[Tyler nearly chokes on his latte when he hears her name again - in his world, Vicki died for Matt's sake.] Briefly. Very, very briefly.
I remember that. The Gilbert compass or something? Damon was supposed to unspell it, but he didn't. [They're not even scratching the surface of their chaotic, complicated two years - and already Tyler can feel the gulf in just how different everything played out.] I wasn't actually around for Founder's Day - Mason and I weren't in town for the "big anniversary." From what I heard, Anna had given you and Matt a ride home when the device went off and... well, you can guess the rest.
[It had been Anna who had crashed the car, and it was thus Anna who tried to heal Caroline with vampire blood to speed up the process.]
Also what happened with the whole moonstone,Klaus, hybrid curse breaking? Because it's a kind of a long story on my side so if I can skip what you know, it'll probably be simpler.
[He nods, suddenly more interested in finishing his latte than he was before.]
Okay, so condensed version - Katherine wanted the moonstone, so she tried to date my uncle to get it. Mace, however, knows what Elena looks like, so he and Damon came up with some plan to get rid of her. [Tyler wasn't privy to the details. Not initially.] Katherine failed. I'll get back to her later.
You destroyed the Moonstone, actually - but Klaus broke the curse by sacrificing Jules and Vicki, and trying to sacrifice Elena. [His voice's getting shaky just thinking about that.] So he became a Hybrid. What he didn't bargain on, was me and Stefan figuring out a werewolf cure. So when Klaus tried to make me like him... [Tyler laughs. Hollowly.] He failed.
You can't exactly make a hybrid out of a human - and you can't exactly use vampire blood to make a sleeping werewolf a vampire, because you end up with one very pissy werewolf. So you're kinda stuck. That's... well, that's when he forced Bonnie to turn her humanity off.
[He finishes off his latte.] It took Anna and Damon forever to switch it back on - so while Klaus's mom was trying to off her kids, Stefan and his cousins basically creamed her into next Tuesday.
Since that left Klaus in debt to us, he peaced out of town the summer before our senior year, never to bother us again as long as we didn't sell the werewolf cure to everyone. They headed down to New Orleans, I think? Or maybe Memphis.
Yeah, um...Damon kind of killed your uncle in my version. Bonnie tried to destroy the Moonstone but this witch she met actually ended up handing it over to Elijah. Katherine's plan failed, yeah, but Vicki had been dead months after Stefan staked her when she tried to kill Elena.
He still sacrificed Jules, but he also turned Jenna and then used her as the vampire in the ceremony. Elena would have died, but her uncle..or well, her father, did some spell thing that let her live on as a human and not a vampire.
Stefan went with Klaus when he left, since he'd been compelled to turn his humanity off, and they kind of cut a swath through the south more or less, in their attempts to make more hybrids. At least until he figured out he needed Elena's blood, but I'm getting a little ahead of myself.
We kind of set up a plan to bring Klaus back and kill him, involving Mikael. Of course it backfired, but Stefan also took the coffins holding the rest of Klaus's family as a bargaining chip.
Bonnie and her mom got the locked one open which apparently cotained Esther, The Original witch?
[Why wasn't he recording this? Tyler listens to it, his bafflement growing by the second as he realizes that Damon killed Mace. They were best friends (and oft mistaken for a couple) - and Damon killed him? In what world?
He feels like he's gonna be sick, because he remembers Esther - and he hates her guts (or what remains of them) with a bitter, bitter passion.]
As if it weren't complicated before. [He rubs his temples.] That whole family, I swear to God---
[He sighs.] Yeah. Yeah, I think that's where my world diverges from yours - we didn't deal with Esther for very long.
We didn't either really. I mean, she threw the ball and Elena helped her link Klaus and the others together, which was all well and good. We were actually going to use the spell to take them out.
We ended up killing Finn and that's when we figured out taking out an Original took out every member of his line so killing the others didn't really work and Klaus had gotten Bonnie to do the unlinking.
Her mom got turned during that too. Once Esther was gone, then the other Mikaelsons kind of scattered, except Klaus and Rebekah, but even with Esther dead, she wasn't out of the running.
She turned Alaric into what Mikael had been and sent him after Klaus.... He'd um...
He'd been having backouts due to the Gilbert ring? He killed some members of the Founders Council and tried to kill Meredith Fell...
He killed my dad too. Not that it was really his fault.
And at the end, Klaus faked his death and Rebekah killed Elena and nearly killed Matt. Elena came back as a vampire though.
And then Klaus left for a while and Rebekah stayed.
[He's going to need something stronger than his favorite kind of caffeinated beverage. Alaric had been having blackouts (?!) and Caroline's dad was dad and Klaus just decided to fake his death and -
And Tyler gets up, once Caroline's finished, holding up his empty latte weakly.]
Shit. [He takes a breath.] I-I think I'm gonna get a refill. Thanks, uh, for filling me in.
