video; private
[ there's a nod, and then — a look that's hard to decipher as he tries to keep his grief under control. sending jeremy off to denver. matt remembers jeremy as a rotting corpse, and the smell of his decomposing body floods his nostrils in accompaniment to the memory, his stomach churning in protest. he hadn't had the chance to see jeremy while the veil was down, too busy with dodging death by vampire hunter and graduating. which was fine; jeremy spent his time with elena as far as he knew, and that's the way it should have been. he wouldn't have wanted to rob her of any time she had with her brother.
or be the one to tell her that jeremy was dead at her doppelgänger's hands.
he does his best to remain composed, focusing on damon's words and the fact that damon salvatore is being serious. of course, he knows the only reason he's being given this heads up is because elena's involved, but he appreciates it all th same.
numbly, he nods and swallows the rise of bile in the back of his throat. those memories on top of the confusion of being here is a little too much to digest (no pun intended) all at once. ]
Yeah. I'll— I'll do that. [ another nod. ] Thanks.