TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
Age:
24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 31, 2024 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Jul 23, 2016 0:30:25 GMT
Time had no meaning when the Other Side was where you were apparently destined to spend the rest of your days. For Tatia Petrova life had once been very simple. She had grown up with her parents and siblings and as soon as she was old enough she had married a man she had fallen in love with. Together the two of them were happy, never more so when they welcomed their son Lukas into the world but that joy was short lived as not long after Lukas’ birth her husband died and Tatia was left a teenage widow who had no choice but to raise her son on her own. She had known what was expected of her after that, Viking women were supposed to follow their husbands into the afterlife but Tatia had refused to do that as she had known that there was no way she could leave her son without either of his parents. She’d had something to live for and as she had watched the embers of the funeral pyre begin to die leaving nothing more than ash behind she had promised herself that she was going to raise her son and live life to the full.
Naturally going against the customs her kind had adopted years before hadn’t been a popular choice, for a while she had been shunned by those in her village but as time went on they had learned to accept her decision and eventually things had returned to normal. It was then that she had fallen in love once more, this time with two brothers – Elijah and Niklaus. She had not meant for both of them to pursue her as much as they had done and it had soon become apparent that she had needed to make a choice but that had proved to be a very difficult one. Though she loved both brothers she had eventually decided to give her heart to Elijah, knowing that it would be safe in his hands as opposed to in danger in the hands of his impulsive younger brother Niklaus. Both had loved her and she loved both of them in return which was what had made the decision so difficult in the first place but she had known that she couldn’t let it carry on forever so she had eventually made up her mind and for a while she and Elijah had been happy, albeit a very short time indeed.
Tatia had learned the hard way just what grief could do to a person as she had faced that crippling sadness the day she was told that her husband had died so she had wanted to help Esther in any way that she could but what she had never anticipated was that the woman would use her blood in order to turn her family into monsters. Had she known then she never would have agreed but the deed had already been done by the time Tatia had found out and by then it was already too late, by trying to help a woman she had admired she had effectively sealed her own fate. Her life was cut tragically short that day and she was forced to watch the people she loved go on with their lives without her. Watching Lukas, already four years old at the time, cry for her had broken her heart but her family had taken care of him as she had always known that they would should anything ever happen to her.
Never aware that there was something unusual about the blood flowing through her veins Tatia had never understood why she had been unable to move on and find peace but she had taken solace from the fact that she had at least been able to watch over the people she loved even if they didn’t know that she was there. Now as her eyes fluttered open she wasn’t sure whether all of those things had really happened or whether they were nothing more than a dream. Days had blurred into weeks, weeks into months, months into years and years into centuries and the young woman had no idea what to believe any longer. Sitting up slowly, it took her eyes a moment to adjust to the half light filtering in through the trees but straight away Tatia knew that the place she was in was not one that she had been in before. Around her seemed to be a dense forest but very few of the trees were ones she recognised. Very slowly her other senses began to catch up, she was able to feel a light breeze blowing all around her and the smells that reached her nostrils very much reminded her of where she had grown up. The sounds that reached her ears next, however, were very different. Even from where she was she could tell that the sounds coming from the nearby town were louder than she was used to and they sounded foreign to her ears although darkness had almost fallen so she couldn’t make out much through the trees. Staying in the refuge afforded to her by the forest was tempting but she needed answers about where she was and what had happened to her and she knew that she wasn’t going to get them by standing around waiting for them to come to her. She needed to do something.
Picking herself up off the floor, Tatia brushed herself down before making her way forward through the trees, heading in the direction that the sounds had been coming from. It wasn’t long before the trees begin to thin out and before she knew it she was stood at the side of a road. She had seen them in what she had always thought were dreams but never when she was growing up. A path seemed to run alongside it and Tatia made her way along it, taking in the sights and sounds, and even smells, around her as she got ever closer to Mystic Falls. Coming to a stop by what appeared to be a sign of some kind, Tatia let her gaze drift over the letters although they were very different to the ones she had known before she died. Somewhere in the back of her mind, however, her vague memories from the Other Side translated them for her. Welcome to Mystic Falls, Virginia. She might not know it yet but she was home.
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ELIJAH MIKAELSON
Original Vampire
Posts: 435
Age:
1046
Occupation:
Unemployed
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Tatia Petrova
Played by:
ANGE
Last seen Nov 18, 2024 20:43:14 GMT
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Jul 24, 2016 17:07:37 GMT
Home, a word that had long since lost meaning for him. There had been a time when the trees of this region had been as familiar to each of the Mikaelsons as the skin of the back of their own hands. He and his siblings had grown here, had run amongst those trees, caught up in the innocent games of children who had not yet been touched by the darkness that could linger in the world. That had been before Henrik had been lost, before their mother’s mind had become twisted enough to believe that her magic was required to protect her children, before she had practically made a deal with devil. Perhaps if it had been only a deal it would have been easier to cope with but Esther had gone beyond that, she had twisted the natural order of things, had given her children the eternal life she had sought for them, but had also made them pay for her crime. With eternal life came the eternal thirst, with her realisation of what her children had become came the never ending search for a way to destroy them.
Pushing thought of his father and the hatred that had driven him to chase his own children and the son that was not his to the ends of the earth, Elijah flexed his jaw and stared out at the trees rushing past the windows of the car. That chase had started here, he and his siblings fleeing the only home they had ever known. Since then the word had lost much of its meaning, nowhere being safe for more than a few years at a time and so often far less. There was always that dark threat of Mikael on the horizon and the knowledge that eventually Niklaus would grow tired of their progress and would sabotage what they had managed to build. He had lost count of the number of times he had cleaned up his brother’s messes, and not just his, Kol had the same tendency towards the rash. Together the two of them could leave a city in flames, blood soaking the streets. There had never been any question of his negotiating the peace in their wake. A promise had been made a thousand years ago, near to this very spot and although that vow had been tarnished over the years he had yet to break it.
The leather sole of his shoe eased its pressure on the accelerator as he grew closer to the town that had grown in the centuries since the Mikaelsons had first reached this shore, himself still in his mother’s stomach. So many other vows had been made amongst those trees, childish promises, the solemn oaths of young men who were still reaching for those first real rungs of adulthood, and the whispered vows of love spoken only to the universe. There had not been time to truly voice those words to those for whom they were meant before that self-universe had allowed a mother to twist her own desires. Tatia had been snatched from him by his mother, the blood of the first woman to capture his heart being used to give them an immortal life, a brutal immortal life. Her blood had been the first to flow down their throats, igniting the hunger within them, igniting his hatred for his mother. Both that hunger and the hatred had burned brightly since.
