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[sergeantpixie]

Title: It's A Long Road to Hell

a prequel to The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Fandom: The Vampire Diaries

Characters/Ships: Elena Gilbert, Katherine Pierce, Elena Gilbert & Katherine Pierce, Jeremy Gilbert & Elena Gilbert, Elena Gilbert & Alaric Saltzman, Elena Gilbert, Caroline Forbes, & Bonnie Bennett

Summary: Her mouth is full of bitter, bitter fear and she understands with intense clarity that this is the end of an era. No more passively waiting for the monsters to come to her. She’s going to run until she runs out of earth, until she finds what she’s looking for. 

There’s only one person she can call really, when running’s the plan. 

After Senior Prank Night, Elena decides to take Katherine up on her offer to help her run. AU from the end of 3x05

Tracklist:

Track I: Leaving Eden by The Carolina Chocolate Drops (our father’s land of Eden is paradise no more) Track II: To Build A Home by The Cinematic Orchestra (and now, it’s time to leave) Track III: Free by Broods (I’d lose everything so I can sing / hallelujah, I’m free) Track IV: My Bones by The Pretty Reckless (if you can’t win the battle, it’s better to run) Track V: Don't Look Back by Kissing Cousins (baby, baby, baby, don’t look back / you’re all alone) Track VI: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) by Florence + The Machine (I must become a lion-hearted girl / ready for a fight) Track VII: Long Road to Hell by Avicii ft. Audra Mae (I don’t know if I’ll be coming home again) Track VIII: Cry No More by Vaults (to pull yourself from harm / to be the braver one / to raise a weary hand / in a house that’s built on sand / to wear it like a crown / to kick before you drown) Track IX: Blackbird by Evan Rachel Wood (take these broken wings / and learn to fly)

Excerpt:

“Four months ago, you were ready and willing to hand me over to Klaus,” Elena reminds her.  Katherine nods. “And I stand by that decision,” Katherine tells her. “I also stand by this one, now. I had it made just in case; you know how I feel about backup plans.”  She gestures to Elena and herself. “Well, here’s one of my backup plans: You and me, working together to kill Klaus,” Katherine proposes. “I don’t just want to help you run; I want to help you find a way to defeat him.”

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The Road Playlists: Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four

[sergeantpixie]

The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Chapter Seven: This is How Easily the Pit Opens

Tracklist:

Track I: City of the Dead by Eurielle (damnata, invisus, ubique / ab omnibus, ad infinitum) Track II: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song by First Aid Kit (I don’t know what I have done / I’m turning myself into a demon) Track III: Thousand Eyes by Of Monsters and Men (I’ll be a stone, I’ll be the hunter) Track IV: My Body is a Cage by Peter Gabriel (set my spirit free / set my body free) Track V: Horse And I by Bat for Lashes (you’re the chosen one, there’s no turning back now) Track VI: Despair by Mirel Wagner (dance with me ’til all the stars begin to fall / dance with me ’til there’s nothing left of you at all) Track VII: And The World Was Gone by Snow Ghosts (I blinked and the world was gone) Track VIII: Jenny of Oldstones by Florence + The Machine (and she never wanted to leave) Track IX: Aprés Moi by Regina Spektor (I must go on standing / I’m not my own, it’s not my choice)

Excerpt:

“That was a cruel and ugly thing to do to an innocent girl,” she tells him, eyes like festering wounds, and for a split second, Elena crosses his mind. Elena with her bloodstained hands and unflinching gaze. What cruel and ugly things had been done to that innocent girl? When he meets Santánico’s gaze, he knows she’s seen where his thoughts have drifted, because the expression on her face is somehow softer and harder all at once. “Yes,” she agrees. “Cruel and ugly indeed.” She takes a shuddering breath. 

