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[ex_heightens219]

Alaric Saltzman and Jenna Sommers went home. I know a lot of you were friends of theirs, and they were here for a long time. I'm sorry for your loss.

[ it's short, but elena doesn't really know what else to say. just that hurt to type, and she can't... she just can't. knowing what they're going back to, that jenna is dead and ric is going to go crazy and then die too... she doesn't want that for them, doesn't want to think about it.

for all the tranquility's faults -- and faults is putting it lightly -- she at least had jenna and ric. her family was mostly put back together, and it was safe so long as they didn't try to do anything stupid. now they're gone, and damon doesn't remember anything, and honestly, she just wants to go home. there's nothing here anymore that makes staying worth it. ]

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[unbalancer]

[ normally, she'd take more time. it's jarring what she saw, what she's dealing with. so jarring she told a complete stranger about it. but, she's started in communications, she's doing things. and now caroline is missing. staying away from elena wouldn't help. besides, she has questions she needs answers to. questions klaus put into her head

she stops outside elena's room, knocking ] Elena, are you here? It's Bonnie.

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[ex_heightens219]

[ honestly, elena doesn't really want to talk to bonnie. she has no idea what to say to her, now that she knows what she knows. if bonnie asks her what happens in her future... she can't tell her, but she can't lie, either. and she can't imagine "i was so happy playing house with my not-so-reformed boyfriend that i didn't even realize you were dead' would go over well.

but she can't ignore bonnie either, so after a few seconds of hesitation, she goes over to her door and opens it up. there are no tears in her eyes, but only because she'd cried for hours already and there are no more tears left in her. her eyes are dead now, like she couldn't feel if she tried. she wants to be numb, because if she's numb then everything stops hurting.

flipping her switch is a cheat, but it's a cheat she's almost willing to take. ]

What is it?

[majestyofthethrone]

They're your family, aren't they?

[ex_heightens219]

My parents. Not biologically, but as close as I had.

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[rancorously]

Shouldn't you be happy they're not stuck here any more?

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[ex_heightens219]

They're dead at home. So no.

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[allbloodyhail]

were you?
close with them.

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[ex_heightens219]

They were as good as my parents.

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[lockwood]

[And...he has nothing but more bad news to give. But before that:]

I'm sorry. I remember when Mason went back home -- it's really rough, knowing what they're going back to.

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[ex_heightens219]

[ oh no please no more tyler she can't take it!!!

she sticks with text because she's been crying a lot and her voice is hoarse abd if she starts crying again she doesn't want anyone to know. ]

I thought this would be our happy ending, you know? At least as happy as it could get. They didn't even get to get married.

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[enlistments]

Were they friends of yours as well?

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[ex_heightens219]

They were my parents.

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[skjalf]

[ it seems a running theme this week. her empathy—and sympathy are evident in her voice. ]

I am sorry for your loss. It seems as though you care for them a great deal.

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[ex_heightens219]

[ she appreciates the sympathy, even as it's getting a bit grating, coming from all these people she doesn't know, but is not up for voice. so text her replies remain. ]

They were my parents, and their lives sucked back home. I didn't want them to go back to that.

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[mathematically]

You should make sure no one touches their room.

[ that is...possibly the most callous thing lydia can say but she can't— losing jenna feels like someone took away the closest thing she had to her mom here and it hurts. it makes her want to cry and makes her want to ignore this but she shouldn't.

god she hates this jump. ]

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[ex_heightens219]

People would do that? That's theirs.

[ thanks lydia, elena's getting up to go down to the first level and secure jenna and ric's room right now if anyone else touches it she'll tear out their throats with her goddamn teeth.

or probably she won't but really why would anyone want to test that. ]

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[cargojet]

When you feel up to it, I'd like to talk. I have a couple of sachets of hot chocolate I inherited and noone to share them with now your aunt's gone.

It can be whenever you like. No hurry.

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[ex_heightens219]

[ sorry peter, she's not quite up to anything but text. nothing personal, she's done the same to everyone else. ]

Alright. I'll come by your room in the next couple days.

I'm sorry, I know you and Jenna were close.

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[askedtobe]

I know it's a stupid question but- are you doing okay? Can I help with anything?

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[ex_heightens219]

No, I'll survive. Everyone loses people eventually, right? Anyway, your brother is going to make me hot chocolate and we're going to talk, so. No need for both of you to fuss over me.

[northerner]

[ there's a pause, but. ]

You know you need only ask, if there is anything you need? I swore to them I'd keep you safe as if you were my own blood. That does not change, even now.

[ex_heightens219]

I know, Robb, thank you. I'm sorry you lost them.

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[titfortat]

[Of course it would be too much to wish that the one friend he'd had in a very long time had actually stuck around long enough for him to see him. No, it was typical that the moment he got here, Ric was already gone.

It made his last memories of home that much worse.

He doesn't say anything, doesn't bother to hit reply. Elena has enough bleeding hearts telling them how sorry they are, and probably not really meaning it. Words like that are meaningless, after all. They don't help, they don't fix anything, they just fill in the empty space that would be there otherwise.

Now wasn't the time for words. Right now, all he wanted to do was get very, very, very drunk.]

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[iceboxed]

they can't

[be gone. go home. abandon him. he knows what's waiting for them both. knows that there is no future for them. so the idea that they're gone, after all this time, leaves him lost on how he's meant to react.]

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[ex_heightens219]

They did. I wouldn't say if I wasn't sure. I've tried to message both of their comms and the messages are being bounced back.

[ which has never happened to her before, but she knows what it means. this is a number elena doesn't know, but whoever's attached to it seems just as distraught as she is, so... maybe it's one of their friends? ]

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[faderbroderson]

Jenna too...

[This is not a happy month for Godric.]

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[ex_heightens219]

Yes. I'm sorry. You knew her?

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[unforgives]

Seems like a lot of people are leaving lately.

I'm assuming since you announced it, you were close to them?