Disclaimer: I do NOT own the Vampire Diaries/Originals or anything. Vampire Diaries belongs to LJ Smith, Kevin Williamson and CW while Originals belongs to Kevin and CW. I just like writing the story how I wanted it to be. This is my first fanfic for the series that isn't a crossover with The Secret Circle.

New Orleans was a big area that was filled with music, dancing, food and people. "The party never ends!" Marcel Gerard once told his adopted father/vampire sire Klaus Mikaelson. Marcel was right because this was now his town that once belonged to the Mikaelson family a long time ago before they fled to escape their father Mikael who was going after them.

Little did any of the family know, their mother Esther was possessing Lenore and was holding Elijah hostage. Elijah was chained up and looked like he was asleep, but Esther was putting her plan into action.

A girl with long, wavy brown hair who is wearing a long, white dress frantically runs for safety toward a red door at the end of a hall. Elijah, shirtless and covered in blood from head to toe, slowly stalks her as she whimpers in fear and desperately tries to open the door. When the girl turns around, it is revealed that the girl is Hayley, who looks back at Elijah in sheer terror and continues pounding on the door to no avail. Elijah finally grabs her by the arm and turns her toward him, but it's no longer Hayley, it's Tatia, the original doppelgänger. He grabs her by the hair and turns her neck toward him before vamping-out and feeding on her as she cries in protest.

Elijah awakens from his dream to find that he is still chained by his wrists in a crypt, and is confused as to what has just happened to him. He musters up all of his strength and yanks on his chains as hard as he can to free himself, but they won't break. Lenore/Esther calmly walks in, drinking a cup of tea.

"Have you forgotten where you are, son? Save your strength. My chains don't break so easily." She said, pointing above his head, where a large poppet hangs from the rafters, magically fortified so that they cannot be broken. "Having sweet dreams?" Elijah lunges for her, but the restraints won't allow him to get any closer.

"Get out of my head."

Ester smirks. "I'm not in your head, dear. You were screaming." Elijah glares at her, but Esther remains unbothered by his aggression. "Go ahead, get your bearings. We have much to discuss." Esther leaves. Elijah once again tries to break through the chains, but can't. Eventually, Lenore/Esther returns to the crypt, where she continues to talk to him. "Who were you dreaming about ripping apart when you woke earlier? Was it your new little plaything, Hayley or was it someone else?" Elijah aggressively lunges for her, but still can't get any closer. "Oh, stop fighting, Elijah! I brought you here to listen, and you're not going anywhere until I've said my piece."

Elijah was furious. "So speak."

"I want you to rejoin our family, but as a witch. I want you to leave behind the grotesque savage vampirism has made of you. Take the body of a mortal, and we can all be happy again. Start over."

"You do know you're entirely demented, don't you?"

"Am I? I'm not the one who pulls the wings off of every beautiful butterfly that he finds." Elijah continues to try to break through his chains. "Like the woman who flits across the edge of your nightmare."

"Let me go. Now." He angrily says before his vampire face comes out, but Esther is unfazed.

"Hmm. How quickly you slip back into your more savage self." Elijah is stunned into silence by this response, and he looks almost ashamed as his vampire face slips away. "The moral son I raised is now but a mask worn to hide ancient demons."

"You know nothing."

"See, that's where you're wrong. I know more about the secrets you carry than you do. Shall I list them? I can begin with the first little butterfly you destroyed." Elijah's face goes pale. "The sweet young widow from our village who caught your eye when you were still human." Elijah looks away uncomfortable, which makes Esther smirk in satisfaction. "Ah, you remember her. Of course. How could you forget the first girl to ever steal your heart? She of mystical blood, the doppelgänger, Tatia."

He felt numb. "I did nothing but love that woman until the day you took her life." He glared as the mention of her brought back memories of Elena's ancestor/past doppelgänger.

Ester smiled. "I know that's what you believe... which is precisely why you are here." She picks up a candle from the table and holds it in front of Elijah's face. "I need to show you the monster you really are. When I do, you will beg for salvation, and happily I shall provide it." Esther casts a spell on the candle, and Elijah is transported into a flashback.

A celebration is underway in the Mikaelsons' village, where meat is being cooked over bonfires and villagers are dancing around together, wearing festive masks. Nearby, Elijah and Esther, in her original body, watch as Tatia, wearing a forest green dress and matching mask, dance around the fire.

