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upon the hill he'll hear my secrets -- open post for october
[general open post for Shea's characters. Starters in the comments! Feel free to leave something, or contact me at
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"Caroline, hey! How are you, love?" She asked as she took a seat once the hug was complete. Removing her leather jacket, Nancy placed it on the back of her chair, but elected to leave her hoodie on. She wore minimal makeup, something Caroline wouldn't have seen before, as most nights when they'd met up she'd been dressed for going out one way or another. Tonight she was in skinny jeans and trainers.
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Nancy looked a lot younger without all her make-up, though Caroline supposed most people did. It was a good look on her.
"I am slowly becoming obsessed with this place! They should warn you, one cup and boom - addicted!"
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Though she'd shot for sixteen at her hearing in front of the Night Council.
She laughed, raising her cup. "You don't have to warn me, I've been here plenty of times." Far better than Starbucks, truthfully. It was more... private.
That being said. "Alright, so I believe you promised me story time."
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She sighs as Nancy reminds her. "Yes, I suppose I did. So, okay ... the guy who texted me on my birthday's name is Stefan Salvatore. I met him when I was sixteen and he transferred to my high school." It seemed so long ago, those days of being girly little Caroline, human Caroline. "He actually dated one of my best friends, Elena, for a long time."
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Nancy follows along, nodding. "And she let you date him, later?" Wasn't that against a million girl codes? She'd never want one of her best friends to date Cooper or Bill. Certainly not Bill.
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"Anyway, Stefan and I didn't really get close until-" she pauses, looking around to make sure no one is close enough to overhear, "when I turned, he was there for me, to help teach me about what it all meant. And we became really good friends."
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"I'm glad he was there for you." She follows Caroline's glance around the room. "He's a vampire too, right?" If he had helped her out, he had to have been. "Was he your sire?"
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"No, it was actually Damon, his brother, though it was an accident, sort of. I was in a car accident and he was actually trying to help, for a change. But it didn't exactly go as planned." She was leaving out a fair amount but she did not feel like trying to explain the existence of Katherine Pierce. "So anywhere, there I was, new vampire. But Stefan showed me how to control and embrace this new side of me. And when he needed help, I did the same for him."
She paused, thinking about it. "I don't really know when my feelings began to change from friendship to something more. It wasn't for awhile, since both of us were involved with other people a lot of the time. But eventually I realized it, just in time for him to take off on me."
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When Caroline continues on, Nancy looks down at her chipping nail polish. That's how it was with Cooper. They'd been friends- to a degree. He'd barged in on her and a client, and here they were.
"I'm sorry he left."
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She pauses, frowning as she tries to pick up the story again in a way that makes sense but doesn't involve explaining every little detail - she doesn't think Nancy wants to listen to her blather on for hours and hours on end. "Eventually he came back and things were pretty awkward. And then ... and then my mom got sick."
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"Your mum? Is she... Is she alright?" She's treading carefully, because mums can be a very sensitive subject, and she doesn't presume to know Caroline's history with hers.
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"No. It was cancer and no matter what we tried, nothing worked. Ri-right before she died, Stefan and I kissed for the first time. But then when we got back, she was gone and nothing else seemed to matter."
She pauses, realizing which part of the story she's at now. It's the part she doesn't know if she wants to tell. "I held myself together until after the funeral but then ... something just sort of snapped. I tried to push all the grief away, push everything human away. The result wasn't pretty."
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"Shit, Caroline- I'm so sorry," she says, reaching across the table for her friend's hand. She captures it, gives it a friendly squeeze.
She doesn't blame her at all, for losing it some. She's only ever had thoughts about her mum, rather than actually knowing the woman, but Caroline is hardly the first vampire to take the death of a loved one hard. And for her, she was sure, this was the first time she truly realized that she was going to outlive, well, everyone she loved.
It was the painful truth abut being a vampire, even Nancy knew.
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She takes a long, deep breath, before continuing with the worst of it. "So things were bad. And the worst part was that I managed to drag Stefan down with me. He's a ... I don't know if you call it the same thing here, but he calls himself a ripper. When he drinks human blood, he just loses control. And so when he tried to get through to me, tried to stop him, I forced him to join me instead."
She pauses again, knowing she has to admit this last part but fearing what it means. She knows Nancy is involved with vampires but still. This could be a lot to take in.
"I don't know how many people died because of the two of us. I should but I just couldn't face figuring it out. And while that was happening, the two of us, well, the feelings may have been pushed aside but our basic attraction wasn't and so we hooked up. And then, when it was finally over and I realized what we'd done, what I'd done, I just couldn't look at him any more. And that's the point where I packed up my bags and flew across an ocean to get away from my troubles."
She looks over at Nancy nervously. "I told you there was quite a story."
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She had to do what she had to do, and while she wished it hadn't come down to killing people, she wasn't surprised. Nor was she surprised that she'd chosen to hook up with Stefan again. Blood and sex ran so close together, and she knew it better than most.
"I'm glad you're safe." She says at last. "And, it seems, doing better."
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Caroline felt very drained now, in a good, cathartic way. She knew these scars were going to stay with her for a long time but they felt a little less heavy, now that she knew she could share them, with the right people.
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"You can only go up from here," she reminds her.
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It annoys her that indiscriminate feeding and killing seems to be encouraged these days. Not only is it not something she wants to partake in but it also made being a vampire in London that much more difficult.
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"Your standards are the only ones that really matter," she says kindly, wishing that she could take the advice to heart herself.
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She's not sure she can agree about whose standards matter. She'd like it if hers were the only one but it doesn't really seem like the rest of the world would play alone.
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"Keep the American thing going- I bet loads of boys find it attractive around here."
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"But enough about me, how are you doing these days?" Caroline's read the paper and knows what it said about Nancy. She's not sure if she should bring it up though.
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"Me? Well-" other than being pardoned, but she didn't really want to talk about that. Nancy glances over her shoulder, than back to Caroline with a huge grin on her face. "I'm moving in with Cooper! I was staying with him, but we decided to make it official." They liked having someone with each other. "I forgot how much I missed having someone to sleep with."
Like, physically sleep.
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At least one of them had some good news on the relationship front. "Wow, that's great!" She was pretty sure Nancy meant physically sleeping with someone. Especially given her job.
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"Really attractive, washboard abs, eagle tattoo?" She asks. Because if it's Kyle Sutton, this was going to change everything.
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