Blog posts and a bit of fanfiction. This scene I’m writing is getting a bit unwieldy. It doesn’t help at all that it comes much later in the story. So, she’s telling a story he may have already heard part of. My favorite “Bella, you’re not making any sense” moment is Elijah asking where Andrea fits in all of this. Umm… he knows that Klaus is Hope’s father. Pretty sure that THAT’S where Andrea fits into this. Unless he meant how she ended up being turned, which could certainly make sense. But, this scene is still a lot of fun.
Step count: 7,059
I have no idea where I am on calories. I still need to enter my baked ziti into my app. But, pretty sure I was mostly okay. Might have gone a smidge over because of too much soda. I really need to start weaning myself off of that.
I am at the point in my outlining book where I actually start writing revision notes, again. Which, for this chapter, means going through everything I have, not just from going through this book, but my old revision notes, and actually try to assign scenes to certain points. Basically, I’m at the point where I’m supposed to start actually outlining this thing. It’s scaring me, and I think I’ll wait and start on it on Thursday when I have more time.
I have also started reading this interesting organization book. It’s all about finding your own organizing style (there’s a quiz. I’m a butterfly. This doesn’t surprise me), and then spending 15 minutes a day working on one thing at a time. I think this should be doable. I’m actually looking forward to getting started with it.
Klaus and Cami telling Marcel about her role in Klaus’s game
Cami is just too much fun, here. The way she has no trouble telling Klaus off cracks me up. She knows, not only how powerful he is, but also how ruthless. She knows damn well that he not only CAN kill her in a heartbeat, but that he wouldn’t hesitate to do so if it suited his purpose. And she always speaks her mind, anyway. And then we get Klaus making jokes. I love Klaus’s sense of humor. So much fun.
Hayley asking Rebekah and Elijah to save the wolves
Hayley doesn’t even know yet that she’s an Alpha. And she’s already acting like their Queen. And of course, she’s smart enough to play the one card that even Rebekah can’t refute – family. She knows Rebekah well enough at this point that she knows that pointing out that these people are her family will get Rebekah on board. Because family is the one thing that Rebekah will always fight for, no matter what. Of course, Elijah would need no coaxing. He’ll do just about anything for Hayley – even if neither of them is willing to admit that, yet.
Klaus, Marcel, and Kieran
Marcel certainly knows how to push Klaus’s buttons. Though, watching him use that knowledge to keep Klaus from hurting Kieran was pretty awesome. But, the best part of this scene is “how do you expect me to remake the mayor?” It seems that Cami’s snark and take no bullshit tendencies very much run in the family.
Elijah and Rebekah stopping the wolf hunt
Aaahhh!!!! Rebekah teasing Elijah about Hayley. Elijah’s smiles every time Hayley is mentioned – Rebekah doesn’t even need to say her name. He knows who she’s talking about, and it makes him smile. “It’s complicated” along with that damned smile! HE JUST ADMITTED TO REBEKAH THAT HE HAS FEELINGS FOR HAYLEY AND OMFG! And then we get to Elijah being such a badass that he doesn’t even need to DO anything. He just reminds the vampires about how his “baby brother” handed their asses to them despite even greater odds and they fucking RUN.
Klaus sends Cami away
Starting with him asking Kieran for help saving his and Hayley’s people – from the orders he himself gave. For all that he told Rebekah and Elijah that family is overrated, he does care about these people and needs to keep them safe. And then we get Cami’s reaction to the visions Klaus gave her. She doesn’t cower in fear of the monster that he is. She sympathizes with her first glimpse at WHY he’s the way that he is. Sending her away was quite possibly the hardest thing Klaus has ever had to do. But, for once, he put somebody else ahead of himself. He will protect her at all costs – even if that means never seeing her again.
Elijah and Hayley almost kiss. Elijah apologizes to Klaus
I wanted to scream watching this scene. I actually DID yell “kiss, kiss, kiss” at the tv the first time I saw it. You KNOW they both want to. And just the way Elijah smiles when he tells Hayley that the wolves are safe can melt your heart. Rebekah was right, while doing the right thing was certainly a point – Elijah wanted to “impress the girl”. He was so proud of being able to tell her that her family would be okay. And his heartfelt apology to Klaus, and Klaus’s equally heartfelt acceptance of that apology was just beautiful. Rebekah is going to be pissed about losing Marcel, but the brothers have mended the rift and once again become a united front.
