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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text | ALAYNE DON'T MAKE ME CRY

[surrogates]

[ let it be known that ric already feels torn up about this, but hearing that cry from alayne makes it even worse. ]

I want to be mistake as much as you want me to be. trust me. I saw her dead.

video | b-but FEELS!!!!

[wont]

[ Whatever sound of grief Alayne makes next is muffled by her hand, her fingers cupped over her mouth so tightly that her knuckles blanche white at the effort. Worry has already wore her down, what with Lady gone and Robb missing and Petyr nowhere to be found.

And now this— ]

But— but how that can be? I just saw her the other day. She was laughing and well and—

She tried to help me once.

text | b-but YOU HAVE ALREADY SUFFERED ENOUGH!!!

[surrogates]

[ he doesn't know nearly enough about what's going on with alayne, but that sound cuts through him even more. he wants to say he's sorry that he even had to tell her that jenna is dead, but he can't not now. ]

and i saw her only a few hours before this and she was the same way. she was attacked and i didn't find her until it was too late.

i know. she- we're close and she told me that she tried to help you.

video | LET'S BE REAL HERE, SHE'S A STARK, NO SHE HASN'T

[wont]

Who was it? Who was it that wronged her? [ And see how quickly grief can give way to anger. While some may buckle beneath the weight of their own sorrow, others rally and grow claw and fang, while others still gather beneath the banners of vengeance and call it justice and think themselves righteous. There are still tears on Alayne's face but when she speaks there's a wolf in her throat. ] Show us the hand that felled her and gods above we shall see it see it lopped.

[ But that viciousness lasts only a moment, that madness comes, washes over her and passes and Alayne is crying again, sobs setting her shoulders to shiver and shake as she holds her own face in her hands. ]

video | BUT YOU'RE NOT A STARK, ALAYNE, YOU'RE A STONE

[surrogates]

[ it's that anger, that unbridled anger that reminds him of himself. he remembers distantly how he was ready to tear damon to pieces when he realized it was damon who had changed isobel. that it was his fault he didn't have a wife any more. and then the tears remind him of just hearing that jenna was dead. the reminders of his feelings (as if he needed one when they feel so at the surface with this gas) is what finally prompts him to flip his feed over to video.

his face doesn't look pretty and anyone can tell it's taking him so much effort to not scream in frustration. he rubs his hands over his eyes before he speaks. ]

I don't know, I didn't get there early enough to see who it was. [ he pauses and takes a breath before he speaks again. ] I want to find them as much as you do. I want their hand lopped. I want them to be punished too.

video | CRIES RIC IS THAT A RIFLE :C

[wont]

[ It takes her a moment to realize that the man has offered his face to her as well as his voice. Perhaps if circumstances were different, she would find it a comfort, an opportunity to connect and feel less distant from whomever it is she is speaking to. But now, the sentiments are too raw and too near, too close to the surface and too easily read, and nothing is friendly and nothing is kind. (Death can wound a soul, can see it bled, and there's proof it that now, in this man's eyes.) ]

—where is she? [ Alayne asks between quickly caught gasps of air. Where is she as if she is simply lost and not a body they've the responsibility not to inter. Alayne knows that it is to be alone and even though Jenna may be nothing more than cooling flesh, she does not want her left lying by herself. (Death is a terrifyingly lonely place.) ]

—I do not wish for her to be alone.

video | A HUNTER NEEDS HIS WEAPONS :C both wooden and not

[surrogates]

[ at another time, after this, he may introduce himself properly. (starting with an apology, since this is a horrible way to meet an individual.) they both have their secrets, alayne's are the ones it would be devistating to reveal while ric's force him to play games to protect those he cares about. (then again, the last secrets he kept are probably what made him lose jenna once. it's what allowed him to lose isobel before that. it's- a necessary evil.) ]

The oxygen garden. Not directly in it but nearby. [ alayne saying it like that, as if jenna is just lost and not a body forces him to close his eyes and breath as slow as he can. ]

Alayne, I- I'll go back to her. Directly next to her body. I'll- I'll carry her away from there. She won't be alone. I need you to promise me you won't come to her. [ if you're as broken up about this as you are, klaus will kill you in an instant and jenna wouldn't want that. ]