#But it is the plan once Stefan's plot is over

[cadrenebula]

Vierapril - Day 20 Free Choice

[mrsriddlenott]

The Fourth Day Of Smutmas

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~ Santa Clause Is Coming To Town ~

Klaus Mikaelson x fem!Vampire Reader

Summary: When Klaus mysteriously returns from New Orleans, the Mystic Falls gang worries about what he’s planning, though his only plan is to convince you to join him for Christmas in The Big Easy, by any means necessary. Starting with lavish gifts, attention, and affections, and ending with his mouth wherever you wish it.

- Klaus is obsessed but not in a creepy way, vampire reader, platonic Damon x Reader & Stefan x Reader -

Warnings: 18+ Content!!Spoiling(gift giving, promises etc),ig kinda manipulation if you squint,f!Receiving Oral.

It was no secret that when Klaus first came to Mystic Falls he had only one thing on his mind, breaking his curse. But when he first saw you from behind the eyes of Alaric, he knew there was….something….so he of course ignored it. By the second time he came around you knew all about him and he you, something about you lingered with him, leading him to look into your past which only hooked him on further.

He was a forward man, anything he wants he goes for, so naturally he was hounding you left and right for the better part of year while him and his siblings ran rampant in your town. Though you were mysteriously never hurt, mentally or physically, something that didn’t go unnoticed by you. By the time Klaus was told of a plot against him in New Orleans, you were ready to accept him, his faults and all, and before he reluctantly left, you shared a heated kiss that stuck with the hybrid even all this time later.

Despite trying to disconnect himself and keep you safe from the enemies after his family and city, he couldn’t stop himself from calling you every once in a while, only feeding his desires to see you, feel you, smell you, for you. By the time Hope’s second Christmas started approaching, he realized she’d be starting to remember them soon, and decided you just had to be there so began planning to get you to enjoy the Holidays with him.

“Uh guys, you might….well you are gonna be upset but I need to tell you something,” Your voice was small and weak as you entered the main room of the Salvatore Boarding House where Stefan and Damon sat drinking bourbon. Damon, rude as usual, ushered you to speak faster as you tried to sputter out the words to tell them Klaus had left you a voicemail in the early hours of the morning to announce his eminent arrival.

“Well you see…” You were cut off by the sound of the large wooden door opening behind you allowing Klaus to saunter in with his usual air of confidence, swinging an arm over your shoulder with a smile that didn’t show his teeth, eyeing the brothers in front of him as though daring them to question his entry into their home.

“Oh come on….why the hell has Santa Klaus come to town,” Damon mocked, scoffing out a laugh as he chugged down the rest of his bourbon, standing from his seat, eyeing you with disappointment before returning his attention to the much stronger man, “We’re having one peaceful, happy, bullshit free Christmas this year and nowhere in that is the Original Hybrid needed,” Damon swayed his hands in a mocking manner as he spoke, he was coaxing him, he wanted to anger him and wanted to prove to you Klaus would rip his head off in a matter of seconds if it weren’t for you.

“Oh Damon,” Klaus sighed condescendingly with a shake of his head, “I’ve only come for y/n, she’s needed for my family’s….what’d you call it…” He feigned a questioning look as his eyes shifted around the room, “ah yes peaceful, happy, bullshit free Christmas, so if you don’t mind….”

“Woah woah woah, what do you mean? You can’t just swoop in and take y/n like she’s your property,” Stefan piped up, scoffing slightly as he crossed his arms over his chest despite Klaus’ eyebrows shot up his forehead to eye the much younger vampire.

“You are so dramatic,” Klaus laughed with a smile that didn’t meet his eyes, clearing his throat before continuing, “I haven’t come to kidnap her, I’ve come to ask her you idiot, and even if I had planned to walk in here and take her….neither of you could stop me.” Klaus was never fond of you living with the Salvatores, especially Damon, but he also recognized their close bond to you and their obvious love for you. He wouldn’t hurt them unless they hurt you, he knew you would never forgive him for that and he just would not stand for that.

With a roll of your eyes you tugged Klaus’ hand, pulling him down the hall away from the brewing argument and toward your large bedroom. “Why’s this room so close to Damon’s?” Klaus’ narrowed, distrusting eyes seemed to search the room and hallway before shutting the wood against the frame and turning back to you.

“He likes to be closer so he can hear if somethings happening faster….he’ll deny that though,” you chuckle awkwardly, you hadn’t been alone with Klaus in almost two full years. Your eyes fell to his hands as he dig into his coat, tugging out a long, silver wrapped box with a golden bow on top, so neatly done that you were sure he had compelled someone to do it perfectly.

“I got you something, come here” He ushered you towards him with two of his fingers. His gravely, authoritative voice you loved so much sending shivers down your spine as you approached, unable to deny him of anything he asked of you in that tone. “There’s more waiting for you under my tree in New Orleans.” Klaus calmly stated, making you cringe slightly as you approached him, stopping only a foot in front of him before speaking.

“Look Nik, I’m sure that whatever that is is lovely and I’m sure all the others are too but if you’re only giving me that to get me to come back with you than I can’t accept it.” You sighed, meeting his eyes for only a second before watching your feet. Klaus stepped forward, almost pressing against you as the air grew warmer, gripping your chin and forcing you to meet his eyes again, genuinely smiling down to you once you did.

“No Love….this is yours whether you come with or stay and if you don’t accept my invite I’ll bring the rest to you. Whatever happens to them after is up to you, leave them, open them, donate them, whatever you want,” His warm hand moved to yours, shoving his gift box into your palm as he watched you expectantly, your brows scrunched together as you narrowed your eyes at him before realizing he was being honest.

You tore through the paper cautiously with a smile, revealing the long black velvet box that opened to reveal a simple golden necklace with a simple wolf charm in the middle, “I usually go for diamonds but I know my girl well enough to know you’d prefer both,” he stated simply before pulling out another perfectly wrapped silver package, this time much smaller. You wasted no time in ripping through and opening the small box to reveal a ring with a thin silver band adorned with a large diamond.

Your eyes shot up to his as you removed the ring from it’s confines with a shocked expression, “Now I know what you’re probably thinking, but when I propose to you that rock will me much larger and,” As he waved a hand around your room with slight grimace on his face, “we’ll be in be a much more extravagant setting….Paris perhaps?”

“Nik….this is too much I….” You couldn’t form words as you looked between the pieces of jewelry, “I can’t accept these not when Hope is so young and Hayley she deser-“ Klaus laughs at your response, eyeing you as though to ask you a question simply with his eyes, before chuckling again with a soft apology.

“Do you really think I can’t get all my favorite girls their gifts? Trust me Hope and Hayley will have plenty of presents, in fact they’re next to yours right now, if you want to get going I’m sure you’ll see them.” Klaus waved his hand towards your door, looking to you expectantly as though waiting for you to walk out before him.

“I can’t just leave with you out of nowhere Klaus,” You sighed, setting your gifts down on your bedside table before rubbing at your eyes as the man stood in front of you again, waiting for a different response, “It- it’s not that I don’t want to okay….I just can’t.”

“Why not?” He asked, his eyebrows scrunched in confusion, his voice exasperated as he turned his hands up dramatically, “Come on what’s keeping you from leaving with me? I’ll keep you safe.” His voice was growing strained, he was beginning to plead with you now, grabbing at your sides as if to remind you of his ability to shield you from harm.

“My friends are here Klaus, the only real friends I’ve had for over a century, I’m not just leaving them” You spoke, narrowing your eyes to him as though asking him to reveal a hidden meaning before turning away from his touch and avoiding his pleading eyes by tiding your bed covers, adding in a small voice, “My friends who do not trust you with me by the way.”

“It’s not like you’ll never see them again, I’m not trying to hold you captive I’m trying to give you a nice Christmas.” You could hear in his voice that he was upset, he was losing patience and wanted, no needed, a flat out response, “Love, please I’m practically begging on my knees here”

“Maybe you should be on your knees,” you joked under your breath without thinking about the mans enhanced hearing well beyond yours or the vampires you’re usually around, only realizing your mistake when you turned to find his eyebrows that had shot up his forehead in surprise. His eyes trailed down your body and back up again, reading you to make sure he heard you correctly before speaking, “Sit.”

“Wha-“ His deep, dark eyes locked into yours in a silent order, halting your question before it was formed as you immediately flopped down on the bed behind you. Your wide eyes followed his actions as he slowly grew closer to the bed with purposeful steps, “You’ll be a Good Girl and tell me to stop when you don’t like what I’m doing won’t you?”

You nodded your head in understanding, putting a halt to his agonizingly slow steps as his head tilted to the side in a questioning and demanding stare, “Yes I will,” You stuttered, your throat beginning to dry, your head falling back to maintain eye contact as Klaus stopped in front of you, just to drop to his knees. His warm, rough hands surrounded your ankles, tugging them apart lightly to settle himself between your legs, his eyes never leaving yours. He smelled intoxicating, his scent wrapping you in a blanket of comfort as his hands slowly rubbed up and down your legs, stopping just before the hem of your dress each time. “Please y/n. Will you please come to New Orleans for Christmas, it’ll make my year.”

“I don’t kneel for just anyone and I think you know that,” as he spoke it felt as though his power he prided above anything for 1,000 years began to seep out of him and into you, “You’re the only woman on this planet that I can’t get out of my head, I’ve had women on every continent drooling at my feet for the better part of a millennium but you, my Darling, are the only one I will ever drool over.” Your resolve was beginning to crumble, the feeling of his soft kisses to the top of your legs between words had you sighing in contempt, your confidence growing with each second.

“What can I do to get you to join me hm?” He punctuated himself with a kiss to the center of your thigh, moving his lips higher before he spoke again, “I’ll buy you anything, I’ll do anything.”

Your hand melted into his stawberry curls, watching his lips form a smile as he realized he’d won, “You seem to love using your mouth….so maybe start there.” His eyes shot to yours, chuckling to himself at your false dominance, he loved being in control and whether you realized it yet or not, he was.

Your back slammed against your mattress in less than a second, Klaus’ firm hand held against your stomach, using his hybrid strength to keep you down. He vibrated against you with pure energy, growling against the flesh of your thigh while kissing a trail to your core, eyes going a golden yellow as the scent of your arousal filled his senses. You leant up on your elbows to watch him, the feel of his prominent fangs that would scare almost anyone else scraping your skin with each featherlight kiss building an ache in your lower abdomen, the sense of danger was overwhelming, knowing that at any moment he could dig into you, infecting you with his venom just so he could taste you. The thought of him losing control and having to cure you from the toxin with his blood had you subconsciously tugging your lip between your own fangs that surfaced from your gums at the sight of him shoving your dress upward once his lips met it.

His fingers effortlessly slipped into your lace underwear, filling the room with the sound of ripping fabric before delving into you with his expert tongue, forcing your hips to jolt up against his hold on you, “Holy fucking shit,” Klaus immediately began drawing figure eights on your desperate clit, sighing in pleasure at just your taste and immediately needing more.

