#although technically she's not katherine but elena

[survivingpierce]

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          "look, it's kinda my first day here–" at least katherine's first day here, apparently elena already had contact with this guy. is this going to sound weird? "– and caroline said you're a nice one and kinda grew up on this campus, so i was wondering if you could show me around? i'd be especially interested in the possibilities where to eat." and thanks to elena's wonderful meal card that shouldn't be any issue at all. which is pathetic if she's honest.

          "could you spare a few minutes?"

[so-long-soldier28]

Who would you give the hottest milf and dilf award to in the tvd universe?

oh boy did i have fun answering this question...

okay so both these categories have soo many options, i'm gonna root through my options before awarding the hottest. 😅

also, we've got actual milf / dilfs to compare, plus children-less folks who have milf / dilf energy, but that's a separate category.

but if we're looking at genuine parents, i've already got my dilf picked out.

let's go...!

(tw: bit of kink mention smack in the middle; dirty thoughts)

(also this is my opinion and certainly doesn't reflect the entirety of the fandom so no one come for me plz)

milfs

alright.

i had three pop in my head immediately, as soon as i processed the question.

first, katherine. ofc. and she is technically a mom, even though i forgot about nadiya at first.

she's both a badass and super hot (my bisexual awakening at the age of 12, actually), so she definitely qualifies for this category.

second, bonnie. not a mom, although she would make an amazing mom, given the chance. i was just watching 8x9 and she looked so freaking gorgeous, i had to pause to catch my breath (literally, my jaw dropped).

and all respect to kat, but let's not forget 1x5, the car wash episode… she looked fking amazing in that bikini, like, i died.

also, the entirety of s7, she was both sassy and gorgeous. i was so happy she got a chance to shine (finally) & she killed it. long overdue but soooo worth the wait.

she's always gorgeous, always badass, and like i said, would make a wonderful mom.

third, elena, but specifically season 6. idk if it was the single life that brought out her confidence or what, but she was glowing in that season.

i wasn't a fan of her most of the time, but she had huge mommy / milf energy throughout s6. i can't explain it, it's just vibes.

now, since you said tvd universe, i must also add rebekah and hayley to the mix.

rebekah is totally a qualifier for many of the same reasons katherine is, minus the actual kid. i fucking love her, and given the chance, she'd be a great mom, too.

hayley… loved her in the first 1-2 ish seasons.. liked her less when it felt like she was leading on both elijah and werewolf boy / nathan parsons wtf was his name.. JACKSON, that was it.

wasn't a fan of that.

she was a great mom to hope, always defended her daughter, and was very protective towards the people she loved, but she's only a contender for my list.

before i move onto dilfs, i must also add a note about caroline. i just remembered she's a mom, too, but tbh, while i love her to death and she's a great mom, she seems too babygirl-ish to be a milf. this could be bc the whole alaric/caroline thing freaks me out, or maybe it's bc the gemini coven forced pregnancy on her, but i just don't feel milf energy from her.

she was absolutely glowing, and beautiful when she was pregnant, and i adore her to death, but she doesn't fit the vibe.

dilfs

now onto dilfs. i have less contenders.

first… elijah. huge dilf energy, like, insane.

always very protective of his family, of hayley and hope, of his morals and his home… whatever is important, he will defend it.

the suits only add to the dilfishness. that's it. that's the point.

certain scenes, especially throughout the originals are so dilf energy, it sends me to the moon.

the one where they're at the farm or whatever and he's rebuilding fence boards, every scene where he's drinking bourbon, whenever he rolls up his sleeves to deal with someone, or rips out a heart... you know what i mean?

second, you know i have to mention my boy kai…

that scene in 6x22 when he's in that suit… plz for the love of god put a baby in me. 🫣

he's so hot in that scene i can't actually handle it.

also something tells me he's got a breeding kink + he had 7 siblings & certainly knows at least somewhat how to raise kids.

as long as they're no threat, i think he could be a good dad (but i don't think he'd hurt his own kids).

not very dilfy pre-1903, but is very much so afterwards. (like caroline, he's got babygirl energy to me.)

oh! and while we're on the topic of dilf energy, i need to include marcel.

this man is spicy and kills me with his smile alone.

admittedly, there were times he pissed me off, but everyone pissed me off in the originals at some point, even elijah (loml).

i think he would be a great dad. he was so good with helping & being there for davina. he would defend hope despite the shit klaus & elijah put him through. he also kind of "adopted" josh as he did davina.

great leader, too. knew how to keep people in line (even if his system was majorly flawed).

and he's so fucking hot.

dilf energy. that's it.

now, for the actual dilf, i have one contender and one winner.

i really hate to admit it, because he's a terrible, awful person, but he's so fucking hot & obviously has great genes.

joshua parker.

fuck, something about this man does something to me that i can't explain.

i hate his guts.

but he's so hot.

all of his kids are hot, too. like i said, great genes.

definitely on the older side, but that just makes it so much better.

with him it would be like… "my wife died but now idk how to cope & i need to fuck out my sadness," and i would be like, "okay daddy. hey, i heard your eldest killed 4 of your kids, do you wanna make more?"

anyway…

he's on my list with john winchester, called, "fictional men who would be dilfs if they were not child abusers."

Now to crown the winners! ✨👑✨

hottest milf: katherine pierce

hottest dilf: joshua parker

hottest with milf energy: bonnie bennett (s6 elena is a close 2nd)

hottest with dilf energy: elijah mikaelson

[kiss-my-freckle]

You're recent gif sets are brilliant. Such attention to detail. I'm just looking at the "I was worried about you..." How Elena walks towards Damon when she says this and how he reacts. He totally could have kissed her there. I think the swirling music takes away from some moments, so gifs are great.

So much fun!

I know you try to explain to fans, but I'm still on the fence that Stefan pushed Delena. His absence made it faster, yes? And no? He told her in Chicago that part of him was gone. I don't think he planned on coming back and being in love with her again. Yet he punches Damon (3x12) for kissing her (3x10)??

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the books. I was not a fan. It's not just the writing, which is very YA unlike Twilight, it's the story. The only time in my reading history where the show was so, so much better than the books.

Well, Stefan's first technical push was leaving town with Klaus when he didn't have to. Damon was already cured, so it would've been easy to break their deal just like Elena did with Elijah. Stefan wasn't terrified of Klaus hurting him, he was terrifed of Klaus hurting Elena. His choice to leave town with Klaus and his refusal to come home when she begged him to was a straight-up denial of Elena's choice in the matter. What I'm saying is... this was one of those times when Stefan refused to respect Elena's choice. It didn't matter if she wanted to fight Klaus together or not, he wasn't allowing her to be part of it. She was supposed to die in Klaus' ritual, and he refused to risk Klaus trying to kill her for real.

Stefan's second push was killing Andie. He knew exactly what he was doing as he knew she was Damon's distraction from Elena. He didn't want Damon to be distracted anymore. He beileved that if Damon had Elena, he wouldn't bother trying to save him. It's the whole idea of giving Damon something to hold onto for the sake of letting him go. Stefan actuallly believed Elena could replace him.

Stefan's third push was telling Damon to take Elena home and keep her there. It was his way of not only giving Damon permission, but actually telling him to keep Elena company. It's one thing for Stefan to tell him to take her home. Quite another for Stefan to tell him to keep her there. Keeping her there requires keeping her company. Thus, Stefan's parallel to Katherine in 2x22.

Stefan was intent on being gone for good. Elena's survival was the entire reason he left town with Klaus. Even Damon was smart enough to know that Klaus shouldn't know she survived the ritual. He knew even before Stefan told him because they both knew she was supposed to die and she didn't.

Damon could've kissed her in 3x2, my 3x3 post will explain why he didn't as things tend to carry over from episode to episode. Stefan's absence made Delena faster, yes. That's why Katherine warned Stefan when they were stuck in the tomb together in season 2. She knows them better than they think she does.

Stefan had every intention of staying gone for good. However, when Klaus forcefully brings him back home, he feels he can pick up where he left off with Elena despite pushing Delena together. That's why he punches Damon in 3x12. Although I'd say the punch has less to do with Damon and more to do with Elena. He's bitter because she kissed Damon back, and he can't exactly punch her for it. As angry as Stefan is, he's just as much to blame for it. His quick return home isn't sudden entitlement, even if that's what he believes. Sometimes there is no picking up where you left off... which is the point.

[touchedbydestiny]

      "and just because you're used to it means that you don't give things a chance? because let me tell you one thing: one can only have one biological mother. there is no selection like there is when it comes to romantic or sexual partners. there is only one. and i did choose you. more than once. you don't let people in because you're scared you're getting dropped but … i'm your child. you should want that i pick you. you shouldn't just give yourself up and reason that you're used to being dropped." her tone was softer this time, without any accusing undernotes.

      in her eyes it sounds like katherine pierce doesn't have much fight left inside her. how could @malka-lisitsa simply accept if she were to pick elena? why wouldn't she fight? nadia can understand it might be different with her many boyfriends but she is her child. her daughter. she should want to fight.

      and yes, nadia knows she should go over and comfort katherine, hug her, perhaps rub her back. but nadia is not good at such things. crying people make her … not uncomfortable but she doesn't know what to do despite knowing what to do technically.

      "it would have been easier if i were told that you liked the man who made me." nadia replied truthfully. it would have been easier for her to know she was created by a union of love, perhaps a youthful folly. knowing that such a dark cloud is hovering over her … creation makes her feel dirty and stained.

      she listened to what katherine told her, and noted what she said about her grandfather, the tiny details about her grandmother and her aunt. it was awful to hear that katerina never had a beautiful life. not even before she was turned into a vampire. it was hard to hear that there were so many undeserved hardships. and yet she had heard that katerina had been a delightful, endearing person. she sounded like a wonderful potential mother and nadia is sad that she never got to meet that person.

      "i don't think you're broken, katherine." nadia finally said, meaning every word. "you faced many disappointments and terrors. you became cautious and careful. but you aren't broken."

      "i also don't think that you're forcing a connection with lizzy. i don't think that's what it is." nadia's head tilted as she eyed her mother. "you know how to connect with people. you do connect with stefan, don't you? there is a bond between you and him although that bond probably only exists for you. but it's a bond nonetheless." and it's another thing nadia is jealous of. lizzy gets a bond with katherine, even a random man like stefan gets a bond with her. just nadia is the one who doesn't get to have one. it wasn't fair.

      "you know how to fix it. i already told you what i hope for. but … it's up to you whether you're ready for that or not. if you're willing to invest the time and take the risk or not."

      "you have to fight and not accept defeat before you even have the chance of proving yourself." now it was time again that nadia was the one who comforted katherine – even if it was just with words. somehow they always ended up like that. nadia’s own worries, however, were never resolved and she suspected that she should simply give up on addressing them.

      nadia reached into her back and handed katherine a tissue. "here, i guess you need it."

"Do you want to know the truth? If you picked Elena over me I wouldn't be surprised. I'm no ones first choice. I never have been. Save maybe 1864 when two very stupid brothers died for love." Her voice is strained as she speaks, trying not to cry. "It's honestly a surprise that you'd pick me now after everything. That's the surprise. It would no cross my mind why if you picked her over me, simply because Im so used to it."

Maybe somewhere in there Nadia was on to something. It's not like Katherine knew everything in her own head. What she does is none of her business, you think she has time to dig deep and find shes even more fucked up than she thinks she is on this level?

"Would you have rather thought I abandoned you because I wanted to? Was that easier for you to swallow? Youd rather me have no reason than have one neither of us could control? I told you the truth because I wanted you to know it was never anything you did.... It was me. It was my fault. I trusted a man I shouldnt have.... that's never been on you."

"My life before you wasn't perfect either Nadia. Your grandfather was terrible. He didn't even call my mother by her name he called her woman. He wa a drunk. He was abusive, and he never cared about me, my mom, or my sister. He was so quick to exile me. He didn't even blink.... When I found out I was with child, I honestly was happy... even if Your father was a despicable man.... I wanted to raise you. I wanted to be a great mother to you. Myabe back then I could have been.... maybe back before all of this I could have been the mother you deserve... but now? I don't really.... I don't know how to connect with people... not the right way. Something in me... it's broken. I know what I should feel. I know what I'm supposed to feel towards people that are family... but I don't know if I actually do. You want to know a painful secret Nadia? I don't know if I actually feel a connection to Lizzy or If I've forced one because I know there should be one there... I don't know what family feels like... I've never really had one... Maybe i'm letting you both down... maybe im over compensating because I want so badly to make up for everything between me and you... I dont know. I'm just... broken... and I dont know how to fix it... I'm sorry... I never meant to hurt you... "

[firelxdykatara]

Reader anon here with a thought!

Do you like love triangles? I personally don't, there is something about them that is incredibly frustrating lol. Same thing for harems, though there are some that do it tastefully 😌 so I can't be too upset by them.

It honestly depends on the love triangle and the way the author writes all three relationships (and, for any genuine love triangle, there should be three relationships--they don't all need to be romantic, but there needs to be an existing and strong relationship between all three points on the triangle, otherwise I'm almost certain not to be at all invested), how they are presented, and what the narrative purpose of the love triangle is.

Ironically, one of the best examples of a love triangle done well (at least... to a certain point in the story, which I'll explain in a bit) happened in a television show that is fairly notorious for turning to utter shit in the latter four seasons and alienating pretty much the entire fanbase, to the point where most of us dipped well before the end and everyone celebrated news of the show's cancellation.

I'm talking about The Vampire Diaries.

(under a cut because i went on a LOOOONG ramble about tvd and why that love triangle worked initially and then why it failed, and then i talked a bit about another love triangle that was pretty weak and failed almost from the outset in OUAT but was ultimately axed in favor of the stronger relationship and character being given focus, and what all of this means for how i feel about love triangles in general)

While this is still very much a case where I only shipped one side of the triangle, hated the other, and couldn't wait for it to be resolved so that I wouldn't have to deal with the side I disliked any longer (the writing was on the wall as far back as season 1, no matter how in denial a certain portion of the fandom remained right up until the series finale) the development of the triangle itself and how it affected all three characters and their relationships with one another was done very well for most of the first four seasons. Damon and Stefan were brothers, with a bloody and complicated history and relationship, and they both fell in love with this human girl--Stefan almost instantly, because she looked just like Katherine and he found himself... (and here I'm going to be as fair as I possibly can to him, but if you want my full anti stelena rant I have many of them prepped and ready to go) following her, at first to make sure she wasn't Katherine, and then inserting himself into her life to protect her. Damon, on the other hand, took much longer, because he was still in love with (and trying to rescue) Katherine, and so when he did fall in love with Elena, it was because of who she was, not because of some idealized 'Not Katherine' pedestal he placed her on the instant he met her.

