When you were little, your parents sent you off to Ivy Ridge, which was heavily traumatising for you. And Mikealson didn’t know that, and she had been your partner.

You and Mikealson had been on and off for a while during whatever relationship you had. Then, one day you’d actually left and not come back. It was well and truly off. For a while, she couldn’t find you, then a friend told her you’d moved off grid in a cabin in the woods by a lake. So she went to find you, because, at the end of the day, she did love you.

When she gets down there, she finds you and your new dog by a fire, burning some wet leaves and sticks. When your eyes settle on her, she gives a wave and smiles a little. “Hey. Been a while.”