[Emotions are always complicated, she would argue. Perhaps not the feelings themselves, but what to do with them, how to deal with them, how they affect everyone around them. If how either of them felt at the root were all that mattered, this conversation wouldn't have ever needed to exist.
But life isn't like that. Life is messy, a puzzle that Caroline constantly tries to fit together, only to realize the pieces are jumbled up or sometimes completely missing.
She wonders if this is how Elena felt when she realized she had feelings for Damon that went further than just a strange attraction she couldn't quite get rid of. Caroline feels like a hypocrite in that moment, but she also now recognizes each conversation she had with her best friend about this as being twice as important as they had previously.
She doesn't need to be saved. She wants to stand on her own two feet and save herself.]
First, I'd have to let you. [Her head tilts just ever so slightly toward his touch, the slightest air of humor returning to her voice.] Besides, it was more like you let me save myself. [He hadn't hurt her captor, he'd offered them up to her so that she could do it herself. She didn't need a savior. She needed something else.] You made me stronger than I was on my own.
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But life isn't like that. Life is messy, a puzzle that Caroline constantly tries to fit together, only to realize the pieces are jumbled up or sometimes completely missing.
She wonders if this is how Elena felt when she realized she had feelings for Damon that went further than just a strange attraction she couldn't quite get rid of. Caroline feels like a hypocrite in that moment, but she also now recognizes each conversation she had with her best friend about this as being twice as important as they had previously.
She doesn't need to be saved. She wants to stand on her own two feet and save herself.]
First, I'd have to let you. [Her head tilts just ever so slightly toward his touch, the slightest air of humor returning to her voice.] Besides, it was more like you let me save myself. [He hadn't hurt her captor, he'd offered them up to her so that she could do it herself. She didn't need a savior. She needed something else.] You made me stronger than I was on my own.