Tyler Lockwood (firstsuccess) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-10-17 22:36:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, caroline forbes, derek souza, tyler lockwood |
Who: Caroline Forbes, Derek Sousa, and Tyler Lockwood
What: Caroline needs to meet Tyler's new roommate
When: Early October
Where: Tyler and Derek's apartment
Rating/Warning: Low/none. Some bloodbags and things.
Status: Complete
Caroline was a little pissed that Tyler had actually moved in with someone without her approval. Or at least meeting the guy. What if he was some psycho? How the hell was she supposed to protect one of her best friends if he didn’t let her vet his roommates? Just asked her for blood bags and vervain. She was beginning to feel like his personal errand girl. But whatever, she’d do it for him.
Cooler full of blood bags, and a bottle of vervain in her purse Caroline knocked on the door. Beyond ready to meet this roommate of Tyler’s.
It had been a long weekend, filled with carrying boxes and helping Derek unpack, but the place was really starting to come along. Derek’s belongings had helped fill the large open area that Tyler had considered his living room. He had, at one point, thought to fill the place with gym equipment, but his werewolf strength made most weight machines useless to him. Instead all he’d had for a while now was a large TV and a couch.
He had asked Caroline if she wanted to help Derek move, but she’d been busy helping someone else move that weekend, and thus he and Derek had managed on their own. But he was still glad that she’d managed to stop by so soon after the move. “Hey,” he said, smiling as he answered the door. “Thanks for this. I’m glad you could make it.”
Yes, Tyler had asked her to help with the moving. But she had already promised Hanna. And Hanna and her boyfriend didn’t have super strength which Tyler did. They needed her help more.
“No problem,” Caroline said handing the cooler over to him before walking into the apartment. Now that Tyler was dreaming about the whole hybrid thing it was probably only a matter of time. Best to be prepared. Especially if he had a human roommate. “So where is this roommate of yours anyway?”
Derek heard someone at the door before she even knocked. His hearing seemed to be getting better and better lately. He heard the female enter the apartment. Once he heard her ask about him he decided to make an appearance. This was probably the girlfriend Tyler always talked about. If she was going to be around a lot, Derek should at least know her.
“Right here,” Derek said walking out of his room. “Derek,” he held out his hand to shake hers. “Nice to meet you.”
Tyler took the cooler full of blood bags from Caroline and headed toward the kitchenette island, leaving Caroline and Derek to become introduced.
“You guys want a couple drinks?” he asked, placing the cooler on the counter and starting to casually toss the blood bags in the freezer. He wasn’t sure when he was going to turn, but it was probably best to keep them on ice so they didn’t go bad or something. Not that he was sure if or when blood did go bad. As much as he was looking forward to this whole hybrid business, he still wasn’t sure how he felt about the whole drinking blood business.
“Do you even have to ask?” Caroline called to Tyler as she went to shake Derek’s hand. “You too!” she replied, a large smile spread across her face as she shook the guy’s hand. “I’m Caroline,” she added with drawing her hand already digging through her purse for the bottle of vervain. “And this is for you,” she added handing it over to him. “You just need to take a drop or two like every day. You can put it to your water or whatever. But it will make you taste horrible to vampires.”
Derek just stared at the blonde. Man, she was cheerful. And talked a lot. All this vampire stuff was a lot to take in. “Thanks,” he said accepting the bottle from Caroline. He took a closer look at it, examining it. Honestly, he’d probably put a drop under a microscope before ingesting it. Run a few tests on it. Just to be sure. “I’m good with a coke,” he told Tyler, not much of a fan of alcohol. “So how do you know so much about vampires?” he asked the blonde putting the bottle of vervain in his pocket.
“Oh, Tyler didn’t tell you? Well actually that’s probably good. Proves I can trust him,” that was mostly her teasing Tyler. But still it was nice to know he didn’t go around telling everyone what she was. “I’m a vampire.”
