"Best to give me your loyalty cause I'm taking the world, you'll se. They'll be calling me royalty." Ashla Barnes only wanted a change. After the tragic events in her life, it made sense to move away from the busy streets of London, a place filled with painful memories, to a small town in Virginia. A fresh start for both her and her son. However, as her own life slowly becomes intertwined with the people of Mystic Falls, she is pulled into events she has been trying to avoid. She is forced to face impossible choices. Friendship or love? Protecting her son or risking everything to help those she cares about? Letting herself fall for a man who hides demons beneath his sophisticated façade? Under the weight of fate, it won't be only her friends who will have to reveal their secrets-she will have to uncover her own as well. Is she ready to show the world who she truly is? TVD season 1.- TVD season 4. Elijah Mikaelson x OC