Now that he approached the sign that would mark the border of the town Elijah felt that hatred burn hotter within him again. The betrayal stung far more acutely here but he had a thousand years of practice under his belt and could tamp it down to just that tight ball of agony within. There was other business to be conducted here, business that did not involve ancient grudges. Elijah tore his gaze away from the trees, from what had once been home, back to the road as the sign approached. There was always time still for those grudges to be unpacked and brooded over once more, until such time he had another matter at hand, one whose face could likely ignite other long buried emotions. As if mustered by the mere thought of such things Elijah saw the glimmer of sunlight on sable hair, an image once burned into his memory. The pressure was moved from accelerator to the break, the vehicle rapidly losing speed as he brought the car to a stop on the side of the road. Dark eyes narrowed, equally dark brows drawing together of their own accord as his legs carried him from the vehicle. The meaning of the word doppelganger was one he had long been acquainted with and yet now it did not seem enough to cover the thoughts in his mind. ”Tatia…” It could not be, this could be nothing more than a delusion, a memory in his mind twisted by the thoughts that had occupied him as he had wound his way towards this town. And yet … it was. She was. One hand lifted, fingers hovering in the air as if reaching for an arm he had so often lain fingers upon.
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TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
Age:
24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 31, 2024 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Aug 4, 2016 22:02:33 GMT
Tatia had always been an independent person, even though she had fallen in love and got married when she was only a teenager she had never lost sight of who she was as an individual. Back then it had been common for people to expect women to get married at her age and do everything that their husbands asked of them but Tatia’s husband had never been like that. He had known that she was a free spirit and had left her to her own devices when he wasn’t around, something that she had always loved about him. He hadn’t tried to turn her into something that she wasn’t and deep down she had always been grateful of that. She had seen so many people she had grown up with become miserable because their lives hadn’t turned out the way they had expected them to and she had never wanted to experience that for herself. Of course things hadn’t always been easy for the young Petrova woman, at only fifteen years old she had found herself a widow with a young son to raise and she had found it difficult for a while but thankfully her family had helped. For a while after she refused to throw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre so that she could follow him into the afterlife she had been looked down on by the others in her village. They hadn’t understood how she could refuse to adhere to their customs and instead choose to live and raise her son but her parents had understood. They had realised that the love she had held for the boy had rendered her incapable of leaving him an orphan at such a young age and they had made it clear to her that they had supported her decision completely. Eventually the looks of disapproval from the others in her village had subsided and within a few months things were pretty much back to normal. Life had continued and Tatia had found herself feeling thankful each day that she had refused to leave her son. Even though she had loved her husband dearly she had known that Lukas was a part of both of them and she had known in her heart that he never would have wanted her to abandon their son. Before he went off to war he had told her how much they both meant to him and he had made her promise that should anything happen to him then she would look after Lukas so she knew she had done the right thing despite what other people had thought in the beginning. She hadn’t thought that she would end up falling in love again and for a while she had felt guilty about developing feelings for someone else but her husband had been a good man and after some persuasion from her family she had been persuaded that he would want her to move on and be happy. She had known that it was the right thing for Lukas as well, aside from her father and brother he had never really had a father figure in his life given that he was only young when her husband had died so she had wanted to give him that at last. She hadn’t planned on liking both Elijah and Niklaus and for a long time she had felt awful that they had both taken to showing such affection around her but eventually she had made her decision and she had followed her heart so she had known that there was no way she could have chosen wrong. Her last few memories were a complete blur, she remembered finding the bodies of some people in her village that had looked like they had been ripped apart by a wild animal but other than that she had no idea what had happened next. She had no idea how she had awoken alone in an unfamiliar forest and even though she had felt safe hidden within the shelter of the trees, she had known straight away that she had needed to figure out exactly what was going on. The sounds that had reached her ears had seemed so familiar to the young woman and as soon as she had emerged from the trees she had known straight away that there was something very wrong. The closer she got to town the more she had come to realise that the world around her now wasn’t the one that she remembered and as she stood studying the sign before her, she wasn’t sure how she understood the words that had been written on it. Somehow they had clicked into place but the name of the town wasn’t one she recognised and she had found herself debating on whether or not to venture into the town itself or whether to seek refuge in the woods instead. She knew that she needed to get to the bottom of what was going on sooner or later but nothing about her surroundings seemed familiar to her and she found herself wondering if it was nothing more than a bad dream. Before she could make up her mind completely a voice sounded from behind her and she turned only to be met with the face of someone that was very familiar and she instantly felt a relieved smile form on her face. His hair and clothes were different but the face and the eyes were the same and she would have recognised his voice anywhere. A part of Tatia’s brain registered just how shocked he seemed to see her but in that moment she was too relieved to pay too much attention to it. “Elijah,” she breathed, hesitating only a moment longer before stepping forward and throwing her arms around him. “You look different,” she admitted as she took a step back and surveyed him properly. “But that doesn’t matter, you have no idea how happy I am to see you,” she added, the natural smile he had always brought out in her forming on her face as she looked over at him despite the uncertainty about the world she now found herself facing. ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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ELIJAH MIKAELSON
Original Vampire
Posts: 435
Age:
1046
Occupation:
Unemployed
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Tatia Petrova
Played by:
ANGE
Last seen Nov 18, 2024 20:43:14 GMT
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Aug 13, 2016 18:54:00 GMT
It had been long said that at the brink of death a life flashed before one’s eyes. Being what he was he had never quite experienced such a thing but there had been times when life had seemed to stand still and what could have been raced through his mind. Futures unfulfilled, pasts that could have been changed by a single action. Each time it had been a form of torment, his mind’s way of proving to him the pain life could cause and each time Elijah had felt the claws his thoughts could wield with deadly aim shred his heart in his chest. The agony should have been able to kill him alone but thanks to his mother’s meddling, to the monstrous power she had been able to wield he had lived through it each time. The first had been the worst, the knowledge that his mother had slaughtered Tatia to turn them into what they now were had lived with him for five hundred years, the claws working away at tender flesh constantly until another had looked to soothe the wounds. In the end he had not felt half of what he had for Tatia for her doppelganger but there had been enough there for him to feel the sting of betrayal when it came to his brother wishing to use Katerina as their mother had Tatia. He had stuck with his family, taking his brother’s side over hers but it hadn’t prevented his tender heart from feeling the pain once more, from his mind throwing up those images of what could have been yet again. One glimpse of the dark haired form at the side of the road now had been enough to hook a claw back into his heart. Pain rolled through his chest along with a sort of breathless relief that would surely only disappear as it became obvious to Elijah that he was looking at nobody more than the latest Petrova doppelganger. The life that he could have had with Tatia had been lost the night his mother had drained the blood from her veins, their marriage, their long years together, his raising of Lukas with her and the half dozen more children with their