𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠¹ - {𝐭𝐯𝐝}

𝓼𝓲𝔁

❝𝐀 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫.❞
- 𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧

Phoebe woke up by nightmares again. She checked her phone for the time. It was five and a half in the morning.

After ten minutes, Alaric called her telling her to meet him and Elena in the forest. She takes Ruby with her, of course.

When she met them there, she saw Alaric staking a toy in the heart but it didn't work.

"Hi." She waved at them.

"Hi." Alaric and Elena said at the same time.

"So the pressure of your punch ejects the stake." Ric instructed to Elena.

"Easy enough." Elena tried but it didn't work. "Must be jammed or something."

"You're not strong enough. Better start lifting some weights. Put some meat on your bones." Then he turns to Phoebe and ignore Elena's comment: "Phoebe. Here take these two."

He hands her two wooden sticks. "What is this for?"

"I really don't know their names, so don't ask me. But this is a type of training, since you're a werewolf, you are strong but not strong enough. No offense." He takes two other stickes.

"None taken." The two of them started fighting but Ric hit her on the stomach making her fall.

"You can't fall, Phoebe! UP NOW!" After the training, that was for thirteen minutes only,Phoebe was dying.

He turns to Elena showing her, Phoebe collapsed on the floor trying to catch her breath.

She heard them arguing: "This isn't a joke to me Ric."

"You think i'm joking? Vampires will take whatever they want. They will hurt whoever they want. And do it without remorse. It's their nature."

"You don't have to use pronouns. You can say Stefan."

"Look i get why you're here. Stefan hurt you. You don't want it to happen again."

"But you think i'm crazy to believe i can protect myself-"

"Lena, my love, no you can't protect yourself from them trust me. I've seen what vampires can do. It's traumatizing. But we both are here so that we can protect ourselves to the max, we can't give up, remember? But we can do everything we want if we work our asses off to have it." She gives her a soft smile.

"Phoebe. I'm sorry for not telling you. I didn't want you to be in danger because of Klaus. Look at what happened to Stefan." But Phoebe didn't talk she just gave her a hug. 

"You are strong Lena. I'm proud of you." She whispered to her.

"You're strong too, Bea. Even if i have lost a lot of people in my life, i would have never survived being in your shoes. I'm the one who is proud of you. I'll always be here for you. We can't give up, remember?" Phoebe gave her sister by heart, a real smile.

Ric admired the two encouraging each other. Believe it or not, the two needed each other because they understood each other's pain.

After two hours of training, Elena and Phoebe went to the Gilbert house to shower. She had half of her stuff in Elena's room.

When she opened the closet, she takes a shower and Elena was straightening her hair in the bathroom.

"Girlie, pass me the towel." Phoebe opened the curtain and steps out of the bathtub.