open ♔ valentine's day

[romanticidal]

♬ Careless Whisper - George Michael

WHO || Anyone and their special someone [Closed]
WHAT || Various Valentine's Day activities
WHERE ||Anywhere
WHEN || Feb 14th, 2016
HOW || Actionspam or Prose

[ It's Valentine's Day! ( aka Singles Awareness Day )  Assume that all missions that are posted already are going out after this. ♥ ]

Comments

[highlyemotional]

Why? [ she heard the monster thing and she got that on some degree, but it's elena. elena is universally well liked. as such, caroline looks wholly bewildered. ]

[doubletake]

[Elena is most definitely not universally well liked around here.]

Because his brother was brought to London to hunt down myself and a friend of mine awhile back. It's the reason his girlfriend and I aren't friends anymore. I can't imagine either of them have said great things about me to his brother.

[highlyemotional]

[ blink. caroline absorbs that slowly before stepping in and dropping her voice. ]

What the hell is this place?

[doubletake]

Relax, Caroline. I brought it on myself. That friend of mine was Wynn's prisoner. I broke him out. Needless to say, Dean Winchester isn't the only person around here who isn't fond of me.

I know you were concerned that I wouldn't want to be friends with you, but in the end it's probably going to be you that doesn't want anything to do with me.

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline shakes her head, but it's slow and thoughtful and when she answers, it's with carefully selected words. ]

I don't know you, this you, but I know you. You want to protect people even if it means that you get hurt in the process and even though you hate when people try to protect you, you're addicted to coffee, and you've kept a journal since... probably since we learned how to write in cursive. You've been my friend for my entire life but I've only been your friend for... maybe twenty minutes, so what you don't know about me is that I'll never give up on you. I might be jealous of you pretty much all the time and I might not agree with everything you do, but there is nothing in the world, in any world, that would make me love you less.

[ it's soft and hesitant because elena did say that she didn't want to know anything about her past, their past, and she's trying to respect that but she's also determinedly trying to impress upon elena the fact that she's pretty much ride or die. and since she's already dead? the only option that remains is ride. ]

[doubletake]

[That seems to finally put her at a pause, her eyes conflicted and pained as her eyes trace over Caroline's features, as if trying to find some further recognition, to try and pull at the memories that were stolen from her.

It doesn't help, but she suddenly really accepts for the first time that by coming through the Veil, she's lost something important. There's still nothing she can do to get it back, but maybe...

...she presses her lips together, nodding slightly.]

Well, we have plenty of time to test that theory.

[Though she says it with a sort of wry grin, as if she's teasing her.]

[highlyemotional]

[ time is all caroline wants, time to grow their friendship again like a little love fern, and luckily (or unluckily) she's certainly got time to spare. she assuming that's what elena means so she doesn't think twice about it as a smile lights up her whole face with relief. her sharp exhale is with the same relief, shoulders sagging from the tension melting away. ]

Yeah. Time's definitely on our side. [ a beat. ] Not, however, on this boy I need you to spy on for me to see if he's down for some Southern charm, if you know what I mean.

[ so th segue was... a leap. but whatever! ] I just want to know if he's worth my effort.

[doubletake]

[Elena drags a hand though her hair, sighing at that.]

Look, I know he's a good guy, into women, and probably single. As I said, I'm not around a lot anymore. [A beat.] Just...based on encounters I've had with his brother? I would expect some baggage.

[She's not spying on Sam Winchester for you, Caroline. It isn't happening. Because that would mean being near Dean, too, and she doesn't do that. (also selfcest weirdness? lmao)]

The rest is on you. You seem like you can handle it, though.

[highlyemotional]

Well, I'm dead, so baggage? I can deal with. [ but she accepts elena's insistence that she do it herself. she does stand by the idea that if you want something done well you should do it yourself, she just needed the reminder that she's caroline gd forbes.

and maybe the knowledge that elena doesn't want him because that second best feeling still exists even in an entirely different world. ]

[doubletake]

Technically, you're undead. There's a difference.

[She seems to be mostly teasing, though.

And no, she most certainly does not want Sam Winchester. You are safe in that respect, gurl.]

[highlyemotional]

And I'm the neurotic one, I see how it is.

[ for a second it looks like she wants to say something, but at the last moment changes her mind and gives elena one of her patented "everything is fine" smiles. ]

I was actually going to get something to eat, so I guess I'll see you around?

[ she doesn't look wholly invested in her own words, but she is trying to keep this light and make sure elena has her space and that she's not smothering her friend who isn't quite her friend yet. it's an invitation to join caroline, but not clear enough that elena would have to actually turn it down.

the ball is in her court, so to speak, as much as caroline hates giving up control. ]

[doubletake]

[Sense motive 35 has her seeing right through that nonsense, and she has nothing else to do right now except wait until she ships out tomorrow, so her teeth tug on her bottom lip briefly before she says:]

Actually, I was going to grab some coffee. Mind if I come with you?

[highlyemotional]

[ she smiles in relief. ]

Yeah. I mean, no, I don't mind. Yeah that'd be nice.

[doubletake]

[She tilts her head down the hall before she starts walking.]

Come on, then.

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline isn't going to just stand there, so she follows after elena quickly. ]

I meant, like, eat eat. [ in case elena is going to be weirded out by that, she feels the need to clarify. while odd considering, caroline wouldn't put it past her in this world where everything is topsy turvy. ]

[doubletake]

[She looks over at her like oh you sweet summer child.]

I had to get used to Spike throwing croutons in his mug and calling it tomato soup a very long time ago. You won't bother me.

[Speaking of:]

Have you met him, by chance?

[highlyemotional]

Yeah, he's the one that told me you ran away because you were pregnant.

[ yup. ]

[doubletake]

[...]

Excuse me?

[highlyemotional]

Yeah, he said you were on "sabbatical" with your aunt in the Midwest. But obviously it's not true because no one can loose pregnancy weight that fast and your boobs would be huge.

[doubletake]

I don't have an aunt anywhere, let alone in the Midwest. He was clearly just messing with you.

[Or something.]

I was training.

[highlyemotional]

You know there's a gym upstairs, right?

[doubletake]

Not that kind of training.

[She looks over at Caroline, and in the span of a few moments, Elena goes from looking like her to well...it's like looking into a mirror, really (disguise 58).]

This kind of training.

[Even her voice is a perfect match, and Elena uses the inflection that she believes Caroline might, based on their conversation thus far (bluff 54). Needless to say, it's a very impressive likeness on both counts.]

[highlyemotional]

[ caroline yelps with surprise, eyes widening (will 24), before she points at elena and scolds her in an accusatory tone, ]

Seriously?! You're so lucky I have more self-control than god! [ like, for reals, she's a tiny vampire. she tries not to murder people, but that doesn't mean she can't snap a neck without breaking a sweat or flinching. ]

[doubletake]

[Elena almost instantly shifts back once she gets that reaction, the expression on her face just...deadeyes.]

I wouldn't have let you hurt me.

[highlyemotional]

You could have warned me. And taken care of my split ends. God, are they really that bad? [ this is what she's choosing to be upset about. ]