You were dripping for him, filling the room with the sound of your pleasure as he lapped against you, focusing on the strokes of his tongue against your center the same way he would a brush against art. Your high was fast approaching, faster than ever before, you wigged against his grip desperately trying to ease the growing tension in your body but he didn’t let up. Fingernails digging into your flesh as you legs shook, your eyes screwed shut, falling back onto the bed with a sigh of a moan attempting to will yourself to last longer, to prolong your pleasure as though you would never feel it again.

His strokes danced between your entrance and your puffy, needy clit he was beginning to adore, wishing to give you a teaser of what awaited you in his bed in his city. His lips sucked around you, egging on your moans of pleasure from above him until they turned into small whimpers and whines of need. Your mind was hazy, it’s only focus being the tickle of his beautiful hair against your thighs, the scratch of his stubble marking your flesh as his perfect, silver tongue pulled out the first of many shaking orgasms he would give you as his Queen.

“You taste absolutely amazing,” He pushed himself forward, weighing down the bed beside you as you tried to regain focus, “If you pack quickly you may get another gift before we leave.” He chuckled, smacking at your still exposed thigh before pulling you into a desperate kiss he’d waited far too long for.

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Not proud of this one smut wise but I think it’s super cute 🥰

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[so-long-soldier-writes]

Part of the Action

poly!mikaelsons x human!reader

summary: you're about to be left out of yet another mikaelson plan, when an accidental mix-up happens that might convince them to let you help them. OR, you prove that you've got a lot more fire than the mikaelsons give you credit for.

tags: plotting, blood drinking

word count: 720

You lay across the couch as Klaus goes over his plan for the third time. Your legs are in Kol’s lap, while your head is in Rebekah’s. As he strokes his finger along your thigh, she’s playing with your hair, and none of you are paying much attention to the hybrid. Elijah’s trying his best to listen to his brother, but he’s consumed by a jealousy of not being able to touch you while his siblings do that makes him deaf to the plan. 

“So I’ll need one of you to distract Damon, another to distract Stefan, and-” Klaus pauses, “are any of you idiots listening to me?”

Four pairs of eyes immediately snap up to him. 

“Could you stop petting the girl for one minute so you can tune into my plan for world domination?”

“She’s just so soft, Niklaus,” Rebekah whines, digging her hands into your scalp sweetly.

“Yes, I know, but this is important.”

“So is taking time to relax and love on our little girl.”

He sighs, then looks at you expectantly. You’re only able to fight his gaze for a minute before surrendering. Both Kol and Bekah argue as you move to be sitting in between them, not touching either of them. 

“Thank you, love. Now, this is the plan. One of you distracts Damon, another distracts Stefan. I grab Elena. Y/N, you stay here, because you are not getting caught in any crossfire-”

“Why do you never let me help?”

“Pardon?”

“Why do I always have to sit out when you guys are acting out on plans? I can help. I want to help.”

“We will not risk you getting hurt, baby. It is imperative that you stay here where you’re safe,” Elijah speaks for them all. 

“If I get hurt, you can just heal me! I want to help!”

“No, Y/N. That is an order. You stay here.”

“I can’t be here all the time while you’re always fighting. What if you get hurt?”

“We will heal.”

“Well you can heal me.”

“Love, it’s a no. Now stop fighting the matter before it results in punishment.”

You glare at the two eldest brothers, but then drop your gaze and pout.

Kol immediately leans over to whisper, “we love you too much for you to get hurt, darling. Yes, we can heal you, but there’s still so much risk.”

“Fine,” you mutter. “I’ll stay back. Again.”

He smiles, then kisses your cheek. 

Klaus continues plotting. “I’ll only need Elena for a second, so you all only need to distract them for a little bit. Just long enough for me to make my point.”

You zone out while he talks, knowing there’s no use in listening anyway since you’re on the outs. At some point, Elijah sets his wine glass on the coffee table to stand up to talk to Klaus. Your eyes focus on it. I’m in desperate need of some wine to deal with this shit again, you think, ‘Lijah won’t mind if I steal a sip. 

In one quick motion, you reach for the glass and bring it to your lips. 

He spins around at the sound of movement, eyes immediately going wide. “Baby, that’s not wine. Put it-”

Too late. You take a big sip of the liquid. It’s already in your mouth by the time you realize it’s blood. It shocks you for a second; Elijah’s not usually one to drink blood from wine glasses - that’s usually Kol. But as it sits in your mouth, you find yourself enjoying the taste. It’s thick, oozy, and something about it makes you feel powerful. Like what once was someone’s life force is now being consumed by you. 

In one gulp, you swallow it. It’s heavy down your throat and bubbles in your stomach. The taste lingers on your lips, stained red from its color. 

You set the glass down and lie back on the couch, but not without swiping your tongue across your lips first. “What?” You question the four siblings staring at you. They’re all speechless, yet the longer you look, the more you recognize the love and lust in their eyes. 

Klaus is the first to break the silence. “Well, judging by that, maybe our beautiful and bloodthirsty girl is ready to be a part of the action.”

[livlepretre]

not sure of this hasbeen asked before but how did you come with this fic? how much of it had you formulated before you started writing? how did the bigger picture come together?

oh this fic.

I don't know if this fic would exist if I hadn't moved to Europe in the middle of the height of my tvd hyper-fixation, such that when season 3 was airing I would wake up at 3 am to pirate the new episode literally as soon as it was available online. I did this when the reckoning aired, lost my everloving mind (I was already deep into klena), and woke up a couple of hours later for class with the idea literally crystal clear in my mind. like, I don't know if I could have come up with this if I hadn't woken up mid-sleep, watched the episode as though in a dream, in that weird liminal time of night, and then went back to sleep and let my subconscious churn that episode over some more. I have a massive love of canon-divergence, too, and so this was the immediate WHAT IF???? that sprung to mind. A lot of the dynamics are based on how TVD read to me in that frozen in amber moment of just after 3x05 aired.

The idea immediately seized me hard. I started writing the first chapter in a coffee shop on my way to school that morning, and spent the lecture furtively hand writing out the next few scenes. I couldn't get the mood I had in mind out fast enough. Most of chapter 1 is verbatim what I wrote that morning in 2011.

when I got back to my flat, I wrote an outline.

the extremely crazy thing is, even though the fic has MASSIVELY expanded from that time, it is... still mostly following that outline. Once the fic is finished, I plan to publish that outline because it's wild how much the overall arc is remaining true to the original idea.

I think I lost some steam that afternoon and decided to shelve the fic until I finished my wip (After the Fire, But Before the Flood). That ended up taking me a few more years to finish as finishing school/career took up most of my time.

And yet. I kept daydreaming about FE. I kept going back and thinking about it and expanding on it. I thought about Elena in exile. Elena losing her baby-- losing Tyler's baby. Elena and Rebekah in love. Klaus yearning and burning for her while he had done everything to lose her in the first place. I dreamed and I dreamed and I dreamed about it. Somehow, for 5 years, I never actually wrote any of it down, just kept daydreaming it and fleshing it out in my mind.

Finally in 2016 a fandom friend nudged me and nudged me and nudged me and convinced me to start publishing FE. I had no idea what I was actually in for in terms of the depth. I think my initial 20,000 estimate was based on the outline I wrote in 2011, and couldn't possibly take into account the depth of story I had developed by 2016.

I updated the outline, and started working.... and things would come up. I would realize, oh, Elena is really still in love with Stefan when this fic starts. That needs to be addressed. Oh. I can't bear to kill Tyler Lockwood off. I better come up with a good way for Elena to save him when things come to a head. And I want Elena and Klaus to have an arc together, and wouldn't it be convenient if that arc ends with her obtaining the gold dagger? So I invented the entire New Orleans arc for that one purpose. And certain things would occur to me-- like how Mikael would have been in league with Team Mystic Falls, because Damon would have woken him up still in 3x05, he just arrived a few minutes too late to save Elena. Or-- I would realize that the fic had grown so large in scope that characters like Elijah needed a definitive role in order for the story to be COMPLETE. Or, most of all-- that the ending I originally intended was just too bleak... so I decided, okay, let's still do that stuff, but instead of ending it there... let's see how Elena resolves that situation.

So, we are still following the outline, but I've done my best to add in arcs and bring in plot details as things occur to me/as readers point interesting things out/and as rereads make emergent themes clearer to me than they were when I started writing.

Writing installment based fiction is hard. There are definitely things I would change if I could-- for instance, I think the current arc would be several chapters shorter/more concise if I had finished writing it in 2020 when I first started it-- but moving cross country and have a baby who never slept plus various other life events put a big wrench in my writing for quite a while, and it was all I could do to update once or twice a year for a few years... but that stuff happens. I'm happy the story is getting out at all. That the vision I had all of those many, many years ago is emerging so faithfully.

[kookie29]

☆~ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 7: ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʀᴜᴛʜ ᴜɴᴠᴇɪʟᴇᴅ ~☆

Synopsis: A short story of Jeremy Gilbert's short-lived but profound romance with the love of his life.

Genre: Angst

Warning: None

666 words

Ch 1, Ch 2, Ch 3, Ch 4, Ch 5 Ch 6 ,Ch 7, Ch 8

The days following Lena's tragic death were a blur of grief and unanswered questions for Jeremy. The love of his life had been stolen from him on what should have been their happiest day. Determined to find out what had happened, Jeremy threw himself into uncovering the truth behind Lena's sudden and mysterious demise.

The faint trace of a rare poison found in Lena's system was the only clue. Jeremy knew he needed help, so he reached out to his friends in Mystic Falls. Bonnie, Caroline, and Stefan rallied around him, determined to help him find the answers he desperately sought.

As they delved deeper into their investigation, whispers of a sinister plot began to emerge. Stefan, with his extensive knowledge of supernatural herbs and toxins, identified the poison as one that was almost impossible to detect—unless you knew exactly what you were looking for. The group quickly realized that only someone with deep knowledge of the supernatural could have executed such a plan.

One night, while poring over old texts and records in the Salvatore library, Bonnie gasped. "This poison... it was last used over a century ago by a vampire Katherine Pierce."

Jeremy's blood ran cold. Katherine Pierce, the ruthless vampire who had tormented Mystic Falls for centuries, was the last person he wanted to suspect. But the evidence was mounting. Katherine had always harbored a dangerous obsession with both Stefan and Damon Salvatore, and her hatred for Elena, who had been caught in their tangled web, was no secret.

Determined to confront her, Jeremy and Stefan devised a plan to lure Katherine out of hiding. They spread rumors of a powerful artifact being discovered in Mystic Falls, something that Katherine wouldn't be able to resist.

It wasn't long before Katherine took the bait. One evening, as the sun set over the town, she appeared at the old church ruins, her presence as chilling as ever. Jeremy and Stefan waited in the shadows, their hearts pounding with anticipation.

As Katherine approached the supposed location of the artifact, Jeremy stepped out into the open. "Katherine," he called, his voice steady despite the fury boiling inside him.

Katherine turned, a sly smile playing on her lips. "Jeremy Gilbert. To what do I owe the pleasure?"

"Cut the games, Katherine," Jeremy said, his voice hardening. "Why did you poison Lena?"

Katherine's smile faded, replaced by a cold, calculating expression. "Lena was always in the way. Her existence complicated everything. I needed her gone."

