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Katherine. | Катерина Петрова 💅🏼 ([personal profile] manipulative) wrote in [community profile] divided2013-07-17 03:50 pm

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[ katherine's gaze softens. where she had expected him to rip her palm from his cheek, he merely holds it. it's strange, to see the boy he used to be, the one he no doubt is with elena; she's grown harder than before, constructed walls so impossibly tall, to ensure that boys like him don't ever cause the fall of girls like her. ]

[ she's so used to fighting him, tooth and nail, strength to strength, but it's here that she's not quite sure who folds first: is it her, or him? ]

[ she tilts her head to the side, her eyebrow arching slightly. ] Why, Stefan? Why ask a question you won't like the answer to?
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[personal profile] compellingly 2013-10-07 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
I would have done anything for you back then. Gone anywhere. Been anyone.

[ Whatever she would have asked for at that time, he would have given it gladly and without hesitation. An eternal life on the run was hardly ideal. But it would have been enough for him then, just to be with her.

Far better than waking up each day and trying to live with the guilt of having gotten her killed. ]
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[personal profile] compellingly 2013-12-07 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe not. [ He isn't Damon -- he doesn't thrive off of chaos. This he can't deny. ]

I guess we'll never really know.

[ She assumes he's any happier now. There have been moments -- not insubstantial, even -- over the last odd century where he has managed to overcome the crippling guilt of his existence. But the shame for who he is, what he's become? That's never gone away, only been suppressed periodically. ]

But how was this any better? I hated you.

[ Speaking of past tense and all.

More and more he's beginning to realize the staggering extent to which he's been displacing all of his negative feelings about himself onto her. ]