"the world was on fire and no one could save me but you
it's strange what desire will make foolish people do
i'd never dreamed that i'd meet somebody like you."
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Victoria Gilbert decides to leave Mystic Falls and finds herself...
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊 i wanna do things with you that i haven't done with anyone else
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
VICTORIA NERVOUSLY SAT on the edge of her bed, wringing her fingers. Her hair was damp because she had just got out of the shower, and scrubbed herself so hard that she was a little pink. She swallowed thickly and looked up to see Eric slowly making his way into her room, closing the door behind him quietly.
When he turned to look at her, he took in a deep breath at the sight of her clean but exhausted. She hasn't gotten any sleep since everything went down, and not only that, but she could barely meet his eyes. Her brown eyes were so conflicted and he could hear her heart pounding against her chest. He closed his eyes briefly and opened his mouth, about to say something, but nothing came out.
"Do you have any idea on how so felt when you were gone?" She asked him quietly, making him shut his mouth. Her voice cracked as she asked, "do you have any idea on what I have been through? What I did?"
Eric took one small step towards her, and stopped when he saw her flinch slightly. "I felt your pain, your guilt, remorse. Your... fear wrapped around my heart, strangling me." He struggled to find the words of how he felt when he felt her feelings.
"And you didn't even try to reach out to me? You didn't even try to text me, call me, or even send someone to check in on me." She took in a shaky breath and placed her shaking hands on her lap. "Godric was gone. He wasn't anywhere in Mystic Falls, said he had some business to do. I was... all alone. I was stuck in this never ending fear circle. I..."
She stopped as she recalled being held hostage, of seeing someone behind blown up and then shot through the heart. She recalled attacking Connor and accidentally kill him, watching as the life left his body. She recalled her nightmares, the hallucinations, the need to want to end it all even if she had to kill herself. She recalled the feeling of wanting him to be there for her, to comfort her, to tell her that everything was going to be alright. But, he wasn't. He wasn't there, didn't try to reach out in any way possible, and that's why she feels betrayed by him. She feels like he let her down. And she's allowed to feel that way... right?
"I felt your pain, and I wanted to come to you. I did. Trust me, I never want you to feel like that, and to experience it with you, it was dreadful." He took another step towards her, tears shining in his eyes. "I wanted to come rescue you as take away the pain, but I couldn't. I was finally in the person's house who killed my family, and I wasn't going to allow him to get away. So, I came up with a plan that went to shit when he discovered Sookie which meant he would find you. I didn't want that to happen. I not only killed his husband for me, but for you, too." He swallowed thickly and continued, "I did everything in my power to protect you, and if you hated me, I was fine with it. Because I will always choose you."
Tori's breath was taken away, and she looked down at her lap, tears dripping down her cheeks, and she bit her lip harshly. "I was taken hostage," she started, "and I saw someone get blown up and shot through the heart. It left a huge open wound in his chest. It was scarring." Her heart was breaking in two as she recalled everything that had happened in the Mystic Grill. "I killed someone," she sobbed out, her whole body shaking. "He had it coming to him, but he was my... he was..."
