❰ no, she's not fine now. she probably won't be fine for a long time. but "for a long time" is not "forever", hard as it can be to remember that, in the face of all of her heightened newbie vampire emotions trying to drown her in grief for the life she thought she'd get to have. ❱

"Going to be" isn't "are, right now, at this exact second". It'll take work, from both of us. And until you get there... It's okay not to be fine, you know.

❰ there's the sense from damon's side of the connection that he is, in fact, incredibly protective of elena's right to feel shitty. she died, not that he thinks it'd be a great idea to bring attention to it, she gets to have a bit of a pity party.

for a while. not so much she turns into stefan. ❱