Mine
Hope stepped into the kitchen, each step, echoing in the quiet early morning. She went to the fridge and opened it, staring into it. After a few seconds she close it without taking anything. Sighing, she rested her hands on the island, not seeing it, her mind lost in the memories of the dreams that had haunted her all night.
Dreams fed by a kiss.
A kiss she swore she could feel until now.
She closed her eyes, but it only made the memories clearer. After Josie ran off yesterday, she debated whether or not to go after her, but she didn't know if that would make things better or worse. And she had no idea what she might have said if she reached her anyway. So that night she ran like a wolf, but even that did not diminish her restlessness, the dream didn’t come either and when it did, it only made things worse, because in her dreams, Josie didn’t run away, she didn’t let her go.
She exhaled hard. Josie wasn't the first person she'd wanted, but now, it was worse than ever. She had never been intimate with anyone, her previous relationships hadn’t reached the physical. But now that she had discovered that part, she couldn't stop thinking about it.
At first, it had been easy to ignore, because she had told herself that she didn't feel that way about Josie. And when she'd told her about the babies, her focus had shifted to them and she hadn't given it much thought. Then her feelings for her changed and she had done her best to deny them, to focus only on what Josie needed, but that hadn't stopped the dreams that appears at night. The ones who whispered how good it was to touch and be touched.
God, how she wanted to touch her.
The sound of the wood creaking between her hands made her realize how tightly she was holding the island and she released it before it could do any real damage.
Everything had changed now. She couldn't pretend it was just her friend, just the girl who had been lucky enough to be with her when some slugs lowered her inhibitions causing all of this. Until now, she had struggled to keep what she felt hidden from her, from herself, convinced that Josie Saltzman would never be interested in Hope Mikaelson. But now she knew that the brunette had feelings for her and she wouldn’t let her pretend that nothing had happened. They had to talk about it.
She turned to go to her room when the sound of familiar footsteps reached her. She was nervous to see her again.
"Hi" She greets the brunette.
"Hey"
"Josie ... I"
"No, Hope" she interrupted "yesterday, it shouldn't have happened"
“No, you can't say that, because I can't get it out of my mind” she approached her “I can't sleep thinking about how you felt, how you tasted and wanting to kiss you again. And I have to remind myself of all the reasons why it shouldn't happen again, but I can't find one"
"Not even now?" their eyes met.
Josie's smile was the last thing she saw, before closing her eyes and meeting her lips with hers. The brunette's arms wrapped around her neck pulling her closer, Hope smiled when she felt the small bump where the babies were against her. She let her world shrink once again to just the woman in front of her and the wonderful things her mouth was doing to hers. But they still needed to talk, she had to tell her something else.
"wait"
"for what?"
She loves the sound of annoyance in her voice. She takes her hands.
"About what you said yesterday, I think I have a solution to our situation"
"Well, a solution would be nice"
"We'll have dates" Josie started to walk away, but Hope didn't let go of her hands "with each other"
Josie tried unsuccessfully to stop her smile.
“So I'm going to have your babies and that's not enough? Now, do you want me to go out with you? "
Hope returned the smile with a shrug.
"what can I say? I’m selfish"
"And how will this work with respect to exes?" Josie asked carefully.
Hope made a face.
"No room for black-haired witches"
"I was thinking more of curly-haired guys"
"Landon" understanding lit up her face.
"Landon," Josie repeated. She looked at her and sighed, wishing she could lose herself in her kisses and promises today.
But now she had to consider her children and that meant there had to be honesty between them.
"Hope there are two things I know about you, that you’re very cute and in love with Landon, and that hasn't changed"
"So, do you think I'm cute?" she asked smiling.
"Everyone thinks you're cute" She clarifies
"No" Hope protests smiling "you said it hasn't changed, which means you still think that"
Suddenly everything got serious.
"And the other part has changed?" Josie asked.
"Yes, it has" Josie looked at her in disbelief and Hope knew she would have to work to convince her.
"are you sure?"
