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Elena felt his fingers brushing against her naked back as he deftly, yet ever so carefully, untied the laces of her off-white dress.
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It is Elena and Elijah's wedding night, but first, she'd made him promise that he'd be careful not to tear her wedding dress. If only she'd known how frustrating it would be to wait.
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- Part 36 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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Where was she now? First kiss number eighteen? Twenty?
Whatever.
Like in any of the preceding times where Elena initiated it, the kiss grew hungrier than it had been that true first time, when she'd turned around and was blindsided by the realization that the 'em' Katherine had sent her off to meet was Elijah Mikaelson.
She bit into his lip and let her nails cut into the skin on the side of his neck. A potent, familiar scent hit the air, and Elena let out a satisfied little growl near the back of her throat. She'd made him bleed. Good.
That's what he got for somehow getting her caught in a fucking time loop.
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Groundhog!American Gothic — Elijah calls her Katerina and then kisses her. Two hours later, he does it again. And again. This is a lot of making out... it's also a lot of being called by the wrong name. Elena might be full of bone-deep apathy, but eventually something's gotta give.
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- Part 35 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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so both retain, or both to life restore by Terapsina
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV)
16 Aug 2025
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"Why are you here, Rebekah?"
"Don't you know?"
Dull pain lanced through Elena's chest because she did know. She'd known the moment Caroline had told her that Klaus had sacrificed himself for his daughter.
"Elijah's dead," Elena said.
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Elena gets a visit from someone who hopes that she will agree to be the Orpheus to Elijah's Eurydice.
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- Part 33 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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Oil Painting of Elijah Mikaelson (as Hades) and Elena Gilbert (as Persephone).
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- Part 34 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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Cold Shoulder and Hot Fury by Terapsina
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV)
02 Aug 2025
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The pain echoed back and forth between them like a pendulum. Hitting against her heart cavity on every other swing.
"Elena," he said tightly. Still far enough from her that no humans could guess that he was there for her.
She ignored him, swaying to the beat and sliding her fingers through the head of hair that was pressing kisses into Elena's neck — her dance partner fighting to place hickeys that would never leave their claim.
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"The Feast of All Sinners" AU - Elena knows what Elijah is planning to do after the ritual. Fine. But first, she'll make him regret it.
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- Part 32 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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stealing all the stars in yesterday's sky by Terapsina for readergirl37
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV)
24 Jul 2025
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She hadn't thought she would ever see that immortal face ever again. Those sharply angular lines of the face; those depths of honor and humanity and cool practicality in his brown eyes; that hidden, tightly guarded well of love Elena had once thought spoken for and then found herself drinking from so freely; those strong shoulders that had softened at her touch a hundred thousand times.
She hadn't thought she would ever see him again. Not when the last time had ended as he burned into ash in front of Elena's sobbing, screaming, horrified self.
She stared at him. Her heart both breaking and mending at once.
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-Fifty years ago, Elena watched her husband die; her attempt to remedy that goes just a bit awry. And very abruptly, she's two hundred years in her own past, seventeen, human, and about to meet Elijah Mikaelson (i.e. her dead husband).
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- Part 24 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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Pride and Parenting (Plo Koon's Guidebook For Adoptions) by Terapsina
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
13 Jun 2025
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It is a truth galactically acknowledged that a Force-sensitive child in trouble must be in need of a Kel Dor Jedi.
Or maybe it was simply a realization from the Daughter who saw the webs of her brother's plotting and despaired at the future the galaxy was hurtling towards; who took a Jedi once destined to adopt two entire army battalions and thrust some other kids in his path for good measure.
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Everyone knows that when Master Plo Koon is to be sent on a mission, one also sends a warning to the Crechemasters to ready a new bed.
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- Part 3 of Unrelated Star Wars Fics
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She’d been free. Freed from a conscience she couldn’t afford to give up again. Free from the grief she’d never actually wanted to abandon, not until the choice was taken from her. But also free from the two brothers that had been taking choices away from her from the moment they’d come to town.
