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When elijah had exited the mikaelson home to go to marcel to give him the dagger, the only weapon that could kill him, he had left you in your shared bed sleeping soundly. He had kissed your forehead as you slept peacefully before going out. He had promised you to be out for an hour, two at the latest, and as always he had maintained his promise. The problem was that when he had got back home, dawn almost rising, your shared bed was empty and your side strained in blood.
Panic pervaded elijah. He searched for you everywhere in the compound and the quarter without finding you, that is when he called Klaus.
‘Niklaus!’ he cried desperate, his voice rang in all the compound reaching all that had supernatural hearing arriving to the courtyard where Klaus was with Hayley and Hope making her try the famous new Orleans beignet.
Hayley and Klaus exchanged a worried look
‘come on Hope, you father has some work to do’ said Hayley taking the child’s hand
‘but dad…’ started Hope
‘Princess please go play with you mother, uncle Elijah needs me’ asked politely Klaus helping Hope get down from the chair, as the child nodded to him and hugged him before going out with her mother.
Klaus walked to your room annoyed and surprised to find the door open ‘What is it Elijah?, I was trying to spend some time with –‘ he started before stopping seeing the scene in front of him.
Elijah was on his knees, on the floor, his head in his hands and his eyes opened wide, red, as his heartbeat was pacing far too fast. You nowhere in sight. That was strange. Klaus knew better than to walk in your’s and elijah’s room in the early morning, but when he walked in now this was far from the scene he expected.
‘Brother, what happened, where is y/n?’ he asked worried, looking at the room before spotting the blood on your side of the bed
‘she is gone. I left her here a few hours ago to go to Marcel, and when I came back, she wasn’t in our bed and on her side there is a strain of blood. I looked for her everywhere, in the house, in the quarter I can’t find her’ he replied passing a hand through his hair, his composure long gone
‘we will find her brother’ Klaus tried to reassure him helping elijah up ‘and if they dared to touch her we will make them pay’ Klaus vows anger rising in him at the thought of you, his best friend in danger.
Elijah nodded at him, finding again his composure before they exited the room to search for you.
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Meanwhile you laid on the floor of the Hollow’s hut.
the hollow had removed the stake from your abdomen just to pierce it again in your back. As the venom of the rose bush circulated in your body you could feel your strength leaving, your magic already gone the moment the venom had reached your blood. The pain was piercing through, you were a sweating mess, but you were not going to give up.
The hollow in sofia’s body entered the hut ‘look who is awake. Don’t worry soon enough you will sleep permanently’ she mocked you
‘my husband. and his brother. will find you and they will kill you in the most painful way possible. if you want to live let me go’ you told her teeth gritting both in anger and pain
‘death taking over and you still don’t lose your famous wicked tongue. They will no doubt try. Though I believe the odds are in my favor. your sacrifice will allow me to be reborn far stronger than I have ever been. and after you are dead, Elijah will be in no place to act, so you expect your brother-in-law to avenge you? Inspired, perhaps, by duty to the familial bond. I've been inside Klaus' mind. You care for one another so deeply. It's quite ludicrous, this dedication to family. After all, look where it got you. Perhaps now you understand: family is a curse. We inherit the sins of those who come before us, and those sins are passed to the ones who come next. Like... your little niece’. the hollow commented unimpressed. Blood boiled in your veins you didn’t know if for the venom or of the anger. No one threatens your niece and lives no one.
‘You will never touch her, let alone-’ you told her with rage, in the best you could as your strength was vanishing
‘Hurt her? Why? Because your family will protect her? You poor soul. You can't even save each other. But your niece? She is born in my bloodline. She has the power to destroy me, and that... I cannot allow.’
‘you think you are special but you are just another body for my family to slay. you will end up in the endless pile that my husband and brother-in-law make with their enemies. And believe me they have been cute little kittens until now. Harm me further and they will become the devil themselves’ you said trying to keep up your confidence although it was not easy being you on the floor with the only thing that could kill you deep in your back
‘you act so brave but you know your time is almost up. Such a shame I won’t be here when your beloved Elijah finds your corpse. that will be quite a scene, your love is legendary afterall. But don’t worry I’m merciful. I will send him over to you on the other side in no time, with the rest of your sweet precious family’ she said lowering to your level to mock you while watching you in the eyes.