Ester began explaining. "It was Samhain, when we danced and killed the best of our livestock to appease the gods for a new season." Tatia lifts up her mask so she can smile at Elijah before Klaus grabs her by the arm and spins her around toward him. "All women envied her. All men wanted her, but she only had eyes for one." Klaus kisses Tatia passionately, while Elijah watches sadly from the sidelines. Klaus and Tatia begin to dance, but Tatia stops when she sees that Elijah is no longer watching her. Meanwhile, Elijah walks over to a nearby pig pen, where he affectionately pets and feeds one of the pigs. After a moment, Tatia joins him, amused. "Do not tell me you came to save Loki the pig from his fate?"

Elijah rises to his feet and turns to face her, his expression somber. "No. I'm afraid Loki the pig's fate is to be food." Tatia looks at him sympathetically and Elijah smiles sadly. "Just as you are fated to love another."

"And you? Fated to watch from the shadows? The noble martyr?" Elijah just stares at her in disappointment. "Fate does not dictate my heart, Elijah." She paces in front of him. "I was fated to throw myself on a pyre after my husband died in battle, but I did not. I chose to live and I chose to give my heart once more. To someone strong, protective, fierce, and yet noble, and gentle."

She caresses his face with her hand, and Elijah takes it in his own.

"I choose you, Elijah," He smiles and leans forward to kiss her, but she just giggles and pulls away shyly. "and you choose to have our first kiss where your mother slaughters the pigs?" Elijah grins. "Not very romantic." He gently grabs her head and pulls her close to him for a kiss, and they make out passionately for a few moments before he pulled away.

"Perhaps we should set Loki the pig free? It seems one's fate can change, after all." They continue to kiss.

Esther blows out her candle, bringing Elijah out of his flashback. He stumbles as he tries to regain his bearings.

"That was just the beginning. A brief moment of happiness. That is how it always begins. A butterfly lands upon your finger, unaware that it will lead to her tragic end."

"Her tragic end came when you drained her body of blood." Esther closes her eyes and sighs in frustration. "All for a spell to smother the wolf within Niklaus, if my memory serves."

"Actually, Elijah, your memory doesn't serve you at all. You just don't realize it yet," She caresses Elijah's face. "but, by the time we are done here, you will."

Elijah jerks his face away from her hand and glares at her angrily before he dozes off upright when Lenore/Esther returns to the crypt where he's being held.

"You're hungry, aren't you? It's been hours since you fed. What an awful thing, to feed upon the blood of others. For this, I blame myself and your father. We tried to make you children strong, but instead, we cursed you all."

Elijah flashes back to right after the Mikaelsons were turned into vampires, the morning after Klaus triggered his werewolf gene. Klaus sits in the forest, naked, covered in blood, and surrounded by the dismembered corpses of several men that he killed while he was transformed into a wolf. Elijah finds him a moment later and looks at him with sympathy as Klaus struggles to hold back his tears.

Elijah calls out. "Brother?" He hands Klaus fresh clothes, which Klaus takes from him, but he otherwise doesn't move to get dressed. Instead, he just becomes even more overwhelmed by everything that has just happened to him.

"What am I...? How many...?" Klaus asked.

Elijah pauses for a brief moment before saying, "Six." Klaus covers his face with his hands in horror and disgust at himself. "You slaughtered six villagers, brother. You tore them apart as though they were nothing at all."

Elijah helps Klaus to his feet.

"Brother, what have I become?" The terrified man asked.

"You seem like the wolves in the village, cursed to turn when the moon is full." Elijah pulls Klaus into a comforting hug and pauses a moment before continuing.

"Listen to me. Father is beside himself with rage. It seems this... affliction... can only be passed by a certain kind of conception-" Elijah whispered.

Klaus sniffles. "And do our siblings share this affliction? Do you share this affliction?"

Elijah once again hesitates for a moment before ultimately shaking his head. "No. I don't."

Klaus is devastated. "He is not my father, is he?"

Elijah looks heartbrokenly at him before placing his hand on the back of Klaus' head to force him to look him in the eye.

"You listen to me. This changes nothing. For any of us. We are here for you, as we shall be always."

Klaus looks as though he's about to cry. Suddenly, they hear the sound of someone approaching them. It's Tatia, who sees Klaus covered in blood and surrounded by bodies and quickly becomes terrified so much that she immediately runs away. Elijah, flustered, chases after her to explain.

"Tatia! Tatia? Tatia!" Elijah calls out.

Elijah glares at Lenore/Esther as he returns from his flashback.

"I fail to see your point, here. I compelled Tatia to forget what she saw and she did."

"You'd only been a vampire for a few days. You hadn't yet learned compulsion."

Elijah shakes his head in disbelief. "No. I remember that. Clearly."

"Do you? You thought there were still lines you wouldn't cross." Elijah stares at her, visibly distraught by the thought of what she's suggesting. "People you wouldn't hurt. Things you wouldn't do, but you're wrong. That is what I'm here to show you."