mother’s dark eyes and hair and quick smile. All of those chances at happiness had been snatched in a heartbeat, only to be replayed now as his past was thrown straight into his path. A million times in the last thousand years he had considered what might have been if only Niklaus had not gone to watch the wolves that night with Henrik and now they flashed across his vision once more in the instant it had taken for her name to loose itself from his throat. Tatia. Seeing her up close, seeing the very essence of her in those eyes Elijah knew that somehow the order of the universe had shifted again. His mind wasn’t playing tricks but somewhere someone had and Tatia had been returned to him somehow. Stunned he had spoken her name as he had seen her for who she was. Of its own volition his hand had risen but Elijah held it there, an inch from her elbow, dark eyes searching her face. For a moment she seemed as shocked as him, a smile forming but silence reigning for a moment until Tatia breathed his name and threw herself at him. Elijah found his voice trapped in his throat, his body held stiff for a moment before he lifted his arms and held her back for just a split second. He inhaled as she stepped back, the scent that he had remember for all of those centuries filling his senses. ”And I you. I never expected to see you here, not in this place again.” Elijah swallowed hard, smiling back as he tried to find some way in his mind to be able to explain this to her. It had been a thousand years since Tatia’s heart had beat but now he could hear it in her chest, pounding in his own ears. A frown creased his brow as he let his hand slip down to cup her elbow. ”Do you remember how you ended up in this place? Where can you last recall being?” A part of him burned to ask where she had been, what she had done for so long, what had happened in those final moments but he knew that the answers to all of those questions were ones he might not want to hear. ”Perhaps this is a discussion we should not have here. Will you come with me?” At one time Tatia would have trusted him enough to do as he asked immediately but who knew what had happened in those thousand years and what she remembered of what his mother had done to her. Tags: TATIA PETROVA |
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TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
Age:
24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 31, 2024 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Aug 23, 2016 9:47:19 GMT
To say that Tatia was confused at the moment was an understatement. There were certain things around her that seemed familiar but most of the things she was seeing now seemed completely different to what she was used to. She knew that something must have happened but what that was she had no idea. Her memory was a little fuzzy, she remembered finding the mauled bodies of several men in her village but after that everything was a blur. She couldn’t remember what she had done next and that worried her. Something inside her told her that it had been a long time since she had found those bodies but with no one around to ask it was a little difficult to get her head around to say the least. She knew this wasn’t how things were supposed to turn out, she had imagined herself settling down with Elijah and the two of them raising Lukas together. Her son had never known his father and while she had done her best to look after him with help from her family, she knew deep down that he needed a father. Elijah had seemed to be the perfect fit, she had fallen for him and loved him completely and that was something he had never thought that she would find again after her husband died. She knew she was supposed to have given up her life the day his funeral pyre was lit and joined him in the afterlife but she had promised him that if anything ever happened to her then she would go on living and Lukas had given her a reason to do that. For a long time it had felt like it would just be the two of them, there had been men in the village that she had taken a liking to but none of them had seemed quite right and she wasn’t sure that she would have trusted them to love her son as if he was their own. With Elijah she hadn’t had any of those concerns though, she had been honest with him about Lukas from the start and he had still been interested. She had honestly thought that they would get married and make their family bigger as time went on and eventually be able to grow old together but even though it seemed like only yesterday that she had thought those things, she was starting to realise that it must have been much longer than that. She had no idea where Elijah was or what had happened to him but she knew she needed answers and she was determined to get them. In a world as strange as the one that she found herself in now she had never thought that she would cross paths with Elijah and definitely not as quickly and yet here he was standing before her. He looked different, his hair was shorter and his clothes had changed so much from the ones he used to wear but that face and those eyes were such that she knew she would never be able to forget them. She had spent so much time looking into them in the past that now they were ingrained in her mind and she knew that she wouldn’t have it any other way. She looked shocked to see her, about as shocked as she felt she would imagine, and something inside of her told her that she needed to be careful for a reason she didn’t understand but she ignored it, instead throwing her arms around him before she even really knew what she was doing. She still had no idea what had happened or how things could have changed so much but it didn’t seem anywhere near as intimidating knowing that she was going to have to face it now that she knew that Elijah was there. She had never needed anyone before, her parents had often teased her that she was too independent for her own good while she was growing up, but this was unchartered territory for the young Petrova woman and she knew that it would be that much easier to face with Elijah by her side. As he spoke it took a moment for her to process his words and she studied him carefully for a moment. “What do you mean not in this place again?” she asked, unable to keep the confusion out of her voice as she spoke. Something about the woods she had found herself in had seemed familiar but that was it, she had no idea where she was or even how things could have changed so much. “The last thing I remember is waking up alone in the woods not far from here. I don’t know how I got out there, you’re the first person that I have seen,” she explained, knowing that there had to be more going on than she knew about at the moment. “Before that I remember finding those bodies in the village but everything else is a blur,” she added as she surveyed him carefully for a moment. “What is going on Elijah?” she asked, certain in that moment that he knew much more about it than she did. As he asked if she would go with him, her smile returned and she found herself nodding. “Of course.” ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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ELIJAH MIKAELSON
Original Vampire
Posts: 435
Age:
1046
Occupation:
Unemployed
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Tatia Petrova
Played by:
ANGE
Last seen Nov 18, 2024 20:43:14 GMT
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Aug 27, 2016 12:56:41 GMT
For a thousand years he had watched the world change. Empires had risen and fallen, wars had raged across continents, diseases had ravaged populations. He’d personally witnessed more than any would have believed possible and yet still there were times when he found himself astounded by something he experienced. Elijah couldn’t imagine what it must have been like to have had your world suddenly snap forward ten centuries. To Tatia it must have seemed as though she had fallen asleep in the village, at least he could hope her end had been that peaceful at his mother’s hands, and woken up there again but with everything she had known gone. Alone, wandering the woods it must have seemed like one of the old ghost stories that would make the rounds in the village, the tales born of the myths that were all pervasive in their society. Those stories had only grown taller after what had happened on the night they had been turned but Tatia would have known none of that. By the time he and his siblings had fled Mystic Falls she had been on the other side, blissfully unaware of what her blood had done, unaware of the grief he had carried with him for centuries, the grief he could still feel tugging at his heart now along with a trace of hope. A part of him, the part that still loved her was glad for Tatia’s return but the larger, wiser part warned him of what this could mean, of what harm could come to her now. She had been safe from it wherever she had gone to after his mother had performed her spell, now, alive again, she was at risk once more. Elijah doubted that Tatia was aware of how she had come to be here. In such cases it was rarely apparent, rarely clear and her reaction to his arrival, the hug, the relief, made it obvious that she was confused, perhaps a little afraid too. Holding her that way had steadied a little of the fear inside of him, had started opening doors long left sealed but he’d not been able to indulge himself in that way for too long. Tatia’s return was not a trivial matter, in fact it likely spoke of some form of trouble on the