Memories → Elijah Mikaelson ✔

Chapter Twelve | Unsure

Laura feels a hand rubbing her shoulder, comfortingly causing her eyes to open. "Good morning Sis".

Elena smiles down but her face turns serious after a few seconds "Are you okay?".

"You're asking me if I'm okay? You were the one who went through the more traumatic experience. I should be asking you".

"Well if we are going to stick together, we need to make sure we are all okay".

"How is Jer?".

"Still asleep, Damon stopped by earlier but I told him that we need time" The eldest Gilbert nods "Caroline said that she is picking us up soon for the movie in the park picnic, Gone In The Wind is playing"

"She wants us to move on and persevere" Laura says, knowing the blonde girl.

"Yep".

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The Gilbert siblings are walking through the square. Laura has her arm around her younger brothers shoulder.

"You brought me to see a girl movie".

"We had to get out of the house, Jer. This is our three-hour distraction from reality".

"Is that what we're doing? Pretending like our lives aren't screwed?"

"Basically" Laura mumbles.

"We need to do this, okay? Breathe, eat, sleep, wake up, and do it all over again until one day, it's just not as hard anymore".

The two brunette girls set up a picnic, sitting down while a blonde arrives with baskets of food. "Hey! There you guys are. Who's hungry?".

"Are we really doing this?"

"Yes, we are really doing this. We are going to take a page from Scarlett. We made it through the war".

" I know you guys went through hell, and my mom knows I am a vampire, so basically it's like Atlanta has burned. And yet, in spite of everything, we persevere". A chuckle comes from the eldest

"All right".

"What are we eating?".

"Something good".

After a while of eating and talking about different things, mostly topics and subjects that Caroline has brought up to make the picnic more happy and less about what happened yesterday. Stefan joins the four of them

"Hey".

"Hey! Look who couldn't resist an epic romance"

"Will you come take a walk with me?" Stefan glances at the other brunette "You too Laura". She nods, standing up and joining them.

"We're breaking the rules, you know. Movie night's supposed to be a distraction. Tomorrow we can return to our regularly scheduled drama".

"I know. I wish this could wait, but it can't. Listen, um, the other night when Damon was helping Tyler, something happened. Tyler was starting to transform, and Damon was bitten". Her mind goes back to the other night, remembering the exact moment but recent events had pushed it away.