Jeremy's hands clenched into fists. "She didn't deserve to die because of your twisted obsession."

Katherine shrugged, her lack of remorse infuriating Jeremy. "It was nothing personal, Jeremy. Just business."

Stefan stepped forward, his face a mask of controlled anger. "You'll pay for what you've done, Katherine."

Before Katherine could react, Bonnie emerged from the shadows, her hands glowing with magical energy. "You're not getting away this time," Bonnie declared.

With a powerful spell, Bonnie immobilized Katherine, rendering her unable to escape. As Katherine struggled against the magical bonds, Jeremy approached her, his heart heavy with grief and rage. "You took away the love of my life," he said, his voice breaking. "But you'll never take away the love we shared."

Katherine's eyes blazed with anger, but she could do nothing as Stefan and Bonnie prepared to lock her away for good. As they did, Jeremy felt a bittersweet sense of closure. Lena was gone, but her killer had been brought to justice.

In the quiet aftermath, Jeremy stood alone by the lake where he had once proposed to Lena. The stars above seemed dimmer, the world less bright without her. But he knew that Lena's love would always be with him, a guiding light in the darkest of times.

As the night deepened, Jeremy made a silent vow to honor Lena's memory by living a life she would be proud of—a life filled with love, courage, and the strength to face whatever came his way.

[drvcxrys]

hello (: so finally this is my starter call/plot call. slowly i'm going to post all my outfits for my characters and you can find them here. i'm going to be capping at 4 per muse so ask away :D

prob not going or maybe just lurking outside the ball or something:

annabeth chase: thalia grace or clarisse la rue

jean grey

malia tate

samantha carpenter: tara carpenter

yelena belova.

alice cullen going solo.

she really doesn't need a date to just have fun. right now alice wanted just to have an excuse to wear a very nice outfit for the night because let's be honest, everything is an excuse when it comes to shopping and buy something pretty to wear. thread (2/4): yoon chi woo, apple

alice jones/tilly going with robin hood-mills.

she just wants to have a blast with her fiance, just enjoying their date night with no worries about anything else. of course she might just look around and explore a bit from time to time as well. thread (0/4):

alicent hightower going with ridoc (blind date)

she doesn't know how she ended up doing this but she decided to just be out of her comfort zone and see what the night lead her, she just want a night for herself to relax a bit because work has been stressful as well so this was perfect for doing that. thread (0/4):

anna of arendelle going with kristoff bjorgman

she's very touched that kristoff decided to go with her here, it's been a while since they actually get to be in a ball and she kind of miss those interactions. anna is a very social person so honestly she would love to meet new people as well and just enjoy herself. thread (2/4): xie lian, elsa

annie cresta going with finnick odair

annie loves the idea of spending time with her husband so being here with him is just fantastic so she's going to try and take advantage of this night to just having a good time and trying to be as social as she can as well. thread (0/4):

betty cooper going with ning yingying (blind date)

she wasn't expecting doing this at all but she wanted to try and get out of her comfort zone and this blind date was a good thing in a way, so she just want to have a good time here, that was all, being social because that's why she's here, for being social. thread (1/4): lee jordan

beverly marsh going with peter hale

this is her chance to just let loose and relax a bit and what better way than with her boyfriend? she's going with peter and her idea is just to have fun and trying to forget about almost everything. of course that besides that she's also going to be very social even wanting to meet new people and interact with others. thread (0/4):

bianca di angelo going with lucerys velaryon

this is her first time in an event like this, she's not used to a ball or dressing up to go to one but she wanted to try and give this a chance, she's going to have a bit in a awe about some things that's for sure, especially about some new things in this place. thread (1/4): - parvati patil

bree tanner going with diego

she just wants to spend her time with diego now that she has her in her life once again, this time was the perfect opportunity for that because this seems like a very fun event. however, now that she will be with a lot of humans in the room she might try to have more control than ever, she was able to have that control until now but she's still new about this so is still hard. thread (0/4):

buffy summers going with angel

buffy loves to put a nice outfit and going to dance, to interact with people so this is the perfect opportunity for that, hoping that maybe everything is going to stay like that for the moment, that's what she would love, a night off from the supernaturals and the sources of evil and all of that. thread (0/4):

caroline forbes going with stefan salvatore

she's all over the moon about this, being here with stefan was perfect considering she never thought that she was ever going to see him again so this was just perfect for her. and besides, she loves these events so much, she loves planning them of course but she also just loves going to them as well. thread (1/4): - josie saltzman

carrie white going with dorothy gale

last time she went to an event like this one ended up really badly so she didn't know about being here but dorothy told her and she is starting to trust some people so she decided to give this a chance, she's very shy and a bit reserved so it's gonna be hard to open up but she will try to do that and give this night an opportunity. thread (0/4):

choi nam ra going with evangeline ennar (blind date)

she never thought that she was going to put herself in this blind date thing but she did, maybe to be out of her comfort zone, to try something new so that's why she was here and she wants to just spend her night in a fun way, without caring much about anything else, like a regular girl. thread (0/4):

claudia going with abigail blyg

this is new. she loves a good party but she never expected to go with someone here but she is not upset about this, she's just enjoying herself right now and she will try to do just that, enjoy herself and her time here, trying not to cause too much chaos at least. thread (0/4):

clove kentwell going with cato hadley

not her ideal scenario but she decided to just go and going with cato was a plus so at least she wasn't alone here, at least that was something. she's going to try and relax a bit here but who knows, since this is not her type of scenario she just feels a bit out of place at times. thread (0/4):

daenerys targaryen going with nehemia ygter

this is a very nice place to be in. she must to admit that she's a bit excited to be here with nehemia, it's not her first time in an event like this one but still she's not used to events in this place so she will just try to enjoy the night and forget about everything with her date. thread (1/4): - nehemia

daphne bridgerton going with simon basset

a night off with her husband now that he remembers everything? of course. she's very excited about this. this is really daphne scenario, she loves a ball, dancing, putting a nice dress...it's like back home so she will really enjoy this night. thread (1/4): diana

elizabeth midford going with ciel phantomhive

this is like back home, she loves to dress up and going to an event like this, especially if she's going here with ciel because let's face it, she might've insisted a bit for him to take care, her mission is to make him have a good time as well because she knows that she will have a good time here. thread (0/4):

emma swan going with silco (blind date)

this is new for her because honestly is not like she enjoys the idea of a blind date and she's not sure this is even going to work but she decided to go and just enjoying her night here, that was all, she deserve this kind of break after everything that happened here in washington. thread (0/4):

gwen stacy going solo

she enjoys something to distract herself so this was perfect, she has been alive for a month or so and she's trying to adjust so this was the perfect opportunity. thread (0/4):

hanna marin going with ahura boltagon

she's not holding any king of hope to this blind date because honestly she is not really the type of girl that do that but she ended up doing this anyway just to see how it goes. but one thing is for sure, she will really going to enjoy her time here because she loves those type of events, she really loves to put a nice outfit and going there. thread (2/4): - emily fields, charlotte dilaurentis

heidi volturi going solo

she wasn't going at first but she ended up going mostly because maybe just maybe she could even hunt in here, it could be a good buffet in her eyes so she was going to see, basically is that. thread (1/4): lu junyi

hermione granger going with harry potter

she really wants to have a good night here just a night off from everything but besides that, she thought this could be the perfect opportunity for harry and her to talk about some things that happened before maybe and see how that goes as well. thread (1/4): cho chang

hope mikaelson going with landon kirby

now that finally she has landon with her, she's so happy that she's able to go with him to a ball like this and that everything finally seems okay so even if this is not her type of event, she just wants to have fun with her boyfriend and friends too. thread (0/4):

isabelle lightwood going with simon lewis

she really enjoys this type of events because she can dress to impress and she just loves that. being here with her fiance was just perfect because finally they can do something out of their routine, having a night off. just in case though, she will always be alert because who knows what can also might happen here. thread (2/4): max lightwood, jester

jane going solo

she really enjoys this type of dance, dressing up and just being able to enjoy herself so she's going to do that or at least try to do that in this place hopefully nothing really is going to ruin that. thread (0/4):

jessica riley going with mike munroe

this was the perfect night for them to just have some fun like good old times. this was her second chance to live once again so she's going to take advantage of this at full. thread (0/4)

jill roberts going with billy loomis

it's been a while since she goes to an event like this one and honestly she's kind of excited about this because it would be the perfect date night, not really thinking about anything else but this and just have a good moment. thread (0/4)

kagome higurashi going solo

she decided to go to this valentine's mini gala because she was basically bored so she decided to try something new and that's why basically she was here to try and be more social as well. thread (0/4)

kara danvers going solo

she likes the idea of being here and distract herself from everything that's been happening in washington. but she's also here just in case something bad might happen, she's always on guard just in case but she is going to try and have a good time as well. thread (0/4)

katara going solo

she wants to do something new so that's why she's here, trying to be social and interact with people as well, just blend in, in general, she's here to just have a good time. thread (0/4)

leslie macher going with feirge (blind date)

this is new to her, blind date and all, but she decided to give it a try, trying something new is something that she likes to do so she's very determinate to have a good time and just forget about everything else that might be troubling her. thread (0/4)

lila pitts going with diego hargreeves

this is what people call normal and it's something they were actually looking for, trying to be normal for a change so being in this mini gala was something perfect for them to just let loose and enjoy their time here. thread (0/4)

lissa dragomir going with isaac lahey

that's something she's used to, she likes about being here and just trying to a good time, it's the first time that she celebrates valentines here so she's wondering how is going to be the event, she's curious about it. thread (0/4)

lucy gray baird going solo

a dance, an event like this is something she actually enjoys. now that finally she's free, she wants to try and just have a good time, that's all without caring much about anything else and just enjoying herself. thread (1/4): tigris snow

mary stuart going solo

mary enjoys this kind of events, and the museum seems nice to just explore a bit and see what this place has to offer. thread (2/4) - chu wanning, jane

myrcella baratheon going with baela targaryen

she feels so excited to be here, especially with baela because she likes her very much and she's so happy that they can do this together. she's here to just have a good time, explore the place and being social as well with people around her. thread (0/4)

nancy wheeler going with steve harrington

nancy is really hoping that this valentine is going to be calm and not like the last one but for now she's happy she can be here with steve, she wants to have a good night here, being with her friends. thread (0/4)

narcissa black going with rabastan lestrange

being here with rabastan was just perfect especially because they've been looking for a way to just enjoy a bit of calmness and just a good night and relaxing as well, so in her eyes this was perfect, at least for now. thread (0/4)

rachel amber going with jessica stanley (blind date)

she is unsure about this, this is her first time going in a blind date but she decided to have a good night and just enjoying herself here, not really her scenario after everything that happened in arcadia bay but she might try to get out of her comfort zone. thread (0/4)

rapunzel corona going solo

this is going to be a fun night for her and just trying to enjoy herself and since she's like a social butterfly she will be interacting with people, just dancing and exploring the museum as well. thread (1/4): wei wuxian

regina george going with emily davis (blind date)

this is really something she enjoys to do, being in this mini gala is perfect to dress to impress and be the queen she is. this blind date seems interesting as well so she's going to play nice or as nice as she can be and see how it goes everything. thread (0/4)

