Day 57: Sun Room
It figured that night would end before Rita and Taura could progress any further. Rita wasn't particularly disappointed to wake up abruptly, as they had reached a dead end. Really, the institute was doing them a favor by bringing them back to the starting point, where they could regroup.
What she didn't appreciate was the loss of valuable time, ( Read more... )
What she didn't appreciate was the loss of valuable time, ( Read more... )
She took her seat and decided to pretend she didn't notice the way he was watching her for that brief moment, like he wasn't sure if she might start REMEMBERING THINGS~ at random and freak out on him again like that first morning. Or maybe that was just what she imagined he was thinking. Her fun new brain trick wasn't something she was sensitive or self-conscious about or anything, but she was just waiting for the day she broke down in front of someone she didn't actually know, or worse, a friend she had managed to make here, and scare them off with her buckets of crazy. Although, when she thought about it, the memories really only struck her when she was with people from home. Nobody else triggered it. Which... made sense.
"My night? It was actually pretty okay. I happened to run into a woman named Rose, she ended up being from Mystic Falls too. I remembered her pretty much right away, along with everything that happened in town when she got there." She wondered how much Damon knew, if Rose even told him anything about her stay in their town. Or if Alaric did after finding out Rose was there with them. Most likely. But she wasn't about to bring up how her first impression of Rose was being kidnapped by a guy in a clown mask, then being backhanded across the face when she asked why they needed her. Yeah, no. If he knew, she was sure he wouldn't hesitate to start listing the reasons why Elena needed to never talk to her again.
"I heard you've already met her, though? In, um, Doyleton, I mean." Elena's face screwed up a bit. "Speaking of which - what was that all about? We get to go on field trips now? Weird."
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Tiptoeing. Very Stefan of her. Speaking of, he wondered what he could get out of his brother if he approached him today, with Stefan thinking that he was on the verge of eating the next passing body.
Oh, wait. He already knew.
His eyes shifted in interest at the mention of Rose. He tilted his head. Elena didn't seem particularly concerned about the other vampire, which indicated that a) Rose was not at threat to anyone she cared about and b) that Rose currently didn't want to kill her. It wasn't necessarily good enough, but it was something.
Go figure Elena had wandered off, anyway, too.
He wasn't sure what he wanted to know more: what Elena remembered from Rose, or what Rose told Elena. The latter, though, he could probably guess well enough.
He gestured vaguely with his hand. "We met. She wasn't very into explaining why she came into town in the first place." He frowned at her. "Your memories fill anything in about that?"
As for the town...He'd given it some thought, obviously, but not much thought. There wasn't much to think about. Elena summed it up pretty well: it was weird. The town, the trip, the people. The places that should've been in every town, but weren't in this one, like someone had built it up and missed a few key details. It would've made a hell of a lot more sense if they hadn't seemed so set on keeping up the hospital facade.
"Your guess is as good as mine. The only consistent part about this place is the amount of nothing that adds up."
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"She was looking for Katherine, and the moonstone. As far as I can tell, she got roped into trying to help break the curse by Elijah despite whether she actually wanted it to be broken or not, and that... backfired, and she ended up trying to help us. Something to do with having connections we could use to find Klaus, or at least figure out his plan." She paused then, deciding that was a good point to stop and consider things.
Actually, wait.
"Wait, you- Has Alaric told you about the Sun and the Moon curse?" She sounded distracted when she asked, and that's because she absolutely was. Her memories never came to her in a certain timeline, and once they were there they seemed to be a part of any other memory she already had. Memories that included Stefan, and Damon, like they had experienced them as well. It hadn't ever been a problem before that moment. "Did anything I said make any sense to you?"
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