What Could Go Wrong

Hope was not excited about the conversation she had to have with Josie's father. Hope had already told Josie a couple of days ago and she knew she needed to tell Alaric before the whole school was talking about it. 

Hope waited patiently in the headmaster's office. Alaric was talking with Emma. Hope looked around the office trying to keep herself distracted. She wanted nothing more than to not have to tell Alaric or even maybe keep her pregnancy a secret for a little while longer. Hope knew though that at the rate she was going her body would eventually give her away.  

When Alaric entered the office Hope stood up. She watched him carefully as he made his way to sit on his chair on the other side of the desk. 

"Everything okay Hope?" 

"Yes," Hope answered. "Well no. I mean yes everything okay. I just have to tell you something." Hope hated that she was so nervous to tell Alaric about the pregnancy. It could be the fact that he was the closest thing she had to a father or that she was afraid to disappoint him. 

"What is it?" 

"I'm pregnant." Hope watched as Alaric went through every emotion possible. She was not sure if he ended in a good emotion or a bad one. When Hope watched Alaric get up and walk out of the office she knew she had to follow him. "Where are you going?"

"To talk to you boyfriend and possibly murder him." Hope knew that by the tone the man was using her might actually murder Landon. Hope followed Alaric into Landon's room, but before she could step in Alaric closed the door on her. She was going to use her magic to force the door open but decided to wait it out until she heard Landon yelling. Alaric wasn't going to kill him right?

Hope looked at herself in the mirror it had been two months since Josie left, Hope still felt empty. She missed Josie's smile, the way Josie would light up every room she entered. She missed her every day. The letter the Josie left her did not explain much. All it sad was the Josie was going through a tough time and needed to be alone, away from everyone. That she needs time to find herself. 

When Hope saw the letter that morning she woke up, she rushed to get Lizzie to do a locator spell with her, but there was no success. It looked like Josie had done a cloaking spell on herself to keep anyone from tracking her. Hope admired Josie for being so smart but she hated that she could not track her. Hope also know Josie was nowhere in Mystic Fall because her scent was gone. She did know that Josie was safe and alive she couldn't explain how she knew but she felt it in her that Josie was alive and well just away from her.

Hope fell into a routine, wake up in the morning, go for a walk with Lizzie, get back to her room to shower, and have breakfast alone until she had to go to class. Hope wanted to move out of the school but Alaric convinced her to stay. He told her she could place a spell on her room to keep the baby's crying from waking anyone up. He also convinced her that she could finish her senior year of high school with no problem because he would help her out. 

The easy part of her revealing her pregnancy was done. The hard part was going to be telling her aunts who Hope was certain that when they heard the news would possibly try to end Landon. Unlike Alaric, Hope knew her aunt would not show mercy. 

"Hi, babe." Hope brought herself out of her thoughts and greet Landon. She loved the boy but every time Landon greeted her he would touch her belly, which Hope wasn't so thrilled about. "How's the morning sickness going?" 

"Better, it helps when I go on my morning walks." Hope explained to her boyfriend. Hope followed Landon to the cafeteria. As she made her way into the cafeteria Hope pulled Landon into a class. 

"Everything okay?" 

"No my aunts are her earlier. They should not be arriving until after my last class." Hope sighed. She was not mentally prepared yet. 

"That great I can go say hi." Hope tried to stop Landon from running off to say hi. She really did but she failed. 

"I guess I should plan your funeral." Hope mumbled to herself. She really wanted events to go in a different direction. She wanted to go through her classes, after her last class her and Lizzie were supposed to go to Alaric office to talk with her aunts. After her aunts were calm she would tell them about Landon, explaining how they were in an unplanned situation but they had it under control. 

The conversation between the group was moved to Alaric's office. Hope sat there silently as she watched Rebekah, Freya, and Keelin questioned Landon. Hope knew that Rebekah was holding her anger back. 

"How did you two not think to use a condom?" Rebekah shouted to her niece and boyfriend. She understood that being a hormonal teenager clouded their judgment. She however did not think that Hope was that careless. Landon tried answering but he was cut off by Rebekah "I'm going to be honest, we don't care what you have to say. Everyone here is here for Hope." 

"Aunt Rebekah," Hope complained. 

"She's right," Freya defended. "What's the plan? Are you going to finish high school? Is Landon going to get a job to help pay the expenses? Are you going to remain in Salvatore school?" Of course, the women were just asking this just to get the teenagers to think about what they were doing. They were all more than willing to help Hope with the baby but they also wanted them to know that they needed to take some responsibility. 

"I'm staying here to finish high school. Alaric already said it was okay. I can get a job and as for Landon, I'm sure he will do his part." Hope looked at the curly-haired boy who gave a hesitant head nod. That gesture gave Hope an unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach. 

"I'm sorry I need to go. Raf needs me."

After Landon left she caught up with her family. She talked with aunts about her plan, she even promised them that she would finish high school and college. Hope was not going to stop studying, she had plans to become a successful artist, opening her own art gallery one day. Hope had faith in herself and for her baby, she was going to accomplish her dream. 

Hope wished the conversation went smoother, she wished that Landon would have stayed longer to talk with her family. Leaving her family was the last straw, she needed to have a firm talk with him. 

When she found Landon, she found the boy in the woods with Rafel. When Hope knew Landon feared their conversation by the look he had in his eyes. 

"Please don't yell at me?" Hope chuckled at the boy's words. She did want to yell at him she wanted to scold him, she wanted to knock some sense into him. 

"What should I do then?" Hope asked sarcastically. "Praise you for walking away from my family when they wanted answers. Give you any type of credit for you walking away anytime that Rafel needs you. Landon, I understand he is your brother but you need to understand that this baby is coming sooner or later. You were the one that convinced me to go through with this. So start acting like you give a dam about them." 

"Maybe I was wrong." Hope felt her eyes begin to tear up. "Hope we don't know what we are getting into. I did not think this through, this baby will be a tribrid like you and you always have monsters coming after you. We are just bringing this child into this world for monsters to hunt it?" 

Hope did not want to hear the rest of Landon's argument she made her way back to the school. 

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Hope longed for this next week to go by faster. She was due soon and was excited to meet her son. She already had his name picked out. What hurt Hope was that her son would know her pain of not having a father. Hope woke up a couple of weeks ago to a letter from Landon and Rafel. The letter apologizing to Hope for leaving and not being able to stay. Hope wanted to say that Landon leaving her hurt more than Josie but that was a lie. 

Somewhere along the way in Hope's new crazy life she and Lizzie became best friends. Lizzie was by her side, she was even helping Hope find Josie. Hope was amused at her situation. She went from being a girl who had everything she could desire. She had Landon as her boyfriend, Josie as her best friend and the love of her life. She had it all, and it all changed in an instant. Now Lizzie was her best friend, and she was going to be a single parent.

"You okay Hope?" Lizzie asked her friend.

"Yes, I was just thinking about my son." Hope placed her and on her very huge belly. She smiled when Lizzie placed her hand on her belly ask well. "So since you're going to be his godmother you ready to stay up and help me with him." Hope joked

"I am not but I do have presents for him under the Christmas tree." Hope smiled, she truly was excited to meet her baby in January and next year have a first Christmas with her child. 

"Do you ever think of her?" Hope found herself asking, and looked down at her stomach. 

"I do." Lizzie answered honestly. "but I know she's alive. I feel it. I would know if she's dead." 

Hope smile at the blonde. They both had grown so much in the past couple of months. Her and Lizzie had bonded over the grieve they felt when they found out that Josie left. At first, both girls played it strong, eventually, they leaned on each other. Hope wished Josie could see that she was getting along with Lizzie.