Father & Daughter Talks [Nibs x Hope]
Hope fixed her place up a little since she knew her father was coming. There were still things she needed to unpack and she had to hide the baby items she bought, but for the most part she was positive Nibs would let her stay once he saw it.
Nibs had headed to the cave where Hope was going to be living. It was bittersweet that she was going to be living on her own. Walking into the cave, Nibs called out her name. “Hope, are you here?”
She walked toward the entrance before seeing the collar on the ground and picked it up, placing it on the table before hugging Nibs. “Hi daddy.”
“Hello Hope, how has moving in been going?” He asks while taking a look around the cave and noticing the collar that was on her neck at dinner was no longer on her neck. “Did something happen between you and Zach?” The male asks while gesturing towards the collar on the table.
She looked at the table before grabbing the collar, “I broke up with him. Moving in has been great though.” She said before putting the collar in her room and coming back out. “Take a seat, I’ll get us something to drink.”
“Broke up with him? I thought everything was going well with that?” He asks while looking at the other before taking a seat.
“Uh yeah I guess. It was fine. I cheated, that was the main reason we broke up. Well he didn’t want to, but I thought I could use the break to figure some things out and that’s what I’m doing. I only have lemonade is that fine?” She asked looking at him.
“Who did you cheat on him with and what do you mean by cheating? Are we talking about a kiss or are we talking about sleeping with someone type of cheating?” He asks before nodding his head. “Lemonade is fine, thanks.”
She sighed as this wasn’t the conversation she wanted to have with her father. “Uh I kissed Ken and slept with Riley.” She mumbled the last name before pouring him a glass and taking it to him. “There you go.” She said before putting everything away.
“You slept with Riley? But why? I thought you loved Zach? I thought you were happy with him...are you sure you are okay on your own? Maybe you should come back to the castle for a bit…” Nibs offers up before taking the glass of the lemonade.
“I do love him and I was happy, it’s all very complicated. Can we not talk about it? It’s still new and I’m not sure how to take all this myself.” She said putting the lemonade back in the refrigerator before going to take a seat at the table.
“You know better than I do Hope that we don’t hurt those that we love. If you weren’t sure about your feelings you should have told him and then broken up that way instead of cheating on him. You broke the bond that you two had….I talked with him the other day about the shifter stuff too. I gave him the father talk you know...treat my daughter with dignity and if you hurt her I will kill you type of talk.” He explains before taking a sip from his drink. “I also asked if he wanted to be part of the royal guard...and he told me that he would consider it.”
“Why would you do that? I don’t even know what tomorrow holds and if works around us I will always see him. What if we don’t work? You should have talked to me about that before you did it. I mean it will be great for our child but- I mean it will be great if we do work and one day have a child, but that’s if…” She said cleaning up her mistake.
“I’m sorry I think I misheard you. Did you just say that you were pregnant with Zach’s kid...oh Hope.” He put his face in his hands before pinching the bridge of his nose. “Oh god your mother is going to kick my ass. I thought you were being safe Hope.”
“I was, I never let guys you know...well except Zach and Dylan...okay way too much information. Look yes I’m pregnant but I’m handling it and you don’t have to tell her yet.” She said trying to figure out what his exact reaction to the news was. “I’m fine dad really, I go to doctors appointments in the e camp and I take my medicine. Everything is good.”
“You slept with Dylan...that son of a bitch. He was working with Jack...he slept with Jack, he slept with your mother...he slept with a shit ton of people on this island...please tell me that you are positive that it’s Zach’s kid because if it’s actually Dylan’s I will kill that bastard again.” He growls.
“I’m positive. That happened so long ago. Way before I met Zach. It was once chill.” She said upon seeing his reaction.
The male just grumbles to himself as he hears Hope’s words. “Good let’s keep it that way then.” He explains before finishing up his cup of lemonade.
“Yeah...anyway don’t tell mom yet. I want to make sure everything is good before we tell people you know?”
“You should probably tell her unless you want me to tell her.” He responds while putting the cup back down.
“I will just not now. I don’t want her to think that I’m alone in all of this because I’m not. Zach is a big family person and he is helping as much as I am allowing him to. I just want to figure out what a family means for me.”
“You should find out but don’t push those that want to help you away.” He responds while looking at the other. “Sometimes figuring things out on your own is good for you but other times you can get rather lonely if you don’t know your limit or when you need to accept help from someone.”
