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Aug 21, 2011 00:41

She’s cold. Her head hurts. She’s hungry. Really hungry.

But Vicki does her best to push those thoughts aside as she runs. The perks, as Damon called them, weren’t so bad. Maybe it would only get better, though she imagines it would be the latter. The brisk air of the night keeps her hair behind her as she does her best to navigate at such a speed ( Read more... )

jeremy gilbert, randall mcmann, castiel, vicki donovan, john callahan

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breakthelock August 22 2011, 04:14:26 UTC

Jeremy doesn't usually wander around Chicago too much. There's been a lot going on with the haunting at the Tower, and they are trying to figure out with the fact that Elena being a doppleganger means something in this universe too.

However, he wanted to get some space this time from the creepiness of the Tower, and the fact that they still don't know how to stop the haunting. He went out to pick up some food, and he is on his way back to the Tower when he notices her.

There's no mistaking it. He freezes and drops the bag of food in his hand to the pavement underneath him. Jeremy never thought he would see her again, because... she was dead. She'd been a vampire and then she was killed, and Elena made Damon force him to forget what had happened and what he had seen, but there was something missing.

The something was his memory of what had happened. He knew even without knowing that Vicki was gone, dead. Then he read through Elena's diary, and he discovered the truth and he hated her for weeks because of it. So much has happened ( ... )

comeup_blank August 22 2011, 04:27:45 UTC

The senses she had developed after this transition were starting to get to her. At the sound of the bag hitting the ground, Vicki nearly jumps out of her skin before looking over to the cause of the sound. Typical. A bag had-- wait ( ... )

breakthelock August 22 2011, 06:40:52 UTC

Jeremy winces when she jumps like that at the sound of the bag. He hadn't meant to startle her further, but he's struck with about a hundred things. They're all hitting him at once at the sight of her.

"Y-- yeah, it's me," he says, and his voice is a little hoarse. Why does everybody have to die on me? He asked that after she died, and she wouldn't be the last that he lost either. There were three more deaths to come, and he clears his throat ( ... )

comeup_blank August 22 2011, 06:52:43 UTC

“How did we end up in Chicago? What’s a Rift supposed to be?” They’re questions asked off-handedly; she doesn’t really care so much right now. She’s not here alone, forced to figure out whatever’s going on. Jeremy’s here. He’d help her pull through, somehow, like he always did ( ... )

breakthelock August 22 2011, 10:30:52 UTC

"It's... like this break in time and space? I don't know. They kind of just appear and suck you in from your own universe, wherever you are, whenever you are... and drop you here," Jeremy says quietly as he looks at her, and it's so hard to explain ( ... )

comeup_blank August 22 2011, 17:25:14 UTC

“Oh.” She nods, taking his words as simple as that. She’d ask everything when she had half the mind to later. Right now nothing could process.

Her brows do furrow in confusion when he starts talking again. He hadn’t seen her in a while? It had only been a few days. She hoped she didn’t lose track of that much time, though a part of her doubted that was the case.

And his last words make her body tense.

You’re not ok. However he found out - how much time had it been? She let’s her gaze go down to her feet before looking up to him, a thousand unreadable emotions on her face. Her hand falls from his face, and though she means to let it fall to her side, she ends up gripping his shirt.

It didn’t change her, she truly believed that. She was still Vicki. The same one he’d fallen for before. The same one with the problems, just now they were vampire problems. But the way he’s looking at her so torn, she can tell there’s more to it.

That doesn’t stop the anger in her voice.

“I didn’t want this.”

breakthelock August 23 2011, 05:26:12 UTC

Jeremy knows that about her. It would be impossible for her to process everything right now, and he doesn't want to overwhelm her anymore by saying half of what's happened.

He swallows thickly, looking down before he manages to look back up at her. This is harder than he ever thought it could be, and right now, his best idea about where to take her is Damon's apartment.

And Jeremy would want to move in with her to make sure Damon didn't kill her this... time. Not that there would be anything he could do. Not that Damon is going to be easy to convince ( ... )

comeup_blank August 23 2011, 06:02:19 UTC

“Then why are you saying that?” The hostility in her tone fades away as her question finishes. Nervously, she starts biting down on her lower lip. He was afraid, and if it wasn’t of her it had to be of this place. And she doesn’t know what he wants her to do or how to take this, so she listens.

Until he’s finished, at least. Then she tries to think of something to say, some reaction that he can’t respond negatively to. His behavior has put her on a little more edge, but she’s not willing to point that out now.

“So where am I supposed to stay?” It sounds more anxious than anything, but her tone is quiet; curious, even. Her grip on him loosens until her arms are by her side. She then crosses them.

And she has so much more she wants to ask. Where has he been staying? With who? Was he actually afraid of her or just the damage she might cause?