horizon. The instant the words were spoken he knew that perhaps they had been ill-formed. He could hear the confusion in Tatia’s voice. Elijah squeezed her arm gently, a sign of support, as he tried for a faint smile and a shake of his head. ”This far from home I mean,” Elijah murmured, the words a half truth. He had not expected to see her this many centuries after his mother had killed her. There was nothing he could say to make the truth easier to hear for her but he could choose the way in which he spoke it, a way that would not drive icy fear into her heart. Elijah listened to Tatia’s explanation with his heart in his throat, understanding the fear that must’ve rocked her as she’d woken in the unfamiliar place. ”We’re far away from where the settlement is,” he explained weakly, not wanting to call Mystic Falls a town yet. ”It was mere chance that I was here now.” And sheer luck that he had been the one to find her. Wandering alone in Mystic Falls now was not wise. The town had grown little safer in the last thousand years. Instead of his own family feasting in these woods there were others that did now. He had asked her about before, how she had ended up here but now that Tatia was mentioning the bodies in the village Elijah was certain he no longer wanted to know the answer. It was all too easy for him to recall the village as it had been that night, the bodies, the blood, the feeling of it cooling on his skin as he had awoken. Then his mother … knowing that Tatia was gone. Elijah swallowed hard, forcing back the guilt and grief that began to build in his throat and threatened to choke him. ”There was an attack,” Elijah managed hoarsely, not wanting to go into too much more detail about what had happened then. ”If you come with me to somewhere safer I’ll tell you all I know of what’s happened.” At Tatia’s smiling agreement Elijah used his touch on her elbow to guide her back towards the road. The vehicle was not going to be easy for her to understand, he was well aware of that. Their only form of transport on land at the time had been horses and carts. ”We’re going to travel in this,” he explained cautiously, gesturing at the vehicle. ”It’s … been some time since the attack on the village and transport has changed somewhat.” Elijah used his free hand to open the passenger side door. He gestured to the seat inside, a patient smile on his face. ”It functions differently to a horse, it’s faster but far more comfortable…” To her it would likely seem inconceivable. It had taken 900 years after her death for such things to be invented, before that it would have been impossible to even picture a gas engine, a vehicle that could travel with no sign of its form of propulsion. Tags: TATIA PETROVA |
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TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
Age:
24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 31, 2024 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Sept 12, 2016 12:45:02 GMT
As soon as she had woken up in the woods, Tatia had known that something had changed. Certain things had still seemed familiar to her but a lot of the sounds that had reached her ears were completely new to her and she hadn’t known what to make of it all. She had a feeling that she had been asleep for a long time but there hadn’t been anyone around to confirm that either way. She had never liked not knowing what was going on, after her husband died she had done everything she could in order to stay in control of her own life. She’d had herself and Lukas to think about and while it was true that her family had stepped up to help after Anders died, deep down it had always felt like it was just the two of them at least until Elijah came along. It was only years after her husband died that the two of them started getting closer and somewhere along the way she had fallen for him. The fact that she had also fallen for Niklaus had complicated matters to no end but she had loved each of them in their own way. That wasn’t something she had seen coming but at the end of the day she had always known that she would have to make a choice one day and in the end she had followed her heart. There was just something about Elijah that had set him apart from anyone else in their village, his strength and compassion had seemed out of place in a way among some of the others in their village but that was what had attracted her to him in the first place. He hadn’t cared about the fact that she had already given birth to another man’s son, if anything he had seemed to embrace that and in her heart she had known that she had found a man who would love Lukas as though he was his own son. The three of them could have become a family quite easily but now she was left wondering just what had happened to the people she loved and how things around her could have changed so drastically. Seeing Elijah now was a huge comfort to the young woman considering the town she could see in front of her was so different to the village she had grown up in but even as she looked up at him she could see that there was so much that he wasn’t telling her. As Elijah squeezed her arm, Tatia felt warmth flood through her and she felt herself beginning to relax a little but she still couldn’t ignore the fact that there was something very wrong about what was going on at the moment. The way he spoke and the way he looked at her were enough to make her realise that there was much more to what was going on than met the eye and she was determined to get to the bottom of what had really happened. Even as Elijah spoke she could tell that he wasn’t telling her the whole truth and she studied him carefully for a moment. Whatever it was that he was hiding from her she knew she was going to find out sooner or later so for the moment at least she was happy to let it slide and she simply nodded. “It is strange, there was something familiar about where I woke up but it was different at the same time, I can’t explain it,” she admitted. She didn’t really understand it herself so there was no way she could expect Elijah to understand what she was saying but she had still needed to say it anyway. “It might have been by chance but I’m glad you’re here,” she said gently. There was already so much going on that she didn’t understand so it was good to be around someone who was familiar to her even if he too seemed to have changed since she had last seen him. As he said that there was an attack, Tatia thought back for a moment and something came to her. “I remember running from something but I have no idea what,” she admitted. It was all so hazy and she knew that deep down she needed to know what had happened but she wasn’t too sure she would like what she discovered when she finally found out the truth. Before she could ask what really happened, he offered to take her somewhere safer to tell her and she knew that she didn’t really have a choice. They were out in the open where they were so she knew that perhaps somewhere more private might be better after all. Agreeing to go with him was easy, she trusted Elijah and she knew that if she was going to find out what had happened then she just needed to believe that he would tell her sooner or later so she knew better than to push it. Following him back the way he had come, for the first time Tatia saw the metal box he seemed to have travelled in and her expression was puzzled as he spoke. “What is this thing?” she asked, unable to keep the curiosity, and perhaps a little fear, out of her voice as she spoke. She knew she wasn’t going to let her fear of the unknown stop her, though, Elijah had asked her to trust him and she knew that she needed to do just that. As he spoke again, however, her expression turned thoughtful once more. Placing her hand on the metal box, Tatia turned to face him. “Elijah, tell me the truth. Everything has changed so much and you seemed like you haven’t seen me for an eternity. How long has it been since we last saw each other?” she asked, her eyes pleading with him to be honest with her. She wasn’t sure she wanted to know the answer to that question but she needed to, she couldn’t stand not knowing. ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Sept 17, 2016 19:49:57 GMT
