Soul Mates in Time: Revised Version

by AstridMikaelson

this is the revised version of my original story. Summery: Elena, Bonnie and Carloine are sent back to a time when their soul mates need them. Will they ever find their way back to their time or are they meant to change things for the better?

2. Chapter 2

A/N: okay so here is my revised version of my Soul Mates in Time story.

thedarkqueen98 has contacted me and explained how my story ended up on here under her name needless to say she has removed the story from the site and i have forgiven her after she explained what happened. (someone hacked her account and uploaded the story to her page) She knew nothing about it until i removed my original story from here as like the rest of you she was waiting for an update.

This story is an AU which means there are things that are very different from cannon. ie Jeremy being in Denver. I intentially did not send him back to the past as he had no reason to be there. And no he will no be becoming an Original sorry to disappoint but I'm not changing anyone who wasn't already a vamp in the first place in this story (other than Bonnie, Freya and Henrik). This story isn't going to follow cannon in anyway. so the Originals first kills, first vamps etc... are all obsolete. Also the events from both The Originals and The Vampire Diaries have been changed. So None of the events from the Originals happened (you can disregard the entire show) and from the middle of season 3 of The Vampire Diaries on has been changed to suit me and this story.

So please don't hate on this because i am not following cannon. if you read the story you will understand why i am not following cannon. (if i was Elena and Damon would be together and not Elena and Elijah). And yes some of the characters will be OC because of the changes made in the past. i have done this on purpose.

The pairings for this story are: Elena/Elijah; Caroline/Klaus; Bonnie/Kol; Rebekah/Stefan; Katherine/Damon; Sage/Finn; Freya/Mathias; Adisa/Henrik. Though Elena and Elijah are the main pairing for this story and will be the focal point for most of it.

OC's: Adreana, Myra and Ciara (the girls counterparts), Mathias and Adisa as well as any other named character who is unrecognizable belong to me.

A big thank you to Hippogriff-tamer from beta this for me again (not that she had to do much as she has already worked on this story for well over two years now) but thank you anyway.

I also wanted to let you guys know that i will be posting once a week from now on (unless something comes up) I plan to update every Monday.

To those coming from the original version i hope you enjoy this version of the story just as much as you did the other one if not more.

All chapter from now on will be between 3000 to 7000 words long (though there are a few that will be longer)

Disclaimer: all recongizable characters belong to their respective owners everyone else belongs to me.

Chapter 2

December 8th, 2011 - New Orleans

Three male vampires and one female vampire sat together in silence which was a first for them. There was never a time that they could sit in the same room and not try to kill each other but this time they were all in deep thought. Each had a inkling that they had left something behind in the small town of Mystic Falls. They each wanted to return to claim what they felt was theirs but none of them could bring themselves to do it. There was just too much pain and betrayal associated with the ones they had left behind.

As they each sat and thought about the one they had left behind, they wondered if the reason that they couldn't bring themselves to return to that small town was because they had become too jaded to believe in love. After all, love was a vampires greatest weakness...or was it?

Rebekah sat thinking about the man whom from their first meeting she had known was her soul mate. Stefan Salvatore was her mate, she was sure of it. How else could she explain the pull she felt when near him? She had fallen for him in the twenties and had decided to leave with him. She would have had Mikael not found them and tried once again to kill her brother Nik and her. That decision had cost her nearly a century locked away in her box, daggered for her supposed betrayal. Even now, she hated to admit it to anyone that she still loved him. But as long as he was chasing the doppelganger, who ironically she knew her elder brother Elijah was in love with, she couldn't pursue any type of relationship with him. She may still love him but he had lost her trust when he had tried to kill her and her family. She knew that when she had run Elena and that human boy Matt off the bridge, Stefan would try and save the doppelganger first and had not stuck around long enough to see it happen, the pain too much to bare. Last she had heard Elena was still alive and doing well; still being doted upon by both brothers.

Kol Mikaelson's mind kept going back to the little witch with vivid green eyes who had captured his eye. Bonnie Bennett certainly had the fire he admired in the Bennett line of witches. He could still see the way she looked at the ball his mother had thrown. Though he remembered that his mother had begrudgingly invited the witch. He never did understand why his mother had not wanted her there. She was after all a descendant of her best friend. He would have thought that she would have wanted to get to know the girl. Also there was the fact that it had been Bonnie who had released her from her sealed coffin. He could still see the way her coffee colored skin had seemed to gleam that night and he knew that that had been the day he had fallen for her. He longed to claim her as his but she was not so willing to fall into his arms as many other had before her. It was one of the many reasons he had fallen for her. He loved her stubbornness and he enjoyed the challenge she presented him and he wondered why he couldn't get her out of his head.

