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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... )
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... )
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 ( ... )
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He wishes he could tell her so she'd understand, but he doesn't-- he doesn't want to do it here on the sidewalk as soon as she's fallen into this world. It doesn't seem fair to her.
How does he even begin to tell her everything that happened? How can he say the words to her that she died especially knowing it's at Damon's hands and they'll be going to Damon's apartment. It's so much more complicated than he could ever begin to explain ( ... )
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And she still wants to know exactly how he's feeling; is he happy to see her? It's hard to tell.
"People blood?" The question comes out as a blurt, before he can even finish his sentence. Once he does, she says, "It's better than the other stuff...Stefan gave me this...yeah." She tucks her hair behind her ear. The fact that he'll be staying, even if only for a short time, makes her feel better.
But her attention shifts to him and she can tell her question bothers him. Good, it's another reason to hold off on it.
"Soon. After...this shit fest calms down." She wraps her arm around his, going in the direction of the new place she'd be staying.
Maybe.
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He doesn't spend much time with him. He clears his throat. "Yeah," Jeremy says though he doesn't know what animal or human blood is like. He wanted to be a vampire after losing her, after losing Anna especially.
Jeremy pulls her in close to him because it's... it's habit. He doesn't know how he feels either or what to feel. But he's grateful that she will-- she has the chance to be saved from the fate she suffered back home.
"Okay," he says quietly. "I don't want to push it on you, but..."
She does need to know, deserves to know.
When they get to Damon's apartment, Jeremy knocks on the door, steeling himself for this.
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Or the one night stands coming back for another who he'd sex up again before using compulsion on them to make them forget and then leave.
He glances through the peephole, and okay. Unexpected. For his part, he doesn't look the least bit surprised when he opens up the door, leaning against the frame of it.
"Would you look at what the mangy Rift dragged in."
There's a slight pause.
"What do you want?"
Jeremy looks up at him. "She needs a place to stay, Damon."
"No, no. Absolutely not," Damon says, pressing his elbow into the doorway and moving to shut the door. "I'm not my brother. I don't do the rehabilitating baby vampires thing ( ... )
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The baby vampire comment makes Vicki ready to jump in - he was the idiot that turned her, wasn't he? But how much of a hypocrite would she be if she blamed him for not taking responsibility for his actions?
You got over it once. she doesn't like that. She doesn't like the comment or how much it seems to get to Jeremy. Being pulled closer to him she grabs onto his hand, letting her own jaw clench.
Damon could take her out in the blink of an eye and she still has some things she wants to ask him. So there's no sense in jumping in.
But Jeremy's a big boy and she's surprised at how well he handles it. Compared to how she would in his shoes, at least.
And this is what the altercation comes to? Vicki smirks, just a little, pulling at Jeremy's arm to get around Damon. "Elena, huh?" It's a whisper, but she knows it's audible to him.
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He will take the blame easily. That's not a problem for him. Damon just feels no guilt about it. He will happily and rightfully admit that he is the one that turned her into a baby vampire in the first place, but he feels no responsibility for it or for her.
Damon has things to do as it is so he'll let them talk in the guest room while he goes and does things. Josef's taken some time off so he's filling in with a lot of the work. "You know where the guest room is." He gestures down the hallway.
Jeremy glances back at Vicki, smiling a little and nodding. "Yeah. Not that his caring about anyone really means anything, because he still does what he wants."
He grabs a blood pack from Damon's refrigerator and pulls her into the extra room while Damon goes to do God's know what. "Here."
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He isn't like Stefan, so the way she sees it there's no real boundaries.
"You never know. Everyone seems to like your sister." It's a mumble with slight resentment. Of course everyone liked Elena - and that everybody included Matt. She remembers the words they spoke before she ended up here and wonders how fresh they are to the other girl, too.
And without any questioning, Vicki allows him to pull her to the room she assumes is the guest room. The cold blood has her attention, and as much as she'd like to focus on other things, she snatches it from his hands like a greedy child.
