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Honestly? Klaus left me daggered for over nine hundred years! Why does this not surprise me in the least? Of course I wasn't the only one daggered, but I was daggered the longest. Upon being undaggered, I can assure you that I was not very happy about having nine hundred years stolen from me and as a result, I plan on leaving Klaus along with my other siblings. Of course before we could do that, we got quite the shock.

It's a good thing I have the dagger, that I received, hidden so that hopefully that'll never happen in the waking world.

I love my baby

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A preview for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was on the TV today and Mare started laughing at the dinosaurs on the screen and making grabby hands. No sweetie, daddy cannot get you a dinosaur.

I haven't been back in Orange County for more than a half hour and already I've had to explode the heads of at least three of...whatever is invading this time.

I swear, I should have stayed in Jordan.

Happy National Siblings Day to my wonderful brothers and sisters. We might fight at times, but I couldn't imagine life without you. I love you guys.

[Damon]

You too, my business bro.

It would appear that I've fallen in love in my dreams. I met a woman named Sage in the 12th Century and would sneak out to see her since some of my siblings did not approve of her social class. Status has definitely gone to their heads in the last hundred years. So, despite the fact that I dislike what I am, Sage and I want to be together forever so I've decided to turn her.

I don't know if I'd ever actually want to do something like that, in the waking world. Being a vampire is nothing like the movies and tv shows make it out to be.

Well, I have to say my dream lover actually does romantic marriage proposals very well. He does know his flowers. A red tulip symbolizes a declaration of love. Now I am certain my offering to run across London collecting flower samples to fill his herbarium was no mere accident. I sense a set up on his part.

Though I simply must send my brother a bouquet of narcissus flowers. He most certainly loves himself above all else.

I've been gaining more and more control over my compulsion as well as my blood lust. I don't know if it has to do with the fact that my dreams have no spanned about a hundred years or the help I've been getting from other vampires here. Either way, I'm happy to have more control over both.

I'll admit, I've been using my compulsion to my advantage a little bit. There is a woman I work with who has continued to ask me why I was working from home for some time after I turned. She didn't seem to believe I was sick. After all, I couldn't, very well, tell her that I didn't come in because I might have killed her and everyone else; not to mention I couldn't go out during the day at that time. Today she asked me again and I finally compelled to believe that I was sick and not to ask again.

I have to say, the people I worked with in the office in Paris were much less nosy than the ones here.

Well, the official opening of Pimpernel Outreach with the benefit dinner and silent auction was a success. Even if my parents tried to use it as an attempt to rehabilitate their image and garner good PR. As if I wouldn't call them on their naked hypocrisy on showing up. Though if it was calling them out on that where reporters could hear, or that I was there with a woman and bringing 'shame' or whatever to the family name that made them go rigid and clearly uncomfortable, who knows.

I'm sure I'll hear about both away from the glare of the spotlight but it was worth it to call them out to their face and refuse to be their pawn in an obvious attempt at good PR to wash away weeks of horrible statements.

Fucking dreams gave me the ability to hear fucking everyone's thoughts. I could control it before but now it's just fucking everyone all at once. You people are so fucking LOUD, think quieter, for the love of god.


ETA 2/21: all replies assumed to be posted before this post!

Now that the world is no longer ending I have decided to announce Soliel et Lune Galerie will be opening Saturday, February 17th. Champagne and canapés will be served. And of course, numerous styles of artwork including - Renaissance Art, Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, and Contemporary Art.

I've been trying to come to terms with the fact that I'm now a vampire, but I've been having a hard time with it. I've hardly left my house since it happened, because I've been having a hard time controlling myself and I don't want to hurt anyone again.. I know there are other vampires here besides my siblings and I'm want to know how you've handled this and gained control over the bloodlust. I don't like this, but I need to gain control over it.

Nothing like waking up completely hungover to find yet another grimoire and more spellbooks to add to the collection. Though knowing this place, I'm sure they'll be more than useful.

I didn't dock in California so that my gorgeous boat could be covered in SNOW.

Oh sure, it's magical, right? Some kind of... I don't know, people keep telling me Orange County's more fun and interesting than I thought, and then here we go. Snow that won't stop falling.

