So, I decided to rewrite Same Old Love and make it into this story. I lost my muse for it in all honesty, and I didn't know where I was going with it. But I really liked the idea so I reread the books and decided to change more of my story to just the way I picture it. Such as instead of Kai playing one of her LI, it will be Damon. I do want to keep Lily as the main antagonist and Elijah as her main LI. Just a lot of everything else I wanted to be changed. So here is the rewrite of the idea I got the idea from a free Amazon book (Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble), but I decided to change it. I don't own the characters, the idea since it is based off an amazing book. Hope current readers like this version and hope new readers like it is as well.

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The edges hit back and forth between my palms. Shuffling up the deck before cleaning it up to be placed on the dark oak circle table. The table covered by a shimmering dark violet table cloth with gold rim around it. Gave it that psychic vibe or at least that what I was told when I bought both the table cloth and the drapes that hung around the small room in the back of the shop. A tourist wanting a reading by a psychic was a dime a dozen, but I wasn't a dime a dozen. There weren't too many witches that would use real magic for tourists or do anything for the tourists. But I didn't mind it. They wanted the full New Orleans experience, voodoo and all. This one wanted a reading done by the cards, since anyone knew how to read their palm though they weren't reading it correctly. Told her to clear her thoughts, but it was hard when her oaf of a boyfriend was taping his foot impatiently outside the sheet. That only stopped when I cleared my throat and spoke louder for her to clear her thoughts and focus in on her question for the deck. Obviously, he wanted to listen in on the session. I went over to the sheet and pulled it back to glare at him then slam the real door in his face this way she could have the privacy she wanted. I took my seat once again and shuffled the cards once more.

"What is your question?" I asked her.

"Is there love in my future?" Something the cards have been asked several times, by several different people. Then I asked her to cut the deck and placed the top deck on the left face down with using her left hand. I grab a card from the right deck placing it to the far left then the one from the left placing it to the far left. Then I take two from both and overlap them in the center. Once I had the three card in order. I flip over the first card, and I couldn't help but smile. It was the Six of Cups.

"You have had a lot of good will in your past. Innocence, childhood." I began to tell her. "But we all had a childhood, but yours was fairly good. You have been also charitable in your life. You enjoyed being youthful."

"I used to volunteer at a youth center." She admitted to me. I just nodded my head and flipped over the next card. "Lovers?"

"Lovers. Your current relationship us been lustful, and you are yearning for a relationship not just lust. You determine your own beliefs." I turn over the card behind the lovers. Hanged Man "Why are you sacrificing what you believe and what you want for him?" Obviously, I hit something because she let out a sigh.

"We are opposites and sometimes I just let him get his way because it is easier." I didn't touch the next card and I just looked at her.

"Do you want me to flip the next card?" I asked her because I thought she already had her answer. But she still nodded her head. "With the way you are going currently, your future is this." I warned her before flipping the card over "Five of Wands. You will be hassled and have a lot of disagreements your future. I suggest if you wish to have love, you find someone else." I told her before cleaning up the cards. Setting them back into the black satin bag then into the wooden box, I kept them in. She looked unhappy with her answered and stormed out of the room. Poor Davina tried to stop the couple from leaving without paying.

"Pay for a bunch of lies, ha!" The woman exclaimed. "You may have wasted my time but I am not wasting my money."

"That is all well and fine, but I will be forced to call the police." I warned them woman with a cold stern look on my own face. The woman glared at me, but she stormed over to the cash register and pulled out a twenty to pay for the session. Davina took it before the woman continued her storming out.

"Didn't like her future?" Davina asked while she slid the twenty into the cash register. I walked over to the counter and leaned on top of the glass with both of my arms propping my chin up.

"I thought she was until we hit the future. I warned her too. I told her to find someone else that didn't hold her back. But all she heard was dump your insanely hot boyfriend." I told her. "Is there anyone else booked for a reading?" Davina pulled out our signup book and looked through the times. Her brown curls shook with her head.

"Not today. Does that mean we are closing?" She asked hopefully.

"Go ahead home. I will clean up here." I said as I waved in Josh to escort Davina to where she wanted to go. "I will see you when I get home later." I promised them both before I turned back to start cleaning up the shop. It was usually busy here as people wanted real voodoo for Halloween, love potions for Valentine's Day, dumb college students wanting to be dumb and mess with the dark arts during Spring Break, and during the summer it was all the tourists. Halloween was just a few days away. The shop would be open during the day, but closed at night since Marcel always threw a party at the compound. Well that is every Friday and Saturday night for Marcel, but Halloween was special. Not just because of the party, but also because of the supernatural things that happen. The veil between the other side where all supernatural dead are unless they could find peace. So basically, they are ghosts, but ghosts that even humans can see on Halloween only.