[He scuttles off for maybe a minute and a half, to grab a refill and get some much needed space. Now that he's starting to process everything, it hits him: this all happened in the span of two years.
Every single chaotic, crazy, stupid thing had happened during "the best years of their lives." This wasn't real, or possible, except it had happened to her. And the gnawing in his stomach just gets worse.
He checks with the barista, if they stock anything for supernaturals (they don't), and he comes back with two drinks - his latte, and then what (he remembered) as Caroline's favorite. It was only polite, he figured.]
Can, uh... can we wait? [He smiles apologetically, taking the first sip of his second drink. It's just as warm and cozy as he remembered - and for a moment, his guard slips completely.]
Sorry. I really thought I could've handled the whole thing.
Yeah, waiting is good." [Let him come to terms with the deaths she already mentioned before telling him what else happened. Especially since the events come up next were more personally relevant.
[It'll take him more than a few seconds to really process this - a world without Mace, or half the people that he cared about. Caroline hadn't mentioned Anna much, which worries him more than he wants to let on.]
Yeah. I thought my world was complicated but it's like... a whole different kind of complicated.
It's a mess, basically, but it's home. [Which doesn't really make it less of a mess but it's the life she's gotten through.]
I mean, not that I'm making light of everything, but we're kind of in a constant of, okay what next at home because every time things look to be calming down, something else pops up.
[He's gonna get a massive headache from this, he can feel it already.]
My Mystic Falls had a ton of chaos, don't get me wrong, but we had a lot less... it didn't end nearly as badly. [He lets out a low, slow breath as he forces himself to take a sip.] I'm sorry, Care. I don't think it's something I can process overnight.
I don't know. [He peers back at her. She's still the young woman he loves, and yet, her life is completely different from what he remembers.] You're the one who lived it, Care.
If anything, I should be asking you that question.
I wouldn't say better, just... different. I grew up with the Salvatores, and their powers were different, so things wouldn't have remotely ended up like they did for you.
[From the sounds of it? He would've hated her Stefan big time.]
Yeah, they showed up at the beginning of junior year at home. Came looking for Elena more or less, or at least Stefan did. Damon followed him, I think, and after that, it just kind of...[Caroline trailed off and sighed.]
No, no, Stefan was fine, except for that whole Klaus making him flip his switch and go Ripper mode. Damon...he's a dick, first class. When he first came to town he decided since Stefan had Elena, he needed someone close to her. [Which had been one of the worst experiences of her life, at least at that point.]
It didn't really start getting bad till Katherine turned up and then we had the Mikaelsons and Silas and, just snowballing from there.
I try not to. Elena's stupid over him, but I just...I can't do it. I mean, he gets a pass from basically everyone else. He's done so much shit and he just...
[Caroline rubs a hand over her face.]
He gets a pass because it was 'the only choice' because had to do it.
Bonnie even forgave him eventually after what he did to her mom, I don't...
I mean, okay I forgave Alaric for my dad because it wasn't him, Not really. I mean, the ring kind of screwed him over, but Damon knew exactly what he was doing every time.
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I remember that. The Gilbert compass or something? Damon was supposed to unspell it, but he didn't. [They're not even scratching the surface of their chaotic, complicated two years - and already Tyler can feel the gulf in just how different everything played out.] I wasn't actually around for Founder's Day - Mason and I weren't in town for the "big anniversary." From what I heard, Anna had given you and Matt a ride home when the device went off and... well, you can guess the rest.
[It had been Anna who had crashed the car, and it was thus Anna who tried to heal Caroline with vampire blood to speed up the process.]
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Did Katherine kill me in your version?
Also what happened with the whole moonstone,Klaus, hybrid curse breaking? Because it's a kind of a long story on my side so if I can skip what you know, it'll probably be simpler.
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Okay, so condensed version - Katherine wanted the moonstone, so she tried to date my uncle to get it. Mace, however, knows what Elena looks like, so he and Damon came up with some plan to get rid of her. [Tyler wasn't privy to the details. Not initially.] Katherine failed. I'll get back to her later.
You destroyed the Moonstone, actually - but Klaus broke the curse by sacrificing Jules and Vicki, and trying to sacrifice Elena. [His voice's getting shaky just thinking about that.] So he became a Hybrid. What he didn't bargain on, was me and Stefan figuring out a werewolf cure. So when Klaus tried to make me like him... [Tyler laughs. Hollowly.] He failed.
You can't exactly make a hybrid out of a human - and you can't exactly use vampire blood to make a sleeping werewolf a vampire, because you end up with one very pissy werewolf. So you're kinda stuck. That's... well, that's when he forced Bonnie to turn her humanity off.
[He finishes off his latte.] It took Anna and Damon forever to switch it back on - so while Klaus's mom was trying to off her kids, Stefan and his cousins basically creamed her into next Tuesday.
