[It's meant almost to break through a little of the tension, but it's also true. She's never met Elena Gilbert, has only heard various stories about her, read a little about her in Ric's textbooks, usually in reference to her Dad.
He terrorized her, she knows that much, but that's a pretty common story for people who ran into the members of her family for the entire extent that they'd been alive.
Hope chews on the inside of her cheek, not sure what she's supposed to do. Comfort her? Pat her on the shoulder? This would almost have been easier if she'd still been that other girl from a different life. Her life had been...almost normal, and maybe she would have known what to say or do.]
I...almost died once. Kind of did, actually, at least for a little while. Sometimes I wish I had stayed dead. [She scoots a little closer as Caroline makes room for her.] It's not like suddenly still being alive makes everything okay.
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[It's meant almost to break through a little of the tension, but it's also true. She's never met Elena Gilbert, has only heard various stories about her, read a little about her in Ric's textbooks, usually in reference to her Dad.
He terrorized her, she knows that much, but that's a pretty common story for people who ran into the members of her family for the entire extent that they'd been alive.
Hope chews on the inside of her cheek, not sure what she's supposed to do. Comfort her? Pat her on the shoulder? This would almost have been easier if she'd still been that other girl from a different life. Her life had been...almost normal, and maybe she would have known what to say or do.]
I...almost died once. Kind of did, actually, at least for a little while. Sometimes I wish I had stayed dead. [She scoots a little closer as Caroline makes room for her.] It's not like suddenly still being alive makes everything okay.