Hosie - Death Date

Chapter One - Kingsley Orphanage

Chapter One - Kingsley Orphanage

Alaric Saltzman sat there holding Caroline's hand, she was in the middle of giving birth to twins. "Ric, I'm not sure if I can do this anymore" Caroline says softly, she tightens her grip on his hand as she speaks. Alaric looks her in the eye sympatheticly and leaves a kiss on her hand.

"Caroline, you can do anything. You are the strongest person I know" He murmurs. She knows he's right, she has been through worse than this. Childbirth isn't going to be the thing that destroys her. Even though they are sucking the magic right out of her body.

After hours, the babies are born... Josette and Elizabeth Saltzman. But it isn't until hours later that Caroline is given them to hold, she doesn't want to look down at her babies arms, she doesn't want to ruin this beautiful moment by looking at their death date. She can't help herself... She looks at Lizzie's arm and sighs in relief [10.06.2087]. This is what she had hoped for. She looks at Josie's arm in horror [20.05.2028], Josie wasn't going to survive to see her seventeenth birthday. Caroline looks over at Alaric who is also looking down at Josie's arm. "We can't give her to the Orphange Ric, I can't do it... I won't be that type of parent"

"I know" He says sadly. "We will take her home and raise her" He decides with a soft smile. The lights start to flicker and Rebekah Mikaelson and Damon Salvatore walk into the room. "What are you doing?" Alaric asks.

"Saving you from anymore pain, Rebekah... make them forget" Damon states. Rebekah walks over to Caroline as Damon holds Alaric back.

"You only had one child" Rebekah says looking Caroline in the eye. "You will remember that it was a long painful labour but you feel so blessed that your daughter is healthy. You will remember that her twin was a still born. You will be sad but you will eventually get over it" Rebekah says sadly. She walks over and does the same for Alaric. Damon takes the baby and walks out the door.

"What are you doing Damon?" Stefan asks.

"I'm saving Alaric from hurting anymore. She won't survive to see seventeen Stefan. He can't deal with anymore loss"

"This isn't right" Stefan steps forward.

"Oh I know brother" Damon mutters, placing his hand on Stefan's shoulder. "You shouldn't be here, with that mark on your chest and all"

*

Kingsley Orphanage is an Orphanage popular for housing kids that have a shorter death date, meaning Josie has seen or been around a lot of loss in her life. She hasn't seen anyone die because they always get taken from the orphanage before it happens but Josie has lost a lot of friends over the years. Josie looks down at her own arm and in fine print she sees the date. She will die five days after her sixteenth birthday, which is in less than two weeks. She lets out a sigh as she gets ready for school. Her friend Mya stands behind her and smiles.

"Cheer up Jo" She says. Josie rolls her eyes."We may be the unlucky ones but at least we will never get gross wrinkles" Mya says as she wiggles her nose. Josie finds her self laughing.

"Yes, I guess you're right M"

"See I know what I'm talking about" She states. "Now let's head down stairs, It's Pancake Wednesday" Mya says enthusiastically. They head down stairs and they are shocked to see a teenage girl walk into the building. It's a strange sight for the girls because Kingsley Orphanage is known for its intake of kids under the age of five.

"Hey are you lost?" Josie asks the girl. The girl drops her bags on the floor, takes off her sunglasses and looks at Josie, almost curiously.

"This is Kingsley Orphanage right?" She asks. She begins to look the room up and down before looking back at Josie and then at Mya who she just noticed was also there.

"Yes"

"Then no, I'm not lost. This will be my home until I turn eighteen" She says. "Why do you both look so surprised? This is an Orphanage... Don't you see people come in and out all the time?" She asks, her eyebrow raised. Josie and Mya look at eachother and then back at the girl.

"We just don't usually see people your age walk in" Mya says swiftly before heading to the dining area. Mya doesn't do well with new people, mostly because the date on her arm stops her from making any new friends.

"Sorry about her, her death date is in less than a week. She's turned pretty cold to new people in the past few months" Josie says. The girl nods, understandably. "My name is Josie by the way, not sure what my last name is... parents gave me up when I was freshly born" Josie explains, as if it is nothing. She pulls up her sleeve and shows the girl the date on her arm. The girl looks down at Josie's arm but shows no emotion.

"I'm Hope Mikaelson, my parents died... so i'm here" Hope explains. "I'm sorry about your death date by the way"

"It's fine, we all have to go sometime"

"Not me apparently" Hope whispers. She lifts up her sleeve and there where a date should appear is an infinity sign. Josie's eyes widen, shocked.

"What's that?"

"I will talk to you later, somewhere private. But I am here to see you in particular Josie Saltzman" hope whispers. Josie's eyes widen and she goes to speak but Hope puts her hand over her mouth. "Shhh..." She says. She slowly takes her hand off Josie's mouth when she feels that Josie has calmed down.

"Okay, somewhere private" Josie whispers. "How about I show you to my room. There's an extra bed in there. There's three girls per room but it's just Mya and I in mine at the moment" she explains as they walk up the stairs towards Josie's room.