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[otrazhenie]

"You've reached Elena, leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

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[blooded]

Why have you been telling people that you can erase peoples' memories?

[otrazhenie]

[ Uh oh. ]

I'm embracing the role.

[blooded]

( yeah "uh oh", he's been stalking your conversations, missy, he knows what you're doing! )

Which role is that, the one where you get all the vampires in town killed because you don't know how to keep yourself from "helping"?

[otrazhenie]

[ Ugh. U g h. ]

What part of memory erasing screams "vampire" exactly? I've seen the movies, Damon. Unless people KNOW, they're not going to put the two together.

[blooded]

It's not about the single piece of information, it's about how they'll put it all together. I've been compelling natives and feeding on them, so if someone asks what happened to Johnny and he says he doesn't remember, but hey, that Damon Salvatore guy was around at the time, someone will put two and two together, and now we've got suspicious townfolk on our hands. Suspicious townfolk with superpowers.

It's never just about the one person, or the one thing they know. Humans are annoyingly clever when it comes to sniffing out things that don't fit, and not being aware of that will get you killed. How do you think I made sure Stefan and I went undetected in Mystic Falls for so long?

[otrazhenie]

Maybe we shouldn't live like that anymore. This isn't Mystic Falls, this isn't even Earth. Did you know the blood bank is also meant to be a food resource?

[blooded]

You're too smart to just trust that, Elena, and you know it.

❰ freebies like that are never really free. maybe from the orbiters, but even them damon is loathe to trust, especially as far as his diet is concerned. non-supernaturals can't be counted on not to stake first and ask questions later — or never, as some of them are more inclined toward. ❱

[otrazhenie]

Why do you think I'm trying to get a job at the Sanctuary?

[ She's hopeful, not stupid. ]

[blooded]

Because apparently you're all about doctorly things now, I don't know. A couple years can change a girl.

You know Stefan used to want to be a doctor.

( which is relevant for the exact paranoid, jealous reason you think it is, elena. )

[otrazhenie]

[ Oh Damon. ]

A couple years did change me, you're right. But I didn't want to become a doctor because of Stefan. He wasn't even around when I made the decision. I wanted to be able to help people. I don't even think it had anything to do with my dad, really, it was just me.

[blooded]

( elena doesn't waste any time entertaining his more roundabout way of approaching the topic of stefan, which is... well, she's been like this the entire time they've been here, so it's not a surprise, exactly. it's just... still new, somehow. unexpected. she doesn't bother pretending they're talking about anything else, doesn't try to hold damon's hand and gently lead him toward her conclusion. it just is.

she's always been fairly no-nonsense, but this is a whole new level. )

Writing didn't matter anymore?

( like cheerleading, and the miss mystic falls pageant. )

[otrazhenie]

[ Elena doesn't see the point in taking extra time to dance around her meaning and slowly come to her conclusion. This is Damon, the man she loves who she wants to waste as little time possible with, and who really does best with emotional matters just laid right out in front of him. ]

It didn't matter as much. Besides, I could have still written while I was a doctor.

[blooded]

( it's not hard to see how the elena damon remembers best could have turned into the elena he knows here. she's not different really, she's just... older. older than two years and a handful of months has any right to make a person.

talking to her makes damon feel, paradoxically, incredibly young. )

So you don't want to join the Sanctuary, you want to infiltrate it, like I did the Council.

( somewhat of a nonsequitar, but damon's been doing that to elena a lot in the weeks it's been since they found themselves on thesa — he's trying to figure her out, asking as many questions as he can justify in order to fit the pieces of this new elena into the puzzle he's already constructed. the purpose is transparent, even if he'd prefer it not to be: he wants to see how she came to be the person who would choose him. )

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[romancekiller]

[today has just been a really long and very stressful day for clarke and honestly she isn't feeling all that great. normally she would keep this to herself, but over the last month since their arrival she has come to trust elena to a degree that she finds herself sending this message to her current roommate]

have you ever seen anyone you know from home in those virtual reality simulations before? [they were all encouraged to take part in it when being summoned to thesa station earlier today so she has a feeling that the context will be clear]

[otrazhenie]

[ The context is crystal clear and it makes Elena frown at the screen, immediately turning away from what she'd been doing to message Clarke back. She considers the other girl a friend, and the somewhat cryptic tone of the message has her instantly worried. ]

No, I've only ever run into strangers. Who did you see?

[romancekiller]

bellamy. a friend of mine from home, except he didn't exactly know me at first.

i was just wondering if it was something you've experienced too. [like if the simulators take people you know and incorporate them into it or use your memories to draw from as well. she wasn't sure what to even make of it really and it doesn't help that bellamy is something she thinks might be dead because of her either so it makes it harder for her to wrap her mind around this or figure out what it means]

[otrazhenie]

Is he still in stasis? Maybe it really was him, and there was just something wrong with how he was processed into the simulation.

[romancekiller]

you think it actually could have been him? he's still in stasis so i just thought it was just some part of how these simulations work.

[otrazhenie]

We don't know how we're connected when we're in the pods, so it's possible. They keep us in there so we can heal, so we have to be hooked up somehow to be kept alive for however long it takes.

[romancekiller]

yeah. that's true, i have wondered about that before so it could maybe be connected to the simulations then? [she considers this and given the reason were encouraged to participate in the simulations, it did make sense but there was also the matte of the fact she thought bellamy had died which left her feeling a bit uncertain of encountering him in the simulation itself]

[otrazhenie]

I think at this point anything's possible.

[ There's something more to this, though. She knows Clarke well enough to guess at that much. ]

There's something else bothering you about this whole thing, isn't there?

[romancekiller]

i guess so though i wish there was an explanation for it.

[clarke isn't surprised though that elena can tell there is something more to this given the fact she texted her in the first place] yeah, you're right because the last i saw him, i thought he died. [maybe he made it but she didn't want to risk getting her hopes up either]

[otrazhenie]

[ Elena's breath catches in her throat as she reads those words on the screen and for a brief moment she considers keeping the secret to herself, letting Clarke continue to wonder, but... she can't. It's been so hard not having someone to help bear that weight. She has to say something. ]

Maybe he did.

Where are you? I have something to tell you, but I don't want it to be like this.

[romancekiller]

[the response wasn't entirely what clarke had been expecting. she isn't sure what elena means by that but she is quick to tell the other girl where she is] i'm still at the station but i can meet you back at our house. [she figures that was easier for the sake of privacy at least]

[otrazhenie]

Okay, thanks. I'll be here.

[ Clarke will find her in their tiny kitchen, sat at the table with her hands wrapped around a glass of the strong alcohol she's taken to stocking in their home. She may already be on her second glass, at that. ]