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1. Through the Looking Glass by maddiexhatter

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

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Gen
   • Work in Progress

   26 Nov 2025

   Tags

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   • Elena Gilbert/Elijah Mikaelson
   • Past Katherine Pierce/Elijah Mikaelson
   • Elijah Mikaelson & Klaus Mikaelson
   • Elena Gilbert
   • Elijah Mikaelson
   • geography fix
   • incorporating my frustration with the tvd writers into the plot
   • time travel (sort of)
   • elena and elijah unwittingly ripped a hole in the fabric of time
   • things went down different in 1492
   • elijah breaks his word and spends 500 years trying to make it better
   • au-spacetime continuum altered
   • Alternate Universe - Time Travel
   • Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
   • Fluff and Angst
   • safe for Will (for now!)

   Summary

   She stood, watching the man pace, his dark locks swaying back and forth with each movement, when he turned to the mirror and froze just like her, his eyes wide in shock and something like hope. Elena watched his lips move, but no sound reached her. She furrowed her brow, hoping to convey her question: “What?”
   The man nodded, moving to trace letters on the glass of the mirror. They appeared one by one, from right to left ...
   

    

   Elena visits an old castle and meets an Original in the mirror. He’s over 500 years in the past.

   Language:

   English

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   12,157

   Chapters:

   3/?

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