed as since they were both vampire and wolf.

"I think mom and dad should be witches," Hope said, moving.

"Hope!" I scolded, the paint getting smeared on her cheek. I grabbed a Q-tip and wiped it away. I turned to look at Klaus and Hayley, and I nodded, laughing. "But kid's right. Go as witches."

Hayley and Klaus looked at each other, silently agreeing. Marcel decided on wolf since he was still less wolf than vampire.

As Klaus and Hayley went with Hope up to every doorstep, I stayed with the rest of the group on the sidewalks. I was next to Elijah.

"Why don't you go get candy?" he asked.

"I'm not a kid," I laughed, looking up at him.

"You look like one," he reasoned, before whispering, "Plus, I want some free candy."

So, I spent the rest of the night walking up to the doors with Hope, saying trick-or-treat while the rest of them snapped photos of us from the sidewalk, as if we were normal humans indulging in yearly festivities. 

At the end of the night, Elijah and I stayed up eating the candy I had gotten from the people of New Orleans, sitting by the fireplace talking about life and laughing. I don't think I've ever felt closer to Elijah than I had that night.

Klaus had asked someone passing by to take a picture of us, and I stood next to Hope. Elijah was behind me, and when we looked back at the photo, he was actually smiling. That might have been the first time I had ever seen Elijah Miakelson smile for a photo.

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In case this whole chapter seems familiar, it is because it was referenced before

"Somehow, Kol and Marcel realized that Freya had to have helped Hope with the spell. She explained her reasoning, that it was better to help Hope than let her do this on her own. Then, she left. She was going to take the power of the Hallow back, I knew that for sure. I found my key behind a picture frame of me and her on Halloween the first year we met

Elijah appeared behind me, looking at the frame. He was standing behind me in it, actually smiling."

-Chapter Twelve, Side Character, by noahscovey/hopesoriginal (on tumblr), the chapter in which they were in the Chambre de Chasse.