( Her alter ego didn't appreciate her Fluid. And by the time Elena became herself again, she'd been swept up in a monster movie, caught up with strangers, and working on surviving a boat sinking. It does take hours like she remembers, so she's able to help out who she can. Someone insists she make it into a lifeboat and she does. She doesn't recognize anyone in it, but that doesn't mean they don't matter. It made sense to stay in a lifeboat in case someone needed something.
Like her blood.
The lifeboat docks by a lighthouse. Since they can't go back, they move forward. Elena tries to find familiar faces but she can't help but get caught up in the religious imagery. The tunnel goes on forever until it doesn't.
It's on the train she finally remember she has a Fluid. She hears the first beep, pulls out her phone and then -- all the other messages come in. She's not sure when she got them.
Immediately, she smiles, because Caroline is reaching out and because Caroline is safe. )
HEY. Remember that it takes more than a few seconds to draft and send a text, or do you not remember the morning you invited me over to go over texting etiquette when things were getting serious with Matt? And, if you can't all ready tell, I am okay. I made it off the ship and I was not eaten by Godzilla. Except, our lifeboats didn't lead back to Deerington, it led to this lighthouse and then we went down and now I'm on a train. And this dream just never stops getting stranger. Are you in another train car? Or. Are you back in Deerington?
[ make that a no, elena, she's not on the train. she is, in fact, back in deerington. she's not sure which is better. ]
i went through one of the doors in the lighthouse and i wound up in the slush outside a pizza place on main street. are you sure you can't come back? i could really use some patented gilbert family hot chocolate today.
[ or every day for the rest of her life because she did Bad Things and she's going to drown in a sea of guilt any day now. ]
( Elena doesn't blame her for anything, but Elena doesn't know where this train is going. )
Really, my hot chocolate? You don't miss my chili? Maybe the train is taking us back to Deerington. No one here knows.
( Maybe the train could stop and keep going. Or, she could find a conductor. )
What I'm going to focus on is you're safe and not sinking with the Titanic. And, you're you again. And I'm me. Still in this giant dress. Is Stefan with you?
No weirder than dreaming all of this in the first place. You know, we were all on the Titanic. I thought Stefan had turned me. He had his humanity turned off. Stefan always comes back, Caroline.
[ for him, though she doesn't say that. because of him might be fairer. even without her memories, living as someone else in a world they never needed to inhabit, she'd been drawn to him in the worst way. ]
Of course. You were also still a vampire. Well. We hid it well. Caroline, that wasn't you. Or me. Or Stefan. And that means Damon was the only one with his real memories. Welcome to Deerington. Don't mind if we send you on a cruise for your second month. But, mind your memories. I think the train is stopping.
No, I don't think I'm hallucinating because I recognize others from in town and from on the Titanic. I think this is our intended destination. I think this is where we're all... going to be.
I'd like to think there's a way out, at least we're not all living on a floating death ship.
But, the train isn't moving again. It's probably a one way trip, at least for the month. But, if we could get anybody back into the lighthouse the doors would still be there.
I hate to state the obvious, but, I'd remember if I'd drowned having done it once all ready. And, if I had really drowned, I'd be sick and feverish. When we die here, we contract this karmic flu. Sorry you died, feel worse for it.
[ it's not that important, though, is it? not in the grand scheme of things. ]
look, elena. i need you to come back, okay. i can't have a best friend pow wow in this fake bedroom without my best friend here, and i really> need a best friend pow wow soon. like, asap soon.
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text | un: missmystic | february 1st
actually, just kidding. ]
are you up
are you okay
elena!
are you home
ELENA!!!
ELENA GILBERT. TEXT ME BACK.
text l un: buffy
Like her blood.
The lifeboat docks by a lighthouse. Since they can't go back, they move forward. Elena tries to find familiar faces but she can't help but get caught up in the religious imagery. The tunnel goes on forever until it doesn't.
It's on the train she finally remember she has a Fluid. She hears the first beep, pulls out her phone and then -- all the other messages come in. She's not sure when she got them.
Immediately, she smiles, because Caroline is reaching out and because Caroline is safe. )
HEY. Remember that it takes more than a few seconds to draft and send a text, or do you not remember the morning you invited me over to go over texting etiquette when things were getting serious with Matt?
And, if you can't all ready tell, I am okay. I made it off the ship and I was not eaten by Godzilla. Except, our lifeboats didn't lead back to Deerington, it led to this lighthouse and then we went down and now I'm on a train. And this dream just never stops getting stranger.
Are you in another train car?
Or.
Are you back in Deerington?
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[ make that a no, elena, she's not on the train. she is, in fact, back in deerington. she's not sure which is better. ]
i went through one of the doors in the lighthouse and i wound up in the slush outside a pizza place on main street.
are you sure you can't come back? i could really use some patented gilbert family hot chocolate today.
[ or every day for the rest of her life because she did Bad Things and she's going to drown in a sea of guilt any day now. ]
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Really, my hot chocolate? You don't miss my chili?
Maybe the train is taking us back to Deerington. No one here knows.
( Maybe the train could stop and keep going. Or, she could find a conductor. )
What I'm going to focus on is you're safe and not sinking with the Titanic. And, you're you again. And I'm me. Still in this giant dress.
Is Stefan with you?
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[ what she really misses is elena's hugs. so tight, they risk breaking a rib, even when it shouldn't be possible. ]
i haven't seen him.
i think he's avoiding me. or maybe i'm avoiding him. i don't know.
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Or, you could both not avoid each other. Maybe talk.
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which is so weird to think about.
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You know, we were all on the Titanic. I thought Stefan had turned me. He had his humanity turned off. Stefan always comes back, Caroline.
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[ for him, though she doesn't say that. because of him might be fairer. even without her memories, living as someone else in a world they never needed to inhabit, she'd been drawn to him in the worst way. ]
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And that means Damon was the only one with his real memories. Welcome to Deerington. Don't mind if we send you on a cruise for your second month. But, mind your memories.
I think the train is stopping.
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[ it'd be too much to ask for elena to get an express train back to deerington, wouldn't it? ]
is anyone with you?
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I don't know where. A station. Let me check.
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[ that might be too much to ask for, huh ]
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Welcome to Rapture.
I think Caroline I think we're underwater.
In a city, or some kind of, if a space station were under water.
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are you sure you're not hallucinating?
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No, I don't think I'm hallucinating because I recognize others from in town and from on the Titanic. I think this is our intended destination. I think this is where we're all... going to be.
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which means there's got to be a way to get you out of there.
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But, the train isn't moving again. It's probably a one way trip, at least for the month. But, if we could get anybody back into the lighthouse the doors would still be there.
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[ rapture could just be a shared hallucination. she'd say that's crazy... but this whole place is crazy. ]
we'll work on it. we'll figure something out.
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[ it's not that important, though, is it? not in the grand scheme of things. ]
look, elena. i need you to come back, okay. i can't have a best friend pow wow in this fake bedroom without my best friend here, and i really> need a best friend pow wow soon. like, asap soon.
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