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[angerissues]

Considering the amount of animals up here -- [ that aren't just dogs ] -- I'm starting to wonder if we should figure out a better place to keep them than the oxygen gardens. Anyone got any ideas? My word's not final here, but we may as well brainstorm before we end up with an entire zoo in there.

PRIVATE MESSAGE TO REMUS LUPIN AND SIRIUS BLACK | 100% ENCRYPTION

The spell you guys put on my room: does it require you being there, or can you put it on and leave? And is there any way to make it so certain people inside can get out and vice versa while also keeping me in there?

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PRIVATE MESSAGE TO TYKE | 100% ENCRYPTION

Any chance you feel up to trying out that thing we talked about?

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FILTERED MESSAGE TO SECURITY MEMBERS | 95% ENCRYPTION

Don't expect this to be a regular thing -- [ because he's still holding out hope that his plant will give him shitloads of wolfsbane ] -- but consider this your head's up about my shift. Someone's going to need to cover patrol for me. And before anyone starts in on the safety speeches, I'm taking necessary precautions to make sure everyone'll be fine.

And John, if you feel like camping out again, let me know.

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FILTERED MESSAGE TO TYLER LOCKWOOD AND JENNA SOMMERS | 95% ENCRYPTION

Just so you guys don't bitch at me about not telling you: I've got another shift coming up. And no, I don't want to hear wolf-period jokes, Jenna.

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ooc: I HATE BEING ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE AND I HAD NO INTENTION OF DOING THIS, but I'm actually headed out the door now and won't be able to tag until later this evening. I'm so sorry. :c

Comments

[lockwood]

No, they definitely don't.

[unparental]

You should bite him in the butt. [ oh dear god. ] As a wolf, I mean. Tell him you thought you saw a flea.

[lockwood]

I'm not going to make myself transform just to bite my uncle in the ass.

[unparental]

Well, maybe not just.

[lockwood]

What else do you have in mind?

[unparental]

...honestly? Mostly I want to see Mason's face when he has to explain you bit him on the ass.

I'm an awful person, really. I should get that looked at.

[lockwood]

I can't blame you for that, I guess. It'd probably be pretty priceless.

[unparental]

The picture would be on every Christmas card I ever send.

...so. Mason biting aside, how are you holding up?

[ she just means in general with space. ]

[lockwood]

Better than usual. [Klaus being gone? Big plus.]

[unparental]

You too, huh?

[lockwood]

Well, yeah. Klaus gone, what's not to celebrate? The less of that dick in my life, the better.

[unparental]

...not a fan either, huh? [ the memo, jenna: you missed it. ] Good riddance to psychotic bastards is close enough to how the saying goes, right?

[lockwood]

Well, was anyone actually a fan? I mean after everything he put me and everyone else through, good riddance.

[unparental]

[ aaaaand locked because that is new information!!!! and momdar activate. ]

...what he did to you. Okay, I realize I'm an awful technical surrogate guardian by whatever transitive property of adulthood exists in Mystic Falls and we can address my many flaws later, but first--

--what did he put you through?

[lockwood]

What, did you miss the memo? [Seriously, he expositioned it all at the mystic falls crew a while back.]

He made me one of his hybrid slaves, for starters.

[unparental]

[ mystic falls residents? effective communication? who needs it! more not talking never hurt people before, right?

...oh.

He-- oh. Oh my god. [ vampires can feel nauseous, good to know. it's one thing to use her life as a bargaining chip with klaus-- tyler's isn't hers to do that with. ] No, I didn't--

I'm so, so sorry. [ not so much for not knowing as for almost getting him killed-- she might not have known, but it's still what she did. ]

[lockwood]

You didn't know. [Tyler's heard about the whole thing with trying to push Klaus out an airlock -- Klaus had gleefully told him about it as proof of how little worth his life was to everyone else. ]

Look, I know about the thing with the airlock -- Klaus told me, I was trying to trick him by pretending to still be sirebonded to him. But I get it. If it had meant getting rid of Klaus, it would have been fine. [Tyler's long since made peace with the fact that for Klaus to die, he would have to.

It's just Caroline possibly dying that bothers him most.]

[unparental]

...If he comes back, we find another way. [ skipping past everything to the heart of the matter. ] I don't know what he said to you, but I-- if I had known, it never would have been an option.

I get to do what I want with my life, it's mine. Yours isn't-- [ she breaks off. ] It's people like him who think other people don't count, or that he can just--

[ another long gap. ] I'm surprised you don't just hate me. I'd hate me.

[lockwood]

And you didn't know. So I don't see why I should hate you. [And really? Tyler's kind of used to it. He knows if they had been safe, Stefan and Damon would have been fine sacrificing him to kill Klaus.] Besides, that's the only reason he told me. To get me to hate you. To get me closer to him. So I'm not really inclined to play into his hands, even if he's not here anymore.

[unparental]

I didn't know, but that wouldn't have changed the outcome. Just-- I know what he's like, but that doesn't mean it changes things.

...we should all talk, huh? And you should start coming to dinner.

[lockwood]

Well, now you know, in any case the dick ever shows up again.

...Dinner? There are dinners I need to be going to now?

[unparental]

I'm thinking... vervain IV. And we could kick him, sometimes.

[ jenna. ]

There are-- if you're not weirded out by eating with Elena's aunt and your teacher.

[lockwood]

That's definitely a start. We could figure out other things as we go. Maybe force him to drink some wolfsbane.

Well, can't be any more awkward then the last time I was invited to eat a meal with Alaric. [Back when he was still sirebonded.

Alaric -- that part is weird, but the version here isn't psychotic or a vampire so no need to mention that.]

[unparental]

Stab him repeatedly with toothpicks?

...I don't want to ask, do I?

[lockwood]

And anything else sharp and pointy we can find.

Probably not. It was while I was still sire-bonded to Klaus. It didn't go well, to say the least. [To say the most, he almost got Jeremy killed. The first in a series of realizations of hey maybe having no free will is kind of a bad thing.]