Of all the lives Elijah had pictured over the last year, this was not the one he expected. How could he? With Mikael gone, with Esther thwarted, surely invincibility was now fact not just highly likely fiction? The whole reason he'd needed to stop Klaus before the ritual was because of his very indestructibility afterward. He'd never expected ( Read more... )

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Elijah had spent the night in his study, in front of the fire, the ring anodized stake in his hands. Rebekah and Kol both wandered in a few times, his sister more openly fretful than his brother, but both of them clearly uncomfortable and uncertain ( Read more... )

The subway was an abysmal form of travel. Certainly, it was acceptable enough for the cattle with their need to rush everywhere, down under the ground, better dressed variants of sewer rats. The roads above were congested with pedestrians and taxicabs, clogged and impassable half of the time like the drains in the older buildings turned into ( Read more... )