(I swear, I swear I'm trying to be fair to Stefan, it's just very hard.)

The thing is, Elena was in love with Stefan almost from the jump. (And one of the reasons I never really shipped stelena is because that kind of insta-love with very little conflict that isn't manufactured by the plot just isn't compelling for me, and I fully jumped ship about halfway through s1 when Damon and Elena took a road trip together. It's a long story, but that remains one of my favorite episodes in the entire show and it marks the beginning of their actual journey together.) Stefan showed up at a time when she desperately needed someone, and to his credit he did help her through her early depressive spiral--in large part because Elena's recent trauma (survivor's guilt due to her parents dying in a car crash from which she was the only survivor) meant that finding out Stefan was immortal and could not die and would not leave her resulted in her getting fiercely attached.

He was safe, he was stable, she could rely on him. But she could not grow with him, because for him, she was essentially a morality pet/the anchor to his humanity, and that meant that he could not accept when she began to grow out of her need for him. The fact that this coincided with her becoming a vampire only made things worse--because she settled into being a vampire much more easily with far less strife than he'd ever managed, and an Elena who enjoyed being a vampire in ways Stefan simply couldn't could no longer function as the idealized reminder of humanity he was desperate to cling to.

Damon, on the other hand, was the one who fell in love with Elena--not Not Katherine. He never put her on a pedestal, he never asked more of her than she could give him--when he realized how deep his feelings for her ran, he made her forget his confession because he knew he did not deserve her and he didn't want her burdened with his feelings when she was still in love with his brother and was always going to be. Elena's growing feelings for Damon coincided with her growth from a depressed and suicidal teenage girl into a young woman who began to realize that it was ok to want things for herself--to be a little selfish, to take what she wanted, to admit what she wanted. And, again, the fact that this coincided with her transformation into a vampire (although her growth within her relationship with Damon began well before that), meant that Damon's reaction to Elena-as-a-vampire was thrown into sharp relief against Stefan's--because he accepted her where his brother couldn't.

Ultimately, this led to Elena fully outgrowing her feelings for Stefan, and accepting, nurturing, and reveling in her feelings for Damon. The triangle was resolved, all three characters had growth separately and in their different relationships, and they could then move on from there along their different paths. Stefan could have had some truly excellent character growth involving moving on and finally living for himself rather than trying so hard to be this perfect brooding tortured vampire because he was the Good Brother, since there was no longer any need for that Good Brother/Bad Brother dichotomy. They'd both grown past it, as characters individually and as brothers together.

Unfortunately, where TVD ultimately failed (and this coincided with the way the show utterly lost the plot in terms of storylines, character arcs and cohesiveness and became an unsalvageable mess) is in refusing to let the love triangle die.

What should have happened is that once the love triangle was resolved--Elena growing as a character and moving on from her immature first love and fully embracing her feelings, as an adult, for her much more adult relationship with Damon--they abandoned the love triangle premise and let all three characters continue to grow outside of it. Damon and Elena should have been allowed to grow together and explore their relationship, Stefan to figure out where he still fit in their lives--as Damon’s brother, and one of Elena’s closest friends who she still loved dearly even though she was no longer in love with him--and then explore relationships of his own outside their family unit as he finally began to fully move on and grow out of his own overly idealized feelings for Elena.

Instead, what wound up happening is that the stelena side of the love triangle kept being teased--probably to keep the avid stelena shipping contingent invested in the story, hoping for ‘another brother swap’ as was lampshaded in one of Nina’s final episodes before she left the show (and, indeed, many of them remained utterly convinced that stelena would be endgame, right up until the series finale)--and rather than growing together, delena fans were constantly hit over the head with how ‘toxic’ Damon and Elena were for each other (even though this ran contrary to everything we’d seen in the show to that point, including having Damon regress repeatedly for, presumably, no reason other than to never let fans forget he was the Bad Brother and always would be, and Elena just couldn’t help but love him anyway), and all three characters and their relationships wound up suffering horribly for it.

That is an example of a love triangle that had a very promising foundation and development, right up through what should have been a resolution, and the reason it is generally looked on so unfavorably in fandom circles is because the show refused to move on from the triangle organically when the story needed it to, because it had already served its purpose.

For an example of a love triangle that, in my mind, simply didn’t work from the very beginning, I’d say my go-to example is from Once Upon a Time--the short-lived love triangle between Emma, Killian, and Neal. I think the first stumbling block there was that there weren’t really three relationships that mattered. Technically, Killian did have a connection to Neal--because they’d met in Neverland, prior to Neal remaining in the Land Without magic--but it functioned more as a backdrop to explain why Killian knew him when they got to Neverland again in the story, and why Neal didn’t trust him. It wasn’t actually developed as anything outside of that brief flashback, and they didn’t have any connection in the present outside of one episode where they essentially fought over Emma and she (rightly) got angry at them for it. There was no real exploration of who they were to each other outside of the fact that both of them had feelings for Emma, so it really was just one woman torn between her feelings for two different men, and with no real stakes attached to her choice.

The other problem with this particular triangle is that one side of it was... conspicuously weak. While Emma’d had a full season and a half worth of interactions and development with Killian--where they went from enemies, to grudging allies, to Killian openly acknowledging that he hadn’t ever believed he would be able to love again until he met Emma--she had... very little to support her potential relationship with Neal outside of their history. History which consisted of then-young-adult Neal knocking up underage Emma (she was 17 at the oldest because she was still in Juvie when Henry was born, and he was already ten years old the day she turned 28; so she was either 16 or very newly 17 when she got pregnant) and ensuring that she got sent to prison for his own crime, at which point he didn’t see her again until she was nearly 30. When he did see her again, he treated her incredibly poorly, up to and including getting angry at her about the fact that she didn’t tell him that Henry was his son--even though he had no right to that information, because Emma was in prison because of him at the time she found out, and she had no clue that he was in any way connected to the Fairy Tale world until she was helping Mr. Gold track down his son and it turned out to be Neal.

A big point is made, throughout the early seasons especially, about Emma’s walls and how much difficulty she has trusting people--and a great deal of that stemmed from Neal’s betrayal. This could have been the foundation for a story of healing and growth and two people coming back together--however, with the way Neal treats Emma in the present and how little closure she actually gets for what he did to her in the past, it comes across more as ‘well, she never did get over her feelings for him, so maybe he still has a shot even though she has no real reason to want to be with him now’.

Killian, on the other hand, never doubted Emma’s abilities and always had the utmost trust in and respect for her (after they became allies), and it was obvious that this is something Emma experienced very little of in her life. It’s notable that the first episode where they really interacted is the one in which Emma’s history with Neal is revealed, and it very deliberately paralleled and contrasted with her interactions with Killian. This already presented him with a leg up on the love triangle once Neal did show up, because Neal was the reason for a lot of the walls Emma had built around her heart, and it wasn’t until meeting Killian that she finally began to let some of them down.

I think that the show recognized this, and it pulled something that is actually a very frustrating pet peeve of mine--rather than write out the story that makes sense and have the main point of the love triangle make a choice and stick to it, the third point of the triad was simply written out. In this case, Neal essentially killed himself via his own stupidity, allowing Emma to angst about losing him without actually having to tell him she wasn’t in love with him and wasn’t going to choose him. (Veronica Mars pulled something very similar with the Logan/Veronica/Duncian triangle in season 2--rather than admit within the narrative that her relationship with Duncan was built on flimsy feelings of infatuation bc of their history, and a ‘stability’ that didn’t really work for who Veronica was at her core, he simply got written out of the story, running away for Plot Reasons and never forcing Veronica to confront the fact that she wasn’t actually in love with him and hadn’t been for quite some time.)

I think that in OUaT, the love triangle could have worked if a relationship between Killian and Neal was not only established in the past but developed in the present--Killian was in love with Neal’s mother centuries earlier, and something I’m actually really upset we never got is the two of them talking about Milah and maybe Neal getting some closure for his mother’s abandonment and someone apologizing to him for what they put Baelfire through as a child--giving stakes to Emma’s choice beyond ‘one of them will be all uwu sad that he wasn’t picked’. It also would have worked much better if we were given any reason for Emma to still have feelings for Neal in the present beyond the history they shared, which caused Emma nothing but pain for the last decade and change. If Neal had treated her more fairly--if he’d treated her like someone he actually cared about and even still loved, rather than blaming her for things that were his own fault and undermining her belief in her own abilities, among other things--then their relationship might have been strong enough to stand on its own opposite Emma’s relationship with Killian. I don’t think it ever would’ve been a relationship that appealed to me, personally, but then I could have at least enjoyed watching the three of them grow together and seeing all of their relationships grow and change.

So, ultimately, TL;DR: I do like love triangles, conceptually, but there are a few requirements they must meet for me to feel anything other than irritated at the inclusion. One: there must be at least three equally important relationships between the three characters. If it’s just one character torn between her (or his, but it’s usually a woman) feelings for two unrelated people, that can be compelling for a short time but ultimately I’m going to be left feeling frustrated by her refusal to just make a damn choice and put me out of my misery. Two: there should be some sort of development in each relationship which makes the presence of the triangle narratively significant. Why is it important for one character to have conflicting romantic feelings for these two other people at the same time? What purpose does it serve either their character arcs or the story as a whole? While I am both a Bangel and a Spuffy shipper, I’ve never considered Angel/Buffy/Spike to be a love triangle--they are very different relationships that she had at very different points in her life, and while her feelings for Angel never really went away (and do cause some angst for Spike near the end of btvs) they are never really competing for her affections in any meaningful sense. If that competition does exist, there needs to be a compelling reason why. And, as a further addendum to this point, I need to at least understand why the main point of the triangle is invested in each relationship, even if I don’t ship it and actively dislike or even outright hate one side of the triangle. (I loathe stelena, but I’ve always understood why Elena was in love with him in the beginning of the show, for example. And before s5/s6, I was really pleased with how the show handled her feelings for him and finally allowed her to grow and move on from them.)

And finally, three: the triangle needs to be resolved at some point--and, when it is, it needs to stay that way. Where TVD ultimately lost me (aside from the ridiculous plot contrivances and rampant character assassination) was the refusal to let the love triangle die a natural death when it is what the story called for, and all three of their characters, their relationships, and the show as a whole suffered massively for it. So, when the primary point of the triangle makes a choice--particularly if she had made one choice in the beginning of the story, but it was clear that she was ultimately moving towards choosing the other side as she grew and her feelings and relationships grew and changed with her--let that be the end of it. Move on to exploring what that choice means for the main pair and the party not chosen, sure--maybe explore their feelings about not being chosen and how that affects their relationships with both of the others afterwards--but don’t constantly tease the possibility of the ‘losing side’ getting back together just to keep shippers invested. It’s only going to hurt your show and make everyone look callous and stupid.

Alternately, a final possibility: make it an ot3 instead. But again, if the other three conditions aren’t met (particularly number two, and its addendum; if I don’t understand why the main point of the triangle is in love with both other points, an ot3 is unlikely to resolve that issue and I’m only going to wind up resenting it), then this won’t work, because it’s just going to wind up a lopsided and stilted mess of a relationship that leaves me wishing the offending point of the triangle had been killed off just so I wouldn’t have to keep hearing about them.

[blodreina-noumou]

I was tagged by: @teeandsnowflakes and @boomheda! Two of my faves in this fandom. <3 Thanks ladies!!

List your top ten ships without looking at the questions, then answer!

1. Peraltiago (Jake x Amy from Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

2. Memori (Murphy x Emori from The 100)

3. Cheleanor (Chidi x Eleanor from The Good Place)

4. Hosie (Hope x Josie from Legacies)

5. Deanoru (Karolina and Nico from Runaways)

6. Stelena (Stefan x Elena from The Vampire Diaries)

7. Linctavia (Lincoln x Octavia from The 100)

8. Sizzie (Sebastian and Lizzie from Legacies)

9. Clexa (Clarke x Lexa from The 100)

10. Janason (Janet x Jason from The Good Place)

1) Do you remember the episode/scene/chapter that you first started shipping 6?

Stelena: I actually think I really fell for them when they had their scenes at the Gilbert family lake house. They were so soft and safe with each other. For a little while.

2) have you ever read fanfiction about 2?

Memori: Here and there. I’m not big on fanfiction though.

3) Has a picture of 4 ever been your screen saver/profile picture/tumblr avatar?

Hosie: No, though they probably would/will be if I ever make a Legacies sideblog.

4) if 7 were to suddenly break up today, what would your reaction be?

Linctavia: I’d be happy, because it would mean Lincoln was alive, and there was still hope for them. 😭 But Lincoln’s dead, so technically speaking, they’re already broken up. By death. Ugh.

5) Why is 1 so important?

Peraltiago: They’re a really good example of a healthy “opposites attract” relationship. They had time to build up and figure each other out, and they’ve both grown together. They work through their issues in a respectful, loving way. You never get the feeling that they don’t like each other, even if there are things about each other that they don’t absolutely love. Plus, Melissa and Andy have great chemistry, and they make for a very cute couple. Shipping can be shallow. 

6) Is 9 a funny ship or a serious ship?

Clexa: ... I still cry about it sometimes. There was never anything funny about them. God bless the people who managed to make crackposts out of that epic tragedy.

7) Out of all of your ships listed, which ship has the most chemistry?

Memori has chemistry beyond like, anything reasonable. They’re on fire. Any moment where they’re on-screen together is charged - with sexual tension, with love, with desperation to protect each other. Those two know how to emote. Clexa is a close second.

8) out of all of the ships, which ship has the strongest bond?

Cheleanor lasted through several iterations of eternity. That’s a damn strong bond right there.

