AN: I feel like you all occasionally go WTF at my writing, but like, my writing time window is literally from 11pm to like 5am. Also when I post the most. Also I'm thinking of a very interesting soulmate au. The other idea has acutally been written and is hella good: .
Elijah is home late, he arrives in the morning, Klaus notices. He can smell Elena Gilbert on his clothes, and his brother takes a shower which gets rid of most of it. Rebekah notices too, but no one mentions it. The witches trade their services for protection from the Original family. If they call, the Originals will come. Magic is performed and tested. They can hear their mother yelling, soon to die again from suffocation. Or at the very least, pass out. It is done and the coffin will never be opened again. The witches say goodbye, Klaus looks smug as he puts it with the other coffins, that are empty. One filled coffin. Elijah tells Elena it is done. There's nothing to mourn as their mother is still alive. There's a moment of pause, they have to think about what they've done, and then it passes, and Elijah invites Elena over. She says she'll be over soon.
