#gilbert siblings

[whoreallyevenknowsanyway]

Good times and bad, they have each others back.

[kol-elijah]

[icebluecyanide]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Vampire Diaries (TV) Relationships: Elena Gilbert/Elijah Mikaelson, Elena Gilbert & Jeremy Gilbert, Elena Gilbert & Katherine Pierce, Elena Gilbert & Elijah Mikaelson Characters: Elena Gilbert, Katherine Pierce, Jeremy Gilbert, Elijah Mikaelson Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Season/Series 02, Angst, First Meetings Summary:

When Katherine tells her Klaus will be coming for her, Elena decides to run to keep him away from her family. Three months later she runs into a man in a coffee shop in New York who claims she reminds him of someone. S2 AU.

[larkiwrites]

I have this thing for siblings that would go to war for one another, even if they won’t admit it out loud. Something about the love and the loyalty gets me every time. 

Where do I find a sibling like this? ....asking for a friend

[icebluecyanide]

Jeremy and Elena for the headcanon meme. Also optional and if you don't mind writing a bit more, Kol and Rebekah (i'm greedy lol)

For the headcanon meme:

Headcanon A: what I think realistically

Elena stops taking her pain medication about as soon as they stop reminding her. By the time her birthday rolls around even the lingering headaches have largely gone, but her birthday may just be the most painful thing since those first few days after the accident when it sunk in that her parents weren’t ever coming back.

They try, her friends, they really do, and part of Elena is so so grateful for the way Caroline presents the cake and Bonnie whispers they even got booze but they’ll have to wait for a moment to sneak away while the (responsible) adults aren’t looking.

Matt stops by and it’s awkward, but he doesn’t push, even though he looks like he wants to. Elena doesn’t know how to tell him that “I need some time,” was already turning into “it’s over” the moment she said it. It wasn’t a total lie though. With all that’s happened, she can’t even imagine trying to deal with Matt and their relationship too.

Jeremy comes back in while her friends are already there, along with aunt Jenna and uncle John. His eyes are red, as if he’d been crying. He stands at the doorway for a long moment, staring at nothing in particular, or perhaps at the nothing where there would have been someone just a summer ago. Then, he turns abruptly and rushes up the stairs. They can hear the slam of his door even from the living room. There is an awkward moment where no one seems to know how to respond until Elena pastes a fake smile on her face and suggests they cut the cake.

Jeremy does not come downstairs again that night, not even for dinner, but when she goes to bed later she finds something on her pillow. It’s a pen, a fancy one, like the one her Mom had given her when she was eight to write stories with. It comes with a small card, which simply reads: Sorry. Happy birthday.

She fills nearly her entire journal with that pen before the summer is out.

Headcanon B: what I think is fucking hilarious

Maybe it’s some last blind optimism, some hope that her brother gets to have a better life, but Elena seems to genuinely believe Jeremy is attending art school now. As he can’t quite bear to shatter the illusion for her, he always makes sure to have new drawings to show her each time he visits.

(Alternatively, Elena knows, but also finds it endearing how Jeremy still brings back new sketches every time and hasn’t brought up yet that she knows what he does the rest of the time.)

Headcanon C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends

He’s not an outcast exactly, Jeremy gets along well enough with some of the kids in his class and the rest are largely indifferent to him. It doesn’t help that just about everyone knows who he is the moment he steps foot inside the classroom. Jeremy Gilbert, Elena Gilbert’s baby brother.

Everyone seems to love his sister, or at least respects her. Elena is popular, and seeing her with Bonnie and Matt and Caroline and even Tyler, the Mayor’s asshole son, it reminds Jeremy of everything he doesn’t have. Maybe he could have, if he’d been a few years older, if he hadn’t always been Elena’s little brother at every Founder’s party ever. But the only other founder’s kids his age are two Fell girls and, well, they’re Fells. And girls.

It’s fine, he tells himself. He’s not alone, he gets along well enough with some of the other kids. And drawing for hours in his room is fun, especially when he shows some of his drawings to his Mom later, who says they’re pretty good even though she clearly doesn’t understand some of the things he chooses to draw about. Dad jokes he and Elena could write a picture book one day, with Jeremy doing the illustrations and Elena writing the story. It’s meant as a joke, but Elena’s eyes light up in interest, suddenly inspired and she claims it’s a great idea.

So maybe he doesn’t have all that many people he would call friends or would spend time with after school, but it’s not all bad. Elena says they can try to work on the story over the summer, when school is out. His sister may be popular and have all her other friends but she still wants to do this with her friendless little brother.

On the night of the 22nd of May, in Jeremy’s freshman year, his parents’ car goes over the bridge into the lake. Elena makes it out. His parents don’t.

That summer neither of them bring up the picture book they were going to write.

Headcanon D: what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway

He still feels the urge to kill her sometimes. It’s less present after he came back from the other side without much of his hunter powers, but something must have lingered even after his death. 

There is a soft voice in the back of his head that sees his sister - the last member of his family that he has left - and whispers monster and she deserves to die. Every time it happens, Jeremy takes a deep breath and reminds himself she’s my sister, chants Elena, Elena, Elena in his head and thinks I don’t want her to die. The urge usually passes as quickly as it came, but it always leaves him just a little bit shaken.

He thought it would stop after Elena became human again. It doesn’t.

[icebluecyanide]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

There was a time after the accident when she and Jeremy would visit the cemetery together. They wouldn't speak, instead they would sit next to each other leaning back against a gravestone, Elena writing in her diary, Jeremy listening to music. 

I’m cross-posting old fics on ao3, so I’m bringing you this: a 4x05 AU exploring what might have happened if Elena had not managed to save Jeremy in time. (Originally posted on tumblr here)

[acarelessmanscarefuldaughter]

I know the Vampire Diaries primary focus is the romantic relationships of the main characters. Its one of the things I love about the show. But watching the earlier seasons I can't help but wish that there had been a little more focus on Jeremy and Elena's relationship. I wish we'd seen more of protective-little-brother!Jeremy and big-sisterly-advice-giving!Elena. I wish we'd seen more of them.

[elenaseyes-blog]