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AtS 2x06 - Guise Will Be Guise
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"Look at those bubbles," my husband says. "They're like stars. Flying through the galaxy. Of his heart."
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something super romantic and beautiful you say? 🥹 CHENFORD I LOVE YOUS HERE WE COME
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rutina is just so pretty bro like. wow
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me when I lie <3
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courier x shotgun otp
[Wes belongs to @hotwifeluigi]
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True Blood (2008-2014) by Alan Ball
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zalrb · 7 months
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The First Meetings {SE Fic}
This was fun, though I'm mad I couldn't use all the gifs I wanted.
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Elena stood on Wickery Bridge and peered down to the river below. As she examined the water, she saw it all: her parents’ car skidding off the road, plummeting into the depths. The water filling the car. Her father pounding the window. Her mother unconscious. The panic. The fear. The acceptance. The darkness. And then she woke up in the hospital. Her parents were recovering in different rooms on the same floor.  It’d been a close call. Too close. 
            She didn’t tell anyone about it, not her parents or her brother, not her aunt Jenna, not Caroline, not even Bonnie, but every day since that night, she’d come to the bridge. She’d spent a lot of summer mornings just standing here, sometimes sitting against the railing, writing in her diary, before meeting up with whoever or doing whatever. Like a ritual. She couldn’t really articulate why she did it. She couldn’t really articulate how she felt since that night either. Everyone expected that she was fine because she was fine, her parents were fine, everything was fine.
Maybe a week, a month of being jittery -- that was to be anticipated -- but now, it was time to go back to the way things were, the way she was. The only difference she’d really seen with her parents was that her dad had started spending more time with Jeremy, as if trying to make up for the possibility of lost time. But she and her mom were back to their routine. So she was back to hers.
Suddenly -- a caw. The noise disrupted her thoughts. A crow flew by and perched beside her. Elena startled. A crow on the bridge where she nearly died, how fitting. It didn’t leave. It hopped closer to her.    
“Go away.” 
It started to flap around her. What was its problem? “Shoo!” Stubborn damn bird. She turned to bat it away only to find the crow gone and a dark-haired man standing behind her. Her hand flew to her chest.
“Oops,” he said, his blue eyes glinting. “Didn’t mean to scare you.” 
Elena didn’t answer right away. “I just didn’t know anyone else was here.” 
He was grinning at her. Elena didn’t know how she felt about it. It was playful but there was something else there to it, something that made her a bit uneasy, like she should be ready to run at a moment’s notice. She blinked at him. Wait a minute… 
“I know you,” she said, taking in the leather jacket, the blue eyes, the smile that in a second could turn to a leer.  
They’d met months before. Four months before to be exact. On the night of the crash. Before everything changed. He’d come out of nowhere, just like he did now, and he thought she was someone else, someone called … what was that name, it’d been a ‘k’ name or a ‘c’ name…
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            “I do have a pretty unforgettable face,” he said now. 
            Elena nodded. “D..Da…Damien, right?”
            He paused, something sharp and painful flitted over his face and then it was gone. “Damon,” he corrected. 
            Right. That was right.
“You should be careful out here, all alone.” He gestured around the empty bridge. 
            Not to be rude or anything, Damon, but it’s kind of creepy that you’re out here in the middle of nowhere. 
            You’re one to talk. 
Pieces of the conversation they’d had in May were coming back to her as he said, “Been catching up on the local news.” 
Elena swallowed hard. “Yeah, it’s weird, you know, because all my life, there’s never been a single animal attack and now suddenly it’s like bears and wolves and coyotes.” 
“Oh my!” 
Elena stared at him. 
“Wizard of Oz.” 
“Funny,” she said.
Why did she feel so tense? Why did it feel like he’d cornered her somehow?
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When she’d met him that night, she’d felt … well, it’d been weird,  but it’d been somewhat intriguing. He’d been somewhat intriguing.  You want what everybody wants… 
“Animal control’s been out so it’ll all die down soon,” she said.       
“Unless it isn’t animals.” 
Elena narrowed her eyes, trying to sus him out. “Why? You know something everyone else doesn’t?”
            “Oh, I know a lot more than ‘something’.” 
She shivered. It didn’t feel … her heart rate was steadily picking up. Why was something so simple so nerve-wracking? So stressful? She should walk away but she didn’t feel released from the conversation. He seemed to sense her trepidation because he took a step back and loosened his demeanour, like he was trying to appear non-threatening. He’d done that the last time they’d met too.
