Hosie - I Had a Crush on you (Completed)

Chapter Twenty Two - Shot in the Dark

Hope's Pov-

I open up another journal of Stefan's, one from 2009. What I read surprised me. 

'I did what I had to do to protect Elena. To protect everyone. Yes Damon the headline reads deadly beast captured. All is well in Mystic Falls. Damon is in the cellar, I had no choice. I did what I had to do. I won't allow him to hurt Elena' 

It's strange reading this knowing that Damon is married to Elena and they have kids together. I had no idea that Elena and Stefan were together. I know that Caroline and Stefan got married the day that he died. Things change over time apparently. I pick up a diary from two years later trying to figure out when Elena changed Salvatore brothers. I pick up one from 2011.

'She's been spiraling since her transition and at times I barely recognize her. But now, for the first time in a while, there's hope. Somewhere in the world, there's a cure for vampires. If I can get it, Elena can be human again. I can give her back her life. So, that's what I need to do. No matter what Klaus asks, no matter what lies I have to tell or secrets I have to keep, I'll do it. No matter what it takes.' 

I look at my fathers name in the diary entry and suddenly I am sad. I had no idea that Stefan knew my dad. I flick forward a few pages. I knew about the cure and I knew that Elena had taken it to become human. 

'We trapped Klaus in Elena's living room, after killing his brother to get the map to the cure we couldn't risk him coming after us. That's a problem that we will have to deal with after we have the cure. I will always do what I can to protect Elena even if she is with my brother, even if she is sired to him'

(AUTHORS NOTE: Some of the diary entries are real, some of them I made up)

I put down the diary and make my way downstairs and into the basement, there's the spot the Stefan had to lock Damon to protect Elena. I look over at a chest outside of the cell. I open it and it's full of blood bags. Looks like even Kai hasn't even been here. I pick one up and stare at it. Will this be my life when I activate my vampire side? because I am not drinking the animal blood that Doctor Saltzman supplies us at the Salvatore school. My mind suddenly goes to Josie. I wonder if she has figured it out yet... It's not possible, this is too tricky to figure out. I reach into my pocket, it's my phone. I turn it on to see a picture of me and Josie as the lock screen. I know it's only been a few days but I miss her. I go into my contacts and press on her name and it starts ringing. My eyes widen, as if this is working right now. 

"Hello" I hear a voice say into the phone. 

"Josie... is that you?" I ask. 

"Hope? where are you?" She asks. I put my hand over my mouth and my eyes start to tear up. I can't believe I didn't think of this before. Of course I didn't, the idea seems completely ridiculous. 

"I uh... I'm in a prison world with possibly the two worst people in the world" I say with a laugh. I hear her laugh on the other side and I can tell she is crying happy tears. 

"I'm so happy that you're alive, no one else remembers you and I'm afraid that dad isn't going to want to bring you back because you're a Mikaelson." She admits to me. "I tried to tell him about you" 

"Can you put him on?" I ask. 

"Sure" She says before it goes silent. 

"Hello" He says into the phone. 

"Doctor Saltzman, it's good to hear your voice. I know you don't remember me and I know you think I evil because Klaus Mikaelson is my father but do you know what you told me? You told me that the darkness inside of my is my father, it's not me and you're right because all I want to do is help people" I explain. Something comes to my mind when I'm saying this. "In the fridge in your office are vials of my blood, If you drink one of them you might remember me... I'm just taking a shot in the dark now"

"We should give one to Lizzie too" I hear Josie say. "That way she will remember that she hates Landon and she will give Mg a chance" 

"Why does she need to remember that she hates Landon?" I ask curiously. 

"He asked her out" Josie says. I can't help but let out a surprised laugh. "I'm not joking" Josie says with a laugh. 

"I believe you" I say. "That was just the last thing I expected you to say"

"okay, he's drinking the blood" Josie says. There's a pause before Josie says "I think it's working" 

"Hope we are going to get you out of there... but while you are there can you talk to Kai Parker and try to get the answer for avoiding the merge out of him" Doctor Saltzman says into the phone. "I remember everything and I'm sorry for assuming that you are evil but you need to understand that the history that I had with your father wasn't great"

"I understand Doctor Saltzman" I say. My phone beeps before it turns off. oh no it's gone flat. It's fine though because they know where I am now. I have to go find Kai and ask him about the merge even though he is the most annoying person to talk to. I walk out of the house and find him where he usually is, sitting outside of the Mystic Falls grocery store playing on his phone.

"You know they didn't have these things back in 1994. When I escaped that first prison world i had to work out how to use them on my own" He says before dropping the phone on the table next to him. "frankly I think they are a waste of time" 

"What's your point?" 

"They're never going to come find you, you know that right?" He asks.

"Well I guess we'll see" I say. I think about him saying that phones are a waste of time when I realize that it's because I bought my phone with me into Malivore that I am getting out of here. I won't tell him that. All Kai Parker deserves is a prison world for all eternity. "Now why don't you tell me your all gemini leader knowledge... how do you stop the merge?" I ask. 

"If there was a way to stop the merge do you think I would have turned out the way I did?" He asks with a chuckle. "My sister was always dotted on because she was the witch, but my family hated me because they saw me as a parasite that just took. I'd accidentally siphon magic, I was punished." 

"You spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yourself" I mutter. "I wasn't even suppose to be born"

"Yeah?" He asks. "Well tell me Hope, did your parents love you?" He asks. He chuckles as if none of it matters to him but somehow I know that deep down he wishes that things were different. That his parents loved him no matter what he was. Look at me trying to find redeeming qualities in a psychopath. I don't say anything because I know my family loves me. "That's what I thought" 

"I'm the reason why my parents are dead" I say. 

"Well that makes two of us" He says with a smile. Suddenly I feel incredibly angry. I am nothing like Kai, hearing him say it makes me feel... gross. 

"No, the difference is that you killed you family. Mine sacrificed themselves for me" 

"and that's suppose to make it any better?" He asks. 

"I can't believe that I thought you would help me figure out this merge thing" I say before turning around to walk away.

"Wait.." Kai says with a sigh. "I know that Gemini leaders have a knowledge that they need to unlock but no one has been able to unlock it in my life time or even my grandfathers life time. There's nothing to go off of" He says. I turn to look at him.

"Well you better find out soon"