'Til We're Dead and Buried (2025 Promptober)
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You've Been Haunting Me for Forty Days and Forty Nights by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
01 Oct 2025
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Nearly a century after their last separation, Katherine still wears her wedding ring.
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Every Time I Try to Walk Away by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
02 Oct 2025
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While pregnant with Henrik, Esther ruminates on the differences between Mikael and Ansel.
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And You Look at Me Like You’re Hypnotized by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
03 Oct 2025
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They had met at a gallery—which, in hindsight, should have been a red flag.
Her mother always said never trust an artistic man—or, well, any man ever. Which is probably why Wilhelmina’s mother was on her seventh husband and currently off somewhere in Greece trying to seduce an eighth. Lucky bint.
But Mina hadn’t exactly known what would happen at the time, and she didn’t think it was particularly fair to expect her to recognize what genre of story she was in before the opening credits had even finished rolling.
She had only seen a tall, pretty stranger with eyes like storm clouds and thought: why not?
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Wilhelmina isn't sure when she got so attached to the strange man claiming to be her soulmate—but she supposes if you can't beat them, sleep with them.
At least, she's pretty sure that's how the saying goes.
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It'll Only Bring You Down by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
04 Oct 2025
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When is a monster not a monster?
It's a trick question, Alexander thinks—a monster is always a monster, even when you love it.
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If It Feels Like a Dream Then It Is One by IcarusOfAThousandDays
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05 Oct 2025
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You cried the way all beautiful things should—quietly, prettily.
Kol watched you with the fascination for a long moment.
You were the exact type that would make Elijah pause—big-eyed and trembling, soft in all the right places. Kol could almost hear how his brother’s voice would have gone gentle, how he’d crouch down to your level, murmur reassurance, coo as he touched your chin, whisper that you were safe.
Elijah always liked collecting pretty, pathetic things.
He liked to soothe them before he split them open. He liked to make them believe he was some sweet creature. He liked them to cry those delicate girl-tears as he fucked the holiness out of them against a wall.
Kol’s smile curved, slow and mean. He had none of Elijah’s patience. He preferred to watch the fear unfold in real time, to taste the moment the pleading turned into something else.
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Unfortunately, you attend the same church as Dowager Fauline.
Kol loves pretty little things. He loves them even more when they’re covered in blood and sobbing.
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I Am Not Your Dracula Spectacular by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
06 Oct 2025
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Kol and Finn assumed they'd wake up on the Other Side after being murdered, but Qetsiyah's spell was never meant to hold the progenitors of an entire species.
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I Wanna Know What Makes You Cry by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
07 Oct 2025
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“I don’t know anything about your stupid coffins with your stupid family that you stupidly daggered because you’re the worst person alive!” The words tumble out of her, hot and tripping over themselves, months of anger rising all at once.
Her chest heaves, her pulse a roar in her ears, and she doesn’t care if he kills her for it.
The grip shifts—tightens—until her jaw aches beneath his fingers. He tilts her face up, forcing her to meet him eye to eye. His breath is hot against her mouth when he speaks, his voice a low growl that crawls down her spine.
“Don’t you dare talk to me like that.”
Her nails dig into his hand, desperate, shaking. “Stop being so mean to me!”
He bares his teeth, a snarl tearing through his throat as her nails draw blood—and before she can think, before she can breathe, her foot snaps up and connects with his shin.
He lets go with a snarl.
The air holds for a beat—her chest rising, his eyes burning—and then they collide, mouths crashing together into a brutal kiss.
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Niklaus and Elijah share everything.
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I Bought Nero His Very First Fiddle by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
16 Jan 2026
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And then he pushes the door open.
It is carnage.
The first thing he sees is not Miriam but the floor.
A scatter of bodies—too many, there is no living human soul left in his room—arranged in no order but that which panic and violence created.
They are human or had been—once. Men, women. Limbs tangled. Eyes glassy.
Elijah realizes that his sister has slaughtered their entire kitchen staff.
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Something else found Miriam in the dark.
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- Part 8 of 'Til We're Dead and Buried (2025 Promptober)
- Part 4 of I'll Settle for the Ghost of You (Miriam Mikaelson Collection)
- Part 11 of Whumpuary 2026
- Part 3 of They Hiss Songs of Your Birth (Mikaelsoncest Stories)
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Keeping All The Things I Knew Inside by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
09 Oct 2025
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For a moment, Elijah forgets himself and asks, “Where is mother?”
Finn looks at him a long moment, gaze level in that way that makes Elijah feel both young and foolish.
“She’s busy,” he says at last—the word is clipped, and the look that accompanies it makes Elijah feel stupid for having asked at all.
A pause.
