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crimsonlyinglilly · 2 months

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Day 1: food / risk / overexertion

Also covering Day 10 - exhaustion

Starting another another month this time with @augustofwhump.

Entangled minds- Sage comes across a witch had has Finn's soul and mind linked to the one closest to him. it's not hers he's attached to. Elijah and Finn are forced to get closer.

Finn and Elijah discover a new effect of the bond and Finn realised their plan to kill Klaus may work but will have consequences he doesn't want to face

Takes place tvd from ep 2x19 to 2x21

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Elijah was flagging, for all his prefect mask and control he couldn't hide it from Finn since they shared a mind.

The time daggered, tricked by the newest doppelganger and Finn wasn’t going further into his brother’s relationship with those that shared Tatia’s face, had revealed a unfortunate side effect of the spell that had bonded them, one far worse than the lack of privacy they have both been trying to hold the pretence of.

When Finn had noticed the pain and Elijah’s shock and anger at the dagger he had been terrified to find himself back in the dark trapped awake in his own body or perhaps Elijah’s instead he had experienced nothing until the dagger was removed to Elijah choking from being in a house without invitation.

It wasn’t until his brother managed to regain his breath on the doorstep that Finn noticed there was more than just the lack of air that was causing his heart to beat too fast. Finn had found himself in control of the body suddenly as soon as Miss Gilbert caught up in the doorway with the damned dagger in hand and his brother retreated into his mind.

Finn was very familiar with the fear Elijah hadn’t been able to completely hide from him; it was just strange to feel it from Elijah.

It seemed Elijah had gained Finn’s cursed awareness in his stead.

For all his resentment of his siblings, Niklaus and Elijah most of all, he wouldn’t have wished that on any of them. Elijah least of all now since he had become Finn’s only escape over since the spell.

However with Elijah retreating into his mind he had left Finn to explain their history to the girl, part of him just wanted to leave the town and her to her fate because Klaus would come for her but he knew if he did that Elijah would simply return once he regained control of himself and suppressed all his feelings.

One of the many things Finn had learnt was Elijah took repression to a new level when it came hiding his own emotions and thoughts.

He’d have never known Elijah’s loathing of the monster's mother made them match his, or that Elijah was almost as self destructive as their other brothers.

He may have been the only one to know Elijah was petty and spiteful behind his manners and kind façade but the fact he had started a relationship with Damon Salvatore solely to spite Finn for taking over his body at Sage’s touch was a reminder to the stubborn brat his brother once was.

Something Finn had apologised for, he had been overwhelmed at her being so close and crossed one of the few rules they had set, but Elijah had felt the need to teach him a lesson by ensuring Finn was the one to wake up the morning after in the Salvatore's bed.

Then again no one sane based a plan to remove the leadership of a sect of vampire experimenting humans by trapping them in a room and setting himself on fire.

But it was then Finn realised he wasn’t the only one gaining anything from the spell that connected them.

Elijah had felt oddly pleased at Finn’s complaints and concerns, it had taken Finn moments to work out what the warm feeling for what it was, then they had both refused to talk about it. Elijah's thoughts had brushed it off as loneliness after half a century split from his family and Finn had accepted that.

Better than the truth that Elijah had missed his older brother and Finn had failed to be one since the younger ones were born.

After that Finn had stopped holding back his complaints and concerns at Elijah’s habits of skipping meals and sleep, as Elijah seemed to do whenever it came to his projects most often tracking down any hints of where Klaus had left Finn’s and their siblings coffins.

It was highly hypocritical given how Elijah was with their siblings but it had left Finn to realise it wasn’t wholly new as his own memories revealed how often he used to find Elijah staying awake during that first century, either sitting up for them to return or to check them in their sleep.

Finn will ignore how often he only noticed when he had woken from a dream of their childhood when Elijah’s breathing would falter in his sleep, and gone looking for him.

There was also how little he remembered seeing Elijah drink, more concerning since now he knew Elijah’s thirst for blood apparently outstripped his own, had always given how confused Elijah had been at his concern over it.

So he had explained the truth of their beginnings to the girl that had stabbed them; Klaus’ true parentage and the reason she was the target, mostly using what he had gathered from Elijah’s memories when they had first run into her, to tell her of Katarina.

He hadn’t quite been able to cover his coldness when he noticed the charred remains of the suit Elijah had been wearing and figured out the reason behind it.

