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[insistent]

...Klaus did more than that. I know I fucked up, okay, but it got him to leave me alone for good, which... [Her fingers tightened around the glass.]

But I've probably done things your Caroline hasn't either....

Is my dad still alive? In your universe? Does he know what I am?

[lockwouldnt]

He is, yeah. [The complete lack of death is something that gnaws at Tyler's stomach. His world lucked out. His world really, really lucked out.] He also knows, but um. He still loves you, no matter what or who you are.

[insistent]

Yeah, he accepted it after a while. You know he tried to fix me at first. Cure me of my cravings by...exposing me to sunlight without my ring.

You and Mom saved me. [She stares down into her cup for a moment before glancing back up at him.]

Alaric killed him not even a year later. He...well, he chose to stay human and die.

[lockwouldnt]

Wow. I remember saving you, but Mr. Saltzman killing -

[Tyler shakes his head.]

I'm sorry. I can't imagine what that was like.

[insistent]

Yeah, apparently the Gilbert ring has a side effect for some people with the dying and all. I mean, Esther kind of helped it along, but he had this dark side thing going on. Dad wasn't the only one his other side killed in a bid to 'cleanse' the town. So it wasn't really him. [Not that it had mattered all that much once her dad was gone.

Caroline dropped her head into her hands.]

I really need to stop talking.

[lockwouldnt]

No, no, uh - it fills the silence, and trust me, you've never been good with those.

[His smile doesn't quite reach his eyes, even if he is teasing.]

[insistent]

Yeah until I say something I can't take back and there's still stuff you don't know and its' worse and makes me look worse in my own choices and...

Yeah, I need to stop. [Because seriously, she's going to tell him eveerything and there's no coming back from that.]

[lockwouldnt]

Okay.

[End of the conversation, he knows, so he pulls out his phone and distracts himself with the network.

He can't reassure her, or tell her it's going to be okay - but he sure can't fill the silence like he used to. This isn't his universe anymore; her story, her rules.]