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. ]

[ mystic falls filter, encrypted 90% ]

how many of you are actually breathing right now?

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voice;

[surrogates]

[ he doesn't say a word for a very long time before he finally says something. his voice cracks and he just doesn't know how to fully articulate how this can't be real.

she's dead. he saw her body. this time she was supposed to be dead for real. ]

I don't- Jenna, you're not- you're not actually real. Your body is on the floor. You're bleeding and you're not fine. You're dead and even if I want it to be true, you're dead, Jenna. I saw it this time. It's not like at home. I just saw your body.

voice;

[unparental]

I'm okay, I promise. I'm not leaving you again, there isn't a body. Just me, here. [ more urgency in her voice, now. ] Where are you? I can come show you I'm okay.

voice;

[surrogates]

You're not real. You'e dead and unless this ship can somehow make it so people are alive when you saw their dead body, you're not here. Don't- I'm imagining this. [ he pauses to take a breath, as shaky as it is before he says anything. ] That's not going to help, you're not okay. You're dead and it's my fault.

voice; 1/2

[unparental]

I'm not leaving you again. [ trapped in a low budget reenactment of TITANIC THE MUSICAL: IN SPACE!!!!! or not, that's nothing but pure vehemence in her tone. fuck cheesy, it's true. ] I swear to god, Ric, I'm okay.

voice;

[unparental]

[ ...oh god she was using those feels. stifling a sob, jenna puts on even more speed. ] It was never your fault. Not at home, not here.

voice;

[surrogates]

You just did. You can't come back to life. You already did it once just being here. You don't get a third chance. [ he's not even mad that she's dead. not at her or what he thinks is her. (she looks so alive. her and elena are alive and yet they aren't.) he's mad at himself. they had a chance to be happy (ish) here and now sh'se- they're dead and that dream just goes down the drain so very fast. ] Don't lie to me.

You know that's not true. You're not- You're dead, Jenna. It's not true.