"I forgive you, I love you. Let me go."

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Like all things that came from the supernatural world, Georgie had just discovered that the reason all magic had been stopped within the school grounds came down to a perfectly understandable reason.

"A blood fountain?" Hope asked, her face scrunching up in disgust as MG finished telling the girls about what he had found before his mom attacked him. Georgie wasn't sure what to make of it.

"Gross."

"It's even more gross in person. Trust me," MG told them, scrunching his face up a little as he thought about the fountain he had run into earlier on that afternoon. "I was looking for a way to shut it off, but I couldn't figure out how."

"All right, I'll go find the secret tunnel, I guess."

"And then I can siphon the sludge out of Josie, not that she'll appreciate it," Lizzie remarked, causing everyone to roll their eyes as their sister bickering came back into play. Georgie found it incredibly annoying, but it reminded her of the relationship that her and Hope had started to form since discovering that they were cousins.

"Great, then I'll just be shot," Josie snarked back, her eyes narrowed as she fake smiled at Lizzie.

"See? The new you is so snarky."

"It's kinda hot, to be fair," Georgie added, everyone holding back sniggers at her comment and how flushed she got after realising they were all looking at her.

Josie looked up weakly at Georgie, rolling her eyes playfully but grinning at her nonetheless. The other three supernaturals looked between each other in disgust before Hope turned the conversation back to the matter at hand, understanding that time was of the essence here.

"Okay, anyway..." Hope started before getting the attention of the four other teenagers. "I'm gonna be back as soon as I can." She turned to look at MG for a second, motioning to where Lizzie, Josie and Georgie were positioned in the transition cell. "Please keep these three from trying to kill or die for each other."

"You need to go help Landon. We don't need you to be here," MG replied, the others all nodding in agreement as Hope looked between them in a struggle, not wanting to leave them but also not wanting to leave saving Landon until later when Malivore and Clarke were involved.

Georgie rose to her feet, moving towards Hope and nudging her shoulder gently as if to say it was okay. The unactivated hybrid felt a small pain in her stomach at the movement, but chose to ignore it as she smiled at her cousin.

"But I can't leave you guys here," Hope argued, but Lizzie had had enough of her internal struggle. She rolled her eyes, flicking her hair over her shoulder as she looked at the girl she had hated at the start of the year but now couldn't imagine not having around.

"For the love of Frodo, go rescue your Hobbit. We'll muddle through."

"She's right again. He needs you," Josie continued, nodding to show Hope that she was also giving her the go-ahead to take off into the tunnels and save the day. Georgie smiled at her girlfriend - even if they hadn't been speaking since Georgie found out about the merge - before she noticed that Lizzie still didn't look impressed.

"I hate to say it, but you need to go too Lockwolf," Lizzie informed her, the smile barely reaching the corner of her lips as she looked at the girl. Georgie furrowed her eyebrows and opened her mouth to protest about leaving Josie, especially when Josie was in the condition that she was.

"I'll be right here when you get back, but Landon needs you both. Hope's great, but she can't do this alone. Go."

Just as the Lockwood legacy and Hope went to exit the cell, Georgie paused for a moment and spun on her heel. She rushed towards Josie, taking no notice to the others as she placed her hands on either side of Josie's face and pulled her in for a deep kiss.

Lizzie rolled her eyes a little but moved out of the way, allowing her twin and Georgie to have a moment together before the girl went to help Hope save the day like usual.

"I love you," Georgie murmured as she pulled back from Josie, smiling as she saw how Josie's eyes lit up at her confession. The black haired girl was in incredible pain but for a moment, it didn't matter.

"I love you too," Josie murmured back, placing another kiss to her lips before having to lean backwards and cough into her hand. Georgie smelt the blood before she saw it, and felt herself instantly kick back into protector mode. "Stay safe."

"Always," Georgie replied as her and Hope moved towards the exit. "See you soon."

"I'll be waiting," Josie teased back, her smile dropping as soon as Georgie and Hope disappeared from sight. Her eyes trailed down to the bullet wound, looking back up into the panicked reflection of Lizzie's eyes.
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"I told you to wait for me!"

Hope and Georgie turned around to see Alaric coming towards them in the underground tunnels. Georgie wished she could have asked how he knew where to find them - or the blood fountain - but she had the suspicion that she already knew the answer, and she didn't like it.

"In a shocking turn of events, I ignored you," Hope replied, not in the mood for Alaric's lecture when she knew that Josie was needing magic back as soon as possible to help cure the wound she had taken. Georgie looked at the fountain intently before her head turned back around to rejoin the conversation as Alaric pointed out that Hope's arm was healed.

"Wait, who else got shot?" Alaric asked, his voice tight as he realised that Hope had just alluded that she had also been shot alongside someone else. Georgie knew that she should speak up, but instead allowed Hope to give the bad news to Alaric. Besides, she knew that she would get the chance to talk to Hope alone in a moment.

"Dr. Saltzman, you have to trust me. Josie's gonna be just..."

"Josie got shot?"