Someone had tried to set his brother on fire and Elijah would have been awake for it, the only reprieve would be if Elijah suffering was like his he wouldn’t have felt it just heard the flames cracking on his flesh.

Not that Elijah was willing to speak about it once he had retaken control of his own body, he had ignored every attempt Finn tried. The only sign the whole thing had shaken him was when Finn had asked how he was going to explain it to Klaus to prevent him from daggering him, Elijah’s thoughts had frozen overwhelmed by terror for seconds.

Their brother had gotten far too used to using the weapons their enemies made against them and Elijah had helped too much in the past while Finn had been trapped, voiceless and forgotten. Something he knew Elijah felt guilty about since Klaus had claimed to have thrown them into the ocean and more so since he had learnt Finn had been awake for centuries.

Finn’s anger at Elijah had cooled when he felt the weight of his brother’s guilt, horror and self loathing.

Now he was mostly just saddened by how mother’s spell, nine centuries of guilt and chasing Klaus’ redemption out of desperation for his own had broken Elijah in a way he refused to accept.

Elijah had once been free-spirited, open and kind, honest in a way that used to drive father mad, now every word from Elijah’s mouth had layers to them and every breath was controlled.

Elijah took the news of the Martin witches' demise with annoyed disappointment discovering a broken tool instead of that his allies had been killed trying to free him. Finn took comfort in the fact that Elijah still cared enough that when he left to retrieve the potion to preserve the doppelganger’s life through the ritual, he didn’t contact any others for risk of costing them their lives like the Martin witches.

It was a small glimpse into the person that cared for people beyond their siblings, and Finn did not go looking through his brother's mind to find out if it was Henrik's death, the deaths of his friends in the werewolf pack at father’s hand or Tristan's betrayal that had caused that change.

So Finn had watched as Elijah pushed himself on the chance to save the girl who looked like his first love and ignored the signs of overexertion, given that the plan was to attack Klaus at his weakest Elijah didn’t need to be at his strongest and it was clear Elijah was trying not to think at the end goal of the plan.

Niklaus dead.

The first person to love Elijah without grief coated every action, dead at his hand. The way Elijah was going he’d likely pass out after it, from missed sleep and skipped blood, to avoid thinking of it longer.

When they were finally able to confront Klaus he wasn’t surprised to feel Elijah tremble as his hand broke through Klaus' chest, even as outward appearance showed Elijah cold and calm, Finn felt all of Elijah’s hesitation.

Elijah didn’t want to do this.

But Elijah was stubborn and this plan had come to them years ago when they realised they couldn’t find the coffins while Klaus was determined to keep them from Elijah. To save Kol and Rebekah at the cost of Klaus.

‘Put them first for once.’ Finn had used those words to push Elijah forward and was now regretting it.

He knew if he let Elijah do this, if Elijah killed their brother it would only be a matter of time until Elijah, ever resourceful, found a way to follow him in death, likely only staying long enough to free the rest of them.

Finn couldn't risk that, not the little brother Freya had wanted to meet, not the only one of his siblings to accept Sage, not since he had shared his memories of her making Elijah to only other person to remember her.

It only takes a simple push to leave him in control of Elijah’s body standing over Klaus, his brother’s heart in his hand, Elijah allows it and Finn uses Elijah’s exhaustion to knock him out so he wasn’t aware of what followed, it wasn’t a true sleep and as Finn used his body Elijah would still be as exhausted when he woke but it gave his mind a break, something Elijah wouldn’t give himself.

As angry at Niklaus as he was for leaving him in that box, he wasn’t prepared to lose two brothers, not after nearly half a century getting to know Elijah in a way he hadn’t when they were children.

Elijah had struggled under the role of the oldest, a place he never should have had but with Freya gone and Finn to blind to notice any of his siblings' difficulties past his own and too stubborn to care for them, Elijah had done so.

Finn had watched as his parents pushed the tasks to Elijah and failed to notice as Elijah forgot how to ask for help.

Now it was time for Finn to take the role he should have and with Elijah’s centuries of experience accessible to him he would succeed in watching out for Elijah as well as the others.

He’d just have to deal with Klaus and while he didn’t have Klaus’ attachment to Elijah to work for him, he had centuries being trapped in the coffin listening to Klaus complains and knowledge of Klaus’ precious Elijah that he didn’t.

He also knew if he did this Klaus would feel the need to punish Elijah, it was up to Finn to ensure it wasn’t a dagger.

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