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