Plagued by a mercurial temper, paranoid to the bone, Niklaus had taken it upon himself to dagger his siblings numerous times over the centuries, plunging the daggers deep into their chests, slamming the coffin lid into place. Leaving them in that dark, still, dreamless place for as long as it took for his temper, or his paranoia to wear off. Kol and Rebekah had spent the most time ‘dead’, losing decades at a time of their immortal lives. That shock of ‘dying’ in one century and waking in another always took time to get over, for them to adjust to a new world. To have lost a thousand years was beyond imagination. The world had practically been reborn in that time, technology going from little more complicated than the wheel to engines, lasers, television … all of them hadn’t existed in the wildest of imaginations in Tatia’s time but now those things ruled lives. The simple existence they’d lived here was now long gone, those they had loved long gone. There was no easy way Elijah could imagine trying to tell Tatia that. Magic, if that was an explanation for it all, would at least be something she had experienced in the past. In their settlement it had been well known that his mother was a witch, that people were capable of such things. Now, unless someone had experienced it for themselves, they would laugh at the thought that it was possible to draw somebody back to life with a spell, that it was possible to curse your children and turn them into vampires. Elijah knew that the explanation would need to come though, before he drew her out of the woods, before he took her somewhere safe. All of the comforts, all of those things that had once been familiar were well out of hand now, leaving just the woods and those had continued growing while the world had moved on. He had tried for words of comfort but those had failed with a tiny slip of the tongue, one he had tried to distract Tatia from with a quick shake of the head and a white lie that would likely only bring blame later when she discovered the truth. Those half-truths would have to suffice for the moment. Feeling a trace of nostalgia for a time when he had known every tree, every path that led amongst them here. ”It never takes long for nature to reclaim what she sees as hers,” Elijah murmured, his words dripping with far more meaning than the obvious. Human lives were short, especially when he had been human. In such brutal times husbands were struck down in their prime, children lost before they could truly take their first breath, mother’s perishing in childbirth. In the end Tatia’s had been far shorter than he would ever have wished for her, only for her to now receive a second life. ”I am thankful I was the one to find you here,” Elijah said with more honesty than his earlier words had held. If it had been anybody who was familiar with Elena Gilbert questions that couldn’t be answered would be asked, if it had been Niklaus or any who wished their family harm it would have been more problematic than those questions. The relief that had settled in the pit of his stomach at the thought of having the woman he loved back disappeared back into the dark depths as Tatia began to explain to him what she could remember. Dread replaced that hope, that relief, slowly beginning to claw at his stomach, at his heart at her words. Elijah swallowed hard, tasting that bitter, coppery tang on his tongue. Should he tell her now what had happened? That all in their town had perished? ”The memories aren’t clear?” Elijah asked hoarsely, his words half question half statement. Perhaps it would be best if she never truly discovered what had happened on the night they were turned. At the very least he would delay until he had her somewhere safe. Thankfully Tatia trusted him still, readily agreeing to go with him as he drew her back towards the car, the first stumbling block that he could see in all of this. He had expected Tatia’s puzzlement but not the pleading for answers as the questions began to flow. Elijah paused, staring down at the car, trying to organise the words in a way that would perhaps make sense to her. ”This is a car,” Elijah explained slowly as he looked back up at Tatia. ”It was invented a hundred years ago, nine centuries after we last saw one another,” he added hoarsely. Lifting a hand, Elijah let it hover close to her face, not able to bring himself to touch her while he spoke. ”We’re a thousand years from where we were Tatia. I … I lived through those years without you. The attack that happened on the village, it killed most who lived there. Only my family survived.” The bolder words, that described how his mother had killed her to ensure that her children would survive everything the world could throw at them stuck in his throat as he looked down into the eyes that could still hold him captivated, the eyes now touched with confusion and perhaps fear. Tags: TATIA PETROVA ((Apologies for how awful this is)) |
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Elijah Mikaelson
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Oct 8, 2016 22:21:02 GMT
Tatia really wasn’t sure what to make of the world that she now found herself in, there were certain things that seemed to resemble things that she used to know but there were others that were completely different. Even Elijah, the man she had once known better than anyone else, seemed different and she wasn’t really sure whether that was a good or a bad thing. There were times when she still saw glimmers of the man she fell in love with and she occasionally thought that she saw the love that she had always seen still there in his eyes when he looked at her but there was something else there alongside it now, a kind of pain that she wasn’t sure she would ever be able to understand. She had heard stories about Elijah’s father from others in their village and she had also heard about his mother so she had always known that his upbringing wasn’t like her own but that had just seemed to make him even stronger. She could still sense that strength within him now but there was so much about the man standing before her that felt like a mystery to her now and it was one that she knew she wanted to unravel if she could. To her it felt like it hadn’t been that long since the two of them had last seen each other but the way Elijah looked at her was enough to make her thing that to him a lifetime or more had gone by since then. As he spoke, she found herself nodding. “That is true. Sometimes things happen that are out of our control but I always thought you and I would live to see our grandchildren grow up one day,” she admitted thoughtfully. Very few used to live to that kind of age that she knew of but deep down that was what she had always hoped would happen for her and Elijah. Having Lukas at a young age had helped, it had meant that there was more of a chance of that happening but whenever she had thought of her future it had been with Elijah right there by her side. As he spoke again her smile was gentle and she brought her hand up to let it rest gently against his cheek. “As am I,” she said sincerely. She had no idea what was really going on or where she was but she couldn’t deny that it was good to see a familiar face. Deep down Tatia wished she could remember what had happened before she woke up in the woods and there were times when flickers of memories seemed to come into her mind but those memories were gone before she could grasp them fully and figure out what had really happened. “No, they aren’t,” she admitted after trying and failing to remember what had happened once more. “Perhaps you could fill in the blank, do you know what happened to me?” she asked. She knew that it was a long shot but she knew deep down that if anyone would know the truth and be honest with her about it then it would be Elijah. She knew that there was something strange going on, something that he perhaps wanted to shield her from, but that didn’t stop her from trusting him completely. Looking over at Elijah now Tatia felt a little bad for bombarding him with questions but she had been unable to stop herself. There seemed so much that she didn’t know at the moment but she got the impression that Elijah knew so much more than he was letting on and she needed answers. As he finally spoke, Tatia’s mouth opened wide in surprise. “That can’t be true,” she breathed, not wanting to believe that it had been so long since they had last seen each other. It didn’t make sense, while she had no recollection of what had happened before she woke up in the forest she refused to believe that it had been a thousand years since they had last been together, it seemed absurd. As he spoke again Tatia shook her head in disbelief and was about to say that he must be confused but she stopped when he stumbled over his words. “Elijah, I....” she began, not quite sure what to say. She felt bad that he had lived that long without her if that was in fact the case but she didn’t understand how it was possible for him to live that long or what would have caused them to part ways in the first place. It was then that it hit her though, there could be just one explanation. “Was I dead?” she breathed at last, needing to know the answer. It was the only thing that made sense but she had to hear it from Elijah. As he said that only his family survived the attack on the village, Tatia felt her eyes sting with tears and she folded her arms across her chest as though that could stop her from feeling like her heart had been ripped out and turned her back on Elijah, needing a moment to process his words. “Lukas and my family didn’t make it?” she questioned at last, only just able to choke out the words around the lump that had formed in her throat. “No, that can’t be true.”ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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Original Vampire
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Oct 16, 2016 15:46:12 GMT
