This is a soulmate mark/college AU, where Hope never went to the Salvatore School, and never met the super squad. The rest of Hope's childhood was basically canon, but Klaus is alive and he is a very overprotective dad. It's Hope's 18th birthday and she gets her very special soulmate mark, but that's not the only thing happening on her big day. She starts to have recurring dreams about a strange figure with flaming wings. Hope and the twins are the same age in this story, the twins are a couple months older.