And she didn’t want to give that freedom up. She wouldn’t. Not ever again.
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When Elena feels her humanity returning she finds herself focusing on having finally been free from the Salvatore brothers, and doesn't abandon her justified anger. Unfortunately, she also realizes that her sire bond to Damon isn't fully broken and goes to Rebekah for help, help that involves a little trip to New Orleans.
On the way, Elena will have to deal with her newly returned humanity as well as some long-awaited truths about Caroline's old relationship with the older Salvatore.
There are some things that even the most compassionate person could never forgive.
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- Part 21 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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Zhuo Yichen had always known love to be the first warm rays of springtime sunlight, melting the white snow sorrow into the beautiful pink blossoms of a cherry tree in bloom.
That was his love for Wen Xiao.
She was the melody at the edge of his heart; the soft smile that caught his breath; and the clever quip warming his cheek.
Zhuo Yichen had not known that this love was destined to own only half his heart. He had not known that he should guard himself against a love like the storm at sea.
Inescapable and unassailable.
But how did one guard against someone who would love the springtime in his heart with the same devotion as could be found in Zhuo Yichen himself? How did one protect oneself from a soul that was mate to itself?
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A look into Zhuo Yichen's head as he tries to sacrifice himself to Lord Yinglong in Episode 26.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated Fangs of Fortune Fics
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"I considered solely leaving a letter," Elijah said and Elena's eyes were drawn to the reflection of the envelope in his hands that she could see in the glass of her window.
Elena said nothing.
She swallowed, something sharp growing at the back of her throat. She thought about turning around and just... just leaving. But her feet didn't seem to want to obey and Elena found herself closing the door behind her instead.
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Elijah decides to say goodbye properly. This gives him and Elena a different first kiss.
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- Part 31 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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"Kiss, kiss, kiss!" chanted an entire roomful of people. Or so it felt like, in truth, it was probably only the few that were in their immediate circle.
Elijah's arm was warm around Elena's waist, the impression of fingers sinking lightly through the thin material of her coppery evening gown and leaving her throat strangely dry as the air around them seemed to thin.
She swallowed a mouthful of champagne trying to avoid catching Elijah's gaze with the corner of her eye.
Didn't matter, she felt his eyes anyway.
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Elena needs a date to a Christmas work gala that coincidentally takes place in New Orleans, she doesn't feel like trying to find a random, last-minute date so she asks Elijah. There's mistletoe. Because of course, there is.
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- Part 30 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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A Lie, A Lie, A Lie by Terapsina for readergirl37
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV)
23 Nov 2024
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"I'm sorry, I should introduce myself," he smirked and extended his arm to her for a shake. "Elijah Mikaelson. You might have heard of my family."
Elena stared, her mouth dropping open in disbelief.
The vampire wore a suit - though not one that looked to be tailored specifically to him, - and she supposed the hair was a similar enough shade of brown - though greased up with just a bit too much product and not looking nearly as soft to the touch as Elena had always secretly suspected Elijah's to be - but he was not, in this or any other universe, Elijah Mikaelson.
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Elena and Elijah never lost touch after Willoughby, though they haven't met face to face since. When Elena finally goes to New Orleans a decade later to ask Elijah a question the first person she meets is someone pretending to be him to hit on women. Not Elijah... has not chosen a very good latest target.
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- Part 29 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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It was the amusement that tipped Rebekah off - the way that underneath the offended anger, Katherine was just about singing 'I know something you don't know' all saccharine pleasure and victory.
Rebekah furrowed her brows.
"Give me that," she said, nicking the phone out of Elena's hand and staring at the two-letter word they'd taken for a nickname just minutes ago.
"Hey," Elena snapped with barely detectable annoyance.
Rebekah kept staring down at the screen, ignoring the questioning eyes of both Doppelgangers, 'meet em' stared back up at her.
She cursed under her breath.
Not a nickname at all was it?