Finn reaches across the small space between them—his hand hovering, hesitating—then resting on the edge of the blanket. “How are you feeling?”
Elijah means to answer properly, to say what he always says—well enough, it will pass, it does not matter.
But the truth slips out instead, small and graceless and young. “Bad.”
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Elijah gets between Niklaus and Mikael.
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A Drop of Water in an Endless Sea by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
10 Oct 2025
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That night, she tells Mathias’s empty bed, “Today was dumb,” and then, softer, “but funny.”
And then, even quieter, “I miss you.”
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When you are a sister and your brother dies, do you stop being one?
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It's Gonna Be a Long, Long Time by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
12 Oct 2025
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"The tears come like a flood that has waited a century for the gates to open. They burn through him, fierce and unrelenting, and the echo that answers from the vaulted ribs above makes him feel as if the bones themselves are weeping too.
Everything in this building is speaking to him now.
Every plaque, every fossil, every quiet miracle encased in glass—it all chants the same command: Live. Live. Live.
The spider and the wasp, locked forever in amber, whisper it from their tiny, shining tomb: We died so you could breathe.
The ammonites spiral it upward from their shells, the pattern endless, unbroken: We turned to stone so you would have ground to stand on.
The dust of the trilobites hums it through the marble floor: Carry us forward. We did not end; we became you.
He grips his knees, folds inward as if to protect himself from the enormity of it."
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In another version of this story, it all ends in blood.
This is not that story.
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Or: how Finn Mikaelson learned how to save himself.
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- Part 11 of 'Til We're Dead and Buried (2025 Promptober)
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Don't You Go Beg and Plead by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
26 Oct 2025
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Her features are striking—soft and girlish, with those wide blue eyes so like Niklaus’s, just a few shades darker, glistening with tears. Her mouth is red and swollen from where she has bitten it raw.
He feels something stir—pity first, protectiveness next, and beneath it the small, unspoken hunger that accompanies both. He buries it, as he has always done.
“Miriam,” he says at last, his tone even, measured. “I will speak with our mother. Perhaps she can turn Father’s mind. He listens to her more than he admits. But you must understand, sister, if father were to decree you marry tomorrow, you would marry tomorrow—”
Miriam eyes fill with a fresh wave of tears, her small shoulders shaking as she clings to Niklaus.
“It is hopeless then,” she says. “Mother will not help me—she never helps anyone. He says and she obeys.”
Niklaus’s voice cuts through, low and angry. “Brother, can we truly do nothing?”
Elijah exhales, the sound nearer a sigh than a breath—already a plan has already begun its slow, deliberate shape within him.
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Miriam runs to her brothers for help.
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You Crawl Through My Skin by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
20 Oct 2025
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“She’s fucking my brother, you know.”
The words drop like a stone into water, rippling outward.
Lucien’s breath stumbles. His eyes flicker—rage trying to surface through the compulsion’s glass. “You lie,” he says, though his voice is hollow.
Kol smiles, slow and foxlike. “Do I? You should hear her. She cries out his name as if the sound itself might save her. Niklaus,” he says softly, savoring it. “Niklaus, Niklaus, Niklaus.” He leans forward as he repeats it, his tone almost affectionate, as though sharing a joke between friends. “Your lady makes a chorus of it.”
Lucien’s nostrils flare. His jaw tightens. He cannot move, but the fight is visible in his eyes—fire trapped behind glass. Kol steps closer, close enough that the boy’s breath warms his throat.
“I tell you this,” Kol says lightly, “because I think you ought to know. I believe in honesty between men. Especially before one of them becomes a gift.”
Lucien’s brows knit. “A gift?”
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Kol decides to give his sister a gift.
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And Still You Turn Around by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
21 Oct 2025
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He could climb into her chest, he thinks.
The thought arrives blunt and deranged and truer than anything he has pictured in centuries. He could lean forward and slip between bone and breath, could press his face to the inside of her sternum and let the beat of her heart rock him into something like sleep.
He could reach inward—past salt, past heat, past the tender machinery—and make a home there.
It is not enough to love her—no, that’s too small, too civil. He wants residence. He wants to live in the warm red room where her pulse keeps time. He wants to hang his hunger on the rafters and leave his rage at the door and curl up under the rib like a penitent dog that has finally learned how to stop biting the hand that feeds it.
“That good, huh?” she teases, eyebrows waggling, and he makes a sound that is nearly a laugh, incredulous and soft-edged, disbelief fraying into awe.
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Instead of stopping at a kiss, Niklaus and Sophronia deciding to celebrate their new closeness in a different way.
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Takes place in Chapter 16 of "That This Might've Shook the Love From Me."