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Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six

Companion Playlists: It's A Long Road to Hell

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The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Chapter Six: Deathless Aphrodite Throned in Flowers

Tracklist:

Track I: Down in Mexico by The Coasters (and then she did a dance I never saw before) Track II: Stripper by Sohodolls (tease the crowd, please the crowd / I’m waiting, I want you to see me now) Track III: After Dark by Chingon (por la noche solamente por la noche / os de la muerte acercàndome / por la noche solamente por la noche) Track IV: Jezebel by Anna Calvi (Jezebel, c’et ta toi) Track V: Dance by Christine Owman (she’s the best damn woman that you ever saw / and she teases you to death / when her eyes are on you, you’ll do anything) Track VI: Snake Song by Emmylou Harris (ain’t no mercy / in my smilin’ / only fangs and / sweet beguiling) Track VII: No Church in the Wild by Dorothy (what’s a god to a non-believer? / who don’t believe in anything) Track VIII: Welcome to the Jungle by Sershen & Zaritskaya (if you got a hunger for what you see, you’ll take it eventually / you can have anything you want, but you better not take it from me) Track IX: There Will Be Blood by Kim Petras (this is gonna be a hell of a night)

Excerpt:

“You can see her too?” Richie is taken aback. “What?” is Seth’s next question. Richie points to the stage. “That’s the girl that led me here.” “Fuck,” Elena whispers. “What the hell does that mean,” Seth asks under his breath. “Exactly what I’ve been trying to tell you all night,” she replies in kind. “We should not be here.” “Why? Because the chick from my brother’s visions is real?” he asks snidely. “No, because it’s her,” is Elena’s incredibly comforting response. “You know her or something?” Seth asks suspiciously. “We have a friend in common,” Elena answers honestly.

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Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five

Companion Playlists: It's A Long Road to Hell

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The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Chapter Nine: The Blood Dark of Blood (of Night)

Tracklist:

Track I: Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Lorde (welcome to your life / there’s no turning back) Track II: I Will Never Die by Delta Rae (in the dead of night / I’m gonna loose these chains) Track III: Go by Meg Myers (I’m sick of being your altar / leave me alone) Track IV: One Foot in Front of the Other by Emilie Autumn (I’ve been in chains since I was nothing but a kid / we don’t know freedom, not quite sure that we ever did) Track V: Grot by St. Vincent (and power doesn’t care how you feel / as long as you learn how to kneel) Track VI: A Poison Tree by Unwoman (and it grew both day and night / ’til it bore an apple bright) Track VII: Sweet Revenge by Rainee Blake (every scar you left on me, I’m gonna make a match / cut you with the dagger that you left in my back / honey, I ain’t even gotten even, so it ain’t the end) Track VIII: This Ain't No Hymn by Saint Saviour (I’ll follow someone I can see / I’ll worship someone I can be) Track IX: Seven Devils by Florence + The Machine (holy water / cannot help you now / a thousand armies / couldn’t keep me out / I don’t want your money / I don’t want your crown / see, I’ve come to burn / your kingdom down)

Excerpt:

She steps forward. “Did she flinch?” she asks. “When you touched her?” Seth freezes, remembering that moment in the labyrinth when Elena had shied away from his touch like a wounded animal backed into a corner. Slowly his eyes slide over to her, wondering how she could possibly know.  She smiles bitterly – knowingly. “A girl like that doesn’t flinch for just anybody,” she assures him. He thinks of her steady gun hand in their standoff in the RV, her cool, unemotional voice as she asked him if she seemed like a girl who bluffed. To tell the truth, she seemed like the kind of girl who didn’t shy away from much of anything.

