IN ANOTHER LIFE , josie saltzman ✔️

↳ 27. You remind me of someone I used to know

[ Amaya's POV ]

"Amaya! Wake up! Wake up! Come on. You can't do this right now." Someone yelled distantly as I regained consciousness. A brunette was hovering over me and I smiled. "Josie..." I mumbled. Someone sighed and then I felt electricity running through my veins as I sat up straight. "Josie!" I exclaimed. "She must've done something. You passed out straight after mumbling something about blue and green." Selina said and helped me up. She opened a portal and helped me step through it. "I feel like I know what she did." We were in the halls of the Salvatore school.

"Josie! Josie, wake up!" My sister yelled and I looked to Selina, who mirrored my look. We immediately went to Josie's room and Selina opened the door. I broke down infront of the brunette on the floor and I tried to shake her awake. "Josie, wake up. Please. Please." I begged and when I saw the dark lines that were all over her body, tears rolled down. I stood up, got the blue glowing stone from her bed and when I reached for her shirt, a hand on mine stopped me. "Hold up! Who are you and what are you doing?" Hope asked.

"I'm Amaya and I'm saving her life. Please, let me. Or you have two corpses to bury, little one." I said desperately and accidently used the nickname I gave her. She let go of my hand and they sat down around me. I grabbed Josie's shirt again and pulled it up, so that it revealed her stomach. I put the stone on her flat stomach and sighed. I cast a spell that would revert the magic back to me and begged all the gods for it to work.

Slowly, the lines vanished and the stone glowed brighter. Josie then gasped as she opened her eyes and I fell back on the ground, conscious but without any strength to stand up and leave the girl I was still bound to. "Amaya!" Selina exclaimed and I closed my eyes as they glowed a bright green. "It's back." I whispered as I felt the hole in my chest filling up again. "My soul magic. It's back." From the corner of my eyes as I opened them again, I saw Hope holding Josie as the latter's eyes returned to brown. "You're Amaya Mikaelson!" Hope whispered after a few more minutes and Selina helped me sit up. "I... I..." I stuttered and looked helplessly to Selina.

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The next day, when the annual flag football arrived, I went off with Selina. I did not want to get in trouble for staying with my love, even when she didn't remember me. I knew I had to talk to Hope now and I feared what she had to say. She still remembered my mother and it wasn't hard for her to put the things together. The little one was smart.

As Selina and I wandered through the forest, I started to feel the aftermath of me healing Josie. Usually, when I took my magic back, it was okay. But now that I was no longer truly bound to my love, I feared that I will feel much, much worse than I already do.

Josie and Hope were my anchor to this world. Without them by my side, I feel broken. We were near the football field because I heard their voices. MG's, Landon's, Hope's, Lizzie's, Kaleb's and Alaric's. They were all there. "Oh, damn it." I whispered and I made my way towards the Salvatore Stallions. They were all on the field and for some weird reasons, Alaric was with the Timberwolves. I walked up to them. "I need to talk to you. In private." And to prove my point, I flashed my eyes at him and they flickered dark green.

He understood and we went away from the field. I felt someone's eyes on me and turned around to see Ruby with Lizzie and MG, over books on the bench. "You don't remember me anymore, but you've known me for a very long time. I'm a revilas." I started to explain and felt tears sting in my eyes. He frowned until he understood. "You remind me of someone I used to know." He said and I knew he thought about my mother. The only other revilas he ever knew.

After a few minutes, I added with tears streaming down my face, "My name is Amaya Mikaelson. I'm Klaus and Olivia's daughter and Hope's sister." I sniffled and swiped the tears away. "And now, you're the closest thing I have to a father, even though I never treated you right." I said, my lips trembling. Alaric walked towards me and embraced me in a hug. I sniffled again and hugged him back.

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After Landon defeated a monster that fed on werwolves, he and Hope came into Hope's and my old room where I already was. I smiled sadly. "There used to be two beds. Mine was right there." I pointed to the left side of the room and frowned when there was a stack of photos of my friends and I on Hope's nightstand. "Yeah. Your enchantment stopped working. It took me a while to trace where the magic was coming from. When Ruby Hale showed up here, with eyes glowing like emeralds, I knew. I contacted Olivia but she is unavailable to bring Ruby back to Meridial. Something about a lake that stopped working." I frowned at the last sentence. "Ruby was bound to Nemea a thousand years, never had the strength to break free. Until now. Then the lake of grace stops working. The lake absorbs all the dark magic. I've... I've gotta go. I'm so sorry." I said as it dawned on me and left them both with their questions.

"Ruby!" I called out as I found her with Josie in the library. The books immediately closed shut. "The dark magic from the lake that used to be absorbed by the ground... that stopped working a long time ago, didn't it? You absorbed the dark magic when you were in Nemea, right?" Ruby's face went blank, then it softened. "The grounds never absorbed it. I did. Unintentionally. I tried to fight it but after a thousand years, you learn to give in the bad." All these years, my mother said her to be evil, but she was just a girl. A girl with a power she never learned to control. And that girl came back right in this moment.

"You know, I put the sleeping spell on them. I cursed them. Well, a part of me did. But Olivia never tried to understand. She always saw the bad, that all hope was already gone. She never tried to look underneath the blue eyes. There was a girl who had spent the last thousand years being alone, being consumed by a darkness she could not control. All I wanted was to be free. But you and your family robbed me of that. And now I will return the favor. I mean, after all this time, you surely believe that the little girl who wanted to be free stopped screaming after a while, don't you? That girl died and I was born!" Josie slowly backed it away and I stepped forward as a strange instinct came forward. It was the instinct to protect her, all the time and at all cost.

"Your sweet Josie is not as innocent as you might believe. She, too, has a darkness bubbling underneath. And like the both of us, she's easy to give into the temptation. I mean... you jumped into Malivore while you went dark." Ruby said and I tilted my head. "How long have you been watching me?" I asked, my voice staying calm. "Since you almost killed the entire population of Mystic Falls when those... kids threatened to take down your parents. Oh, yes. I know all about you, and Hope, and Olivia and Josie." She said and hearing Ruby say those names just triggered something inside of me. I lunged for her, but she used her magic to defend herself and threw me across the room. "Ruby! Don't. Please." Josie called out and I looked up from the ground. I crashed into a bookshelf which collided on me. Ruby ignored the siphoner and walked towards me. Just when she was about to cast another spell on me, someone intervened. Ruby flew back against the wall and Josie looked up to the woman who made her way toward Ruby. Josie's eyes flashed and she fell unconsciously on the floor.

"I can't leave you by yourself for once, can I? Always, always getting in trouble." I looked up hopeful and the woman turned around to me. "Now get up so that you can tell me how you could be so stupid to jump into Malivore?" I breathed out in relief as a smile appeared on her face. "Mom." I breathed out.

I literally hate how this turned out but I couldn't fit Amaya in almost any of the scenes of the episode. I hope you guys still enjoy this.