Centuries ago, before Klaus Mikaelson was a legend - before the curse, before the name became something to fear - he was just a boy in the woods. And there was a girl. She wasn't meant for war or power. She didn't command the world around her. But she could calm the storm inside him. Long before marriage tied her to the Mikaelsons, she was already family - not by blood, but by something deeper. Then came the magic. The blood. The beginning of the end. To save them, she gave up everything. Her name, her place, her past. Wolves who feared nothing turned their heads when she passed - not out of fear, but something closer to reverence. Even as a vampire, her blood still whispers of the old world. Now, centuries later, she walks the edges of their world again - hidden from Elijah, tied to Klaus by secrets no one else remembers. Their bond was never loud, never simple. It was friendship before love. And friendship after betrayal. But nothing stays buried forever. What happens when the girl forgotten by time must choose between the man she once saved... and the one she may become?

"𝐢'𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢'𝐦 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨." "𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝. 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈'𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝." °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ or when cordelia carrows involvement in the supernatural world grows a million times larger overnight when she finds out her soulmate is the original hybrid. °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ I only own my own storyline and ideas. Cordelia is not a badass, nor will she ever be. if you don't like that I'm sorry