"We would have been timeless
'Cause I believe that we were supposed to find this
So, even in a different life, you still would've been mine
We would've been timeless
I had to smile when it caught my eye
There was one of a teenage couple in the driveway
Holdin' hands on the way to a dance
And the date on the back said 1958
Which brought me back to the first time I saw you
Time stood still like somethin' in this old shop
I thought about it as I started lookin' 'round
At these precious things that time forgot
That's when I came upon a book covered in cobwebs
Story of a romance torn apart by fate
Hundreds of years ago, they fell in love, like we did
And I'd die for you in the same way if I first saw your face."
Timeless (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) by Taylor Swift

Emmaline and Jeremy Gilbert were 16 when tragedy struck their family; their parents' car drove off a Wickery Bridge with their older sister Elena in the back seat.

Elena survived but their parents didn't, in turn in the months following the accident their aunt Jenna had taken guardianship of the three teenagers and the twins grew to resent their older sister slightly because the way they saw it if Elena hadn't called their parents to pick her up then they would still be alive.

Emma closed herself off from everyone but her twin and aunt Jenna and Jeremy did the same but also turned to drugs to cope with his grief.

Elena became more overbearing than before trying to 'mother' the twins to make herself seem better while also being absolutely horrible to them.

Emma blew up at Elena one day and discovered that she had magic which meant that somewhere in the Gilbert ancestry someone married a witch and had a child and or children with them. Emma was freaked out by the discovery so she did what she always did and ran straight to her twin and told him everything that had happened. He too was freaked out but promised to do everything in his power to help her. They were twins; they always had each other's back no matter what. They could always depend on the other no matter the issue.

From the moment Emma's magic awakened she started seeing a dark-haired boy in a leather jacket in her dreams. The only person aware of this would be her twin brother Jeremy.

It wouldn't be until she met the mysterious boy that Emma learned exactly who he was to her.

***

Axel Mikaelson was also 16 when tragedy struck his family... The death of his twin brother Henrik drove his mother and father to do the unthinkable and turn him and his other siblings into the Originals, the very first vampires to ever exist.

The moment that Henrik took his last breath it felt like a knife had been jabbed into Axel's chest as the bond he felt to his twin was nothing but emptiness.

It was the moment when Axel awoke and was forced to turn and be eternally 16 years old that everything changed... he started seeing a beautiful girl with cherry red hair, dark brown eyes, and a smile that could light up a room in his dreams.

Only one person in his family believed him when he told them about her... Kol was the only one to believe his baby brother, the others just brushed him off and said he was making it up.

After they fled the village they once called home Kol and Axel found out a secret about Axel and Henrik that Esther had hoped would never come out and they also found out that the girl Axel dreamed of was his soulmate.

So follow Axel and Emma on their journey in Timeless.