How'm I supposed to have a nice boat party with snow all over? Alright look, I love a good party and I love a good challenge and THIS is a challenge I willingly accept. But I think I'm going to have to hire a crew on again just to clear it all off.

Maybe that's all for the best, the crew I find might be cute.

I went to one of those wine and painting classes last night. It was something my friends and I used to do once a week back in NOLA. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I forgot how much fun this was.

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I have woken up to quite a few dream gifts. But a room full of stolen artwork is one of my favorites. Only topped by becoming a hyrbid.

It's too much for my apartment. Time for a move.

The Christmas music started.

I think I'm dead. Or at least forced down into the Duat and who knows how long it will be before I can find my way back out.

Hey, did anyone else hear about the underwater city they found off the coast of Egypt? Pretty amazing stuff, if I do say so myself.

I suppose I can't deny that I've begun having these dreams that everyone else talks about. Mine appear to take place about a thousand years ago and oddly enough, we live near a pack of werewolves. This seems completely normal to my father apparently. I'm not entirely sure why.

My brother, Niklaus, mentioned this place some time ago and now that I'm completely settled, I decided to take a look. I've never been one for message boards, but I suppose since I've been away for so long, it might be a good idea to join some sort of local internet group to find out more about the things that have changed.

I wish I could take a break from these dreams.

I know there's probably no stopping them but maybe a month or two of normalcy would be nice.

No dreams yet.

...But I probably totally just jinxed myself.

I almost didn't think that it was possible for my family, in the dreams, to get more dysfunctional.

First our mother is making Elijah relive memories of killing the woman he loved that she had made him forget in the first place. I told Kol that if he didn't have a certain item to kill someone else. Klaus is after our father who said witch somehow resurrected. It's all one giant mess.

I think I need a drink after this.

One of the paralegals at the office threatened to secretly sign me up for one of those ridiculous dating sites if I didn't make more of an effort to meet new people.

So this is me, saving her life making an effort. Do people actually make friends on this network?

Do you ever just want to yell at your dream self for being a complete idiot? Because I really, really do right now.

Also the phrase "This shit is crazy" is like a complete understatement.

My dreams are progressing more or less the way I thought they would. To fix what she'd done to us, Mother wants to put us all in mortal bodies, which she has already done with myself and Kol. Mother decided that when it was time for Elijah and Klaus to know what was going on, she invited herself to a family dinner at the Mikaelson Compound in New Orleans. To say that they were confused when I showed up was an understatement. Considering I was possessing the body of someone else, it took them awhile to figure out it was me. Mother showed up soon after only to jump into the body of another witch at which point she revealed her plan to them and unsurprisingly, they didn't go for it.

It's still strange, dreaming about being in someone else's body, but not as strange as before considering I've now been in someone else's body in the waking world. The dream also almost had me calling Elijah, but I'm sure he would have thought I was crazy or something. Not that I would have told him about the dream of course. And lastly, it got me wondering where Klaus is. I haven't heard from him since our encounter a few weeks back and I can only hope that he's alright and hasn't caused too much trouble.

This situation with Niklaus and these other vampires and demons reminds me of the saying; when it rains it pours.

I would not recommend a twelve hour flight if you can absolutely avoid it. I wish I'd taken a layover just for the chance to stretch my legs. But I'm finally home sweet home again.

My older brother told me about this little network so I decided to give it a try.

Hello everyone. I'm Rebekah.

So...

I don't even know where to start with this. I've been sick for a while, thanks to the dreams. Like, my legs don't want to work, and I've been in a chair for a month or so, and everything has pretty much sucked. I lost my job, I ended up dropping out of college.

I'm the Avatar, and I'm supposed to be able to get back UP when some rude ass guy knocks me down. But I don't have the support system here that I do, there. I mean don't get me wrong, I have an amazing supportive friend and girlfriend, but in the dreams I had a friend who could heal me with magical waterbending. That's... yeah, not happening here.

So I guess what I'm saying is... are there people who could help. With the healing, or even just the - nightmares and I guess I have PTSD? I looked up some symptoms and think I qualify, anyway.

Edit: Should have stated, but talk of medical stuff/poisoning/trauma in the comments

Okay. I need to fill my time. If I sit around my place any longer I'm going to crazy. Er. Crazier.

I hate job hunting. Dream me was on to something, becoming a drunk in Florida.

