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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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[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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[mathematically]

We're also 1) in an enclosed space where items are basically money and 2) people kind of don't always respect normal boundaries. Besides a lot of people liked Jenna, I wouldn't— they'd want something of hers.

[ because people are stupid, that's why. ]

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[ex_heightens219]

Well they can't have anything. They can't have anything of theirs. No one is touching that goddamn room.

[ congratulations on giving elena a mission to focus on as well as a focus for her emotions, lydia. are you prepared for how intense this is going to get? ]

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[mathematically]

[ probab...ly? no she can handle it. ]

Are you going to stand out there and defend it?

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[ex_heightens219]

I'm going to lock it, if I can. And if I can't... then yes. Until everyone who wants a memento has what they want, then I'll guard it. It's their room and no one else can touch it.

[mathematically]

You'd have to filter who wants a momento.