But the difference is I'm always a pain in the ass.
( Damon lifts an eyebrow at her with a shake of his head. )
I'm telling you what you claimed to be so concerned about. You hated when the Ripper came along, because you had to deal with him ruining the life you were trying to protect, and then the two of you preceded to make a big, giant mess together.
( There were a lot of dead bodies. There was calling his mother back from the abyss to force feed her words to give over to Stefan. There was locking the both of them up. There was so much pain and suffering. He went decades with his emotions shut off. Maybe that's why he'd been so desperate to turn Elena's emotions back on, because he didn't want her to live with the hundreds of terrible things he did with his own off and no one to stop him. No one around at all because he'd left his only friend to burn.
And instead those desperate attempts ended up hurting Elena more. And now they're back again with Caroline in that same position, and they still don't have a good way to stop it, to change it, to make things different, but it's impossible. )
When you have your emotions off, eventually, control ceases to matter. Eventually, you feel like being strong means not being ruled by emotion, and that's not true, Caroline.
( Damon uses her name this time, meeting her gaze though he knows it won't matter now. Nothing does now. That's the appeal. Nothing has to matter. )
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( Damon lifts an eyebrow at her with a shake of his head. )
I'm telling you what you claimed to be so concerned about. You hated when the Ripper came along, because you had to deal with him ruining the life you were trying to protect, and then the two of you preceded to make a big, giant mess together.
( There were a lot of dead bodies. There was calling his mother back from the abyss to force feed her words to give over to Stefan. There was locking the both of them up. There was so much pain and suffering. He went decades with his emotions shut off. Maybe that's why he'd been so desperate to turn Elena's emotions back on, because he didn't want her to live with the hundreds of terrible things he did with his own off and no one to stop him. No one around at all because he'd left his only friend to burn.
And instead those desperate attempts ended up hurting Elena more. And now they're back again with Caroline in that same position, and they still don't have a good way to stop it, to change it, to make things different, but it's impossible. )
When you have your emotions off, eventually, control ceases to matter. Eventually, you feel like being strong means not being ruled by emotion, and that's not true, Caroline.
( Damon uses her name this time, meeting her gaze though he knows it won't matter now. Nothing does now. That's the appeal. Nothing has to matter. )