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alaric saltzman makes the best toys (likevanhelsing) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-03-30 02:05:00

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alaric saltzman, jenna sommers

Who: Alaric Saltzman and Jenna Sommers.
What: A serious relationship talk.
When: Takes place at the same time as this thread.
Where: Jenna's apartment.
Rating: TBD.
Status: In progress.

When Elena told him that Bonnie and Jeremy were coming over, Ric figured it was probably best that he clear out of the apartment for a little while. It wasn't that he didn't want to offer moral support, he just thought it would be easier for the three of them if he wasn't around. Besides, he'd already helped Elena get settled in with dinner and a bottle of beer - which probably made him a terrible guardian but he figured if nothing else it might help her get through the revelation that she was soon going to be an aunt - and he'd offered to take her shopping to make her room a little more hers the next day. For now, she'd be all right without him and would probably handle the news better without him hovering.

And anyway, he had something he needed to take care of himself. He and Jenna had been dancing around each other since they'd arrived, and he was tired of avoiding the talk they both knew they needed to have. At least now there was a good chance he'd catch her alone, what with Elena, Bonnie and Jeremy visiting with each other and Damon and Caroline preoccupied with their new baby. This was honestly his best chance to just sit down and talk to Jenna. He'd smuggled out a bottle of tequila he'd kept around the apartment on the off chance she came by and figured if nothing else it would make the conversation a little easier. He'd never been the biggest fan of Señor Tequila himself, but he knew Jen had always liked it.

Stopping at her door, he stood there for a good minute and a half before he finally got up the courage to knock. It was probably a little stupid to be honest, since she could most likely hear his heartbeat from inside, but he needed that time to get over his nerves. Jenna was an amazing woman and, even though they had managed here before, he had really screwed things up back home. There was every chance they wouldn't be able to get past all the lies and misunderstandings, no matter how much Jen said she understood, and he wasn't sure how to deal with the possibility of losing her. Finally though, he pushed his anxiousness aside and knocked on the door, hoping against hope that she was actually there and he hadn't spent the past couple minutes looking like an idiot in the hallway.

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hasnosecrets
2012-04-12 12:23 am UTC (link)

Ever since arriving in Colligo, other than meeting with Jeremy and Elena one of the only other people Jenna had seen was Damon. He had offered to help her learn how to control her urges and use her abilities, which she was extremely grateful for, but unfortunately, this meant that she hadn't seen much of Alaric. Between getting lessons from Damon and beginning classes at the University, which was only possible because of the aforementioned vampire, she hadn’t seen much of anyone and she really wanted to talk to Alaric about their relationship. She truly did miss him and she understood why he, and everyone else, had lied to her for so long, but she didn't know if he felt the same way about her now. From what she knew, more time had passed between her death and the present for Ric then for her and for all she knew, he could have moved on. Not that she'd blame him of course, because the last thing she'd want was for him to pine after her. Of course, considering he was close to Elena and Jeremy and now that Elena was back, she appeared to be staying with Ric, there really was no way for her to avoid him; not that she wanted to of course.

However, avoiding her didn't seem to be what Ric wanted to do, if the heart beat that she picked up on, right before a knock sounded at her door, said anything about it. She still found it strange that she could identify others just by their heartbeats without seeing them first, but it was just one of those things that she was going to have to get used to. Taking a deep breath, despite the fact that she didn't actually need to, Jenna pulled the door open, greeting Ric with a smile, "Hey. What's up?" She said, attempting to sound as casual as possible and not as desperate to see him as she felt.

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