            “So what are you doing here? Isn’t school starting?” 
            Elena bit the inside of her lip. “It’s a bit of a long story.”
            “I ain’t getting any younger.” 
            Elena paused. She didn’t know if she wanted to tell him or not, but she somehow felt like she had to. 
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“A few months ago, the night I saw you actually, my parents’ car skidded off this bridge. We almost died, it’s a miracle we didn’t.” 
“You come back to the spot where you almost died?” He raised his eyebrows. “Seems a little morbid.” 
Elena pressed her lips together. “Yeah, I can see how it seems that way.”
“What does the boyfriend think about this? You know, the one you got into a fight with?” 
Good memory.
“Matt?” Elena thought about him showing up to the hospital, taking her hand in his. Then showing up to her house, anxious to make sure she was doing OK. Then his back as he left when she told him… “We broke up.”
            “Figures,” said Damon with a shrug. “Seems too much like a country bumpkin for a gal like you.”
Something in Elena switched and her tone grew firm. “I was in a weird headspace when I talked to you that night but I would never talk down about Matt. OK? You don’t know him so you shouldn’t either.” 
He shrugged. “I just call ‘em like I see ‘em.” 
“But you haven’t seen anything.”
He squinted his eyes at her and Elena didn’t really know what that meant. She couldn’t be sure that he wouldn’t hurt her but  she couldn’t be sure that he would.
“You’re right, you know, I should get to school. Don’t want to be late my first day.” 
“Want a lift? I got a sick ride.” 
“Thanks,” said Elena slowly, picking up her school bag. “But I’m kind of taking a break from cars…” 
“Suit yourself.”
His eyes twinkled and Elena smiled somewhat awkwardly before taking off down the bridge, and when she was sure she had enough distance between them, she slowed down and exhaled, before picking up speed again at hearing another caw.  
*
She’d made it to school quicker than she thought she would. People were still outside, finishing homework or gossiping or playing hacky sack like they were in some weird retro movie. Elena stopped walking, taking a moment to properly breathe and unclench from her talk with Damien or Damon or whatever on the bridge, and glanced around for Bonnie or Caroline. 
“Look out!”
Everyone looked around, and then up. By the time Elena followed suit, it was too late. A football. Spiraling in the sky. It was soaring toward her and in a second it was going to connect. With her face. Elena already knew it was going to be bloody. Bloody and embarrassing and painful. 
Someone was calling her name. “Elena!” Maybe Matt? “Elena, watch---”
Out of nowhere, someone came in front of her, catching the football before it could hit her.
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He wasn’t even looking at it. His head was turned toward her, his eyes peering into hers for any hint of impact or injury. She could get lost in those eyes -- that brilliant green. She was lost. Elena’s lips parted.
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“You saved me,” she said, with a gasp of disbelief. 
“You all right?” The boy’s tone was soft but his expression was focused, intent on her, and almost smouldering with concern. She could do nothing but blink. It took her a moment to realize that she was actually holding her breath again. It took her another to realize that it wasn’t because she’d almost been pummeled by a football. 
“Sorry! Yes! Yeah, yeah, I’m --- thank you.” 
His gaze lingered for a second before he turned around and threw the ball back. It whipped through the air at a speed Elena didn’t think she’d seen before. She chuckled. She couldn’t be sure if it was because of the adrenaline or because she was impressed. 
“That was incredible. How did you throw it like that? How did you catch it like that?”
            He shook his head. “I saw that it was coming toward you, and I just reacted, I guess.”     
Elena felt suddenly and unexpectedly embarrassed, as if that had been the most intimate thing she’d ever heard.  She was vaguely aware that they had an audience but she saw no one else, just blurs and shapes, this boy’s chiseled face the only thing she could see clearly. 
“So, does my hero have a name?” She hoped he could sense the playful irony in her tone and her eyes widened slightly at the possibility that he couldn’t. She spoke quickly to fill in the silence. “Mine’s, um, I’m Elena.” 
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He smiled at her, his eyes glinting with … what was that? Amusement? Charm? Was he charmed? Did she charm him? Why was her heart beating so fast?
“Stefan.” 
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            She nodded and bit her lip nervously. “I’ve never seen you around before. I would’ve remembered.”
            That last part was unnecessary. Oh God.
