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🩸 → cocking an eyebrow, stefan listens as his former paramour tells the story of her chance encounter with his near double - one that was a jerk to boot. it's an interesting story, it makes him think back to the night klaus had bitten him, the hysterical hallucinations he had... it was something to think on for sure. "i'm sorry that happened to you." he offers in an attempt to be sympathetic, watching as she shivers in the autumn air. "well if there's anything i can do... just let me know... i know he's got a lot to work through." vampirism was a curse in and of itself, a heavy burden lingering on shoulders, but to add anything else to it... let alone what he'd encountered, it could easily be overwhelmed. "well let's make the most out of it, shall we?" especially as he intended for it to be their last night together.

a small smile in return, grateful all over again for his presence, but which fades fast into something serious. "you'd be surprised. i met someone who looked just like you. except he was a huge jerk." between the memory of the encounter and the autumn chill in the air, elena shivers, wrapping her arms around herself. "he's feeling much better, thanks to you. he's just also ... he's going through some other things of his own, too, that we'll hopefully figure out." but her smile returns at his response. "that's kind of perfect, then. we can hang out; i got here way too early to help set everything up."

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🩸 → fighting the pain, he looked up at his double as he refused him mercy. it was strange, seeing his own face as that as his tormentor, feeling sick not only from the pain but from the idea that this was what so many of his victims had seen in their final moments. fear, anxiety, pain, and a final view of his face. if this was karma's way of getting back at him... it was doing an excellent job. "i just don't understand..."

"Kill you? And let you get off so easily? I don't think so." Silas let out a sadistic chuckle as he shook his head, crouching down so that he was closer to his doppelgänger. He gazed at him wordlessly for a few moments, examining the all too familiar features that were contorted in complete anguish and agony. For a split second, he thought seeing his own face mirrored back at him would fill him with some sense of empathy; that seeing a carbon copy of himself experiencing pain and torture would evoke some sort of sympathetic emotion from his core, but it seemed to do the exact opposite. "You're not dying anytime soon. Not on my watch. Not until you've suffered as much as I have."

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🩸 → "Or you could have simply minded your business and then we'd both be happy." Stefan replied, rolling his eyes as the Mikaelson disregarded any implication he should leave, subtle and otherwise. For all the originals he knew, Kol was easily the most insufferable, he much preferred Klaus' monologuing to whatever this was, and Rebekah could be charming in her own right, but Kol, well, his time was best spent into the coffin he'd only recently left. "Aren't you just holier than thou? At least if you took my head I wouldn't have to listen to you yapping anymore."

"You should know by now that if you want a sense of peace and privacy, you won't find it here in Mystic Falls. Maybe if you weren't so messy, you'd be able to eat without drawing any unwanted attention." It was obvious that Stefan didn't want him there - Kol was more than capable of reading the room. But that didn't mean he didn't want to pass up the opportunity to be a pain in someone's neck; especially the neck of someone he held little respect for. "Says the one who needs to turn off his humanity to actually have a little bit of fun. Unlike you, I don't need to flip my humanity switch to enjoy the pleasures that vampirism brings. I've only gotten more fun with age, believe it or not." He chuckled under his breath. "How about I bring him your head so you can relay the message yourself?"

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🩸 → "don't thank me." he's no martyr for wishing better for her, and he refuses to be treated as such. "take care of yourself."

🥀 — better odds. that was something she couldn't bring herself to even wish for at this point. she was just, ready for it to be over. "thank you," she said soft, quietly.

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🩸 → "i don't have to be considerate to not want to poke the bear on my last night in town, i'll leave it to damon to be the problem child." the salvatore replied as he rolled his eyes. "what can i say? halloween's a fun night."

"Well, good to know you're suddenly so considerate," she quipped sarcastically, her eyes dropping back down to the candy baskets she was meticulously sorting. "I never really pegged you for a Halloween guy."

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🩸 → "now why would i tell you where i'm going?"

"Oh?" Interesting development there. "Like, Charlottesville?"

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🩸 → "no humanity, no guilt, no regrets." he parrots with a cheshire smile. "makes me wonder why anyone would ever want to turn it on."

"No humanity, no guilt. That’s a different look on you. Almost like I’m meeting the real Stefan for the first time.” She tilts her head slightly, eyeing him up and down, with a smirk. "I like it."

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🩸 → Rolling his eyes Stefan doesn't even dignify the first comment with a response, but he does give his brother a bone in the form of an answer to the second. "No, actually, if anything it's solidified my decision not to change a thing. I do think I'm outgrowing Mystic Falls though - only so many hikers and townsfolk can go missing before they start asking questions. Think it might be time to leave you here with your serious girlfriend, her family, and the doppelgangers and I'll move on to bigger and better things - give it one last hurrah tonight and then leave in the morning."

Damon hums. "That'll do it. Don't beat yourself up too bad. 'Can't go looking for love, it's supposed to find you'. 'Don't let anyone steal your sparkle.' Whatever they write on those little pillows." Only other one he can think of is 'Grandchildren Are God's Greatest Gifts' and that doesn't really apply here. "Good time to be working on yourself, right? Given any second thoughts to that whole no humanity, ripper-on-a-revenge-streak thing?"

