Hizzie
Yea, it's crowded, but it's also been months of me living here, so it's not like I'm not used to it. Giving me a place means it can be taken away I can just escape to see you guys. Or there's a whole city out there. Even just the rooftop garden.
[ ... ] Everyone here from Bonnie's time knows my dad as a monster. They say they don't hold it against me, but I still feel it when I look at them. I remember the reason I spent the first seven years at the Salvatore School as Hope Marshall, how it felt. Besides, she doesn't have real ties to me, she wouldn't be picking me.
Not just someone. Him. And I wasn't supposed to come back. It was supposed to have worked, and your dad got rid of everything so no one would have wondered or missed me. When I got here, you were here, too. Only you hadn't gotten your memories back. There was nothing about me that you recognized as even partially familiar except that I knew things you knew, too.