Reputation - Henelope.

Penélope Park PoV.

Nothing but the feeling of being at home mattered, smelling it had brought me comfort, the kiss on the top of the head that Stefan gave me as he hugged me after I got home with Katherine was what made me safe.

I gave Elena a hug, then Damon, missing the family so close.

- Hey brat. - Damon speaks when he lets me go. - Don't get used to it.

- Don't mind, he is like that because he adores you, said on the trip that he was dying of longing. - Elena hands over Damon, ending all her posture.

- How much did she pay you for that information? - Damon speaks straight. - I can pay double.

- Why don't you admit that you like your niece? - Stefan asks. It was bizarre to look at Elena and see the identical features of her face with Katherine's.

- Yeah, why don't you admit that you love me? - I provoked the wizard. Damon rolled his eyes.

The conversation was spared on such common things, I only answered one or the other every hour, paying attention to Katherine's behavior, which seemed quieter than usual.

- How was it at school? You didn't tell me anything in the car. - Katherine addressed me. Damon and Elena made a terrible face.

- Don't start, dear. - Stefan tried to make her stop whatever she was about to do. I had arrived, left the only suitcase I brought in the corner of the sofa to be part of that moment where I felt included.

- Let her answer. - Katherine insisted.

- It was great. - I gave the answer believing it was enough.

- What about your letter, somewhat suggestive talking about thinking that a Mikaelson had changed? Letter you sent me in the middle of the night.

- Mom, Hope was acting different, I was wrong, I didn't let her get close. - I tried to explain myself. It was as if every word that came out of my mouth didn't happen, it was irrelevant.

- You let your guard down, I heard murmurs on the platform. Come with me, Penelope. - Katherine got up to go towards the kitchen.

- No. - I said while sitting next to Stefan.

- It was an order. - Katherine spoke even more nervous.

- Honey .. - Stefan tried to interfere. It was like I couldn't even think, I didn't want to have that conversation.

- Stay out of it. - You spoke authoritarian. - Comes. - He called me again.

- You taught me to stay on the sidelines, I won't have this conversation with you, I took care of my reputation as you ordered, but I'm tired of attacking someone who doesn't want to fight back.

- She's a Mikaelson. Katherine snarled. - It will attack you as soon as you realize how you let your guard down, you are ruining this family's reputation ...

"Okay," I said dryly, getting up, when Katherine thought I was going to follow her order, I turned the other way, rushing into my room, and slamming the door.

I leaned against the door, trying to close it even when it was closed, it was like I didn't want to let bad things in. Katherine was able to mess with me, nothing mattered as much as my mother's opinion, and she said that I was ruining the family's reputation broke me, as if every sacrifice she knows I make was nothing, because apparently I'm weak for wanting to peace.

I was someone else when I was with Katherine around, I wasn't the best Slytherin, or a great family legacy, I was just insufficient as a daughter.

- Hey, Penny. - Elena knocked on the door, her loving voice made me want to open the door. My sense of time was lost in the crying, and in the force against the door I was making. - Open the door please.

I hesitated to let him in, I hesitated to let anyone in, no one outside the family would get me to open the door.

- Lock it again. - I said trying to cover up my voice saying that I was in tears.

- Of course. - Agreed easily. I sat on the bed, waiting for Gilbert to come to me. Elena was certainly, after my parents, the person closest to me. Everything would have been amazing this Christmas if I hadn't screwed up. - Come here. - He opened his arms waiting for me to go for the hug, it didn't happen. I shook my head several times. The witch solemnly ignored me, pulling me.

- I'm so sorry. Your mother goes overboard sometimes. - He hugged me tighter. - She is wrong, you are the best legacy of this family. - I continued to shake my head.

One bad word outweighs ten good words. It had been easy to hurt myself, and impossible to notice.

- Caroline always tells me how you always act, thinking about how your mother would approve of your every step. Penelope, it hurts me to know that you're living like this.

- And yet Katherine thinks I'm destroying our reputation ...

- Katherine is paranoid, and traumatized, she thinks she has to have control over how everyone thinks. It can't be that way with you. - Elena walked away, holding my cry in her hands. - It's not fair to you.

- I wish you were my mother. - I hugged Elena again, more tightly. I never he had admitted it out loud.

- I would love you to be my daughter, you are amazing, you have to know that your mother loves you too. - Elena tries to defend, the most beautiful thing about it was that the two did not give anything well.

"You spent as much as she did, and you still wouldn't put a reputation above me." - Elena ran a hand through my hair, finally calming me down. I hated being so ruined so much if so.

- You're right, love, but it's the way I reacted. People deal poorly with these things, I was an exception. - I stayed there, letting the witch calm me down. Elena might not have children, but she was a great mother.

I wanted to tell her that I felt something for Mikaelson, that my heart for a minute asked for one last look at the platform, but I ignored it. I was also unable to tell the truth, nor was it a question of trust anymore, I just couldn't. Do not do that. I was going to ignore everything for the next four weeks, and get out of Penelope style at Mikaelson.

Mom didn't speak to me in the next two days, Stefan tried to interfere in this little fight, while Elena talked to me, or Damon played with something to soften some mood, it didn't help.

On Christmas Eve everyone was eating, I felt like complete garbage since she didn't even talk to me at that time. The situation was wearing me out.

- Penelope? Katherine called out suddenly. - You don't have to worry about any of this anymore, so you don't ruin everything I solved our problems.