Got another dream gift. Not exactly sure what to do with this camera. I'm not exactly a photographer or a PI, but it's pretty awesome.

I think I've spent too much time in the sun last weekend. No one wanted to sit inside and paint, everyone wanted to be outside. I'm not really equipped to be a teacher but I don't really have a choice.

At least the horses are nice.

I feel like my recent dreams about possessing another's body has made me a little more equipped to deal with this recent bout of Orange County strangeness. Of course, it would have probably been less strange if I'd been swapped with a man, but it's not as if we could choose who we were swapped with. I think the part that's strangest to me is being human again. I've been a vampire for almost a year now, so suddenly being human again is quite strange.

With Rebekah, Elijah and Henrik all leaving town, it was quite a surprise tonight to hear from my older sister, Freya, who I haven't heard from in quite some time. It's been so long since I've heard from her that I didn't recognize her voice at first.

I really miss learning a new language. Any thoughts on which I should look at next? I've got French, German, Russian and Italian under my belt and Japanese and Arabic to some degree of fluency.

Brothers. Sigh. Irahel's already called me six times to ask how I'm settling in; I think I'm almost glad that Sorren's over in the sandbox and has limited time to get on the internet. Not too glad, obviously. I'd rather he was safe, but Lavellans just don't live that way.

But Iri, he always thinks I'm going to get into some kind of trouble. Do I need more money, do I have a place to stay, am I making new friends, have I gotten arrested yet. I haven't even been here a week!

That's probably only long enough to get arrested. Good thing I'm not looking for that much fun.

[Private to his family and to his friends]

She...she changed her mind. She realized the finality of being married to a vampire. To being married to me and claimed she didn't want that for herself. She had the marriage annulled and left.

I've never felt so alone.

Woke up to a dog in my bed. It wasn't Pete. Looks like I am now the proud owner of a pit bull.

An important slice of advice:

Don't allow your girlfriend keys to your home. She will flood it with smoke and almost burn down the walls.

Or perhaps that's just mine. Carry on, then.

My blueberry plants are dying, and I have been unable to discern the cause.

It would appear that I've been adopted by a stray cat that has been hanging around my building for a couple of days now. Each morning when I leave, he's sitting there on the stoop and follows me to my car then when I get home, he's still sitting there on the stoop and tries to follow me inside. I know I probably shouldn't have, but I did feed him a few times and now tonight I decided to let him in and now he's curled up on one of the chairs in the kitchen, sleeping. I'm tempted to put up posters, because he's very clean so he must have belonged to someone, but I'm already a little attached to him.

Do people here

Does anyone here get afflictions? From dreams. I can't explain it anyway else. I can't explain it even really by saying I'm like this because I dreamed it but

This happens. Right? I've read about it.

It's forced my hand in a suspension a temporary step down from my spot with Irvine PD.

filtered; vampires

I shouldn’t be asking anyone of this. I don’t know what else to do.

I’m aware that there are several vampires on this network. At least I’m assuming that there must be. I can’t be the only one. No, I know I’m not. I spoke to one before.

I am in need of some assistance. It appears as though I have became the creature of my nightmares. I’m not sure how to control myself.

Interrupting Valarnet's jolly spirit of the upcoming holiday, I'd like to publicly apologize for the outright bloody events that occurred in regards to the Sun/Moon curse idiocy to all those who were effected. I'm sure I will continue to do worse as the dreams progress. And I am quickly running out of fucks to give.

My own league of vampire/werewolf hybrids, though. How exciting.

And for the love of god, if you can't read the sarcasm, don't bother.

I clearly picked the wrong time to move. I never thought snow would get in the way. This place is weird. Despite mother nature being against us, we still managed the move to our new apartment. It's nice to have my own room again, and an actual bed.

Woke up today to coffins taking over my living room. Empty, of course, to satisfy anyone's morbid curiosity.

How splendid. Although this sure as fuck wasn't on my Christmas list, Santa.

If it wasn't for doctor/patient confidentiality I'd have some hilarious stories for you guys. Heya, I'm Harleen but everyone just calls me Harley.

How is everyone doing this Tuesday evening?

[Private to the other Originals]

I think we need to talk... all of us.

I... don't know what to think or believe anymore.

Anyone interested in a roommate?