And then there’s Davina and Cami. As much as I love Cami, and ship Klamille, and am happy that Cami is staying… I kind of hate Davina in this scene. After Klaus so heartbreakingly put Cami’s safety first and sent her away for her own protection, even though that hurt him… Davina comes in and rips it all away just so that she can have someone to help her deal with her problems. Gotta keep reminding myself that she’s 16, and thinking that the world revolves around you is normal at that age…
Yesterday’s words were my blog post and starting a scene of Hayley and Freya telling Elijah the “family history” that the Mikaelsons made up to tell him. Since the whole hybrid thing, and Klaus being able to father children is not exactly something they can tell him because it would raise too many questions. Therefore, they had to make themselves all MUCH younger than they really are. It’s an interesting scene. I cried through a lot of it. Which then had me laughing at myself. Because, even within the story universe, this story is fiction. But, in a way, while the reasons may have been different, the emotions were real. Hayley was explaining about how Klaus had blamed himself for Henrik’s death. It was very sad. Granted, today it occurred to me that this conversation cannot take place the way I wrote it, unless I come up with a way for Josh to “figure out” that Andrea is a vampire and tell Elijah. Because that is NOT a conversation that can happen in letters or over Skype. Yes, Hayley knows that Elijah is one, but she’s still not going to come clean in a situation that she can’t compel him to forget if she’s “wrong”, because she needs to keep up the charade that she just met him. But, figuring this out is future me’s problem. I’m going to keep writing this scene the way it’s playing out in my head and make any changes necessary to make it work with where it needs to be in the timeline when I’m getting ready to post it.
Step count: 1,508 I really need to figure out a way to make myself actually get moving on my days off…
Not entirely sure about calories, because I still have to enter the recipe I made into my app, but pretty sure I did alright.
Got myself a couple books on organizing, and fell into an Amazon rabbit hole of books on coping with ADD. And then got into a conversation with some friends on Twitter about burnout, and ADD, and procrastination. Weirdly enough, these two things are NOT related. It’s just a coincidence of timing that two different internet brouhahas managed to converge.
As you can see, I failed miserably, yesterday. Procrastinated far too much. Ended up only doing my check-in blog post for Friday and added a net 13 words to my fanfic. I did get that posted, though. So, there’s that. Made someone cry. Any day that you’re told that you made someone cry is a good day in a writer’s life.
Didn’t really get anything else done, either. Except go grocery shopping. At least got THAT done.
Step count: 9,122
And, in my defense, that step count is part of why I accomplished little else. Not the whole reason, as the party didn’t start until 5pm. But, my work’s Christmas party was yesterday. Had so much fun. Spent most of two and a half hours dancing. As much as I need more money than that place can give me, yesterday reminded me of why I’m going to miss it once I find something better. I love my coworkers so much. Don’t really like the JOB – I’m not sure that anyone particularly LIKES working retail, and an introvert working retail is just… Well, it’s not fun. But, I do love my coworkers. And even more so on nights like last night, where we can all just let our hair down and have fun.
So, yesterday may have been an abject failure in terms of my New Year’s resolutions, but it was a much-needed balm to my mental health. And I’ll take that trade-off.
Today I need to do another blog post, and then write the scene that was writing itself in my head this morning. And then whatever else I can do to get my word count for the day. I refuse to lower my yearly goal in the first week, dammit! I WILL catch up!
I have also discovered a book on organization specifically for people with ADD. I think I may buy that. Because it is right up my alley.
As has been the usual this month, that was my daily blog post and my fanfiction. I finished that chapter of You Can’t Fight Destiny. Elijah made me cry. He ruined my plans of having a Haylijah kiss – brought on by the way they looked at each other at the end of his flashback in the tv episode. We’ve all been saying ever since it aired that if he didn’t have a girlfriend, he totally would have kissed her. So, when I started writing this story, I fully expected them to kiss when I got to that scene, since there was no Antoinette holding him back. But, then he didn’t, because he didn’t trust himself to leave it at one kiss. He was afraid he would ask her to stay – and he didn’t want to be a rebound. I wanted to cry. Both because I wanted my Haylijah kiss, dammit! And because he was breaking my heart. He was falling for this girl, just from spending one day with her. And even though she was flirting with him, he took her as being on the rebound. Chapter ended with him hoping that she had felt the same connection that he did and would come back to him. I’ve been calling him my poor, lovesick fool.
