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Tweak says, "says Tweak."

Tyler Lockwood (inheritedacurse) wrote in 6wordstories,
@ 2012-03-15 17:02:00

Current location:	After he turned
Entry tags:	[fandom] the vampire diaries

[Lying in a tub of ice]

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abyssdeep
2012-03-15 10:32 pm UTC (link)

She grabs the bottle of bourbon from where she'd stuck it in the ice and takes a good long drink. This whole thing, the accepting the pain of the transformation or whatever her Dad had been going on about clearly wasn't working. And it wasn't exactly easy, watching someone she cared about the way she cared about Tyler, put themselves through this kind of pain over and over again.

"It's not working," she says quietly, uncertain and with every word its clear just how much it hurts her to see him like this, and offers him the bottle.

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inheritedacurse
2012-03-16 05:34 am UTC (link)

There had been some truth in the fact that the process sped up every time he turned; it didn't take away any of the pain though. Tyler couldn't have compared it to anything else. It was an ache that spread throughout his entire body. His skin was fever hot; body temperature always seemed to run on the warm side now.

Opening his eyes, Tyler looked at her, the expression on his face softening. "It's worth it," he managed to get out. "I just...want to fix this. Be with you." Fix him would have been a better way of putting it. Sitting up, he took the bottle that was offered to him, taking a long drink from it.

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abyssdeep
2012-03-16 07:52 pm UTC (link)

"Tyler..." she breathed out and let her eyes close for a moment. Her Dad had tried to fix her once too through pain, it hadn't worked. Maybe at the end of the day they just weren't fixable. Maybe they were what they were and nothing would ever change that. She wanted to believe different of course, wanted to believe with everything in her that there was some magical cure to break Tyler's sire bond to that douche of a hybrid but she was so tired. Tired of losing the people she loved, tired of watching them hurt and broken, tired of feeling like the walls were closing in on her more and more every day. Optimism was getting harder and harder to come by these days. Sometimes she wished she could go back to being that sad, lonely girl with her head in her hands lamenting that she was never the one. Because this love thing? Well, this love thing kind of sucked some days.

Not that she would change it really. Her feelings for Tyler had been the only good thing out of this whole supernatural mess. Realizing how much she could care about someone, while terrifying, was also kind of amazing and he would always be worth the pain and the worry.

"We should just leave," she said suddenly after a moment and moved off the edge of the tub where she sat to pace the bathroom, suddenly on the tangent of running off in the middle of the night. "I mean you can't really be sired or whatever if he can't find us." It was a tempting thought, run for long enough and far enough away that no one could ever find them. Even if she knew it probably wasn't the best solution.

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inheritedacurse
2012-03-17 12:50 am UTC (link)

The feeling was a familiar one; that every time any kind of progress was made, something came in. Another barrier. As if time didn't belong to them...just pawns in a larger game. Only when he was with Caroline didn't he actually feel like normal. Tyler didn't want to be defined by what he was; a hybrid, sired by klaus, shouldn't be his destiny. Not when it was going to cost him everything. Setting the bottle down, he rose from the tub, watching her.

An offer like that was the last thing that he expected. Having someone who believed in him, who was there for him...just a foreign concept to Tyler. Part of the reason he had always been so reluctant to let anyone in. Reaching out, his thumb brushed softly across her cheek, lips drawing into a ghost of a smile.

"You'd do that for me?" It wasn't fair to ask Caroline to leave; he knew what she would be leaving behind. Mystic Falls had been the placed they called home for their entire lives.

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abyssdeep
2012-03-17 04:28 am UTC (link)

She leaned into his touch slightly. She wasn't exactly sure how serious she'd been when the words had come out of her mouth but when he asked her it wasn't that long of a hesitation. She'd lived in Mystic Falls her whole life, they both had, but in the end all it had ever given them was heartache. She'd lived and died in Mystic Falls and it'd bled her dry.

Her friends were there of course, Bonnie and Elena, her Mom. There was a seemingly never ending fight against things that had been put into motion long before any of them had even been born. The thing was Caroline wasn't sure where she even fit in in the grand scheme of it all. If she even fit in.

She fit with Tyler though, even if the universe seemed bound and determined to keep them from having even a moment to just be. Maybe it was time they took the universe into their own hands. She offered a small smile of her own back. "Yeah," she answered. "I want to be with you, Tyler, and if that means not being here then yeah, I'd do that."

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