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Niklaus Mikaelson | Vampire Diaries/The Originals ([info]hybridoriginal) wrote in [info]somerealityrpg,
@ 2020-05-21 19:06:00

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Entry tags:active: hope mikaelson

WHO: Klaus Mikaelson and Hope Mikaelson
WHERE: Grazie
WHEN: 5/20/20
WARNINGS: Klaus? Talk of death?
SPOILERS? For the Originals season 5 and Legacies, season 2


Klaus didn't like to admit it, but he knew he'd done wrong by Hope. How could he blame her for doing what he had done? Just because it had broken his heart to see her in that position - when all he'd ever wanted when he'd died was for her to be happy - didn't give him the right to blame her for it. She'd acted bravely, sacrificing herself for others. Truly, how could he blame her when he'd set the example in the first place?

But she was his daughter, and his thoughts and feelings concerning her weren't always logical. Still, he owed her an apology and the two of them needed to talk. He didn't want to be here feeling that she hated him. This was a gift and he wanted to enjoy whatever time this place gave him to be with her.

He'd arrived first, and compelled the host to give them the best seat in the house. It was more private, even if Hope could certainly cast a spell to give them all the privacy they needed. He ordered a drink for himself and a soda for her as he waited for her to arrive.


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[info]baculum
2020-05-22 01:35 am UTC (link)
He watches over you every day. He did die with love in his heart, and he doesn’t regret his choice. But he won’t find peace until you do. Good luck with that. The Necromancer could have been lying when he taunted her with those words. He could have been telling the absolute truth, too. But in the end it didn't really matter because all of that was before she'd made her choice. One that she thought he could understand. To have told him and gotten the reaction she did had floored her. Not that she thought he'd be happy, but to have him react the way he did hurt. And even now when she was hurting, she couldn't help but lash right back out.

This wasn't at all how she'd imagined her dad coming to Goodland would be. Well, that was a lie. Parts of it were spot-on. But not the part where they were fighting instead of using what little time they had together. Hope knew all too well how quickly Goodland could take someone away. This was her only shot. But they both had to see that. She wasn't going to stand for being made to feel small just because he was her dad.

Cautiously, she approached the stand and gave her name, following the host back to the corner where her dad was. Wariness was written in every line of her body as she smoothed the skirt of her dress underneath herself as she sat opposite him.

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-22 01:48 am UTC (link)
Klaus somehow knew the moment she entered, and he watched her walk to their table, his face impassive. His heart, though, was aching as he saw how grown-up and beautiful his daughter had become and it hit him again just how much he'd missed of her life. He hated that, but it was true - he didn't regret his choice. He'd died so that she could live and he'd do it a hundred times over.

He knew that he shouldn't have snapped at her the way he had. But the pain in his heart at the thought of her loss had staggered him, and he'd reacted defensively, with anger. Anger was easier for him than the blinding grief he'd felt when she'd first told him.

"Hope," he greeted her when she sat across from him. "I'm glad you came." He could see the wariness in her posture, and he wished he could ease it. He didn't want their relationship to be strained like this. "I took the liberty of ordering drinks."

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[info]baculum
2020-05-22 02:01 am UTC (link)
She was here to give him a chance, with hope in her heart that they could maybe get to the place she'd imagined. Taking a deep breath, she let it out and tried to release all of the baggage of the last week. She wanted to protect her tender parts still, but she could do that without anticipating an attack in every word. Without the soul-crushing feeling that she'd wasted every one of her family's sacrifices.

"Hey, Dad." God, that was still so weird. "Of course I came. What did you order?" Elijah had gotten her maybe a few too many alcoholic drinks, but she didn't expect that from her dad.

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-24 04:04 am UTC (link)
"A soda. Feel free to get something else if you like." He really didn't mind if she drank, but he wasn't going to order it for her. That felt a bit odd, especially if he really wanted to try to be her father in this place. Which he did.

He looked down a moment, then taking a deep breath, he looked up at her, his eyes intensely focused on hers.

"I am sorry how I reacted when you told me what happened."

Apologizing was not an easy thing for him, but his love for his daughter was stronger than his fear of saying he was sorry.

