Annie Cresta is one with the waves (lifeisastorm) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2016-06-20 12:48:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, annie cresta, caroline forbes |
Who: Annie and Caroline
What: Caroline uses compulsion in front of Annie, it raises concerns
When: 20 June 2016, afternoon
Where: Movie theatre
Warnings: Low
Status: Log | Complete
It had been a few days since Caroline had returned from her trip with Peeta. She had been busy with work and her new internship, but it was time to start catching up with people. Annie was definitely on that list since Caroline couldn’t even remember the last time she saw her. Probably around the time she had moved in with Peeta. Wow, had it really been that long? Some bonding time was definitely needed.
Clubs and bars didn’t really seem like Annie’s thing. Caroline was a vampire so there was no need to go out to eat. Sure she did it, but it wasn’t exactly her favorite thing anymore. A movie seemed perfect. The pair waited in line to get their tickets when some douche just cut right in front of them. Rude. Not only that but he seemed to get the last pair of tickets for the movie they were planning to see. Sure there was another one in an hour and they could hang out until then, they’d probably get better seats too. But it was the principal of the thing. Just who did this guy think he was?
“Excuse me,” Caroline said to Mr. Douchebag. He turned to face her and that was when Caroline locked her eyes on his. “You are going to apologize and give us your tickets.”
“I apologize,” he said in an emotionless tone. Perhaps Caroline should have added what he was apologizing for but no matter. “Here, take my tickets,” he handed them to Caroline.
“Thank you,” Caroline replied, eyes still locked on him. “Now you are going to forget this happened and get back in line. And you will never cut in front of someone again.”
The guy repeated her words back to her in the same emotionless tone then walked back to the end of the line. Caroline turned to face Annie. “Ready?” she asked in her usual cheerful tone.
Annie knew that she spending time with Caroline was important. But there had been that part of her that had been suspicious on how Peeta had managed to get out of his lease. She wanted to believe him, he’d never lied to her. So she took him at his word and left it there. Of course, then life got in the way, Caroline with school, Annie with getting sick for weeks and then being buried in work to get caught up. Time was only recently coming back to her and she wasn’t as agitated and anxious as she had been months before.
It was all going to be fine. Because she did like Caroline and she felt bad about her initial reaction despite the fact it had been the timing and then the mention of compulsion. There were just two things that Annie could not overlook and would actually make her angry. Being lied to and people not having a say in their actions, in their own decisions.
But she couldn’t see how that would be an issue at a movie and she had managed to feel like maybe the reference to use of compulsion had just been when it first crossed over and not realising it and then not using it. Only some guy cut in front of them and got the last two tickets and suddenly that changed.
Annie had been prepared to say it was fine and they could go with the next movie. It wasn’t like either had anything to do after the movie, an hour wasn’t that big a deal. But instead Caroline did… something. No. Not something. She saw it in the way the jerk’s posture changed. In how he repeated word for word what Caroline had said. The tonelessness in his voice. It left Annie feeling cold even as the blonde seemed perfectly fine, like it was nothing. Like it wasn’t that big a deal.
“....We could have just waited for the next movie, that wasn’t necessary.”
Right now, she was more stunned than anything, trying to piece everything together. The ease at which Caroline had responded. The emotionless tone. The posture change. And it made the questions start all over again. The doubts. The sick feeling in the pit of her stomach.
Caroline shrugged. “Someone needed to teach him a lesson.”
Compulsion wasn’t a big deal to her. It was an ability like any other, not one she thought much about. She had been a vampire for almost two years now. For months she refused to use compulsion, felt too much like it was cheating life. But she gradually began to use it more and more. It wasn’t like she used it everyday, but if the situation called for it then yeah she did. Never her friends though, or Peeta. But strangers who were douches? No big deal. When she missed a final due to dream crap and needed to make it up? Yeah she compelled the professor. That was just her life now.
Annie didn’t know how to respond to that. It wasn’t an answer or reason. It was just some sort of justification and it made her blood cold in a way she hadn’t thought it would. Maybe it was an ability like any other, but it was dangerous and no one deserved to have their choices taken from them. Would she have understood easier if it had been life and death? Probably. Would she still feel sick, yes, but it would at least be something. But just because someone was a jerk?
You couldn’t just make people behave a certain way because they apparently needed to be taught a lesson.
“Right...”
Only it wasn’t. It was so far from right.
Suddenly Annie didn’t feel that great or up for a movie but they were here now. The question was going to be if she could actually sit through the movie. She hadn’t done anything. She hadn’t stepped in to stop it. She was complicent.
“Soooo ready?” Caroline asked again. “If it’s sold out we should probably get in there and get seats.” Or she could just compel them better ones but given how Annie was reacting to her compulsion probably not the best idea. Caroline didn't think twice about it anymore it was just who she was.
Was she ready? Not really, but she knew that it wouldn’t do much good to argue it and she didn’t want to risk Caroline using her compulsion on people just so that they got good seats. It wasn’t like she was a mind reader but the concern was suddenly there and she didn’t like it. “Yeah. Let’s go...”