“But I don’t. I never get lonely. I am never alone to even know what that feels like. You and mom are always there for me and then Zach says he is giving me space but he is only doing that because I asked. I don’t know what it means to be alone so I would greatly appreciate the space.”
“You want to know what it feels like to be alone?” Nibs asks in curiosity. “You should probably also mention that to your mother because she won’t want to hear that from me.”
“I want to be me, whoever that is and I can’t figure that out if everyone is always around.” She said before looking at Nibs. “What is going on with you two? Should I move back home? Because if that’s causing the problems I can.”
“No, it’s fine. You should have your time on your own. Your mother and I will be fine, besides you seem to have your own things to work out...we will be fine.”
“Okay. I will just let you two handle whatever then. Did you want to look around?”
“Sure, I would love a tour of the place.” He responds while getting up from his seat.
“Okay I’ll so you where the baby room will be.” She said standing up and leading him to the room.
“Alright, lead the way.” He follows Hope through the cave as she leads the way to where the baby’s room was going to be.
Hope takes him to the room at the end of the hall full of all the baby things she had bought. If she was honest, she didn’t even know if she had everything she needed or had enough things to baby proof the house but she figured her dad could tell her otherwise.
Nibs takes a look at all the things that Hope had bought for the baby and it seemed like she was rather well off. “Looks like you have all the basic things for a baby but it doesn’t seem like you have any toys for them.”
“What toys? I thought babies like putting things in their mouths. TJ always did.” She said looking at Nibs.
“That is very true, TJ did love to put things in his mouth but you should get them some toys or something that since it keeps them entertained.” He responds.
“Can I borrow some of my old ones? Or maybe any the others aren’t using?” She asked.
“Yeah I think that the quadruplets are done with their toys too if you needed those too.” He responds while looking at the other.
“Okay cool I can borrow those...once I tell mom.” She said before sighing. “Um my bedroom is down the hall and the guest room is right across.”
“Yeah you should probably tell her sooner rather than later since I don’t want her to get mad I never told her you know...”
“I will just please keep it from her as long as you can. She has the other’s to worry about and she doesn’t need to focus on me.”
“Yes but she will ask how this went and if I don’t tell her when she asks me then she will get very mad at me.” He responds.
“Just distract with some else...like tell her you yelled at me for calling Zach daddy at the dinner or having sex at the dinner. Please dad I’m just asking for a little more time.”
“Yeah okay fine, but you need to tell her soon, otherwise I will and I am sure that won’t be pretty.” Nibs responds. “Your mother and I share a heart Hope, I can’t really keep stuff like this from her. She can sense it just as I can sense things with her, this might even happen to you too someday once you meet your imprint.”
“Well then maybe you could tell her...I’m sure hearing it come from you will lessen the blow I would get for it. You always know how to calm her down so I would greatly appreciate it if you told her so she wasn’t super mad at me.” The girl replied with a hopeful look.
[Nibs]
“I can try but also you should be careful about the whole ‘break’ thing from Zach. If you two are bonded and you do end up sleeping with someone else and you break the bond. When you were kept by him, did you two...You know...make love or was it just sex? If you two made love you are bonded to each other...And it's dangerous to break a bond after losing a person close to you.” Nibs explains.
“Also, if you break the bond, your body will start to deteriorate faster the more you love him. The same will happen if he sleeps with someone else...I don't know if he is your imprint or not but I wouldn't risk it Hope. Things can get tricky with bonds and I assume he still doesn’t know about Jack yet...I made sure that everything was cleaned up after that since I know how he would react upon finding Jack like that.”
“I mean not that it’s any of your business dad but yeah we made love and I don’t really care about Jack. Like at all. So I don’t know if he knows or doesn’t.” She said looking at him. “Well I’m alive and I broke the bond so I guess I didn’t love him as much as you think I did.”
“Yes I guess. The only reason you didn’t die though was because he wasn’t the one to leave you. If he was the one that said he didn’t want to be with you or that he was leaving then that could have been really bad Hope. If he is your imprint, it can result in death though. You mentioned you were the one to break up with him so that is why your bond is still in tact but if he were to ever say he doesn’t love you and doesn’t want to be with you, that is when your body would start to break down and die if he was your imprint. You are no longer bonded to them but with imprints it is different. If you break the bond and still feel extremely strongly about them then that is a hint that they are your imprint. Imprints don’t usually register until your mate is in a situation which threatens their life, if they die. You die.” Nibs explains.
