A Safe Space •TVD/TO•

Some people spend their lives searching for a safe place.

Victoria Hastings stopped believing one existed.

At twenty-six, her life looks perfect from the outside. A respected husband. Two beautiful little boys. A quiet home in Mystic Falls. But behind closed doors, every word is measured, every mistake has consequences, and every piece of the woman she used to be has slowly been stripped away.

Then she meets a family unlike any she's ever known.

The Mikaelsons are dangerous, complicated, and burdened by a thousand years of secrets. They are the last people Victoria should trust... yet they're the first people to make her wonder what safety is supposed to feel like.

As old enemies awaken, impossible bonds are forged, and the supernatural world begins to unravel around her, Victoria must decide whether she's willing to risk everything for a future she never thought she deserved.

Because sometimes the safest place isn't a place at all.

It's the people who choose to stand beside you.

The Vampire Diaries / The Originals

Poly Mikaelson x OC

Slow burn • Soulmates • Found family • Healing after abuse • Protective Mikaelsons • Canon divergence