Step count: 7,066
Stayed within my calorie goal, but that was in large part due to earning bonus calories.
That was, again, my blog post and working on You Can’t Fight Destiny. I gave myself mood whiplash with that thing. Some of the things going through Josh’s head were hilarious, but every time Hayley opened her mouth, I burst into tears. That girl was just breaking my heart. But, eventually got her out of there and to the art show. Where Elijah was flirting and adorable. And writing this scene in his POV means I don’t have to deal with Hayley worrying about what happens tomorrow. I can totally sidestep the angst and focus on the cuteness. Part of today’s project on that is deciding if I want to lead this conversation back to the one they had on the show – which was pretty cute – and if so, how to do that. Ended up diverging a bit because I needed Elijah to flirt with her and be adorable.
Also did some reading in my outlining book. Have reached the part about deciding if you want to use a storyteller. And now I’m toying with the idea of making the entire series a history account told by Aruca. I need to think on that some more, though. It could be interesting. And I kind of love the idea of hinting from the beginning that even Nicolaus doesn’t know everything. I keep coming up with all kinds of interesting ideas, but so far, nothing that will give me an actual scene-by-scene outline. Dear Gods, I hate outlining.
Anyway… step count yesterday was 2,259. I always do horrible on that on my days off. Need to figure out ways to up that. Did really good on my calorie budget, though.
Finished catching up on the fanfic I was reading. Caught something amazing in the last chapter that I didn’t catch the first time reading it. Ended up flailing on Twitter with the author about it. So, that was fun.
Cleaning and schoolwork still not happening. I’ll get some cleaning done this weekend. Monday, I intend to restart the last lesson I started in my schoolwork. I’m technically to the quiz, but I totally don’t quite understand this, so I think I need a refresher.
Blog posts and fanfiction. Worked more on You Can’t Fight Destiny. Hayley and Elijah flirting, while Elijah has no bloody clue who she is, is kind of giving me life, right now. And have now gotten to the part of this adventure where Josh is interrogating Hayley about what she’s doing there. It’s a lot of fun.
Stayed in my calorie budget and walked 6,943 steps. So, diet is going better than it did on Tuesday. Still have not cleaned anything. I did read some. New chapter of my favorite fanfic was posted, yesterday, so I started rereading it to refresh myself on it. Which, I got so caught up in it that it was almost 11pm before I wrote anything beyond my blog posts. Oops.
Honestly, I’m just glad I survived it. After waking up so bloody early, my body decided that it was bedtime right as I needed to get dressed and eat breakfast so I could go to work. And then work was crazy slow, which did not exactly help my energy levels at all.
But, I’m baby-stepping my New Year’s resolutions. And, I kind of like doing it that way. Only thing I’m trying to go all-in on is the writing. Other than that, I’m just working my way up to where I want to be. Which probably actually makes more sense than going all gung-ho the first week in January and then burning out. There was a thing on the radio about how most New Year’s resolutions only last about two weeks, and the second Friday in January is known as Quitters Day. I’d rather ease into things and gradually create habits I can stick with, than bite off more than I can chew and end up participating in Quitters Day.
So, that was my day, yesterday. Gonna admit that today is not looking great, but will hopefully get some more of YCFD written tonight to reach my word count goal. And, if not… that just means I’ll need to step it up this weekend.
I doubt anyone has taken care of Elijah since he was a child. Watching him not know what to do with someone trying to do so now is kind of fun. The jokes about annihilating Klaus made me laugh. But, really… Just… Hayley’s refusal to leave him. Her reassuring him that she’s here, and he’s going to be okay. It was so beautiful. And his reaction to realizing that he had called Hayley “Celeste” was kind of cute, too.
Marcel and Rebekah make plans to take down Klaus
First of all, Tyler is one of several characters who my opinion of changes depending on which show I’m watching. I started watching The Originals, first. After watching three seasons, I decided to watch The Vampire Diaries before coming back to The Originals. I grew to like Tyler on TVD. But, man did I despise the little punk on TO. And in this scene, I was really wishing that Rebekah had just ripped his heart out instead of just snapping his neck. But, gotta love “Auntie Beks” looking out for her niece. “That’s enough talk about harming that baby.” You go girl!
