"I have lived for centuries," Elijah murmured, his fingers brushing against hers, hesitant, reverent. "And yet, knowing you has undone me in ways I cannot begin to comprehend." Lana's breath caught. "Why?" He met her eyes, something raw breaking through his composure. "Because you make me wish to be worthy of you...and I fear I never will be." "𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙚𝙙, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙮, 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙." 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 : 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟮_𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 : 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟭_𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟱.

After the accident at Wickery Bridge that claimed her parents' lives, Celeste Gilbert's world shattered into pieces. But unlike her twin sister Elena, who retreats into her grief just trying to stay afloat, Celeste reacts with rage and a heart of steel. She is the backbone of the Gilbert house, the one who protects Jeremy and isn't afraid to look the darkness right in the eye. Everything changes when the Salvatore brothers arrive in town. While Elena is drawn to the mysterious Stefan, Celeste finds herself in the crosshairs of the unpredictable and dangerous Damon. Between them, a spark of lethal defiance and attraction ignites instantly. Damon sees something in her that no one else has: a wild flame, a determination that refuses to break for anyone. But Celeste is more than just Elena's twin; she is a soul bound to an ancient "debt," a contract rooted deep within her family's past-a secret that must remain buried. In a Mystic Falls where vampires return to reclaim what is theirs, Celeste must fight for her family and her very soul. Because Celeste is no one's shadow. She is the fire that burns in the dark.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘴? 𝘚𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘐. In the beginning days of the world, there was a witch who bound her soul to the man she loved, vowing they would remain one in life and in death. When he passed, so did she-and the spell lived on, weaving itself into new lovers across the ages. Life after life, one could not exist without the other. Until the spell fell upon the wrong hands. Two witches, bound together, dared to stand against the Mikaelsons. But when Elijah raised his hand to strike, the witch saw through him-saw the longing he buried beneath his nobility. Love. With her dying breath, she twisted her magic into a curse, condemning him to a thousand years of emptiness. His soulmate would not be born until long after he should have turned to dust. Yet Elijah endured. He learned to live without love, to bury his heart in honor and in blood. His mark burned, but he carried it like penance. And then-exactly a millennium later-Scarlett Gilbert was born. The middle child, loved by many, brought into the supernatural world by her older sister Elena. She assumed her sister being a doppelgänger and being infatuated by 2 vampires wouldn't affect her directly... ..Until the night she was delivered to Elijah Mikaelson. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘦. #1 in #danielgillies 3/22/26 #1 in #mikaelson 7/28/26 #1 in #elijahmikaelson 7/31/26 #1 in #thevampirediaries 8/7/26

||𝐎𝐁𝐗 -- "We looked at each other a little bit too long to 'just be friends'." -𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆- _____________________ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 the pogue princess falls for the ruthless surfer boy 𝐎𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 finds herself in a love triangle with the two boys who are nothing alike. One is the ruthless surfer boy from the cut and the other is the rich kook prince. _____________________ cover made my the amazing and sweet and talented @acklescline ! go follow her bcs she's amazing

𝑰𝑵 𝑾𝑯𝑰𝑪𝑯 Morgan Bea Solace, a girl with a traumatic life, just happens to repeat her mother's history, but will she find out the real, dark truth behind it all?

❝𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.❞ the story of the youngest salvatore sibling, the girl who lost everything, fell for the wrong guy, and made some eternal friends forever. -the vampire diaries season 2-6 ❦

The hidden Salvatore, she called herself. A secret she had so carefully kept over the centuries. She enjoyed being kept a mystery. Enjoyed the hunt and the looks on people's faces when they realized her true identity. Decade after decade she built herself into something unbreakable. A being of power and death. Cunning and chaos. She was strong and refused to be anything but. She'd never had a weakness before. Not until him. ━━━━━━♡♤♡━━━━━━ TVD Season 3 - 4 Follows similar plot of the vampire diaries apart from my OC and a few other things. ━━━━━━♡♤♡━━━━━━ Thanks for reading! ILY! ━━━━━━♡♤♡━━━━━━ RANKINGS: #22 originals