Author's Note
I'm so excited to share my girl Rosalie's story! The following intro covers the first part of this story which takes place during the 5th season of TVD.
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It was true what they said. When you die, your life flashes before your eyes. You think about all the choices that brought you to that final moment.
In Rosalie's case, it was a mixture of many things — the hatred against her, her determination to make something of herself, the immense desire to please those around her and, perhaps the biggest fault of all...a love story that was not hers, but instead her friend's.
She saw the circumstances of deceit and betrayal that brought her to the very moment that Silas killed her. She saw how stupid she had been for never seeing it coming. She should have been smarter, she should have seen it coming.
But she didn't.
So she died.
She died before Qetsiyah could save her, before her friends and family could save her.
Rosalie died alone and in silence.
She was the first soul to enter the Other Side (which was fitting since she was one of the creators of the other world). For 2000 years, she was forced to live on the Other Side dwelling on her short life and everything and everyone she left behind.
To her luck, she was not alone for long. Qetsiyah joined her soon enough.
They had both lost everything and were now cursed to watch the world continue on without them from the very prison they had built.
For two thousand years, Rosalie ventured on her own, watching the world go by. Those same 2000 years went by for Qetsiyah without ever letting go of her bitterness and thirst for vengeance. Because while they were stuck on the Other Side, Silas remained in the land of the living. It didn't matter that he was nothing but stone like Rosalie often pointed out. He wasn't there with them. He wasn't stuck on the Other Side like them.
Two thousand years later, Qetsiyah was still looking for a way to fulfill her revenge and by a stroke of dumb luck, she got the opportunity.
Rosalie was baffled by it. How could someone so vengeful get such a lucky shot? Moreover, how could she be pulled into the whole thing again? Because when Qetsiyah made her escape, she didn't do it alone. She quite literally yanked Rosalie with her into the world of the living.
And so 2000 years later, Rosalie found herself living the same story again. Only this time, Rosalie was determined not to let it end the same way twice.
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