Elena's the strongest person that he's ever met. She's beautiful, brave. She cares and loves intensely. She's stubborn and angry and grieving- She shouldn't have to go through anything else. Hell, none of them should. What the hell is their lives that it's an endless parade of tragedy?
His jaw locks near the back. He shakes his head, but it doesn't- it doesn't escape him. She thinks Elena needs him. She's encouraging him.
"After what she saw in there, I'm the last person she'd want to see." He still hates she saw that- that particular view point. It was the worst thing to happen to him, thinking he'd killed her, but the whole- the whole of it was the worst from the moment he couldn't wake her (from saying goodbye to her on the street, from being terrified his mother would kill her in her own coffin). "I'm here for her, Caroline. I lived it. If she wants to see me again, I'll be waiting like I'm waiting back home, trying to do right by her, trying to stay alive, trying to make sure no one else dies too soon and no one gets their hands on Elena's coffin and fighting the latest big bad of the week with the whole Scooby gang."
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Elena's the strongest person that he's ever met. She's beautiful, brave. She cares and loves intensely. She's stubborn and angry and grieving- She shouldn't have to go through anything else. Hell, none of them should. What the hell is their lives that it's an endless parade of tragedy?
His jaw locks near the back. He shakes his head, but it doesn't- it doesn't escape him. She thinks Elena needs him. She's encouraging him.
"After what she saw in there, I'm the last person she'd want to see." He still hates she saw that- that particular view point. It was the worst thing to happen to him, thinking he'd killed her, but the whole- the whole of it was the worst from the moment he couldn't wake her (from saying goodbye to her on the street, from being terrified his mother would kill her in her own coffin). "I'm here for her, Caroline. I lived it. If she wants to see me again, I'll be waiting like I'm waiting back home, trying to do right by her, trying to stay alive, trying to make sure no one else dies too soon and no one gets their hands on Elena's coffin and fighting the latest big bad of the week with the whole Scooby gang."
It's exhausting.