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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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. ]