            “Uh,” he grinned, like he didn’t know what to do with the compliment. “I’m sort of new here. My family has roots in Mystic Falls, I was born here but I moved away a while ago. I just came back.”
            “Just in time,” she said.
            He looked at her curiously. “For?”
            Me. Wait, what?
            “Uh, well, our football team is in desperate need of saving. And with reflexes like yours, we might actually have a shot at not being a complete joke this year. Tryouts should be this week.” 
            Stefan made a face, like he wasn’t certain.
            “You should do it for your moral fibre,” she continued. 
            He laughed at that.
“No, seriously,  wasn’t it, uh, Camus!” Elena said his name like she was answering a question on a game show. “Wasn’t it him who said everything he learned about morality and obligation he learned from football?”
Stefan licked his lips and Elena did her best to keep her gaze eye-level.
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He smiled. “He wasn’t talking about American football.”
“There’s non-American football?” 
“Soccer.” 
Elena cringed. “Oh. Right. I knew that.”
He shrugged it off. “Common mistake.” 
            He was kind. Elena brushed her hair from her face. The bell rang and everyone started moving toward the building.
Stefan gestured in front of him. “Shall we?” 
Elena couldn’t help but smile but tried to control how widely. “We shall.” 
They started toward one of the school’s entrances and even walking side by side, he kept his attention on her.
“So, you read Camus?”
“Yes. No. Well, I’m trying.” Elena couldn’t understand why she was rambling. Maybe she’d stop if he’d stop looking at her. 
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“I had something sort of happen to me a few months ago  and it - uh - it - it changed things for me, not everything, a lot of things. Well, maybe not a lot of things, but some things…” Why couldn’t she just shut up? “So I’m trying to do … things.” Elena, she admonished herself, stop saying ‘things’. “Kind of like a New Year’s resolution just not on New Year’s…” She pressed her lips together and closed her eyes, shaking her head slightly. If the universe had any decency, it would open up a hole in the ground that would swallow her up.
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“That didn’t make any sense did it?” 
            Stefan grinned. “I get it. You have a new perspective now and because of that, you’re trying to do things you wouldn’t have before.” 
            That was exactly right. “Wow, you make talking look so easy.” 
            “Years of practice.” 
            She laughed at that. She didn’t remember a time laughing this much, this genuinely in such a short period of time.
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They were in the hallway now and Stefan had stopped walking. Elena had the horrible feeling that he was going to head in the opposite direction of her and that it was time for them to go their separate ways. 
“Thanks again,” she said.
“Any time.”
            She moved to continue the way they’d been walking the same time he moved to walk down the opposite way.
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They did that a few times before he stood to the side and let Elena pass.
            “Thanks,” she said, hunching her shoulders, embarrassed.
            She should keep walking. It would be smoother that way. Cool. Indifferent. Unaffected. It’d be what Caroline would tell her to do. She was almost around the corner. No, she couldn’t help it. She felt drawn back. A pull. She had to see him one last time. She turned her head and felt a jolt when she saw that he’d been watching her the entire time. 
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*
The rest of the morning went by in a bit of a haze. Truthfully, like most of her days since the accident. And then everything suddenly brightened to a sharp clarity just before lunch. History class. Her eyes went right to him when she walked into the room and she felt locked in even though Stefan didn’t seem to notice her. Before he could catch her staring, before Matt -- who she’d realized a second too late was also in this class -- could feel any worse, she sat down.  
Mr. Tanner had been droning on for fifteen minutes but Elena wasn’t paying attention. She couldn’t even if she wanted to --- her thoughts wouldn’t let her neither would her body. Everything in her seemed to respond to Stefan’s mere presence being in the same vicinity. As if she were being called to. Which was crazy, she thought, because she didn’t even know him. 
            Casually. Very casually. She turned her head to glance at Stefan. A second later, his gaze met hers and embarrassed excitement bloomed in her chest, making her turn away immediately, a smile lingering on her face.  
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“Am I boring you, Miss Gilbert?” 
Mr. Tanner saying her name made her flinch.
She wasn’t expecting it and so answered without thinking. “Kind of.” She was snapped back into reality when she heard the rest of the class titter with excitement. “Sorry, no, I didn’t mean---”
“No, no, you spoke your mind, don’t be a coward, own it. Let’s do something to correct your disinterest in my class.”
“Mr. Tanner, really…”
“Pop quiz,” he said, leaning against his desk. “The Battle of Willow Creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls. How many casualties resulted in this battle?”