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[info]baculum
2020-05-24 04:21 am UTC (link)
His apology felt genuine, far more than it had over the network. This felt more like the dad she'd come to know right after her mom died. Still, Hope pressed her lips together tightly, the corners still fighting to turn down despite her best efforts. She took a few deep breaths through her nose before she tried to talk. "I didn't expect you to be happy. There was a reason I waited after all. But I—" her voice cracked. And she'd been doing so well. "I d—"

Swallowing hard past the lump in her throat, she tried once more. "I didn't expect... to have my worst fear come true."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-25 04:09 am UTC (link)
And apparently, he'd done that. He'd made her worst fears come true by being angry at her. He should have thought more, been more careful with his words, but he'd been so furious and crushed at the thought of losing her. Still, it was no excuse.

He looked down, refusing to meet her eyes in fear that he'd see the shame in them. Because he was ashamed of how he'd acted, more so than he had been in his life, because it was Hope who had been hurt because of it. He didn't know that he could hurt so much, second-hand.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, then emptied his glass of bourbon, still avoiding her eyes. "I didn't mean it that way..." But he had, hadn't he? If only he'd been able to control his goddamned temper.

"I want to make it up to you."

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[info]baculum
2020-05-25 04:31 am UTC (link)
The soda was sweet but still managed to burn on the way down as she took a big gulp, watching him all the while. He wasn't looking at her, which could be a bad sign, she couldn't tell. For all of the stories and the time they'd spent together, the man in front of her was still a mystery some times. She hadn't had years with him. The second apology twisted up her insides, making her regret taking the drink.

"... Make it up to me how? Dad, I don't need some, some grand gesture, or an expensive present. I need my dad, even now. And I need to know that you don't see me as some ... failure."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-25 04:54 am UTC (link)
He looked up at her sharply, meeting her eyes. His eyes were practically on fire after her last statement, but he forced himself to calm down before he spoke.

"You could never be a failure to me."

It didn't matter what she did, or how angry at her he was - she would never be a failure to him. She was his daughter, and he loved her deeply. More deeply than he'd ever loved anything in his life. He was, however, utterly terrible at getting that point across to her. He was utterly terrible at being soft.

He looked back down at his plate, a strange vulnerability in his posture and bearing.

"I don't know how to be a good father," he said softly. Grand gestures and expensive gifts were the way he'd always won affection in the past, but she didn't want that. And he wanted to give her more than that. "But I want to be."



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[info]baculum
2020-05-25 05:14 am UTC (link)
Closing her eyes, she nodded to herself. She was a failure in her own mind quite frequently, and the way they'd been fighting had her convinced he saw her that way, too. Relief that he didn't felt like ice in her veins.

Grabbing the bottom of her chair, she scooted herself closer to him. She placed her hand lightly on his arm, hoping he wouldn't reject the touch. His current state stirred some long-ago memory of a day in the woods. He'd been anxious and unsure, but she'd led the way then. She could do it again.

"I don't think you're as bad as you think," she said softly, her eyes trained on where her hand was touching him. "And it doesn't take much. Be there. Ask me questions. Show me things. It might not be as simple as with the seven-year-old you knew, but I don't love you any less than she did."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-25 05:18 am UTC (link)
Klaus wasn't really used to gentle touches, but he wasn't going to pull away from Hope. Not ever. He met her eyes, and let a small smile cross his lips, echoed in the warming of his eyes. Being a father was just about the most terrifying thing that had happened to him in a thousand years, and definitely the most wonderful. But fear was a more familiar emotion than joy. He needed to let the joy in too.

"I can do that. I will do that. But what do you want me to show you? There are so many things in my life that..." He shook his head, eyes darkening. There were parts of him that she'd seen that he'd always regret. He had never wanted her to see the monster in him and he hoped that she could some day learn to look past it.

"I suppose I should ask you about school? Your friends? Your boyfriend?"

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[info]baculum
2020-05-25 01:31 pm UTC (link)
"I've got darkness in me, too." It wasn't something she was proud of, but it was there. "And I'm 18 now. You don't have to hide things from me. We could talk about art, or history, or food. I'm sure there are more beignet-like things out there that I haven't experienced, considering my life so far compared to yours. Which... I make them here a lot. Beignets. It reminds me of home. And people really seem to like them." She could hear the family sometimes when she was in the kitchen making them, echoes of those last days before they all went their separate ways.

"If that's what you want to ask me about, then yea. I've got all three." For now.