If there was one thing the last thousand years had taught him it was that in the end everything was out of their control. Cervantes had called the attempt to change the inevitable tilting at windmills, those futile last ditch efforts that in the end achieved nothing more than exhaustion. So often it felt like that was all he had done for centuries, with his brother so often standing in the place of those windmills. He had not been able to change the opinions of his parents in all of those years or yet convince his brother to cast off that monstrous shell to reveal the sensitive caring boy Niklaus had once been. And he had never truly found a way to move on from his first love despite the attempts he had made over the years. Each had ended in disaster, in that love being burned away tragically, viciously, usually at the hands of the brother he had made a vow to all those years ago. Elijah’s throat worked convulsively at the image Tatia’s words built in his mind. How many times had he seen that future in his dreams? Sometimes the dark vacuum of the coffin had been the only escape he had from those memories. His mouth twitched faintly, his gaze softening. ”So much is out of our hands, we can merely follow where fate leads us, but that, that was where I had always hoped to end up,” he managed hoarsely. His mind had always suggested that if there were some kind of life after this he would find the woman who had first captured his heart waiting there for him but again … fate had other ideas. The touch of Tatia’s hand against his cheek almost had him closing his eyes and letting the current predicament slide away. It was a touch he had longed for after it had been snatched away but it was one he could not indulge in now, not when so many unanswered questions floated over their heads. Elijah raised his hand, letting it settle against Tatia’s fingers though. Their reasons for the sentiment were likely at different ends of the scale, his concern over what else could have found here her, how she could have been snatched away before he had found her again. ”Perhaps fate has offered a little blessing,” he murmured softly. Or perhaps it was the carrot being dangled in front of his nose and any moment now it would be snatched away once more. The answers as to what lay ahead were perhaps ensnared in Tatia’s mind but it was not yet ready to reveal them. Elijah felt his stomach lurch slightly as she admitted to not having clear memories of what had happened. He swallowed, trying to clear the bitter taste from his tongue at what she was asking for. ”There are some things I can help with but I fear that some of those blanks will remain,” he told her honestly. He could give her an idea of what happened on that fateful night, of what his mother had done to her but he had not been there in her final moments and the universe had ensured he wasn’t privy to her return. In the end he had needed to come clean, to start providing answers to her questions. The car had been a step too much and Tatia had balked until some of the truth was revealed. No matter how carefully he trod now there was likely to be an avalanche, no stopping the information from flowing. His hand remained reached out to her, the inches between them practically a mile as the truth must have hit like a brick. ”I would not lie to you Tatia,” he vowed, knowing that would mean little right now. Elijah’s throat worked once more as she stumbled over her words, just as he had but then her voice emerged boldly one more, the question direct enough that he could only nod in response, his hand falling away once more. ”You were killed that night,” Elijah managed in return. ”You were one of the first to fall.” But some had survived, his own family, those who had not been there that night, the son he had once hoped to help Tatia raise. As the tears shimmered in Tatia’s eyes and she wrapped her arms around herself he took a step closer, wanting to offer comfort but knowing there could be little right now. The question that fell from her lips eventually, choked out in a way that had his own throat tightening Elijah paused. That was the impression he had given. Shaking his head, Elijah firmed his jaw before answering. ”Lukas and your parents survived. They did not fall with the others. With time I imagine they …” Died, in due course though he thought, not at the hands of the monsters his mother created. ”I imagine he had a long and happy life with them.” Of course he did not know for sure. Mikael had followed them after that night, chasing them across the world, not allowing them a moment’s peace to gather their thoughts. He only knew that Lukas had survived because of Katerina, because of Elena. The Petrova line had come down through them. Tags: TATIA PETROVA |
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TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
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24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Oct 24, 2016 20:18:06 GMT
There was a time when everything used to seem so easy in comparison to what she was facing now. While it was true that Tatia had lost her husband in battle she had still had her family to fall back on and more importantly she’d had her son. Lukas was the reason she had refrained from joining her husband on his funeral pyre like the others in their village had expected her to and he was the reason why she had managed to stay so strong over the years that had followed. Eventually the looks of disgust from the others in their village had faded and they had started looking at her just the same as everyone else. Tatia had never been the kind of person who cared about what anyone else thought, she had only cared about her family and about making sure that her son had everything that he needed. It hadn’t been easy raising him as a single parent but her family had helped and eventually Elijah and Niklaus had come along. By that time her heart had healed and she had felt like she was ready to give her heart to someone else and while it hadn’t been particularly easy to choose between the two of the as she had loved the both in their own way she had eventually made her choice. Elijah had been the one to win her heart and she had honestly thought that the two of them would be able to raise Lukas together and add more children to their family one day but that chance had been taken from them and now all that they were left with was the memory of what could have been. As Elijah spoke a soft smile formed on her lips. “Well, we’re both here now so perhaps there is still a chance,” she offered. She wasn’t naive, she knew that a lot had changed, much more than she could even imagine perhaps, but she knew what her heart was telling her and that was that she still loved Elijah so she hoped that it might still be possible for them to have some semblance of a happy ending after all. Deep down Tatia knew that she should have gone with Elijah and let him explain and she had wanted to trust him that the thing he had been leading her towards was safe but it was all so much to take in at once that that really had been the last straw. She needed answers and the only person who could give them to her was Elijah. She could see that he was reluctant to do so and he had already suggested they go somewhere else to talk but near the woods she felt safe and something told her that she wasn’t going to like everything that he had to say anyway so deep down she knew that it was probably better that they were somewhere alone rather than around a lot of people. “Perhaps,” she agreed, a light smile touching her lips as Elijah placed his hand against hers and she entwined their fingers together gently. As he said that he could help her with some things but not all, Tatia found herself nodding. “I understand that, any help you can give me would be appreciated,” she said at last. She knew that Elijah wouldn’t be able to tell her everything and she didn’t expect him to, there were certain things that she would no doubt have to figure out on her own and that was something that she was more than willing to do. She had always prided herself on being an independent person and that hadn’t changed now. Of course she knew that Elijah wouldn’t lie to her, after all he never had before, but he was telling her that a thousand years had gone by since they last saw each other and that was something that Tatia had a hard time getting her head around. To her it seemed like very little time at all had passed and yet the difference in the town before her, the car Elijah was standing beside, his change in appearance, it all made sense. Nothing since she left the woods had resembled the home that she had once known and even though Elijah still looked the same for the most part there was something different in his eyes now, a pain and guilt that hadn’t been there when she had last seen him. What he was saying made sense and yet a part of her didn’t want to believe it even though she knew that she should. As Elijah confirmed that she was killed that night a sense of complete numbness fell over Tatia and she turned away, his voice sounding hollow eve to her own ears when she spoke again. “How did I die?” she asked, this time not even trying to hold back the tears that were now stinging her eyes. If she really had died a thousand years ago then that meant that everyone she used to know was long gone, her family and her little boy among them. Turning back to face Elijah, Tatia kept her arms wrapped around herself, in a way trying to keep herself together in that moment. As he said that Lukas and her parents survived she let out a breath she hadn’t even known that she was holding. It was little consolation but it was still better than nothing. “I’m glad they lived, did you see much of them after that night?” she asked as she lifted her gaze to look up at Elijah, not sure whether he or her family had stuck around after that or whether they had moved on. Studying him carefully it was then that she knew she had to ask the question that had been bothering her all along. “Elijah, if it has really been a thousand years since we last saw each other then how are you here? Were you brought back to life too?” she asked although in her heart from everything that he had told her she already knew that that probably wasn’t the case, it would be far too much of a coincidence. ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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Tatia Petrova