One thing was trying to kill you, and that in normal circumstances would have meant immediate death for the enemy. The next level was threatening your family or your niece, in that case you would have taken your sweet time to eliminate the enemy making them pay for having dared to even think to harm little Hope. But one thing you really should never do to y/n mikaelson was promise to kill your husband, in that case your response would be so brutal the devil would weep at the idea. You could die, hell you didn’t even care if it meant the family was safe, but thinking of Elijah dead was something you could not even begin to process. He was your life and your soul.
You let out a scream in anger, trying to use your magic to harm her but nothing happened, your magic was gone and you were truly helpless. You had never found yourself in such state before. Only then you realized that you could not save yourself, and in your current state not even your family.
The hollow let out an amusing chuckle ‘just let go. it will be easier for you. trust me’
You hold on to your life not daring to let go but eventually as the venom crawled in you it would not be your choice anymore. But you could never let go, if not for yourself then for Elijah that you knew was already out of his mind searching for you. As you would be if the situation was reversed.
You knew she was right, your time was up, but you just hoped you would get to see elijah one last time. At least if death would take you, you wanted the possibility to look in those brown eyes that had loved you for a thousand year as darkens engulfed you.
-.-.--.-.-.-.-.-.-.
‘The spell requires so much power that only the sacrifice of an originals can provide’ explained Vincent to the mikaelsons ‘the Hollow will use Y/N’s death to come back, but there’s a window where I can use her sacrifice to kill the hollow permanently’
Elijah moved towards Vincent who did not flick even if it was clear Elijah was moments away from losing his calm and rip of the head of the shaman ‘This plan of yours has no intention to save my wife, as it relies entirely upon her death.’
‘elijah is right, what kind of plan is this’ asked Klaus moving next to his brother, angered at the idea of even proposing to let you die
‘easy, Vincent is trying to help’ said marcel to the mikaelson brothers that had both murderous eyes
‘elijah. I know this is difficult for you, she is your wife. But Y/N is already dead. the only thing we can do right now is figure out whether or not her death is gonna count for something. And you know she would want this’ Vincent tried to make Elijah reason
‘you know nothing of what my wife would want. That’s not a call for any of you to make’ elijah said moving in front of Vincent eyeing all the people in the room ‘There has to be another way to both save her and kill the hollow. There must be’
‘Freya, you still have the antidote we used to cure Marcel’s bite?’ prompted Hayley. She was trying to find a solution. You had been nothing but kind with her. You probably were her favorite mikaelson. You had been there for her when Hope was born, when she had to give her away, when Jackson died. You were the sister she never got and she would not let anything happen to you, as she knew you would do for her if the situation was reversed. And as she knew that this family would crumble the moment you were gone. Your love, loyalty and dedication for and to every member of the family was what kept the mikaelsons together.
‘yes. But I don’t know if it will work against the poison of the rosebush’. freya was trying to think but had to be realistic. you had been one of the first to accept her in this family. And although you were not related in blood for her you were her sister still
‘we need to try’ proclaimed Klaus desperate to any solution
‘You all aren’t listening!’ Vincent warned them staring to lose patience and raising his voice ‘Even if we save Y/N, the Hollow will stop at nothing to come back in a physical body that has primal power. It will destroy the entire city in a day, and any of you or anybody will be able to stop her. Now, my plan? We kill the hollow while she's still a spirit. yes Y/N dies, but at least her death counts for something and saves us all’
‘No. Elijah said firmly his knuckles turning white by how much strength he was putting in closing them . ‘No, we are just losing time, I’m not willing to discuss this any longer. We can defeat the Hollow another way and save Y/N today. You will not sacrifice my wife, have I made myself clear?’ he replied his tone firm and calm, but hiding a murderous rage behind each word
‘What about your little girl? The hollow wiped out the entire Labonair bloodline. It already got to Hope once’ Vincent said looking at Klaus and Hayley before tuning again to Elijah ‘I understand that y/n is your wife, man I really do, but this is probably the only chance that you’ve got to destroy the hollow. Now you want to blow that opportunity to maybe a very feeble maybe save her, or do you want to do your job as head of this family and save your niece?’ he said looking at elijah which jaw was clenching ‘Y/N lived 10 lifetimes, and she loves that kid, you know it. So let her go it’s for the best’ added vincent, at the last sentence elijah sprinted to him caging him against the wall
‘elijah!’ shouted Klaus tearing his brother off Vincent thar recomposed himself
‘this family is absurd. We are talking about your niece!’ replied Vincent
‘Don't use my daughter to justify your absurd plan.’ Klaus said to Vincent once he was sure elijah was calm, still keeping his hold on Elijah’s arm. Klaus knew the hollow could kills them all but it wasn’t a good reason enough to sacrifice you, his best friend, his moral guide. The one person who always had been by his side. And moreover he would not even imagine what loosing you would do to himself, to this family and especially to elijah. You two had been together for a thousand years and you had been not only the glue of the family, but of elijah’s heart and humanity. Without you elijah was doomed and so were the mikaelsons.