Elijah continues to chase after Tatia through the woods after she found Klaus and Elijah surrounded by bodies and fled the scene. She eventually trips on an exposed tree root and falls on the ground, allowing Elijah to finally catch up to her.

"Tatia! Tatia! Tatia! Wait! Wait."

Tatia scrambles to her feet and starts to back away from him fearfully, and Elijah puts up his hands in a non-threatening gesture.

"Stay away from me."

"I won't hurt you!"

She is horrified. "What have you become?"

"I'm what I've always been! I'm the one who loves you."

Tatia shakes her head, visibly scared by him and his new supernatural identity.

"You knew how special she was! I always thought you would protect her. That she would be your wife, that one day I might call her daughter! Instead-"

Elijah screamed, "I didn't hurt her!"

"You've taught yourself to hide from who and what you are for a thousand years!"

Elijah angrily yanks on his chains in an effort to lunge at Esther.

"I did not hurt Tatia! I could not."

"But you did!"

Tatia continues to stare at Elijah in fear and horror, and Elijah continues to try to ease her fears while still feeling hurt by her reaction.

She is stunned. "Your mother asked for my blood. She said nothing of the dark magic that would turn you into a monster!"

Elijah is visibly hurt by the expression on his face. "Look at me, I'm not a monst-" He cuts himself off, unable to finish the words because he has suddenly sensed the blood that is pouring from a wound on Tatia's palm that she sustained when she fell earlier. Elijah tries as hard as he can to resist it, but his vampire face comes out involuntarily, briefly scaring Tatia. He breathes deeply to try to control himself, and it eventually fades away. "Tatia..."

Lenore/Esther takes Elijah's face in her hands and forces him to look at her.

"Oh, my beautiful boy. No more hiding. It is time, now, for you to remember it all."

Tatia becomes frightened once more and slaps Elijah across the face in hopes of protecting herself. Elijah is so taken aback by this display of violence that he doubles over and massages his jaw, feeling hurt that she doesn't trust him.

"I said I will not hurt you. I don't want to-"

Despite his best efforts, the scent of her blood causes his vampire face to come out again, and Tatia backs away in terror at the sight of his blood-red eyes, darkened eye-veins, and vampire fangs.

"Elijah...?"

He musters up all of his willpower to try to hold himself back from feeding on her.

Elijah is overwhelmed. "Run!" Tatia backs away and turns to run as fast as she can, but Elijah's efforts are for naught and he's ultimately unable to stop himself from chasing after her.

"You didn't want to hurt her. You loved her." Lenore/Esther said.

He grabs hold of Tatia and pulls her head back by the hair in order to expose her neck as Tatia yelps and struggles against his grip.

"But you couldn't fight what you had become. What I had turned you into!"

He bites Tatia's neck and viciously feeds on her as she screams in pain.

"A predator and she became your prey."

Elijah yanks himself out of Esther's grasp and glares at her.

"This was you. You murdered her for her blood and then you used it to cripple Klaus for centuries." Esther just stares at him, blank-faced, as Elijah steps backward and continues to pull on his chains. "I won't listen to another word."

"You don't have to listen, son. All you have to do is remember."

"You're distorting my memories! It was you who killed Tatia!" He yelled in anger.

"Oh, I used her blood to bind the spell that suppressed Niklaus' werewolf aspect, but by the time you brought her to me, she was already dead."

Elijah looks at his mother in horror and disbelief. "You can't rewrite history!"

"No, I cannot and I did not. Not until I had your consent."

Esther is out by the pig pen, where she is cleaning a knife with a cloth, when Elijah approached her, carrying Tatia's dead body in his arms. Esther backs away from him, visibly terrified by the sight of them.

"When you became yourself again, you brought her to me," Esther takes Tatia's body from a devastated Elijah's arms. "but, too late. I told you you were a good son, to let me take care of it. That I could help make it all go away."

Esther drags Tatia's body away into the shed. Elijah, overwhelmed to the point of numbness, falls to his knees in horror. Esther closes the wooden door to their slaughterhouse behind her, the wood stained with red blood.

"I said to you, "You will not suffer from this memory, or be tormented from the guilt of your misdeed. What goes behind that door shall stay there and be forgotten."

Esther returns outside to Elijah, who is still kneeling outside the slaughterhouse. She leans down and whispers into his ear.

"I told you to clean yourself up. That if you were clean, no one would know what you are or what you'd done."

She hands him a washcloth, which he uses to wipe the blood from his face.

Elijah shakes his head in disbelief.