“If you are imprints or mates you will get back together, life has a balance to things and will guide you to figure it out. And yeah, there haven’t been many instances where those who have imprints don’t end up with them. If you both don’t end up back together, you will always feel incomplete and long to be with him. Imprints are something that doesn’t change. If your bond breaks and you still have those feelings towards him, he is your imprint. I don’t think he will end up sleeping around….but I don’t know him that well so I can’t tell you that.”
“I really appreciate this lecture but why can’t you just ask normal questions. I didn’t ask to be hybrid, you and mom did that so I am allowed to live my life like any normal girl would. I will not force myself to stay with someone because I could die. I could die of unhappiness you know that? I don’t want to be in a relationship with him so what makes you think I want to have a bond with him right now? I just want a break. I don’t think that is too much to ask. I want to get back together with him when I feel like it not when the universe wants.” She said as her eyes turned red.
“Sometimes I don’t need a king, or an alpha, I just need a dad. This is one of those times.” She said looking at him. “I will tell Zach to be the one to break up with me so if I die it happens if I don’t I don’t. At least I will be making a choice for myself. That all you needed to say?”
“I know you didn’t and neither did I but I did it for your mother and I did it so we could have you. But you aren’t just some normal girl Hope. Normal girls don’t hide things from their parents let alone go around sleeping with whoever they can get their hands on without being safe. If you didn’t want to be in one why didn’t you just make that clear from the beginning then? For heaven’s sake Hope, normal girls don’t cheat on people they love, normal girls don’t end a relationship while pregnant so that they can mess around just because they can. If you didn’t want a relationship you should have thought of the repercussions of your actions. You want us to treat you like an adult you need to act like one.”
“Not everything revolves around you Hope, not everything will wait for you. You want to get back together with him when you feel like it? What if by that point he found someone else to be something that you were supposed to be for him? There are ups and downs in relationships but you of all people know that we raised you to believe that if you love someone you don’t just abandon them, you don’t leave them in the dark and you certainly don’t go around doing what you are doing out of confusion. You want to be independent and alone? Then why are you putting yourself around other people? You can’t find out who you are if you have other’s around as you pointed out earlier so why are you bringing around people that you know will just confuse you more? You said you cheated out of confusion? That’s not a real thing Hope, people know what they are doing when they cheat it’s not just some ‘mistake’ you don’t just magically slip and fall and their dick magically ends up inside of you. It’s an action that you thought about and you knew was wrong and you went ahead and did it anyway.”
“You are to be a mother, there is no such thing about wanting to be alone or getting away from that. Motherhood is something that lasts a lifetime and if you didn’t want all this confusion then you should have thought about it earlier. I had faith in you Hope I really did. I even stood up for you and Zach in front of your mother which made her extremely angry at me. I put myself on the line for you, as your father, to trust you were doing the right things even after we found out about what the whole kingdom thought about you. I stood up for you time and time again but even when I asked you about something and wanted honesty from you, you didn’t come clean with me. I thought maybe this time would be the time where we rebuild that trust again but you just proved to me you can’t handle being on your own. I will go back and discuss things with your mother and we will go from there. You wanted me to be your father? Well this is me doing just that. Goodbye Hope.” He responds before heading for the entrance of the cave.
“Normal people do all of that. I am not someone who has to act better than because I’m some stupid hybrid princess. I don’t want any of this. I got carried away with Zach, I don’t let people cum inside but he did and I didn’t care and when I found out I was pregnant I didn’t know what I was going to do because I wasn’t ready. I still am not ready. But if you think I ended my relationship because I wanted to sleep around you are no different than everyone out there. I can sleep around when ever I feel like it because it’s my body. I made a mistake but stop acting like you didn’t at one point in your life. Being adult means owning your shit and I do that. The one time I didn’t was because I didn’t understand why you listened to Stiles instead of just asking. You accused me, you didn’t ask. You had your answer before you even brought it up to me, of course I am going to get a little defensive. So I lied. Is that something hybrid’s don’t do? Am I supposed to answer everything honestly all the time? Please let me know how else I should live my life.”
