Johanna Mason (district7victor) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-04-26 00:38:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, caroline forbes, johanna mason |
Who: Johanna Mason and Caroline Forbes
When: Backdated: Just before Caroline and Peeta moved in together
Where: Mellarky Bakery
What: Johanna finds out something interesting about Caroline
Rating/Warnings: Family Friendly
Status: Complete
Finals were over, Caroline no longer had any studying to do. Now it was just packing and moving her things and unpacking. She was still in the packing process but she needed a break, so why not stop by Mellarky? She hadn’t been spending as much time with Peeta the past week anyway because well finals, and she did want to spend some quality time with her roommates before she moved out. Plus she wouldn’t mind a cupcake, yes vampires still enjoyed human food. Walking into the bakery she spotted a familiar face, of course she usually did but it wasn’t her boyfriend that caught her eye it was one of his closest friends. Caroline had met her a few times before, and they had gotten along pretty well. “Johanna! Hey,” Caroline said with a wave and a smile.
Johanna had decided to stop into Mellarky after work to say hi to Peeta and possibly grab something sweet to bring home for after dinner. However, according to one of his brothers, Peeta had just stepped out, so Johanna had decided to take some time deciding what she was going to get in case he came back before she left.
She was doing just that, trying to decide between a piece of chocolate cake and piece of cheesecake when she heard her name being called. Turning her head, she saw Caroline and turned towards the other girl completely. Johanna had met Caroline once or twice now and she could safely say that the blond girl was ten times better than Peeta’s previous girlfriend and Johanna liked her a lot. The blond girl was a little younger than Johanna, but had a sense of maturity that most people their age didn’t, but from what she’d seen on Valar, she knew how to have fun as well. “Hey. Peeta’s not here.”
That was only a tad disappointing. Sure her intention had been to visit him, but she saw him enough anyway. “Oh well,” Caroline said with a shrug and a smile. “I could still use a break.” Hanging out with Johanna for a bit seemed like the perfect option to her. That was if she had the time and wanted to of course. “What are you going to get?” she asked the brunette who seemed to have been looking over the options when she walked in.
“His brother said he should be back soon though.” Johanna gestured towards the brother who was at the other end of the counter currently helping another customer then glanced back at the case, “I think I’m leaning towards the chocolate cake. It’s so hard to decide though since everything Peeta and his brother makes is so good.” Johanna was surprised that in the year she’d known Peeta, she hadn’t gained a hundred pounds.
“I guess I can wait,” she joked. “It’s not like I never see him.” Just not so much the past week but that would be changing very soon. “I know,” Caroline agreed with a nod. “It’s hard to turn down anything he brings home,” which he often did. Fortunately Caroline didn’t have to worry about gaining weight. She would always look exactly as she did now. “Mind keeping me company while I wait?” Unless Johanna had somewhere to go, she’d totally understand that.
“Sure. I don’t have any place to be right now.” Johanna crossed her arms over her chest as she leaned against the pastry case, “So, speaking of Peeta, I hear you guys are moving in together.” When Peeta had sent her the text about Caroline moving in, Johanna’s first instinct had been to ask him if he was crazy, but when she really thought about it, Peeta and Caroline had been going out for awhile now and unlike with Alyssa, Caroline didn’t seem the type to dump someone on a whim. She might have teased Peeta about what would happen if he and Caroline broke up, but Johanna had a good feeling about this. She felt like Caroline was good for Peeta and it seemed like they were definitely taking things slow, which was good.
“We are!” Caroline replied unable to hide the excitement in her voice. Of course she was a little bit nervous too, living with a boyfriend was a big deal but she knew this was right. She also knew that Peeta had moved fast in the past and that his friends didn’t necessarily like his ex, which Caroline couldn’t blame them from everything she knew the girl sounded like a total bitch. But things with her and Peeta were different. At least as far as Caroline was concerned. “It’s a little sad to leave my roommates, but it’s time.” Plus more privacy and you know starting her life with Peeta. “But what about you? Anything exciting going on?”