"I am, Josie"
"Do you honestly expect me to believe that after a few months you stopped loving him?" She asks incredulously “look Hope, a kiss is not a binding contract and I know that pregnancy has blurred lines between us, confusing everything. We can attribute it to a little moment of madness and we can forget it. But I don't think I could do this with you, if I looked at you and saw you wanting someone else "
Hope looked down at their still joined hands and tried to explain what was difficult to understand.
"When Landon and I were together, he asked me two things: to stop protecting him and to tell him the truth, the irony is that I couldn't do one without stopping doing the other"
"Yeah, I know you have a tendency to try to save everyone" Josie joked.
Her smile told her that she appreciated her trying to lighten the mood.
Josie watched the emotions play on her face as she searched for a way to find the words and asked the question she had been curious about since she saw her arguing with Landon at the mill.
"Why didn't you tell him?"
“I don't know, I wanted to protect him or that's what I thought I was doing, but I just didn't want him to leave, but later, with everything about the baby, I realized that it's not about wanting someone to stay, it's about finding someone who doesn’t want to go. That could be anywhere, but choose to be with you. And I choose to be with you, Josie, I want to be by your side for as long as you allow me. You’re who I want to be with "
Josie's eyes lit up
"You’re also who I want to be with" she said shyly
"So does that mean you're going out with me on Saturday?"
She nodded, biting her lip.
"And does it also mean that you let me kiss you now?" Hope asked looking at her lips.
Josie nodded again just before their lips met, the gentleness of her kiss taking her breath away. Eager for more, she deepened the kiss.
Hope's arms wrapped around her and she moved closer. But years of caution warned the tribrid that they were moving too fast, and she backed away from her.
"Josie, it's not like I don't love where this is going, but I think we should slow down."
Josie smiled immediately.
"Why? are you going to get me pregnant?"
"Very funny, but I think that if we rush this, everything will be more complicated"
Josie snorted.
"Please Hope, everything between us has been complicated from the beginning." When Hope said nothing, she realized that this was the first time that either of them had expressed that out loud. "At least I thought it was"
Hope looked into her eyes, lost herself in them, in the truth she was afraid to admit. What was between them had always been there, from the first time Josie had smiled at her on the school playground and the tribrid couldn't help but smile back. They had ignored it and it had become a buried truth that neither of them had wanted to admit.
Her brown eyes asked her a question and like on any other occasion, she could do nothing but surrender to her wishes.
"I thought that too"
Her relief was palpable when Josie leaned down and pressed her lips against hers. The brunette's hand slid down her back, tangled in her hair. Her tongue brushed lightly against her lower lip, the tribrid gaping open, welcoming her eagerly with her own.
Josie's hands went to the edge of her shirt, tugging at her. Reluctantly, Hope broke the kiss, picking up her grey T-shirt impatiently and flinging it to the floor. She couldn't help but smirk when she watched Josie's hungry eyes travel over her and she bit her lower lip. On impulse, she did something that she had wanted to do since the first time she had seen Josie do that. She gently grasps the brunette's jaw, her thumb touching her lower lip.
"here, let me do that for you"
Josie froze when Hope lightly sucked on her bottom lip, then gently bite it. She moaned, scraping her nails against the smoothness of her back. Hope's arm went around her waist, lifting her up and placing her on the island, with her between her legs.
Josie's head fell back as the other girl kissed her way down her neck. Hope's hands caressing her legs up to her thighs.
At some point Hope's hands reached down to her belly, she paused for a moment, both hands cupping her growing belly, marvelling once more at the miracle in front of her. She looks up at Josie, her hair tangled in her hands, her mouth swollen from her kisses, and she couldn't believe she was so lucky. Josie was everything and she loved her. Hope smiled at her and she smiled back. She takes her hand and kiss the inside, letting her teeth lightly bite the skin.
She brought her mouth to hers, kissing her fiercely, their bodies moving against each other, seeking more. Leaving her lips Josie kissed the tribrid's jaw making her way to the sensitive skin behind her ear.
Hope tilted her head further, closed her eyes, and sighed.
"I never thought this felt so good"
"seriously?" Josie said "Landon never got it right?" She asks without thinking.
“Landon and I never…” whatever she meant, she cut off when a groan left her mouth as she felt Josie suck on the delicate skin of her neck.