The bell above the entrance rung alerting me that someone had entered the store as my back to the door. Busy restocking the books, but not busy enough to speak. "We are closing." I informed the customer.

"I was hoping to get a reading." The man spoke. I turned my head to see the tall man for myself. Wore a navy blue pinstriped suit with a white dress shirt under the suit jacket. Had brown hair with dark eyes that had hints of grin, but mostly all the color was brown. His aura really caught my eyes though. It was like sunset. Yellow, purple, orange, even some red undertones. But had a black shimmer that let me know he had died at least once. An immortal he was, but something else. Something more. There was a familiarity about his aura.

"You may sign the sheet for tomorrow, but today we are closed sir." I responded to him.

The man nodded his head and went over to the signup sheet on the counter before leaving the store. After the door had closed, I went over to the counter to see his name. Elijah Mikaelson. Touching his name brought back emotions but no clear memory of where I had seen him from before. Shrugging it off, I barely had notice a tear cascading down my right cheek. Odd.

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The night came and went away. Nothing happened, Marcel had to bury one of his closest friends in the garden. Thierry. Marcel didn't want to, but he broke the rule. Turning others. A rule that brought down because too many of his sires were trying to make their own. Marcel believed in a balance, and didn't think the city need to be all vampires like others in the garden believed. In Thierry's case, he wasn't trying to make his own, just save his girlfriend. Katie used to work for me, but then I helped her open her own voodoo shop so she could have her own tourist attraction. Katie was using her powers and tried to kill Marcel, Marcel killed her, but Thierry fed her his blood before she died in his arms. I stayed with Katie last night while she was in transition. This morning Davina was to be making her a daylight ring after I talked Katie into completing her transition by just telling her. "Thierry knew the consequences, but he would rather spend a century underground then spend eternity without you."

By the time I had let Sabine into Jardin Gris to take over for Katie, I was already running late on opening my own shop. And today, I was to be without help since Davina was going to help Katie through transition along with Diego and Josh. To my surprise the man from yesterday was standing outside waiting for me. Wearing yet another suit, this one a dark red, nearly looked brown, with a black dress shirt under it. He had also shaved off his stubble from the day before. Looked like he belonged on wall street. Myself I felt like I looked like a mess. No sleep, hair back in a messy ponytail. Just wearing a simple red tank top and a pair of skinny jeans. Basically, looked like a college student during finals.

"I am sorry for running late." I apologized to him as I tried to open the door while balancing the book Davina had gave me, my morning coffee, and my bag. "Come in." I said once I got the door open. After I dump my contents on the counter, I went to the door and turned on the lights to the shop as well as the open sign that flashed along with my shop's "logo". A hand with an eye in the palm. Not really a logo since about every psychic shop had that.

"It is quite alright." It was true, well at least with him that the English men were cold but understanding.

"What sort of reading did you want for today?" I asked as I headed to the back room, opening the door then pulled the curtain to the side. Pinning the flowing curtain to the wall so I could see any in coming customers while giving him his reading.

"I booked for three sessions today." My eyes went wide hearing him. My sessions each were booked for an hour usually. "I would like to do a few if that is alright."

I nodded my head. "I'll have to charge you for three sessions rather than just one." I warned him while I was grabbing my box of cards and my bag of crystals.

"I understand that." The man spoke after he had taken a seat at my small round table. "Let's start with a palm reading. I nodded my head and sat down at the table, putting my crystals and cards to the side. He held out his dominate hand like he was a child getting allowance. I helped him readjust it so it was more like he was telling me stop. Easier to read than doing it upside down.

"You have lived many life times passed your own. I would say, a thousand or more. May want to relax more. Your faintness of the line indicates that you are too stressed and could lead to pain. Meditation, yoga or reading could fix that." I spoke while tracing my thumb over his life line before turning my eyes to his love line. "You have had a heart break I say about ten years ago, not five. Sorry." I apologized for my mistake as I continued to study his love line. "It would seem though you will have your great love once again, but will face challenges and even some betrayals along the way."

"My head?" He asked

"You over analyze too much. You pay attention to too many details. Think less with your brain and more with your heart. This is probably why you are stressed, too much think." I told him as I let go of his hand.

"That's it?" He asked.

"Palm readings are simple, that is why any acupuncturist or fake psychic can do so." I told him.

"And you are not fake?"

"You ask a lot of questions." I just replied to him which seemed to cause a smirk to break out on his lips. "What would you like next?"