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'American Gothic' but Elena never gets a chance to pretend to be Katherine. Not that this means there won't be a moment for her and Elijah to share. The sky is still blue after all.
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- Part 28 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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Hatred which followed love was a funny thing. It was thornier than the plebeian version of it - cut deeper and made roots, feeding on the dead blood of that love to bloom flowers that scorched the skin.
Rio hated Agatha like that.
Rio loved Agatha like that.
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A little glimpse into Rio's headspace during the events of 1x04.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated Agatha All Along Fics
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let there be light, let there be darkness by Terapsina
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV)
15 Sep 2024
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She had cut a hole into the dam, and emotion refused to obey, cracking the solid stone like a crystal figurine. Until the wall was more like a sieve, letting humanity pour back into Elena with a vengeance.
And with humanity came-
"No," she whimpered, freezing in Elijah's arms as he pulled back at once, a worried look overtaking his expression.
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Yet another alternate take on the kiss scene from American Gothic.
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- Part 27 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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"Don't treat me like a fool just because you've become one, Elijah," Rebekah scoffed and narrowed her eyes. "Are you ready to threaten her life? You know I'm not going to play a very gentle jailor here, and a threat means nothing if you're unwilling to go through with it."
She saw him close his eyes and found the taste of something like regret at the back of her throat, sharp and a touch bitter.
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Before Elijah goes off to confront Elena on her lie, Rebekah confronts him on whether or not he can actually go through with his plan to bargain with Elena's life.
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- Part 26 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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"You were right," Cara whispered, in the grim quiet under the torchlight of their tombed prison.
"About what?" Kahlan asked, tired eyelids fluttering to stay open as she faced her partner in doom. The combination of sweat and the natural brightness of her hair made Cara nearly glow to Kahlan's eyes, despite her clear despondence.
"You once told me it's a hard world, that we don't get many chances to tell people how much they mean to us." Cara turned her face to her and Kahlan felt a flutter of something strange in her lungs.
It's odd how quickly things changed. Kahlan knew she should be used to it by now.
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AU take on 'Desecrated' where Kahlan sees more than Cara had intended.
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- Part 2 of Unrelated Legend of the Seeker Fics
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"You listen very carefully to me, Stefan, if anything whatsoever happens to Katherine, I will descend upon Elena."
Elena rolled her eyes. Bored.
He was a threat but not because of the reasons she was sure Stefan and Damon were probably freaking out about right now. Not because he could "descent upon her" and tear her to pieces before she could so much as flinch back - she wasn't sure if she'd care if he did and it was moot anyway, he wasn't going to. She knew what it looked like when Elijah made a genuine threat and this here was as empty as it came.
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A look into Elena's head during the beginning of her and Elijah's conversation following the kiss. With a small little twist because Elena has always been able to read Elijah Mikaelson just as well as he's been able to read her.
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- Part 25 of Unrelated TVD Fics
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"A bit ironic, isn't it?" Nikola whispered, his characteristically sharp smile pulled tight by a grimace of pain. "Me, the last remnant of the glorious race of Sanguine vampiris, immortal and nigh unkillable, and yet you've watched me nearly succumb to the eternal finality of mortality far more often than I have you."
"Shut up, Nikola," Helen ground out, trying to stem the flow of the blood that was poring out of the wound from his chest with worrying speed.
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Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla are on their latest trip searching for an abnormal they might bring to the safety of the Underground Sanctuary when the abnormal in question proves to be far more powerful than they were expecting.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated Sanctuary Fics
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The Story of the Lonely Sea Captain's Heart by Terapsina for grimorie
Fandoms: Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek
26 Nov 2023
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"Are you ever going to forgive me, Kathryn?" he asked, exhaustion heavy in his voice and eyes still closed. He wasn't sure he could bear seeing her face if he was really starting this conversation.
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It's been a year since their return to the Alpha Quadrant and Chakotay and Kathryn are fine now. Except that neither one of them has addressed the big flashing fire alarm blinking between them.
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- Part 1 of Unrelated Star Trek Fics