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love;
Samuel Gilbert never intended on truly falling in love with anyone, let alone an original vampire. Of course he held her heart within his hands, feeling the everlasting beat of it. The beat that was for him.

Published: Unknown, 2019
Completed: Unknown, 2021
Rewritten: July 8th, 2022
Edited: January 28th, 2023
Republished: August 13th, 2023

—Samuel Gilbert had known pain his entire life, from the harshness of his parents words and hits. To the tragic moment of death almost taking him away.

He spent years isolated inside his own mind, trapped away inside a endless void of nothing. The feeling never went away.

Even upon returning home after being away for a year, the feeling still remained. It pushed him down and down until he was covered in a weight.

One he didn't have the strength to push off, not until he found her. Rebekah Mikaelson. The second he caught glimpse of her, the weight shifted.

For once in his life, he felt like he had a reason to keep going forward. To keep pushing the weight off of himself, if only he knew. Loving Rebekah, would make his life even worse.

Matthew Daddario as Samuel Gilbert
Jensen Ackles as Alaric Saltzman