9) How many times have you read/watched 10’s fandom?

The Good Place: I’ve seen every episode at least three times. When I’ve had time to heal, I’m gonna go back and watch in order again.

10) Which ship has lasted the longest?

Cheleanor, because, again, literally several iterations of eternity. Janason is up there, too. The Good Place has a real wacky timeline, lol.

11) How many times, if ever, has 6 broken up?

Stelena: Like... four? Three for real, because once was to fool Katherine. I think. She breaks up with him real early on because she doesn’t think it’s gonna work, with all the craziness. Then, they separate again in s3, although they don’t really break up after Stefan leaves with Klaus... it just kinda falls apart. Then they get back together, but break up when Elena develops feelings for Damon. They only had like, three happy weeks together total, lmao. Lotsa angst in that one.

12) if the world was suddenly thrust into a zombie apocalypse, which ship would make it out alive, 2 or 8?

Memori or Sizzie, huh? This is actually a tough call, because although Murphy and Emori are a lot more suited for the apocalypse (that’s their universe, after all,) Sebastian is a semi-indestructible immortal vampire, and Lizzie is a powerful siphon witch. Frankly I’d pay good money to see all four of them team up. But if it came down to it, I think Murphy and Emori are scrappier, more used to survival-based adversity, so they’d have the advantage.

13) is 4 still together?

Technically speaking, they haven’t gotten together... yet. I’m really hoping they do in the next couple of seasons, though. #hosierights

14) is 10 canon?

Janason - Yes, in the cutest way possible. I love Janet x Jason forever. J + J!

15) if all ten ships were put into a couple’s Hunger Games, which couple would win?

Ooooooh...that’d actually be really tough. It’d be a damn good show, though. 

Sadly, I think Janason is automatically out of the running - if the battle royale doesn’t take place in the afterlife, Janet and Jason are just two relatively normal, good-hearted people. Same with Cheleanor. None of the characters from The Good Place are made for combat. I’m throwing Stelena on the kill list, too, because Elena was mostly mortal when she was with Stefan, and he’s just one regular vampire.

Peraltiago is a weird wild card, because they’re only human, but they have guns, and hand-to-hand fighting experience. If they shot fast, they’d get pretty far. But could they? We’ve rarely seen them discharge their weapons on the show, and usually without serious consequences.

Almost every other couple on this list would have some advantage, though. 

Memori, Clexa, and Linctavia all have legitimate battle experience - both Lexa and Octavia won their own combat competitions. Murphy and Emori are scrappy survivors, and Lincoln and Clarke are both formidable fighters, too. Half of them also know how to shoot guns.

Deanoru, Hosie, and Sizzie all include people with unique supernatural powers, plus a werewolf/vampire/witch tribrid and a regular vamp, to boot.

I think, ultimately, it would come down to a battle of the supernaturals, and Hope is canonically the strongest of them all. Throw in Josie, and I think everyone else is pretty much screwed.

16) Has anybody ever tried to sabotage 5’s ship?

Deanoru - I don’t think so. A lot of people hated the flash-forward in the last episode, where it showed that they’d broken up for a bit, and they blamed the girl Karolina ended up with. But I think that was just like...a normal thing to have happened, given the circumstances.

17)Which ship would you defend to the death and beyond?

Not really any of them, tbh. I think shipping should be relatively light-hearted.

18) Do you spend hours a day going through 3’s tumblr page?

Cheleanor - Not anymore. I did when the show was still airing, though. Sadly, their story is now done.

19) if an evil witch descended from the sky and told you that you had to pick one of the ten ships to break up forever or else she’d break them all up forever, which ship would you sink?

...is it cheating if I pick one of the ships that’s already doomed, lmao? I mean, Stelena is canonically dead, never gonna happen again, so. I’d just pick them. They were happier in-universe broken up, for the hot second that they were both alive to experience that. But I’ll always have my early memories!

Tagging: @twinzmoon @murphystartedthefire @johnmurphysreddit @hosie4legacies @kingrosalie @bombshellsandbluebells @blodkru @blodreina @nightbleeder and anyone else who sees this and wants to steal it!!

[elejah-verse]

The Sun And The Moon Curse/part 8

Fanfiction

Part 8

Elijah Mikaelson x Elena Gilbert

ft other tvd characters - Klaus Mikaelson, Katherine Pierce, Esther Mikaelson

set after tvd 3x14/15

Materlist here 

****

Katherine arrived in Bucharest and once again stood there empty handed. Yizel could see that there was a very unusual magic surrounding Lia's villa and when she tried to come close to it, she suddenly felt weak and very nauseous.

"Dark magic-ahh"- the doppelganger felt a sharp pain kick in her stomach as if she was stabbed.

Katherine took the opportunity and now grabbed the dagger from the witch and decided to cut her losses and leave the witch behind. Something very odd was happening and she opted to lay low for a little while.

*****

In Cluj-Napoca,Romania

When Elena got out of her room, Lia informed her that Elijah had left to run some errands. The witch then asked if she would go to town with her. She accepted the invitation. Lia needed to get some particular herbal essences for the ritual. They entered a shop that sold many  different varieties of organic cosmetics. It was a beautiful rustic shop. Elena looked at some perfume bottles. The shop-keeper brought all that was on Lia's list, then looked at Elena and suggested a fragrance that would suit her. She spoke to her in Romanian and Elena apologized for not understanding. Lia translated.

"Jasmine and Lilac with a hint of orange blossom-it's an antic fragrance. She thinks would suit you best."

Elena smelled it, and she liked it, and so she bought it. They got out and Lia suggested they have a cup of coffee. They got into a cafe across the road.

"Are you all right?" Lia asked Elena, who seemed to be somewhere else lost in her thoughts.

"Yes-just-I-h-so much has happened-it's crazy to think about  the normal things like the dress and perfume-and I have none of my friends here and tell them that I kind of got engaged. I know it sounds crazy "

"Why? Because he is a vampire? And something like that is not to be?" Lia asked.

"No, it's not because he is a vampire. I don't even see him like that.  I am sort of supernatural, aren't I? And now I am going to be immortal! It's just that I have not imagined it like that. I wanted my mum and dad to be there when I kinda get married " Elena said.

"And the harsh reality is that it happened in a place so far away from home?!"

"This is an old home. I mean -you are family, aren't you? Technically."

"Thank you for considering me to be your family. You and Elijah were meant to be. The Sun conjuncts with the Moon - it is foreseen to have a stable and long lasting relationship, with great romance, but it has the effect of unification of purpose, emotions and will, instills loyalty, trust and faithfulness. Your Sun sign is the other person's Moon sign and the other person's Sun sign is your Moon sign. It works reciprocally. It said that each of you would have a profound effect upon the other. And I have seen it. The way you speak to one another, the way he looks at you, and the way you look at him. You may have felt that you are soul mates and that is because of your Sun and Moon aspects within you. It is said that together you can endure almost any hardship. Nature doesn't bestow that upon just anyone. You were chosen." Lia explained.

Hearing what Lia had said made Elena feel elated, inspirited, but also somewhat anxious, especially for the part about hardship, as she knew that things that they would be facing would not be a walk in the park, to put it mildly. She was very much aware of it all, but now she wanted to linger in the dream of the night before, accepting his proposal wholeheartedly.

"My friends would not understand how I feel-and probably say that it is all some kind of magic."

"It's called being in love," Lia said, "if you forget for a moment about the scrolls, you fell for the man he is."

"Yes, I did." Elena sighed dreamily thinking of all that drew her to him, "when I first met him- ah-that was so not good." Elena took a deep breath and told Lia of all that had happened between her and Elijah.

Having listened to the short story attentively, the witch then said "The need to save them and you was the cosmic inclination to find the kindred soul. You may look the same in your appearance, but I have told you that your souls are different."

"What I don't understand is, well, if he wasn't turned and stayed human- well, we would never have met?!"

"Now that is something we will have to leave with Mother nature, but I believe that you and him would have met."

"How? There would have been -or Elijah would be a doppelganger too?"

"Maybe. As I said Nature has it worked out."-Lia said-"shall we go and look at some dresses? Let's just be women indulging in some girly time out?!" Lia suggested.

Elena agreed smiling a little. Even if it was for a few hours, she needed the escape. As Lia said, she wanted to think of it as a ceremony and not as a ritual that would align their forces to  fight a very dangerous enemy.

********

Klaus pondered his next move. No matter how many times Elijah and he didn't see eye to eye and there have been plenty of occasions, and he knew that he had provoked in his brother's wish to kill him, he thought Elijah would be on his side. But now with all that he found out it seemed that there was not going back. It was very clear to him that Elijah used stalling tactics to go against him once again.

"Family," the Original sifted angrily, "what a joke!" He then turned to one of his minions and said to him to pass on the message to Julius.

"Let the games begin!" Klaus said, taking a sip of the Bourbon"let's see who will be the king of the world"

********

In Cluj, Elijah returned to the apartment sometime before Elena and Lia. He took out the rings he had made in the Viking custom. Ever since he became aware of what he customs of the viking society were and where his place as a man was, he thought of doing everything slightly  different. He thought of  his father and mother and their union of marriage, which their parents had arranged, love being insignificant. He had always wanted to do the opposite. He wanted it to mean so much more than just serving a purpose. He remembered once listening his father talking about negotiating a marriage at the Thing, which was a vikings Council meeting. There was talk of brautkauf or brideprice. It was a very elaborate economic exchange between the families. Now his thoughts diverted to the present and he felt that, although, it was nothing like the old days, Elena was forced into the union, for a particular purpose, and his heart wished that this dark cloud were not hanging over them, that they were just two people who fell in love and wanted to be together.

He now heard them come up the steps and he put the box with the rings in his suit pocket.

Not long after Lia and Elena walked in carrying loads of shopping bags in. She greeted him elated to see him, and he responded in the same manner. Her spirit was exactly like the sun that manages to lift up all the darkness.

"I overdid it," Elena said looking at the bags, "I don't know what happened. I just forgot, I guess, that it is just a ritual."

Excusing herself, Lia left them.

"You had a nice day out?!" Elijah said nearing the doppelganger. "You coloured your hair. I like it!" the Original brushed his fingers through Elena’s hair

"I did.Yes," Elena smiled, "I wanted to- I want it to be special."

"And not just another ritual, where you are forced to something that no one asked you whether you wanted it or not"

"Elijah...what is it?"

"I just wish...it all was different. That is all. I wanted to protect you from it all. It's a natural impulse of mine.  I know that you are so courageous and strong-willed."

"And that I will be fine."-her eyes assured him.-" I will always have you....and we are together in this?!"

"So we are." the Original now he took the box out of the pocket presenting it to her.

"What is this?" Elena said looking at him curiously.

"Open it." Elijah said dearly.

She opened  it, and there were two rings. 

"They are beautiful!" Elena said.

Elijah now took the ring out of the box and taking Elena’s hand now said, "I understand how people felt when they were about to go to war and leave their loved one behind, and when they wanted to vow to one another that they would be theirs forever- and this is maybe the least romantic place. I would like to pledge here and now my love for you"

She nodded uttering  a yes.

He took the ring an placed it on her finger saying "with this ring I bind myself to you always and forever."

She then did the same saying "Always and forever"

Whether it was in the darkest forest or just a tiny room, all that mattered was that this was their private moment they would always remember.

**

Lia hated to break their happy moment up, but she announced that it was time to go to the location where the ritual of conjunction was to be performed. Elena went to change quickly and they soon departed to the forest not far from the city. The witch led them to the point in the woods where a perfect circular clearing existed. It was known in the old days as the circle of the Immortals.

"Please stand here" the witch said to them showing where to go, then looked up in the sky to see how long it was for the Sun and the Moon to line up.

"Open your palms"- she said to them, as they did. Elijah could hear Elena's heart racing wildly but she assured him with her look that she was fine. Lia now cut into the palms murmuring words they didn't understand smearing them with the mixture of herbs she had bought earlier that day and now told them to hold their hands firmly together. A strange tingling in their palms as the witch continued chanting and then looked up at the skies once again and when she saw the sun and the moon were in complete alignment, she bound their the hands with a lace of different sacred flowers. Elena felt at one moment as if her heart had stopped and started again. She looked at him and all of a sudden she felt like she could hear his heartbeats. They were as apprehensive as hers. Nothing seemed to be different and yet all was different. Something was pulling them towards one another, like a force unknown so they moved closer. The body, the mind and the soul became one. Both could feel the mystical surge ran through them. Shuddering a little they looked at one another with love. As her lips touched his, the conjunction was sealed.

[theworkofxanderking]

The Hunter Diaries

Volume One

Warnings: I do not own the original content to “The Originals”, “The Vampire Diaries” or “Legacies” or any of the characters from the television shows.

15 plus, displays of Violence, Gore, Torture, M/M, F/M, F/F.

Dear Diary,

I returned to Mystic Falls to protect my sister Elena from a darkness she never understood but it was me who never truly understood it and now I stay while I try to work out if the Salvatore brothers are allies or enemies.

My name is Hunter Gilbert, and this is my story.

Episode 2: Love Thy Brother

“So, you mean to tell me you’re actually a good vampire and all this dumping my body in a grave was just a big misunderstanding.” Hunter scoffed while still covered in the dirt from his grave as he and Stefan remained within the woods of Mystic Falls.

“Is that so hard to believe?” Stefan laughed. “Surely in the short time you’ve been hunting in the family name you’ve come across at least one good hearted vampire.”

“Two years I’ve been doing this, and not once have I ever met a vampire who claimed to be on the good side.” Hunter replied. “Although it’s not exactly like I stopped to ask before killing them.”

“So, you’ve just been going around the world killing vampires and you think I’m the bad one.” Stefan snapped.

“It’s not like conversations with the undead were the top of my agenda I was taught to hunt not make nice with bloodsuckers.” Hunter snapped back.

“Bloodsuckers? Really I haven’t even had blood from a human in decades.” Stefan admitted in fury.

“Hold up you’ve been restraining yourself from human blood?” Hunter asked in shock by Stefan’s admission. “My father never told me of any vampire who didn’t drink from humans.”

