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~Prologue: Seven Devils~

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future" ~Oscar Wilde

It starts with a family. First of seven: a father, mother and six children. But as time wore on, the family wore down and fell apart as the darkness that had been lurking on the sidelines crept inside, filling heads with doubts and leaving empty hearts and broken souls behind.

Three of the children, however, stood together and made a vow on the day it seemed as if the world had ended.

They swore always and forever as the world they had known crashed down around them and went up in flames like those that inhabit the darkest recesses of Hell. But, together, they created their own world and embraced the macabre that had been forced upon them.

Time took its toll as they wandered down the path of eternity and wandered farther into the darkness that overcame the world they once knew. And slowly, one by one, the three who had vowed to stick together succumbed to the darkness' powers as the world became more and more desolate and empty and the light seemed to vanish.

But just as darkness is always present, so is the light.

For even the most terrible monsters can find salvation.

"My innocence is not ignorance. My kindness is not weakness. My weakness is my strength. My past does not define me. My bravery is never foolish.

My calm hides a story."

A/N: so I tried to make myself promise not to upload this until I was finished with something else but then word of the spinoff came out and I just couldn't resist:)

anyways, I'd been thinking about what I would do/show if I was to do an Originals spinoff for a while now and this was born. It will star Elijah, Rebekah, and Klaus and each will be the main character in turn. A fair warning: this will be fairly... okay, incredibly angsty so read with caution lol. it's also structured a lot differently from anything else I've written so bear with it and me, if you'd be so kind:) and, not to worry, there will be a tiny bit of Klaroline as well as Kalijah and Stebekah when we get to Elijah's and Rebekah's stories...but since this story centers around these three and their relationships with each other, there won't be too much going on on the romance front.

I'll post the second chapter and possibly third chapter later today since this is very short and I want to get into the story itself.

thanks for reading! review if you have a minute and let me know what you think! pretty please? :)