DEAD RINGER
── my bones are stained with sin, scorched from fires, broken from betrayals, cold in loneliness, soaked with blood, and still we keep on fighting.

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❝I AM NOT LOOKING
TO ESCAPE MY
DARKNESS. I AM LEARNING
TO LOVE MYSELF THERE.❞

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THE GRIM REAPER WAS A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE in mythology and history. They are well documented beings, despite rarely being seen. With many names in many different cultures and many stories to go with them, most people would assume that there was only one and that he worked alone. These people would be wrong.

MORRIGAN BAUDELAIRE WAS A REAPER. She was the apprentice to the Grim Reaper, in fact, and poised to take over his position once it is finally time for him to retire from the position. Lin Baudelaire taught her almost everything she knew and he was practically her father after all the decades they'd spent together.

THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DRAWN TO Mystic Falls sooner, but it truly was the miraculous revival of Elena Gilbert that brings mentor and apprentice to the town that's housed so many of the supernatural. She was supposed to die in the ritual to make the infamous Klaus Mikaelson the unkillable vampire/werewolf hybrid.

BUT MORRIGAN DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR her life before being a reaper to have a connection to not only the Mikaelson family in general, but specifically Elijah Mikaelson, widely accepted as the honourable and sensible sibling. And she definitely did not account for the feelings that come rushing back in the face of her once love and extended family. 

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❝WE DON'T BEAT THE
GRIM REAPER BY LIVING
LONGER. WE BEAT THE
REAPER BY LIVING WELL
AND LIVING FULLY.❞

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❝ 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐄 ❞
𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔

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MORRIGAN BAUDELAIRE
the reaper

LIN BAUDELAIRE
the grim reaper

ELIJAH MIKAELSON
the original

and...

MARA ─ brie larson
DIANA ─ zoey deutch
TERESA ─ britt robertson
JULIET ─ maia mitchell
ALAN ─ michiel huisman
KLAUS MIKAELSON ─ joseph morgan
REBEKAH MIKAELSON ─ clair holt
HALLE MIKAELSON ─ crystal reed
KOL MIKAELSON ─ nathaniel buzolic
FINN MIKAELSON ─ casper zafer
SAMANTHA LOGAN  ─ daisy blumenthal
TVD CHARACTERS ─ their actors

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❝YOU CAN BE A
KING OR A STREET
SWEEPER, BUT EVERYONE
DANCES WITH THE
GRIM REAPER.❞

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disclaimer

I do not own The Vampire Diaries or the Originals. It's shocking, I know, take your time to process that. All I own are my original characters, scenes, lines and dialogue. Everything else goes to the rightful owners.

dedication
this story is dedicated to my lovely friends daniellawrites02 dunbonnet pepperronys -beewrites- capnbarnes xonceuponatimex

note

this book is a part of the Death and Daisies Trilogy. This is the first book, and the other two books will be Eleventh Hour and Pushing Daisies which will be published when I get to the point they start at.

important notice

just wanted to remind everyone at the beginning of the fic that I want to hear each and every thought you have and I especially want you to leave them in comments. Seriously, I don't care if you are referencing something off of something I wrote, because there's a chance I might have been thinking it as I wrote the line! I want people to comment on it! And I don't care if it's nonsensical "asdfghjkl"'s or anything similar. I am a person that thrives on people responding to my work. It's part of why I write, I want to touch people with my writing. It also lets me know better than a vote that you're enjoying my work. Which is important to me!

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