“I’m guessing your father didn’t have much time to teach you that the world isn’t as black and white as vampires versus humans.” Stefan said with a sigh. “Hold up, if you’ve been doing this for two years you must’ve been fifteen when you started.”

“Yeah my parents weren’t too keen on Elena picking up the family mantle, so I got stuck doing the gig solo.” Hunter replied. “Sometimes I love it, the adventure, the adrenaline it’s out of this world and sometimes I just wish I was at the stupid boarding school.”

“I think I know why Elena didn’t follow in your footsteps.” Stefan revealed. “The question is can I trust you?”

“Can you trust me?” Hunter scoffed. “I’ve just clawed my way out of a grave you put me in.”

“Technically my brother put you there not me.” Stefan answered him. “I was kind enough to wait around for you.”

“Yeah well next time at least be waiting with water or something because choking on dirt really tastes like well choking on dirt.” Hunter demanded. “I’ll give you about as much trust as any hunter would trust a vampire.”

“Okay I suppose that’s the best I can ask for right now.” Stefan reluctantly replied. “The story begins with a girl named Katerina Petrova although when I first knew her, she went by Katherine Pierce.”

“You want to tell me why my twin sister is the doppelganger of a centuries old vampire known as Katherine Pierce?” Hunter asked his aunt Jenna as he marched into the kitchen of his family home where Jenna was stood cleaning dishes.

“Your parents were meant to tell you and then they had their accident,” Jenna revealed as she stopped washing the dishes and began drying her hands. “They were trying to protect you from the truth.”

“Which would be?” Hunter quizzed.

“Elena’s not your twin sister in fact you real birthdays are a couple of months apart,” Jenna admitted. “Your mother found her in a basket on the doorstep when you were a few months old they fell in love with her instantly and you two were so close even back then, so they decided to keep her.”

“So, she’s not even my sister.” Hunter replied in complete disbelief to what he had just heard.

“Just because she’s not your blood doesn’t mean she’s not your sister.” Jenna stated as she placed her hand on her nephew’s hand lovingly. “She’s still the girl you grew up with, she’s still the daughter your parents raised.”

“What has Katherine Pierce got to do with all this?” Hunter asked as he removed his hand from Jenna’s making it clear he was far from amused with his family’s lies. “Why has she got a centuries old evil twin? Stefan said as much as he knew which except for the fact she’s not in some tomb under an old church is frankly not much. He doesn’t seem to know how the two are so connected but he reckons is can’t be good.”

“Since when did you start making friends with targets?” Jenna quizzed.

“No, you don’t get to ask me questions right now!” Hunter snapped.

“Your parents never knew the connection at first, but it became clear she was Katherine’s doppelganger I don’t understand it any more than they did, but we knew to not flaunt it by making her join the family’s hunting habits.” Jenna reluctantly admitted. “There’s a lot of rumors about doppelgangers and the first vampires but as far as I know that’s all they are.”

“Did nobody think why I was out there in the big bad world meeting Katherine may have thrown me off guard?” Hunter asked.

“We thought she was trapped in that tomb until now.” Jenna replied. “I really am sorry I’ve kept this from you for so long, but we were only trying to protect her.”

“Funny,” Hunter responded as his voice began to crack. “I’ve lost count on the amount of times I’ve died and came back thanks to the Gilbert ring and nobody ever seemed to want to protect me.”

“Hunting is a choice you don’t have to be a hunter, your mum retired, I retired.” Jenna said in a bid to reassure her nephew.

“I’m late for school I best get going.” Hunter replied with tears in his eyes.

“So your telling me Elena Gilbert’s not so twin brother is a hunter who tried to kill you last night and probably would have if I didn’t intervene and you thought it was a great idea to inform him about Katherine Pierce.” Damon snapped at Stefan as he sat on the couch in the living room area of the Salvatore home while drinking a glass of whisky as his younger brother stood above him.

“You wouldn’t understand my reasoning because you only see enemies whereas I see potential allies.” Stefan explained himself.

“He tried you kill you Stefan.” Damon replied as he finished his glass of whisky.

“Yeah and you actually killed him.” Stefan retorted as Damon stood up.

“Clearly not good enough,” Damon declared. “By the way what is the deal with that?”

“I’d rather not tell you too much about that considering I don’t trust you not to use it to kill Elena’s brother more permanently.” Stefan admitted to him.

“Oh, please Stefan playing the hero must get really old,” Damon scoffed. “He’s a hunter he hunts vampires, we are vampires the way I see it we either wind up dead or he does, and I know which option I prefer.”

“I don’t believe that I believe we can trust him.” Stefan replied causing Damon to scoff once more. “Besides if anyone is going to find the connection between Elena and Katherine it would be her handy family of hunters.”

“Wait are you telling me this kid hunter actually knows something about them being connected?” Damon asked his younger brother.

“Not that I can tell no, but I have a feeling he’s going to be essential in helping us find out.” Stefan answered his older brother.

“I still say we kill him I mean one less hunter equals one less problem.” Damon replied with a sinister smirk that made Stefan uneasy.

Hunter walked up to the front entrance of Mystic Falls High to find Tyler stood there anxiously waiting for what looked like he was waiting for him. They had agreed to be friends after all but dealing with complicated entanglements was far from what he was ready for today especially after all the news he had just learned.

“Hey, I was beginning to think you were going to be late for your second day back.” Tyler greeted him. “Mind you back in the day that tended to be our thing.”

“We used to have a lot of things before you started having them with Vicki Donovan.” Hunter snapped, instantly regretting his words. “I’m sorry you didn’t deserve that.”

“What happened to us starting afresh?” Tyler asked him as he realised a new start wasn’t on the cards for them. “I’m sorry for what went down Hunter I really am but that was two freaking years ago neither of us are even the same people we were back then.”

“I know,” Hunter said with a reluctant sigh. “I’ve just had a really long morning the kind of long morning I’ve not had in a while and I could really do with bitching to my mother about it but she’s not here anymore.”

“I’m sorry it’s bound to be hard being back here after everything,” Tyler said while placing his hand on Hunter’s shoulder in a bid to comfort him. “You know whenever you need someone to talk to, I’m always here for you.”

“Thanks Tyler,” Hunter responded with a soft smile before the two walked into the high school “I just kind of hoped I’d never have to be back here.”

Hunter and Tyler instantly clocked eyes with Bonnie and Elena who were stood side by side in the corridors right in front of their lockers, Bonnie signalling them both to walk over to them.

“It’s good to see you two have rekindled the bromance,” Elena said with a smile. “I guess you crashed at Tyler’s after the party, next time drop us a text I was pretty worried.”

“Actually...” Hunter began to say.

“His phone crashed not long after we arrived back at mine and we didn’t think to find a charger until morning.” Tyler lied without hesitation causing Hunter to smile over his friend having his back.

“Well aunt Jenna was up all night worrying.” Elena replied to her brother Hunter. “So next time just remember to notify one of us but I’m glad you’re starting to readjust to life back in Mystic Falls.

“Sure thing,” Hunter responded while looking at the sister he had just learned wasn’t his blood.

“Are you okay Hunter?” Elena asked him.

“Yeah I’m fine,” Hunter answered before turning to look at Bonnie. “So, how was your grams last night I’ve been meaning to visit Mrs Bennett.”

“Now that’s a story we’re going to need to save for lunch.” Bonnie responded as her and Elena laughed to themselves.

Hunter had spent all day at school trying to play the part of a normal teenager once again, the second day in a row now and the role itself he found harder to play by the minute before deciding to skip school halfway through the day in an attempt to do anything other than think.

Upon sneaking out the front door and walking through the school campus he was stunned to find Damon stood within the car park leaning against his blue 1969 Chevy Camaro Convertible and decided to walk over to the vampire who had killed him the night willing for anything to distract him from the confusion he was feeling over his family following Elena’s parental revelations.

“Hunting vampires by night and attending high school during the day you know I’m sure there’s a TV show about that only with more women power.” Damon said to him. “Also, that girl was a lot more impressive than you.”

“I didn’t realize impressing you was part of my job.” Hunter replied. “Here’s me thinking hunting and killing you were the only things on my job description.”

“Last time I checked I did the hunting and you did the dying.” Damon responded with a devilish smirk.

“Clearly I’m a lot better at killing than you because I’m still very much alive.” Hunter stated.

“Yes, you are,” Damon said as he walked towards Hunter. “The question however is how are you alive?”

“Buy me a drink and I’ll tell you all about it.” Hunter revealed.

“Underage drinking, skipping school and several homicides little Gilbert you have been busy.” Damon replied with his signature sense of sarcasm. “I guess we have a deal.”

Hunter sat in the passenger seat in Damon’s car while Damon drove down the roads on the outskirts of Mystic Falls a journey which seemed to last forever which in reality was probably only an hour at max as the two remained silent for that entire time until Hunter decided to break the silence.

“I don’t normally jump into cars with my targets, but it’s been a strange couple of days and routine has truly went out the window.” Hunter admitted as Damon kept his eyes on the road.

“My brother seems to believe that you’re more capable than us to finding out the truth behind Elena and Katherine’s unexplained connection.” Damon replied. “I for one think he’s laying far too much hope on a hunter whose only been in the job for two years I mean your biggest target so far has probably been Bambi’s mum.”

“Seven vampires in two years although I’ll admit none of them were nearly as old as you.” Hunter revealed. “As for Elena the only information I’ve learned so far is she’s not actually my sister and my guess the truth behind this Katherine connection lies within her real parentage.”

“That’s it,” Damon snapped as he slammed down on his breaks causing the car to come to a crashing stop. “I figured that one out during day one which means Stefan was wrong about you and it’s time for that drink.”

Damon pulled Hunter in towards him displaying his vamp face in the process before plunging his fangs into Hunter’s neck before Hunter even had a chance to react Damon pulled back coughing up the blood, he had just taken from the Gilbert man.

“Your blood,” Damon said as he continued to cough. “Your blood tastes like death.”

Hunter laughed at the vicious vampire only serving to make Damon more furious as he unbuckled Hunter’s seat belt before throwing him with force through the windscreen of his car causing Hunter’s body to bounce off the bonnet before slamming into the cold hard road.

“Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to play with your food.” Hunter replied smugly as he rose back onto his feet.

Damon wasted no time in restarting his car and going full speed towards Hunter running him over in the process Hunter’s body once again slamming onto the ground as Damon’s car drove over him in which Damon decided to stop then reverse his car to go over Hunter’s body once more continuing to reverse until Hunter’s lifeless broken, bloody and bruised body lay on the road in front of him causing Damon to smile at his victory.

As the hours passed day quickly turned into night and Damon remained in his car watching over Hunter’s lifeless body laying on the ground waiting for him to return to the land of the living intrigued as to how the process worked but not quite as intrigued as to why his blood tasted so bitter in his mouth.

He seen Stefan vamp speed from further down the road and over to Hunter’s lifeless body forcing himself to get out the car to talk with his younger brother who was clearly far from impressed.

“I told you I had it handled,” Stefan shouted after vamp speeding over to Damon and slamming his brother’s body against the car. “I swear to god if you have killed Elena’s brother, I will kill you myself.”

“Stefan I’m merely just doing some of my own detective work.” Damon explained as he pushed his brother off him. “Besides with the bunny blood you keep ingesting we both know you’re not able to take me brother.”

“Are all vampires this bloody broody?” Hunter asked while struggling for breath after rising to his feet, the life clearly having returned to his body.

“Are you okay?” Stefan asked after vamp speeding over to Hunter.

“Let’s just say I’ve died a lot more than twice over the last two days.” Hunter admitted to Stefan. “Although it never gets any less painful.”

“Just how many times have you died?” Damon questioned the Gilbert boy after vamp speeding over to stand beside him and Stefan. “Something tells me that’s why your blood tastes so awful.”

“Your pretty arrogant for a vampire who has tried to end me twice and failed twice.” Hunter snapped at him.

“I’ve tried and succeeded twice not my fault you have some witchy work around.” Damon snapped back.

“Can we leave the fighting until after we all find out why Elena is connected to Katherine?” Stefan asked them both. “After all we do all care about her.”

“I’d rather die than trust this son of a bitch!” Hunter declared while pointing at Damon.

“Well you have died twice already.” Damon replied smugly.

“Let’s see how well you do one on one without any sucker punch moves.” Hunter warned the older Salvatore brother.

“See now your talking.” Damon responded before Stefan grabbed a hold of his brother’s head and snapped his neck forcing Damon’s lifeless body to hit the ground.

“Okay I’m going to say it I’m beginning to like you Stefan Salvatore.” Hunter admitted while looking down at an unconscious Damon.

“Let’s go somewhere and talk.” Stefan said with a sigh making it clear he wasn’t happy mediating between Elena’s brother and his own brother.

“So, you mean to tell me that Damon Salvatore the man who has now killed me twice actually served time as a soldier in a war protecting our country?” Hunter asked while eating French fries at a booth in Mystic Grill, Stefan sat opposite him smiling away.

“He isn’t all evil there is a human deep down inside there I mean how else would he care so much for Elena or why wouldn’t he have killed me by now?” Stefan stated. “I mean I’ve been harassing him for well over a century and a half.”

“This whole vampire having humanity is new to me and to be honest I’m yet to see any proof Damon has any.” Hunter replied before stopping eating his fries. “Although you’re proving yourself something of an ally and you’re the only person in my life that’s not lying to me or I’m having to lie to.”

“You can’t blame your aunt Jenna too much as she was doing was respecting your parents’ wishes and all they were doing was protecting your sister.” Stefan explained.

“You really do love her, don’t you?” Hunter asked.

“Yes, I do.” Stefan admitted.

“And Damon?” Hunter continued.

“He loves her too more so since he learned his former love of his life fooled him into thinking she was trapped in some tomb along with several other vampires.” Stefan revealed.

“Katherine.” Hunter sighed before the two of them noticed Elena and Bonnie walk into the Mystic Grill.

The two girls quickly made their way over to Stefan and Hunter with Elena kissing Stefan on the lips before sitting down next to him and Bonnie pinching a fry from Hunter’s plate before sitting down next to him.

“Are you guys like friends now?” Elena asked. “I’m totally down with my brother and boyfriend being best friends but please less of the ditching school.”