Cami giving Klaus a piece of her mind
I love Cami. And her telling Klaus off, here, is really the start of her real character arc. This is where she starts becoming his conscience. And every word she says here, is 100% true. Watching her – a normal human woman with NOTHING on her side – stand up and tell off the single most powerful being on the planet is kind of awesome. She is taking no shit. And I love it. Here’s to Cami – the badass normal. Using her brains to hold her own against Klaus fucking Mikaelson.
Josh the double agent
Watching poor Josh act out his own private spy movie is kind of hilarious. The poor kid is in way over his head. And, since I love him, I want to feel bad for him. But, all I can do is sit here and laugh.
Klaus fighting Marcel’s army
Klaus is such a badass. Yes, I spent large portions of the first two seasons hating him for the way he treated Elijah and Hayley, but that doesn’t change anything. He is still a badass. And the music in this scene is incredible. Add in Rebekah realizing how totally screwed they are and basically saving Marcel’s life… So freaking perfect.
Elijah shows Hayley what happened to Celeste
Gods! These two are just made for each other! Can we just discuss the part at the end? Elijah literally admitted to having feelings for Hayley but that he needs to stay away to protect her. I want to cry. Fuck Klaus and his bullshit! I just want my babies to be happy.
Whoo! I ended up with a lot of scenes this time! But, there was a lot of my favorite characters showing WHY I love them so much. I liked this episode. Though not the fact that the conversation Hayley and Elijah have in that last clip is probably a big part of why I still have to wait more than TEN MORE EPISODES to see the first Haylijah kiss. It should have happened right there, in that car. They both wanted it, but Elijah has to be all noble. Sigh…
I ended the day with 1,399 words. Part of that was yesterday’s blog post. The rest was fanfiction. Started a fun one-shot of Elijah and Klaus helping Hayley break her Sirebond. Elijah’s reaction to walking in on the first half of that process was kind of funny. Though, my favorite lines from it were all Klaus’s dialogue. Apparently, yesterday was my day to write a damn good Klaus Mikaelson. But then I couldn’t bring myself to write a Humanity-less Hayley. So, I put that one on the backburner for a bit. Switched over to You Can’t Fight Destiny. Doing a time-skip to Hayley arriving in France. Right now, I’m writing the meeting scene from 5×11 from Josh’s POV and it’s cracking me up.
The rest of my resolutions didn’t go so well. I blew my calorie budget by 110, didn’t exercise, took a whopping 913 steps, and didn’t read a single word of fiction. I also didn’t clean much of anything, and did no schoolwork. Oh well. I will probably wait and start the exercise program on Sunday or Monday. Give myself the rest of this week and the weekend to get some cleaning done – since I still have a bit of a mess on my floor from adventures in wrapping Christmas presents.
So, that was my day, yesterday. Hopefully, today will be a bit better. But… I woke up at 3:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep. I’m not holding out much hope for my energy levels today…
I do love me some sibling banter between the Mikaelsons. And Elijah’s reactions to Klaus’s story about Tyler are hilarious. Only thing that would have made this better is if Elijah had punched Klaus for that bit about Hayley at the end. I was waiting for it, let me tell you.
Davina and Josh
Oh man! Davina and Josh are my BrOTP! Next to Haylijah, their friendship is the thing about this show that most gives me life. Here is the start of the single most uncomplicated relationship in the entire TVD universe. With each other, they can be just two kids trying to hold on in a world gone mad. I love them so much.
Hayley’s escape from Tyler
Let’s start with the moment Hayley realized that Dwayne was Sired to HER. Using Tyler’s own ploy for power against him was kind of beautiful. Though not nearly as beautiful as… well… JUST LOOK AT THAT SCREENCAP! The way Hayley threw her arms around him… that was not a frightened kidnapping victim happy to be rescued. That was a woman happy to see this particular man. And Elijah? He is feeling the same way. Just look at him. His eyes are closed, his hand is in her hair. And he is holding her SO tight. Yeah… these two are just… *Flails*
This episode was a bit of a step down from the last one. But, that one had set the bar pretty high, including one of my favorite scenes in the entire series. But, we got some fun banter between Elijah and Klaus, a nice Haylijah scene, and the start of the Bromance to end all Bromances. Plus, you know, some heavy plot-related things. Including a bit of foreshadowing of the end of the season – if you’ve already seen the end of the season and know what they’re foreshadowing, that is.
