( rp ) look at this heart-shaped wreckage. what have we done?

[believable]

[ see elena.

see elena heading toward one of the bars on whichever deck you see fit.

see elena serving herself a drink because boys men suck and she has had it with this ship.



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[easily]

Rebekah doesn't forget it either. Going back in time, being powerless, having to rely on each other for survival -- whether they liked it or not (they often liked it more than either one of them would ever admit).

"Back in the twenties, strangely enough. But with Stefan."

[believable]

There's a small pause; Elena thinks there will always be a twinge whenever she thinks of it, thinks of everything that happened and all of the roads that have led to where they are and who they are with. She regrets nothing, but there's a bittersweetness there. It fades with time, and keeps fading, but it's there all the same.

"Was he okay?"

[easily]

"He was. I think it helped that we were together."

They may have been separated from their families -- possibly forever it had seemed like -- but they had one another. That's no small thing.

[believable]

"And somehow, we're all here together."

She says this almost dubiously. The rifts were supposed to have collapsed entirely, and this Red Door seems to be different, but most of them have been pulled to the same ship. Elena can't exactly call that a coincidence.

[easily]

"We are."

Rebekah has mixed feelings on it. She's glad Stefan gets his brother back, she is. But she misses her own. Even Nik, even knowing what he did to their mother she still misses him. A thousand years is a long time.

[believable]

Elena serves herself a second drink wordlessly. Today has been A Day and she is allowed it. She lets that thought sit in between the two of them for a moment.

She has mixed feelings on it herself. She'd have never had Caroline and Bonnie with her otherwise, but Jeremy is nowhere to be found. There are trade-offs, impossible choices, and that Red Door none of them know how to control.

[easily]

Rebekah sips her own drink in silence for a moment before deciding to change the question.

"So what caused that brawl anyway?" It's a seemingly innocent question but Rebekah has an inkling the answer is in front of her. Elena.