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]

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.]

[coy]

[ She kisses his chest gently.] I'm sorry.

[lockwood]

I really thought she wanted to help me help them. [She had helped him, back in the mountains. Or had that been all part of her plan too? Had any of that friendship been real?]

[coy]

She played us all. Maybe she had a reason, maybe she didn't. But you deserve better than that. I'm just... I wish I saw through her. [ And maybe she did, a little. But she thought it was just jealousy]

[lockwood]

She had a reason. She said she made a deal with someone, someone who knew what happened to her real parents. Something about needing the hybrids for a sacrifice.

[coy]

[ Caroline moves to look at him. ] A sacrifice? She sacrificed all those people so she could learn about something she could Google or hire a PI for? She broke my neck and betrayed you all to find out about her parents? [ She sounds very annoyed right now.] I'm so going to kick her ass.

[lockwood]

Yeah. She's adopted, and once she triggered the curse, her adopted parents abandoned her. I guess she's been looking for her birth parents. [But that doesn't make going to these lengths okay.]

I mean if she had just told me that, we have money, I could have hired someone to help look into this. It didn't have to come down to this.

[coy]

No, it didn't. [Caroline grumbles, looking up at him with a bit of a frown.] There's no excuse for it. It was soulless. I'd never do that even to get my dad back.

[lockwood]

Exactly. No matter how important someone is to you, it doesn't make it okay to sacrifice other lives in exchange.