The Ascendant
Portland.
Josie admires the view of the city which saw her grow up with a big smile, she was in her room of a hotel to spend the night, after they will go to her house.
A whining sounds on the other side of the workpiece, more precisely in the bed; Hope was starting to wake up.
Soft and delicate, Josie walks over to the bed and jumps next to Hope who jumps in fear.
"SERIOUSLY JO!" Exclaimed the tribrid "Are you going to do this every morning !?"
"It's very possible." Josie announces with a smirk, approaching the tribrid to embrace it slipping itself into the covers. "I want to spend the whole day like this."
Hope shivers remembering the night before; they had slept together.
The tribride doesn't really know how it happened, one minute the two girls chat the second after Hope pinned the girl to the elevator kissing her wildly. The other girl kisses in turn took her to a random room.
"Jo, although I would like that. We have to go home. And for that we have to go to your place." Hope freed herself from Josie's arms who hissed in annoyance, the blue-eyed girl starting to get up and dress while the other girl stares on the bed.
"But we have all the time in the world ahead of us." Josie answers with a slight pout.
"My family is probably worried about it, I don't want to worry them more than they should." The tribride turns to her lover "You don't want to find your family?"
Josie's expression is unreadable, Hope wonders if talking about Josie's family is a good idea.
But laughter ensues, the Mikealson look brown laughing as if Hope had said the funniest thing in the world.
"My family ?" Josie said before laughing again.
"Yes you have family, how funny did I say?"
"Nothing sweetie, just thinking back at the best time of my life."
"Huh?"
Hope doesn't understand from least to least. She decides not to question the other girl.
- - -
Josie's house is big enough, it has a lot of bedrooms.
"This is my home!" Josie exclaims happily, she continues in a darker voice, "This is where I spent my miserable childhood."
"What do you mean not miserable?"
Josie ignores her, too busy rummaging through cupboards showing Hope a GameBoy.
"Me and Lizzie often played Mario on this together."
Hope blushed, she had no idea what it was.
"Jo, what are we looking for here?" Hope exasperated, turning her head unnecessarily from side to side.
You're not looking for anything, because you don't know what it looks like. "Informs the other girl while rummaging in the cupboards.
"Tell me anyway, I might surprise you." The tribrid looks at the brunette defiantly.
"I am looking for an ascendant."
"Uh ... I'll go look at the pictures." Hope replied quickly, turning away from the girl because she was embarrassed. Josie chuckled lightly and continued her research.
Klaus Mikealson's daughter is looking at the photos, she had not yet found a photo of Josie, to believe that she did not live here. She goes up the stairs and arrives at the first floor, each room has letters hanging on the door explaining their function or who the room belonged to.
She enters Josette's (because Hope assumes it's her Josie).
The room was filled with books, or ... grimoire?
Hope leans over, grabbing one, and starts leafing through it, it was a grimoire that made recipes against insomnia, which gave advice to better succeed with spells, ect ...
Josie had never told her she was a witch.
Hope wonders why the girl would have kept this fact from her, knowing that she needed a witch to do the ritual to get out of the prison world.
So why ?
Hope sighed and decides she will tell the brunette about it later.
While waiting for Josie to return with the Ascendant, Hope continues to poke around in Josette's room.
On the nightstand was a picture, Josie is on it, next to her is a blonde who is eerily familiar to Hope.
Where had she met her?
Whatever, Hope thought.
"It's Elisabeth. My twin sister." Hope is startled at Josie's presence behind her. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
"You miss her ?"
It takes a few tens of seconds for Josie to respond.
“Sometimes…” There were a few minutes of silence where Hope looked at Josie, and Josie stared at the framed photo of her and her sister wearing lousy Christmas sweaters. "I have found the ascendant, or at least what's left of it." The brunette shows the broken ascendant in a plastic bag. "It fixes itself, I've fixed it hundreds of times before but each time it took me at least a day or more."
"How come it's broken?" Josie grimace slightly this question.
"Maybe I threw him against a wall because I was pissed off, I felt like he was taunting me." Explains Josie, putting the bag that contains the Ascendant on the floor, then puts both hands on Hop's shoulders. "All that, will take care of it tomorrow, okay?"
Hope had forgotten how to speak, Josie often had that effect on her, so she nodded.
“Can I kiss you?” Hope nods angrily.
Josie takes Hope's face between her two hands and gently brings it closer to hers, it takes forever for their two lips to finally touch. Hope couldn't help but moan into the other girl's mouth, she felt like she had butterflies in her stomach.
The two girls lie down on the bed, and make love several times.
- - -
Hope wakes up with dry throat.
She tries to disentangle herself from Josie who seems to think that she is her blankie, although Hope finds it cute, she leaves anyway.
She puts on Josie's shirt, because the other girl is taller than her, so the shirt comes up to her mid-thigh. Although she knew that no one would see her if she walked around naked (other than maybe Josie), Hope didn't want to make a bad habit.
Mikealson takes a glass of water and sits down at the counter.
She notices that there is a newspaper, she takes it. It's not the same subject as in Mystic Falls, the front page is about a massacre.
The massacre of most of the family members and the Parker family friends.
Parker?
This is the name to which the house belongs.
So the family of Josie.