+ Guilt Runs Deep

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: The Mansion
When: Feb 23-25
Rating: Please warn in top level subject lines for potential triggers/NSFW
Summary: Various residents are trapped in their own guilt, watching their guiltiest memory play on a loop.
The Story:

Welcome to the gathering post for the event. Please see the plotting post for more information + the bulletin board link. Have fun!

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[givingback]

"Of course," Bree says with a frown. "She's my mother and I was.."

She has to stop to recreate the scene and she hates it.

"I was so stupid."

[itchtokill]

"Perhaps it wasn't a good enough talk, if you're still carrying it all around so much." Or it's just something she'll never get over. Kol is intimately aware how deep some scars--both from others and self-inflicted--can run.

[givingback]

"She left. I told her to go. To find Jamie. We found out...I saw someone travel through the stone and then..."

Bree wipes at her face, clearing her throat and shaking her head. "And then we found out Jamie would have been alive, and I told her to go back in time to find him. To be ready. I was strong enough to tell her to do that, that I didn't need her anymore. It was a lie."

Closing her eyes tightly, she sniffles again and let out a soft breath.

"I think about this all the time because it's the worst thing I ever said to her."

[itchtokill]

"Your Mum forgave you, yeah? Eventually, when the heat of it all blew over and all. She's not holding it against you... maybe you shouldn't either." He has a very different view on mothers in general than most might, but apparently having one set out to murder you and all your siblings multiple times over in a millennia will do that to a guy. Who knew? Apparently not Esther Mikaelson, that's for sure.

[givingback]

"She does," Bree says with a slow exhale.

"I held onto it, I guess, because I thought I'd never see her again. I never said I was sorry before she left. She just forgave me because that's who she is."

And that's what parents do, apparently. The ones who love without conditions, anyway.

[itchtokill]

"Then tell her." It seems ridiculous and obvious when she puts it like that. "You thought you'd never see her, but she's here, and you're here, what's stopping you now? Are you scared she'll change her mind, if you bring it up or something?" Claire is clearly an understanding sort of woman, she's already forgiven her even, Bree has virtually nothing to be concerned about, as far as Kol can see it.