when my time comes around,
lay me gently in the cold dark earth,
no grave can hold my body down,
i'll crawl home to her.

HOZIER / WORK SONG

Arsonist.

KLAUS MIKAELSON has a problem and that problem is love.

But it's not his, it's his brother's.

When Kol Mikaelson falls for a woman in 1821, Klaus is faced with a conundrum with an easy fix: subject his brother to a dagger that will immobilise him until removed––

And of course, kill the girl too.

But, so it seems, things are easier said than done.

IN WHICH A WOMAN TAKES THE REVENGE SHE DESERVES
&
A MAN COMPELS HIMSELF A LOVE THAT HE DOESN'T.

LILA knows exactly who she is.

(And that's her first lie.)

(Not that she'd know it.)

She knows that she's a nightmare dreamt up by a man on a back street in New Orleans. She knows that she was thought of a long time ago and has lived this life ever since. She knows she's a specific kind of beautiful: handpicked and tried on for size, bathed in blood long before her teeth had elongated and sharpened into knives.

(But she doesn't know that she was loved and then she was lost.)

Lila knows that, over the past two hundred years, she's become cold. She knows that she's become cruel. She knows that she was taught to be this way somehow, and although, maybe the specifics are blurry, she knows that that man made her this way.

She knows that he taught her in the tradition of everything: filth teaches filth.

(But she doesn't know that everything had gone wrong. It wasn't supposed to go this way.)

Lila knows that the man that pressed kisses against her throat and then drained her dry, had claimed to love her. She knows that she spent fifty years under his hand, growing in his image and trying to live off of his affection alone––

And she knows that it rotted her, from the inside out, like a deadly fever she couldn't get sweat out.

(But she doesn't know that she was loved once, loved dearly and wholly, and then stolen like flowers from a grave, repurposed on someone else's window and all.)

Now, Lila figures she has a choice.

(No. She's never had a choice. Not once.)

She can continue her life as it has been for the last century, ever since she'd said to hell with toxic love, or she can get revenge. But for a woman like Lila... She knows that's not a choice at all––

She says yes to an alliance with Katherine Pierce faster than she'd left the one man who had had understood her.

(False.)

And, as she sets out to ruin the man that had ruined her first, she can't help but wonder what is that made her so rotten–– after all, at one point, she must've been soft, right? She must've been weak to love him just as he'd claimed to love her?

After all, why else would she be filled with all this rage?

(Wrong. It's all wrong.)

But if Lila knows anything about the man she loved, she knows that he'll be an impossible feat to take down.

It'll take more than just ripping a heart out a chest and sinking graves that were better left unturned.

Because she knows her lovers name just as she knows his ability to survive––

(No. Please, god No––)

Klaus Mikaelson.

(No.)

(No...)

(...)

(The man that loves you, the man who would've killed for you..)

(His name wasn't Klaus.)

(It was Kol.)

anya taylor-joy · LILA

I WILL SPILL BLOOD & IT WILL BE YOURS

alongside the original the vampire diaries cast
aside from ...

freddy carter · KOL MIKAELSON

pedro pascal · ALARIC SALTZMAN

suraj sharma · MATT DONOVAN

ben barnes · DAMON SALVATORE

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optional recasts.

matthew goode     elijah mikaelson
andrew matarazzo  tyler lockwood
ewan mitchell      klaus mikaelson

NO ONE FUCKS WITH MY BABY ━━━ 𝖎. valentine, texas, mitski. 𝖎𝖎. where's my wife, sloppy jane. 𝖎𝖎𝖎. jennifer's body, hole. 𝔦𝔳. you're dead, norma tanega. 𝖛. strangers, ethel cane.
𝖛𝖎. work song, hozier. 𝖛𝖎𝖎. francis forever, mitski. 𝖛𝖎𝖎𝖎. eat your young, hozier. 𝖎𝖛. haunted, laura les.
𝖛. punisher, phoebe bridgers.

FOR LILA ━━━ 𝖎. ultraviolence, lana del rey, 𝖎𝖎. bang bang bang bang, sohodolls.
𝖎𝖎𝖎. feminine urge, the last dinner party

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　　WARNING ! . . . this book contains: dark themes such as murder, trauma, major and minor character death, sex, gore and mutilation.  there will be discussion around sexual exploitation, mental health and grief.

[ if you find these themes distressing please do not continue reading.your readership is NOT more important than your health. always prioritise yourself. ]

　　DISCLAIMER ! . . . i do not own the vampire diaries and respective plots and characters are owned by cw and the respective creatives behind the vampire diaries/originals production team. this fic is inspired by anya taylor-joy in the menu. the red hair and the bangs did it for me. i'm no better than a man. pretty woman get covered in blood and brain go brrr.

　　I DO... however own lila and any plotlines that surround her and are separate to the show. this fic will weave in and out of canon and i will, simply, do as i please. canon can get boring sometime so i'm going to crack everything up a bit and just have a very fun murder party with it.

　　DEDICATIONS ! . . . as always, this one goes out to the milfs! in no particular order, lindsay, hannah, annika, tina, aria, ash & ema!

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( foxgioves / 2023 )

STARTED · FEB '23
FINISHED · N/A