Georgie almost flinched as she thought back on the memory, her fists clenched against her side as she hoped that Alaric didn't think it was her fault. She was already blaming herself for Josie getting hurt, as it was her temper that had only seemed to egg on Triad.

"Yes, but MG and Lizzie are on it, and I think that they can fix everything. If I can just figure out a way to turn this stupid thing off, then they can get their magic back!" Hope exclaimed before her voice turned skeptical as Alaric was able to instantly figure out how to turn the fountain off. Georgie's eyes narrowed as she turned to look at him, the suspicion in her head getting louder and louder. "Which is super easy, apparently. How did you know how to do that?"

"This is a dark object, created by a group of extinct witch-like people called the Travelers. Anti-magic was kind of their thing."

"How did Triad even get it in here?" Hope asked, but Georgie knew the answer. "How did they know that there were tunnels?"

"Because he put it here," Georgie snarled out, Alaric casting her a warning glance as he held up his hands and ignored the betrayed look that Hope was also shooting him. He knew that the girls had bad temper but he also was now very aware that his daughter was on the brink of dying if he didn't get back there soon.

"Listen, I will explain everything to you later, okay? But right now, I have to get to Josie."

"Wait. Give her a vial of my blood! From the werewolf bite cures," Hope told him as she and Georgie moved to take off down the underground tunnels in the opposite direction. He furrowed his eyebrows at her orders but nodded anyway. "I'll explain later, too."

Georgie watched as he turned and ran towards the way that her and Hope had entered the tunnel. Just as Hope started running in the other direction, she turned back to notice that her cousin hadn't started running yet.

"What is it?" Hope asked, her voice sharp with impatience. She paused for a moment as she noticed Georgie's hand over her stomach, looking down with a grimace as she raised the hem of her sweater slightly. "Georgie... did you get shot?!"

Hope felt her heart drop a little at the sight of the black veins forming around the bullet shaped hole in her cousins stomach. She instantly looked back up to the hybrid, her eyes wide as the girl smiled back a little sheepishly at her.

"I might need some of that too," Georgie admitted, almost flinching as Hope immediately muttered an incantation to cut her palm open without hesitation. Georgie paused for a moment as she looked at Hope's outstretched bleeding hand before furrowing her eyebrows. "Is this weird? I feel like this is weird..."

The look that Hope shot her answered Georgie's question, so the hybrid lifted her cousin's palm to her lips and took a quick taste of the blood on her palm. Georgie spluttered as soon as she moved away from Hope's bleeding hand, pulling a face at the taste. Hope wasn't impressed at all by Georgie waiting so long to bring attention to the fact that she had also been shot, but it was apparent that it had been affecting her much slower than it had Josie.

"We'll talk about this later," Hope demanded, clearly annoyed at her cousin's silence. Georgie rolled her eyes but took off after Hope through the tunnels, knowing that their time to rescue Landon from Triad was growing shorter by the minute.

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Lizzie had Josie propped against the pillows on her bed, both twins trying to ignore the pain that Josie was going through while they waited on a miracle to happen. Despite their current situation, the girls both couldn't help but wonder how their friends were getting on with saving the phoenix.

It had been a few hours since Hope and Georgie had left via the tunnels and the radio silence was killing them all. They'd managed to fight and beat Triad since then, and now all the Salvatore School students just had to wait to hear back from the other supernatural teens.

"I wonder what Georgie and Hope's up to. I bet they saved Landon already, and the world."

"Yeah, they're pretty good at that. Hopefully they get back soon."

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"He won't die!"

Georgie grunted as she rolled over, having just been slammed into the wall by the Headless Horseman. She didn't know much about the villan, but she certainly wasn't enjoying this experience. Landon wasn't proving to be of much help either and Hope was having issues trying to figure our how to kill the monster.

"You know sci-fi stuff. Help me. How do I kill him?" Hope yelled across to Landon as she ducked under the monsters arm, looking across to where Landon was helping Georgie up from the ground. The girl knew that she could have just shifted into her wolf form, but she didn't want to get into a situation where she would accidentally hurt Landon - even if they knew he would regenerate. 

"Uh, Headless Horseman is more fantasy," Landon called back to Hope, causing both of hte teenage girls turn to look at him in annoyance. "In the Tim Burton movie, they defeated him by giving him a bride. That wouldn't be my first choice."

"Me, neither!" Hope yelled back, kicking the monster and moved back to stand beside Georgie as the headless horseman regained his balance. Georgie ducked as Landon yelled about the pumpkin head, before flinching a little as Hope managed to impale the head with a pole, causing the monster to finally die.

Georgie rolled her eyes a little as Landon immediatley ran up the stairs towards Hope, grabbing her and pulling her straight into a lengthy kiss. The Lockwood averted her gaze as she crouched down, looking at at the Malivore pit before standing back up and walking around the edge of the pit. She tried to tune out Landon and Hope's conversation, but it was hard not to pay attention to the lovestruck couple's reunion.

