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chapter one...

“You’re going to kill me, aren’t you?” Hope bleeds into her voice. 

(She feels a little bad that these are the words his Mark is made of.)

It doesn’t matter, he’s probably just a monster too.

There’s silence for a minute as Niklaus or Klaus, stares at her. Like he’s seeing her for the first time all over again. 

THE MONSTERS IN HER HEART by @katherineholmes

I mean, I have already given a bunch of sneak peeks.

But, ok.

This fic is the answer to the question of: What happens when you have Elena making out with Elijah every two hours for 21 times? Smut.

"...I will descend upon Elena." Well, Elena supposed Elijah wasn't wrong. Give it half an hour more, and Elena would be back at the gazebo getting descended upon quite thoroughly again. Which was honestly starting to be the one part of this whole thing that had any kind of pleasant side at all. Even if it was also becoming a bit... frustrating.

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hello friend !!! I'm good and sorry this is so late !! I panicked trying to come up with a good answer than forgot rip.

ANYWAY,

I mostly imagine Elijah's head as a cocktail of circus music and distorted Tchaikovskye as he tries to figure out just what the fuck to do with Plastic Crown's Elena.

I think he, at this point, is undecided. He's relieved that she got herself out of MF and proud of the life she's built since she's been in Vegas but there's also alot of confusion and concern.

Because the Elena that he's with now is so different from the one he knew, but the beats of who she was is still there. The core of her is intact, her kindness and love and compassion,,,,, but she's obviously damaged.

I think it's difficult to see because up until PC has been very much in Elena's POV, and compared to where she was in ch1, she's gotten alot better, but she's still not all there. She's still not eating correctly, and still hiding from everything that happened to her. I think Elijah's picking up on the performance of it all. How she's settled into this character of Vegas Elena, of Ophelia, and I'm not sure if he fully knows what to do with it.

Things will definitely pick up over the next chapter or two as he gets more comfortable, because at the moment he's very much testing the thickness of the ice and seeing if it's going to break under him if he get's too familiar.

I do think the stripper aspect is intersting, because Elijah is the only canon tvdu feminist but he's also a whole ass viking so there's a bit of an internal battle happening there lmao.

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

"Bonnie is just as bad for befriending Damon, a man who assaulted her friend."

Let's put this into context. She befriended that man after being trapped in a prison world with him for months with no salvation in sight. At the beginning of it she remarks that he's the last person in the world that she wants to be stuck with. It took literal death and forced proximity for their friendship to find footing.

They are literally the last people on earth for each other. Companionship was necessary for them to survive their situation. But honestly it isn't just that aspect that irritates me.

Why does Bonnie need to worry about not being friends with this man when Caroline decides to marry into the family? (Not just marry into the family but marry the man who was perfectly fine with letting Damon do what he wanted to as long as he wasn't messing with him and Elena and was willing to use Caroline as bait without her consent.) Her friends can't have a relationship with him but it's okay for Stefan to continue to have a relationship with his brother and it's okay for her to marry into the family?

If you are looking to this show to help support your logical moral arguments then....good luck I guess.

worst part of fanon

"Katherine is better than Elena cause she never turned off her humanity."

Elena was forced by the sire bond to do that - moving on.

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

Bamon.

Strange since I don't particularly like Damon. I liked him as the antagonist. I think when they started trying to make him sympathetic, I lost interest.

Bamon's chemistry was great. It makes sense that they bonded. The forced proximity. Great enemies to lovers storyline. I just - - imagining Damon's realization that he's been chasing after Katherine in one way or another and finally opening his heart to other possibilities. When she comes back and she smiles and starts RUNNING and he CATCHES her like that! I mean....how can your heart not soften to that?

(It is weird that later we get that vampire pancake scene with Elena and Damon when it was originally a Bamon thing.)

part of canon you found tedious or boring

I hope this is okay, and if it isn’t, you can just ignore it, but, do you have any headcanons for Japril that you’d be willing to share?

Hiiii, thank you💙💙💙

ofc it's okay!!!!

8x21 changed their brain chemistry FOREVER and now they're always going to be a lil obsessed with each other (jk with this one I just had to include one of my fave episodes hjdjhd)

At any point in their relationship they revert back to their married mode (that they mastered in their besties era)! Like when they moved to Boston people at the foundation were confused because they thought they were divorced?? Since they're so in sync

it even happened a few times that they would come to work in sort of matching outfits and they weren't living together or anything at the time

in Boston Jackson was the one that had to woo April

physical touch is definitely their love language

Harriet's aunts told her how April named a pig after Jackson that one time and she thought that was very funny and now calls every pig she sees Jacks. She also has a stuffed pig named Jacks. Ofc then she had to name another stuffed farm animal after her mama, so she has a sheep named April. Jackson and April asked her what animal she is and she said a dolphin.

I think they would adopt another kid. April always said she wanted three kids and with how her first two pregnancies went I think they would adopt.

April loooooves counting those freckles across Jacksons nose even though she knows the exact number already.

Jackson favorite color on April is green. (And he'd die to see her in that green dress again)

they fuck nasty

aw, thank you! That’s so kind!! There’s a lot of things that need to be cleared. That’s the best way I can put that without spoiling anything big secrets. But fun things are coming.

thank you for the ask!

I know FE is probably your best fic, but TSWBS is my personal favourite and I honestly can’t stop re-reading it. ❤️

I'm so embarrassed that this took me like a week to answer but that's parenthood for you, I'm a chaos mom

also, thank you thank you for saying that, it means so much to me that you love this fic and have read it multiple times!!!!

1. What inspired you to write the fic this way?

For a long time, it was my habit in December to give myself a break from FE, which is kind of a high pressure situation for me, and take on a short Christmas project as a way to have some fun writing, update frequently (therefore increasing frequency of reviews/dopamine hits), and just to do something really low pressure. So, the idea with SWBS (and Love Bites) was basically to just sit down, write, and publish the first draft of each short chapter as is and not sweat too much over revising or being compulsive about the plot and narrative. I remember starting like five or six different fics/premises out before I hit on this one-- the tone and the mood of it started off as very dark and brooding, which was unfortunately addictive to write, oops. I also remember thinking about writing a "Christmas fic" the way that The Quick and The Dead is a Halloween fic, and mulling over what that might mean-- and so I was thinking, well, what does Christmas boil down to? And I almost immediately thought, virgin birth, and of course, the idea of Klaus getting Elena pregnant but everyone assuming it was magical/there was no father flashed across my mind and made me laugh out loud, so I knew I had to write it. Because also we must write the stories we wish to see in the world.

7. Where did the title come from?

It's a riff on my favorite hymn, O Holy Night

"a thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices"-- that theme of hope in weary the darkness really gets me

I unintentionally changed the tense; which I actually rather like with the (parentheses) because it almost makes the title sound like an aside, or something said quietly, under the breath, when I say it in my head

9. Were there any alternate versions of this fic?