‘his absurd plan is the only plan that we've got. So maybe we should do a little less fighting, and a little more thinking.’ Marcel added. He liked you, you were his favorite mikaelson and despite everything you had been like a mother to him in the past. but that was not enough a good reason to put everyone’s life at risk.
‘There's always a loophole.’ Freya intervened squeezing elijah’s arm to reassure him before telling Vincent with a tone which was more an order than a request ‘I welcome you to study my mother's grimoires them with me.’
Vincent accepted reluctantly freya command as he knew discussing with this family was useless. They would sacrifice anyone expect a member of the family and especially not you. The mikaelson which everyone was most attached to.
Elijah stayed silent as Freya and Vincent went upstairs to find a solution, marcel and Hayley left too. Leaving him and Klaus alone and in silence in the room. He could not even think of the possibility of you dying. You two had promised each others ‘always and forever until the end of time’ and you meant until the universe collapsed not until one of you reached the end of their time on this earth. He thought about you in his arms just the night before. How you smiled at him, kissed him and told him you loved him. he could not bare to think that that would have been the last time he saw you, the last time he kissed you, the last time he loved you. Not after a thousand years of having you by his side, not after a thousand years of you being his heart.
Elijah always made the right choice, the calculated and right one to protect his family. That was is strength. But as anyone he had a weakness, and you were his. His moral code, his entire self meant nothing if you were in danger. You were his everting, his love, his life, and his universe. The city could die, the world could collapse, it would have been more probable that hell freezes over than him let you go, that he gave up on you. He wouldn’t. he couldn’t. life meant nothing without you, nothing had meaning without you. He would do anything to have you back in his arms. And Klaus knew this very well as the only times he had seen is brother lose control were because you were in danger. Times where he really had feared Elijah could become the devil himself.
‘Brother, we will not let her die. I’ll do whatever it takes for you to not let her go’ Klaus told him, squeezing his shoulder and giving him a reassuring smile that did not reach his eyes.
‘I know. Because without her I’m already dead’ Elijah replied as his brother eyes widened at the admission.
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You knew there was nothing you could do there, your magic was gone the moment the stake went through you, you could not reach it with your hand and remove it yourself. You had realized hours before that you could do nothing but hope Elijah would find you. find you when you were still alive. Not even save you but just find you. You just wanted to tell him you loved him one last time if this was really your end. Your mind was already trying to make you survive by giving you reassuring memories where to hide in as death took over. You were sweating, your Y/S/C skin turned pale and towards grey, every part of your body was in pain it felt like fire, the symptoms were similar to the ones of a werewolf bite but much more severe.
You drifted in and out of consciousness and that is when your mind would trick you.
Mystic falls woods 990s A.D.
A younger Elijah was running behind you as you giggled in the woods. It was a summer day and the excuse of going hunting had turned into one of yours and elijah’s secret rendezvous. It was the first months of your relationship, as you had turned of age Elijah had finally spoken his feeling for you that went beyond being your friend. Still you two had to keep your relationship hidden from his family at least for now, as Mikael would disapprove. Because of your strong magic he had brought you home from another village and you had been raised in the mikaelson household but always as inferior more than a guest. The only one who knew about the relationship was Klaus, it was difficult to hide it from him as he was always around either you or elijah, but you trusted him.
you were now playing catch in the woods
‘I got you’ elijah said hugging you from behind as he had cached you, you giggled, he started to tickle you, as he knew how much you hated it
‘elijah ! let me go! Please’ you told him laughing you really did hate tickling
‘I will never let you go’ he said stopping the tickling as your turned facing him, you face inches apart as his eye fell on your lips ‘you have my word on that’ he promised you before you brought him forward towards you and kissed him your arms around his neck.
As the kiss grew in intensity you gently lied down taking him with you on the ground of the woods, flowers and trees all around you
‘it’s a promise then’ you told him, as you started undressing each other’s as he smiled at you
You opened your eyes. It was just a dream, your brain was playing memories of happy times. You were still on the floor in a hut, death hovering you. You looked at your wedding ring ‘please elijah find me’ you silently begged