rhaena targaryen going solo

this a very nice event, she's here just to have a great time and she doesn't really mind about being here alone, she just wants to explore this place and even meet new people as well. thread (0/4)

sakura kinomoto going solo

sakura is in awe about those type of things, she is just sad that her best friend tomoyo is not here with her or that syaron is also not here but she's going to try and enjoy her night here and especially meet people and be social because she's a very social person. thread (0/4)

santana lopez going with brittany pierce

being here with brittany was perfect, she really loves the company of her and she just wants to spend the best night with her, that's all. she's going to be there dancing, drinking and just having a blast. thread (0/4)

sara lance going with fiona gallagher

honestly for sara being here with someone she likes is perfect, usually she flirts a lot more with girls but this time is a bit different because she actually is smitten by fiona so she is going to spend her night mostly drinking, dancing with her and if there is kissing perhaps. but she would also be social with people if she bumps into someone she knows or if she bumps into someone in general because she's basically a talker. thread (2/4) - ava, hunter

tohru honda going solo

this is her first mini gala event so she's very excited. she misses her friends, of course, but she decided to try and distract herself going and of course she's going to also try and just socialize with people in general. thread (0/4)

usagi tsukino going solo

she is going alone basically because she can't see herselg going in some type of gala without mamoru, it makes her sad he's not here or her other friends are not here as well but she decided to try and have a good time, at least this time she's not that alone here considering setsuna is also around. she's going to be a social butterfly here as well. thread (0/4)

veruca salt going solo

this is the perfect opportunity to show off her dress, accesories and everything that she was able to buy for this special occasion and also the perfect opportunity for her to meet new people as well. thread (0/4):

victoire weasley going with teddy lupin

a date night with teddy is something she honestly would love so much to do so this was just the perfect opportunity. she feels this night is going to be perfect to just enjoy herself, being with the people she loves and relax herself as well. thread (1/4): scorpius malfoy

wednesday addams going with louis weasley

honestly, she didn't want to go but after louis insisting a lot, like really a lot, she ended up accepting but is not like she's happy about it, she's just going to be herself and trying to enjoy herself just how she is, that was all. thread (0/4)

win wanichakarnjonkul going with team siriyothin

being here with team was perfect, win really loves the idea of having some kind of date night in this mini gala with him and just enjoying themselves, he's very happy about this. thread (0/4)

[lazyrants]

Sportacus Who? (prod 123)

Original airdate: August 2, 2005

Story by Magnus Scheving

Written by Noah Zachary, Cole Louie, Magnus Scheving

Directed by Jonathan Judge, Magnus Scheving

Executive producers - Magnus Scheving, Ragnheidur Melsted, Raymond P. Le Gue, Mark Read, Brown Johnson, Kay Wilson Stallings

Starring Magnus Scheving, Stefan Karl Steffanson, Julianna Rose Mauriello

Puppeteers - Ronald Binion, Gudmondor Thor Karason, Jodi Eichelberger, David Matthew Feldman, Julie Westwood, Sarah Burgess

Sportacus who who? I don't have much memories of watching this episode..

The episode begins with a new not recycled cold open (shocker!!) where Sportacus writes a letter. Once he sends it via airmail, he realizes he made a mistake. So he runs into his door, yelling.. DOOR.

But the door doesn't open so he has to turn the knob next to it a bit. XD! Once it finally opens, Sportacus connects his feet to a rope like he did in the Laziest Town and catches the letter. By this time the letter would've already been in someone's goddamn hair. It turns out he forgot to sign his name.. THEN he throws the letter away again. The letter flies into Pixel's house and Stephanie reads it out loud - 'Dear Pixel, you wanted me to remind you to remember to remind yourself to remember something.' It turns out the thing is to make a backup copy of his hard drive files, but the computer starts smoking once he tries to restore a restart point. Sportacus' crystal beeps and he runs into the house and unplugs the wire out of the seven there are and he looks confused when only one wire turns off one device.

He eventually unplugs them all, but Pixel's computers are gone. He manages to save one device but it has melted. Whatever it was, it probably needed some battery or computer to run, so I wouldn't be as sad as Pixel.

Now Pixel's devices, games, photos and Stephanie shrines are all memories as he says.. while Robbie is eavesdropping. He wishes Sportacus himself could have a memory meltdown so he didn't save anyone. Then he makes his own wish come true, setting up a trap. His plan is for Sportacus to jump over the hurdles and land straight into the Memory Sucker 3000, knowing he can't resist. A smart plan, and (spoiler alert), it somehow is foiled in the end. Plot armor! So, Sportacus jumps over the hurdles and straight into the sucker.

Now Sportacus doesn't remember what he was doing, or who he is. The memory sucker should've sucked every single thing he knew out of his brain like a similar gadget did in 'Henry Danger', and this time I can't say 'eh, Nickelodeon' because both shows were produced by Nickelodeon. Then Robbie jumps in and says he was Sportacus' best friend.

He advises Sportacus to listen to him and to never ever save anyone and Sportacus wasn't planning to. Meanwhile, the kids are talking about how Pixel's computer lost all it's memory and with no memory there's no you. Now, Sportacus is an ice-cream man. Ironic, heh? So, when he offers the two ice-cream, Ziggy is super happy, and Stephanie is super confused. So Sportacus scoops up a pentable-scooped (five) ice cream cone. No matter HOW hot it is, I am not eating that.

It turns out that all the convincing Robbie did with the 'stop-saving' nonsense actually didn't work very well. As you might guess, Ziggy can't hold a five-scooped ice cream very well (why'd he even order that??) so he nearly trips, then Sportacus dives on the floor with his ice-cream cone. So now Ziggy has a cone on the top and the bottom! Lucky duck. Anyways, Stephanie the smartie skirt knows that something is up, but Ziggy is too blinded by the multi-coloured cone he's holding to realize it - the superhero who recommends eating Sportscandy and has meltdowns when he eats any type of sugar is serving one of the sweetest deserts ever.

It turns out Sporty hasn't completely had his memory sucked, because he's working out on the bench near, doing pushups. Robbie goes up and down trying to talk to him while he moves. Fast for the laziest guy in town.

It's a pretty funny sequence. XD!! Eventually, Robbie gives up and allows him to exercise as long as he doesn't save anyone. Meanwhile, Pixel is trying to get his computer to work and Stephanie talks about how weird Sportacus is being. He is still serving ice-cream and Pixel realises something is off while Ziggy wants more. XD! They go to say hi to him but Ziggy gets hyper when Sportacus offers him more until Stephanie stops him. XD! This show is kinda funny. Stephanie tells him to stop serving ice-cream because he's a superhero and Ziggy asks if he remembers that he is one and he says he doesn't remember anything. DUN DUN DAAAAHHHH!!

They make up a plan to remind him of everything by making him play sports and performing a reprise of 'Have You Never'. At the end he claims to have almost remembered remembering until he just didn't. All that good stuff might've not been the good stuff he wanted to eat. Then Stephanie the stupid skirt tells Pixel to put up a bunch of videos and photos of Sportacus on his dead computer. So they go back to his house to try and get it to work. Sportacus talks about how nice those kids are while sitting on a bench, and Robbie pops up out of nowhere FNAF style. XD. He scares the superhero who lives thousands of feet in the air so much that he somersaults of the bench.

Robbie tells him a bunch of lies about how mean they are to him. And they keep on standing up and sitting down over and over and it's hilarious!! Robbie wants to tell him the worst nickname of them all, but it's too funny- uh, I mean, too awful for him to spit it out until Sportacus grabs his shirt.

He tells him to write it down, but he doesn't know how to spell it! That's surprising considering in Dear Diary he wrote an entire page. But he decides to whisper it to him. He says they call him 'The Blue Elf' which is a throwback to the 1990s Icelandic plays when Sportacus' name translated to the Sports Elf. And he advises Sportacus to go.. home!

He points to the airship and says to go up there he needs to do some moves (the signature move), and he needs to say a word that starts with L. His first guess? Lettuce. XD! Second? Letters. Third is a charm! Ladder! Robbie tells him to go up and do what he does best.

Knitting. XD!! So, meanwhile, Pixel is trying to launch a new circuit pathway on his Linux distro computer, and it works. Now he copies some Sportacus movie files (better be MP4 or wmv files.) to his laptop, while Robbie is scheming something. He plans to pop the airship like a balloon to Sportacus never finds his way back to town. I think that's overkill. Just in time, the kids come back.

He comes up with a pretty smart trap for them so that they can't get away. Ziggy spots a lollipop on the floor, and when he tries to pick it up, a magic jail cell falls from the air and traps the three. HOW DID THAT GET THERE???

Robbie uses his very low level of strength to push his cannon on wheels (or for the Jacky Chan/Samo Hung/Bio Yuen fans, wheels on cannons) that we see again in the last episode of Season 2 and in the first episode of Season 3. That cannon has been a part of LazyTown for years. If we're lucky it's in the museum.

Robbie says it looks like a lovely day to do some flying. Meanwhile, in the flying airship, Sportacus has knitted the longest blue-and-white scarf I think anyone has ever seen in their lives. XD!!

Robbie puts on his helmet (looks like something a magician'd wear) and climbs into the cannon. While the kids are still in the cell (Ziggy has pressed his face against the free space, lol!) the cannon fires while Robbie is in it, which should've burnt him.

Robbie's shoe falls off. Meanwhile, Milford is having a nice meal with five cakes (that ain't sports candy) in the nice weather, and then Robbie's shoe lands on the spoon that is holding a cupcake and it goes flying onto Milford's bald head.

How doesn't any of the frosting or the cake move when he shakes his head?? Something to think about. Milford picks up Robbie's shoe and is very confused about what's happening. It's raining shoes, from outta the sky. XD! Sportacus puts the scarf back in his bed cupboard, then the crystal beeps. Cue that epic moment where he remembers everything.

Is that how powerful this crystal is? Wow-ee. Meanwhile, Robbie's helmet (has a spike in the top) pokes the airship with such force it starts shaking and turning like in Rottenstein. Cue classic cartoon moment where character in air looks down then falls. Sportacus flips into the skutla and looks down. Robbie is falling, and for some reason he has an umbrella out of nowhere that he uses as a parachute. Where did he get that from?.. Maybe I don't wanna know..

Like TWO EPISODES AGO (Play Day) he uses his scarf to rescue him, grasping it and jumping out the ship. Like I said in my last review - THIS AIN'T WHAT THEY MEANT BY REDUCING, REUSING, OR RECYCLING!! Hopefully, now Magnus owns the show again, if he does make a new movie or season that he doesn't reuse a bunch of shots and songs. While Sportacus is swinging, the kids say his name in happiness and he stops on a wall and asks 'Who?'. The kids are sad that he doesn't have his memory back, then he winks and smiles at them.

I know somewhere, somehow, sometime, there was a woman in her 40s blushing at this scene. Mark. My. Words. Robbie loses his hold of the umbrella, and Sportacus swings in to help him. He falls onto a tree and lands on his groin. I never found that funny.