"And you did exactly that...and more. You created a place in your mind to put your victims. You began to believe that as long as your suit was immaculate and your hands clean, you could look in the mirror and tell yourself it's all okay. No one need know what's behind that red door," Elijah flashes back to his nightmare from earlier, when Hayley/Tatia was pounding on the red door while he stalked them, shirtless and covered in blood, before finally feeding on them. "but a thousand years is a long time, Elijah and a place meant to hold one unforgivable sin is now full to bursting with your most monstrous deeds."

Elijah is overwhelmed. "STOP!"

"How long before it's your true love interest's corpse behind that door? I'll give you a hint. It's not Hayley and never has been since you convinced yourself she's a safer choice compared to your true love."

Elijah whispers desperately. "Stop."

"You must be afraid that-that loving you will destroy her! As it destroyed Celeste. Tatia. Take my offer. Both of you. In new bodies, you will be alive again!"

Elijah is determined. "You will not break me."

"Oh, you are already broken, my dear boy, but not beyond repair. I am here to fix you. I am here to fix you all."

He is still weakly hanging by his wrists in the crypt, kneeling on the floor, getting ever weaker as Lenore/Esther continues to taunt him.

"No more."

"I'm afraid we've just begun. You will hang here, remembering. Every atrocity you've hid behind that door will emerge to haunt you. And, as you grow weaker, you will be ripped of your strength, your will, your hope and as you rot here, alone, you will reconsider my offer. A new life. A way to be freed of your demons. A chance at peace."

A/N: I'm going to add a little more to the Lenore/Esther's taunting before it goes back to being slightly canon in the episode with the dialogue and actions, but with a different woman in Hayley's place. Once that finishes, it'll going back to me writing my own stuff instead of the episodes. I may add a couple things from one or two more episodes, but it's mainly going to be non canon "episodes" starting right now. I will post when it goes back to canon in the episode and a third and final time when it's back to being non canon. Please be patient because this is my first fanfic for Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies universe.

Elijah was filled with pain, anger, disappointment, guilt and regret with everything he just saw. Not being able to control himself from killing his very first love caused a very deep anger to settle in his heart. Anger towards himself and towards Esther for making him remember it. He pulled on the chains again, but got the same result.

"If you give up the part of yourself that is filled with your inner raging demons, you won't have to worry about anything happening to another romantic love interest who catches your eye and steals your heart." She told him.

"There is no one else." He said, truly believing it despite Esther just proving that what he knew about Tatia's death was a lie.

"Lie." She smirked.

"No one else since Tatia is dead." Just hearing himself say it and her showing it to him breaks his heart into a thousand pieces.

"Oh, but there is. You just haven't admitted it to anyone, her or yourself. You may not even realize you've fallen in love with someone else, but you have. It's not Hayley either. She is just someone you think you're in love with, but it's not."

"Name one person I'm unknowingly in love with." He glared, liking to think he knows his own feelings despite having difficulty handling and accepting certain emotions and being uncomfortable with/accepting romantic ones due to him only being in love a few times. That couldn't be more true than now as he processed what really happened to his first love.

"Your heart already knows, my dear boy." She smirked, putting a hand on his face like she did before, which got the same result. "You just have to let her in like you did with the Tatia."

"I feel nothing towards Katerina now and I don't think I ever felt anything for her at all." He replied, angrily.

"I can tell, but you are in love with someone else. Who knows, she might even return your feelings for her and could even be the love of your life."

"I highly doubt that."

Lenore/Esther just smiled in response.

Ok. This is the final part for the in universe episode, but I slightly altered it.

Suddenly, a brunette woman vamp-speeds into the crypt, biting Lenore/Esther's neck and viciously feeding on her before she falls to the floor. She looks up at Elijah, blood smeared around her mouth, and she adorably flips her hair out of her face.

"Huh! That's about enough of that, don't you think? I would have ripped her heart out, but she would have just body-jumped."

She walks toward Elijah, who slumps over weakly in relief as she attempts to break his chains.

However, Esther's spell prevents the chains from being broken.

"How do I get these off?"

Elijah looks up above them, which causes her to do the same, and she sees the poppet hanging from the ceiling that is reinforcing the chains.

"The doll, up there. Break it. She's using it to bind me."

She reaches up and rips down the doll before tearing it in half. She then breaks the chains binding Elijah's wrists and kneels before him to check on him.

"You need to feed."

Elijah, becoming worried about his lack of control over his bloodlust, turns away from her.

"I can't-"

"You're weak."

She bites her wrist and offers it to him, but Elijah becomes even more anxious as he stares at her pleadingly.

"I can't! I crave you. My hunger, it could overwhelm me."

He gasps, trying to control himself, and looks at her bloody wrist with longing. The woman remains calm and simply caresses his face.