“I told Peeta I’d help you guys move. But, I should ask, how much stuff do you have to move?” Johanna might not have had super strength or anything close, but she was stronger than she looked as a result of training for the Hunger Games, which had bled over, and it didn’t hurt that she went to the gym regularly so Johanna would be useful when it came to lifting heavy things. “If you’re asking about my love life; nothing is going on there. If you’re asking in general, I think I finished dreaming.”
“That’s so sweet of you!” It was going to be quite the moving party with some of Peeta’s friends and some of hers helping out. It was good that they all got to know each other though, just like their families had on Easter. “Umm… a lot? I’ve been slowly bringing things over but it hasn’t even made a dent.” Caroline really had a ton of clothes plus they were moving into a two bedroom apartment anyway but since it was in Peeta’s apartment building it made sense for her to at least start transporting things. “Oh, I meant in general,” Caroline replied with a reassuring smile. She wasn’t trying to pry into Johanna’s love life or anything like that. “Really? How’s that feel?” she knew Peeta had finished his so she kind of knew how they turned out considering Johanna was from the same dreamworld but still. And Caroline couldn’t even imagine how it would feel. While she didn’t necessarily enjoy the dreams, she didn’t know if she ever wanted to stop finding out what happened to her dream counterpart or the rest of the residents of Mystic Falls.
“I feel relieved, but also a little hollow. It feels strange to think that they’re over after having them for over a year.” Johanna had heard that some people still dreamt even after their dreams had technically finished; just reruns of the dreams they had already had, but there were very few of Johanna’s dreams that she’d want to have again, “What about your dreams? Are they still going on?”
“i can imagine it would be a lot of mixed emotions,” Caroline said with a nod. She would never try to speak from an experience she didn’t have but she could try and relate because she had a feeling if her dreams ever stopped it would be a confusing mess of emotions for her as well. “Oh, mine are still going I think. It’s been like over a month but the last dream definitely didn’t feel like the end,” far from it. It was more like a beginning of something what with her being pregnant and all. “I heard that when your dreams end you feel some type of like closure or something?”
“What do you dream about?” It was always interesting to hear about what others dreamt. She couldn’t recall if she’d ever seen Caroline posting about her dreams, “Something crazy?” Not that it seemed like anyone had anything that could amount to normal as dreams.
Ah, her dreams. Well they were no Hunger Games but they were fucked up in their own right. “Crazy is one way to describe it,” she replied with a laugh. “Mine are more supernatural. Filled with werewolves, witches, vampires. That sort of thing.” She tried to sound casual about it, she didn’t want to freak Johanna out with the fact that she was in fact a vampire. She’d try to ease her into that information.
Johanna’s brows rose as Caroline explained her dreams, “Wow. That must be pretty crazy. Maybe not quite as crazy as being forced to kill kids and being at the mercy of a sociopath, but crazy none the less.” Johanna knew that there were people on Valarnet who had become supernatural creatures, but she had yet to come across anyone face to face, aside from Regina who had been the Evil Queen from Snow White, apparently.
It was a different kind of crazy. What Johanna, Peeta, and Annie were forced to go through, forced to do was horrible and Caroline wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Having her life and her friends threatened by different supernatural monsters? That wasn’t all that great either. Not to mention it had actually turned her into a vampire. “It gets hard to keep track of all the supernatural species in them sometimes. There’s like at least three different types of witches.”
“I couldn’t imagine turning into something else. I gained a little extra strength from the training in my dreams, but nothing crazy.” The fact that Johanna had been in Orange County for a little over a year and had yet to, knowingly, meet any vampires or werewolves was a feat considering how common they seemed, “Becoming a vampire or something must really fuck up that person’s life.”
