AFTERMATH [ 2 ] | LEGACIES

T H I R T Y - T W O

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"Salvatore Stallions! Let's ride!" MG said, wearing the necklace Hope gave Josie to make quiet things heard.

MG initiated the revolt, a smile on Lilah's face as he took charge. Students cheered, and Lilah sprung into action. Kaleb hit an officer with a golden urn, before calling to Jed and throwing it his way. Jed slid on a table, kicking another officer at the end when he got off, and hitting him with it. Witches helped out when Burr started to point his gun at people, and Lilah was practically throwing everyone in sight.

"Whooo! Super Squad!" cheered Lilah, feeling good about herself as another Triad officer came rushing at her with his gun.

He stood at her heart with a stake.

"Fuck," she cursed, grabbing it and pulling it out. It would take a while to heal, but it wasn't going to take her down.

She glared at the man, growling now. His eyes widened.

"You're the Mikaelson," was all he said before Lilah punched him hard enough to knock him out.

"I am. So be happy there's kids around, or I would've killed you," she said to his unconscious body.

"Kaleb! Get the kids to the bus!" MG yelled. "Witches, make it rain."

Weapons were levitating and turned into rose petals.

"Their magic's back," Burr came to the realization. "Someone get to the tunnels and fix this!"

One of the officers had Jed pressed against the staircase, but Pedro went behind him and tied his feet together somehow.

"Nice one, Pedro!" Lilah congratulated him as Jed high-fived him.

"Come here. Hold on tight," Kaleb said, grabbing the small boy and leaving with him.

Lilah leaned an arm onto Jed's shoulders, the vampire and the wolf breathing heavily. They looked at each other, and shockingly, shared their first real smile together.

"Good job, wolf," she said.

"So... you guys think you're superheroes or something?" her vampire hearing picked up on Burr's voice, and she turned around to see him walking up the stairs towards MG.

"Honestly?" MG questioned, "kinda."

"Too bad I got Kryptonite," Burr said, pulling out his gun.

The Malivore mud gun that was used to shoot Josie.

"No!" she yelled, about to run over, but Burr stopped, obviously in pain as something black came out of his mouth, and he walked away.

"Too bad I got Super Friends," MG said, the twins standing at the bottom of the stairs.

Lizzie was hoisting up Josie, who was still very obviously in pain. Both girls looked like they had been crying.

MG practically ran down the stairs as Lizzie got Josie to a table, Lilah rushing over, too.

"Here, Jo. Sit," Lizzie told her sister.

Rafael came, too, and everyone was staring at Josie with disbelief and concern.

"All right, Jo, you don't look too hot," Rafael said.

"We got to go after Burr," concluded MG.

"Don't worry," Rafael said. He pulled the chain out from under his neck. "I got magical Hope bling, too. If Josie and Lizzie can help me with a veiling spell... he'll never see me coming."

Lilah placed a hand on Rafael's back, and he looked at her with a small smile.

"Okay, Super Squad, let's get him," Lilah said. "I'm gonna go after Hope. Raf, you hide in the woods until Hope gets back."

Rafael nodded, and she went to hug him. She hugged all of them before stopping at Lizzie.

"And you? You'll be here when I get back, too. Okay?" she said, staring at the Saltzman girl.

Tears formed in both of their eyes, and she went to hug the brunette.

"I'll see you when I get back, Jo."

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Halfway to Triad Headquarter, Lilah got a call. She answered the phone, seeing Hope's name.

"I'm on my way, cousin," she said.

"Pull over," Hope said, her voice calm in the background.

"Excuse me?" Lilah asked, scrunching up her face, and continuing to drive. She pressed harder on the gas. "You're hilarious."

"Lilah, pull over," Hope said again. "You need to hear what I have to say."

"I can hear it when I get to you," Lilah replied.

"Lils-"

"Don't," Lilah practically yelled. "Do not tell me what I have a gut feeling you're about to tell me."

"Lils-"

"No!" she yelled, slamming her hands down on the steering wheel, tears falling down her face. In a whispered sob, she said, "I can't lose you, too."

"I'm going to call Dr. Saltzman after this, so I just... please... Lils... pull over," Hope pleaded again.

"No!" Lilah shouted again. "Put Landon on the phone."

"I can't, he would've tried to stop me, so I had to kill him, too," Hope sighed, her voice cracking, and Lilah swerved when she said that. "Don't worry about me of him, Lilah Rae. Everyone here is dead. Landon's gonna need Dr. Saltzman or you to come get him when he wakes up. He'll come back, even if I don't."

"Hope, please don't tell me you're going to do what I think you're going to do," sobbed Lilah, her vision getting so blurred with tears that she wanted to pull over, but she refused. She had to get there fast enough.

"Clarke won. He found the final artifact," she said. "He tossed it into the pit, which is Landon's father, by the way."

Lilah was getting more confused by the second.

"And now Malivore's gonna rise unless I stop him," she said.

"Stop him how?" Lilah asked, but she knew the answer. She knew the answer the minute she answered the phone and Hope told her to pull over.

"Malivore was created by the blood of a werewolf, a witch, and a vampire," she said. "It used to be that only they could destroy what they created, but nature found a loophole."

"You are not a loophole. You are my cousin," Lilah cried.

"I'm the Tribrid. I'm the loophole," Hope tried to convince her cousin.

"Wait for me to get there," Lilah pleaded.

"There's no time," Hope said. "I"ve always thought that I was a cosmic mistake, someone who should never have been born. But after all this time, I mean, my pur-"

"Stop," Lilah said. "Please, no. All these good people didn't give up their lives for you and I for this to happen. I'm not okay with this."

"I know," Hope said. "But you will be, because once I toss myself into that pit, you won't remember me."

"You're forgetting almost nothing works on me," Lilah said. "So... what if everyone forgets you, and I don't. What then, cousin?"

"Then you pretend to not remember me," she said. "You keep living your life knowing I love you. You go find Lorelle, talk things out with your mom. You finally pick between Roman or Raf. You go be your own person. I love you."

"I love you, too," Lilah said. "Hope, I-"

The line was disconnected, and Lilah pulled over. She started sobbing, her shoulders heavy as she sat there, waiting for the inevitable.

Hope Mikaelson, another loved one she couldn't save.