Ω 001 ; open } { i got the surprise, surprise of my life -- i had to stop and stare
The first thing he notices is that the sun’s up.
It wouldn’t have been such a big deal if they had actually been driving all night, but Stefan knows for a fact that they haven’t. In fact, the clock on the car radio proves that. The digital read out says just after one AM, but from the looks of things, it was suddenly closer to one PM. That, and ( Read more... )
It wouldn’t have been such a big deal if they had actually been driving all night, but Stefan knows for a fact that they haven’t. In fact, the clock on the car radio proves that. The digital read out says just after one AM, but from the looks of things, it was suddenly closer to one PM. That, and ( Read more... )
She was the first to fall through, after all. Damon followed later on, and for a while, it was only the two of them. Around the time Jeremy and Vicki (who disappeared shortly after) also fell through, she began realizing anything was possible. Caroline's arrival only cemented her suspicions.
There are faces she would give anything to see, and Stefan is the one she's thought of most, hoped to see the most. She just never thought it would be like this. Except, that's exactly what's happening. Elena's getting back to the Tower, taking a short cut through the Park to do so, and there he is. She'd recognize him anywhere, despite the fact his back is to her.
"Stefan??" she asks, her breath catching in her throat as she rushes over.
She's terrified her mind is just playing tricks on her, but it's Stefan. Relief and love flood through her, but the former emotion is short-lived when she sees he's not alone ( ... )
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Katherine turns, raising an eyebrow before settling behind Stefan.
When Elena spots Katherine and the doppelganger slows down, Katherine is almost hurt. But, not really. Elena's frozen. Maybe not literally. Oh, she can only wish.
"I feel like I've thwarted a touching reunion," she says, looking at Stefan. What's strange is how relieved Elena is. Stefan betrayed them. If anything? Elena should be slapping him. Probably her once she realizes they were in cahoots and yet, Elena is running from excitement, from... love.
Yes. Something is off.
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And Katherine probably isn't helping. Stefan glances back at her with a mild look, before turning back to Elena.
"Elena, what are you doing here?" he frowns. She's supposed to be home. With Damon. Where she's safe. "How did you get to Chicago?"
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Stefan's reaction doesn't help matters. Elena knows him. She knows something is off, and she doesn't even dignify Katherine's comment with a response. Only lets the dread slowly sink into her stomach like a heavy stone.
"I've been in Chicago for a really long time now, Stefan. I fell through the rift over a year ago," she says, swallowing back some of the raw emotion threatening to bubble up her throat. Not in front of Katherine. How much does he know? How long since he--have they--been here and she didn't know?
"When did you get here? And why are you with her?"
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A Chicago Elena has apparently experienced for over a year. Funny, Elena's been in Mystic Falls. That puts a check in her rift in time and space column.
She doesn't appreciate Elena ignoring her but it's not as if she expects a warm reception. And, to that extent, she doesn't expect a warm reception for either of them. It really is always Stefan. She fights to roll her eyes.
"She is standing right here," she reminds Elena. But, Katherine'll let Stefan answer her descendent's question. Elena doesn't want to hear it from her.
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"Twenty minutes ago, maybe?" he frowns. "You've been here over a year?"
He's avoiding the Katherine issue for right now. He needs to wrap his mind around other things first.
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The eternal reminder her face is not entirely her own.
"The Rift is a tear in time and space. Holes in the universe, they say. All sorts of things fall through it. Not just people. We get pulled into this world which is completely different from our own. The world as we knew it continues on as it's supposed to, but we end up here instead."
Elena steels herself for this. "There's no way back."
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It's a rift in time and space. A tear. People and things fall through. It's not their world. And - wait, what?
"What do you mean, there's no way back?" she asks, with a little too much bite. She looks to Stefan to see his reaction.
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"No, there has to be a way back," Stefan shakes his head. "We have to find it."
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Katherine had won. At least then. At least, in Elena's mind.
Despite all this, she's doing a good job of keeping her composure. Katherine's presence, Stefan's coldness. She locks her jaw and shoves back the hurt. He wasn't happy to see her, and it stings. Everything about this stings.
"The Rift doesn't work both ways. People have researched and studied it for years. If it opens up again and you try stepping back into, it tears you to shreds," Elena says as warning, a hand cupping the side of her neck. Elena is a stubborn and relentless person. She wanted to go back just as badly. She looked and tried and fought.
But, everyone was right.
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When it came to Katherine's actions back in Mystic Falls, that had been her moving her pawns where she wanted them. Creating Caroline to give the Mystic Falls set another headache and herself another vampire. They had killed Mason so she had had to activate Tyler's werewolf gene. It was all a means to an end. And yes, when it came to Jenna, ( ... )
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And now she couldn't.
Stefan really wants to hit something right now. In fact, his hand will ball into a fist to symbolize that, but he won't. He'll keep it together, the rage vibrating in his shoulders until he could force it back down again. Turn it off. Just turn it off ...
He can't. Shouldn't. Not when this Elena obviously hasn't seen what it's like when he does, but for a moment he just needs not to care.
"Stuck in Chicago," he sighs as he relaxes a bit, trying not to roll his eyes. "Guess everything always does come around again."
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Elena and Katherine have continuously been placed at polar opposites, at the ends of either spectrum, east being east and west being west. It hasn't completely evaded her attention she has been capable of doing things that some would describe as very Katherine of her, and one has to wonder how much of Elena's subconscious desire to not be like Katherine comes at the expense of being... well, Elena ( ... )
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What Elena doesn't get is that Katherine becoming a vampire was the last resort. A life of running is not something she was excited about. She hates it. She left the man she really loved because she had to run. Yes, her entire past is convoluted but one thing has always been true and that thing won't please Elena ( ... )
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There's a small pause. "Alone."
Maybe she really is a masochist.
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