malka-lisitsa asked: Now I am gonna get mean tho- Katherine or Tatia?
THE RED DOOR. Memories lost to the seal of those old wooden slats, marred with blood and broken hope. The mention of his lost love, of Tatia silenced the Original in a greater way than anything else ever could. It might be a genuine question but the pain that came as association to her name was unbearable. Elijah always tried his best not to think about her, about what happened to her. He'd told himself the same lie over and over and over again, hoping that in doing so, he would keep the truth about what happened to her, in the confinement of that closed red door. Not even his well taught lie was enough to stop the heartache that pulled his heart from his chest like a killer ripping flesh from their victim's still living body.
Katherine might well be the love of his life now, but Tatia was his first love; his soul. When she was killed, part of him died with her. It was a part of him that he would never get back and it was part of him that now, became the meticulous cleanliness, and the need for the sharp-dressed attire, along with the air of eloquence that his siblings did not display like he did. He had built himself to be who he was as a result of his late fiancée's death. In a sense, he could thank her for it, but it would never bring her back, no matter how many doppelgangers came about, none would be his Tatia... Not even the woman that he now loved beyond anything, his Katerina.
He could not give an answer. It would not be fair to give one. If he said one name, it would destroy the heart of the other... if he said the other's name? he'd feel like he was doing the other a disservice and throwing away a lifetime of love that still remained within him. Instead, he merely inhaled and allowed his gaze to downcast, sight spying the two blooming flowers in the sea of greenery that was the flowerbed that had yet to truly blossom.
@malka-lisitsa SEND TWO NAMES AND MY MUSE WILL SAY WHICH THEY'D RATHER KISS / ACCEPTING