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Oct 25, 2016 21:16:22 GMT
If only. Those two little words were perhaps the most cursed in the English language. They added weight to hearts, swelled regret within you until every breath you took or word you spoke seemed soaked in that bitterness. It had once been a part of what had led women to their husbands funeral pyres, that desperation to not remain together into the afterlife, to not risk being parted for an eternity. Before they had met Tatia could have done just that, not finding the strength to continue on with her son after her husband had been lost in battle. Strength had carried her away from the pyre, had allowed her to hold her head up high and draw the attention of an idealistic young man, one who could quite easily see the life he had thought would one day be his in her dark eyes. His mother, in her desperation had dashed those hopes and no matter how hard he wished it were different now Elijah knew that there could be no more ‘if onlys’ for the two of them. In Tatia’s smile he could see her hope that perhaps they now had a chance for what had been so long denied to them by the finality of death. It grieved him to return her smile and buoy the hope that perhaps fate would give them what it had once snatched but Elijah knew that the alternative was to devastate her just a short while after she had been returned to him and despite it having been hardened and twisted by the centuries, Elijah just didn’t have it in his heart to do that to her. ”Perhaps,” he echoed softly, his expression gentle. ”There is always a chance.” It was something he had always believed, had staunchly clung to when it came to his brother’s redemption and yet now as he looked into those eyes that had haunted his dreams, Elijah found his faith in the concept waning. Perhaps he’d been right to believe that fate would not be that kind. It had never offered him more than what felt a momentary happiness before it being snatched away. This time he had trodden cautiously upon hope, knowing that the instant he began to come clean Tatia would react badly. She had always proven herself wise, worldly beyond most in their village but this was not just about venturing outside of the village to see the wolves, this was asking her to believe that she had been resurrected a thousand years after she had died. Allowing himself that gentle brush of his fingers against hers, Elijah steeled himself for the reaction to come. ”I will give all that I can,” Elijah promised, his dark eyes guileless as they met hers, despite the guilt that was already pulling at the very core of him, a guilt entirely disproportional to that he should’ve felt considering that her death had all been his mother’s doing. He could not lie to her though, had never done so before even when a boy’s boastfulness might have driven him to. And so he was brutally clear now, stating without ambiguity that she had indeed lost her life. Elijah’s hand fell back to his side as Tatia turned away from him, his throat working as he realised how hard the news had to have hit her. ”At the hands of my mother,” Elijah told her honestly. ”I did not know that was her intention. You went to her willingly to give her the help she desired and Esther took advantage of your generosity. I wish I would have known, I wish I could have stopped you going to her that night.” If he and Tatia had left, if his mother had not grown so desperate, if Niklaus had not given Henrik the treat he had so desired. If only.He longed to touch her as Tatia turned back to him but from her posture he could tell that doing so would not help the situation. She was worried for her son, the child she had left behind, orphaned by war and a witch whose only desire was to save her own children. Gritting his teeth against the guilt that rose at the thought that he had and his siblings had run, leaving Tatia’s family behind to save their own skins. Elijah shook his head, quietly offering the answer to her question. ”Never again,” he added, his voice hoarse. ”They remained close to here and my family left. We could not remain here.” Instead they had been chased for close on a thousand years, respite coming only on rare occasions, always shattered by the inevitable return of his father. Now the truth would shatter that momentary peace again, killing the faint trace of hope that had remained after this series of confessions. Elijah shook his head once more, his expression the mask he had used so often over the centuries to hide the monster within. ”Not in the way you were,” Elijah confessed finally as he took a half step towards her. ”The spell my mother wrought that night with your blood was meant to keep her children safe. It’s cost was great but in the end she was successful and we, all of my family but Esther herself, were made immortal. I have lived for a thousand years Tatia.” He had missed her for a thousand years but he imagined that would be cold comfort now. His mother had broken nature’s balance, a balance that had yet to be truly restored. Tags: TATIA PETROVA
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TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
Age:
24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 31, 2024 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Nov 20, 2016 14:30:47 GMT
There wasn’t a doubt in Tatia’s mind that she had a lot to learn about this new world that she found herself in. While it was true that she had yet to actually reach the settlement she could see already that things were very different to how they had been before she had died. It was a scary thought to say the least but she knew that she would get used to things in time. She had always been very resourceful, able to adapt no matter what situation she found herself in, and she knew that now wouldn’t be any different. She had learned how to live without her husband after he died and she had learned how to raise her son without his father. According to their customs she shouldn’t have been able to do either of those things but she knew that she had done the right thing by Lukas. She had made sure that he’d had at least one parent there to watch over him while he was growing up and she knew that that was what her husband would have wanted. She hadn’t for a moment thought that she would end up falling in love again but that was exactly what had happened. She had given her heart to Elijah and even though she knew that a lot had changed she couldn’t deny that those feelings of love were still there, on her part at least. Her life had been cut short the first time around and even though she still didn’t know what had really happened to her, who had brought her back to life or why they had done so now, she knew that she wasn’t going to waste the chance that she had now been given. She wasn’t sure if anything would happen with Elijah or anything else for that matter, everything about her life was so uncertain at the moment and that was something that she really hated, but all she could really do was take it one day at a time and she was determined to do just that. Looking over at Elijah, Tatia’s expression turned thoughtful for a moment. Even though his words seemed hopeful there was something about the look in his eyes that told her there was much more going on than she was aware of. For a moment she was tempted to question him about it but there was already so much going on that she knew it would probably be best to let it slide for now although she knew she would get to the bottom of it sooner or later. Learning that she had indeed died had come as a shock to Tatia even though deep down a part of her had known that must have been what had happened. It was the only explanation that made sense when she looked around and saw just how different things were now to the way they used to be but it was one that she hadn’t wanted to let herself believe. Now she had no choice, however, she couldn’t hide from what had happened nor could she change it in any way so once again she knew that she was going to have to just find a way to live with it and make the best of the situation she now found herself in. As Elijah said that he would tell her all that he could she found herself nodding. She knew in her heart that she most likely wouldn’t want to hear what he was about to tell her but she knew that she had to. She needed to know what had happened if she was going to find a way to move on from it and at the moment Elijah was the only one who could give her the answers she needed so she knew that she just had to trust him to be honest with her the way he always had been. As he said that she had died at the hands of his mother she could sense the sincerity behind his words but something in the back of her mind was telling her that wasn’t what happened. “I can’t explain how but I know that isn’t what happened,” she said slowly, trying to recall her own memories of that night. “I gave your mother my blood to help her with a spell but I left once she had what she needed,” she explained. The rest was still hazy but it was a start and she knew that the rest would come to her in time. As Elijah said that he never saw her family again after that night Tatia nodded, trying to swallow around the lump that had formed in her throat. After her husband died she had promised Lukas that she would never leave him and yet that was exactly what had happened. She had been taken from her son and from her family and the one person she had hoped might be able to give her answers about what had happened to them sadly had no answers to give so she knew now that she would likely never learn what had become of her son, her parents or her siblings. She knew that there was more to the story, there had to be a reason why Elijah and his family had been unable to stay in their home and it was only as he explained further that she truly began to understand. As Elijah took a half step towards her, Tatia took a half step back as a memory that had remained buried until now finally began to resurface. “Your mother used my blood to turn you into something, didn’t she?” she asked, her voice low as she spoke as she tried to put together the pieces of memories that were replaying in her mind. “I remember following a trail into the woods after finding so many of the men from our village dead. You were arguing with Niklaus and he was covered in blood,” she said slowly. “You told me to run and I did but I fell and cut myself and then your face changed,” she breathed, her eyes widening with terror as she looked up into the face of the man she had given her heart to, the man she had trusted above all others. “You killed me Elijah. It was you.”ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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ELIJAH MIKAELSON
