As in the show, Hayley gives birth to Hope and is killed, only to return as a hybrid. Klaus and Elijah, consumed by their mission to rescue Hope from the witches, leave New Orleans in pursuit, determined to stop the sacrifice at all costs.

But what they didn’t know—what no one knew—was that Hope wasn’t the only child born that night.

As Klaus and Hayley left the church, Hope cradled in her arms, the weight of their victory felt bittersweet. Hayley, struggling with the aftermath of her transition, could hardly comprehend the magnitude of what had just occurred. The magic that resurrected her was still taking its toll, but the presence of her daughter in her arms was enough to keep her grounded. Klaus, equally shaken, carried Hope with fierce determination, his eyes never leaving his family.

But what they didn’t realize in their desperate escape was the twin left behind—the second baby—completely unknown to them. Hours after Hayley’s labor, while she and Klaus focused on their immediate survival, the baby girl was quietly taken from the altar by an anonymous human figure. This stranger, a person with no connection to the supernatural world, had no idea of the infant’s true nature. In the shadows, the child was smuggled away, whisked into a life that would be marked by an ordinary fate, far from the chaos of the Mikaelsons and the witches.

The child, once destined to share the same bloodline and legacy as Hope, was given a new identity and placed into the foster care system. A life marked by uncertainty, and unaware of her true lineage, she grew up lost to the world, her connection to the Mikaelsons a mystery, a secret buried deep in time.

Klaus and Hayley never knew. The child would remain a forgotten soul, slipping through the cracks of a family torn apart by magic, power, and fate. The echoes of that lost twin, however, would one day stir, as destiny always finds a way to reunite what was meant to be whole.