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🩸 → "you, in a serious relationship? maybe hell can freeze over." it was surprising, though he had no doubt his brother would find a way to blow it up in a fantastic fashion well before june was coming. "i think my june is all booked up actually, and i'm single - my last serious relationship broke up with me because she couldn't handle you leaving so i figured it's better for me to keep my options open."

"Dating the goddess, actually. We're getting pretty serious. You free in June?" It's the most pleasant conversation they've had in months. Damon's determined to keep it that way. "You got anyone special these days, Stef? Or is romance off limits in that twelve-step recovery program?"

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🩸 → "of course i did - who could miss cat ears on a goddess and a degenerate dressed as a firefighter?" the hatred and anger still lingered on the periphery, but it'd been dampened slowly but surely as he'd indulged in his sins over the last few months as evidenced by the nearly full dry blood on his scrubs. "sleeping your way around the original family now, are we? i mean, i guess it's good to have goals."

"You noticed!" The matching part, he means, making a show of pretending to be touched. "Here I was worried the reference was too subtle. Knew I could count on you, baby brother."

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🩸 →  "it is something we are inexplicably gifted in - i'd attribute it to southern charm but i think we surpass that, personally." not that he wanted to give his brother an ounce more credit than he was due. "family inherently means more problems - just glad i only have one member to deal with, frankly."

"Sweet talking must be a Salvatore trait." Sadie chuckled under her breath as she crossed her arms over her chest. Her eyebrows rose up in amusement tinged in shock at the casual, verbal lashings he gave to his brother. "Well, seems like you two aren't on the best of terms right now.. Interesting. I'm not even going to ask, it's none of my business."

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🩸 → there is a knowing smile as stefan salvatore looks away from the doppelganger to reflect at her summation of his words. "i know you're not - you've always got our best interest at heart. if you have any faults, elena gilbert, it's that you care too much about other people and not enough about yourself." stefan listened as the doppelganger poured her heart out to him, to tell him that she believed he deserved happiness. he couldn't necessarily agree - objectively, he didn't, but he did believe she deserved better at the end of the day. "you deserve to be happy too, elena - more than anyone else i know."

"that sounds like your gentle way of saying butt out, elena." but she smiles with a touch of self-deprecation, casts her gaze away when she catches herself looking at him for a few beats too long. i worry about you all the time. he's still seizing her heart in his fist too easily all these weeks later; has left her skin feeling raw and exposed everywhere he'd once touched her. get a grip, gilbert. "message received. i'm not trying to defend him, i just ... i don't know. i guess i don't know what i'm doing. maybe losing a brother has made me extra sensitive about yours." she runs her fingers through her hair, shakes her head. "i just really want you to be happy, you know? you deserve it. you still deserve that more than anyone i know."

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🩸 → "until my brother dies i don't think i'll get a moments peace, but i'll try." stefan admitted with a shrug. "maybe you'll have better odds."

🥀 — "and i hope you get your freedom." because if there was one thing she understood, it was feeling trapped by your heart, and the choices it made.

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🩸 → "the one and only - who else could read your mind?" stefan teased as he raised an eyebrow, exaggerating his expression behind the mask as he smiled. "how's he doing? surely feeling better than he did at your birthday party ... didn't realize you two had gotten so close." he didn't need to have his humanity on to acknowledge the obvious - and to not wish a near stranger ill, or the slightest pang of jealously beneath it all. "nope. came alone."

fond relief pours through the cracks of the smile she returns his way. "stefan. it's ... really you, right? —decided to read my mind and match with me?" she moves closer, subconsciously seeking the safety his company has always brought her. "enzo, actually. i wanted to give him a taste of what mystic falls has to offer." she hesitates, realizing she's not prepared for his potential answer even as she adds, "did you?"

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🩸 → "take it down a couple notches - i ate before i came." there really was no making some people happy, but he didn't take it too personally. instead, he simply rolled his eyes, grateful his face was hidden behind the surgical mask as he listened to her explain why he couldn't indulge tonight as if it wasn't blatantly apparent. "i'm not klaus, i don't like an audience. if i feel the mood strike i'll take the party elsewhere - okay?"

The sight of his costume immediately caught her attention as she glanced over at Stefan. Her eyes widened, and she leaned in with a hushed whisper, "Please tell me that's fake blood." Her gaze darted nervously between the crowd and him, her voice filled with urgency. "You can't eat anyone at the festival, Stefan! My mom’s on duty tonight, and I promised her no one would go missing."

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🩸 → "i think i could manage the queen of hearts..." her costume wasn't lost of him, it suited her in more ways than one. "katherine pierce, well, same person different font."

"Would I have you?" She parroted back to him, her smirk widening in amusement. "Better question is: could you handle me?"

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@irasceris || damon

🩸 → "matching with your favorite original? or did you just want to feel like a hero for once in your life?"