Who: Anna of Arendelle and Caroline Forbes When: Today Where: Their place What: Sad times :( Rating/Warnings: Low/None (talk of vampire stuff) Status: Complete
It was the end. Anna had sort of been putting off thinking about it, but after that last email from Hans, she couldn’t deny it any longer. They were done. They’d been done since before he left, really, but she’d been ignoring it. She’d been pretending this was just a break, that they’d get back together when he came home. But now she knew.
He wasn’t coming home. They weren’t getting back together. This wasn’t like a pause in the story, this was the end. After the end, really.
Anna came wandering out of her room, arms wrapped around herself, headed for the kitchen. By the time she reached the fridge she’d forgotten why she was out there. Was she hungry? Thirsty? Neither, really, she’d just needed the excuse to get away from her computer and leave her room. And now that she was here, she had no idea what to do next.
Ever since dreaming about her mother being sick Caroline had been wanting to spend more time with her. Of course her life had been a little bit crazy lately, but since she had returned from Europe she had been spending a lot more time at her mom’s place. Spending the majority of each week there. Today however she was back at home.
From her room she heard Anna walk out into the kitchen, she hadn’t seen her friend too much recently so she figured now was as good of time as any. Caroline made her way out of the room and into the kitchen to find Anna just staring at the fridge. “Sorry, too much blood?”
Anna turned to look at Caroline, feeling a bit like a zombie or a sleepwalker. This was definitely not the chipper, happy, Red Bull fuelled redhead that Caroline was likely used to. She shrugged her shoulders and pushed the fridge door closed. “No. I’m used to it by now.” Anna responded gently. “I’m not hungry.”
Okay. Something was wrong with Anna. That was clear. Caroline ignored the obvious question, choosing to just shut the fridge door for Anna. “What’s up?” she asked a concerned look on her face as as as as as as she led Anna over to the couch. She wasn’t about to let her off the hook.
“I got an email from Hans,” Anna said, allowing herself to be guided to the sofa. “He was very kind, but… he was firm. It’s over. It’s over between us.” She plopped down on the sofa and sighed, feeling like she might melt down against the cushions. What she wanted more than anything was to crash on the sofa and watch Judge Judy for a few hours. Caroline had a feeling this was coming. He had moved away after all. Did long distance relationships really work? Did any relationship work? Caroline sat down on the couch next to Anna leaning over to give her best friend a hug. “I’m sorry,” she said before pulling away. She knew that Anna had loved him. “Guys suck,” and not in the way vampires did.
“Guys really do suck.” Anna agreed. Then she added, “but not like vampires do.” As if she’d been reading Caroline’s mind. “I’m just… sad now. I’m not used to being so sad. I mean, I guess I should have known this was coming. I should have taken his hints and his clues. He was trying to be nice and letting me down easy. I should have… done things differently.”
“It’s okay to be sad. You were with Hans for awhile. I’d be surprised if you weren’t sad.” She didn’t want Anna to have to feel like she had to happy all the time. Though that was pretty much what Caroline was doing herself. Hypocritical much?
“But don’t say that. You handled things the best you could. You can’t think about what you would have done differently. It will drive you crazy.” That was something she knew a lot about. If there was anything she could have done to have prevented Klaus from turning off his humanity. “Besides, now we are both single. We can go out and do.. single things.”
“I’m… I know. We should definitely go out and do things. Single things. Happy things.” Anna said, trying to smile. She didn’t want to feel sad, even though Caroline had just given her permission. “Maybe we can go see a funny movie or something. Trainwreck? I heard that one’s funny.”
“We could do that. Do you want to go right now?” Caroline had no plans and it looked like Anna could use some serious cheering up. Caroline could use a good laugh herself. She had been surrounded with too much sadness lately.
“Yeah. Let’s.” Anna pulled herself up from the sofa and dusted her hands on her jeans. “I want movie theater nachos and icees.”
“Sounds like the perfect night to me,” Caroline got up off the couch herself, but stopped at the fridge first grabbing herself a little snack before the movie. Nachos were good, but Caroline needed something else to feed her appetite.