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-28 05:04 am UTC (link)
He couldn't help but smile at the memory of introducing his daughter to beignets. It was one of their innocent moments, when they'd both been more or less happy, and he knew he'd gone way out of control with buying them, but it had felt so good to share a part of his life with someone he loved.

"I will have to try one of yours someday, then." Whether they were good or bad, he had a feeling that he'd like them best.

"It's not, not really. I don't want to know silly things that I can learn anywhere. I want to learn about you. I want to know what I've missed."

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[info]baculum
2020-05-28 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Hope thought about the question for a bit, trying to decide how best to answer it. It felt like there were a hundred different ways, so she just started talking instead of lingering in the mess of a teenager she'd been back then. "I probably haven't been showing it much this past month, but I'm stronger now than I was before. More self-sufficient." You had to be when you cut yourself off for so long. "I guess ... I used to want people to notice me more. That's how the whole Roman thing even started... But I'm stronger magically, too. I invented this spell for the school to find supernatural kids, and now that I'm older Dr. Saltzman usually takes me with him to bring them in. More shifts under my belt, too. Haven't made any more hybrids, I learned that lesson... Well, unless you count the golem I'm going to fill with my blood when I go back, but I really wouldn't."

None of this felt like the kind of answer he wanted, so she changed tactics, her gaze falling to her fingers as she fidgeted with one of her many rings. "I don't go home much anymore. I spent a really long time feeling sorry for myself and then I spent an even longer time trying to protect myself from having to handle losing anyone else. Mom sent me to school as a Marshall to protect me, and when I came back as a Mikaelson I used all of it as a shield to keep people out. It turns out some of them are really stubborn, though. The months before I came here really started to show me how stupid I was being. I tried to remember that here, too."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-05-30 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Klaus couldn't say that he wasn't curious about the Golem, but his life had always been full of strange supernatural occurances so he could let that go until later. He hoped that they'd have enough time to talk about all of those things, but now, he wanted to hear more about his daughter. Not the trials that her genetics and forced her into.

He hated that she'd lost so much. He knew loss too, but hers had happened at such a young age, and she had a very different relationship with himself and Hayley than he'd had with his own parents. And she'd lost Elijah too, at the same time. He didn't feel guilty for dying the way he had. He didn't regret it even a little, because it had saved her. But he was sad for her sake that it had happened the way it had and had caused her pain and loneliness. All he had ever wanted was for her to be happy. That was still all he wanted, too.

"So you let some friends in?" Hope was an amazing girl, and he was fairly certain it wasn't only the fact that he was her father making him feel that way. "It's a lonely world when you're alone."

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[info]baculum
2020-05-30 06:16 pm UTC (link)
Her lips quirked to the side as the look she was giving her hands turned soft. "Yea, well, you can blame Landon and Dr. Saltzman for me letting people in. And I still get shamed for trying to take too much on myself without letting other people help me, but I'm trying to learn that lesson. I've got really good friends here and at home to teach me." And some truly heinous monsters, not that she wanted to bring up her step-grandfather with her dad.

"I'm not great at losing people, either, despite all that practice. The twins and their dad were here before, and Dr. Saltzman was our guardian. I kind of lost it when he got sent home along with Josie. Blew up a lot of things I still feel bad about. And every time Landon dies, it's like my heart starts collapsing in on itself like a dying star, even though I know he'll come back." Okay, she mostly knew...

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-01 06:28 am UTC (link)
"Landon," he said softly, thoughtfully. "That's the boy you danced with." He remembered that night, the joy of being a normal father for a moment, watching his teenage daughter dance with the townie boy. Klaus had never thought he was anything special, but apparently he'd become a bigger part in her life. He'd seen the boy around but hadn't said anything about it. Was that the boyfriend she supposedly had? He felt a rush of protectiveness, but quashed it quickly. He didn't have any right to judge her choices in that respect.

"Every time he dies?" That was a strange way to put it. "Usually, humans only die once." He was fairly certain that Landon was a human. He hadn't smelled anything strange about him.

"I am glad that Dr. Saltzman took care of you. That he was there when I couldn't be."

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[info]baculum
2020-06-02 12:07 am UTC (link)
The recognition surprised Hope and she looked up at her dad from across the table, giving him a small nod and a smile. "Yea, the boy I danced with. There've been a few more dances since then, and one coming up when prom happens."

