If they're dead, what the want doesn't exactly matter. [ there's a small pause though. ] I'm not- I won't go after him. I want to- but as soon as I do, I'm dead and then all of you will be dead and somehow I will feel guilty about that after I'm dead. Don't go alone for crying out loud.

[ it's what got him killed the first time, caroline. it's a problem. 8(

the thing about the guilt eating at him is that it doesn't stop. even on the ship there's always a nagging feeling that this was his fault. that he's living on borrowed time because he was the idiot who didn't try harder to stop everything. maybe they would have all had a chance if things were different. he knows he can't change it but that's what bothers him the most.

alaric stares at his device and tries not to think of anything else but what caroline is saying before he answers. ]

...Did you just say he'll draw you a picture?