EM

Elijah had known Y/N long before the world came to know him as the elegant and feared Mikaelson. She had been by his side when he was still human, and later, when he had only just become a vampire and was struggling to understand his new existence. They had fallen deeply in love, and for a time, she was the one person who could make him feel truly human. But then, he lost her. Believing her gone forever, Elijah carried her memory with him for a thousand years, never knowing that fate had given her another life. Y/N had been reborn into a completely different world, with no memories of her past, no knowledge of vampires, and no recollection of the man she had once loved. One cool autumn morning, centuries after her death, Y/N stepped outside to get a coffee, unaware that the past was about to find her. Across the street stood Elijah Mikaelson. The moment he saw her, he knew. To Y/N, he was a complete stranger. But to Elijah, she was the woman he had loved, lost, and mourned for a thousand years—standing before him again, alive