Since that left Klaus in debt to us, he peaced out of town the summer before our senior year, never to bother us again as long as we didn't sell the werewolf cure to everyone. They headed down to New Orleans, I think? Or maybe Memphis.
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He still sacrificed Jules, but he also turned Jenna and then used her as the vampire in the ceremony. Elena would have died, but her uncle..or well, her father, did some spell thing that let her live on as a human and not a vampire.
Stefan went with Klaus when he left, since he'd been compelled to turn his humanity off, and they kind of cut a swath through the south more or less, in their attempts to make more hybrids. At least until he figured out he needed Elena's blood, but I'm getting a little ahead of myself.
We kind of set up a plan to bring Klaus back and kill him, involving Mikael. Of course it backfired, but Stefan also took the coffins holding the rest of Klaus's family as a bargaining chip.
Bonnie and her mom got the locked one open which apparently cotained Esther, The Original witch?
And that's when things got even more complicated.
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He feels like he's gonna be sick, because he remembers Esther - and he hates her guts (or what remains of them) with a bitter, bitter passion.]
As if it weren't complicated before. [He rubs his temples.] That whole family, I swear to God---
[He sighs.] Yeah. Yeah, I think that's where my world diverges from yours - we didn't deal with Esther for very long.
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We ended up killing Finn and that's when we figured out taking out an Original took out every member of his line so killing the others didn't really work and Klaus had gotten Bonnie to do the unlinking.
Her mom got turned during that too. Once Esther was gone, then the other Mikaelsons kind of scattered, except Klaus and Rebekah, but even with Esther dead, she wasn't out of the running.
She turned Alaric into what Mikael had been and sent him after Klaus.... He'd um...
He'd been having backouts due to the Gilbert ring? He killed some members of the Founders Council and tried to kill Meredith Fell...
He killed my dad too. Not that it was really his fault.
And at the end, Klaus faked his death and Rebekah killed Elena and nearly killed Matt. Elena came back as a vampire though.
And then Klaus left for a while and Rebekah stayed.
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And Tyler gets up, once Caroline's finished, holding up his empty latte weakly.]
Shit. [He takes a breath.] I-I think I'm gonna get a refill. Thanks, uh, for filling me in.
[He scuttles off for maybe a minute and a half, to grab a refill and get some much needed space. Now that he's starting to process everything, it hits him: this all happened in the span of two years.
Every single chaotic, crazy, stupid thing had happened during "the best years of their lives." This wasn't real, or possible, except it had happened to her. And the gnawing in his stomach just gets worse.
He checks with the barista, if they stock anything for supernaturals (they don't), and he comes back with two drinks - his latte, and then what (he remembered) as Caroline's favorite. It was only polite, he figured.]
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I know it's a lot. Do you want to hear the rest or would you rather wait?
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Sorry. I really thought I could've handled the whole thing.
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Well to her Tyler, anyway.]
So...yeah.
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Yeah. I thought my world was complicated but it's like... a whole different kind of complicated.
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I mean, not that I'm making light of everything, but we're kind of in a constant of, okay what next at home because every time things look to be calming down, something else pops up.
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[He's gonna get a massive headache from this, he can feel it already.]
My Mystic Falls had a ton of chaos, don't get me wrong, but we had a lot less... it didn't end nearly as badly. [He lets out a low, slow breath as he forces himself to take a sip.] I'm sorry, Care. I don't think it's something I can process overnight.
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....Want to talk about it?
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If anything, I should be asking you that question.
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It's just...it's what life was at home for me. Seems like yours is a lot better, at least.
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[From the sounds of it? He would've hated her Stefan big time.]
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It's just been messy.
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[If that isn't a belief in soulmate love, Tyler's not sure what would.]
Look, uh, I'm sorry they've been a handful. They're.... Interesting, to say the least.
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It didn't really start getting bad till Katherine turned up and then we had the Mikaelsons and Silas and, just snowballing from there.
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So Damon chose you.
[He's THIS close to running into town and ripping off one of Damon's limbs. Or biting him. Vampire!Damon sounds like a world-class douche.]
How're... I don't know if this is rude, considering I don't know this Damon at all, but how're you dealing with him? Being here?
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[Caroline rubs a hand over her face.]
He gets a pass because it was 'the only choice' because had to do it.
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[Take it from someone who regrets what he did to Vicki every single day. He's not going to let someone else walk away, consequence-free.]
I don't really care what Elena thinks, let alone what she believes by making him a better person. You can't change someone who doesn't want to.
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I mean, okay I forgave Alaric for my dad because it wasn't him, Not really. I mean, the ring kind of screwed him over, but Damon knew exactly what he was doing every time.
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[His expression softens. He can't imagine what this Damon would've done to Ms. Abby, but it couldn't have been particularly good.]
Don't let Elena's stupidity influence things. If she has a hard-on for the idiot, you don't have to sit around and watch.
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