deerington contact.

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@KATHERINE

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[ on 12 february, stefan will get another reply. she's bored, recovering, and did we mention bored out of her mind? being stuck in a weird, batshit underwater city with only damon for company can drive even the most sane mad. not that damon's driving her insane with his asinine behaviour. it's his kindness that's doing her head in. ]

Nope.

[ #eloquence ]

[prescind]

( okay, she's alive. that's good. she's alive but she's not bothering to answer him so he's smart and doesn't push her.

when she sends another message two days later, he's once again relieved but also confused. )

Nope what?

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To whatever you're thinking. Nope.

Thinking too much? Pick a thought and apply my answer to it.

[ she has missed you, stef. ]

[prescind]

You don't know what I'm thinking.

( right now, he was just thinking he was glad she was communicating with him. )

Are you all right?

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Apply my answer to your question.

[ she doesn't particularly want to write "no" this time. admitting she's not alright is a sign of weakness, one that's far worse than actually giving a fuck. ]

Your brother is still okay, in case you were brooding over him. All seven fingers, eighteen toes, and those baby blues intact.

[prescind]

I know. I've talked to Damon already. I've talked to everyone but you.

( until now. )

Did Elena talk to you? I told her to.

( because she needed to know and this was somehow easier to talk about than what happened on that stupid ship. )

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[ so he's the reason why she's had a migraine for the last several days. ]

It's amazing how someone can go through so much and yet learn nothing from it.

[ take it from katherine. she's learned from every mistake, constantly revamping herself until she can't even remember what her base looked like. if she's not constantly building her fortifications... she doesn't know what to do with herself. that's where her fault is. elena's is in constantly refusing to learn and guard herself.

she can't help but be very disappointed by elena's blind trust in people in a very strange city. katherine doesn't even trust the people she knows. ]

I've dyed my hair fiery red so no one will mistaken me as that idiot.

[prescind]

Amazing that you found the time while stuck in some underwater city.

( he doesn't try and defend elena because he can't, not to someone who's gone through as much as katherine as because of who she is. he understands why elena did what she did but he can understand how katherine feels too. )

I'm glad you're all right.

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[ she's katherine. she makes time. like how she's making time to think of her reply. going through those five words with a fine-tooth comb has resulted in her finding nothing nefarious lurking between the lines.

stefan has always been pretty genuine, even when trying to prove that he's deceitful. ]

How are you faring in Deerington? I imagine it's very boring without me.

[prescind]

I'm fine. Doing a lot of drinking.

( because he feels bad for about a zillion things as is his nature. in fact, he's got a glass in one hand right now. )

There's not a lot of people here at all. Caroline. Me. And a few others that I don't really know. Don't know how we got here and not there.

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Why?

[ she doesn't care about the fact the population of deerington might be 5. stefan's safe, which means damon won't be annoyingly stupid, and caroline being there is one less person to worry about. he most likely went down with the ship or got on the wrong lifeboat. ]

[prescind]

Why what? Why am I drinking?

( he shrugs. )

Because it's something to do.

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[ stefan drinking means emotional diary entries and Something is Wrong. ]

You do know drinking water is something healthy to do, right? It's a great use of your time.

[prescind]

Looking after my health and well being now?

( aww. )

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I'm bored and have nothing better to to do. But flatter yourself however you like, Stefan.

[ she can pretend to play nurse from rapture. ☺️ ]

Did you stay on a lifeboat?

[prescind]

I forgot how kind you are.

( ever so kind. )

I never got on a lifeboat, no.

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So you went down with the ship.

[ this angers katherine on so many levels. doesn't he value his life? doesn't he value his own survival? she saved him from that storage room for a reason. ]

Idiot.

[prescind]

Other people needed them more than I did.

( and he'd spent three months drowning a little while ago. he could stomach it it again. )

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God, your self-loathing honestly knows no bounds. Can you think beneath all of that hair? No one needs that more than you, Stefan.

[ it's lucky they're not face to face or even in the same plane of existence, because she'd stab him for being such an idiot. ]

[prescind]

I'm sorry that you don't agree with my choices, Katherine. But there were kids on that ship that needed boats. I've drowned before and I've come back. It wasn't that hard to do it again.

( a stabbing a day keeps the doctor away. )

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[ ugh. he's such a disney hero. ]

You're not the only one who wanted to save children on that ship.

[ and that's all she's saying on the matter! 🤐 if asked, her recovering from being impaled is going to make her lose the ability ability to text. ]

I don't remember you drowning.

[prescind]

You weren't there.

Or, you were, but you don't remember because it hasn't happened to you yet.

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Did I finally grow tired of your hero hair and drown you?

[prescind]

No, someone locked me in a safe and I spent three months in the quarry, drowning and reviving and drowning again.

( it leaves a mark. )

I wasn't really myself when I came out. You helped me.

( he's just going to keep it...somewhat vague. )

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[ that's... new. who would want to lock stefan in a safe other than damon? maybe rebekah and klaus... and even elena, just to figuratively put him out of the way... katherine can't imagine who would want to do that. it's difficult to imagine this is an actual, true event. stefan is one of the good ones. ]

I helped you.

[ which means... was pennsylvania really just a pit stop? maybe stefan came to the little town to seek her help... she can't imagine it. none of this could've happened outside of mystic falls. ]

Are you okay now?