ELENA GILBERT & KLAUS MIKAELSON
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES: Season 2, Episode 20 — The Last Day

PURSUIT

Chapter 1: there is a panther stalks me down: / one day i’ll have my death of him;

The need to run consumes her. A force so powerful it is written in her bones. The fear is palpable. It grows and it magnifies until it becomes tangible, within reach.

Night after night, she dreads falling asleep. When she wakes, distraught lines her features and her cheeks are full of tears. No amount of kisses or hugs can soothe her.

A doctor like Grayson comes to visit. He seems interested in her dreams, of how it started, what it contained, and asked other invasive questions. Elena wouldn’t talk, of course. As a child, she knew that if you spoke about dreams or wishes aloud that it will come true. She didn’t want to give her fear any more power than it had over her.

…continue reading on ao3

PURSUIT

PAIRING: elena gilbert/klaus mikaelson

SUMMARY: Elena begins to dream. That a creature pursues her endlessly. To her death. She cannot escape the dreams. It comes, constantly.

Not only that, but she starts to feel something crawling beneath her skin. Memories and feelings that do not belong to her coming to the surface.

It changes her for worse until she learns to live with it. To co-exist with death.

Until, of course, the creature himself comes to retrieve her.

WARNINGS AND TAGS: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Protective Jeremy Gilbert, Protective Elena Gilbert, Suicide Ideation, Other Additional Tags to be added.

NOTE: inspired by Pursuit by Slyvia Plath and my christmas gift to @katherineholmes

CHAPTERS:

Chapter 1: there is a panther stalks me down: / one day i’ll have my death of him;

She was scared of the tiniest shadow. Everything became the object of her fear. Once, she would stand her ground. Fight fire with fire.

But the act of drowning dampened her spirits, killed that which made her distinct.

Chapter 2: insatiate, he ransacks the land / condemned by our ancestral fault,

…and more chapters tbd!

ELENA GILBERT & KLAUS MIKAELSON
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES 2.21 “The Sun Also Rises”

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

a crimson dreams edit from me to you, @katherineholmes merry christmas, vis!

Her mother had always told her not to give her dreams any physicality. To not let the world of her dreams collide with the real world. She had never heeded it, had never paid any attention to it.

Now, she was living within her dream. And it seemed more of a nightmare than a dream.

(Or the one in which Elena ends up in an alternate universe, and meets a very different Klaus.)

Crimson Dreams by VisionsInCrimson