It was a little disappointing that Derek asked for just a coke, but he was sure his roommate would come around eventually. You couldn’t be a college student if all you did was sit around studying and not drinking. But he wasn’t about to push Derek into having drink. He grabbed a can of Coke for Derek, and then his and Caroline’s drinks.
“Hey, you don’t go blabbing my secret, and I won’t go blabbing yours,” Tyler said, shooting Caroline a smile, and then turning toward Derek. “She’s the vampire who helps me out with my transformations sometimes.”
“Thanks!” Caroline said accepting the drink from Tyler. To both the drink and the not sharing her secrets thing.
Derek’s brow furrowed. “I thought you said vampires and werewolves hate each other?” Although apparently Tyler was going to become a half vampire. The rules of his dreams were confusing. But then Derek was the one with the abnormal werewolf lore in his own dreams. So he couldn’t really judge.
“That’s what we were told.” Werewolf venom could kill a vampire with just one bite, and because of that, vampires had hunted werewolves nearly to extinction. “But I don’t think we could ever hate each other. We’ve known each other practically our entire lives.” In both this world and the dream world. “Most of them outside of Mystic Falls tend to avoid each other.” At least they had, until Klaus went on his own werewolf hunt in order to make his hybrids.
“I don’t know. I wasn’t too fond of you in middle school,” Caroline teased. And part of high school. Tyler had been kind of a jerk back then. “But yeah, our dreams are weird. When he’s in wolf form he has gone after me,” she shrugged. That was true for both dreams and real life.
Derek just stared at the two of them. “You know, the more I learn about your dreams the less I understand them.”
Tyler snorted. “Yeah, well, I can’t say I was a big fan of Mean Girl Caroline myself,” Tyler said, grinning at her. That had changed in high school. He’d hoped back then that they’d turn into something more than a fling, but Caroline hadn’t been interested in that kind of thing and Tyler hadn’t been about to put himself out there just to be rejected.
“The more I dream them, the less they make sense.” He assumed that was going to be a continuing trend, given the magical twins that had been implanted in Caroline’s womb that he’d heard so much about. “I think the secret is to just not think too hard about it. Just take things as they come and try not to question too much.”
“Oh shut up,” Caroline said rolling her eyes. “Your asshole phase was much longer than my bitch phase. In fact I’m not sure you ever grew out of it.” She was teasing, mostly. Tyler was far much of an ass than he had been back in high school. “I’d watch out for him if I were you,” she warned Derek. Technically she was here to judge if Derek was a fitting roommate for one of her best friends but she could warn Derek too.
“Something to look forward to,” Derek frowned sipping his coke, referring to both Tyler’s comment about dreams and Caroline’s about Tyler. His dreams made more sense, but he wasn’t looking forward to all the supernatural twists and turns.
“Hey, I’m a changed man,” Tyler said, holding out his hands to his side as if to show he was being completely honest. He didn’t want Derek to think too badly of him, having just moved in and all, though he was sure the other man could pick up that Caroline was mostly teasing him.
He snorted at Derek’s comment, and shot him a teasing smile. “That makes one of us, man.”
“Uh, huh,” Caroline replied clearly still teasing him before turning her attention to Derek. She had basically made up her mind about the guy. He was fine to be Tyler’s roommate. Maybe a bit on the quiet side, but that might be good for Tyler. “I’m sure you can keep him in line.”
Derek wasn’t sure what to make of Caroline but it was clear she cared about Tyler which was the important thing. Not that Derek had all that much interest what Tyler did in his free time or who he hung out with. As long as it didn’t affect him. “Uh, I’ll try.”
Tyler smiled a little, watching Caroline and Derek. They seemed to get along, which was a relief. He couldn’t imagine how stressful it would have been if his best friend and his roommate didn’t get along. All that was left now was making sure his roommate and his girlfriend got along. Though he was sure that wouldn’t be a problem.