Archive of Our Own

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It all started with a dance. A dance a thousand years ago. A dance between the past and the future. And a dance between fate and posterity.
In this story I will weave a tale between two common enemies who were once madly in love, and through that love they created me and my two younger siblings

Even though my grandparents tried to sacrifice me and my siblings while we were still in our mother's womb for strength and power, I will tell my tale of how we survived for over a thousand years. Now my grandparents will also have a part in this story, but their part was much more harmful than mine could ever dream of being.

I'm sure we all know the story of the famous Petrova Doppelgängers who from the very beginning of time always stood in the way between two people. Maybe it's between brothers or maybe it's a happy couple who were soon to be married. Either way the double is practically destined to come between two people. But this particular doppelgänger is Katherine Pierce or as some may know her as Katerina Petrova, now Katherine was the second doppelgänger in existence but my grandmother casted a spell to swap doppelgängers out with one another. Again, the spell Grandmother used was particularly dangerous and needed a lot of power that's where I come in, she was hoping to channel and drain me of my very essence. All while she smiled in my mother's face and congratulated her on her pregnancy. Now my grandparents exact plan was to channel my firstborn magic to kill the "demon child, destined to be the end to all witches and werewolves." and to swap the future doppelgänger with the current one. Two birds one stone. The problem with her spell was she didn't quite kill me she just sent me into the future along with my mother. Now to make sure you're all caught up.

1. Ester and Mikeal found out one of their son's got a doppelgänger with child.
2. Once they learned the history of the doppelgängers and what they stand for they then they made a plan to kill said child in the uterus and to also swap out one doppelgänger with another one.
3. They conducted a plan after my grandmother consulted the sprits and they guided her on her journey to save all witches and warlocks alike.
4. They channeled me in a spell hoping to kill me as they sent my mother to the future.

Now they may have succeeded if they had thought their plan through all the way. They never checked to see how many exactly kids my mother was carrying they just assumed it was one. News breaker it was not. Infact my mother was pregnant with triplets, two girls one boy. So, when my grandmother channeled me or us, I should say, she wasn't harming us in fact she was helping us protect our mother. The spell did in fact send our mother to the future but instead of killing us it left one child in mother's womb and sent the other two farther into the future. My mother had given birth to our little sister Nadia in Bulgaria sometime in the early 1500's. While me and my little brother were separated in the adoption center. I was adopted by Charlie and Renee Swan. And my brother was adopted by Emanuel Mccarthy and Lila Mccarthy.

Our memories wiped until the time came for us to merge as one. On the firstborn's eighteenth birthday. AKA my eighteenth birthday.

The day my life came crashing down on me. The day my world changed forever.

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Hello, my dearest gentle readers,

It's been almost a full year since my last update on AO3, and while I've missed you all terribly during my absence, I have been surprised at how many people came back to not only read my underdeveloped stories but also leave comments and share kudos, and to that, I couldn't thank you all enough. I feel as if I owe you all an explanation, unfortuantly I believe I was caught with the AO3 writing curse. In the middle of 24' in May I moved in with my dad and his girlfriend. I wish I were lying when I said that by October, she kicked me out.

Thankfully, my mother was able to come get me, but the situation itself was a toxic environment I had never been in before, let alone been placed in against my will. After the abrupt move from my father's back to my mom's, I found myself in an odd predicament, as you all know, the presidential election took place in November, a month after I was kicked out, but also my birthday month, and with November, Trump was offical annouced to be the next president of the United states and honestly it took me a while to get over it.

To some, it may seem like I'm being dramatic, but as an African American teenage girl who currently resides in the United States, this was my biggest fear, which seeing the state of our country, I was right to worry. But I can't change the past, and I can only hope for the future.

Nevertheless, after November, my family moved back to our home city and stayed with one of her friends. My aunt came to visit and stole my computer, making it impossible to continue to write my stories, as that's the only way my brain can feel comfortable enough to work properly. I wasn't able to receive a new computer until January 4 of this year. Then, once again, we made another move just last week, knocking me off balance due to the abrupt moving process. Unfortuantly it seems that I am moving back in with my father and his deranged girlfriend later this week, on Friday, and will start my 3rd school this year on Monday.

Based on what I just told you, I hope you can conclude how rough and inconsistent my life has been for the last 2 years lol. One of my New Years resulutions were to be more consistent with my writing, which is why I am writing this letter to explain my absence and to try to move forward.

I can't tell you exactly when I plan to update, but I do promise to update all of my current stories by March before I continue my new ones. Every single story will be rewritten. I haven't decided yet how to handle my one-shots, seeing as those bring me the most interaction, even though my writing has been less than stellar. For now, story updates will be decided based on which ones have more interaction, which, as I'm currently writing this, is my most liked story, between Thanksgiving dinner with the Cullens and Dream of a Nightmare. Both of these stories will be rewritten sometime this month, and I promise with much better writing this time. I hope the next time we talk, I can have a stable writing rubric for you. Until then, I guess you guys are just going to have to take my word for it.

To avoid later confusion, I will be changing my writing name to Swanwritez. I don't know why I put my government name as my writing name, but we move.

I'm truly sorry for the wait, but I'm excited for what this New Year will bring - Swanwritez