            Elena had no idea. It had to be a lot, right? It was a battle. “A couple hundred at least.” 
            “Are you guessing?”
            “Well, I’m trying,” she said helplessly. 
            The class laughed.
“It would impress me more if you just owned up to not knowing.”
“OK then, I don’t know.” 
Mr. Tanner sighed. “I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break.”
“There were three hundred and forty-six casualties,” said a deceptively light voice. “Unless you're counting local civilians.”
            Elena looked behind her. Stefan was looking at Mr. Tanner with a pleasant expression on his face.
“Thank you, Miss Gilbert.”
Stefan smiled. Entirely un-intimidated.
“Your name?” 
“Stefan. Stefan Salvatore.” 
“Salvatore. One of the Founding Families.” 
“Distant relative.”
Elena saw Matt mutter beneath his breath. It looked like it could’ve been ‘of course.’ 
Mr. Tanner nodded, as if deciding on how he would play the rest of the scenario. “In any case, you’re correct. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle.”
“Actually, there were twenty-seven, sir.”
Mr. Tanner raised his eyebrows. “Twenty-seven?” 
“Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing it to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss.”
Elena felt suddenly moved by that. Something in Stefan’s tone, in his expression told her that he was no stranger to loss. It was almost like he could feel the pain of that day as if he'd lived it.
“The founder's archives are, uh, stored in civil hall if you'd like to brush up on your facts, Mr. Tanner.”
Elena’s mouth fell open in gleeful shock and admiration.  
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Mr. Tanner’s eyes flashed. “Cute,” he said. “You know I let it slide before when you swooped in to save Elena, no doubt to impress her, even though I didn’t call on you to speak but I won’t tolerate rudeness. Pack up, go to the office.”
“Well, don’t get upset at him because he knows more about your subject than you,” said Elena. 
The class tittered again and Stefan shot Elena an amused expression. She pressed her lips together to keep from smiling.
Mr. Tanner let out a nasty laugh. “Well, isn’t this sweet, the lovebirds defending each other. You can join him in the office, Elena. Come on, let’s go.” 
Outside in the hall,  Stefan was already walking in the direction of the office and Elena reacted. 
“Hey,” she called out. 
He turned around. She didn’t really have a plan. She just didn’t want to go to the office and she didn’t want him to go either. She wanted time. She realized right then and there, she would probably always want more time with him. 
Elena walked over to a door and pushed it open. She tilted her head -- you coming? He grinned. 
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They decided to walk around the track, spending a few moments just ambling next to each other  as the sun beamed down.
It was weirdly comfortable. Elena didn’t feel the need to talk to fill the silence. It was also strange how calm she felt. Earlier, being around him made her nervous, light-headed, and now she just felt ... anchored.
She’d never experienced that before.
“Bit bold of you, you know,” she said finally. “New school, new - well - old town, but first day and you’re already making trouble?”
“Well, I live on the edge.” 
Elena giggled. “I can see that.”         
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“What about you? Mouthing off to a teacher on the first day? Very edgy,” he said, deadpanned. 
She snorted. “Well, I nearly died. What’s your excuse?” 
He turned to her then and Elena mentally kicked herself. 
“That the thing that got you on your not New Year’s resolution?” he asked. “What Tanner was talking about?” 
            Elena brushed it off. “I shouldn’t have brought it up.” 
            “Why not?”
            “Because it’s…” 
            She glanced sideways at him to see if he would just change the conversation to something else he wanted to talk about but his expression was interested. Open. 
“My parents and I got into a crash last May. Over on Wickery Bridge.” She shrugged. “That’s it, that’s the story.”
“Mm,” he said. “Maybe that’s what happened but it’s not the story.” 
How did he know that? 
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“You don’t like talking about it.” The way he said it, Elena knew he wouldn’t press the subject if she didn’t feel like continuing.  
“I just don’t really feel like I can say anything about it,” she found herself saying. “I lived, you know, I survived. My parents survived. I shouldn’t…”
“Have feelings about it?”
Elena had never really thought of it like that before.  “Everyone’s just so ready for it to be in the past, you know?”  
“A car crash isn’t a little thing. Nearly dying is the most transformative thing you can experience. It’s OK if you’re not OK about it right now. There’s a lot to process.” 
“You know, I go to the bridge everyday? The spot we skidded off and into the river. Morbid, right?”