“Stefan’s just been helping me readjust to life in Mystic Falls.” Hunter explained to his sister and her best friend. “I’m beginning to think coming back was the right move after all.”

“You can’t believe how happy I am to here that.” Elena replied with a sincere smile as she reached over the tabled and held her brother’s hand. “We should celebrate with cake.”

“Oh, I second that notion.” Bonnie laughed.

“I could kill for some chocolate cake right now,” Hunter smirked while looking over at Stefan who was smiling at him the two of them in unison over their secret lives that neither Elena nor Bonnie knew of…for now!

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The Things We Do - Part 6

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A/N: This is the first chapter in mixed POVs, I’ve tried my best. I’ve released two       chapters today, so don’t forget to read part 5 first.                English is not my first language      → I do not own anything of the TVD - Universe and I’m not affiliated or                   associated with the writers etc. this is only a headcanon.

Pairing: Kalijah ( Katherine / Elijah )

Setting: post TVD 4x23, no cured Katherine.

TW: none

Word Count: 4.480

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When he was in his car again, his hands gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles went white. It was nagging at him that he was so blinded, that he seemed to have been played by everyone. By Elena, by Niklaus. Liars and betrayal all around him. Moreover, he pushed the woman away who actually had some feelings for him, who didn’t use him. Her feelings were real, she had loved him. Had. She probably didn’t hold any affection for him now. She feared him, hated him - he couldn’t blame her.

Her trust was vulnerable, fragile. She didn’t trust someone easily but she had trusted him. He wouldn’t say she trusted him with her life - Katerina wouldn’t lay her life in others hand - but she had trusted him with her future. Their future. Little did she know he couldn’t have a future with her, wasn’t allowed to have a future with her, not as long as Niklaus depended on him. Nevertheless he should have never parted from her like this, he should have never doubted her feelings, her intentions, in the first place.

He put his black sportscar in reverse, driving away from the place where she stayed. Yet he didn’t leave town - he planned on staying for a bit.

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As soon as Elijah had left, she locked her front door and closed all windows. Her tention, her changed of mood, being frightened, terrified, angry and sad demanded it’s price. She felt like she couldn’t breath, her mind racing with thousand thoughts, her hands shaking. Being a vampire, all the feelings were heightened and for someone like her, who tried to control her feelings, the last minutes were simply too much.

She felt her paranoia coming up again - she didn’t feel safe anymore, she felt like running, leaving everything behind. She wanted to disappear, to vanish. The brunette closed her eyes, trying to take a deep breath. She had to calm down, she would go crazy if she let her paranoia and anxiety control her. No, she couldn’t allow that. She was Katherine Pierce, a survivor. And no one, not even Elijah Mikaelson, could change that or was allowed to have that much control over her.

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He had arrived at a nice, little boardinghouse. It wasn’t really his style, he prefered hotels with receptions and actual suites. He prefered having a minibar in his room, filled with expensive alcohol. However, this housing was rather simple but get its job done. He took of his jacket, before he dialed Rebekah’s number. He waited until she picked up her phone, a hand in his pocket while he watched out the window, watching the street underneath his window.

He just wanted to let his sister know that he wouldn’t make it to dinner, that he had to take care of some buisness which could take a few days. Rebekah didn’t know why he had left in the first place, but he didn’t want to worry her with his disappearance. Sure, he could have talked to Niklaus, but he didn’t wish to speak to his brother right now, not after what he had learned. He always thought that his half-brother cared for his siblings, even though he had is own twisted way in showing it. Nevertheless Niklaus hid the details of Kol’s death and therefore denyied him to avenge his little brother.

That knowledge bothered him, but it couldn’t distract him from thinking about Katerina. It couldn’t distract him from thinking about her words, how hurt she looked. It couldn’t stop him from thinking about the mistake he made.

Worse still, he hadn’t even known about it. All those weeks he had been in New Orleans, taking care of family buisness, the witches and Marcellus he had just stopped thinking about her. He hadn’t felt like himself after he left Katerina, though. It was like a part of him went missing when he moved to New Orleans. But he had ignored the emptiness of his heart, had ignored the feeling of being lost.

Sometimes, when he couldn’t sleep and spend the better half of the night on his balcony, watching over the landscape whilst drinking a glass of whiskey he felt a sting, felt the loneliness which had taken over him. But he had never allowed himself to let his mind drifting off, he hadn’t allowed himself to think about her.

He had pushed every memory of her aside and he had succeeded in doing so. He hadn’t ask himself on what she might been doing or how she coped with it. He had been so ignorant. If only he had allowed himself to care, he could have prevented her from thinking so low of herself.

His hand run across his face, right before he turned away from the window. He just couldn’t stop thinking about her, couldn’t forget the hurt in her face. It hautend him.

Still, he had to stop. He had to keep a cool head if he wanted to make things right.

He took a shower and in the absence of a new suit he had to wear the same suit again. He would help himself to new clothing later.

Being not really comfortable in staying in that small room, he chose to take a walk. His mind wandered off to Katerina, like so many times in the last few hours. It was almost like she had invated his mind.

Before he knew, he found himself in the street where she lived, able to see the place where she was staying. And in that exact moment he saw the front door open, saw her stepping out. She was making a call and locked quite hectic, nevertheless he couldn’t help but smile whilst watching her.

However, his smile dropped when he saw a taxi halting right in front of her. The driver got out and Katerina leaded him inside, just for him to return with bags a few moments later. Instantly he knew she was about to run, about to disappear. He hadn’t planned on confronting her so soon after she requested that she didn’t wanting to see him anymore but if he didn’t take his chance now, she would be gone. He’d lose her all over again.

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She made the decision of leaving just half an hour after Elijah had left. She wasn’t safe anymore, not with him knowing where he could find her. Although she still wondered how he was even able to find her. She was cloaked and last time she checked - which was just a few hours before he had appeared - the spell was still on. There was no way that he let a witch do a locator spell, so he must have found her in another way.

She kept thinking about how he managed to do so, she kept thinking for an hour. Nobody knew where she went after that ... incident in Mystic Falls. She even compelled every neighbor into forgetting that they have ever seen her. There was no way he could have found out.

Nevertheless he did. And he will probably do it again if she didn’t find out what had lead him to her. It took another thirty minutes until her eye caught her smartphone. To be honest she hadn’t expected him to be technically skilled. He didn’t seemed like someone who would do smartphone tracking. Apparently he was too keen or desperate to find her, to stop her from using the cure on Klaus or his family. Too bad she hadn’t had the cure, so he had to admit he made a mistake by accusing her of treachery.

It was only seconds after her discovery that she completly destroyed her phone, after she compelled someone to get her a new prepaid mobile. Only then she packed all of her things, booking a flight to Australia and hopefully far, far away from anyone here.

30 minutes later she was ready to go, she just had to wait for her taxi which would bring her to the airport.

It was relieving to know that she’d be gone, be far away from Mystic Falls, Klaus and Elijah. She actually looked forward of visiting Australia, she hadn’t been really there until now. They say the beaches are beautiful and Sydney is a great place to live.

She heard him appearing before she heard his voice, heard the sound the air made when someone was moving too fast.

“You’re leaving?”

she stiffened, her jaws tightened. She thought about not turning around, just to ignore him. But she knew he wouldn’t tolerate ignorance anyway.

“I don't see how that's any of your concern. If anything, what are you doing here? I thought you’d be gentleman enough to respect my wish of not wanting to see you”

she tried to speak calmly, even though she felt the anger rise, along with fear. She didn’t trust him, because even though he always looked or acted controlled, he had a fierce temper. He was dangerous, no matter how flawless his appearance was.

Elijah pressed his lips together, his hands gliding into his pockets. He could see she wasn’t in the mood to talk, at least not with him. Yet he couldn’t let her just leave. He had to talk to her.

“My apologies. I just need a moment of your time. I want to talk with you, Kater- Katherine”

he hated how it felt to adress her as ‘Katherine’ when speaking to her. He didn’t like it. He didn’t like the sound of it. But all he could at least do was to respect her wish regarding her name.

She noticed that he remembered her wish, or rather her demand, to call her Katherine. He really tried hard, but that didn’t changed the fact she didn’t want to talk with him.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time. Goodbye, Elijah”

she went past him, wanting to walk out on him, wanting to get away from him. She didn’t get too far as he grabbed her arm, softly but decisive, preventing her from leaving.

She didn’t like the touch of his hand, being the first time he actually touched her since he left her to storm off to New Orleans. She didn’t like it because it reminded her of good times, it reminded her of how good his hugs felt. Her arm felt like burning because of his touch, even though it was covered by her leather jacket.

“I’m asking you to hear me out. To give me a few minutes. I -”

he paused, because he didn’t really want to speak the next words, he didn’t want to think about losing her again.

“I give you my word I let you be then, I won’t come looking for you again if you wish so”

She wanted to burst out laughing, her cold stare met his warm one.

“You give me your word? Your word is worthless, Elijah. I’ve learnt that the hard way”

Perhaps she wanted to hit him, perhaps she even suceeded in doing so. There was something in his eyes, something like despair. She could see that it was important to him, that he really wanted to speak with her. And she would love nothing more than denying his request, just like he had denied her.

Elijah could tell that he really had lost her trust, that she held his word for worthless. He deserved it, though. He didn’t keep his word to her, why should she believe he would do now? He sightend, letting go of her arm.

“Then what can I do to get a few minutes of your time? If my word is worthless -which it isn’t-, what can I offer?” he asked with a serious tone.

She snorted, her eyes fixing something behind him as she crossed her arms in front of her chest.

“I don’t know? Give me my freedom? You know, the one you trade in for pleasing your sister’s delusional wishes. Oh, or give me my lifetime back that I have wasted on you, believing you would care for me! But you can’t make that happen, can you? I guess that means you don’t get one freakin’ minute of my time”

He wasn’t in the mood for playing her little games, so he decided on switching his tactic. He had accepted that he wouldn’t get what he wanted if he just appealed on her heart. She is too stubborn to give in. But he could be stubborn as well.

“You do realize that if I wouldn’t care for you, I wouldn’t try to make things right? If I wouldn’t care, I wouldn’t ask for your time, I’d make you hear me out. And yet here I stand, asking you nicely for a little chat, promising you I’ll leave you alone after you have listened to me. It’s an offer I don’t make to everyone.”

She had to admit that he got a point. He mostly make people do what he wanted, compelling them or forcing them otherwise. He could easily do that to her too. And yet he didn’t, perhaps it was indeed something important. She hated it, but her curiousity grew.

“Fine”

her gaze trailed away from him again, taking a deep breath.

“I’ll listen. Just keep it short and then leave.”

He implied going inside and she followed, the door standing still open. She made the taxi driver wait, because hopefully it wouldn’t take long.

She didn’t trust him, so she leaned against the door frame, keeping her distance. Ready to run if necessary.

“So tell me, what is so important that you forgot your gentleman-manners and disrespected a girl’s simply wish of not wanting to see you again?”

she asked and could hold back the resentment in her voice. It was strange how her mood had changed compared to her first meeting with him. She didn’t believed anymore that he wanted to kill her. If he really wanted to do that, he had already done it. She was less frightened, however, still mad at him.

Her gaze followed him as he was strolling around before he halted, but he didn’t looked at her. Like he tried to avoid her even though he was the one who was seeking this talk.

“I was wrong”

those three simple words slipped his lips, yet it was hard to admit it. He was hardly wrong in anything nor would he admit it to anyone. But he was wrong about her and he owned it to her to let her know.

“I should have heared you out instead of assuming things. I should have given you the chance to explain yourself. But most important, I shouldn’t have doubted your feelings. And for that, I truely beg your pardon.”

his eyes looked into hers, catching her entirely even though they were six meters apart.

She wanted to doubt his apology, she wanted to doubt that he meant it but she knew him better than this. He wasn’t a liar. Perhaps he wouldn’t tell everything -even though that would be a lie as well, according to him- but he would mean every word her says.

“I’m thinking about it”

her answer probably wasn’t what he had hoped for, but he had to do more than just to apologize to earn her forgiveness.

He knew that a simple apology wouldn’t make up for what he had done to her, but it was the first step to make. He just wanted to let her know that he had been wrong. Katerina should never think of herself as some kind of monster who deserved every bad what had happened to her.

“Nevertheless it still makes me wonder why you’ve changed your mind. You don’t do that.”

She still looked into his eyes, believing she could see some kind of- but before she could identify what it was, he looked away.

He had looked away and focused his gaze upon her packed bags, the ones which weren’t yet in the car waiting for her.

How should he explain to her what he had done? How he hadn’t known better? How he chose to believe a lie, how he chose to lie to himself? What he did wasn’t something which he considered as ‘noble’. No, it was simply false. Against his ethics.

“I guess I was afraid and that’s why I let the seed of mistrust grow. You have to understand, I don’t find myself caring about someone outside of my family. I’m careful with feelings.”

He stepped closer to her, his hand grabbing her hand softly, locking his fingers with hers. He watched her carefully, but she seemed to be consent with his touch.

“However, I can’t help myself but to care for you. I believe I share a connection with you, I even go so far as saying I’m in love with you since the minute I got to spend more time with you”

Actually, he felt affection for her the moment he laid eyes on her, which grew deeper the more he got to know her. He still remembered their talks, their time in the gardens. Her laughter and her free spirit.

She watched their hands, listenend to his words. It was heartwarming - if it would be true.

“Then tell me Elijah, why did you choose Elena over me? Why doubt me in the first place? Why were you afraid?”

his words didn’t make sense, she just couldn’t get his reasons. She withdrew her hand and crossed her arms in front of her chest.

He took a deep breath. He wasn’t used to confess mistakes or feelings. He wasn’t used of having to explain himself. He has never done that. But he had to do it if he wanted to earn her forgiveness.

“I’ve always admired Elena’s compassion, the way she put her loved ones over herself, her willingness to put herself in harm's way to protect her family and friends. Traits I wish to see in my own family, too. I saw a lot of the qualities I value in people in her. One could say we’ve shared a friendship and I felt like I could trust her. I haven’t seen a reason why she would lie to me. Unfortunately, vampirism seemed to change her. I wouldn’t have listenend to her if I had known about her treacherous involvment in Kol’s death”

Katherine pressed her lips together when hearing his explaination. He cared for her stupid doppelgänger and he even admits it. Good, sweet little Elena for the win. Was he serious?