Josie pushed Hope away when her words registered in her mind.
"What do you mean with never?"
Hope grimaced and her face turned even redder.
"Are you trying to tell me what I’m thinking?" Josie asked in surprise.
"I may not have been completely honest about some things" Hope said.
With a dangerous look, Josie got off the island. Hope took her shirt off the floor and put it back on.
"why didn’t you tell me?"
"That you were my first? It was a bit embarrassing "admitted Hope
"But it's important, it's supposed to be special"
"And it was, believe me" Hope assured "we made our babies, what could be more special?"
Josie looked at the girl torn between anger and frustration. Part of her wanted to stay angry for hiding this from her and the rest just wanted her. She walked towards the exit, but stopped, Josie stared at her for a moment debating on which she wanted most.
Hope was rubbing her face with her hands, her heart was pounding and her wolf wanted out, that was the effect that girl had on her, like at this moment she was thinking that she would never let her touch her again. She sighed, her brain searching for a way to explain this to Josie that it wasn't a big deal, that she didn't care that she lost her virginity that night because it was with her.
Then she hears her footsteps stop.
"Well, will you stay there forever?"
Cautiously, Hope walked over to her. Josie was leaning against the kitchen exit. Instead of the fire she expected to see in her eyes, there was a soft, hungry look that made her breath catch.
A playful smile appeared on her lips.
"If you think you’re getting rid of lying to me so easily, think again, Hope Mikaelson"
Hope took a step closer, but Josie raised a hand and stopped her.
“This doesn’t mean that I’m not mad at you or that you don’t have some major make up to do for the lie. I just want to have sex more than I want to fight right now” she informs her with a disdainful tone.
Hope was careful to hide her smile as she nodded solemnly, taking another step.
"I mean; we're talking about a big bribe" Josie threatened when the auburn girl didn't look sorry enough to please her.
"Josie, you can have whatever you want" she took another step "there is nothing I wouldn't give you"
Josie's heart leapt at her words and she fought to keep her face from showing how much her words affected her and how much she wanted her right now. Then a thought crossed her mind and this time she was unsuccessful in hiding her feelings.
Hope stopped.
"what’s wrong?"
Josie lowered her eyes and nervously admitted.
“I don't look like I used to, Hope. I know that my breasts are bigger, but I gained weight and… "
"And I've never wanted anyone more than I want you" Hope interrupt taking another step.
"Yeah sure"
Hope stopped again and Josie almost screamed in frustration.
How were they going to get anywhere if she didn't get close enough?
“I haven't,” Hope said, her voice low and sincere. “Josie. Do you know how many times a day I have to fight my wolf's desire to claim you? When you laugh or smile at me in that way that I have never been smiled before, it makes me want to kiss you more than I need my next breath" her eyes burned with intensity, turning golden for a few seconds" sometimes I think if I can touch your hand or your hair will be enough, enough to appease my wolf. Maybe long enough that these feelings go away and when I can't fight it anymore, I give up and touch you, then I know two things: that just holding your hand is better than anything with anyone else and that it doesn't matter how much I touch you, I’ll always gonna want more, I’ll always gonna want you "
Josie swallowed, tears burning in her eyes. No one in her entire life had been able to make her tremble with her words alone, but there she was, trembling, waiting for the tribrid to reach her. She wanted to say so many things, that her words exactly described her feelings, that she mattered more than anyone in the entire world, that she was so dangerously close to falling deeply in love with her that she would never be able to love someone else. But she couldn't, not yet. Instead, she smiled at her.
"Race to the room"
Josie took off running, her laughter echoing through the empty hallways. Hope ran after her, no doubt she was making a mistake, just the strange sensation burning inside her. The one that calmed down and also burned more when she was near the brunette. She didn't dare name it yet.
She caught her when she was one step away from reaching her room, she wrapped her arms around her, pulling her into her body. She caresses her face against her neck, inhaling her sweet scent.
"I got you"
Josie laughed breathlessly.
"you got me. Now, what are you going to do with me, Hope? "
Hope picked her up bridal style and walked into her room.
"I’ve some ideas"