So long as he wasn’t ashamed of her, she’d take the worst answers for any of the questions. So she simply asks:

“Where are you going to stay?”

breakthelock August 24 2011, 04:40:42 UTC

"I just-- I know you don't have a lot of control right now, because it happened so recently, because it does change things even if you're still Vicki," Jeremy says quietly, sliding his hand behind his neck. "I know you don't want to hurt anyone but I know... that you're hungry too."

He releases a breath, shaking his head. He's still wracking his brain for an idea, but Damon is the best bet. It's the matter of finding something that convinces him to take her in, take him in too.

"I-- Damon's here too. He has an apartment. I can try to convince him to let you move in with him," Jeremy says as he looks at her, because it's the best idea that he has.

He doesn't know how he'll convince him but he has to try.

"I don't know yet, Vicki. I was at the Tower then I moved somewhere else with Elena, but I want to... I want to take care of you. I don't think I really did before, and-- You should come with me."

comeup_blank August 24 2011, 05:38:58 UTC

She remains silent again. He's right, like he usually is, so what point could she have to prove? Even looking at him all she could think about was the blood; but it wasn't too overwhelming yet. And at Damon, he's lost her.

Damon had killed her. Twice. And he'd probably do it again under any circumstances. But she wasn't exactly afraid of him.

At least he'd let her have people blood.

"Is Stefan there?" And as she asks, she's trying to consider other options. Even though she knows nothing about this place or who's in it.

"You never did anything wrong." It's a firm statement, and she's very serious in saying it. Aside from Matt, whose job it was to take care of her, Jeremy always looked out for her. Even when she didn't want him to. She still could feel that there was more than what he was telling her now but didn't want to press it. Whatever it was, it couldn't be good.

"Am I going with you or Damon? I'll go, Jer, but I'd rather just stay where you are."

breakthelock August 24 2011, 06:20:36 UTC

Jeremy knows. He hates more than anything to bring her to Damon, but Damon has changed a lot too. He helped when he didn't have to even if it was only to keep Elena from hating him. One time he tried to give him advice too. In his room.

Even if it didn't have the results he likely intended.

"No, there's no Stefan. It's Elena, Damon, and me from our world. That's all," he says as he slides his hand through his hair. "I'd... I'd want you to be able to go to the Tower. You get the most support there from everyone. It's like a community. But if--"

If she kills someone, she wouldn't want that. He wouldn't want that to happen either.

You never did anything wrong. Jeremy looks at her for a moment, and he doesn't know that he can believe that ( ... )

comeup_blank August 24 2011, 06:29:12 UTC

"So...no Matt, either?" It brings her down, more emotionally than expressively, but maybe it was for the better that he wasn't here with her. He was safe at home with one less person to clean up after. Quietly, she fidgets ( ... )

breakthelock August 25 2011, 00:24:50 UTC

"No, Vicki. I'm sorry about that," Jeremy says, and she doesn't have to show it for him to know that it upsets her. He saw Matt after Vicki was missing, after she was confirmed dead too. They're close.

He looks at her as she insists that she'll be okay. "I don't know if you will yet. I know you can beat this thing, okay? I know it." It's not a risk that he's willing to take. "But... I'm from way into your future, a future where you don't disappear into a Rift."

A future where she dies instead, and he can't say that out here on the street at all so he lets the words fall from his lips. It's complicated. He wants to protect her, but he wants to protect Elena too. Jeremy doesn't even know how he-- how to deal with the fact that Vickie is here.

She is here when he thought she was dead this whole time.

When there was Annie and then Bonnie.

When they were together, it was so much about the drugs and he grieved when she disappeared. He was broken, but he dealt with it and he doesn't know how to deal with this. He's not the same kid ( ... )

comeup_blank August 25 2011, 02:54:27 UTC

"So then what we had-- you didn't see more." She uses past tense based on what she's put together from his wording. He was from her future, a future where they obviously weren't together for whatever reason. And whatever that reason was, she didn't care to find out ( ... )

breakthelock August 25 2011, 08:53:29 UTC

Jeremy stares at her for a long moment. He's not really sure what... she's piecing together, but this isn't the time for her to piece together what happened or why he-- why he's changed so much and why he doesn't know what to do in this situation.

He stares at her and then glances down at the floor before looking up at her again.

"What? Vicki, you don't know-- You don't know what happened. That's not it at all," he says sa he looks at her. "I've always cared about you. You know that. That's-- It's not something you just get tired of ( ... )

comeup_blank August 25 2011, 09:34:21 UTC

She flinches to his touch, but it does get her to look up to him. Her interpretations make her want to be angry with him, to keep her guard up the way she always did before him, but she can't. And she blames herself for trusting him so much.

He's telling her she's wrong, she's believing it.

It does get a faint smile to cross her lips, though. Not a happy reassuring one, a more sympathetic one. She wishes she knew what she was sorry about but she just doesn't.

She's confused and can only imagine how much of that is rubbing off on him. Still a little bitter, but happy to see him at the same time. And curious -- very curious about her future. Their future. She looks down to his hand that's on her arm before continuing. Her tone is soft and she hopes itsunreadable ( ... )

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