❰ that's such a stupid idea damon doesn't even know what to do with it. elijah had talked about his siblings, so that makes sense, and of course he can't have just sprung up from the ground fully formed and evil, so he had to have had a mother, but... it's still ridiculous. ❱
What does she have to do with Ric? ❰ a pause, and then, slightly horrified: ❱ Please tell me he didn't have a really terrible rebound fling.
[ That is such a ridiculous idea that Elena can't help but laugh, the sound bursting out of her in a way that sounds half like crying. ]
No, he didn't do that.
[ When that broken laugh passes, she's quiet for a moment, and then she shakes her head. ] Every time that Alaric died while wearing the ring, she manipulated him from the Other Side. She brought out this darkness in him, it was like he was a completely different person at times.
❰ well, thank god for small favours. as damon listens, though, this begins to sound familiar. not esther's manipulation, but... isn't this the way elena always talked about stefan on a human blood binge? ❱
[ She shakes her head at the first question, then closes her eyes at the second. Right, more things he hasn't experienced yet. ]
The Other Side is where supernatural beings go when they die.
[ Pulling back from Damon, she turns away slightly, lifting her hands to cover her face and then sliding them up over her hair. ]
She preyed on his hatred of vampires, twisting everything so she could turn him into the 'ultimate hunter'. She made him feel like he was weak for having been friends with vampires at all, so he agreed to let her make him stronger.
[ Her next words tremble and it's so hard not to cry. ] She used my blood to turn him into an Original.
❰ so... worse than stefan on a blood bender. cool. great. awesome. damon follows along, doing his best not to be affected, because if elena senses upset from him it'll only make her more upset, and she's already close enough to tears as it is. it's hard not to be angry, though, or to be... it's strange. that's how ric had started out, how he should have been, by all rights, but... he saw good in the people he never wanted to see it in. there's a reason he fit in so well with the gilberts, after all, the family that bled compassion from its fucking ears.
it makes damon furious that that was taken from him, and that he can't hold behind his wall of feathers. ❱
If he hated vampires so much, why would he agree to be one?
He didn't, not when he was Ric again. When he woke up, he decided not to complete the transition. But Esther got Bonnie to force him to feed, and he started on his mission to rid the world of vampires. Kill the Originals, kill the lines they sired.
[ That fury from Damon is like a flame, burning into her and searing away her emotional instability. Her mind calms like an ocean going still as she continues to the next part of the nightmare that was their lives. ]
Esther didn't want him to live forever, so she bound Alaric's life to mine.
❰ damon's quiet for a long time, furious, staring into his glass of stupid liquor on a stupid planet in stupid space. all these witches, manipulating people, trying to fix their mistakes with betrayals and more fucking mistakes. at least vampires are honest about being out for blood. at least vampires don't try to pretend that they're anything but what they are. ❱
Fuck witches, ❰ he growls eventually, downing his glass. he'd meant to save it to toast alaric with, but... fuck it. fuck all of it, fuck all of this stupid supernatural bullshit that ruins good people. ❱
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❰ that's such a stupid idea damon doesn't even know what to do with it. elijah had talked about his siblings, so that makes sense, and of course he can't have just sprung up from the ground fully formed and evil, so he had to have had a mother, but... it's still ridiculous. ❱
What does she have to do with Ric? ❰ a pause, and then, slightly horrified: ❱ Please tell me he didn't have a really terrible rebound fling.
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No, he didn't do that.
[ When that broken laugh passes, she's quiet for a moment, and then she shakes her head. ] Every time that Alaric died while wearing the ring, she manipulated him from the Other Side. She brought out this darkness in him, it was like he was a completely different person at times.
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Stefan on human blood different?
❰ another pause. ❱
What's the "other side"?
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The Other Side is where supernatural beings go when they die.
[ Pulling back from Damon, she turns away slightly, lifting her hands to cover her face and then sliding them up over her hair. ]
She preyed on his hatred of vampires, twisting everything so she could turn him into the 'ultimate hunter'. She made him feel like he was weak for having been friends with vampires at all, so he agreed to let her make him stronger.
[ Her next words tremble and it's so hard not to cry. ] She used my blood to turn him into an Original.
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it makes damon furious that that was taken from him, and that he can't hold behind his wall of feathers. ❱
If he hated vampires so much, why would he agree to be one?
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[ That fury from Damon is like a flame, burning into her and searing away her emotional instability. Her mind calms like an ocean going still as she continues to the next part of the nightmare that was their lives. ]
Esther didn't want him to live forever, so she bound Alaric's life to mine.
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Fuck witches, ❰ he growls eventually, downing his glass. he'd meant to save it to toast alaric with, but... fuck it. fuck all of it, fuck all of this stupid supernatural bullshit that ruins good people. ❱