"Cards please." After taking the cards out, I rant through the same procedures I did the day before with the woman and asked him his question. "I rather keep that to myself." I just nodded my head and took out four cards. I flipped over the first one, the High Priestess. "The past remains a mystery even to yourself. Something is blocking you." More like something was blocking me. I could usually look more in-depth with the person who had touched the cards, but now I feel nothing. So I just flip over both the present cards at the same time. The Empress and the Fool. Never have I seen someone get more than two major cards, this was odd. I didn't say anything rather I flipped over his future card. "The Tower." I spoke aloud before I looked up at him to see his eyes were on me not the card. "Your question is not about you, is it?" I asked him.

"No. It is not, but it seems you don't have the answers I am looking for." The man started to stand from his seat.

"Something is blocking me from looking that deep into it." I spoke before the man grabbed my hands roughly. Just like that I was thrust into a vision.

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Ashes covered the sky and ground. Black and darkness, not a ray of sun to be seen for miles. Barely any grass still stood on the plain. The wind whipped my hair around, covering my eyes as I search for something. But my feet are frozen in place. Felt like my whole body was. Some of the ashes left the ground revealing body after body. Including my own. There I laid with a dagger right in my sternum. Bleed right through my dark shirt. Blood dripped from my parted lips. Eyes still wide open yet to be closed. From the looks of it, did not look like there was anyone left to do so.

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Pushing myself out of the vision, I stared at the man then pushed myself away from him. "You need to leave." I ordered him

"You saw my answer."

"I saw my death."

"We both know you can not die Elena. You are immortal." He spoke as if he knew me. As if he knew my curse. The curse that was placed on me six years prior. I couldn't die. Well I could, I just always came back though.

"Who are you?" I asked him. But he did not answer me just grabbed my wrists again forcing me into another vision.

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Her blonde curls and dark eyes were the last I believed I would see. On my knees crying out blood as I screamed out in anguish. My hands were gripping my head, felt like my brain was fire. Why me?! I tried to shout but the words couldn't form. Near death I was when the pain stopped. The blood tears tried on my cheeks. The scarlet tears stained my cheeks as I looked up at the woman. For a moment. I thought I was safe until my neck was snapped from behind.

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Death knocked me out of the vision and on to the floor of the back room. The man stood above me with a handkerchief. I took it to wipe away what I believed to be tears, but it was blood like in my past. My eyes met his, and for some reason I reached out to touch his jaw. Then I drew my hand back to meet hard against his cheek.

"You asked about me?" I snapped. No wonder I felt blocked, I was trying to give him a reading for myself. Things started to be set together like puzzle pieces finally forming the picture. "You need to get out now!"

"Who snapped your neck?" He asked.

"I don't know" I argued with him. "Leave!"

"Who snapped your neck?" He spoke louder at me. But all that got him was my magic pushing him out of my store. Then with another wave my hand, the door locked. My head was still running a mile a minute. I don't remember too much from before six years ago; I remember my family, name, birthday. But everything else was like a blur. Like I was asleep for the first eighteen years of my life, and it was all one big dream. Oh, also remembered who did this to me and how I became an immortal eighteen-year-old. I wanted answers, but Jeremy held no answers. Now, I was sort of regretting sending that man away. Obviously, he knew me, and had the answers I wanted.

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Glowing orb of energy floated between my two palms. My eyes focused on it. When witches performed this trick, it would show them their memories or at least something they wanted to focus on. Yet mine was just a blur, so I just placed my chi back into my body. Eventually, I hoped I could remember or at least someone could fill me in on it.

"Shoot!" Davina muttered after a loud clash was heard. "Don't worry I will clean it up." Davina called back to me. I got off the pillow and went to the front of the shop to see our new crystals on the ground and the box they came in laying not too far from where they were scattered around. "Sorry Elena, I was trying to do something and then I accidently knocked the box over." Davina apologized.

"It is okay D." I told her while I began to pick them up.

"Well I know you were trying to meditate and then I made noise." Davina's apology was interrupted by the door's bell going off as it swung open to reveal the man from yesterday. "Hi there, how may I help you?"

"I am here for the session I am still allowed." The man spoke when his gaze narrowed in on mine. At first I thought about telling him to go to hell. Rather I nodded my head and stood up from the ground. I cleared a path so he could get through to the back room without breaking one of the crystals. My boots followed in his steps to the backroom. Unlike last time, I closed the door.

"First demand, no touching me. Second demand, after this we talk about what you know about me." I told him as we both sat at the table.

"On one condition, you help me with a problem. I have a client who hired me to find out what happened to a friend of hers. I need someone with your expertise." He told me.

"My expertise?"

"You can go back in time. Don't deny it. I can not go back myself, and that is where you come in." He explained to me. "Do we have a deal?"

"Yes."

Like I said this is going to be different clearly. I wanted to introduce a few characters at a time, and give it a twist more than last time where it was straight forward about everything. The Italics meant her visions, and it will always mean her visions. I don't own any of this sadly.