ren. [tvd spinoff]

11 | good talk

11

g o o d t a l k

5 years ago

"Hey. Juliet, right?"

Juliet looked up at the boy looming over her and raised an eyebrow. "Yeah. You're that cute new boy in my History class." she said, closing her book.

"I'm also the cute new boy from your English Literature class but yeah." he chuckled nervously, awkwardly glancing around until his eyes eventually landed back on the girl.

"You're the only familiar face i can see around here. Do you mind if i sit down?" he asked, gesturing towards the empty seat opposite Juliet.

She was sitting at a circular table located under a tree of some sort. Her best friend, Melissa, was at a cheer practise so Juliet was by herself, doing her homework.

"Go ahead, cute new boy." she shrugged, letting out a small smile when he smirked.

"I'm Ren, by the way. Ren Williams." he said, stretching his hand out across the table.

"Juliet Moore." she laughed, shaking his hand back.

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now

"Are you okay, Juliet? You look flustered." Ren asked as soon as he opened the door.

Juliet frowned and shook her head, "I'm fine. Just... a busy day at work."

"Okay. Do you want help with something or-"
"No, i was just wondering if you wanted to hang out."
"Oh."

Ren had been trying his best to not end up alone with her. He both wanted it and didn't want it at the same time.

He didn't want to pull a move or anything on her until he knew she was into him. Come on, it's his pride on the line here.

"No, i'm sorry. There's vampire business i need to take care of."
"Maybe i could help?"
"It's fine, really. Hang out with Melissa or something."

Juliet paused and stared at him.
"How do you know about Melissa? I definitely haven't talked about her."

Ren let out a soft groan and cupped her face. "Forget this conversation. Go and have a coffee or something." he said quietly, pursing his lips when he was done.

He tried to compel her, Juliet knew that. He didn't know that Charlie gave her the necklace back and that kind of scared her.

If he was so comfortable doing it to her, she couldn't help but wonder how many other times he had done it.

All she could think about, however, was what Charlie told her. "This necklace is your leverage, Juliet. Use it to your advantage."

She looked up and grinned at the boy.

"There's a new coffee shop down town. See you later, Ren!" she chirped, turning around to head to her car.

Ren smirked and closed the door, only to be met with a familiar face.

"Eliza?" he muttered, furrowing his eyebrows.
"Hello, Ren." she said, bringing her hand up to his hair. She pushed a tuft of hair back and cocked her head.

"God, talk about the irony. Am i right?" Eliza asked, slowly moving her hands down to his neck.

He raised his eyebrow and glanced down to her hands. "Uh, yeah. Right." he said, not quite sure about what to do.

Eliza pursed her lips and shrugged. "Whatever. Goodbye, Ren." she said, snapping his neck in one swift motion.

His body fell to the floor to reveal Rebekah standing behind him. "Well? What now?" she asked, pushing her blonde hair behind her shoulders.

"Now we move him and wait for him to wake up. Then you can use your original compulsion shit to compel him." Eliza said, crouching down to Ren's level.

"Compel him to do what? What's the point of this, Eliza?" Rebekah sighed.
"You're going to compel him to remember seeing me, but to not have the great privilege of talking about this encounter. All of this is just entertainment, really."

"And remind me why i'm helping you again?"
"I found you that goddamn dagger, did i not?"
"Fine. But don't get too comfortable with me. This whole shin-gig wont go on for much longer."

Eliza stood up and dropped her arms uselessly by her side.
"Yeah yeah whatever, just help me move this heavy ass body."

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"Charlie, hey."

Charlie looked up and raised an eyebrow. "It's 6 o'clock so don't go on about how day drinking is bad." he sighed.

"I wasn't actually, but what are you drinking?"
"Bourbon."
"Definitely brothers." she muttered, pulling out the chair next to him.

"So," began Juliet, "What has Ren compelled me to forget?"
Charlie let out a small laugh and stared at her, "You expect me to tell you, just like that?"

"I was hoping you would." she pursed her lips.
"Nah. That would be far to easy. For all you know, he hasn't compelled you at all." he shrugged, taking a sip from his glass

"Charlie!" she groaned, pulling at her hair in frustration.
"Woah, don't hurt yourself." Charlie sighed, forcing her hand down.

"Look, this isn't something that you should be hearing from me."
"Since when do you care? I thought you had your almighty humanity switch off."
"It may have been switched back on recently..." he trailed off, drinking the remainder of his drink.

"Another bourbon, please." he said to the waiter who just nodded and went away.

"Knowing that Eliza might actually be alive has shown me that maybe i've been too hard on my brother all these years."

Juliet looked up and raised her eyebrow. "Really?" she asked.

Charlie nodded solemnly before letting out a snort, "I really had you fooled then, didn't i? I don't regret anything that i've done. Even with my humanity on. This is just who i am as a person, Jules."

"Did you just call me J- okay, whatever. Screw you, Charles." she sighed, swinging her bag over her shoulder before standing up.

"Good talk." he smirked, taking a sip out of the glass that was just handed to him.

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