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YOUTH

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july in appalachia

ma says there's an angel in the creek out behind old mr. henry's
shack. she saw it when she was seven years old, playing by herself
while her pa helped mr. henry with his hay bales: sliced her bare
foot open on a jagged rock, and the angel swam towards the blood
in the water.

ma looked right into the angel's six blind eyes and asked him,
"how come you're down here, sleepin' in the mud, when you could
be up in heaven, plantin' sunflowers for god?"

his wings were like a dragonfly's, transparent and glimmerin', and
his halo was a ring of algae. the angel grinned, three rows of sharp
teeth, and said, "girlie, god has plans for the bluegills too."

She knew that he was a snake, and that he would eventually bite her.

But she would gladly be bitten if it meant she got to keep him for only a little while.

He knew that she was a fragile, human thing, frail and breaking and dying.

But he would have given anything to be frail with her, if only for a little while.

SUMMARY.

SHE HAD HAD HER FAIR SHARE OF TRAUMA.

Jenna Salvatore had been born in Mystic Falls, but any more than that was pushing it. Shortly after her sixth birthday, her parents divorced and soon after her mother got remarried, obtaining full custody of her and whisking her far, far away from her home.

Flash forward ten years, and Jenna Salvatore is back. After convincing her mother and stepfather (who also happened to be her blood uncle) to move back to Mystic Falls, everything in Jenna's life is great.

Until everything isn't.

Enter Kol Mikaelson.

HE HAD BEEN ALIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE THE WHOLE WORLD RISE AND FALL THREE TIMES OVER.

Kol Mikaelson had never met a girl as fascinating as Jenna Salvatore, though he had met several girls who looked an awful lot like her. He kept a list of them.

Margaret Salvatore. Elaine Trinison.

(It was a short list, but a list nonetheless.)

But none of them ever compared to Jenna Salvatore. And against everything—his better judgement, his family's warnings, Katherine Pierce's constant harping—he fell in love with her.

And oh, Jenna Salvatore's youth was gone in an instant.

(But whose fault that was, nobody could say.)

THE STAR OF OUR SHOW.
jen•na is•a•bel•la sal•va•tore
//fragile, whole, frail//
//that unexpected kind of love//
//a girl just aching to be whole, a woman just dying to stay young, a child just screaming to live her life//
ex: jenna salvatore died on her birthday.

MY YOUTH IS YOURS. FROM NOW UNTIL FOREVER.

MY SOUL IS YOURS. FROM NOW UNTIL FOREVER.