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INTRODUCTION
After 600 years of solitude, Elijah grew tired of roaming the earth by him self. He always had a woman in his life but he never loved any of them. Once he was satisfied and no longer needed the woman, he would feed on her and leave her for dead. He was never one that had a lot of mercy. That is until he met Anne. They fell in love, and after some time, Anne had become pregnant. Elijah never believed it was possible for him to have children of his own. It made him ponder on the idea that there may have been other women who he had impregnated; but never given them the time to find out due to him losing interest and disposing of them by way of food.
Months later, Anne gave birth to a baby boy named, Jeremy. Anne died giving birth. Elijah did all he could by caring for Jeremy to the best of his ability. He tried to hire a nanny to help but after Jeremy had fed on six of them, Elijah knew he would have to try something different. He threw around the idea of finding a woman suitable enough to be the mother of his child.
Her name was Katherine. She fell deeply in love with Elijah. He did not return her love as his heart belonged to Anne. He did however, care for her and believed she would make a suitable mother. The plan was for Katherine to give him a child before he turned her into one of his kind, a vampire. He knew that only in human form, she could carry his baby. It wasn’t long before Katherine became pregnant with Elijah’s second child. She had a difficult pregnancy, she was weak and held on for her life as best as she could.
Elijah was out of town, he needed to travel a ways in order to feed. He didn’t want to bring any possible connection to his family and the people that had gone missing. When he returned Katherine had given birth and like Anne, died. He tried to turn her but he had missed his window of opportunity. She had already been gone for at least an hour. A vampire can not turn a human once their heartbeat has completely stopped. When Elijah stopped focusing on Katherine he noticed the baby that Jeremy had crawled next to and instinctively tried to protect. It was a baby girl. He named her, Elena.
Putting the idea on hold about having the perfect family, Elijah raised his two children on his own. It wasn’t always easy but he managed. Never having known anyone who was half vampire and half human, he always kept a close eye on his children. He didn’t know what to expect; for the many years Elijah was on high alert, not knowing if his children would just suddenly die due to the unusual mix of human and vampire blood. He cherished every day that Jeremy and Elena would wake. They both stopped growing when they reached their late teens. Jeremy was 17 and Elena was 16 when they stopped aging. Looking like a teenager wasn’t the only thing Jeremy and Elena held onto. They still had their teenage hormones which is what led Elijah to keeping a firm hand.
Another 100 years pass, Elijah and his children find themselves living in Mystic Falls. He registers Jeremy and Elena in the town high school in order to keep up appearances. They had only been in school for a week when Elena found herself over her fathers lap…