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Stefan has a pure heart and it is his curse. (anything4her) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2011-12-12 14:27:00

Entry tags:

elena gilbert, lexi branson, stefan salvatore

Who: Stefan Salvatore, Lexi Branson, and Elena Gilbert
What: Vamp Detox 101
Where: Bobby's Panic Room, South Dakota
When: 12th December 2011, night
Rating: PG-13
Status: Incomplete

Stefan couldn't have told anyone how many days had passed, how long ago he'd been jumped in a bar, knocked out, and taken to this windowless cell in who-knew-where. The only thing he could have talked about, or thought about, was blood. Warm, rich, thick, smoky, sweet blood. How badly he wanted it. How badly he needed it. His mouth felt dry, his skin gripped tightly to his frame, his head pounded and his gums ached. He would've killed to get a kill. Yet no one had come in the room, even if he could smell human and hear a beating heart in the moments that someone looked to see he was still there.

He'd tried to break through the room with no luck and now his strength waned. He'd yelled; he'd pleaded. Now his tactics took a different turn. He was an addict with a desperate need for a hit. All he had to do was convince someone to open the door, just a little. So he lied.

"You can let me out now. The blood's out of my system," Stefan called through the thick wall, unsure if anyone lurked in hearing distance. "I'm not a problem anymore," he continued. And continued, the same mantra pouring from his mouth. Eventually someone had to let him out and then they would be the first ones to make him feel better.

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anything4her
2011-12-21 05:08 am UTC (link)

Stefan hissed at the continuous burn of the stake. The problem with his immortality, and moreso with Lexi's, was that she very well could keep this up for eternity. His existence would become nothing but his imprisonment in this purgatory of dried out, rubbing veins and the burn of her stake. He raised his eyes to the blonde at her question, his mouth opening, the very words Lexi had just warned Elena about ready to flow from his mouth. It would be easy to lie to her. He remembered his feelings, even if they seemed ridiculous to him now. When he'd seen her walk into his cage--the first time he'd seen her since he'd walked away from her to make a deal and save his brother--he'd almost expected to feel something. And yet...

He could recall how the very sight of Elena had made him feel in past, and how ready he'd been to give himself up for her. Foolish. There were other, better things to live for now than some human girl. Even Katherine had known as much when she'd left him and Damon to die.

As Lexi coaxed Elena into a line of conversation, Stefan scoffed a laugh with his eyes on the floor. "I remember more than she even knows about," he returned. Elena had told him what had happened the last time she'd seen him, and strange as it sounded, so much more had happened since then. He'd saved her brother, gotten trapped with Katherine, and then freed; they'd reunited and gotten back together; he'd been determined to keep them strong and had done all he could to keep her safe on her terms without letting her sacrifice herself; and then he'd offered himself in place of her Aunt Jenna on the night Klaus had killed her. He remembered it all and she knew none of it. There was nothing she could tell him as he sat there, being tortured, that would convince him.

"None of that matters now." He raised his eyes to Elena, intent to continue working on her because he knew Lexi would never budge. But maybe if Elena talked her into it... Or if she came closer to him... "This won't work this time, Elena," he told her intently. "Tell her to let me go."

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feelingepic
2011-12-22 04:46 am UTC (link)

Lexi didn't quite know what it was but something was different, something was wrong under all of this and she couldn't put her finger on it, besides the obvious of course. Her best friend was no more than a monster and her usual tricks weren't working. Oh sure she'd get there, she'd do this for decades if she had to, just to get him back. But she'd thought bringing Elena here would help matters. She'd thought that just maybe it would do some good, make him remember. But Stefan was working around it, knowing she'd never stop, never let up, he'd go for Elena. He'd try to wear her down. It was cruel, it was heartless, it was very ripper mentality.

"You have to feel something, for me, for her, for your son of a bitch of a brother." she tried. Invoking Damon in all of this wasn't easy given what he'd done to her for reasons she still didn't know about, but it was another route to take. Damon had said he'd help with Stefan, talked a big talk about change. And though Lexi didn't trust him one bit, if he could get through to Stefan she'd deal with the devil.

"What you remember matters. I know you Stefan and I know Mystic Falls means something to you, the people there, your friends. You have friends you idiot. Can't you remember them?"

Maybe this was too soon, Maybe with Elena here. Maybe she needed to inflict more pain first. But she'd thought their bond would do something. She'd told Elena that when it was real, she'd know, and to Lexi she'd believed, she still believed, that it was real between them."

"She knows I'm not gonna let you go. She knows I'm gonna fix you, don't you Elena. Elena's gonna tell me how it happened, how you got like this, because in all this crazy. That's the one bit I still can't put a finger on. Is there a way I can blame bitchy McSlutvamp for this?"

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naturaldisaster
2011-12-22 05:00 pm UTC (link)

Hearing the comment from Stefan about him remembering even more than she knew about, Elena could only purse her lips together because he was right. Elena had no idea what happened after she was kidnapped by Rose to be taken to Klaus. She didn't know if she got out or how, she didn't know how her relationships changed with either brother, and she didn't know about what had happened to Aunt Jenna. That information would kill her, really. To know that her aunt had been taken, turned into a vampire and killed... because of her. Because she was the Petrova Doppelganger and Klaus needed to kill a vampire, werewolf and her. She knew that werewolves were bad, the enemy. And something had happened to Damon with one because Stefan had told her to warn him about them... But she didn't know the details. She hadn't lived through what Stefan had anymore... Was he right? Would it do no good? Had they stayed broken up? Had something happened to make him doubt that she even cared about him?

If there was something that could be said about Elena it was that she cared too much. She worried. She wanted to take care of people, help them. But half the time, she was turned away because she was just human. Because how could she possibly understand? She wasn't a witch, she wasn't a vampire. She was just human. And each time, that hurt. This was going to be one of those situations and Elena knew it. Because Stefan wasn't as he had been after Miss Mystic Falls. He seemed to relish in the blood, the killing. She had heard Lexi's comment, about him being a Ripper, and while she didn't know exactly what it meant as it wasn't explained, she could tell that it was serious. And the proof was right in front of her.

The other vampire wanting her to tell her what happened though? How could Elena do that if she herself hadn't been there? How could Elena possibly know when she'd been here for nearly a year now and Stefan only a few months, they had already discussed that they were from different points in their timeline and Stefan had never given her an answer on what had happened...

Letting out a slow breath, Elena made her way closer to Stefan, not close enough to be grabbed, but closer, kneeling down so that they were eye level.

"I'm not doing that, Stefan. Because while you don't think it will work, Lexi and I know it will. What happened, Stefan? You say you just gave into your nature but all of us know that's not the case. What made you start drinking human blood again? Why throw everything you've worked on away?" She had her theories, of course. It was Stefan. No matter what he claimed, he would never just 'give in' to it. There had been something that made him..... "Who are you trying to protect?" It was a guess, but Elena knew that Stefan would do anything for her, or admit it or not, Damon. Even if she didn't know what had happened after she was brought here, she knew that Stefan couldn't have changed that much. So she was going to make her guess and she'd keep guessing until she got them their answer.

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