Original Vampire
Posts: 435
Age:
1046
Occupation:
Unemployed
Status:
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Partner:
Tatia Petrova
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Post by ELIJAH MIKAELSON on Nov 26, 2016 20:11:44 GMT
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. For centuries the words of Shakespeare had resonated with him, the bard’s insights into the human condition sharper than most could imagine, and it was those words that came to Elijah’s mind now as the world as he knew it began to unravel. There had been such certainty about what had happened in the last thousand years, a sharp mind gathering the facts, placing them in nice orderly boxes and lines, spitting those images, those details back out in a way that had others speaking of knowledge and intellect. Yet today he was seeing himself for the fool he had truly been. Ignorant of the way Tatia had been returned to him, of any possibility that it could happen, ignorant of just what had happened in these woods, when his mother had turned him from a dutiful son, a loyal and protective brother, a loving future husband, into a monster. He had led himself to believe afterwards that he could lift himself high above what she had made him by clinging onto his humanity but he had been deluding himself in a way that his siblings never had. In their own, sometimes unfathomable ways, they had grasped a reality that he had never truly been able to see, until the scales that had covered his eyes had begun to fall away. It had begun the moment he had begun to describe to Tatia just how she had been killed in these woods. He had lived with the memory for centuries afterwards, the moment realisation about just what role the woman he had loved had played in what his mother had done for them. Those memories had plagued his sleep, had invaded his waking moments, had lain heavy upon his heart. Now Elijah felt that heart sink painfully towards the pit of his stomach as the guilt began to reawaken. He had spoken the words, had revealed the truth as he had known it and yet slowly Tatia began to pick apart those memories in a way he had not been able to anticipate. Dark eyes narrowed, his mouth pressing into a tight line with confusion as she explained. ”How else could it have happened?” he asked, a feeling of dread beginning to settle upon his shoulders. By the time he and Niklaus had come to his mother, after his brother’s slaughter, the deed had already been done, Tatia had been dead, his mother had seen to that, had she not? She herself had admitted to it, he could remember it happening and yet, Tatia was beginning to recall a different truth. ”She told me you were…” Elijah’s mouth worked silently, his frown only growing as his memory began to drift apart like a mist in front of the sun. His mother had told him, Tatia’s life had been essential to the turning, she had been the one to… Elijah froze on the spot as Tatia began to step back from him, keeping a distance between the two of those. His hand itched to reach for her again and yet he didn’t lift it an inch. The feeling of dread was settling like a dark pall upon him now, one that blotted out the light he had seen with Tatia’s return just a few moments before. Slowly, as Tatia murmured her question, Elijah nodded. ”She was desperate to save her remaining children but in attempting to hold onto us she violated nature and we became something … inhuman.” He could still not voice the word vampire, not to her. If his heart had been as human as it had once been it would have been in his throat, fluttering like a trapped bird as his mind suddenly started to let his thoughts drift, as images flashed where others had been for centuries. ”He had … the people of our village…” Elijah managed hoarsely. As Tatia spoke of his face changing Elijah’s eyes widened. She had seen, she had not been dead then as his mother had … ”No.” The word was barely breathed as the memory rushed back. Elijah took a stumbling step back from the terror he could see on her face. He lifted his hands, turning them as the slick blood, her slick blood, seemed to spot them once more. ”I never could have hurt you. I loved you, I still love you.” But he could see the familiar face in the dark of the woods, the terror widening her eyes then as it did now. He could taste the blood that had thundered in her neck running down his throat. Letting out a ragged cry Elijah dropped to his knees, his eyes haunted as he looked at the woman he had killed. Tags: TATIA PETROVA |
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TATIA PETROVA
Original Vampire
Doppelganger
Posts: 347
Age:
24/1000+
Status:
In a Relationship
Partner:
Elijah Mikaelson
Played by:
Emma
Last seen Oct 31, 2024 22:10:38 GMT
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Post by TATIA PETROVA on Dec 3, 2016 0:30:48 GMT
Things should have turned out so differently not just for her but for Elijah as well, that was something of which Tatia was absolutely certain. There was a time when things had seemed so simple, she had felt sure that she and Elijah would get married one day, raise Lukas together and perhaps even add to their little family. That was something that she had found herself thinking about a lot the moment she realised that she was falling in love with Elijah but that future had been taken away from them in the worst way possible. She had died leaving not just Elijah on his own but also leaving Lukas without either of his parents. That wasn’t the kind of life she had ever wanted for her son, that was why she had refused to join her husband on his funeral pyre like everyone in their village had expected her to. Instead she had chosen to live and even though the months and years that followed hadn’t been easy at all it had been worth it. She had been able to watch her son grow and she had thought that she would even be there to see him get married one day but it just wasn’t to be. Even as Elijah started telling her about how it had happened something had felt wrong. She couldn’t quite explain it but in the pit of her stomach she just knew that what he was telling her wasn’t the truth even though she could see that he believed it to be. Slowly her own memories of that day started coming back to her and the more she began to recall the more she wished that the memories would stop coming back to her and she would be able to go back to the bliss that was not knowing the awful truth. Those memories were ones that she could not escape, however, and as a result she found herself stepping back from Elijah automatically as he tried to close the distance between them. She knew that he was just as confused as she was, perhaps even more so considering that he had lived with a variation of what had happened for such a long time, but no matter how much she wanted to deny it she knew that what she was recalling had to be the truth. It wasn’t Esther who had taken her life that day, it had been Elijah. Even as she looked over at him now the bitter sting of betrayal seemed to run through her veins, he had told her that he loved her and yet it had been so easy for him to take her life. His mother had turned her children into monsters but he was the one who had given into those instincts and even though being forgiving had always been in her nature at the moment she had no idea how she would be able to do that. Elijah had taken her from her son, he had left Lukas an orphan and just the thought was enough to make her eyes sting with tears. “I loved you too, I still do Elijah, but you did this. You killed me and you made me break the promise I made to my son,” she said, unable to stop the tears from rolling down her face as she looked over at him. “I’m sorry, I can’t do this,” she breathed as she slammed the car door and forced herself to meet Elijah’s gaze. “Don’t come looking for me, I need time,” she warned as she wiped her eyes hastily, sparing him one last pained look before heading back in the direction she had come at a run. Back to the woods, back to the only thing that seemed to make sense to her at the moment. ELIJAH MIKAELSON
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hope to see you in the discord! 