Niklaus' mind was on a certain blonde baby vampire whose sweet bubbly nature had captured his attention almost from the first day he had met her. He knew he had very deep seated feelings for her, not that he would ever admit to openly loving her though. He had promised her that he would be her last love and he fully intended to keep that promise. Though she would have to come to him now, he wasn't giving up on her, not by a long shot, but he was tired of pursuing the young woman when at every turn she rebuffed him. He had tried to show her his softer side, a side he showed to no one, but she had still snubbed him. He would allow her time to realize that he wasn't kidding when he had told her that he fancied her. She was the first one that had captured his attention since his time as a human. After the fiasco with Tatia, he had sworn off love calling it a weakness. But he could not shake the feeling of protectiveness that welled up inside him whenever she was near. Caroline Forbes would be his, he was sure of it.

Elijah sat holding a book but his mind was not on the tome in his hands. No, his mind was on a certain doe eyed doppelganger whose humanity and compassionate nature had captured him, heart and soul. He knew that he had lied to her when he had told her that he would not make the mistake of falling for another Petrova. It had taken everything in him to tell her that lie especially since it wasn't in his nature to lie about anything. By the time he had written the letter he had left her, he had known that he was deeply and irrevocably in love with her. Elena Gilbert was so different from her predecessors. While they were both a bit ruthless in their pursuit of him and his brother, Elena had not tried to pursue him. In fact, she had asked nothing from him but his trust and friendship. Their relationship had had many ups and downs and he knew that she understood him better than anyone he had ever encountered in his very long life.

He wanted to tell her how he felt, wanted her to know it had nothing to do with Tatia or Katerina and everything to do with her. However, he knew that she had her hands full with both Salvatore brothers vying for her attention. There was no room for him in her already hectic love life even if he wished there was, yet he knew that he would wait an eternity for her. That was the main reason he had left his blood with Doctor Fell with instructions to give it to Elena should she ever be in need of it. He didn't understand why he felt the need to donate his blood for her use as he had never done anything like that in his very long life. In fact it wasn't the first time he had offered it to her. No, the first time was when she had defied him while she was at her families lake house. He had called her bluff not believing she had it in her to actually hurt herself. He had been surprised when she had stabbed herself and an overwhelming need to protect her, to save her, had consumed him. He had asked her to allow him to heal her something he had never done in his very long life. There was just something about her and he felt a deep seated need to protect her at all costs. He longed to return to her, in fact, wanted to more than anything, but he knew that she would most likely not welcome him back especially not after he had wanted her dead, a fact that he still felt guilty about. Especially after he had come to terms with his feelings for her. He wondered if she would understand what he had been trying to convey with his final words of his letter to her. Always and Forever. He smiled inwardly as he thought of her reaction to those two words. To anyone else they would not mean much but he knew Elena knew the meaning behind them. He knew she was a smart young woman and would most likely figure out why he had left them for her and what it meant. Always and Forever. He would give that to her and more if only she would let him.

His thoughts then went to the strange jolt he had felt right after leaving Mystic Falls the year before. He had only ever felt that jolt once in his lifetime and that had been when he had sired his first vampire. But it was the strange feeling of sensing a presence with him constantly that had him worried as that had never happened to any of his siblings or himself. So why could he feel her presence when he knew for a fact that she was hundreds of miles away? Was it the strange bond they seemed to share and had shared from the beginning of their acquaintance finally manifesting itself or was it something else entirely? Suddenly he remembered something a witch had once told him and it had him sitting up straight in his seat, dropping the tome in his hands in his shock. How could he have not sensed it before now? But it couldn't be! But how? How could she be his soul mate? But then another thought came barreling into his head. How had she been turned? Because there was no doubt now in his mind that that was what the jolt had meant. He felt himself mourning her lost humanity something he would have given anything to keep intact. He silently prayed to any deity that would listen that she would manage to keep her compassion and humanity intact as it would be a shame to see her turn off her emotions.

Looking around the room he could see that his siblings were all deep in thought and he had a feeling he knew where their thoughts were taking them. Mystic Falls and the ones that they had left behind. He had a feeling that he and his family were going to be going back there very soon.

December 9th, 2011

When the Originals awoke the next morning they all wondered if they could talk the rest of their family into returning to Mystic Falls and if not the prudency in just going back on their own. They each shrugged the thought away before getting ready for the day. Elijah and Rebekah were the first to walk into the Compound's large kitchen.

"Good morning, Rebekah," Elijah said in a way of greeting his baby sister.

"Morning, 'Lijah," she returned before asking softly, "Do you think Nik would mind returning to Mystic Falls?"

Her question caught him off guard. "And why pray tell would you want to return to that town, Sister?"

"I have my reasons," was all she would say before saying, "You can't tell me that you have no wish to return there, Brother. I may be younger than you but I do have eyes and I know that you love Elena, even if you will not admit to it."

