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[interpersonally]

Do the werewolves know who the other werewolves are? Do they work together?

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I don't remember :(

[interpersonally]

That's okay. We have more to work on this year than they had last. That's something.

Also, Klaus isn't connected to anyone who died.

( if you were wondering... )

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I've mentally blocked you two off the suspect list already.

[interpersonally]

( what else have you mentally blocked out?? )

Same.

Though, if we're both way off track, maybe we can plant a subliminal seed. Take Kai out for the month until we all decide how to coexist.

[highlyemotional]

[ they could just kill kai... ]

How would we do that?

[interpersonally]

I meant with one another.

If

Well, we wouldn't know, would we

So how do we win? Jail all the wolves?

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Not even all of them, just most of them with the least people on your team dead. My team won last year but there was still a wolf left.

If Kai dies next round I think we can all agree it was one of us and ignore that information entirely.

[interpersonally]

What information? 😇

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You're my favorite 🧡

[interpersonally]

Right back at you.

Since we're on the topic, I no longer feel like I have to sleep alone on a bed of bones, so, got any extra room or an extra pillow to spare?

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[ oh she feels very aflutter all of a sudden. ]

I have both!

[ many ellipses appear and disappear again. ]

I don't think we should leave Klaus alone. I don't want shit to start with Katherine during all this.

1/?

[interpersonally]

( they haven't... talked about it. )

I don't think so either. And I'm okay with Klaus being there, too.

[interpersonally]

In the room.

[interpersonally]

Not while
Not during

DONE.

[interpersonally]

We should find a room with more than one bed.

[highlyemotional]

[ oh did he hurt himself trying to get all that out? does he need an ice pack? ]

I have a spare bed.

1/2

[interpersonally]

It's smart. To stick together.

[interpersonally]

We haven't talked about it. Klaus and me.

( Or, Klaus and her, whatever he means to her. He knows what she means to Klaus. Moreso than ever now after visiting New Orleans on the run with Rayna. Is this easier through text? Yes. )

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We probably should.

I know I'm the least evolved and my jealous streak is infamous, but I know it's different here. It feels different here.

So I'm okay if there is something there. I will definitely be bad at it don't get me wrong, I'm still me! But I can try. If there is something to try about.

[interpersonally]

There's something to try. Or, to not try.

It started in the other Saltburnt. And then we were unwittingly bunked together. Or, not. I haven't thought too hard into it.

But, it's not us. And it never will be.

( Like she could never be him and Elena or he could never be Caroline and Tyler. He's let her down enough like Tyler, but he's trying hard not to again. )

And, for the record, any time you aren't able to try or trying gets hard, you can ask me anything.

( He'll spend every day reassuring her if he has to. Every minute. That love won't waiver. )

I think he'll always love you. Klaus. Maybe it's respect, or seeing your goodness. But, it's deep and undying. Kind of like all of us.

I just

Want to get it all out there. I think it's smart to.

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You picked a good time to come back. I'm not sure if I could deal with this without the looming threat of this stupid game putting it all in perspective.

[ they're dancing around it, saying what "it" really is, but then he gets her with the gut punch of he'll always love you. would he still love her with all the baggage she is about to have? when she's a mom?

nope, she flinches at the thought again and has to push it aside. it's too much. and her mom won't be there to— abruptly, she finds herself crying and she's glad neither stefan nor klaus are there at the moment. she doesn't want comfort, she just wants to cry it out for a while. ]

[interpersonally]

I wish I could take the credit.

Maybe you brought me back.

( He had to wake up. For her. Like a reverse Sleeping Beauty or Snow White. And that rankles, compared to their friend's Sleeping Beauty curse. The master of which is here now. It hurts, too. )

I also know it's a month later, but I really am sorry for my mother and for Valerie and all of the Heretics. Here I thought it couldn't get worse than dying at the hands of a Traveler.

( And then Damon dying. )

I am sorry if I shared too much. My common sense was... lacking at the end of the month.

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You don't have to apologize for that, Stefan. I mean for the Heretics. It's not like you hand-picked me to get kidnapped and tortured.

I accept your apology about blurting out our future though.

[interpersonally]

No, I only handpicked you to deliver a bomb. Well, you volunteered.

I promise to be a united front from now on. And, to hold anything in if... I sleep for another month. Not that I'm looking to. I'm happy with where I came from.