As Davina sat there in the passenger seat listening to every word as she struggled to keep from begging Kol to get them as far from this town as possible. But she knew he wouldn’t leave his niece to face this on her own and she couldn’t ask him to either. Her thoughts turning to the very real fear of this being how she would lose Kol but she couldn’t say anything about it.?
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With a sigh, she resigned herself to knowing their travel plans were on hold indefinitely, quietly looking out the passenger side window as she knew if she were to look over at Kol he’d see the fear and concern in her eyes. It took everything she had not to cast a look his way when he put his foot down harder on the gas knowing it was likely a sign of his frustration with the situation.?
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“They figured out how to deal with ‘The Hollow’ because Vincent found a way of communicating with the one who killed her fifteen hundred years ago...Inadu’s mother. She provided him with a spell that would lock ‘The Hollow’ away inside of an ancient book. So, they lured her into a trap.” Hope hadn’t been present for any of this so all she had to go on was the account given by her aunt which she hoped would be enough.?
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“Vincent bound Inadu inside a circle of salt to buy himself time to cast the spell but she managed to break the circle and destroy the book. She locked herself inside of me. Cue ‘Plan B’. Without the book you all needed another way of dealing with ‘The Hollow’ so it was decided that save me you would each take a part of that darkness into yourselves. You, my father, uncle Elijah, and aunt Rebekah. It’d be the end of ‘always and forever’. It would be too dangerous for you guys to even be in the same city as each other.”?
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She avoided Miranda’s gaze as she didn’t want to risk seeing a sympathetic look in the eyes of a basic stranger. “It also meant I could never see my father or any of you ever again because ‘The Hollow’ would try to get back inside of me.” Being without her father after having only just got him back had been hard and for a short while there had least been open community between them but that ended. She’d done some fairly desperate things all because she’d missed her father.
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Hope felt the tears stinging her eyes causing her to bow her head slightly to keep anyone from noticing. It wouldn’t be easy to talk about but she knew she owed her uncle the whole story. “I was fifteen years old when I cooked up a plan that would force my father to come home again. It worked. He did. He came back to find out who’d kidnapped my mother.”
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She took a shaky breath trying to reign in her emotions as memories floated to the surface. “She was supposed to be perfectly safe. I used a cloaking spell to hide her but...this vampire who considered hybrids to be abominations found where I’d hidden her and took my mother. For a while we didn’t know who had her but then they reached out and said that if I did the binding spell so that I couldn’t create more hybrids they’d let her live.”
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She reached up tucking her hair behind her ear without looking to see whether her uncle had glanced her way. It was just easier to tell the story if she didn’t have to see the look on anyone’s face. “I was all set to do it with Aunt Freya’s help when my father found out about what I intended to do and he wouldn’t hear of it. He didn’t want me going through what he had.”
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Her fingers lightly wrapped around the pendant of the Mikaelson family crest as if the act of doing so brought some measure of comfort. “I ran away from school with a boy I liked who turned out to be Greta’s son and he took me to this house in the middle or nowhere. Mom was there. Next thing I knew he was putting these chains on me that kept me from doing magic. He said everything would be okay if I just did the binding spell.”
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Without lifting her head she glanced at Davina who was still staring out the passenger side window. “Greta showed up with reinforcements. Mom...they did the binding spell on her...she was in so much pain. But when they finished she got free...and attacked Greta. By that time my father showed up to rescue us but uncle Elijah wouldn’t let him inside.”
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She drew another breath then exhaled a bit shakily. “To understand why uncle Elijah was helping them over his family and the woman he loved you have to know that when you guys scattered he had Marcel erase all of his memories of ‘always and forever’...of all of us. But when he came through that door my mother thought he was there to save us instead he kept my father from being able to save her. She was pinned to the wall with Greta’s hand literally on her heart.”
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“To protect me...she grabbed ahold of Greta and threw them both outside into the sunlight. It took me a long time forgive him for her death. They eventually made him agree to letting Marcel return his memories. In the days that followed I convinced aunt Freya to help me bring our family back together. I created a Chambre de Chasse that I used to keep you all from stopping me while I did a spell to extract ‘The Hollow’ from each of you and draw it back inside of myself.”
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It honestly scared her a little to know what her uncle’s reaction would be to all of this when she finally finished telling him everything. “When my father discovered that it was killing me he came up with the plan of getting Caroline’s daughters to draw it out of me and put it inside of him then he’d kill himself getting rid of it once and for all. In the end uncle Elijah chose to die by his side...he broke the white oak stake into two pieces and...they staked each other.”
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She was surprised she’d made it through talking about their deaths without falling to pieces but still she didn’t look towards the driver’s seat...to her uncle. “It’s my fault that my parents and uncle Elijah are dead. I have to fix it.” It was something that she’d never really forgiven herself for. “If we can put ‘The Hollow’ inside Pandora’s box before she resurrects herself I’m all for it. Though I’m afraid that I don’t know anything about how she pulled it off outside of the fact of her having killed uncle Elijah in order to do it.”
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She thought briefly of Landon and the fight they’d had over her plan to save her family. “I know that when Inadu killed him aunt Freya put his spirit inside her crystal pendant and was eventually able to put him back inside of his body.”
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