hope ELIZABETH melone was born in October of 1999 in Boston, MA. She has two brothers. Matthew is four years older and was exiled from the family when Hope was twelve. Nicholas is her younger brother, just two years younger than Hope. She was a typical child, who loved Barbie's, coloring books and thought boys had cooties. Her parents are strict and encourage her to do well in school, study hard and get into a good college. She enjoys painting and drawing well into her teenage years.
Her father is a surgeon turned hunter. When Hope is twelve her older brother, Matthew is bitten by what they believed to be a wild animal during a family camping trip. The alpha who bit Matthew tries to help him adapt, but while Matthew is adapting his father is becoming more suspicious of his son. This leads the surgeon to eventually meet a group of hunters who show and explain to him they werewolves and other supernatural creatures are very real. Hope's parents eventually become hunter's themselves, but not before her mother sends Matthew away with the werewolf who bit him, knowing that if he stayed he could be killed.
Fast forward four years, the family has moved six times. While her father doesn't hunt full time, he mostly provides medical treatment to hunters. With Hope turning sixteen Hope's mother wants Hope to be trained on how to be a hunter and enlist help from another hunting family. This isn't what Hope wants. Still in contact with Matthew, her parents having no idea about it, she seeks out her brother for advice on what she should do. This is when the alpha who bit him bites Hope unbeknownst to Matthew.
When Hope returns home and the full moon comes her younger brother witnesses her first shift, locking her in the basement. Their parents find them. In the following two months her father has chained her to the wall, kept her docile with wolfsbane. Using his skills as a surgeon, her father hopes to 'separate' the wolf from his daughter. He refuses to lose another child and that causes his break with reality. Three more months and several failed attempts, Nicholas finally decides to put a plan into action. Their mother is just continuing to ignore the situation entirely. After contacting Matthew, Nicholas is put in contact with the McCall pack.
Nicholas packs a few things and when his parents go out for date night, Nicholas calls Scott to tell him it is safe for him to come in. Scott is able to remove the wolfsbane iv Hope is attached to and safely get both Hope and Nicholas out and back to Beacon Hills.