Elijah could only stare at his sister in surprise. How had she known of his feelings for Elena when he himself had just come to terms with how he felt? He was still in shock that Elena was not only a vampire now and that he had sired her but that she was also his soul mate. He knew it was unheard of for a vampire to just walk way from the one they were meant for and yet he had as, he had a feeling, had his siblings.

Rebekah smirked as she watched her elder brothers face. "'Lijah, I have known since the day before Mother's ball when you rescued her from me that you were in love with the doppelganger. I think that is the only reason I didn't kill her when you left the two of us in the cave together. You always fall for that face, Brother, but with her it was different and even though I want to hate her, I can't seem to find it in me to do so anymore. I mean yes, she daggered me after offering her friendship, which really pissed me off, but after I saw how willing she was to place her life in danger to save her friends and family... I realized that she was different from both Tatia and Katerina. She is more like you than you think, and if you think that you could win her love, I would welcome her as a sister."

"Rebekah..." Elijah began only to stop. To say he was surprised by his baby sister's change of heart would have been an understatement. He was downright thunderstruck by her admission.

"Even if Nik won't go back to Mystic Falls I want to. If only to apologize for trying to kill her again last year."

That got Elijah's attention and he glared at his sister before growling, "And how did you try to kill her exactly?"

She was shocked by the growled question but answered anyway, "I was distraught when they tried to desiccate Nik...that I kind of ran her and Matt off Wickery Bridge. Stefan though jumped in and I assumed saved her first as I couldn't see him saving the human first. Last I heard she was still alive. Why?"

"Because I have the strangest feeling that she might be alive but she is no longer human," he said still glowering at his baby sister.

"What do you mean by that?" she asked startled by her brother's demeanor.

"I mean that I felt a jolt last year around the time that their little gang tried to kill Niklaus. The same time frame as your little stunt, Rebekah."

Rebekah paled, if that was even possible for a vampire, and stared at her brother in shock. If he had felt the jolt then that means that Stefan saved Matt first, but then how could Elena still be alive unless she had vampire blood in her system before she went into the river. "But how? She wasn't near any vampires that day as they had made her leave town that morning?" she asked confused.

"She must have had needed the blood I left with Dr. Fell before I left and before they made her leave," he stated sitting down. The realization that Elena was now a vampire still was not sitting well with him even after discovering the fact a few hours earlier.

"You left her your blood? Elijah…you have never done anything like that before! Can you feel her?" she asked wondering if she was right about about the bond that seemed to be between her brother and Elena. She knew that it wasn't a sire bond because of Elena's connection to both Salvatore brothers and she wondered if it could be a rare mating bond. If it was the latter and he was able to feel her, then it would explain feeling her presence even though she was hundreds of miles away.

"I know, Bekah. But I felt almost compelled to leave it for her. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind it either. The only thing I can think of is that I love her and I needed to make sure she was cared for in my absence. And yes, I can feel her. I think it is the bond I share with her making itself known to me somehow," he explained.

"Actually...I think it's more than that, 'Lijah," she whispered so softly he almost didn't hear her. She wanted to run when she saw the murderous look in her brothers eyes and she knew she deserved it. She had after all, killed his mate not knowing she had vampire blood in her system when she died. She would not fault her brother if he managed to find a way to incapacitate her for her deed.

"Explain," he growled all the while glaring at his sister.

"I think the reason you are feeling her presence is because she is your mate," she stated softly before sitting in the closest chair to her. This was most unquestionably a surprise. Nik was not going to be happy to learn that the doppelganger was Elijah's mate nor would he be happy to find out that she had deprived him of the doppelgangers blood to use for making hybrids, she had made it so Elena would not be able to continue her family line. The doppelganger line had ended with Elena. She glanced up to look at her elder brother who had yet to say anything after her revelation to him.

"How...how do you know that she is my mate?" he finally managed to ask, taking a seat next to her.

"Ayana. She told me after we were turned that we each had a mate out there somewhere and when we found them we would know. She said that it would be a similar feeling to finding our soul mates as a human but instead of only feeling an urge to be close to our soul mate a bond of sorts would develop between us and them even if they were still human at the time but if they were ever turned then the feeling would grow stronger as time went on. As I said before I am not blind, Elijah. I saw the bond between you and Elena from the first time I saw the two of you together. I didn't like it because of what she had done to me but it doesn't mean I didn't know it was there."

Elijah was silent after listening to his younger siblings explanation. He was shocked by what he had learned. So not only was Elena his soul mate but she was also his mate! He didn't know what to feel. He regretted ever leaving her and wanted to return to her side as soon as possible. He was pulled from his thoughts when Rebekah stated softly, "I truly hope that those two brothers know what they are getting themselves into trying to help a sireling that was sired directly from an Original."

