but what I want to say shouldn't be said over the phone

[rehashing]

[ The smallest of pauses after the beep ] "You've - reached Elena. Gilbert. [ Maybe there are multiple in this cave. ] I'm sorry I missed your call, but if you'd leave - [ And their names will already be attached, built in caller id. She hates this message already But she's going to damn well finish it. ] a message, I'll return the call as soon as I can. [ And that's about all she needs and all she can muster. Oh, she can't forget... ] Thank you." [ "But, why am I thanking them, they called me." "Because it's the polite thing to do. Did they have to call you?" "They wanted to." But, no argument wins. Miranda Gilbert has a way of always being right. ]

call .. text .. video

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text ] [ on day two

[overarching]

there are ACTUALLY mopeds here

[ an image of the row of them, magenta one as the focus in frame, accompanies ]

text;

[iustitiae]

So apparently there is a bar???
What the hell Hadriel.

[a fact connor has apparently just discovered]

text ][ pick a time, any time

[overarching]

No matter how I put this, words won't be enough, but I want to see you, Elena. Talk. As much as you're willing to. Even if I'm the last person who deserves to talk to you right now.

[ Yes, she's checking in. Yes, she has motive. No, she's not going to give up if Elena turns her down. No matter the mistakes that Delight and Rage helped drive her toward, Caroline doesn't give up on the love she has for her best friends.

Not that she's planning on opening with any comments like that.

In fact, as much as there are no words to appropriately reach out to Elena after the even greater divide between them? She's not completely sure what she'll say. She's buckling down for comments about how absurd it is that, for once, Caroline Forbes has nothing to say, too. But Elena? She's not like that, not when she's fully herself.

But she knows Elena can't feel completely herself yet, and it's all Caroline's fault. Her goal has rounded right back around to being there for Elena, even if she really is the last person the other girl wants to see. She has to do what's right. Not out of a desire to control the situation, but for a brand new vampire, for her best friend.

Really, this is the start of the least she could do after rending Elena's life apart, all the more.

How foolish were they to think they could go about living their lives in any normal facet there in Hadriel? ]

[text] post-shitty ghost event

[nonscriptum]

[He's been shitty at reaching out and knows he has to to keep from spiraling, and maybe it's this self-awareness that proves he's maturing as a person - at thirty-nine, fuck - or maybe it's because he remembers this Elena telling him that it must be hard to be here without someone you know.]

you doing okay after [Personal Hell?] all that?