So, the helmet falls off his head and Sportacus comes to the rescue. Robbie asks him to help but Sportacus reminds him what he said - never never never save anyone, but Robbie says he meant everyone except him. XD!! The tree branch becomes weak, and Robbie falls down (reused shot from Super Hero for a Day).

Sportacus offers to still be friends with him, but he says with friends like Sportacus he doesn't need any. Then he realizes his shoe is missing and walks off the screen, calling it's name like it has ears. XD! He gets the kids out of the cell and he tells them now he remembers what he likes doing best - doing random backflips. They perform Bing Bang. During the dance Ziggy wraps himself in the scarf. I love the humor in this show.

Robbie goes back in the cannon to look for the shoe, and Milford comes to tell him he's found it. He tries telling Milford he is in the cannon but he pulls the lever and Robbie goes flying again. Funny scene after funny scene!

Pretty good episode. Decent plot and amazing execution of jokes. 8/10

[kmze]

My attention span had spread thin by the time of s8 so I barely remember anything except a few sc moments and I'm probably in the minority but I loved loved the first proposal and more than the second one.Your post also reminded me Bonenzo was actually a thing.I don't know why I thought he died in s6.I would love to know though what you think about how different the finale would have been if kevin hadn't returned.

Oh yeah I think when I watched it lived I zoned out on a lot of the plot because I was so tired after S7 and was just happy to get good SC scenes but on rewatch I really enjoyed it. I think a lot of it was that there was so much chaos in S7 with them driving around and different locations and finally in S8 it was basically back to Mystic Falls with all the familiar sets. I liked that it was a new species of villain with the siren and I liked when they used the creepy whistle and I liked the search for the macguffins felt like S1. God Bonenzo lol, I have the most complicated feelings about it because on one hand I'm glad Bonnie got a guy who was completely and totally devoted to her and loved her but Enzo is so... he should have died in S6! And in S8 they give me nothing, just meaningless dialogue and dances.

I actually think the finale would have been pretty similar if Kevin stayed away because Brett Matthews basically said that in his EW podcast breakdown on S8. The writers planned out the whole season once they decided it was going to be Damon dying and they liked the idea of Damon compelling Stefan to let him die, which I agree with that was the only way Stefan would have left him. KW came back around 8x11 and was like Stefan killed Enzo he has to die, which I don't buy. I think what happened is his brain exploded at the idea of Stefan and Elena both being human at the end of the show and not together and basically guilted Julie into changing it. The writers only made Stefan human because they needed the brother who lived to be mortal to do the final scene. And because Stefan was human when KW came in the writers wouldn't feel as strongly about him living as they did prior, plus he was absolutely miserable as a human!

So what I think would have been different in the finale is Damon would have seen Elena in limbo and they would have had a heartfelt goodbye. It would have been a great full circle moment from 1x22 when he said "he came to the town to destroy it" and now he saved it. Stefan still would have offered the Boarding House for the school as part of his atonement and the 'S' would have been the Salvatore one (like in the kitchen) rather than the 'S' on his ring. Damon probably got some memorial wing or the library (not sure Damon knows how to read though). Probably a SE scene at Damon's grave that would have mirrored their meeting at the graveyard in the pilot. Still could have done the Klaus letter, Bonnie's ending would have stayed and I think Elena would have left MF for med school and we'd see some scene of her with her family watching over her maybe with a new guy or not. Stefan would have done the final diary outro and said something about how he lived a long life helping his wife with the school saving kids being the man he was supposed to be and that's the end of his story (FULL CIRCLE AGAIN) then he'd find Damon in peace like the ending scene we got.

Edited to add: Completely forgot to say I LOVE THE 8x02 THE MOST! I mean I do think the 8x14 proposal is one of Stefan's best speeches (it's that or the 6x22 one) and it's beautiful and sincere but that first one was SO THEM! And I'm more partial to their relationship as two vampires/immortals than Stefan ending up human, that was always the root of their relationship and Caroline helped Stefan accept more of his vampire side and here he was proposing to her with eternity being the goal. And I kind of love that people hate on it because they hate that it wasn't a cliche speech and Steroline got a proposal catered exclusively to them, like no other ship on this show could have done that proposal. And the kiss was probably their best kiss.

[xawkward-ariesx]

the price of your greed

Stefan should've known it was going to blow up in his face the second Klaus suggested he help dagger Kol. Particularly after how everything went down the last time he’d helped Klaus to dagger one of his siblings. That creeping feeling of trepidation had only grown when Elena too had come to him with her own plan. Two conflicting plans all to put down one Original for a cure that had apparently already led to two separate massacres. He was starting to wonder whether it was worth it if it demanded such a high price just to find it. What would happen when it was finally within their grasp?

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"I don't wanna just dagger Kol, I want Jeremy to kill him." Elena's words had already registered before Stefan foolishly tried to disguise them with the revving of his bike. 

Really mate? You should know better, had the 20s taught you anything? He wasn't some common halfling vampire that could be stumped by mere parlor tricks. It appeared he'd grown soft, let the Mystic Fools believe they were safe from retribution after all their plots against him, especially Finn's death. Well, it was time he rectified that. He'd already lost one brother after keeping him safely tucked away for 900 hundred years, he wouldn't let their hubris take another from him.

Damon's death had been swifter than he'd liked but the young vampire had never seen it coming and that was what had mattered in the moment. Time was of the essence to save his little brother, he'd already lost his youngest, the Other Side wouldn't claim Kol as well. So one second he'd been beyond the barred door and the next he was in front of the weakened vampire. Damon had barely enough time to turn at the sound of the door screeching open before he was dead, and Klaus was gone.

"If you're going to threaten me again Klaus, you can save your breath." Were the first words out of Kol's mouth before he'd even had a chance to speak.

"It seems your paranoia has gotten ahead of you, brother." Klaus ignored the scoff and muttered 'You'd know' that followed. "The Gilbert's are planning to kill you."

The line went deadly silent as Kol came to a stop, Klaus could just hear the grinding of his brother's teeth over the line but that was enough for him to picture the murderous expression he must be adorning. 

"Are they now?"

For all the Mystic Falls bunch believed him to be the biggest monster, it was Kol that had garnered the more volatile and bloodied reputati on in the supernatural world of the two. It was Kol that the older sirelings feared. The ones that were old enough to have seen the Originals in the flesh, to have watched the myths about them be born. The ones that knew if Kol had appeared at your door then no amount of pleading would save you. Kol was no wolf, he had no need for the extended chase that Klaus had subjected Katherine to. The hunt only served to amp up the fear and apprehension in Kol's eyes.

Because Kol had been a witch - not a wolf - before their turning he knew that the torment was what really made the death significant, it was the suffering beforehand that ensured the earth would be scorched with the magic of their death. And it was something that Kol specialized in as a vampire.

"Well, you can forget about suggesting I return the daggers for my own safety. With the way you've all been fumbling over yourselves for this cure for your darling former blood bag, I don't trust that you won't just serve my daggered body over to them. This cure has clearly blinded you to any sibling loyalty you once felt." And with that, the line went dead.

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[barbiegirldream]

People who think Elena Gilbert didn't have a personality also were very blankly watching the show. The point was characters in the show itself didn't know who Elena was after her parent's death she didn't know who she was. She had to rediscover herself this was her arc in season one. But when you're focused on the vampire reveal she can get lost in it. Stefan was there before Katherine to show us a facet of Elena's personality as a righteous person. Katherine's arrival showed us Elena was a person who at one point had great personal dignity. Till Damon emotionally abused her for years and wore her down.

Elena is incredibly protective of her friends and while its taken as selfishness whenever something goes down its simply not understanding Elena would every time want it to be her if something happens to over anyone else. It's Stefan and Damon who constantly put other characters in harms way for Elena. But Elena has never actually done Anything except try to save the lives of her friends while they try to save her life and then get mad about what it required to fulfill the protection order they were so hellbent on. And when people demand Elena, who has been once again kidnapped and the subject of a hostage situation/murder attempt/sacrificial lamb, just give them space because they wouldn't let Elena do what she needed to do it drives me crazy.

Elena was also an expert on grief more so than any other in the show and equally the most sick of grief. She hated being sad and constantly being given reasons to be sad. One of her driving motivations was to find a way to be Happy.

When her convictions about not being a vampire were overturned in the end thanks to Damon inversely. And she ended up sired and her Only way forward for happiness was her brainwashed need for his approval that was so deeply compelling of an arc. The toxic nature of Damon and Elena was spoken aloud again and again. The show told us Damon is not healthy for Elena but she is so desperate to be happy and she thinks vampirism will make Stefan unhappy so here she is.

The other portion of Elena being considered 'nice' is she's only sort of? Like she doesn't have a superheroes desire to save everyone. She tries to understand people. She likes knowing what makes people tick and specifically why they keep doing these things to her. And if helping them will get her out of a tricky spot she'll go for it. But she'll never hesitate to make a ballsy move to fuck someone over if it's better in the long run. See then stabbing herself in the gut and tricking Elijah so she could dagger him. Or warming up to Rebekah to literally backstab her even if she felt kind of bad about it. She didn't like Caroline to start and Caroline had to worm her way into Elena's friendship with Bonnie that was a plot point. Elena also has Her circle that's the Mystic Falls scooby gang and if you're not in that specific group she really is not that invested outside of not being so callus as Damon.

And so the cure storyline had to revolve around Elena because being human = happiness for Elena and since season one with Bonnie's cursed prediction Elena has been striving for all the bad to go away and her life to be normal. Which makes sense why the original planned ending before Nina Dobrev's departure was for her to be human, the brother's to die for her, and her to live a life away from the supernatural. Because the story was at its core about love and can you love someone too much and can you let each other go. The answer for Stefan and Damon was always going to be no. But Elena had an out.

And Damon being made human with her despite everyone thinking he'd miss murder too much and start abusing her was that out. Damon was to me always Elena's ferryman to the underworld from the first time she saw his crow to the last scene of her living life being for some reason a crow heralding Damon showing up to walk them both into the light. But when they let their hands go she ran to her family to her happiness. Damon found Stefan the link he could never let go. And it's just a shame Elena didn't get to learn real happiness in life cause it's what she always deserved.

Sorry for the Elena Gilbert manifesto it's just I understand her and no one else does and I don't get it she was the main character

[aberooski]

STORMSHIPPING BARBIE AS RAPUNZEL?! I’M HOLDING YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO GIVE ME PLOT DETAILS AND EVERYTHING PLEASE I HAVE MY BUCKET OF POPCORN READY AND EVERYTHING

AKSKSKS YOU GOT IT, CHAZZ!

I actually legit almost dm'd you about it the other night cuz I was actually going crazy over the idea but then I fell asleep and forgot akakskks

OKAY SO! I've actually been thinking about this for a while as a possibility because my mind runs wild with this shit as we all know all too well by now aksksk

I was actually thinking about everything I had in my pipeline because once I get finished with this 1 shot I'm doing for a fic exchange I wanna actually sit down and dedicate time to getting through Chazzerella because I meant to do it literally MONTHS ago so I could get to work on OUAD 2, and then we have Chazz Princeton and the Seven Duelists, and then I was like OH F U C K

RAPUNZEL.

MY RAPUNZEL.

BARBIE.

