second history lesson ◈ [ text ]

[surrogates]

jenna sommers and elena gilbert are- they're dead.

i- i know more people knew jenna than elena but they're both dead. near the oxygen garden. so i just- everyone needed to know and now you do.

[ it's short and to the point, if only because ric doesn't entirely trust himself to say much else. it's the same reason he choose text over voice or video. this proclamation is hard enough to get out right now and speaking coherently is a bit beyond his reach. ]

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how many of you are actually breathing right now?

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[siring]

If this is an attempt to hide them from me, then it's a very poor one.

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[surrogates]

Why would I hide them when you're the one who killed them?

It's a bit redundant.

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[siring]

This place has gotten to you, Alaric.

Perhaps it was you that murdered them.

[ the only thing keeping him from going to the oxygen garden and confirming any of this is the suspicion that it's all a trap.]

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[surrogates]

[ that stings more than klaus knows. when you hear someone say that it's all your fault, you don't know how exactly it might be your fault. maybe he did kill them and that makes the entire thing worse because why would he. ]

Because that's logical, isn't it?

Just because I've been on this ship for longer than you have, I've gone crazy enough to kill two people you've killed once before. That's makes all the sense in the world, really.

I heard you. I know I didn't. I couldn't have.

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[siring]

Please then, attempt to pin this on me. Anyone that comes after me, their deaths will be on your head.

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[surrogates]

There's already deaths on my head. But you're not going to kill anyone else. I won't let you.

No one knows it's you. Just me. You should be thankful it's just me. What can I do? All you have to do is snap my neck and you'll be free of the one man who wants to kill you more than anything right now.

Did you really need to kill them again?

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[siring]

[Klaus is still convinced that he's being baited. Either that, or Stefan and Caroline haven't updated their companions on his reliance on the doppelganger.]

That would be much too quick. [Especially if any of this is true.]

I had no reason at all. But come find me, if you're so sure it was me. You seem to have a death wish that I would be happy to oblige.

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[surrogates]

[ that would be option b for those of you following at home. poor ric, all the way back at a time where he doesn't know. ]

Then what, I get to die like Elena did? Bleeding out onto the floor?

I don't know your room number, Klaus. And even if I did, you killing me, whether or not I have a death wish might be exactly what you want. I mean, really. I might have a death wish, but I'm not stupid. I'm not- I won't play into your hand.

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[siring]

[Team Mystic Falls has terrible communication skills, but luckily Klaus has no plans to fill in any of those massive holes.

He just doesn't even respond to this. Alaric is very clearly out of his mind. Possibly more than usual. So, someone's off to check if there are any dead bodies that belong to him and then see the messages from both Jenna and Elena on this post before he gets there.]