“I don’t know,” he said. “Seems like you’re trying to keep a promise to yourself. Going to the bridge helps remind you of that.” 
“Yeah.” The word barely came out as a whisper.
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How did he know that? Know her? Elena felt … recognized. And bare. Yet … safe. This. Was. Crazy.
“A promise…” She repeated. “And that’s the other thing too, it’s like it’s made me restless. Like, I got a second chance, a miracle, who gets that in their lifetime, you know? And I don’t want to waste it. But everything seems dumb and superficial now. I just want to live, you know, live with … with, uh--” 
“Passion?”
            She nodded. “Right.”
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“In my experience, it’s the dumb stuff, the small stuff, that’s what makes up living. By all means, if you want to climb Everest, climb Everest, you know, but going to a concert or a pickup game or …
            “Family night,” said Elena.
            “Who says you can’t do those things passionately?” 
            Elena didn’t remember when they stopped walking but they were standing now
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and the feeling … that feeling … of being recognized had deepened into something more acute, more intense and she felt the urge, the need to be that person, that space for him. Right then and there, she wanted to pour into him, and wanted him to ---
A crow cawed. 
Breaking the reverie. 
Elena turned sharply toward it. She couldn’t be sure but it seemed like the same one from the bridge. As soon as the thought entered her mind, Damon’s face flashed before her eyes, and she took a deep breath in. Stefan touched her arm. She wanted him to keep her hand there forever.
“You OK? Where’d you go?”
“Nowhere,” she said. “I’m here. I…” She took another breath and looked around for the crow. It was gone. “The crow … it reminds me of someone. Someone I saw earlier, before school.” 
“Someone you know?” 
“No. Not exactly. I’d met him once before.” She closed her eyes, searching for the words to describe what was happening to her. “I don’t know, since then there’s just been this feeling in the pit of my stomach. It went away for a bit, when…” When she was talking to him. When she was relaxed. “But it just came back. It’s like something I can’t seem to shake.”
“Sounds like he made an impression.” 
She looked at him. “There are better impressions, believe me.” 
            Stefan’s eyes searched hers and it happened again. Immediately. He was drawing her into him and she was falling and falling...
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“Hey, your face. Is there something---”
            “Sorry.”  Stefan shielded his eyes from her. “Sorry, I … sorry, I’ve gotta go.”
            “Uh…”
            Elena watched Stefan walk away, his stride swift, and felt a sharp stab of disappointment that they were no longer talking, no longer in the same place together,
            A few seconds later, the bell signalling lunch rang. 
*
The moment Elena opened her locker, it was slammed shut and her best friend, Bonnie Bennett, was standing beside her. Elena let out a sigh of relief. “Bonnie! Why did you--?”
“You and the new hottie. The whole school’s talking. Dish.” 
“There’s nothing to tell,” said Elena casually. Too casually.
Bonnie looked at her. “That always means there’s something to tell. And I can tell because---”
“Because you’re a psychic now?” 
“Because I was sitting by the window in calc. and I saw the two of you walking around the track. And you two were vibing. Don’t deny it.” 
“Oh, please.” 
“Aimee Bradley said that he defended your honour in Mr. Tanner’s class. She said he cussed Tanner out and stormed out of class..”
Elena made a noise of disbelief. “Since when did you listen to Aimee Bradley?”
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Bonnie shrugged. “She’s not the only one saying it.”
“That literally did not happen! He just---”
Elena was interrupted. 
“Well, your nose doesn’t look broken,” she said, nudging her way between Elena and Bonnie. 
“Hi, Caroline.” 
Elena exchanged a quick look with Bonnie who tried to stifle a laugh. 
“And what do you mean my nose doesn’t look broken?” 
“Oh, everyone’s talking about how Matt threw a football at your face to get back at you for dumping him and the new guy beat the shit out of him on the green.”
“What!” Elena looked at Caroline incredulously. “Oh my God, guys! Nothing you’re saying happened! Someone --- not Matt, he tried to warn me -- threw a football, it almost hit me and---”
“And the new guy saved you from massive embarrassment on the first day?” said Caroline. “It’s just so typical. There is a finite amount of hot guys at this school and when we finally get new blood, you get there first. You’ve already dated the captain of the football team, you had this encounter with some mystery man---”
Elena unconsciously tensed at the memory and Bonnie looked at Caroline pointedly, who closed her eyes.
“Sorry, I’m a bitch,” she said. “I shouldn’t have brought up that night.” 