Maybe it wasn't her place to share, but she'd already let the cat out of the bag at this point. "He's a phoenix. Which was traumatizing to find out, but it's come in handy a few times." And it meant he was the only person who couldn't die on her. That they knew of.

If she'd been taking a drink at that moment, she likely would have started choking. "Really? I didn't expect that."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-02 04:09 am UTC (link)
Klaus's smile twisted a little. "I didn't say I liked the man." They'd definitely had their differences in the past, and he was far from being Klaus's favorite person. "I'm just glad that you weren't alone." He was trying to think of Hope, not himself. It was easier than it was with almost anyone else, although he would have preferred almost anyone else become Hope's guardian. He didn't have that choice, though. He'd given up that when he'd killed himself to save her.

"A phoenix?" He looked at her, obviously a bit confused. He'd been around a thousand years and had never heard of one of those before. "And...you're going to prom with him." He looked down. It wasn't his place not to be okay with that, but it was hard to hold in his opinions. He was seriously trying to be good here, but it was getting harder with each breath.

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[info]baculum
2020-06-02 04:30 am UTC (link)
"If you'd said that I would have started looking for the real you." It was very obvious there was no love lost between the two, even years after Klaus' death. "He... pushes me. Believes in me. And he's a good teacher. But, I mean, he's got his own kids and everyone else at the school..." He might have been the closest thing she had to a father, but that didn't mean he was her father.

"We don't really know how it works, either. He bursts into flame when he dies, and comes back after. He sometimes has fire-wings. And we like him," she finished firmly, catching the expression on his face. "He loves me—" far more than she deserved— "he's kind and determined. He'd do anything for me." All qualities she hoped Klaus could appreciate, too.

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-02 04:57 am UTC (link)
"In a thousand years, I've never heard of such a thing." He thought he knew all the monsters that were out there, but apparently he didn't. He didn't like that feeling.

"Yes, the twins." He knew them too. He also knew they wouldn't have helped without Caroline. Saltzman would have been glad to see him dead - he knew that. But Caroline was a different story all together. "He is...not my favorite person in the world." He wouldn't actually have minded killing the man. But if Salztman gave his daughter a home after he'd died, well...perhaps he could be grateful just this once.

"Do you...love him?" It was an awkward question, and he wasn't certain that he wanted the answer.

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[info]baculum
2020-06-02 10:19 pm UTC (link)
"That's Malivore for you. I've seen dragons and gargoyles and unicorns. There was a dryad, too, a cyclops... a gross giant spider." Among other things, which was why it had to be stopped. But she wasn't going there when dinner hadn't turned combative yet.

Instead of responding to his opinions on Dr. Saltzman, Hope gave her dad a look. Somehow Landon was the safer subject here. "I just went on about some of his good qualities for nothing. Yea, Dad, I love him. A lot, actually."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-02 10:35 pm UTC (link)
"Perhaps once I did know these things, and they've been erased from my mind." He frowned, hating that idea. Although he manipulated minds on a fairly regular basis, he hated the idea of having it used against him. He accepted the hypocrisy of that.

His eyes darkened a little as she confirmed what he was already fairly sure was the truth. Of course, she was a teenager, and perhaps her love meant very little. She'd move on from this boy and find someone who deserved her more. Or, he could hope, anyway.

"I suppose you want my promise that I won't hurt him."

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[info]baculum
2020-06-02 10:48 pm UTC (link)
"It's possible. That's how it works. That's why no one remembered me until Josie fixed all of that." Will remember her, she had to remind herself. The memories she'd gotten at the beginning of the month were starting to blend with the ones she had by her own merits.

His statement made her heart drop into her stomach, and she took some calming breaths. She could do this without getting overly emotional. "No, I wasn't thinking about forcing a promise like that from you. I was hoping I wouldn't have to, not after I just told you how I feel when he dies, and not considering that he hasn't even done anything worth being hurt over."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-02 10:59 pm UTC (link)
"I wasn't planning on killing him. He's just a boy." And, as she said, he hadn't done anything to deserve it, yet. That could change in the future but for now Hope's feelings were paramount in this regard. He wouldn't hurt the boy because it would hurt Hope. And that was something he hoped to stop doing entirely. "And I won't hurt him, either."

