THE TRIBRID [Daroline Baby]

4. TRAVELERS AND CHOICES

THE TRIBRID

A/N #1: THIS CHAPTER IS THE CHAPTER AFTER 'RESCUE ME' PRETEND THE TRAVELERS ALREADY FOUND TOM, STEFAN'S LAST DOPPELGÄNGER USING THE BLOOD THAT THEY ALREADY HAD WHEN THEY KIDNAPPED ELENA AND STEFAN FOR THEIR BLOOD. SO ALL THE DOPPELGANGERS ARE DEAD BESIDE THE LAST TWO REMAINING, STEFAN AND ELENA.

I DON'T OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS EXCEPT MY OCS! ANYWHO, ENJOY!

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4. TRAVELERS AND CHOICES

~DREAM SEQUENCE – MYSTIC FALLS~

In a cafe, Elena sits and writes in an open journal. After scribbling for a few moments, she becomes frustrated and rips one of the pages out of her journal. She puts a salt shaker over it to keep it from flying off into the wind, but it becomes dislodged. As she gets up to chase after it, Stefan picks it up and their eyes meet.

"You lose something?" Stefan asked.
"Uh, yes. It's a particularly mortifying page from my journal." Elena replied, getting up from her seat and walking toward him.
"Ah. You, uh, censor your journal? Pretty sure that's against journal rules." He joked.
"And I'm pretty sure that you're not the journal police. Trust me, it's really bad." She told him.
"I'm officially intrigued." Stefan smiled.
"And I'm officially not kidding. Thank you. I'm Elena." She introduced herself.
"I'm Stefan."

Suddenly, a car almost runs Stefan over in the street, while Elena jolts into consciousness, startled by the dream.

"You ok?" Caroline asked her friend.
"Yeah. I just-- I just had a really crazy dream." Elena replied.

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~SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE~

Damon and Enzo are in the main living area, playing a game of pool and chatting.

"So you broke up. That I get. Then you slept together. Not smart, but again, I get it. Now here's where it gets a bit hazy for me. You went to a parent-teacher conference?" Enzo asked, confused.
"Jeremy was having some trouble at school." Damon explained.
"Right. Then the kicker. You offer to drive her back to campus, and she says she can't be around you. I mean, I'm just confused even thinking about it. Can't imagine how you feel." Enzo said.
"I'm fine. We're just taking some time apart." Damon told him.
"Yeah, of course. A friends phase, where you, her friend, watch as she moves on with her life, finds a new boyfriend, perhaps a nice gentleman from a fraternity-- Chance or Brock." Enzo said.
"Does your mysteriously missing girlfriend know how insufferable you are? Maybe that's why you haven't found her. She doesn't want to be found." Damon told him.
"I haven't found her because the Travelers, i.e. my only lead, decided to play a fun game of spontaneous combustion before giving me what they promised." Enzo told him.
"Right. Now you're here annoying me." Damon said.
"We could always go kill people, but I suppose that's what got you into this problem in the first place." Enzo told him.

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~MYSTIC GRILL~

Caroline and Elena enter the Grill.

"Well, I guess my mom's not here yet. I'm gonna get us some coffees." Caroline told her friend.
"Sure." Elena said.

Elena is grasping a set of keys in her hand. When she drops them, she starts daydreaming again.