I know I am in the thick of one the fix still… but what if I had another where Elena was put into the sleeping beauty curse early?
Idk how, yet, but I like the idea of season 4 au starting as diary entries all to Elena, and see how the events are like different without her. But all her friends (and maybe some enemies) are writing to her during this time?
My first thought is it could be Esther who in this fic predicted her children may find out Elena is linked to Alaric, and that Elena may become a vampire, so like upon completion of the transition she falls asleep. But like what would Esther benefit from this? And the only thing I could muster is that this keeps Alaric in a state of half awake. It could be like her energy is just enough to keep him powerful at night, but in the day he is a weaker version, maybe even the good version of him. So he is normal Alaric (but super weak and has to be locked up and stuff) during day and evil powerful Alaric at night.
And like Elena being linked to Bonnie’s life still makes sense because Ester was drawing on the Bennet line for magic.
The second option is that Klaus and Bonnie worked in secret together and put Elena to sleep to save her from the hunters curse while the team all works together to find cure before she kills herself (this is ten times funnier if Jeremy becoming a hunter does save her but none of them know this). But the problem here is that Jeremy is a hunter and I don’t like that plot line lol.
Next option Ester again, where she puts Elena under sleeping curse still human, and the spell linking Alaric to her is different, where as long as she sleeps is as long as he is alive, and that the spell is linked to ever living Bennet (so like one must kill every Bennet witch alive to break the spell. Or maybe even during the ball? I’m not really sure, just that I like the idea of making both Finn and Esther remain in Mystic Falls as obstacles for longer.
