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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[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.

[coy]

[Caroline's gaze drops because she knows that Tyler feels like that's what happened with Chris, and in this twisted game they live in, it's been that way even if she hates it completely.]

[lockwood]

[It is how he feels about Chris. But he's not going to bring up again. Not right now.

Still, he grows quiet as her gaze drops.]

I never said it earlier, but I'm sorry, for locking you up. I know you were just worried about me.

[coy]

Is it bad to say I'm used to it? [ Because she is. And she tries her hardest not to sound bitter because... well, his mom died and now's not the time. She'll get over it and since he's apologizing, she'll make an effort to do so faster.] You didn't want your plan ruined.