“Sounds like you haven’t just admired Elena if you thought so high of her”

To her, it actually sounded like he fell for Elena, like he had a soft spot for her. She knew that Elena and the Salvatores have daggered him, which was the cause she broke free from his compulsion in the first place. She can’t imagine that he let them dagger him, so it was betrayal. He would kill for that. And yet he didn’t. It was obvious he couldn’t kill Elena as she was needed back then, but he could have killed the Salvatores and the only reason he didn’t was probably because of Elena.

She wasn’t around when this had happened, being forced to stay in the tomb and later being Klaus’s prisoner. And right after that she left town. However, she had heard of a few things. She always liked to stay informed. Because of that she knew that Elena betrayed him again, wanting to kill his entire family with the help of his mother.

So many betrayals on the part of Elena and yet she was still alive, more so, he had chosen to believe her.

“Why me then? If you admire Elena so much, why didn’t you go for her? She looks like me but has the traits you value. She was almost like me when I were still human. It’s only fitting you would choose her instead of me. Although you kinda did that already”

It’s always Elena, it’s always about Elena. Elena, Elena, Elena. She couldn’t hear it anymore and he was no better than the others.

He was surprised by her words as he hadn’t expected them. She had a point though, because he might had really a soft spot for Elena, because she reminded him too much of Katerina. Nevertheless he never intended to replace Katerina with Elena. Alone the imagination was absurd.

“I suppose you’re suggesting I would replace you with Elena? I assure you that wouldn’t have happened. Elena might hold traits I value in people, but she doesn’t possessed the traits I look for in a partner. You, however, are a fighter. Someone who’ll always stand up if you’re down. You think things through, you’re smart, independend. But most importantly, you’re full of life.”

He made a pause, his feelings were almost capable of overwhelming him.

“When I met you many lifetimes ago, you were able to make me feel something for the first time in my already very long life. You might be another person today but that doesn’t change the effect you have on me. You still make me feel alive”

He hadn’t expected that, he didn’t believed that love exists until he had met her. Ever since he became a vampire, he ceased to believe in love. There was no place for love. He wouldn’t let himself care about anyone but his family. When he met her, however, it changed.

He swallowed and closed his eyes for a moment. He’s going to say something he never imagined he would admit. Love is a vampire's greatest weakness. His feelings for her were too strong, it even gets to the point where it frightened him.

“The only reason I believed Elena... the only reason I made that mistake was because I’ve been afraid. I don’t fall in love, I’m afraid of what love can do. How the person I love can become my greatest weakness. And I was afraid that I can’t control my feelings for you any longer.”

He looked her in the eyes all the time whilst he spoke, his words revealing much more than he ever thought.

“But that is more on me. However, after I’ve spoken to Elena and hearing that you use me like every man before, it was like all my fears came true. That you wouldn’t return my feelings or didn’t want my love once after you didn’t depend on me anymore. I was afraid that I’ve been so blinded by love, that you’ll use that particular weakness of mine to get what you want and I wouldn’t even notice it.”

Katherine was surprised by his confession. More so, she believed him. He always seemed so confident in what he does, she never thought he would struggle that much with having feelings. After all, he loved his family more than anything. However, it sounded like he was afraid of having romantic feelings.

She saw it in the way his eyes sparkled, how emotional he was. She knew him well enough to know that he told the absolute truth. It was strange because she felt herself gravitading towards him because of his confessions. Like all the anger, frustration and any dislike she held against him faded away. And he wasn’t even finished yet.

“I shouldn’t have listenend to Elena because even though I do not approve of your actions regarding Jeremy Gilbert, I shouldn’t have assummed that you were playing and using me, that you didn’t have any feelings for me. A part of me always knew that you weren’t lying but I just ignored it and believed the lie I told myself that you’ve never cared for me. I shouldn't have done that. Because no matter what, no matter if you’re Katerina, Katherine or both, I can’t and shouldn’t deny that I love you.”

She couldn’t help herself but smile for a moment. Hearing that he loved her, not only Katerina, meant much. However it wasn’t enough. His words didn’t explain why he had left her, why he had betrayed her.

“If you really love me, if you can’t deny that you love me, why haven’t you chosen me? Why haven’t you kept your word?”

Elijah sighed, because he had to admit his failure. He had to admit that he didn’t only make a mistake, but also failed her.

“Despite everything which had happened, I’ve talked to Niklaus. I’ve asked him to spare you and trade in the last white oak stake for your freedom. He refused. To be more precise, he promised me that he would continue to chase you. I beg your pardon for failing you - again”

Even though he had looked at her until now, he couldn’t look at her anymore. He had failed her, perhaps he even made it worse.

Katherine couldn’t believe what she has heard. She hadn’t expected that Elijah tried to make a deal with Klaus after all. It was just another prove that he indeed cared for her.

She stepped closer to him, her hand touching his cheek. She waited until he looked at her again, her eyes locking into his.

“You haven’t left because I didn’t matter to you, have you? You’ve left me to protect me”

When he nodded, she sighed.

“You should have talked to me, Elijah. You should have told me”

It would have changed a lot if she had known that he didn’t left her because he didn’t cared for her anymore, but instead left her because Klaus had threatend him.

He laid his hand over her hand which laid on his cheek, pulling it softly away and placing a kiss on the back of her hand.

“I only hope you can forgive me for all of my recent mistakes one day, Katherine.”

he still sounded regretful and it touched her because he meant what he said.

“Just give me some time, Elijah. I’m thankful you were honest with me, but I need time.”

He nodded understandingly, letting her hand go. He reached into his jacket to get a piece of paper and a pen before writing his phone number down, believing she had deleted his.

“If you are ready to forgive me, please let me know.”

with that, he handed her the piece of paper and she took it, letting it slide into her pocket.

He smiled weakly, taking that as a good sign.

“I’ll go now, as I’ve promised. Thanks for hearing me out and... safe travels”

he said with a look on her packed bags which still waited for being placed into the taxi.

Without another word, he left, resisting to kiss her goodbye - even if he just wanted to kiss her forehead. He guessed he has to earn that and he will wait until she’ll allow him back into her life.

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A/N: if you like it, hit the ♥ - or come into my askbox, i’d love to hear your opinion. Please do not hate on my decisions or characters as this is no anti- or hate-blog. However, you can leave constructive criticism.

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Could you please make a comparison between how Stefan treats Caroline, and how Klaus treats her? Or a comparison between the ships? (If you have time) Thanks!

This has taken me a couple of days to answer, I apologise! I was super busy with work, and I wanted to get my thoughts properly together.

Okay, so for me, the main difference between Steroline and Klaroline, is that Klaus has always put Caroline first. Always. And you can’t tell me he hasn’t. Klaus was never in love with Elena, he never put Elena before her, and he never put his family before her either. 

The best example I’d use for this is in 4x02, when Klaus CHOSE to save Caroline over Rebekah. And you know what the difference is with Stefan? Is that he’d choose Elena 1000 times over. The only reason he isn’t is because Elena is in love with Damon. And he’d choose Damon over her. He already has. He even left town, without Caroline, when she refused to travel with him, AND WENT WITH HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND. Like, come on. If it came between Elena and Caroline, you bet your ass that Stefan would choose Elena. And that’s where Caroline’s insecurities stem from. The fact that she was never a “first choice” for anyone, and Klaus gave her that. Up until the whole Hayley thing, that was so random and out of place, btw, he never once glanced at any other female on the show.

Klaus has ALWAYS understood that Caroline is but a teenager (probably in her 20s now, whatever), that she is very, very young. She’s barely been out of Mystic Falls, and she is still very innocent, despite being a vampire. Especially in regards to Klaus, who has seen the world several times over, and even in regards to Stefan. Klaus always gave her space, and always wanted Caroline to decide what she wanted, for her to make the move, and he never once pressured her into anything she didn’t want. The line “In a year, or even in a century, you’ll show up at my door and let me show you what the world has to offer” comes to my mind, and I honestly think that sums up their relationship pretty brilliantly. 

However, to me it seems that Stefan never really understood that, and after she professed her feelings, it seemed as though he wanted her to be ready for him. There and then. No questions asked.

In my opinion, although Caroline was the one to say she had feelings for Stefan first, he was always the one that came across as pushy. In the season 6 finale and the episodes leading up to it, he wanted her. Then and there. No questions asked. Even though she’d just lost her mother, just had her humanity returned to her, and obviously needed time to herself. He tells her “I forgive you”, as though he as nothing to apologise for, too. Because he’d done just as worse things to Caroline, with his switch off, as she did to him. And then in the finale, when he tells her he’ll wait for her (”When you’re ready for me, I’ll be ready for you”), to me that line is just ridiculous, because Caroline had been waiting for him, pretty much all season (or seasons, since apparently she’s always been in love with him). Maybe it wasn’t intentional, but that came across as pretty pushy to me, the fact that he was being “forced” to wait for her, because she wanted time to herself.

Also, he wanted Caroline to be prepared to leave town with him, when he knew that she’d given birth to those twins. And that she’s obviously going to care for them. Even though, they technically weren’t hers, biologically (even though she carried them), he always said “They’re not hers”. Even to Klaus himself. And to me, that’s incredibly insensitive. She carried them, they’re hers. She’s allowed to want them, to care for them, since that option was taken away from her after becoming a vampire, and even Alaric had told her that they were pretty hers. Because they are. You carry a child for 9 months or whatever, and you’re going to feel SOMETHING for them. It’s not gonna be easy to give that up, and I pride women who can.

Klaus is the first one to correct Stefan when it comes to this, I think, "She carried two lives in her womb. She gave birth to them. And now she plans to turn those cooing little faces over to Alaric without so much as a hiccup of hesitation. You're right. That does sound like the Caroline I remember." To me, that not only shows that Klaus obviously knows Caroline better, despite the years that Stefan has spent with her, but that he also wants what is best for her. Klaus can obviously understand what emotional distress giving up those kids would do to her, as it would any women, and he wouldn’t expect her to do so. But, Stefan would. All because, he, all of sudden, wants to get out of Mystic Falls. When he clearly wanted to stay all those years. And you know who it was for? Elena, not Caroline. Again, because he puts himself and the people he loves first. And I don’t think he wants to include Caroline. At all. But Klaus would.

I could compare this ship forever, but I think that’s the basis of the difference between Klaus and Stefan and the way they treat Caroline. Honestly, I think it all comes down to the fact that Klaus puts Caroline first. And he doesn’t even claim to love her, but Stefan does. Not yet anyway. He likes her, a lot, and it’s clear to see that Klaus cares a whole lot for Caroline. I don’t think Klaus is one to say “love” lightly, and I believe it would take him at least a good decade(s) with Caroline to even contemplate “loving” her.

Another point, is that for her own wedding (which she’s been planning since she was a little girl, we all know) is that Caroline barely has any control over that. She’s wearing Katherine’s necklace, and they are using Steferine’s song. Like, come on? I genuinely believe that it is Stefan’s way of replacing Elena and Katherine in his life. Like, putting himself in Elena’s path and dating her, was his first shot at replacing Katherine. You can’t tell me it isn’t, because why would you feel the need to date someone who looks EXACTLY like the girl you once loved? And now that’s fizzled out, I think Caroline is his shot at replacing them both, although she isn’t a doppelganger and looks nothing like them. He wants an obedient girl, and that’s not who Caroline is. I honestly think the relationship has just destroyed her character and any development she’s had, and all those insecurities have come racing up. 

[survivingpierce]

detailed muse info sheet;

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Katherine Pierce

PLACE IN SOCIETY

✖ FINANCIAL – wealthy  / moderate / poor / in poverty ✖ MEDICAL – fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / deceased (depends on the verse) ✖ CLASS OR CASTE – upper / lower / middle / working / unsure ✖ EDUCATION – qualified / unqualified / studying (katherine has never visited a college or an university and doesn’t have a degree but she speaks several languages and knows a lot about history (’cause she has experienced / lived in different eras)

FAMILY

✖ MARITAL STATUS – married, happily / married, unhappily / engaged / partnered / single / divorced / widow or widower / separated / it’s complicated (depends on the verse & the thread) ✖ CHILDREN – has children / no children / wants children / adopted children (her daughter nadia) ✖ FAMILY – close with sibling / not close with siblings / has no siblings / siblings are deceased / it’s complicated (thanks klaus!) ✖ AFFILIATION – orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by both parents / other (thanks klaus for making her an orphan!)

TRAITS & TENDENCIES

✖ disorganized / organized / in between ✖ close-minded / open-minded / in between ✖ cautious / reckless / in between ✖ patient / impatient / in between ✖ outspoken / reserved / in between ✖ leader / follower / in between ✖ sympathetic / unsympathetic / in between ✖ optimistic / pessimistic / in between ✖ hardworking / lazy / in between ✖ cultured / uncultured / in between ✖ loyal / disloyal / in between (depends on the person) ✖ faithful / unfaithful / in between

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION

✖ SEXUALITY – heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / omnisexual / demisexual (katherine prefers and favores men, it hardly happens that she feels attracted to women) ✖ SEX – sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable ✖ ROMANCE – romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable ✖ SEXUALLY – sexually adventurous / sex experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious / uninterested

ABILITIES

✖ COMBAT SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none (katherine always finds a way to survive but she’s not a good fighter → lost against elena nearly twice) ✖ LITERACY SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ ARTISTIC SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none (she can play the piano although she keeps that a secret) ✖ TECHNICAL SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

tagged by: no one tagging: @itsgclden @thesacrificialxlamb @galehearts (pick one) @bespokenmuse @thelxstmikaelson  @enduringlystoic (or any other of your muses)  @meda-the-brave (meda salvatore) + everyone who wants to do it ♥

[whitewolfofwinterfell]

Hey, Shannen! As my fave tvd meta person these days, what are your thoughts on the way Stefan's story ended in particular? I am pissed off about SE and the way they made Damon the better brother, the better man, but I've always thought Stefan would die, somehow maybe sacrificing himself so in a way as sad as it made me it also made some sense even if the circumstances as a whole sucked.

