OPEN SHIP WITH ME POST

[desertions]

I'm in a very shippy mood and mostly on top of my tags right now so I thought instead of combing through memes I'd leave this as an open post.

Basically leave me prompts: quotes, pictures, song lyrics, whatever with a muse and what muse of mine you want and we'll see what happens. Alternately, if you don't request a specific muse you can leave it up to me to choose who i throw at them.

I make no apologies for the choices made when that happens.

So please, come and enjoy all the ships with me!!

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[somanyadjectives]

He nods a bit, appreciating the sympathy, even though he knows how she felt about his brother. It's how most people felt about his brother and while Stefan knows he isn't the only one who misses him, he can't bring himself to be around them right now, or even look at the possibilities when he knows that there isn't a whole lot they can do here.

"Thank you."

[visiongirl]

She lets her hand drop, not letting it linger. She figures he probably doesn't want to dwell on it. Still, if he needs to talk, she'd listen. It'd be a welcome distraction from her own problems.

"How have you been holding up?"

[somanyadjectives]

He gives a bit of a shrug, and no, he doesn't want to dwell on it, really. He just wants to move on, but pretending it never happened doesn't really work either.

"About as well as can be expected. I haven't gone as far off the deep end as I thought I would - I'm not really sure if that's progress on my part or denial."

[visiongirl]

"Possibly a little of both." She's glad for the record he hasn't gone more off the rails, at least. Whatever the reason.

[somanyadjectives]

He chuckles a bit as he takes another drink. "Probably true." He takes a deep breath as he places the glass down. "I just ... I miss him. And I don't know how I'm going to do this without him."

[visiongirl]

She nods a little. "It's hard to lose someone, I mean, I'm an only child so I don't totally get the sibling thing, but it's always hard. He'd want you to keep going, though."

[somanyadjectives]

"Yeah, he would." There was a time when Damon would have wanted to drag Stefan down with him, but that time isn't now, not anymore. They're in a better place now, or at least they were. It's hard to say where he's at now with him gone. "It's just kind of hard to want that for myself right now."

[visiongirl]

"And that's okay." That he can't let himself want it just yet. She imagines that's part of the whole grieving process.

[somanyadjectives]

While he knows, consciously, that that's okay, he needed to hear it too. He looks over at Cordelia gratefully for the reminder before moving on. "Everyone back home is looking for ways to bring them back, but I'm not entirely sure that's a good idea. Or that it's even possible."

[visiongirl]

"I knew a girl who got brought back from the dead. A friend from Sunnydale -- I don't know the details but from what I understand it was pretty hard on her."

That's about the most she ever got out of Angel or Willow on Buffy coming back.

"Some things, I'm not sure they're meant to be messed with."

[somanyadjectives]

"Yeah. Logically, I understand that." Emotionally, all he wants is his brother back. And vampires always are more emotional than logical. "I just ... I've spent a hundred and sixty years with him hovering over my shoulder. I'm not sure how to deal with him being gone."

[visiongirl]

"It's going to take some time to figure that out. You don't have to know just yet."

Grief is difficult, no matter what. She may be an only child, but she can still understand that. It had hurt acutely when Doyle died.

[somanyadjectives]

He nods a bit at that, before forcing a small smile. It doesn't quite meet his eyes, but he's tired of being depressing. "Anyway. Enough about my sob story. What's been going on with you?"

[visiongirl]

"It's not exactly better, I woke up from a coma recently."

So a sob story of her own, sorta.

[somanyadjectives]

He tips his head towards the side for a moment, because that is far more concerning than his dead brother. "What happened? Are you okay?" Why didn't anyone call him? is the silent question he can't help but ask, and he knows the reasons why, but he still wants to think he could have helped her sooner.

[visiongirl]

"As okay as someone can be. The short version is I got taken over by a crazy higher power who then impregnated me with herself -- don't ask me how that one works -- and after birthing I slipped into comaland. I remember everything though."

That's the hard part, living with what Jasmine did in her body.

[somanyadjectives]

Stefan's face slowly gets more and more horrified the more she talks, and in some ways he can understand it. All the things he did when his humanity was off often felt like it was someone else, taking control of his actions, and maybe that would be an easy way to explain it away and live with the guilt but he knows that he can't. Even if her emotions were off, it was still him.

"I'm sorry," he says gently. "That sounds ... awful."

[visiongirl]

"Yeah, it wasn't exactly a walk in the park." Sometimes she's surprised she was able to wake up at all after all that. And sometimes, she almost wishes she hadn't. But that's not something she tends to verbalize.

[somanyadjectives]

"Yeah, well ... welcome to the supernatural. None of us ever make it out clean." Stefan wishes that some of them could, to make all of their lives easier, but that's not the way the world works.

[visiongirl]

"Please, I learned that by the end of my high school career." Going to high school on top of a hell mouth will do that.

[somanyadjectives]

He laughs. "I have a feeling that people in Mystic Falls will probably feel the same way by the time they're done."

[visiongirl]

"I can't decide if Mystic Falls is worse or better on the luck scale than Sunnydale -- better probably in that it hasn't been swallowed whole yet -- one of the many things I apparently missed during comatime."

[somanyadjectives]

"We may not have been swallowed whole, but we are bound to be sooner or later." He pauses for a moment, before tipping his head to the side. "It might be better if it did, though. Might save a lot of people a lot of pain."

[visiongirl]

"Maybe. But they might just find it somewhere else. There are always places that attract trouble." Or people who do. Or both.

[somanyadjectives]

He chuckles softly before nodding. "Ain't that the truth. No matter how far you run, it will always find a way to pull you back in again once you've become a part of this world."