Let Them Bleed, Let Them Wash Away; A Tyler Open Post

[lockwood]

[ooc: Basically, this is free range for people to set up scenes with Tyler. Can be canon, crossover, whatever. There will probably be spoilery things bc I am not dealing well with the events of the last episode, this is the warning for that. Also feel free to comment oocly with an idea, and I can set something up too.]

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[lockwood]

[He wraps his arm around her waist, tugging her closer to him now.

He's silent for a long time before finally speaking:]

I didn't expect to lose her so soon.

[coy]

Of course you didn't. [ She murmurs the words, moving to press closer to him, draping herself over him more-like. She rested her chin on his chest, glancing up at him.] You shouldn't have. We're supposed to outlive our parents, I know, but not yet. [ She wants to say that their parents should be old and grandparents before she realizes that... well, they'd never be grandparents, her expression falls.]

[lockwood]

I thought at least one of them would get to see me graduate.

[To settle down and get married and have kids -- except he'll probably never do any of those things now. Even if he was only a werewolf, he never would have risked passing down the curse to someone else.]

[coy]

[ She bites her lip for a moment before she looks up at him, her hand moving to his face to try to draw his gaze to hers.] They were proud of you, you know that? Like, really proud.

[lockwood]

I know. [He pauses before adding.] The last time I talked to her, I was telling her about my plan. She told me how proud my dad would be of me, of how I was a leader like he was.

[Though he still has some mixed feelings being compared to his father, all things considered.]

[coy]

You are an even better leader than him, Tyler. You did everything you could and it was Hayley... You thought you were doing the right thing. We all did. [ And in the end they'd been screwed. ]

[lockwood]

I just thought we could finally get rid of him. [And they could all be free. No more sire bond, no more curse.

So much for freedom.]

But instead....he's just taken even more.

[coy]

I wanted that too. [ And she felt bad for her part in the hiccup in the plan even if it almost worked out in the end. It should have if it wasn't for...]

He isn't going to stop until we stop him. [ She wonders if she'll be the only one who can get close enough--] Maybe it can be me. Maybe... I don't know. Maybe I can stake him with one of the special stakes.

[lockwood]

No. I don't want you doing that. If you failed. If he killed you too --

[It's not worth the risk. His grip on her tightens a little as he pulls her closer.]

I can't lose you too. It's not worth the risk.

[coy]

It's worth it if it means he'd be gone. You keep trying to sacrifice yourself and-- [ She sighs softly, letting him pull her closer, her arm slipping around him.] We don't need to talk about it now.

[lockwood]

[Maybe it's not fair, being willing to sacrifice himself but not being willing to let Caroline do the same. Tyler never said he was fair.]

No. We don't.

[coy]

[ Just this afternoon, she'd been lamenting the idea of him being in a plot of cement for who knows how long with Klaus inhabiting his body. And now... her life is a disaster and all she wants to do is fix it.]

I love you, okay? I just... want to make things right.

[lockwood]

I love you too. [He brings a hand up to run through her hair.]

I just don't want anyone else getting hurt for me.

[coy]

And I don't want you getting hurt at all. He's used you enough. And now that you're free, I want you to really be free of him.

[lockwood]

How is that ever going to happen? You really think he's going to leave me alone after this?

[coy]

Not until we get rid of him. [ She says it determinedly, like she wants to be the one to do it.] We don't need him or the sword anymore.

[lockwood]

What, you found another way to the cure? [Not that it really matters to him, as he said to Stefan for a hybrid, the cure only makes them back into werewolves. It's not exactly a win.]

[coy]

Apparently that Shane guy knows where it is. [ She's not sure she trusts him, that's clear in her voice but...] But it's hope. [ And that's all they have.]

[lockwood]

Can't be worse than relying on Klaus for the answers, I guess.

[coy]

At least he's not an original vampire hybrid, right? [ He's just a man as far as Caroline or anyone else knows.]

[lockwood]

At least there's that.

[He leans in, pressing a soft kiss against her forehead.]

[coy]

[ She sighs softly, resting her cheek against his chest, her fingers slipping down his side a little as she soaks in the warmth of his skin.] My neck still kinda hurts.

[lockwood]

[He lets his hand drop to her neck, gently rubbing it.] I'm sorry she did that to you.

[coy]

Yeah, well, I'm thinking about returning the favor.

[lockwood]

At this point? I'd be inclined to help you. [Any affection he had for Hayley, after turning in the hybrids to Klaus, it's gone.]