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Tonight I’m Really Gonna Let Myself Go by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
21 Oct 2025
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Her voice is raw when it gets out. “Kol. Stop.”
He studies her, eyes narrowed. “Did you know?”
She opens her mouth—whether to deny or confess, he never finds out.
Kol realizes suddenly that he doesn’t want to hear her confirm it, doesn’t want to give her the chance to say yes. His hand tightens, cruel, lifting her higher until her heels scrape the wall.
Natalie chokes, her nails digging frantic red lines down his wrist.
“Your brother and sister tried to kill me,” he hisses, close enough that his lips brush the corner of her mouth with each word. “And together they almost succeeded.”
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Kol successfully escapes Elena and Jeremy's murder attempt and takes his anger out on their sister.
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- Part 15 of 'Til We're Dead and Buried (2025 Promptober)
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Our Nights Melt into Sequels by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
22 Oct 2025
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Hayley, standing proud in the doorway of a half-built home, telling him he has it in him to lead. The air in that memory hums with faith. It dims as he watches her words rot into silence and blood, the image of their pack laid out in heaps like firewood.
And his mother—gentle, steady, a hand cool against his fevered forehead. He almost reaches for her before the vision turns, before the water fills her lungs again and she drifts beneath the surface, hair tangling in the fountain’s pull.
“This is what you were given to lose,” she murmurs. “See how much has been stolen from you."
Tyler’s breath snags and his throat feels scraped raw.
The longing is worse than the grief—soft, insistent, the kind that makes you believe the past might still open if you knock hard enough. He doesn’t know whether to fight or fall to his knees.
“You enjoy hurting me,” he spits.
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Tyler meets someone willing to grant him his revenge.
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I Took a Little Journey to the Unknown by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
23 Oct 2025
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The dream shifts around him—no sky, no horizon, just forest folding in on itself. Henrik crouches beside him, barefoot, knees muddy, eyes bright as coins. His small hands worry at a twig, snapping it in half and fitting the pieces back together like he might fix what's already broken.
"You're me," Henrik says in English—the words sound practiced, like he's tried them before and never gotten them quite right. "Or I'm you. I can't tell."
Tyler shakes his head. "That's impossible."
Henrik only shrugs. "So is coming back from the dead."
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When Klaus remakes him, Tyler dreams of a boy.
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Break My Soul in Two by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
26 Oct 2025
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“Oh, I will,” he says easily, “if you insist on making me guess. My little dove, perhaps. No—too kind. My little snare suits you better.”
“Snare?” she repeats, and her breath clouds the air between them.
“You want to trap me, sweet girl. You want to be found,” he says pleasantly. “I can tell. You shine too bright for hiding. And—” his thumb traces the pulse at her wrist, the faintest pressure, “—I have an eye for such things. You want to be pulled out by your hair.”
The violence of it steals the moisture from her mouth. “You are vile.”
“Obviously.” His grin cuts clean and white in the dark. “But you’re still here.”
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Kol grows tired of his newest game.
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Kol Mikaelson/Dulcina
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- Part 18 of 'Til We're Dead and Buried (2025 Promptober)
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The Sweetest Dove in a Dream by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
27 Oct 2025
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“You caught me,” she says, smiling.
“I did,” he answers, breathless out of habit. “Do I win something?”
She tilts her head, eyes glinting. “You were going to ask me, remember?”
He blinks, remembering. “Right. May I—” He swallows. “May I kiss you?”
She studies the ripple of the stream, the way it shimmers between their feet, alive and unreachable. “Which kind were you thinking of?”
He hesitates. “There are… different kinds?”
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Agnes and Henrik share an innocent moment on the Other Side.
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- Part 19 of 'Til We're Dead and Buried (2025 Promptober)
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Do You Wanna Tear My Heart Out? by IcarusOfAThousandDays
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
28 Oct 2025
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And the strangest thing is—she cannot remember the last time she felt this alive.
It ruins a thousand years of precedent in one breath. Every boy, every man, peeled neatly off her like dead petals. All the almosts she gorged herself on, all the not-good-enoughs she dressed up in crowns—poor little paupers pretending to be a happily ever after.
She had thought she would find it once, that strange alchemy that turns a beast into a prince. For a thousand years she had searched for it and found only the reverse—found the magic that turns a brother into a curse, a lover into a ruin, herself into something blood-smeared and yearnful.
She had watered her fairytale garden with the gore of a thousand men, a thousand loves, all stolen from her by time or cruelty or her own foolish hope. She told herself she loved them. She told herself she lost them—
But when Fronia kisses her like this—breathless and certain and wholly present—they all feel like ghosts.
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Rebekah and Sophronia go further than a kiss.
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