"...are we together here?" She asks a little blatantly as she sips the blood.
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He turned her because he was bored. He killed her because she was a risk. End of story. And he is gone, upstairs, working on club things at this point so he doesn't care that much about what they do downstairs as long as they're quiet.
Jeremy glances at her, hearing the resentment in her voice. "...are you jealous or something?" Why would she want Damon to like her? It's not like even the people he likes have a walk in the park when it comes to him.
Not that she knows that, but Damon has done plenty to Elena that he never should have... including killing him because she'd hurt his feelings. He looks at the wall as she drinks the blood ( ... )
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She sits on the bed, her face changing a little before going back to normal. It was enough to hold her over - for now, at least. Curiously, she cocks her head at him.
"I thought we were. You were the only guy I was seeing...we both know Tyler wasn't worth much." She crosses her legs and plays with the bag before tossing it aside. She pats the spot beside her.
"I told you, Jer, I was on my way to see you. It was only a few days."
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He really doesn't want to have to explain it considering everything she's been through recently and then the fact that she's here now.
In another universe. Unaware of most of what's happened since-- since she never would have lived it if she'd stayed in Mystic Falls anyway. Damon dealt with that, and he winces, looking down at his shoes.
"You did see me again. You shouldn't have," he says quietly, and he knows that when she went to see him that's when she died. "You were gone for months and months and months. I didn't remember what happened, because Damon forced me to forget it. I just thought you'd disappeared."
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Maybe it was something he didn't want after all. But she takes in what he says the best she can.
"What'd he force you to forget?" Because the question has been eating at her for some time. She looks up, no longer with a smirk or a smile, just serious. It was bothering him, too. And part of her felt like she wasn't ready to hear it but she knows she has to.
Out of anticipation she chews at her lip running all the possibilities through her mind. Again her questions are building up.
But what else is worth asking?
"Did you find someone else?"
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Tyler became a werewolf, and he got wrapped up ine verything as well.
He swallows back something painful at the question, and he doesn't want to look at her, but he has to. He's not the same kid that would sell drugs to people for attention, to fill the void inside of him, that lonely feeling that only went away temporarily.
For short spurts of time.
The second question doesn't bother him as much as the first, and he hardly thinks the second one will matter when she gets the answer to the first question.
"You died, Vick," Jeremy says quietly, lifting his gaze up to look at her finally, closing the door though that wouldn't stop her if she just ran right out of the room, out of the apartment right now. "I don't mean become a vampire because I know that's already happened. I mean as a vampire... you die. You don't... come back."
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It's something she doesn't really want to explain.
All she knew was at the end of the day, Jeremy was the one who was there for her. He was the one that took care of her and looked out for her and she pushed it all away for so long. Maybe it's biting her in the ass now.
As much as she'd like to think about a way to prove this to him, her thoughts are put on hold to that statement. Her muscles visibly tense and she let's her feet slip to the floor, crossing her arms and squeezing them.
She died. He forgot.
Why does it surprise her so much? As much as she doesn't want to care it hurts. Even if Damon made him do it, he just forgot about her. And that means he probably moved on, too. Which he should have - he's entitled to that much; finding someone worth wasting his ( ... )
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So she runs at him. Stopping directly in front of him. Hoping to emphasize her point - that she doesn't want to be here right now.
She doesn't want to deal with the hurt and pain this topic is bring. She was never confrontational when it came to her emotions, didn't he know that?
"You should. You forgot, you had nothing to worry about, right?" Her eyes change in her anger; they go black and the veins below them become visible. It's a form she's hardly familiar with, but she doesn't make much of an effort to change it back.
Why should she?
"You don't know anything I'm going through. You can't imagine and you can't know and you can't feel it. I didn't want any of this - I wanted to be normal." Or almost normal, as normal as she could get, but she doesn't point that out. "I'm thinking I want to get out of here ( ... )
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