My name is Elena Gilbert.
There is no one story, not here. There's too many interconnecting lives involved. Even my life as a doppelganger is inconsequential when compared to the entire history of everyone that's led me to this moment. My death.
But in hindsight, we are all prey to what has already been done before.
There's another doppelganger. Tom. I think we were both EMT's at the same time, once. When he lived in Toronto and I was back in San Diego. It's funny how different magics worm their way around with each other. Silas. Inadu. Cade. Grayson. It's funnier how Tom was just-
- fine.
Nothing weird with him. Nothing out of the ordinary. No unnecessary deaths outside of his own.
There are days I envy him for not knowing magic, then there are ones where I feel sorry.
It doesn't matter. None of it does. We're all just convinced that there's some brighter force out there acting either as a guiding hand or ruthless punisher. In the end, the only thing that reflects from the sky is ourselves.
My story began when my dad went missing- then 'died'. News outlet and all. But he wasn't dead. I knew it. We knew it, Jeremy and I. A witch once told me that magic always came with a cost, that 'the balance', whatever that fucking means, must always be protected. But I've known suffering. Lived it. Breathed it, at one point. And no cost is ever too high. Ever.
My story is simple. It's always been simple. It starts with one phrase:
Family above all.
All we know about the mysterious disappearance of the Father of Modern Medicine
Dr. Grayson Gilbert, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Gilded Lines, a pharmaceutical company specializing in manufacturing and selling the first and only cure for dementia, was confirmed missing on May 28 after a leak was brought out none-other than his own son, Jeremy Gilbert, in r/GetItOffMyChest at reddit. Dr. Gilbert's family was confirmed to have last seen him on April 09, police said. "I'd suggest Mr. Gilbert to stay in line and contact the authorities as requested," said SDPD Chief, Logan Holffstead- referencing Dr. Gilbert's son's post. No other comments were made by authorities or Gilded Lines' legal team. more on p. 5.
The Gilbert Family in Virginia… p. 30-31
Jeremy Gilbert's 'hilarious' reddit threads… p. 13-17
Dr. Grayson Gilbert, the world's current brightest and most beloved mind... p. 18