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1. Tick Tock goes the clock by RiddlersQuery

   Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   13 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Elena Gilbert/Klaus Mikaelson
   • Bonnie Bennett
   • Damon Salvatore
   • Kol Mikaelson
   • Klaus Mikaelson
   • Elena Gilbert
   • Stefan Salvatore
   • Rebekah Mikaelson
   • Elijah Mikaelson
   • Atticus Shane
   • Jeremy Gilbert
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • Dark Magic
   • Blood Magic
   • Alternate Universe - Soulmates
   • Soulmate-Identifying Marks
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • BAMF Elena Gilbert
   • Minor Elena Gilbert/Stefan Salvatore
   • Minor Caroline Forbes/Tyler Lockwood
   • Possessive Klaus Mikaelson
   • Klaus does not have a good time
   • polyamorous Elena Gilbert
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Elena is Queen of Plots and Cunning
   • Protective Elena Gilbert
   • Klaus Mikaelson Being Klaus Mikaelson

   Summary

   There is Damon's blood on the floorboards by the time Elena gets her answers. Stefan holds her hand tightly, trying to give her some anchor, Bonnie hugging her. She thinks that this is somehow her fault, that Elena will not survive it. Caroline is of to the side, battling her own feelings to try and come up with another hollow reassurance. But the fact remains that the chain remains.

   Just hours after the ritual, after Elena's death Klaus Mikaelson offended some witch in his quest for hybrids. Offended her so badly that she sacrificed her own life to bind Klaus somehow, and now there can't be anything, any lengthy amount of time between him and Elena as if they are some sort of soul mates. Worst of all? Elena's friends can't seem to understand how she can live with this.

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