“I cheated because I wanted to. I know this may come as such a shock to you, but it has nothing to do with Zach. He is great. But he doesn’t own my heart. We aren’t you and mom, he isn’t my soulmate, he isn’t my imprint, he was my boyfriend. And I was honest with him the moment he told me he loved me, I told him someone else had my heart. At any moment he could have asked me to stop being with him. I told Ken and Zach that this is just as much their choice as mine and they both chose to stand by so don’t act like I am being selfish. I have been nothing but honest and completely available to both people. Riley was because I was horny. That’s it. No deep reason, like sorry. I forgot when I had to explain my life choices to you. I didn’t ask you to make mom mad at you, if that mattered so much you should have just let her do what she wanted. You don’t get to blame me for that.”
“I have been trying. With you, for Zach, for my baby, but it is getting exhausting. I have looked up everything I possibly could about raising a baby but I am not excited about it. I don’t think about my child and know I will be happy because I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing and I am not ready. But when I say that I’m selfish. When I admit I can’t do something I am only thinking about myself. Well maybe I should stop seeing Zach all together and just do what Uncle Noah suggested. That way I am not in the way of whatever everyone needs to do. You can’t force me to move back in, I am not a child. I will do what I want and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to be here. Goodbye.”
Hearing her words, he grew angry and turned around to face her, his eyes blaring red. "You are a princess and you need to act like one. You are putting the family image in jeopardy by doing what you used to do. Do you really think that anyone is going to want someone who doesn't care about their body and let's anyone use it as they please? That's how rape happens Hope. Being an adult is more than that. No, you are supposed to answer honestly because I am your father. I told you that I would not be mad if you just came forward and told the truth but you resisted so you got punished just as a child should for being so reckless. Yeah you are right I fucked up in the past but I worked past it to improve myself and be better. I didn't want you to be like me, I wanted you to be better than what I was or who I was."
"Yeah well your mother wasn't always my soulmate either or at least I never knew it until I imprinted on her. Hope, I used to be just as addicted to sex as you are but I even knew my boundaries. It's called self control and it's something that all adults must actively practice which you clearly don't. You are right you didn't ask me but I thought that as your father, I would put some trust in you after everything that happened and clearly I was wrong for doing so, so thank you for pointing that out."
"Yeah that's what life is. Life is exhausting and you just have to keep powering through and trying, nothing is that easy Hope. And I wouldn't listen to anything your 'Uncle Noah' has to say because he is the one that killed your mother but Pan was gracious enough to split our hearts so your mother and I could live. The whole 'I will do whatever I want' mentally is exactly what a child would say which only proves my point further that you can't handle being on your own. And as you pointed out earlier I shouldn't give you the benefit of the doubt anymore. I will talk to your mother."
“I am putting the family in jeopardy? Do you even know what going to school being a hybrid is like? Sirens were taught to hate shifters and you two didn’t think about our safety when you did that. We are the ones that deal with that not you so don’t blame that shit on me. I sleep around. I have sex. Really amazing sex and I want to be someone’s sex slave. Does that not fit your fairytale life dad? Cause being a princess doesn’t fit mine. And I am not like you because I am actually trying to fix the relationship with my baby’s father unlike you who let you and Sam’s relationship be whatever the fuck it is so Stiles grew up not thinking he belonged somewhere and taking that out on me. Like seriously you are the last person I need adult advice from.” She snapped.
“Go ahead talk to her, it doesn’t change the fact that what I do has nothing to do with you. I know the people I need to consider when I make huge life decisions and it’s not my parents. I love you but you do not get to dictate what I do. That’s not your job anymore. And clearly we saw how well you did since I lost my virginity to a guard.”
“I never wanted you to go to school Hope. I wanted you to stay home where we could teach you without all those distractions or at least until we were able to make the sirens at peace with shifters. Sending you off to school was solely your mother’s decision so that is not on me. Are you trying to fix it? Because by breaking up with someone while being other people’s sex slaves isn’t fucking fixing anything. It will just push them away and you won’t have anyone left to help raise the kid or if anything, without you being in his life anymore maybe he will be just like Jack, steal the kid and raise them as his apprentice come back and take revenge against our family.”
“You don’t know a thing about Stiles and the family dynamic, I was there for him for everything. Sam wanted to raise Stiles with Dylan and we agreed that I would come around and visit from time to time so I don’t know what the hell you are talking about other than you talking about situations that you don’t even know the details about. We are your parents Hope, you should be including us in your life, we shouldn’t have to beg you to be a part of it. But you know what, you want us not to be in your life anymore fine. Don’t bother coming back home.” Nibs hissed before leaving.