Hey there! Aww, that’s such a huge compliment, thank you so much! This is an interesting question to get asked and I’m so glad you did ask. This isn’t a simple topic to discuss, so get yourself comfortable, because this is probably gonna be a long one. 

Well, currently I have mixed emotions about the way in which Stefan’s story ended. On the one hand, just like you said, I feel like Stefan sacrificing himself was very fitting with his character. From the very beginning Stefan has always been the hero of the story, there’s a reason why pretty much every characters (even the villains) have referred to him as being one - because it’s true. He said that as a human he cared about others and felt their pain and that as a vampire that became amplified and I really feel like that’s always been at the core of Stefan’s character and it’s part of the reason I love him so much, because I identify with that. That feeling of not being able to separate yourself from someone else’s emotions, particularly those you care about, of somehow always feeling responsible when they’re hurt or suffering and of wanting more than anything to ease that in anyway you can, even if it’s not necessarily your place to. That’s what Stefan has always been about and it’s the reason he was the Ripper - because as a vampire carrying that constant burden was too much to handle and instead he took to being the complete opposite and turning it all off and instead inflicting pain on others instead of helping them. But the point of me pointing this out, is that Stefan’s sacrifice in 8x16 was yet again him somehow feeling as though it’s his responsibility to save everyone, that he should be the one to die so as to give everyone else their happiness. Why did he have to do that? He didn’t. When you really think about it no one had to sacrifice themselves, they could’ve all worked together to find a way to stop Katherine. But this is classic Stefan, him assuming responsibility for everyone’s well being, and particularly when it comes to Damon and Elena. 

And this is where my issue stems from regarding Stefan’s sacrifice - it wasn’t for a purposeful enough reason. This is Stefan Salvatore we’re talking about, if he was going to die I wanted it to be for a real reason, but it just didn’t feel like that to me. First of all, the initial impression is that he sacrificed himself to save Mystic Falls from being devoured by hell and to save everyone he loved, which is great and everything, except for a couple of flaws: 

1. Why couldn’t Stefan have worked with everyone to bring Katherine down? That way no one would’ve had to of died. 2. Out of everyone, why/how the hell was having Stefan - a human - be the one to kill Katherine logical? 

But the biggest issue of all is that this isn’t why Stefan died. Stefan died because he decided to give Damon the cure. Of course he was going to sacrifice himself to take Katherine down, because he was going to die anyway. And this is what bugs me, because no matter how you look at it, Stefan dying was largely done to prop up Damon and Elena’s happy ending.As Elena said herself, she owed her entire life to Stefan, and so did Damon. What’s even more annoying is that yet again, it wasn’t even necessary. If Damon wanted to be human, why couldn’t he have taken the cure from Elena, who wouldn’t have died since she’s only 19 years old? 

I understand that it’s not necessarily about whether Stefan had to die or not, it’s the fact that being the person he was, he made a choice to sacrifice himself without a second thought for his brother’s happiness. I think that the writers intended for Stefan’s death to be the ultimate tribute to the Defan relationship. That in the end, Damon did redeem himself, he did become a better person and Stefan finally saw that (because let’s honest, although Stefan has always tried to be there for Damon he’s always seen the worst in him and never truly believed he could change) and Stefan wanted and was happy to die to give that man - the one he told Elena about in their final scene - to have a chance at a happy, human life with the woman he loved. The sentiment of it isn’t completely lost on me, but it doesn’t stop me from questioning why. 

Just because Damon redeemed himself (which that is an argument in itself, because did he really?), why did he deserve to have everything he wanted whilst Stefan died? Stefan was always a good person, he went on the same journey as Damon in terms of trying to overcome his darkness and make amends for his past, so why did Damon get rewarded with the happy ending and Stefan didn’t? 

It’s definitely easy to perceive Stefan’s death as being the writers favouring or choosing Damon over Stefan, which makes me so damn angry, but if you look at it from a different perspective, the fact that they killed Stefan actually proved that the writers loved and respected Stefan more than anyone else on the show. I discussed this in response to another ask I got where I explained why I thought Damon would be the one to die, and what I said was that I thought Damon would be the one to die because the writers love him so much that they want the finale to be all about him getting a poetic and heroic ending and that by killing him it would actually be making it all about him. Now I can see that I was partly right, I just believed it about the wrong brother. Stefan was the one they believed deserved that heroic ending, he was the one they wanted to accredit with being the reason for everyone’s happy endings. As a writer myself and someone that’s always read a lot, I know what the symbolism of a major character death is, particularly when it’s at the end of a story and it’s a sacrifice such as Stefan’s. Writers only do that to their most loved characters, because by killing them they actually make them the most important and well remembered and loved character. So in a backwards kind of way, Stefan’s death was actually an honor to him of the highest caliber. 

Having said this, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s unfair that Stefan didn’t get a chance at a happy ending. I’m not a Steroline shipper, but he’d just become human, he’d married Caroline and was literally in touching range of that shot at a normal life that he’d always yearned for. And I don’t care what anyone says, he did deserve that. He deserved a shot at happiness just like everyone else and in reality, he was the only one on the show that didn’t get it. I know that he technically lived for 177 years which is more than a long and full life by any human’s standards, but at the same time he was still only a 17 year old boy that hadn’t had the chance to just live as a human and have normal human experiences. 

But when you factor in the concept of afterlife the writers created in the finale, it puts a different spin on things. Just a little note before I get started, whether or not those final scenes where Elena reunited with her family and Damon with Stefan were meant to be literal representations of the afterlife or imagined is up to interpretation, but I certainly took it as being literal and for the purpose of what I’m about to say next, that’s the theory I’m going with. So, the idea of there being an afterlife or heaven whereby the characters are reunited with their loved ones and live eternally with them means that Stefan’s death is so much easier to accept and be happy about. I mean, everyone knows that Stelena is my OTP of all OTP’s, but do you want to know the scene that really got me emotional? The one that got my heart pumping, made my eyes bleary, caused a lump to form in my throat and made me laugh with joy? The scene where Stefan reunited with Lexi. Like honestly, after Stelena Stexi is my biggest ship for Stefan (platonically not romantically) and that scene was so special to me. Before I go off on a tangent about this, my point is that if Stefan died and got to be with Lexi, his best friend, for the rest of his life and then his brother when Damon died, I’m totally okay with that. Let’s be honest here, Stefan had a pretty miserable life and although there were happy moments in between the bad ones, there was just a constant string of suffering for him. We’re led to believe at the end that Elena and Damon led some semblance of a happy life together, but that’s a far-reaching, if you ask me. When Stefan became human it undid his compulsion, what do you think would’ve happened when Damon’s compulsion reversed? These are the kinds of things the writers forget about, because let me tell you, Damon’s compulsion becoming undone would rain a shit storm of shit onto Damon and Elena’s picture perfect life. Not to mention that being human again means that Elena’s the doppelganger, so surely that means she’d be coveted again. What I’m trying to say here is that in the lives of these characters and the world they’re a part of, there’s no such thing as happy endings. Becoming human doesn’t magically sever their ties from that world. The things they did, the enemies they made as vampires still exist. Even if Stefan would’ve lived, the terrible things he did as a vampire wouldn’t have magically reversed, there would be humans and vampires alike that would’ve wanted to make him suffer and how long do you think he would’ve lasted? So when you think about it like that, the idea of Stefan dying is the happiest ending he could’ve had. He is finally at peace. It might be in the afterlife, but he is human, he is free from the past, no longer running from various villains or having to sacrifice himself for others and he’s with his best friend. He can just be Stefan now. No more vampire Stefan or Ripper Stefan or hero Stefan, just Stefan. 

And because I haven’t necessarily answered your question in simplest way, I just want to confirm that given everything that’s happened across the 8 seasons, I am reasonably satisfied with Stefan’s ending. He got the chance to be human (even if it was only for a short amount of time), he got to marry someone he loved and he died as himself; as a hero, making a sacrifice for the person he loved most in the world - his brother - and he finally found peace with him and the other person he loved most in the world - his best friend.

[gracrps]

TVD

SEND ME A FANDOM AND I’LL TELL YOU… ( open! )

the character I least understand they all have p legit reasons to kill each other ( sometimes )

interactions I enjoyed the most humanity on damon & humanity off stefan , katherine with anyONE ( mostly stefan or elena ), stefan and klaus were my absolute favs bros, katherine & klaus!!! MATT AND REBEKAH *yells from the top of the mountains*, caroline bonnie and elena :( , alaric and damon were so good in the beginning, bonnie and damon always, …klaroline lOL don’t kill me, and of course .. lexi and stefan

the character who scares me the most well damon is the most illogical, so.. NO WAIT, kai. kai may be fine as hell but boy has no heart. he was the best villan. (that is… until he got a heart... then didn’t.)

the character who is mostly like me after much debate, probably bonnie & stefan. 

hottest looks character KATHERINE 👏   FUCKING 👏  PIERCE and SEASON ONE STEFAN !!!! 

one thing i dislike about my fave character okay so stefan’s loyalty to damon is extremely questionable. although admirable and one of the things i hope never gets broken, it’s also something i dislike. it’s bittersweet. like, if stefan decides to really really really betray and kill damon, i wouldn’t be… totally… upset? tho def upset bc elena would be crushed

one thing i like about my hated character i think it’s fair to say that we p hated every character at different times on the show. so, that being said i dislike sybil atm. ( which isn’t a surprise, like wow ok sydney u dislike the villan ). what i like about her… is probably her powers. boring, i know.. but imagine being a siren… lol 

a quote or scene that haunts me “I try so hard and I’m never the one.” ALSO WHEN CAROLINE’S MOM DIED OMG and EVERY DAMN TIME DAMON WOULD LIE TO HIMSELF ABOUT LILY LIKE C’MON SHE’S YOUR MOOOOOOOM

a death that left me indifferent Rose? Lol

a character i wish died but didn’t I wish this question asked me who I wish were alive… alas.. anyway, I love that Jeremy isn’t dead, but… can you imagine the pain everyone would’ve went through if he really did

my ship that never sailed bamon ( even tho it shouldn’t lol ), lexi & stefan, BONNIE AND KAI AS HELL, klaroline…, matt & rebekah *if u wana get technical*, caroline & enzo, tyler and liv :(

[touchedbydestiny]

       the answer is awfully simple. "because it's the only logical explanation…."

       because nadia knows she would have acted differently if things were reversed. because it was nadia who went looking for katherine and never gave up until she found her. because it was nadia who would die if it meant protecting katherine. because it was nadia who would not hesitate for a second to sacrifice herself if it meant saving katherine. because it was nadia who sacrificed her own human life (and to a point also her vampiric life) in order to find katherine. because it is nadia who 'parents' katherine.

       it never was @malka-lisitsa doing those things for her.

       and the reason for that? 'because running is what i do', 'because i have all this trauma' and perhaps, even if it might be a subconscious decision 'because you remind me of bad things'.

       "you went back once and gave up after you didn't find me. we already had this conversation once. you never came back to actually find me, not even after my natural lifespan was over and there was technically no risk that anyone could use me against you."

       "even now in your argumentation, there is this 'i could have gotten me killed'. perhaps you don't fully realize it but i died to find you. i died to become a vampire just to find you. i took that risk."

       "lets say things were completely different. lets say - i don't know - elena chose to adopt me. let's say i am presented with a question of who would i save and i say elena. and let's say i use the argument that you lived long enough. how would you feel? would you just accept that? would you not think about why i made that decision? would you not wonder if it's because you weren't there for me? because you remind me of being abandoned? of being unwanted? would you not think that i picked elena because she reminded me of being loved and wanted contrary to you who never gave me anything apart from birthing me?"

       perhaps now it's easier for katherine to understand why nadia always has this fear inside her.

       "would you not think that perhaps i picked elena because although you two look similar, she's still somehow endearing and caring whereas you can be incredibly harsh and have trouble with showing certain emotions which might remind me that you were never there for me?"

       "perhaps you also don't recognize that i do compare myself with lizzy. she's obviously younger but you also like her father. she doesn't look like you with her dark hair and blue eyes. people say i look like you but perhaps i also look like the person you hate. lizzy is always tainted with positive things whereas i'm somehow defiled with negative things. it makes me question why you act differently with her than you do with me and i have my theories."

       "you always talk about your trauma without considering anyone else. do you know how i felt after i found out that i was adopted? that my own mother never wanted me? gave me away hours after i was born and never went looking for me? i always wondered what was wrong with me that my mother would make such a decision. and after i found out what really happened, have you any idea of how guilty i feel that my existence made you the way you are now after i finally know that you didn't give me up voluntarily? i feel responsible that you got banished and disowned. i feel responsible that my real mother katerina is gone because she ended up in england which consequently was the reason why she spent the rest of her life in terror and flight while also losing her family. i feel awful that i serve as a walking reminder of what you might have forgotten eventually if there had been no 'proof'. it just explains so perfectly why you have such issues with me."

       "because let's be honest. you would have been better off without me. if i had never been born, some things would have never happened and perhaps you would have found your peace eventually."

Shes silent for a moment as she lets what Nadia says sink in. How terrible it is that shes been conditioned to make choices like this on a whim without even considering other options. Shes very broken... but that's not the worst part of what comes out of her daughters mouth.

"Why do you always come back to that?" No longer yelling, her tone somber as she speaks.

"Why do you always think that anything I do has anything to do with how you came about... and what that meant for me? Nadia I don't blame you. I've never blamed you. I hate your father. I hate my father. I never wanted my life to be the way it is.... but that doesn't mean I have never wanted you in it. I went back for you.

In reality, it was a stupid choice. I could have gotten you killed, or me killed. Maybe I was just young, and stupid... but I wanted to take you with me. I wanted you with me.

And maybe, Im a really shitty mother, maybe I dont know how to try or maybe i just subconsciously don't want to I DONT KNOW- But you have never paid for their sins in my head Nadia. That has never been on you."