"All the more reason to return to Mystic Falls, don't you agree, Sister," he returned with a small smile.

She looked up sharply at his gentle tone, astonished that he would agree to return to the little town. "'Lijah..."

"I have to know how she is faring in her new life, Bekah. As her sire, I should have been there to help her through the transition if she had wanted to go through with it. But knowing the Salvatore's they most likely forced her to turn whether it was her choice or not. And as her mate and the man who loves her deeply, I can't just sit here and do nothing."

"Then I am going with you," she stated resolutely.

Just then their two brothers made their way into the room. "I think it is time to return to Mystic Falls," Niklaus stated calmly as he walked into the room surprising his siblings with the announcement.

"Nik?" all three of his siblings questioned each in shock at the pronouncement from the hybrid.

"Well, I for one left something precious behind and I want to retrieve it," he stated vaguely. Even though he had told himself that Caroline would have to come to him he was still surprised that it was he himself who was the one returning to her. He had to shake his head at the irony.

"And what is so precious to you that you have to return there to get it?" Kol asked.

"Caroline," was all the hybrid would say and all of his sibling had to hide their knowing smirks from their brother. They had a feeling that was the reason he wanted to return to the small town they had left the year prior.

He looked at his siblings a smile playing on the edges of his lips. He knew that they all wanted to return, it was easy to see in all their faces. Each had left something behind and though Klaus refused to say it was their hearts, he knew that that was exactly why each of his siblings and himself wanted to return to the town they had fled the year before. "So are there any questions? If not I will make the arrangements to leave by weeks end." That said he turned and left his siblings to stare after him.

"If I didn't know any better I would say our brother has fallen in love," Kol said in shock.

"Well, he isn't the only one, 'Lijah here has fallen too," Rebekah stated with a small laugh at the outrage on her brother's face at her telling his deep dark secret.

"I'm going take a wild guess and say he's fallen for a certain doe-eyed doppelganger that goes by the name Elena Gilbert," Kol said cheekily.

Elijah, having had enough of his younger siblings teasing, decided to one up them by saying, "And I suppose that you don't want to return to a certain green-eyed Bennet witch, Kol? Or you Rebekah. The reason you want to return to Mystic Falls has nothing to do with the younger Salvatore brother?"

Rebekah was shocked that her brother had figured out the real reason she wanted to return to that town. Shacking her head she turned to head out of the room.

Kol ducked his head and tried hard not to let it show that his brother had caught him. "And what if I do?"

"Then I say that we had better get packed because I have a feeling pursuing these three young women, is not going to be easy. I mean I left Elena when she needed me the most."

"What do you mean by that 'Lijah?" Kol asked intrigued.

Before his brother could answer Rebekah turned back around and said, "Elena was turned into a vampire shortly after he left Mystic Falls."

"I see. So which Salvatore brother do I get to see die for turning her?"

"Neither!" growled Elijah which took Kol by surprise before he realized why his brother was so upset. "Eli?"

"It was my blood that turned her, Kol."

"How?!"

"I gave Dr. Fell my blood to give to Elena should she ever have need of it. I am guessing that she had been given my blood sometime during the day of Niklaus' near destruction and that night was run off the bridge heading into town and drowned. I felt the jolt that accompanies our siring someone shortly thereafter but didn't think anything of it believing it a fluke. But for the past year I have felt her presence with me daily. It wasn't until this morning that I found out why. I have failed her too many times already I am not about to fail her again. I will do my duty to her as her sire." He was not going to tell his brother that he had walked away from his mate.

"Well, I guess it's decided then," quipped Rebekah who then flounced off to go pack.

December 10th, 2011

The Originals were each packed and ready to go by the following morning after the decision to return to Mystic Falls had been made. Soon they would be where they were meant to be.

The rest of the day they found themselves finalizing their plans to leave. Klaus called his house staff in Mystic Falls and told them to have the house opened and ready for their arrival the following day. That done, he called Marcel and told him that he was returning to Mystic Falls for the foreseeable future and that he wanted him to keep watch while he and his family were away. When all his phone calls were finished he grabbed his bags and headed to Elijah's SUV.

By two that afternoon they were headed to the airport all counting the minutes until they were back in the little town that they had each left their heart behind in.

They each settled into their seats as their private plane prepared to take off. Each thinking about what they were going to say to the one they had left behind once they saw them again.

They reached Richmond by seven that evening and Klaus called to be sure that his orders had been carried out. When it was confirmed that the house was ready for their arrival they piled into the SUV they had left at the airport when they had left Mystic Falls the prior year and headed towards the small town.

When they arrived everything was the same as when they had left. They agreed to wait until the following day before they each went to speak to the one they had left behind. That settled, they each bid each other goodnight before heading to bed.