Our Hope • Ava Rose Mikaelson

15. They All Asked For You

I woke up in the middle of the night and I looked to my side and Nik wasn't next to me. I looked around the room to realize he's not in here with me. I got up from the bed, wrapped the bed sheet around my body and made my way out of the room.

I went into the nursery first and found Hope sound asleep. I smiled softly as I looked at her for a few more seconds before I left the room. I walked into Nik's art room, where he's usually at whenever I wake up and he's isn't next to me, and I found him sitting on the small sofa drawing something. He's just wearing pants and they're unbuckled.

I walked up behind him and placed a kiss on the side of his neck. He tossed his drawing pad before he grabbed my arm to pull me around in which the bedsheet falls on the floor, leaving me naked. He pulls me onto his lap and he kisses me as I wrapped my arms around his neck. He runs his fingers through my hair and pulls it back a bit as he left kiss down my neck. After a couple of seconds, he picks me and takes me back to our room as we relived what happened just hours ago.

***

It's the next morning and I'm lying in bed with Nik after spending the night with him. He and I are laying on our sides, facing each other. I'm looking at him and he has eyes close but he's awake because brushing his fingers over my body.

"This shouldn't have happened." I told him and he opens his eyes to look at me.

"The first time or the second time?" He smirks and I just stared at him with a straight face. I rolled my eyes at before I turned to get off of the bed but he grabs my arm keeping from getting up. "Ava..."

"I don't want to hear it, Nik."

"I'm sorry." He whispers and I just stared at the wall in front of me because I didn't want to look at him. "I'm sorry for everything. For the way I talked to you last night. You're nothing like me, Ava. You never were. You are better than me."

When we were talking yesterday, he said 'people like us don't change' and it brought me back to the things I once did I'm my early years as a vampire. It was before I was even in Italy. I forgot about it because I didn't want to remember and eventually I did forget... or at least until what he said. It was a little dark secret of mine.

I turn to my other side to look at him and his eyes were full of hope. Like he expected me to say something good about the both of us.

"What you said yesterday it got me thinking that maybe you're right..."

"Ava.."

"Maybe we are the exact same."

I could feel my fangs coming out so I quickly pulled him closer to him and sank my fangs into his neck. I feed off of him like an animal eating its prey. I'm usually delicate and careful when I'm feeding on someone just so that I don't have to clean up afterward but this time I let loose. It's been forever since I've let loose and it felt good. I could feel about to pull me off of him before he could I snapped his neck. I pulled away and smiled as I wiped the blood off of my mouth.

"Consider us even."

As I got off the bed I grabbed the baby monitor and camera and headed towards the bathroom to shower since Hope was still asleep.

***

I'm in the bathroom taking a shower when I heard Nik gasping for air. He woke up earlier than I expected him to but it's whatever. I heard him practically stomping towards the bathroom and I'm just continued showering like nothing.