My name is Elijah Mikaelson and I am an Original vampire. I was born in the tenth century in the New World as the eldest of seven, which later came to be Mystic Falls. My mother was a very powerful witch named Esther, while my father was not the father he should have been. We lived among werewolves for about twenty years, and during the full moon, humans would hide in the underground caves, while the werewolves phased.
One morning, Niklaus returned with Henrik's dead body in his arms. I ran to join my family, as my mother grieved.
When my family and I were still human, Niklaus and I shared a love for a girl by the name of Tatia Petrova. To ensure that the rest of us would live, our mother cast the Immortality spell which was part of Dark magic. Mikael, our father, helped her by making us drink wine laced with blood, which we later found out was Tatia's blood. Then he stabbed us in the heart and made us drink human blood. After we became vampires, we made sure that the White Oak tree was destroyed, since it's the only thing that can kill us.
Shortly after becoming a vampire, one night when Niklaus made his first kill, it triggered his werewolf side. Mikael and I ran to him and discovered the truth about him. Then we ran off before it got worse. Mikael then forced our mother to do a spell on Niklaus to make his werewolf side dorment. Mikael also made me help him tie Klaus down so she could do the spell. Then, one night, she was killed by "Mikael," but years later, we found out that Klaus killed her. After burying our mother Klaus, Rebekah, and I promised that we would never turn our backs on each other, and we would stick together as one, always and forever.
Over the centuries, I have come to have more than a few girlfriends here and there, while staying at my siblings' sides and running from our father.
In Italy 114, we came across a hunter by the name of Alexander, who was a part of a group called The Five. Rebekah fell in love with Alexander. Klaus and I took advantage of this as an opportunity to get closer to Alexander and find out his secrets. One day, we were invited to a party at Alexander's home where we were attacked by surprise and daggered. Klaus was unaffected by the daggers thanks to his werewolf lineage and undaggered all of us, except Finn.
In 1359, I started to notice that Klaus and Rebekah were starting to lose their humanity. As their elder brother, though, I hoped I could lead them down the right path to reclaiming their humanity and carry on the family legacy. I believed that if I failed, our family legacy would fall in ruins.
In the sixteenth century in 1492 in England, we were noblemen. I met Katerina Petrova, Tatia's doppelganger, and just moments later, showed her to Klaus. Katerina was the key to breaking Klaus' Hybrid Curse through sacrifice. While I was helping Klaus achieve his goal, I started to fall in love with Katerina.
When I saw Katerina bored one day, I took her outside to have fun and then we sat on a bench and talked about love. I confessed to her that I didn't believe in love, but Katerina didn't believe me, saying that without love, we wouldn't have a reason to live at all. Klaus then came and interrupted us, taking Katerina with him and away from me. I then tried to persuade Klaus to spare her life, but Klaus told me not to bother and that the ritual would go on as planned. On the night of the full moon, Katerina took the moonstone and fled with the help of Trevor.
Klaus assumed I helped her, because of our discussion the night before about sparing her life. I promised that I would find her and Klaus responded with a promise of his own. If I did not find Katerina, I would be daggered. I attempted to track down Katerina, but failed.
In the 1700's, having fled home, we sailed across the Mississippi river and ended up in New Orleans, 300 years before the present. Upon arriving off the coast of New Orleans, we slaughtered all the men who boarded our ship, but left one alive to question and carry our luggage, including the two coffins of our neutralized brothers, Kol and Finn. I requested that man to find more help with the luggage and told him in a sarcastic way, "My sincere apologies."
In 1820 in New Orleans, we lived at the Governor's mansion and paid him in gold to keep quiet about the existence of vampires. One day the Governor threw a party for us Mikaelsons. Rebekah went upstairs with the Governor's son who she wanted to turn. I was kissing a woman having fun, when Rebekah came to me with the Governor's son and asked me if I could turn him, which I suggested it would be an unwise move to turn the Governor's son into a vampire.
Klaus told her no and told her that if she turned every boy she fell in love with, the humans would cease to exist. The boy then argued with Klaus and he threw him down the stairs, while I tried to stop it.
While we were going to attend the Governor's son's funeral, Klaus saw a boy being whipped and threw an apple at the man and made him stop whipping him. Klaus then came to the boy, named him Marcellus, and brought him to the family. I saw this and told my sister, "Perhaps there is hope for our brother, after all."
Later in 1820, Celeste, a very powerful witch, and I fell in love. Klaus thoughtlessly ruined it when he made everyone think that the bodies that he was responsible for, were due to the witches seeking blood sacrifices. I searched for her and found her lying in the bathtub dead. I touched her and layed my forehead on hers. I screamed and blamed myself for her death.
In 1887, 52 years after being daggered by Klaus, Rebekah was finally undaggered by him. I helped her reintegrate herself into New Orleans society and we went to the opera house together. It was a moment that only we shared together.
In 1919, when Mikael came to town, leaving bodies in his wake, we left New Orleans, as much as we hated to. After all, it was a place where we had had lots of fun. It was our home.
In the 21st century, I rekindled my relationship with Katerina, but broke up with her so I could leave Mystic Falls to go join Niklaus in New Orleans in the French Quarter. And after I came to New Orleans, I found out that a werewolf by the name of Hayley is pregnant with Klaus' child. We have all come home, and Niklaus has won the French Quarter back from Marcel whom he sired 100 years ago. I have promised Hayley that I will always protect her. Now I am starting to fall for her.
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