twenty
i killed someone.

BURR PULLS THE trigger first, but his bullets were made from Malivore goo. That's why Isabelle barely feels the bullet, and she sees the wound close by itself. She smirks at Burr, who gasps. "Impossible."

"I have angelic blood, so no. Not impossible," she corrects him before lowering her gun and shooting his leg, in a spot where she knows he'll survive. She doesn't wanna kill him, just wants to make it so he won't be able to hurt anyone else today.

Isabelle then takes Alaric's keys, not caring that she doesn't have a driver's license as she takes off towards Triad's building. She knows that Hope went after Landon, and that her friend will need her help.

She's been driving for a couple of hours when she gets a call from Hope. She answers, caught off guard by Hope's fearful tone. "Hey."

"Hope? Did you find Landon?" She questions, doing her best to keep her eyes on the road.

"Yeah," Hope answer's, biting her lip nervously. "Are you on your way? Landon's gonna need you when I'm done. You have to write it down."

"Okay," Isabelle nods, pulling off to the side of the road and writing down Find Landon, Triad Headquarters. Once she's done, she begins driving again. "Hope, what's going on? Can I talk to Landon?"

"No," Hope shakes her head. "He would've tried to stop me, so I had to kill him. He'll come back, even if I don't."

All kinds of terrible ideas go through Hope's head, and she can't help but infer that Hope's about to sacrifice herself in some way. "Hope, tell me what you're about to do."

"Clarke won. He found the final artifact, and he tossed it into the pit," Hope explains, a siren wailing in the background. "And now Malivore's gonna rise unless I stop him."

"Hope, I'm only a couple minutes away," Isabelle sighs, pressing down harder on the gas pedal so that she can get there faster. "Just wait for me."

"There's no time. I always thought I was a cosmic mistake, someone who never should have been born. But after all this time, my purpose is finally clear. Think about it. I can fix this."

"No," Isabelle shakes her head, feeling tears roll down her cheeks. She's going as quick as the car can go, but she knows she won't make it in time. "This isn't right. Hope, this isn't okay. You can't leave me."

"You'll be okay, because after I jump into the pit, no one at school will remember me. Including you. I've spent years torturing myself, asking myself why my father sacrificed himself for me, to get to this point where, I mean, I totally understand it. This is the part where even though you want me to change my mind, you know I'm doing the right thing. I already called Dr.Saltzman. He's erasing my existence as we speak. I just want you to know you're my best friend, and I love you."

"I love you, too, Hope," Isabelle breathes, speeding into the Triad vicinity. But she's not paying attention to where she's going.

That's why what happens next is almost ironic. That she's been careful not to kill anyone and trigger her curse her entire life, but one slip up leads to her hitting a Triad worker. A human, killing him on the spot.

He goes over the car, and shocked, Isabelle loses control, wrecking into another car. She wakes up a couple of hours later to her phone ringing with a call from Alaric. Blood covers her body, and she has cuts and scratches from the accident. But all of her major injuries have closed up already. Her hands shake as she answers the phone, remembering what she'd done. "Dr.Saltzman, I did something really bad."

"I'm coming to get you and Landon," he informs, taking notice of her petrified tone. "What did you do, Isabelle?"

She feels dizzy as she opens the car door, and sees the person's body on the ground beside the car. Landon is sitting a few feet away from the car, looking like he'd thrown up after seeing the body.

"I don't know what happened," Isabelle whispers, confused. She doesn't know how she got here, but she feels an extreme amount of guilt. "I think I killed someone."

"I'll be there as soon as I can."

She hangs up as Landon runs over to her. She feels her heart sink, letting out a surprised grasp as she falls to the ground. Landon watches in confusion, only for her eyes to flash the unnatural green of a hybrid.

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