And now here we are akskksksks

BUT THE PLOT BRUH I'M COOKING SOME GUD SHIT IN THIS MINDROWAVE OF MINE LET ME TELL YOU

OBVIOUSLY Chazz is Rapunzel he's literally always the princess in these things who's surprised? It's more fun and it always just works out best that way plot wise. Only I am thinking about foregoing the hair maybe, I mean her hair doesn't actually really matter in Barbie Rapunzel apart from her dream where Stefan finds her and we have the whole "let down your hair" reference, and Gothel cuts it and uses her hair to trick Stefan at the ball but otherwise her hair doesn't matter or is really called attention to. BUT I'm still in the early planning stages so I mean maybe I'll change my mind 🤷‍♀️

But my initial thought is that we begin similar to OUAD, Slade and Jagger would be the villains obviously. Exiled from the kingdom for being just bad people, they resent their parents and when they have Chazz so they'll still have an heir, they kidnap Chazz as a baby and spirit him away deep into the darkest forest of the neighboring kingdom far of their parents' reach out of their hatred and resentment. But in the Barbie fashion, they frame the king of their neighboring kingdom, Atticus and Alexis's father, for the crime with a desire to sow seeds of discord so that both kingdoms will destroy each other. Then they can swoop in and rule all the lands themselves.

I also had an idea to try and differentiate from OUAD, they had already grown resentful and spiteful of their parents and were sowing seeds of discord between the kingdoms, and eventually at some point they like, fake their deaths so they could work behind the scenes and to cover their tracks. So then when their parents have Chazz to reinstate the line of succession and they kidnap him, it's even easier to frame the crime on Atticus and Alexis's father and keep him hidden because who would suspect them? They're dead as far as everyone knows, they can very easily hide and keep him and his whereabouts concealed. And obviously since Gothel is a mage in Barbie, at the very least Slade will have magic powers because I mean come on. He's the main bad guy here.

But regardless of how we get to that point, they raise Chazz and keep him under lock and key in their secluded home hidden and concealed deep in the forest where no one would dare to look, forbidding him from ever leaving the old manor under the guise of keeping him safe from the outside world, not that they haven't still been abusing him all this time themselves also Barbie Rapunzel really is Rapunzel and Cinderella at the same time in a way and that makes so much sense for them 🙄 when really they're just waiting for the two kingdoms to destroy each other. That way they can swoop in and rebuild their own kingdom on the ashes of the old one with no one to stop them, and Chazz will stay their prisoner. But unlike like every version of Gothel they cover their tracks by telling him that their parents died when he was a baby.

Which brings me to a question I have yet to figure out, the equivalent of the hairbrush/paintbrush 🤔

And the Ojama spirits are there to bug him with their love. Obviously.

B U T Chazz has been trying to find a way to escape from his brothers for a while because shocker, they've been abusing him and um, they're terrible. But he knows if he simply tried to run away they would find him and he'd never be able to get away, so he's gotta be careful. And one day he stumbles upon a 🎵 secret tunnel 🎵 in the basement and finds himself on the outskirts of the kingdom. But not without making the Ojamas stay back to watch for his brothers. He wanders into the village and after exploring around, he runs into Alexis. I'm not exactly sure what happens but they run into some sort of trouble and while trying to help Alexis, though he quickly discovers she's more than capable of handling herself just fine, Atticus swoops in having come upon the scene and saves Chazz leaving him all 😳😍😳

Alexis leaves eventually leaving Chazz and Atty alone to talk. But they don't get far enough into the conversation to make introductions before Atticus is drawn away momentarily but not before telling Chazz to wait for him there. Which he intends to, but the chime of evening bells and a sinking feeling in his stomach tells him he needs to get back before his brothers discover he's gone. If he wants to escape for real he'll need to be more careful than this. As much as he hates it, he needs to go back for now. He'll just have to hide the tunnel again and try again another time when his brothers wouldn't suspect a thing.

Chazz hurries back before Atticus can return, creating a mystery for the prince to solve.

Honestly I imagine when he gets back through the tunnel it's like that movie moment where the kid sneaks back in like heh got away with it, then the lights turn on and the parent figure is in the chair in their pjs all mad like "where were you? 🤨" so like when he gets back through the tunnel Slade and Jagger are just waiting for him there in the basement all 😠 I think that would be funny but also yikes..... and they take him back to his room where they start like interrogating him to find out what happened while he was gone.

I also literally just now as I'm writing this out thought another things that could happen and like, how they find out, is that Jagger had gone into town and sees him with Atticus, but maybe doesn't get a good enough look to know exactly who Chazz is with or something so we can keep the mystery of who his mysterious suitor is, and Ojama Yellow shows up to tell Chazz that they found out Jagger went to town and he has to come back before he's found, but at this point Atty has left so Jagger swoops in and forces Chazz back to the manor, dropping him at Slade's feet with the whole "look who I found wandering around the village this afternoon" bullshit and that would be when they march him back to his room and start interrogating him.

So like that's another way that could go? And obviously they wanna know who the fuck he was with, but obviously Chazz doesn't know who Atticus was and they don't exactly believe he's telling the truth because I mean, in their minds, why would he tell them the truth? So in their frustration and to keep Chazz from trying to escape again, then we get the fun part where Gothel turns Rapunzel's room into the tower muahahahaha so Slade does that, intending to leave Chazz there until he tells them who the boy he met was.

And this is where I need to figure out the equivalent of the magic paintbrush cuz this is where that comes into play after the like stardust turns the hairbrush into the paintbrush.

And that's kinda all I have actually for real thought out atm I mean I did only just start actually planning like last night after all aksksk but I literally just watched the movie again yesterday too and like everything's falling into place fairly easily 😌 but I've still got like the whole last like half to plan out and some questions to answer and decisions to make about what I have so far but GAH THIS IS GOOD SHIT !!

ALSO AS WE ALL WELL KNOW, There are dragons in Barbie as Rapunzel. So I was thinking I could find a way to sneak Light and Darkness Dragon in there at some point, maybe towards the end like LDD gets summoned somehow and like rescues Chazz from the tower and gets him to the kingdom in time to thwart Slade and Jagger??? We'll see what I can figure out I guess aksksk

BUT YEAH THAT'S AS FAR AS I'VE GOTTEN ATM WHAT DO YOU THINK MY FRIEND??? CUZ I THINK WE HAVE THE MAKINGS OF A WINNER HERE!!

[kiss-my-freckle]

I noticed someone say this about how the Damon killing Whitmores storyline didn't make sense. What do you think?:

1. As we know from season 3 and 4, when your humanity is off, you don’t care about anything. In season 3, Katherine got Stefan to turn his humanity back on, and keep it on by helping Stefan come up with a revenge plan against Klaus. We know for a fact that Damon’s humanity was off the second he walked away from Enzo and stayed off for a good portion of the 70’s. If he cared about some fulfilling some revenge plot for a best friend that he betrayed, that means his humanity switch had to be on.

2. Damon was pretty hellbent on getting Katherine out of the tomb. My guess is that after Lexi paid him a visit and he exacted his little revenge on her, he started turning it back on, because as he comments to Elena in 4x17, that hatred was probably one of the first emotions he got back, so that is when he started his search for Katherine…not the Whitmores, because “according” to Damon, he had been killing them off since he broke out.

Damon's humanity didn't need to be on for him to seek revenge. Killing doesn't require emotion. That's like saying Stefan had no reason to kill once he flipped his switch in season 8 because he had no reason to care about fulfilling Cade's wishes. A vampire without humanity enjoys killing, it's their nature to enjoy it. Damon didn't require emotion, just the memory of his torture and the presumed death of his best friend. He'd kill them because he'd enjoy killing them.

Katherine had nothing to do with Damon flipping his humanity switch. I dare say Katherine is the reason he didn't flip it. Damon needed his brother in 1977 as Stefan needed his brother in season 3. "It won't be because he loves me, it'll be because he loves you." Damon still had to wait over 30 years for the Comet. He wouldn't be searching for Katherine while believing she's stuck in the tomb. He never confirmed that he flipped his switch in 1977, he used "maybe" while talking to Elena. "Maybe they were. Maybe hatred was the first one I got back." Even if he did get his hatred back in 1977, that doesn't mean he got all of his emotions back. For the same reason Stefan focused on his hatred for Klaus and Elena focused on her hatred for Katherine. When they flip it back on, they don't necessarily let it all back in. They basically focus on one emotion and keep their other emotions on the back burner. They need a secondary strike... like Elena nearly killing Bonnie while trying to kill Katherine. I will say that Damon has all of his emotions when he enters the pilot episode. He simply pretends that he doesn't.

[justjessame]

Light Through the Darkness: Chapter 61

The countdown to the Masquerade Ball was ticking by and Abigail hadn’t mentioned the gown delivery to Damon because she wasn’t planning on taking advantage of it. Every spare moment he had, he spent with her, but they were growing fewer as the time ticked away. And if Damon wasn’t with her, wrapped around her as she slept, the dreams came back in full force.

Once upon a time, it was the hovering darkness warning her of what was coming - hovering until it descended, then once the visage of what terror lurked and grew near emerged - the exhaustion would take over and she’d rest. Now that her powers were unlocked and coming to her, slow and steadily growing daily, that hovering darkness was replaced by dreams. It was a toss up to Abigail which version she preferred.

The night before the Masquerade she was alone in her bed, Damon and his group were finalizing plans she still wanted nothing to do with, and so wrapped in her covers she fitfully slept. Her mother taunted her about Damon’s place in her life, reminding her to keep him close, that he was the answer, but never telling her what the question was - then after pushing Abi to banish her from her sight, the scenery would change to the garden of the old Salvatore lands. The same bench and willow tree, the same bright sunlight, but the clothing was changed. The air had a different scent. And Elijah appeared. Wearing a perfectly tailored dark suit, his hair cut short, he’d sit next to her and turn to face her profile. Where he once asked before touching her, now he took it as his due, his hand reaching out, the back of it sliding along her cheek, warmth against warmth.

“The color of the gown,” his words were clipped, the tone like music. “It’ll highlight your eyes.” Abi turned to face him, and his hand turned to cup her cheek. “You are far too beautiful to stay away, Abigail. Go, show them all.” She stared into his dark eyes, wondering what spell he was weaving on her. “Never let anyone tell you where to go or what to do, you are royalty.” He was lowering his head, coming closer, Abi thought she could count each one of his eyelashes, but then -

Her cell phone began to ring, loudly and obnoxiously, pulling her out of her dream with a gasp and leaving her feeling empty. Her fingers moved to her mouth, tracing her lips as her other hand reached for her phone, wondering who was calling so early - who had pulled her away from such a wonderful dream?

“Hello?” She managed to answer the phone, blinking awake even though the sun was still low. “Ric?” Abi struggled to focus, forcing herself to sit up and pay attention. “What was that?”

Somehow in staying clear of the plans for the Ball Abigail had managed to miss a great deal of a mess caused by Damon and the others - which had led to Jenna winding up in the hospital with a knife wound to the gut. Compelled by her least favorite vampire in residence, shaking herself to full wakefulness, Abigail asked Ric what she could do to help.

