At the moment he wasn't looking forward to summer vacation as he should have been. The free time was nice, and it meant he had more time for Ileana, but it also meant his escape from this madhouse was gone. Work was an excuse to live in the normal world for a bit, and now he needed to find something else or he'd literally lose his mind. "Yeah, the free time is nice."
Cole shrugged, laughing awkwardly at the caped crusader remark. Despite what a disaster his attempts had been, the bottom line was that Trenton had killed Aaron and there was no way he could have not done something about it. He doubted Stefan knew that he was personally invested, rather than just jumping at the chance to play Batman, but he didn't feel like enlightening him. "No, the caped crusader gig was more of a... one-time thing. A momentary lapse of judgment." People overreacted all the time - it could have been worse. He could have actually killed him. "I'm thinking taking up a different sort of hobby might be better."