Johanna had actually already met a vampire. She just didn’t know it yet. And since the subject was there. “It’s not as bad as you’d think,” Caroline said with a shrug. “And adjustment I think but I’m sure you get used to it,” that wasn’t exactly saying that she was one, more that she knew them. Which, had to be obvious considering the fact she dreamt of them and dreams had a tendency of changing people.
Johanna quirked a brow at Caroline as the blond spoke and she crossed her arms over her chest, “Wait a minute. Are you trying to tell me that you’re something supernatural?” She had no way of knowing exactly what Caroline was, but from the way she talked, it was obvious that she was something and now Johanna was extremely curious as to what it was.
Johanna was smart. Caroline knew that. And she had basically implied that she was something supernatural, or that she knew people that had turned into something supernatural. Both of which were true. “Maybe?” she replied with a hopeful smile on her face. This conversation was always awkward for her to have, but she knew she had to have it. She didn’t like hiding what she was from her friends or her boyfriend’s friends.
Most people probably would have been scared at finding out they were talking to a supernatural creature, but not Johanna. After the things she’d gone through in the dreams and in the waking world, not much scared Johanna these days, “So which one is it?” She was extremely curious now and wanted to know everything, “Does Peeta know?”
“Yes,” Caroline said replying to her last question first. She wouldn’t have started a relationship with Peeta without telling him. Granted it didn’t come out in the best way but he still found out before they got serious. “I’m…a vampire,” she kept her voice low just to be safe. “But I don’t feed on humans,” not literally just their blood, from bags.
“So you’re a good vampire then? Like Twilight?” The fact that Twilight was the first vampire related piece of pop culture that had come to find caused Johanna to wrinkle her nose in disgust, “Or something less lame. Because clearly you don’t sparkle in the sun.”
Caroline laughed at the Twilight reference. She was definitely nothing like those vampires. Well she didn’t eat people but that was where the similarity ended. She didn’t sparkle like Johanna pointed out and she didn’t live in some incestious family. “Kind of. I don’t live off animals though. And yeah no sparkling.”
“So, you drink human blood?” Of course Johanna’s first thought was that if she drank human blood then that must mean that she drank from Peeta and she really didn’t want to have to dislike Caroline, because she really did like her alot. “Any specific humans?” She was clearly talking about Peeta, but considering Peeta’s brother could be within hearing distance at any moment she didn’t want to mention him by name in relation to vampires.
“Blood bags,” Caroline replied glad Johanna was keeping her voice low. She was using her super hearing to listen out for any new customers coming in or if one of the employees was listening but they all seemed busy with their work. She knew what Johanna meant though. Her way of checking up on Peeta. She couldn’t blame her but Caroline wouldn’t hurt him. Ever. “Peeta is safe,” she wasn’t sure how reassuring that was coming from someone Johanna had just found out was a vampire but still.
Johanna couldn’t help but be protective of Peeta. First and foremost, he was her friend; quite possibly her best friend and she didn’t want to see anything bad happen to him again. “Good. I’m glad to hear that.” She couldn’t explain it, but she knew that Caroline was telling the truth. She might have just found out that the blond was a vampire and when most people thought about vampires, they thought about evil creatures and death, but there was something about Caroline that made her believe that Peeta wasn’t in any danger.
Caroline totally understood that. She was protective of all her friends too. She wouldn’t hold it against any of Peeta’s friends. It just showed how cared for he was, proving what an amazing guy her boyfriend was. “Of course,” Caroline replied with a smile just as one of his brothers came out of the back. “If you ever have any other questions feel free to text or call me,” she offered before walking up to place her order.
“I’ll be sure to do that. Thanks for being so honest about everything.” Caroline could have easily lied to Johanna when she started asking questions about what she was, but she had told the truth even if it might have freaked Johanna out. However, Johanna being Johanna, there wasn’t much that really phased her.
While Caroline moved to the counter to place her order, Johanna went back to trying to decide exactly what she was going to get and if Peeta didn’t show up before she left she’d just have to text him later and tell him she’d stopped by.