“Mason is -” she heard rustling that told her he was moving to a more private place and then he came back on the line. “He’s dead, Abi.” She closed her eyes, while the werewolf was a danger to them all, hearing that he was dead wasn’t great news. “And Damon taunted Katherine which led to -”

“To her playing God with a mortal,” Abigail sighed. “Is Jenna going to be alright?”

“She’s coming home later today,” he assured her. “She’s stubborn and thinks it was an accident.” He told her that Katherine had convinced her to stop wearing the perfume Elena gave her that was laced with vervain and to stop drinking the vervain tea, all by the grace of wearing her niece’s face, then she’d compelled her to impale herself on a large kitchen knife. “The problem is,” he sighed, and Abi filled in the blanks for him.

“If she figured out how to infiltrate Elena’s house, to plot against her and Stefan’s little game of relationship issues, then where else has she slithered into?” Abigail thought of the gown hanging in her guest room. “Damon doesn’t want me to go, Ric.”

“You’re more powerful than Bonnie, Abi,” he argued. “And Katherine, I would lay odds, is betting that you won’t show.”

Abigail felt a sigh growing. Was this what her dream was telling her, what Elijah’s vision was prompting her to do? “If I go, he can’t know -” she wasn’t agreeing, but Damon couldn’t expect her, Katherine could read Damon and Stefan like a book cover. “She’s almost clairvoyant when it comes to those two.”

Ric agreed, telling her that it was entirely up to her, but that he felt that IF she did go, it would more than even the odds. By the end of the call he was thanking her, but she warned him against that. “Don’t thank me, Alaric, I haven’t made up my mind and even if I have we have no way of knowing which way things will go -” Abigail was thinking of Gloria’s warning about her future, how nothing was set in stone. “For all we know, my attendance could turn everything entirely to bad.”

“I highly doubt that,” Ric argued, but then he must have been called back to Jenna’s side, because he was saying goodbye and didn’t wait for her to repeat it.

“And goodbye to you,” Abi muttered, biting her lip as she thought about what she learned. Katherine Pierce was dangerous - a demon of hell with the visage of an angel. And she’d seen what havoc she could wreak on Mystic Falls first hand. Could she put a stop to it this time, or would she see a repeat performance?

Abigail didn’t want to know the plan, so she still didn’t try to get in the loop. She kept her word to Alaric, she didn’t tell ANYONE that she was going to the Masquerade. When Damon called as he was getting ready, she was winding her own hair into a style that was shocking her with its intricacy, wanting it up and out of the way of the cut of the gown.

“What are you going to do tonight?” He asked, pouring himself a glassful of liquid preparation.

“The usual,” she lied, shutting her eyes and praying for forgiveness. “Studying the grimoire then I think I’ll try some mindless television.” God help me, I’d love that for an evening, she thought. Her gown was taunting her, almost glowing in the overhead light.

“What I wouldn’t give to join you,” he groaned, taking a drink. “Raincheck?”

“Definitely,” she agreed, checking her makeup in the vanity mirror. The mask was black beaded, with the greenish blue of the gown showing up as the light struck the beads depending on which way her head would turn. The ribbon would lace through her hair perfectly. “I’ll let you go so you can prepare for it.” And so I can, she finished in her head.

“Yeah, I’ll talk to you later, Abi,” Damon promised, and they said their goodbyes.

Abigail’s reflection stared back at her with a high blush on her cheeks. “Oh stuff it, you.” She muttered. “It’s all for a good cause, to keep Katherine in her place.” She sighed, hoping she was right, and it wasn’t going to be a repeat of another ball that ended with her locked in a crypt.

Abigail waited until the Masquerade was in full swing, thinking it would cut down on the chances of her being spotted by Damon or Stefan - it did, however, help her catch Elena. “Aren’t you supposed to be at Jenna’s bedside?” She asked, shocked as Elena gasped and seemed to be taking on damage from an unseen foe. “Elena?” Abi managed to grab her body before she hit the ground, but was completely baffled for a moment, before shutting her eyes and focusing.

“What’s -” Elena was gasping, pain ripping through her as she took on more damage.

“Shh,” Abigail hushed her, trying to pinpoint the source of the spell, and muttering when she realized it. Bonnie Bennett found them moments later, and she turned Elena’s care over to her. “Keep her still and work to find a spell to help with the pain.”

“She’s linked them,” Bonnie was telling her, but Abigail already knew.

“Yes, I’m off to find the witch,” Abigail nodded, squinting as she focused on finding the source of the power. “I should be able to sense it, that kind of power leaves a trace -” And it did, she saw a sort of trail and started moving. “Stay here.”

The witch’s name was Lucy, a Bennett, and Abigail told her exactly what Katherine was doing and to whom. “She’s putting you against your own,” Abi offered, eyes narrowing as the witch stared her down. “Don’t think it, young one.”

“Young one?” Lucy smirked, looking over Abigail, still in her mask. “You can’t be much older than me.”

Abigail’s lips curled. “Looks can always be deceiving, can’t they?” Stepping forward, she held out her hand, palm up. “If you don’t believe me, touch.”

Lucy’s smirk twitched, but she wasn’t ready to falter completely. She moved forward half a step. “Don’t try anything -” Abigail raised her other hand in a show of surrender, or promise of nothing to fear. When Lucy touched her palm, her eyes went wide, the power she felt, the age of it, then looking down she saw what Damon had seen, the golden edge of it. “What are you?”

“A witch, of course,” Abi offered, pulling her hand back. “Now remove the linking spell, before I lose my patience.”

Lucy nodded, telling Abigail it was done, and then promising that she was leaving Mystic Falls and was happy to see the back of Katherine Pierce.

Abigail backtracked to where she’d left Bonnie and Elena, both were gone and she was exhausted, so she got in her car and left for home, happy that Damon was none the wiser of her visit to the ball.

Home again, she took off the gown, brushed out her hair, and washed off the makeup. Tucking the mask into the drawer it had lived in since she’d gotten the delivery, she shook off the entire night, thinking playing hero wasn’t really her idea of a good time, and grabbed her grimoire. Smiling at how easily she’d found the source of the magic, she turned to the next thing she could master, thinking that perhaps she could learn from the book after all.

Cat was napping in the window, the street lamp keeping the porch from being in complete darkness, but also letting anyone outside be able to see Abigail curled up in her chair engrossed in her book. And she had an audience. Tucked in the shadows, out of the halo of light, watching intently as she studied her family’s magic. Watching and waiting.

[daysofourlivesrecaps]

Monday, 31 July 2023

Hey, guess what.

No, don’t bother guessing. I’ll just tell you. I was entirely right about “Leo interrupting Gwen and Dimitri’s wedding during the ‘if anyone has any objections…’ part” going absolutely nowhere.

(“Matty” is Leo, whose real name is Matt “Matty” Cooper, but only Gwen calls him this.)

I know I’ve been bitching a lot lately about feeling jerked around. And it must seem weird, given how much of this show I’ve already watched. Surely I’m used to the way soaps drag things out by now. But that’s just it — there have been occasional storylines that overstay their welcome but largely I have not felt hugely overwhelmed by that in the past year. Certainly not to the extent I have been lately. 

Anyway, the only good thing to come out of this interruption is EJ and Kristen (continuing to be friends! Yay!) quietly Waldorf-and-Statlering the whole affair.

It’s not fun, but Nicole is missing it… because she’s at the hospital, picking up the results of that DNA test that Sloan already picked up when she pretended to be her. Upon realizing that her confidential file was given to someone claiming to be her, Nicole goes FULL MEGAKAREN on the poor nurse (who wasn’t even the same nurse who gave Sloan the file!)

I was never the biggest fan of Nicole in the first place (largely because she just exists to pine for Eric no matter who she’s with ��� unless she’s with Eric, then she pines for literally anyone else), but you really learn a lot about a person when you see how they treat someone in a service profession. And she screams at this nurse for like, three segments, never once considering that this could have been a simple clerical error. Or that a grown-ass woman who should fucking know better is actually responsible for this.

Then said grown-ass woman shows up and hands the envelope over (having first removed the damning part that says the baby is Eric’s).

Not only does this needlessly prolong this insufferable plot (MAXIMUM DRAMA ≠ a holding pattern of the same lies for months on end), but NOBODY APOLOGIZES TO THE NURSE.

Speaking of Eric, he has a chat with Roman (his dad) and Kate (most everyone’s mom) about the fact that Sloan is pregnant.

Roman is extremely unhappy about this. 

And I’ve mentioned before that Roman barely has anything to do, pretty much ever, but it is well-established that he’s been extremely close with Abe for decades. (There are even occasional 80s flashbacks to back this up!) And now, having just returned from the hospital where Abe didn’t recognize him or his own immediate family, he’s pretty upset to hear that his kid is having a baby with the sister of the guy who did this to Abe. Which… is some good drama! Maybe not MAXIMUM levels, but definitely better than Roman usually gets.

He does come around pretty quickly (largely thanks to Kate, whose regular advice of “you should probably have a baby about it” was at least partially responsible for this happening in the first place).

And back at the DiMera mansion, the two couples finish tying the knot without further incident.

Dimitri and Leo have a cute moment out in the Whisper Your Secrets Foyer..

…where they are soon joined by Gwen, who wants to know what the big surprise was that they said they were planning that time it looked like they were making out.

And what they end up pulling out of their asses (STEADY, NOW) is… a honeymoon in Iceland?

Fine. It’s all going to happen off-camera anyway, so it really doesn’t matter where they say they’re going. The important thing is, nothing has changed except that now Gwen and Dimitri have been married and now Leo isn’t just a Judas but also a coward.

At least Stefan and Gabi are cute and happy.

And they always will be forever! I’m certain of it!

[her-lonely-companion]

Adam sighed, used to Klaus's tyrades at this point after being around the family as long as he had. "No disrespect intended, Klaus, but when has Rebekah ever listened to reason once she sets her sights on a conquest? I warned her about Alexander, that he had ill intentions toward the family, Chan even got a broken neck for trying to intervene before he made plans to attack the family with his hunter friends. As for Marcel, they both fooled us all with their plot to bring Mikael to New Orleans. Stefan, well you both sent us away when you were here in Chicago with Stefan so how could we intervene? And he played us all for a fool the second time. " He asks, his tone quiet as to not anger the hybrid more. "Rebekah left without a word once we got back to Chicago, none of us know where she went since she turned her phone off." He says "As for leeching, we stayed because Rebekah would have wanted us to and help where needed. We have our own investments and business ventures but are loyal to your family. Wesley and Chan keep people from taking advantage of your grandson at the club and I help where ever it is your family needs me. We earn our keep for your hospitality." He says, his tone even despite his irritation at the accusations from Klaus he had heard time and time again over the centuries. "I wish Rebekah were here too, I'm worried about her since she decided to go on this solo adventure and not keep in touch."

Adam hums softly. "This is true. My apologies for overstepping then." The vampire replies before nodding. "I understand your hesitance and I know which acquaintances you are referring to but I have been with Rebekah since before you were all even turned. Surely if I were a threat I would have already tried after nearly 1200 years, right? The same could be said for Wesley and Chan who are only a hundred or so years younger than I. But I understand your concern."