Elena sighed, half-exasperated but already on her way to forgetting the insensitivity. “I never said that guy was hot by the way.”
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“Oh, please, mystery men are always hot. It’s like a rule,” said Caroline, apparently over her brief bout of contrition. 
Elena addressed Bonnie. “You know I actually saw him again today before coming to school?” 
Bonnie shook her head. “Really?”
“Yeah, the vibes were … weird.”
Bonnie squinted. “Weird, like, dangerous, weird?” 
Elena opened her mouth but didn’t say anything . “It was definitely intense. But not like…” Not like what she’d felt when she spoke to Stefan. “I don’t know, it kind of made me queasy?” 
“Butterflies,” said Caroline, throwing up her hands. “So, the sexy, dangerous mystery man gives you butterflies--”
“I never said--”
            “And now you’ve got the other mystery guy who actually goes here saving you on the green like some freaking knight?”
Elena rolled her eyes. “Don’t be so dramatic. He caught a football.” 
But even when she tried to minimize what had happened verbally, physically she felt her heart thud and a jittery, giddy flutter in her stomach that made her want to laugh to get the feeling out.
“And stood up to Tanner on your behalf,” said Bonnie. 
Caroline shook her head like she was severely disappointed in Elena.  “You’re being so greedy.”
Bonnie snorted and rested her head on Caroline’s shoulder. 
Elena opened her locker again.  “Look, I’m not even thinking about Stefan.” 
            “So the new guy’s name is Stefan.” 
“I could be talking about the mystery man on the bridge.” 
“You’re not, I can tell by that big, dumb smile you’re trying to hide,” said Bonnie. 
Elena popped her head out from behind her locker door and gave Bonnie a playful grimace.  
“Anyway. I’m actually thinking about Jeremy. I haven’t seen him anywhere. Have you two?” 
Caroline rooted around in her bag for some lip gloss. “Elena, if I ever start caring about the comings-and-goings of sophomores, shoot me.” 
“That’s Caroline-speak for ‘no’,” said Bonnie. “And I haven’t either.”
“I’m kind of worried. He never skips school.” Elena pulled a contemplative face. “Bonnie, do you mind if we, like, quickly go over to my house to see if he’s there? I’m sure there’s something in the fridge we can eat so we won’t miss lunch.” 
Caroline made an expression as if Elena had said the dumbest thing she ever heard. “In all of the times we’ve skipped school, when have we ever stayed home? He’s probably at the stoner’ pit or something.” 
Bonnie snorted. “Yeah, Jeremy, a burnout. Please.” 
“No, he could be at home. I don’t know, all summer he’s either been on his Xbox or pining after Vicki Donovan. Maybe he’s pretending to be sick and he’s still in his room.” 
“If he’s been pining after Vicki Donovan then he’s definitely at the stoner pit probably trying to impress her..” 
“Caroline!” Bonnie gave her an admonishing hit on the arm. 
“What! You know I’m not wrong.” 
“Don’t be mean just because you’ve had a thing for Tyler since fifth grade.” 
“Shut up.” 
            Bonnie laughed. “Elena, I’ll give you a lift.” 
*
“Since when was your family pack rats?” said Bonnie. 
            They’d made it to Elena’s house and walked into the foyer. The closet beneath the stairs was open and there were a bunch of boxes around the door, crammed with what looked to be junk. Papers. Dusty journals. 
            “I don’t know, this wasn’t here when I left this morning,” said Elena. 
            “You think Jeremy took it out?”
            “Yeah, but why?”
            Bonnie shrugged.
            “Jeremy?” Elena called. 
            When there was no answer, she walked into the living room and didn’t see him there or in the kitchen. 
            “Some leftover spaghetti in the fridge,” said Elena to Bonnie. “I’m just going to check upstairs and then I’ll be right down.” 
            Bonnie nodded. “OK cool. I love pasta night at your house.” 
            “It’s the oregano,” said Elena, grinning. 
            She headed up the stairs. She could definitely here talking. Low talking. But it wasn’t coming from Jeremy’s room. She turned around.  It was coming from her parents’. It was the middle of the day. Neither one of them should be home. Elena felt like suddenly she shouldn’t be up there. Something was wrong or secret or … She walked slowly down the hall toward the room. The door was nearly closed, but not quite. She peaked through the crack. Jeremy on a chair. So, he did stay home. And then … Dad. He let him stay home? And then … was that … was he holding … a stake?    