Read Chapter Nine

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight

Companion Playlists: It's A Long Road to Hell | Move Like You Stole Something

[sergeantpixie]

The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Chapter Ten: A Duet of Shade and Light

Tracklist:

Track I: We All Fall Down by The Rigs (wait, I know it’s been a long road / prodigals don’t always come home / but I’ll be all right) Track II: Blindness by Metric (what it is and where it stops, nobody knows / you gave me a life I never chose) Track III: Bonnie Parker by Charlene Kaye (I would like to find a place / where the taste of / blood in my mouth could evaporate / where my soul can just rest from all of this weight) Track IV: The Rest For The Wicked by Sohodolls (I can’t save your soul / for I lost mine long ago) Track V: Blood of Angels by Brown Bird (maybe I’m not born to die, but to bring darkness to the sky) Track VI: Alibi by Sevdaliza (can you remember when the last time was / you felt safe in the dark? / this world was never meant for a woman’s heart / but still, you rise through it all) Track VII: Goddess by Jaira Burns (weren’t you prayin’ on your knees for me?) Track VIII: The World is Not Enough by Garbage (we know when to kiss and we know when to kill) Track IX: Lover.Fighter. by Svrcina (everybody says there’s two kind of hearts where / one loves and one goes to war)

Excerpt:

There really isn’t a difference between the two. Elena could be just as cruel as Katherine; crueler, when the mood struck. Katherine could love just as consumingly as Elena; could disappear inside of it and leave part of herself behind that she’ll never recover. Their differences are nothing compared to the similarities. Five hundred years? Vampirism? Big deal, Elena could make you believe her scant decades add up to centuries, could draw blood too. Elena could make you draw your own blood and feed it to her out of a crystal glass if the mood struck her. Katherine could be just as young, just as human. There are no sides, no coins, just them.

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Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine

Companion Playlists: It's A Long Road to Hell | Move Like You Stole Something

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The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Chapter Eight: My Roar Meant Slaughter

Tracklist:

Track I: Stranger At My Door by Brandi Carlile (it's a good old bedtime story, give you nightmares 'til you die) Track II: Rocks And Water by Deb Talan (the devil, he wore such a fine, fine shirt / and it stayed so clean / while he dragged me through the dirt) Track III: Daughters by Wild Beasts (daughter, please, it's me / tell me what you've seen) Track IV: Yellow Flicker Beat by Lorde (they used to shout my name, now they whisper it) Track V: I'm Not Jesus by Apocalyptica ft. Corey Taylor (I’m not Jesus, I will not forgive) Track VI: Come Away to the Water by Maroon Five ft. Rozzi Crane (come away little light / come away to the darkness / to the ones appointed to see this through) Track VII: Dyin' Day by Anaïs Mitchell (it is the blood of the innocent / every day, a dyin’ day) Track VIII: Lady Lazarus by Jenny Queen (good god, you got no right to dig me up again / should have left me alone / now you made your own lady lazarus) Track IX: I Like the Way You Die by Black Honey  (I like the way you die, boy)

Excerpt:

She shrugs. “All right, she’s mostly human – but trust me, girls like her aren’t born every day.” Seth nods. “Sure, the lucky ones end up on the big screen – and the dumb ones on casting couches. Not every day ordinary, but every generation’s got a dozen of ‘em, they make stars and icons out of the lucky few who are born with that extra bit of shine. They might not get born every day, but they sure as fuck get born like the rest of us. Girls like her are born every year, no matter how few.” “Try centuries,” she corrects him. “It’s been five hundred years since the last time a girl like that was born. And they are not prizes you can win – only tragedies you will watch unfold from afar.”

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Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven

Companion Playlists: It's A Long Road to Hell | Move Like You Stole Something

[sergeantpixie]

Title: The Road is Long (and Home is Gone)

Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries x From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series

Character/Ship(s): Elena Gilbert, Elena Gilbert & Kate Fuller, Elena Gilbert & Katherine Pierce, Elena Gilbert & Santanico Pandemonium | Kisa, Elena Gilbert & Sergeant Frost, Elena Gilbert & Richie Gecko, Santanico Pandemonium | Kisa/Katherine Pierce, MONICA GARZA/BEING ALIVE

Summary: Seth and Richie get a little more than they bargained for when they take a hostage.

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[melissalynnette]

You know what? I'm glad I'm watching this. It's reminding me of how much I can't stand the fucking Fellowship of the Falls.

Bloody bunch of murderers.