[elejah-verse]

The Sun And The Moon Curse/8

Fanfiction

Part 8

Elijah Mikaelson x Elena Gilbert

ft. other tvd characters - Klaus Mikaelson, Esther, Katherine 

set after tvd 3x14/15

TVD AU story

Summary: At the Mikaelson Ball, Elijah asks Elena to tell him what his mother wanted form her. After Elena discloses what it was to the Original vampire, and the ritual fails, she is prompted to leave with him, leaving Mystic Falls behind, embarking on a new adventure.

a/n: Thanks so much for reading this story, as it was the first tvd fanfiction I ever wrote. xoxo

Warning: Fluff, witch ritual, vampire blood

tags @rissyrapp20 @dendrite-lover @captainshurley @cassienoble2000 @goddessofthunder112 @hides2000 @elejahforever @idkhaylijah

If you wish to be removed from the tag list, please let me know 

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Katherine arrived in Bucharest and once again stood there empty handed. Yizel could see that there was a very unusual magic surrounding Lia's villa and when she tried to come close to it, she suddenly felt weak and very nauseous. 

"Dark magic -ahh"- she felt a sharp pain kick in her stomach as if she was stabbed.

Katherine took the opportunity and now grabbed the dagger from the witch and decided to cut her losses and leave the witch behind. Something very odd was happening and she opted to lay low for a little while.

*****

In Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania

The next day

Elena woke up and moved, rubbing her eyes, finding that Elijah was gone. But, there on the pillow was a rose. Elena smiled taking the rose, and now sat up. 

 As she got ready, she walked to the kitchen to make some coffee. 

“Good morning”- the witch knocked at the door of the kitchen -”I apologize for letting myself in, but I have a message from Elijah.”

“He went to run some errands, I guess.”- Elena said and now offered the woman a cup of coffee. 

“No, thank you. I thought that maybe you would like to accompany me into town?”

Elena accepted the invitation. Lia needed to get some particular herbal essences for the ritual. Grabbing her bag, the doppelganger and the witch left the apartment.

They entered a shop that sold many different varieties of organic cosmetics. It was a beautiful rustic looking shop. Elena went up to the stand where perfume bottles were on display. The shop-keeper brought all that was on Lia's list, then looked at Elena and suggested a fragrance that would suit her. She spoke to her in Romanian and Elena apologized for not understanding. Lia translated.

"Jasmine and Lilac with a hint of orange blossom. It's an antic fragrance. She thinks that one would suit you best."

Elena smelled it, and she liked it, and bought it. They got out and Lia then suggested they have a cup of coffee and a a bit of breakfast. They got into a cafe across the road from the shop.

"Are you all right?"- Lia asked Elena, who appeared to be absent-minded as they got into the place.

"Yes-just- I-hm-so much has happened-it's crazy to think about  normal things like the dress and perfume-and - none of my friends are here and - I should have told them that I kind of got engaged. I know it sounds crazy "

"Why? Because he is a vampire? And something like that is not to be?"-Lia asked.

"No, it's not because he is a vampire. I don't even see him like that.  I am sort of supernatural, aren't I? And now I am going to be immortal! It's just that I have not imagined it like that- I wanted my mom and dad to be there when I get married "-Elena said, adding -”And the harsh reality is that it will happen in a place so far away from home!"

"This is home - crazy as it sounds. I feel at home here. I mean-you are family, aren't you? Technically."

"Thank you for considering me to be your family. You and Elijah were meant to be-the Sun conjuncts with the Moon - it is foreseen to have a stable and long lasting relationship, with great romance, but it has the effect of unification of purpose, emotions and will, instills loyalty, trust and faithfulness. Your Sun sign is the other person's Moon sign and the other person's Sun sign is your Moon sign. It works reciprocally. It said that each of you would have a profound effect upon the other. And I have seen it. The way you speak to one another, the way he looks at you, and the way you look at him. You may have felt that you are soul mates and that is because of your Sun and Moon aspects within you. It is said that together you can endure almost any hardship. Nature doesn't bestow that upon just anyone. You were chosen."- Lia said.

Hearing what Lia had said made Elena feel elated, inspirited, but also somewhat anxious, especially for the part about hardship, as she knew that things that they would be facing would not be a walk in the park, to put it mildly. She was very much aware of it all, but now she wanted to linger in the dream of the night before, accepting his proposal wholeheartedly.

"My friends would not understand how I feel- and probably say that it is a very bad idea." - Elena said.

"It's called being in love"-Lia said-"if you forget for a moment about the scrolls, you fell for the man he is, his human counterpart." - the witch said.

"Yes, I did."-Elena said dreamily, thinking of all that drew her to Elijah. But she also flashed back to their first ever meeting.

 “When I first met him- ah- that was - ahm - crazy."

Elena told Lia of all that had happened between them.

As Elena finished telling the witch shortly about her and Elijah’s short history, Lia had this to say -

"The need to save them and you was the cosmic inclination to find the kindred soul. You may look the same in your appearance, but I have told you that your souls are different."

"What I don't understand is, well, if he wasn't turned and stayed human- well, we would never have met?!"

"Now that is something we will have to leave with Mother nature, but I believe that you and him would have met."

"How? There would have been -or Elijah would be a doppelganger too?"

"Maybe. As I said Nature has it worked out."-Lia said-"shall we go and look at some dresses? Let's just be women indulging in some girly time out?!"

Elena agreed smiling a little. Even if it was for a few hours, she needed the escape. As Lia said, she wanted to think of it as a ceremony and not as a ritual that would align their forces to  fight a very dangerous enemy.

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Elsewhere

Klaus pondered his next move. No matter how many times Elijah and he didn't see eye to eye, and there have been plenty of occasions, he knew that Elijah would still be on his side. But now with all that he found out it seemed that  this time it was not so. It was very clear to him that Elijah used stalling tactics to go against him once again, same as he had done in Mystic Falls.

"Family"- he sifted angrily- "what a joke!"

The Hybrid  then turned to one of his compelled followers and told him to pass on the message to Julius.

"Let the games begin!"- Klaus said- "let's see who will be the King of the world"

********

Meanwhile, in Romania, Transylvania

Elijah returned to the apartment sometime before Elena and Lia. He took out the rings he had made in the Viking custom. 

Ever since he became aware of what he customs of the viking society were and where his place as a man was, he thought of doing everything slightly different. He thought of his father and mother and their union of marriage, which their parents had arranged, love being insignificant. He had always wanted to do the opposite. He wanted it to mean so much more than just serving a purpose. He remembered once listening his father talking about negotiating a marriage at the Thing, which was a vikings Council meeting. There was talk of brautkauf or brideprice. It was a very elaborate economic exchange between the families. Now his thoughts diverted to the present and he felt that, although, it was nothing like the old days, Elena was forced into the union, for a particular purpose, and his heart wished that this dark cloud were not hanging over them, that they were just two people who fell in love and wanted to be together.

Back in Bucharest he had told her that he had loved once before, but it was not the whole truth. He had loved been in love with a woman warrior, Thorunn. And thought she had pledge herself to him, she went to marry another man.

Flashback

A thousand years ago

“Ah, Thorunn chose Bjorn”- Kol said as he now crossed the path with his brother, who saw Elijah earlier gazing at the blonde shield-maiden. 

“Leave me alone. I am not in the mood for your clever remarks.”- Elijah said walking by his brother.

“I wasn’t going to make you feel bad. I thought you cared for someone else - this new girl  that came with the witch. Tatia?”

“No. I mean - yes, I care, but - that is all. I think that she has feeling for Niklaus.”- Elijah replied.

“Yes, I saw him - all flirtatious with her. I think that they have even spent a night together.”- Kol now said.

Elijah now shook with his head and continued to the horses pen. 

“Come on, one day you will find the one!”- Kol shouted behind his brother.

The one. Elijah now thought. Yes, Elena was the one. His heart knew that before he was ever aware of that. He now smiled a little, thinking of how all came about. It had in actual fact always meant to be as he now thought about what the scrolls entailed. Like Elena had said, he had always know that that someone was out there waiting for him. He had always known. His heart had never been completely taken, like it was since he had met her. Not for Thorunn, his first love, nor for Aya. 

He now put the rings in its antique ring box. Hearing Elena and Lia come up the steps, he put the box with the rings in his suit pocket.

Not long after Lia and Elena walked into the apartment. Both women now put down a big load of shopping bags on the floor. 

The witch and the doppelganger greeted him. Elena’s eyes shone lovingly at him, and he responded in the same manner. Her spirit was exactly like the sun that managed to lift up all the darkness. 

"I overdid it"- she then said looking at the bags- "I don't know what happened- I just forgot, I guess, that it is just a ritual."

“I see.”- Elijah said with a small wag of his eyebrows.

“I will see you in a little while.”- Lia then said and excused herself, leaving them, stepping out of the apartment.

"You had a nice day out, I gather."- Elijah then said nearing her- " and you changed your hair -I like it!" 

The Original brushed his fingers through the doppelganger’s hair.

"I did.Yes"- Elena smiled, adding- " I wanted to- I want it to be special."

"And not just another ritual, where you are forced to something that no one asked you whether you wanted it or not"

"Elijah-what is it?"

"I just wish -it all was different for you- us. That is all. I wanted to protect you from it all. It's a natural impulse of mine. I know that you are so courageous and strong-willed."

"And that I will be fine."-her eyes assured him -" I will always have you-and we are together in this!"

"So we are."- Elijah now he took the box out of his jacket pocket presenting it to her.

"What is this?"- Elena said looking at him curiously.

Elijah now opened the beautiful box, showing the wedding bands.

"Oh -they are beautiful!"- Elena said taken in for a moment.

”How did you - when did you- get them?”

“I left here before dawn. I remembered an antique jewellery shop in Budapest - I went to get them.”- Elijah replied. 

Elena looked at the Original with a surprising look, even though all she had already learnt about him so far shouldn’t have done. 

“I hope this is not too much - this is a big step-” - Elijah said gulping a bit-”and I would absolutely understand if you - ”

“Elijah - no - I mean - yes - I thought about everything. Like I told you - my whole life changed the moment I have found out I was the doppelganger, and - “

Elena paused for a moment, placing her palm on the Original’s cheek, continuing- “I am sure of this. I am sure about how I feel.”

“You are?”- Elijah muttered, his heart exhibiting a tender flutter, his heightened feelings now making his whole being tremble. 

He stood there with his heart and his soul bare in front of her, looking at her with adoring eyes. 

Elena nodded a little, her eyes smiling dreamily at Elijah -

“I've never been more sure of anything in my life.”

Elena now put her hand out to Elijah, and he now took the rings out of its box.

And before he put the ring on her finger, he said -

"I understand how people felt when they were about to go to war and leave their loved one behind, and when they wanted to vow to one another that they would be theirs forever-and this is maybe the least romantic place-  but I would like to pledge here and now my undying love for you"

He then took the ring and placed it on her finger saying-

 "With this ring I bind myself to you Always and Forever."

She then did the same saying- "Always and forever"

Slowly pulling her to him, Elijah lips brushed over Elena’s. Soft and gentle, gripping them more firmly The wave of deep felt love streamed all over them, spilling out from their hearts.

Whether it was in the most beautifully decorated church, a darkest forest or just a tiny room, it was the same for them at that very moment. All that mattered was that this was their private moment they would always remember. 

Lia’s knock at the door of the bedroom, now brought them back from their happy cloud to the harsh reality. 

“Just a moment”- Elijah said as his eyes still danced happily, gazing at his beloved, holding her close.

They knew that it was  time to go to the location where the ritual of the conjunction was to be performed. 

“It’s ok. I am ready.”- Elena said -”and - if you don’t mind I would like to go and have a shower.”

“Of course.”- Elijah said, placing a small peck on the lips.

“Love you”- Elena said as she now opened at the door, turning to the Original.

Having showered, and changed, they left for the small hamlet outside the city, close to the  forest where the ritual was to take place. 

There they were met by an old women and her granddaughter. It was clear that they were witches that knew Lia very well. They came up to Elena, and Lia nodded at the doppelganger that it was perfectly safe for her to go with them. 

“Where are they taking her?”- Elijah inquired not happy that he was held back by the blonde witch.

“To prepare her. You don’t have to worry. They will not harm her.”- Lia reassured the Original.

Elijah nodded a little, and waited. Not long. Elena returned dressed in an elegant white dress, wearing a flower crown on her head.

Elijah at Elena mesmerized, putting his hand out to her. As she came to him, he now uttered as if compelled-

“You are so beautiful”

“Thank you”- Elena slipped taking his hand. 

“Ready?”- the Original now said and the doppelganger nodded.

 The witch led them to the point in the woods where a perfect circular clearing existed. It was known in the old days as the circle of the Immortals. The magical circle was already prepared. As it was a marital rite of some kind, the circle was adorned with flowers among sacred plans and scented candles.

"Please stand here"- Lia said to them showing where to go, then looked up in the sky to see how long it was for the Sun and the Moon to line up.

"Open your palms"

They did as the witch asked.

Elijah could hear Elena's heart racing wildly but she assured him with her look that she was fine. 

Lia now cut into the palms murmuring words they didn't understand smearing them with the mixture of herbs she had bought earlier that day and now told them to joint their palms together.

 Soon both of them could feel a strange tingling in their palms as the witch continued chanting and then looked up at the skies once again, and when she saw the sun and the moon were in complete alignment, she bound their hands with a ribbon laced with all different sacred flowers.

As the chanting finished Elena felt a tad bit faint. Her whole being shook and she felt her heart stop and start again. She beamed her eyes at Elijah, hearing his heartbeats now. They were as apprehensive as hers. 

Nothing seemed to be different and yet all was different. Something was pulling them towards one another, like a force unknown, They now moved closer. 

With the unusual tingling streaming all over them, they held onto one another firmly. A mystical surge ran through them.The body, the mind and the soul became one. Enveloped in the magical haze, they looked at one another with love. As her lips touched his, the conjunction was sealed.

Heart beats fast Colours and promises How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall? But watching you stand alone All of my doubt Suddenly goes away somehow One step closer I have died every day waiting for you Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years I'll love you for a thousand more Time stands still Beauty in all she is I will be brave I will not let anything take away What's standing in front of me Every breath Every hour has come to this One step closer          

a/n: one of the best Elejah vids, in my opinion, and just had to add it.