"I know that the only thing you want from me is the truth. And the truth is... ...I love you," Hope admitted, her eyes wide as she looked at the boy in front of her. This was one of the most vulnerable times in her life, and while Hope had been scared to love again after Roman, her friends and Georgie and Landon had showed her in the past few months that it was okay.

Landon looked at her in nothing but admiration, his hand slowly carressing her face as he broke into a huge grin as Hope began to pour her heart out to him.

"I'm really sorry about all the secrets that I've kept, but I'm... I'm mostly sorry about keeping that one. 'Cause I love you, Landon Kirby!" 

"I mean, it wasn't a huge secret," Landon joked, before his eyes softed as he grinned back at Hope. It was as if nothing else mattered in the moment between them, nothing could break the happiness that they were sharing in that moment. "...because I love you, too, Hope Mikaelson. And I forgive you for anything that needs it. And I know it looked like I was losing when you got here, but that's just how Phoenix combat looks, so..."

Hope laughed before pulling him back in for a kiss, stopping his rambling as she reconnected their lips. They continued to hold on to each other in this embrace for a moment, as just as they were about to pull apart a loud voice broke through the peaceful silence and instantly shattering all joy that the duo was feeling.

"Nothing like young love, is there?" Clarke grinned at the couple, his eyes holding a dangerous glimmer to them as he held the artefact up to the light with a smug look. Hope didn't care much about the artefact at that moment, but rather her eyes were latched on to Clarke's other arm.

It was wrapped tightly around Georgie, holding her flush against him with supernatural strength that the teenage unactivated hybrid wasn't able to break away from. Her eyes were wide as she looked at Landon and Hope, her feet resting just beside the Malivore pit as she struggled against Clarke.

"Shame it has to be so short-lived."

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"I failed you. You see, my purpose in founding this school was to create a safe space for my daughters and for supernaturals like them. But today, I fell short of that goal, while all of you exceeded every expectation I had ever set for you. Because today, you were confronted by the worst monster you've faced yet: ignorant human beings.

Sadly, I am one of them. The plans and methods that Triad used to infiltrate our school and endanger your lives were mine. A contingency plan that I had developed and shared with concerned parents over the years, including Veronica Greasley. But...her betrayal would not have been possible without mine.

You see, the dark object that she used to disarm your unique abilities was put in place by me, in the secret tunnel that only I had known about, because I thought that, perhaps one day, it was the world that would need to be protected from your gifts, rather than the other way around. The only way I can atone for this breach of trust is to leave it up to you to decide whether I should remain as your headmaster. The honor council will convene, they will vote, and I will respect whatever decision that they make.

Whichever way this goes, I want to thank you, all of you, for making me understand that the world my daughters inherit will be in better hands."

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"You'll find, baby brother, one of our family's worst traits is ...well, we're terribly clumsy," Clarke admitted, instantly letting go of the knife and watching as it fell into the pit. Landon and Hope both let out yells at that, but their eyes barely moved from Georgie.

Clarke had moved them forward now, the top of Georgie's shoes now hovering above the Malivore pit as she tried to dig her heels into the ground. Clarke's grasp on her was almost painful, but she knew if she even managed to break free of him now that she would fall into the pit regardless.

"One of our good traits however, is we're incredibly generous," Clarke teased, his arm still holding Georgie tight against him as her feet teetered over the edge of the Malivore pit. "So I'll let you make this next choice, Hope. My brother, or your cousin?"

It was as if time had stopped for the two cousins as they looked across the room at each other. Hope's eyes were wide, full of anger and fury as she stared across at Clarke who was grinning from ear to ear. Georgie's were wide with fear but yet Landon was sure when he looked across at her he could almost see defeat in her eyes. She knew there was no way this would end successfully for them - she knew that was a risk when she came here.

Hope's arms wavered as she raised them, an incantation resting on her lips as her brain tried to catch up with what was happening in front of her. She could see the tips of Georgie's shoes now being pressed into the Malivore mud, Clarke dangling her above it as if she weighed no more than a feather.

"It's okay, Hope," Georgie rasped out, her voice contracted from Clarke's arm across her neck. "Let me go. It's okay."

"Georgie..."

"It's okay," Georgie croaked, knowing that there was no spell that Hope could do that would prevent her from being dropped into the pit at this rate. Her feet were now fully off the ground as Clarke held the teenager above the edge of the pit, a look of extreme chaos in his eyes as he watched the emotional pain he was inflicting on all three teenagers spread. "I forgive you, I love you. Let me go. It's okay."

"Well, you heard her!" Clarke yelled out, a sick grin crossing his lips.

Georgie could tell that Hope and Landon had screamed out in anguish as soon as the words left Clarke's mouth, but she didn't register it. Her stomach dropped as Clarke shoved her forward, her body crumbling with the help of gravity as she felt herself splash against the thick, black ooze of Malivore.

Georgie wasn't sure what she expected falling into the Malivore pit to feel like, but it didn't really matter what her expectations had been. It was like a twisting feeling in her stomach, almost like a sufficating pain and nothing but darkness. There was a sudden sense of longing for what her life had been, before it was like nothing had ever existed.

Like Georgie had never existed.