#exquisitecursed

@exquisitecursed​ sent: “ perhaps i don’t say it enough, but… i’d like you to know that i’m always here, if you ever wanted to talk. ”

.         elijah slowly looked at tatia who came looking for him on the backside of the stables, and felt her soft touch on his arm. in her vibrant brown eyes laid nothing but sincerity and the corners of his lips lifted slightly upwards as he blended out their surroundings.

        "i thank you for the offer" elijah replied and stepped a little bit closer as his brows furrowed. there's indeed something that's on his mind. his eyes squinted slightly, not wanting to offend her by assuming things so he kept quiet for a moment and instead just looked at her.

        tatia is really an exquisite beauty, so of course, it comes as no surprise she had the attention of the men in the village. foremost his brother's attention.

        "i noticed niklaus interest in you. is that interest ... mutually?" he did not want to start a war with his brother, so he needed to know if her heart was perhaps already taken.

        tatia opened her lips to reply but before a sound could escape her lips, everything went black and elijah woke up.

        a gasp left his lips at the unexpected and sudden vivid memory of tatia. although she definitely was never forgotten by him, he hadn't thought about her for a longer time. surely the reason for this dream must lay in the recent dinner with niklaus in which his brother reminiscenced tatia.

▬ a few days / weeks later ▬

        before the ball is going to start in the evening, elijah decided to go on a walk stately ground of the mansion they currently occupied. he has a bad feeling about his mother's true intentions, especially because she wished to talk to elena, a human doppelgänger.

        as much as he'd like to believe his mother has forgiven niklaus as well as the rest of them for what they are, he had serious doubts about it.

        elijah came to a halt at the pond the mansion possessed and let his gaze linger on the water. eventually, he heard a sound and turned his head to see elena.

         it seemed like the dreams about tatia increased and by now he is aware that it's indeed just a dream whenever her beautiful face entered his mind and time has turned back. he admittedly didn't mind these dreams at all because they reminded him of simpler and happier time although he wondered about their origins. why did his subconscious suddenly miss her so much?

        he was clad in the usual attire of this time as he approached tatia with a smile on his face.

        "i remember it very well. and i remember always having to come up with some kind of excuse because father would have reprimanded me if he knew." mikael didn't approve of such a 'childish' passtime although elijah was already grownup when he met tatia.

        "your flower crowns were always extraordinary," he said as he remembered them and the delicate blooms tatia used.

      silena hates that feeling. the feeling someone sits inside of her head, controlling every action and thought like a puppet master. most of the time she didn't notice the effect of the strong compulsion she's under, but today is different. she could feel, sense that every fiber of her body wanted to hunt and kill. she's running through the woods, off the routes in order to blow off a little steam. the vampire stopped at a large beech, trying to catch her breath after thirty minutes of constantly running.

      she was about to go when her hyper sensitive hearing catched a sound. someone's here. silently like a cat she followed the sound, leading her to a small hiking hut and a stream. she let her gaze wander until she found the person she was after. a brunette woman; nothing special. silena was about to go when the woman turned around.

      every cell of her body freezed upon seeing her face. with her killer instincts activated, the compulsion pulled her towards the woman. katerina petrova. katherine pierce. finally she could fulfill her duty. within one glance, silena's hand was wrapped around the petite neck of the doppelgänger and pressed her against the wooden wall of the hiking hut.

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“Why did you stop me from killing her/him?” There was obviously frustration and anger in her voice, Ella not trying very hard to hold it back. She honestly felt the need to punch something right now with how angry she saw/ “This would have been done by now if you had!”

                 5000 years ago had been a VERY different time. Elijah had been a very different person. Smitten and in love with one of the villagers, who died a terrible death at his hands. The first act of MANY that turned him into the man he was today. Elijah had loved, and lost, many times over the next few millennia until he had learned that it wasn’t worth it. The only ones he could trust to stand by him FOREVER as his family. Everyone else would leave, either by death or other means. LOVE was a distraction.

                  Which is what he assumes this is. Someone trying to distract him with the image of the first woman he loved, perhaps under the impression that he would be the same lovesick fool who ended her life. They would be wrong. While it was true he never forgot his first love, he had changed. Greatly. He would not fall to such an obvious ploy. (Because it was TATIA that this person was trying to be, not any of the other dopplegangers - he could tell the difference.)

‹ ♡ ╱ random sentence starters.  — accepting.