video; private and filtered to the ot3
Fine, you want the truth? Here it is. Yeah, she tried to kill me and she does succeed in killing Elena. But, she also saved my life and that of others, one of which she probably would've been perfectly okay with leaving for dead, [ you, caroline ] but she didn't. She's apologized and she's trying. How is someone supposed to become a better person, unless someone's willing to cut her a little slack and be little supportive instead of just expecting the worst out her all the time?
And maybe I have been kind of a dick with the whole secrecy thing, but maybe I need to be in order to save you two from yourselves.
[ and he's done with this. (because he doesn't want to see their reactions, deal with more questions, or continue to bicker with people he's known and cared for all his life.) ]