He might scare him, or try to have a talk with him, but he was Hope's, and apparently he made her happy, so anything more than that simply wasn't going to happen

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[info]baculum
2020-06-02 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Hope had some doubts that being young would stop her dad from killing anyone, but she kept those to herself. He wasn't going to hurt Landon, that was enough for her at this moment.

"That's settled, then. Now I just have to convince him he doesn't need to be scared of you or Elijah."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-03 03:48 am UTC (link)
It wouldn't, of course, although Landon had more claims to his mercy than just being young. He apparently loved Klaus's daughter, and he couldn't blame him for that. He would just need to make sure that he always treated her well. If he didn't, well, they would certainly have something to talk about.

"Maybe it's good for him to be afraid," he said, a bit teasingly. "It will make him behave better."

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[info]baculum
2020-06-03 09:52 pm UTC (link)
She rolled her eyes, frustrated with this opinion he seemed to have formed based on absolutely nothing. "He behaves fine. And if he didn't, that would be my job to correct or whatever."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-04 06:18 pm UTC (link)
He couldn't deny that. Hope, he was sure, could take care of any man or boy who dared to treat her wrong. She was, after all, his daughter.

"Fair enough."

He looked at her for a long moment, a smile crossing his face, but then finally shook his head.

"You're everything I hoped you would be. Except happy."

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[info]baculum
2020-06-04 08:15 pm UTC (link)
Her heart squeezed almost painfully. Could he really mean it? Even now, what she wanted most was to be worth the lives that had been given for her survival. "Really?" The question slipped out before she even knew she was going to say anything, her brain racing to catch up.

"No one's happy all the time. And I have some really good days... My life can be hard, and there are things I regret, but I don't hate it."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-06 11:10 am UTC (link)
"Of course," he said softly, as if that were a ridiculous question. "You're a brilliant, beautiful, powerful young lady. What more could I want?" Other than, of course, her happiness.

"We all have regrets." He certainly did, although he rarely spoke of them and rarely admitted them. "But what I did for you isn't one of them."

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[info]baculum
2020-06-07 05:41 pm UTC (link)
There were other people around, people eating their own dinners and having their own conversations. Hope knew it wasn't necessarily the place to start crying, out here in public, but by the time he was done talking, she couldn't help it. Fat, hot tears were rolling down her cheeks and she broke her silence only to gasp wetly for more air between quiet sobs. She'd had no idea how much she needed to hear those exact words from him.

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-08 03:07 am UTC (link)
There was worry in Klaus's eyes as she started crying, afraid that he'd said something wrong. He wasn't sure whether he should comfort her, or pretend that she wasn't crying at all, although that would be very hard to do.

"Did...did I say something wrong?"

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[info]baculum
2020-06-08 03:16 am UTC (link)
"No," she forced out after a few minutes of trying, shaking her head before in the hopes that he wouldn't worry. "Was good." Her voice sounded strangled and alien in her own ears as her throat tried to close in on itself. "Needed that."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-08 03:19 am UTC (link)
She was crying because she was happy, then? He smiled weakly, willing her to stop because he really wasn't good at crying girls, even his daughter.

"I hope that we can...have the time here that we weren't given back home. That I can be your father. If you'll let me, of course."

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[info]baculum
2020-06-08 03:24 am UTC (link)
The catharsis of crying leeched into her, leaving her feeling suddenly very weak as her tears trailed off into sniffles. Grabbing her drink weakly, she was grateful for the straw so she didn't have to lift it.

"Like I said, I still need my dad. You're the only one I've got."

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[info]hybridoriginal
2020-06-11 01:36 am UTC (link)
"So we can go about this together," he nodded. "I can...learn to be the father you need." He didn't need her to change at all. He already felt like she was everything he could want in a daughter.

He paused, a bit awkwardly. He wanted to do this right, but he'd never had an example of how to be a good father. But he'd try, harder than he'd tried at anything in his long life.

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[info]baculum
2020-06-11 01:46 am UTC (link)
She managed to keep any hint of frustration out of her voice. He'd done it before, she believed he could do it again. "I just... need you to be here for me. You don't have to always agree with what I say or do, but you shouldn't make me feel like shit because of it." Of course, her mom had made her feel like shit for some of her decisions, but they'd been bad decisions. Her dad's morality on those things was a little looser. She'd leave those kinds of talks to her mom. Or Dr. Saltzman.

"I believe you can do it."

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