"Look at me." Elijah forces himself to meet her gaze. "I'm not afraid."

They stare at each other for a moment before she leans forward and begins to kiss him. They start making out, both still kneeling on the floor. After a moment, Elijah begins to have trouble resisting her blood. She notices his discomfort and leans back, moving her hair to the side so she can expose her neck to him. His vampire face comes out involuntarily when he sees her pulsing carotid artery, and immediately bites on her to feed.

Back to being my version. I just wanted to have her taunt Elijah a little more before he dreams of being saved, not because I like torturing him because I HATE it, but I needed to find some way to get him to realize his true feelings for someone else.

"You could have taken the cure and be human with her or you could stay the vampire you are and outlive her while she marries a nice human, has a family, gets old and dies if she took the cure." Lenore/Esther smiled wickedly, still taunting him, knowing the depth of emotion the girl he's unknowingly in love with elicits from him while he remains in denial.

Elijah glared since he was still mad about her sending him into the past.

"You know nothing." He said, still in denial about her believing that he's in love with some other girl, any other girl, besides Hayley.

"Didn't I just prove otherwise when I said that I know more about the secrets you carry than you do?" She asked, rhetorically. "I know the secret you've been keeping from your brother for 1,000 years." Elijah turned pale.

"That doesn't matter now." He said, trying to convince himself. If Klaus ever found out, it would break his heart and destroy their bond.

"I believe it does." She said, firmly.

"I'm not romantically interested in anyone else, Esther." He said, with deep anger in his eyes.

"Not even someone who could potentially make you happy again?"

"I was happy with Tatia until that day." He replied. "You took her away from me."

"Think about what I said."

Before Lenore could even move once Elijah was back asleep, a surprise visitor who was outside listening snapped the doll in half and broke the chains that were holding him. After knocking the woman who Esther was possessing out, she felt a presence nearby and slammed the woman against the wall. "Who are you?"

"Freya and no one can hear us since I cloaked us."

"Why are you here?"

"To save my brother from our mother." Freya said with anger in her eyes.

"I'm here for Elijah too." The brunette said as the blond raised an eyebrow, sensing some things about her. She walked in with the blond following her and went over to Elijah who was still out of it. "Wake up. Come on."

"I could astral project you into his mind so you can talk to him." Freya said, looking at her.

"Do it." She replied before she found herself standing in a white corridor. Turning around, she saw a red door and approached it. Touching the handle, she twisted it. Nothing happened. "Elijah!" She yelled, looking for the Noble Original.

"Elena?" He asked, walking up to her with a blank expression before she ran over and hugged him. It seemed neither of them wanted to let go due to how gentle, but firm Elijah was holding her and she didn't even move away after a few minutes. When they finally pulled away, Elijah saw concern in her eyes.

"Are you okay?" She asked, looking at him.

"Physically yes other than my wrists being chained up."

"Let me guess, Esther?" She raised an eyebrow with fire in her eyes.

"Unfortunately."

"How do we get out of here?"

"Break it down." They both looked at it and Elijah felt a hand intertwine with his. He looked over at Elena who smiled.

"Always and Forever." That's all she said, which surprised him and that was difficult to do.

With a nod to each other, they broke the door down together, slamming into it until it crumbled underneath their combined strength.

Elijah woke up to see he was back in his bedroom and got in the shower to wash all the guilt and everything off him, literally and mentally, before he got changed and went downstairs. He grabbed a blood bag and drank it, feeling his full strength come back after a couple more. Going back to his room, he let his thoughts wander and found himself thinking of Elena more than usual. He knew Esther must have used her to torture him, but didn't know who managed to save him. Sighing, he wrote in his journal as thoughts of the compassionate and exquisite beauty of Tatia's modern counterpart ran in his head over and over again.

A/N: I hope you guys liked the chapter. I've read other Elejah stories and don't know why people like Rebekah are saying Tatia is a mean girl in those fanfics because I didn't get that impression at all since she was so nice the flashbacks of season 2 episode 5 in The Originals. She didn't mean to get between Elijah and Klaus, just like Elena with the Salvatore Brothers, and she did tell Elijah she chose him, so I don't see why people write Rebekah or someone else saying Tatia is a mean girl and was manipulative like Katherine when I did not get that vibe from her at all and I've watched that episode multiple times. Still feel the same way.

Next chapter may have some Elejah moments, but I do feel like I don't write him good enough since he is so complex.

Keep an eye out for my Secret Circle multi crossover titled "The Sacrifice" which should be coming out soon depending on when and if I'm able to write it, if I feel like it at all since I've been having major writer's block lately.

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