angelette | rec list: The Vampire Diaries

sandrine (~3.500 words, teen) - Finn Mikaelson had a life, once. He had a family. There's nothing left for him now.

2. The End is a Time and a Place by

sandrine (~1.500 words, teen) - [Post 3x22] Elena makes a choice. Klaus makes a promise.

3. We're Causing Destruction Wherever We Go by

sandrine (~2.000 words, teen, violence, major character death) - She used to wonder how Katherine could be like this, so cruel and twisted inside, but now she knows.

4. Brave New World by

sandrine (~1.400 words, teen, major character death, angst, darkfic, future fic) - The cure isn't the beginning. It's the beginning of the end.

5. it's little, and broken, but still good by

magisterequitum (~3.400 words, teen) - S3 au, in which Jenna's left to piece the Gilberts back together and hold onto everything she can. AU from 2.20 onward.

★ crack, because you need to smile now and then:

1. now the story of an original family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them at the minimal level of sanity, or, Elijah Mikaelson: I Did Not Sign Up For This by dance_at_bougival (~2.200 words) - elijah returns to mystic falls in order to slap some sense into klaus. also to make sure the monet isn’t hanging on the teal wall. mostly the latter.

2. this is ridiculous, even for mystic falls by dance_at_bougival (~2.400 words) - In which Klaus becomes an art teacher at Mystic Falls High.

♥ Klaus/Elena:

1. The Road This Far Can't Be Retraced by

sandrine (~3.000 words, mature) - If a person is the sum of their experiences, what's left when you can't remember any of them?

2. The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is A Curve by

sandrine (~9.700 words, mature) - Klaus always gets what he wants. And just because he sometimes doesn't take the direct approach, that doesn't mean he's less single-minded about it.

3. Waltz in A Minor by

sandrine (~1.400 words, teen) - Tonight, floating over the dance floor like she's walking on air, she thinks she could do it, if she only set her mind to it.

4. Nightfall by

sandrine (~1.000 words, explicit) - Elena is a good girl. Everything else is a secret between her and the night.

5. Drowning on Dry Land by

sandrine (~3.400 words, teen) - Klaus looks like Tyler, and he's the only one who still treats her the same way he did before she grew a pair of fangs; her only constant in an ever changing existence.

6. Knowing Eventuality by

simply_aly (~800 words, teen) - Newly turned Elena gets into some vampire related trouble and Klaus steps in to help her.

7. dirty places coming on by lenina20 (~400 words, mature) - The original was much prettier, as everything was brighter back in those days, if Klaus’s memory doesn’t betray him.

8. Dreams of Wolves by Hecate (~1.300 words, teen) - She is throwing herself into a pose and life is following her example.

9. Like Death by

simply_aly (~800 words, teen, violence, minor character death) - Curiosity gets the better of her, and she can’t help the words that spill out. “Did you ever fall for a Petrova?”
(Goes AU after 2.19 'Klaus'.)

10. Tear You Apart by

sandrine (~1-400 words, mature) - "It seems like getting rid of that pesky humanity has made our lovely doppelganger willing to throw her morals over board and make a deal with the devil." He reaches out to brush an errand strand of hair from her face, smiling when she doesn't so much as flinch away from his touch.

♥ Elijah/Elena:

1. The Ghosts That We Knew by

lit_chick08 (~2.100 words, general audiences) - How many times can he watch a woman he loves destroyed?

2. a mighty heart is lying still by

pomnitt (~2.400 words, teen) - The fact that she’s dead doesn’t hit her until her new impulses have made her tear into a woman’s neck.

3. like pure lines by

magisterequitum (~1.300 words, mature) - They each have something the other wants, though neither are quite paying attention to the negotiations; negotiation as foreplay. Set post 3.22.

4. Promise Me Always by

simply_aly (~600 words, general audiences) - Elena has to decide whether she wants to be a vampire or not. Elijah is her sounding board.

5. You've been on my mind by lenina20 (~400 words, general audiences, angst, future fic) - “It’s good to see you,” he promises, eyes warm and familiarly affectionate.

6. a catalog of non-definitive acts by

magisterequitum (~3.800 words, teen) - An AU from 3.15 onward.
Over the decades, they trade letters. Sometimes they say little, sometimes they say too much. They all add up.
(or fic where Elena lives her life over the next several decades, and trades letters with Elijah constantly.)

7. An Act of Trust by

simply_aly (~2.000 words, general audiences) - Elijah sticks around and gets caught up in the game of protecting Elena.
(Takes place after 2.11 'By The Light Of The Moon'.)

8. and you were singing me by

magisterequitum (~2.600 words, mature, character death) - she finds another way; she finds again her best weapon.
(S4 AU where Elena finds someone else to help her with the sire bond; warnings for consent issues that go with the sire bond, and character death)

♥ Klaus/Rebekah:

1. The Beast They Made of Me by

lit_chick08 (~4.500 words, mature, incest, rape, darkfic, Stockholm Syndrome) - It was hard, being the only daughter.

♥ Elena/Rebekah:

1. we're all damned here by

magisterequitum (~3.000 words, teen) - where Elena wakes up Rebekah and chooses her as her new ally.

2. to echo out of tune by papyrocrat (~600 words, teen)

♥ Jeremy/Elena:

1. in darkest night by crickets (~1.100 words, mature, incest)

2. until time is gone and wrong is right by crickets (~800 words, mature, incest)

♥ Klaus/Elena/Elijah:

1. Barefoot on Broken Glass (One Step at a Time) by

sandrine (~2.100 words, mature) - "Do you really think you can cheat death with your precious humanity still intact?" he asks. She promises herself that she'll prove him wrong, eventually.

2. Make a Deal with the Devil (See It Through until the End) by

sandrine (~3.300 words, teen) - After the events of "Dangerous Liaisons", Elena makes a fateful choice. Desperate to put a stop to Esther's plan, she finds herself offering an alliance to the one person she'd wanted to see destroyed.

3. Aftermath by

sandrine (~1.700 words, mature, hurt/comfort) - She thinks that it should have been harder, adjusting to this, whatever they are.

♥ Klaus/Elena/Katherine:

1. We will live tomorrow by Hecate (~3.000 words, teen) - "You're the only thing I still have left." Goes AU after Stefan takes the coffins.

♥ Jeremy/Elena/Tyler:

1. degrees of separation by crickets (~3.600 words, mature, incest)