[ OPEN ] Hot Springs Episode!

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CHARACTERS: EVERYONE
WHERE: The Second Flight
WHEN: DAY :022
SUMMARY: The Sauna!
WARNINGS: Nekkid times.

[ A few hours after the murder, she hasn't blown the ship up, and here they are. Another knock knock on everyone's brain: ]

( For those of you that are interested - I have secured us a place at the Sauna. Free for us to be use without interruption from outsiders.

You are to be clean before you come in. )

[ Maybe you're here because she bullied you, maybe you want to soak - maybe you're the poor bastard that is standing guard at the door. Either way, welcome to the Suana, have fun. Or don't. ]

Comments

[otrazhenie]

[ If and when Elena finds out what he thinks her interpretation of vampires is, she's going to find it both hilarious and appalling. That image is the exact opposite of who she's always been, before and after the accident, and even now she'd rather be out drinking in the sunlight rather than hiding in dark drafty corners. And she hates wearing black, thank you very much; it reminds her too much of the seemingly neverending string of funerals in her life.

Frowning at Richard, her expression clearly states that she can't even comprehend that idea. It might be a viable option for others, but for her-- ]

Love is all I have left. Without it, I'll just be another monster.

[ She believes it, plain and simple, no room for negation. Her compassion is a gift. That's what Elijah had told her, and it's her compassion that's keeping her whole as she struggles to stay above water. It would be so easy to stop caring, to let go and give in to those base urges. But the second she does is the moment she becomes less, no better than Katherine. ]

[ophidia]

[Monster. Melodramatic, but then, she was young. And what did it really matter? So she hadn't seen what real monsters were - the human kind, let alone the rest. That didn't invalidate her concern about becoming one, just made her bar lower, her line closer. It could still be crossed.

And that was exactly his point.]

So keep hold of it. Or you'll get there sooner than you realise.

[But he can sense she's going to keep trying to fight him on this. Wilfully misunderstanding, denying, refusing to listen. He doesn't have the patience to stick around for it, so he's standing up out of the water, uncaring of his nudity (or perhaps using it) as he climbs smoothly out of the pool, walking away.]

[otrazhenie]

[ Of course she would keep fighting him on it, Elena Gilbert is stubborn when it comes to something she believes in. His trick works like a charm though; one glimpse of all that bare skin and she's turning away with a flare of indignation. ]

It was nice meeting you too!

[ It's called after him with a healthy dose of sarcasm; this is not how she'd thought the conversation would go. What is it with brothers, anyway? And why do they seem to be her lot in life? ]