[rere-the-writer]

Title: A doppelganger of his own

Pairing: Elijah M. x Gilbert!Reader, mention of Kol M. x Bonnie B.

Warnings: Angst, Fluff, smutty, Klaus being Klaus, Protective!Elijah

A/N: layed awake at 3am with plot bunnies hoping around with this idea in my head

Part two - part three - part four

Elijah knew he was in trouble if Klaus knew of his feelings for one of the hybrid's doppelgangers. Elijah will meet the end of a dagger, his feelings for Tatia had him fight Klaus. When Elijah fell for Katherine, after she ran Elijah was daggered for nearly two decades. So now the newest Petrova doppelganger came in a pair.

Elena Gilbert and you, you were Elena's older sister by three years and was with her when Rose kidnapped her. That was when Elijah fell for you and it surprised him to see there were two doppelgangers. Elijah learned it was only because Katherine had a witch to speed up the bloodline to get Klaus off her back.

"Elijah!" Elijah flinched hearing Klaus yell making the noble vampire wonder who wronged his brother this time. Elijah looked to the door seeing Klaus with a set gate on his face and Elijah's eyes flickered to the dagger in the hybrid's hand.

You were gorgeous and held such softness that Elijah couldn't help but be drawn to. But Klaus was the reason Elijah hadn't acted on his feelings since the hybrid made sure that everyone knew you and your sister was his.

Elijah sighed sipping on his bourbon wondering just how could he fall for another doppelganger. And at this point Elijah was beginning to doubt it was because you and your sister looked like Katherine and Tatia.

"Yes brother?" Elijah questioned nervous while he slowly stood up. Klaus smirked darkly looking at Elijah walking in slowly picking up Elijah's fast heart rate.

"Damon tells me," Klaus paused just to make Elijah squirm, "you have feelings for my doppelganger." Klaus said watching Elijah freeze.

The vampire now regrets going out with the Salvatores for a drink. A drunk Elijah tells too many secrets and gets too emotional. Both Stefan and Damon felt bad for Elijah, when the older vampire just dumped centuries of hurt and anger on them. Damon wanted to help so he tried to get Klaus to back off from you, just so Elijah could finally have some form of happiness.

"You know how I feel about those taking what is mine."

"Niklaus....I have no plans on telling Y/N how I feel." Elijah tells Klaus eyes trained on the dagger feeling the icy stare that Klaus was giving him. Elijah for the first time in a long time felt real fear, not just for hisself but for you too.

While Klaus allowed Elijah to grace you with his presence, there were things Klaus wouldn't allow. The hybrid didn't really need your blood for his hybrids because Elena was just as good. But you were more willing to give your blood with the right threats. All Klaus had to do was threatened to dagger Elijah or Rebekah and you willing gave your blood since you adored both Originals.

"Yet you still love her. Tell me were you ever planning to steal her away? To lay claim on that soft virgin skin she has? Or tell me how you will dagger me?" Klaus questioned staring Elijah down with a dark glare.

Elijah swallowed realizing it was the sliver dagger that he asked Bonnie to enchant. So when Elijah daggers Klaus, the hybrid would live though the pain his victims did. A lesson Elijah wanted to teach Klaus, to give the feared hybrid some humanity.

"Where did you find it?"

"Katherine is every talkative once in bed. She seems upset you chose my doppelganger over her." Klaus said smirking seeing that fear flashing in Elijah's eyes.

"Don't worry brother, I won't harm her. But you won't see her anytime soon." Was the last thing Elijah heard, it happened so quickly. Klaus drove the dagger into Elijah's chest and Klaus just let Elijah fall. The hybrid looked at the doorway seeing his shocked siblings.

"You three will not undagger Elijah or else you too will find yourself in a box again." Klaus said in a low tone while his siblings glared. Klaus dragged Elijah's body away leaving behind angry and confused siblings.

"Dear Y/N, what brings you by?" Klaus paused hearing Finn letting into the Mikaelson home.

"Have I done something to upset Elijah? I haven't seen him in weeks. I was going to ask if he wanted to join to go to a jazz festival." You said clearly upset, Finn could see the tears that threaten to fall. Klaus watched and almost felt bad when he came downstairs.

"I can take you, love." Klaus says before Finn could say a word. You frowned looking at Klaus who smirked at you almost knowing that you'll say yes.

"No it is fine. Finn please tell Elijah that I am sorry if I did something wrong. I need to go." You said walking away not seeing the frown set on Klaus's face. You clearly had feelings for Elijah and that made Klaus angry even more when he saw the smug smirk on Finn's face.

Elijah hated it, being trapped in his own mind plagued with images of people that died by his hand. But what really broke Elijah was seeing ways of you dieing by Katherine's or Klaus's hand. While crying for Elijah to save you, Elijah wasn't sure how long he had been daggered nor if you were still breathing. You happily married to another, a tear rolled down Elijah's cheek as he fell to his knees at the thought of never seeing you again.

"I hope you are alright darling. I wish I could see your beautiful face once more." Elijah whispered before flinching hearing your screams of pain and begging him to come save you.

You woke in a cold sweat having had a nightmare but it didn't feel like one, more Elijah was asking for your help. Without much thought you quickly put on a pair of flip-flops and headed for the Original's home. You shivered cursing at yourself for leaving the house in a thin tank top and flimsy slik pajama shorts but you had to save Elijah.

You got into the Mikaelson home noticing how quiet it was. Kol was out with Bonnie, Rebekah and Finn went to see a movie. And Klaus was harassing Caroline, you made your way carefully down to the basement. You jogged over to the coffin that held Elijah's body, you opened it seeing Elijah's ashen gray face and wiped away a tear that rolled down his cheek. You pulled out the dagger that was in Elijah's chest.

"Elijah, please wake up." You whispered gently rubbing his cheek like you always did. It happened in a blur and the wind knocked out of you when Elijah slammed you against a wall before he realized who it was.

"I apologize. I didn't mean to..." Elijah said pulling away like your skin had burned him. You smiled surprising Elijah when you threw your arms around his neck.

"It is okay. I missed you, Elijah." You tell Elijah pulling away cupping his face making the vampire melt. It was the one thing he adored the most about you, you were always affectionate with him and Elijah drinked it up.

"Oh fuck! I forgot to get you some blood bags. You must be starving." You said watching Elijah struggle to keep calm and from biting you. Elijah turned away so you wouldn't see his true face but was taken back when you cupped his face.

"Don't darling....you should go." Elijah raspped out, gods was he hungry but you just smiled at him.

"I am not going anywhere. You can feed from me, I trust you." You tell Elijah pricking your finger on the dagger. Elijah opened his mouth to protest but you just placed your bleeding finger on his lips.

Elijah let out a shuttering breath and licked the blood off his lips. Once uour blood hit his tongue, Elijah couldn't help but groan at the sweetness of it. You squealed when Elijah lifted you up pressing you against a wall taking your finger into his mouth.

"My sweet girl, you taste delicious." Elijah breathed moving to your neck wanting more. You mewled when you moved your hips against his and you both became painfully aware of just how thin your clothing was.

You gripped Elijah's shirt breathing heavily when Elijah sank his fangs into your neck. He had wrapped your legs around his waist making you moan when he moved his hips against yours. Elijah pulled away from your neck and bit his hand raising it to your mouth. Elijah's eyes darken seeing you drink from him, you were aware of what blood sharing meant a vampire and you couldn't help but feel heat pool in your belly.

"Elijah....please." You mumbled rolling your hips and Elijah pulled you into a heated kiss giving shallow thrusts. Both were aware of the clothing between you but made no move to undress. Your fingers were tangled in Elijah's hair while his hands were on your hips. Elijah groaned against your neck moving his hips feeling you trembling, you moaned loudly against his ear when he moved his hips just right brushing against your clit.

Elijah knew he was too far gone to stop now, he was addicted to you already. Your chest heaved pulling Elijah's hair feeling him run his tongue over your collarbone. There was a rumble of a growl that settled in Elijah's chest when you tighten your legs around Elijah's waist. Elijah pressed closer to you moving to kiss you roughly rubbing your thighs with his thumbs and pulled away seeing your red face and swollen lips.

"Beautiful." Elijah whispered moving to press more kisses and bites on your neck feeling your hips move against his. Elijah suddenly stopped moving pulling a soft whine from you and was quick to silence you with a well aimed shallow thrust.

You were panting and unbelievably wet resting your head on Elijah's shoulder trying to calm down. Elijah moved you both behind a rack of wine hearing Kol and Bonnie coming down into the basement.

"Darling this is going to get you killed. Since when do you help Damon with plans?"

"But I you to protect me and besides Y/N really misses Elijah. She barely leaves her room so once undagger Elijah. We help them run." Bonnie tells Kol walking towards the coffin. Elijah looks down at you with a boyish smirk seeing you flushing burying your face into Elijah's neck.

"No need Miss Bennett." Elijah says stepping out still carrying you surprising both Bonnie and Kol. The younger vampire smirked seeing the marks on your neck and how you clinged to the oldest vampire or how Elijah buried his nose in your hair.

"Wait how?"

"I had a nightmare of Elijah calling for me to save him. Then I felt this pull." You answered Bonnie watch her and Kol stare at one another understanding completely.

"It can't be."

"It could be. It is rare darling but it does happen. I mean look at Finn and Sage." Kol said confusing you and Elijah.

"Brother?"

"Elijah, Y/N here is your mate. Now let's get you two out of here." Kol says getting everyone up stairs before Klaus returned. Kol help Bonnie with a spell to hide you and Elijah, then Kol handed Elijah a book to explain everything.

"Bonnie what about everyone."

"Don't worry Damon got that covered. This was all his idea if Klaus comes looking."

Elijah took you somewhere in the English countryside where you both had been hiding for ten months. You had gotten calls from Elena where she was angry at you running off with Elijah and listening to Damon. While Caroline's calls were more of her being nosey wanting to know if you and Elijah had sex yet.

Elijah had gotten phone calls from his siblings letting him know how they were doing and how Klaus took it. You and Elijah weren't the only ones who ran off, Kol had took Bonnie to France.

"How long do you think Klaus will be angry?" You asked Elijah when he pulled you into his lap. The night you and Elijah left, Klaus was very very angry having thrown many of Elijah's things around. For awhile Damon had Klaus fooled until Elena messed it all up which was why Kol took Bonnie to France.

Poor Finn and Rebekah was trying to clean after Klaus while the hybrid swore he was going to dagger Elijah for the next century. Klaus even threatened to lock you away somewhere no one will find you.

"My sweet mate, Niklaus's anger can and has ran deep. There is no telling just how long he will keep it." Elijah said running his nose along your neck taking in your scent. You nodded placing a shy kiss on Elijah's lips before he pulled you into a kiss. Elijah groaned when you shifted straddling his lap, you jumped feeling Elijah's hand on your bare thigh moving under your nightgown.

"So responsive, shall we take this upstairs?" Elijah asked smirking but paused when he heard his phone ring and held you close.

"Rebekah?"

'Elijah, we need you to come to New Orleans.' Rebekah says over the phone and Elijah raised an eyebrow looking at you and you were equally confused.

"We'll be there soon."