- What are you talking about? - I asked confused, my heart beat faster than ever.

- I will take you out of hogwarts, there is a beautiful school in Brazil that will love to receive you, or in the United States, ilvermorny is a great school. - He spoke with a monstrously soft smile, as if it were the best thing he ever said.

I crashed.

- A normal dinner, is it that hard Katherine? - Stefan speaks nervously. - She won't get you out of Hogwarts, daughter, I promise.

- I already sent the letter. - He warned.

- How can you do that? - Elena asked incredulously. - Don't see what you're doing with your own daughter.

- How good that you understand is my daughter, my family, and I solve things the way I think best, you play nice when I'm tough with Penelope so you look like the villain.

- You are not the villain, you are just a horrible mother. - Damon speaks up. - I don't want to stay here anymore, managed to ruin Christmas Katherine. Brat, do you want to come with us?

- No, Uncle Damon, no. I'm going back to hogwarts, right now. - I said getting up.

- To ruin everything I built? Don't you dare do that, Penelope. I will be ashamed of you.

- Katherine, you have totally crossed the line now. - Stefan almost shouted, I had never seen him so nervous. And it was my fault, I had let my guard down, I had let the rumors get stronger.

I ran to the room, the argument must have been too ugly there for even Damon to be so serious. In tears, I looked for a damn sheet of notebook, pulling out several clothes and throwing them around the room. I took a pen from the desk.

"I'm going back to school today. My mom thinks I fucked up our reputation, it's the fault of this damn relationship. From now on, it never existed for me, don't talk to me again, never.
Penelope."

Elena entered the room, Damon was also present beside her, they both looked horrified. It had been the worst.

- It's late, you can't go to hogwarts now, Love. - Elena tries to convince me. I launched a fire on the letter, waiting a little while the tears that fell on it would not be visible to Mikaelson.

- I'll take you tomorrow morning if you want, just sleep at home today. - Damon insists. It was new to see him that way. Katherine had achieved even that.

- I'm going to Apparate in Hogsmeade and walk there, or I don't know, I don't want to go anywhere else. - I denied wiping tears on my face. That castle was where I felt great, where my reputation would protect me, where I had my friends, and especially, where no one would have the courage to say something so hostile. - Don't try to stop me. I need to go, and I'm going alone.

"Penny ..." I looked at them one last time, watching Stefan arrive in the room, and without thinking I Apparated. Focusing on some hogsmeade corner that I had seen the only time I went there, running away from school, of course. I hoped Caroline was still at school, I wouldn't speak to her that day, but Elena would surely call the school and let me know that I was going there, in addition to Damon threatening Principal Saltzman to let him.

I was sure of very few things, one of which was that the person I was, walking alone down the road to hogwarts, clutching my wand in my hand, ready to throw a crucio at the first individual who came along was the type of person I was, the The issue with Katherine only made me act arrogant, my personality was already strong by nature.

Went hours walking, trying to calm my anger, I just wanted to either punish myself, or punish Mikaelson. My anger did not subside.

- Penelope? - A witch with the Slytherin chase calls me.

- PARK, for you. When you talk about me, never speak to me again. - I said poisonous, giving the girl a push, making her fall to the floor. - You understood me? I pointed the wand at his face. The girl just nodded.

The castle was even empty, decorated in the Christmas spirit in every corner I passed, I went straight to the common room, then to my room. I pulled the air into my lungs, getting light, it was my home. I locked the door, throwing myself on the bed and collapsing.

My sleep was disturbed, I woke up several times during the night, as well as since I had gone home. When I couldn't sleep any more it must have been about eight in the morning, I sat hugging my knees, thinking about every word Katherine did. Feeling totally alone.

The door opens with a spell, I think it's Caroline, but the painting wouldn't have let her in, so the red hair gives away who she really was. My hatred boiled.

- I won't let you act like that. - Hope crosses both arms.

I got up in a rage, taking the wand.

- Leaves. You damn Mikaelson, GO AWAY, I don't want you here, I'd rather never look at your face again. - I spit it out like a snake spewing poison.

- I will reveal, because I know you are ...

- WHAT? FUCK? I'M FUCKING MIKAELSON, YOU FUCKED EVERYTHING WITH THESE SHIT FEELINGS THAT THROUGH ME, you tricked me. - I accused. At that point I was already crying with rage.

- What did I cheat you on, Penelope? Hope asked in a low voice, she didn't seem to want to argue with me.

- You must have told everyone, because they talked about it on the platform, and obviously it has a Mikaelson's finger on it. LEAVES. NOW. OR I THROW A CRUCIO. - I threatened when she tried to get closer. I wanted to explode, ending everything that was hurting.

- What happened at your house? Hope tried to understand. I threw my wand away, in a moment of intense anger.

- My mom hates me. Hates me, I couldn't keep the only thing I was born to take care of. She hates me, and it's your fault. YOURS AND YOUR FAMILY DRUG. - I yelled at her.

Hope looks at me with regret, probably feeling sorry, but not arguing back, or actually taking offense. The redhead gives me a forced hug.

It wasn't her fault. It was mine. I hugged Hope, crying until I sobbed, pulling the pain out of my soul. Deep down she was the only one who could soften, because it had everything to do with her.

- You can hate me tomorrow, and every other day after that, but I won't leave you now. - Hope gives a kiss on the top of my head, inside my head, it had an immediate result, it meant something, security.

Hope didn't let go, even when I had stopped crying.