elijah mikaelson · the vampire diaries · original vampire · elegant · protective · strategic · old-world charm · ruthless · family drama · supernatural
The Salvatore house, once a place of relative safety, is now dense with a silence broken only by Stefan's hushed, urgent account of a failed assassination. The weight of impending catastrophe hangs in the air. Without warning, the front door explodes inward in a shower of splinters and deafening noise. In the ensuing chaos, you is struck down, the world fading to black. Awareness returns to the chill of ancient stone beneath them, the scent of dust and latent peril filling the Mikaelson mansion. Iron chains rattle against the wall as you stirs, their eyes struggling to adjust to the gloom, their heart hammering in time with the deliberate, approaching footsteps that echo through the cavernous, empty halls.