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🩷🥰🧓🏻The Old Man🧓🏻🥰🩷
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Cape Fear (1991)
"Let's get something straight here. I spent fourteen years in an eight by nine cell, surrounded by people who were less than human. My mission in that time was to become more than human. You see? Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church, Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking."
#cape fear#1991#american cinema#martin scorsese#wesley strick#john d. macdonald#robert de niro#nick nolte#jessica lange#juliette lewis#joe don baker#robert mitchum#gregory peck#martin balsam#illeana douglas#fred thompson#zully montero#james r. webb#elmer bernstein#freddie francis#Scorsese fully channelling de Palma for this queasy Southern gothic remake of a beloved bit of Americana kino. this was actually meant to#be a Spielberg project (yeesh can you imagine?) but Marty traded him Schindler's List which worked out better for everyone. initial#reaction to seeing Marty's right hand arm de Niro as the antagonist was‚ admittedly‚ to snigger but give the man his dues he fully embodies#this grotesque‚ repellent boogeyman. crucially tho he has the seed of a genuine grievance against Nolte's (also fairly unlikeable) lawyer#lead and i think that's what really propels this script. the film is stacked with great performances‚ with a young J Lewis really#standing out in a layered and thoughtful performance. the cameos by prev Cape Fear stars are perhaps a tiny bit gratuitous (and it's kind#of sad that Peck's final role was little more than a brief meta injoke) but i get why and it doesn't detract too much from the film‚#particularly once it lurches full throttle into a biblical tinged flood and fire apocalypse for the (very well executed) final act#ott stuff and boundary pushing not just in its freakier moments but in its commitment to underscoring tension with moments of near pure#comedy‚ but i had a great time with this. oh and what a score! i mean i think it's just a re arrangement of the og score but still it slaps
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bullseyelover · 1 year
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i am dex
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Lucian & Celeste || Wes & Celeste || Sel & Sidra Endymion & Sparrow (W/hand & w/o. Couldn't decide which I liked more, so I just included them both lol) || Daryl & Hanna (TWD)
Tagged by the wonderful and lovely @inafieldofdaisies @carlosoliveiraa @marivenah to do this cute couple picrew, thank you!
Tagging @clicheantagonist @strafethesesinners @skoll-sun-eater @g0dspeeed @shallow-gravy
@adelaidedrubman @henbased
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theflyindutchwoman · 1 year
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5.18 | DOUBLE TROUBLE
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adastra121 · 6 months
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Leander: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. His fans: Awwww. <3 Those who Know™: O_O
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Amy Pond playlist!
I did it. I made the Amy Pond playlist. It's a contradictory mix of songs about Amy as a child, Amy as a goddess, Amy as the girl who waited, Amy as the woman who brought the doctor back from the dead, Amy as asexual, Amy as a woman who loves great enough to break the laws of the universe, Amy as a stagnant wife, Amy as someone who takes her destiny into her own hands, Amy as Orpheus and Cassandra and Sleeping Beauty and Persephone and most of all, Amelia Pond.
@ameliapondmd @saint-eleventh @twelverriver @camcorderrevival @mojavephoneboothmusic @ptsdofstupid @soft-faerie-sage @alexmey-does-an-arts
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spoopieere · 9 months
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“They both get to sleep-in today”
(Click for better quality)
(WOW TUMBLR FUCKED UP THE QUALITY SO BAD WTH)
This is literally just an excuse for me to draw their bedroom.
Headcannons below 👇
-Clean and simple- Asa doesn’t like clutter.
-There’s a walk-in closet on the right of the mirror (you just can’t see it in my drawing lmao)
-Asa wakes up first to pull the curtains, letting the sun in. ( Not on weekends though, so Arkin does it instead )
-Random books Asa keeps stacked on the drawer are for a convenient selection to read before bed.
-Asa uses melatonin gummies to fall asleep easier.
-Arkin keeps post-it notes on his side of the bed to remind him of things to do, he also convinced Asa to put a plant in the room to make it a bit more interesting.
-Arkin is also the only one who needs an alarm clock to wake up.
-Arkin protests keeping *the tooth* on display so publicly, but Asa thinks it goes hand-in-hand with the Mantis.
-Pretty sure Asa vacuums their bedroom once every two days.
-The bottom drawer of their dresser is a collection of broken bed frames… due to their . . . activities (Wesley approves)
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