test drive meme: pre-game opening #1

[jumpscare]

___test drive meme: dead weight edition. Step 1 → Post with the character and journal you're wanting to play. Leave the message blank with your Character's Name | Character's Canon. Step 2 → Other people respond to your thread! Fight zombies, deal with the "fictional character" news, whatever you please. Step 3 → ??? Step 4 → PROFIT! Step 5 → Spread the word! Bring a friend! Make a random announcement on D_M! Get this post to crack the hundreds! It doesn't matter if you end up apping or not! This is a place of fun and meeting new people before the waiting!

Text somewhat shamelessly stolen from assguardians.

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[coy]

[caroline's next to her, having the same problem that elena is except multiplied by vampire-ness.] I can't sleep.

[risks]

[ thank god. not thank god, but thank god she's not alone with her insomnia. the sheets rustle and the bed whines slightly as elena turns towards caroline in the dark. she should say something. something comforting.

somehow, she can't manage it for a dragging silence. she's moved past "it's going to be okay" and "how is any of this possible?" quickly today. now her words dissolve into a soft, weighted exhale.

she reaches out blindly to touch caroline's arm. ] We'll get through this.

[coy]

I know. [she says it in a small voice, her arm moving to wrap around her friend.] We're going to be okay. [elena doesn't need to be the one who has to be strong, caroline can do it too.]

[risks]

[ she smiles, barely. maybe caroline can see it in the shadows the way elena can't. still, she squeezes the arm beneath her fingers gently in answer as well. "okay" has always been relative with her, with them too; why should that change too, just because everything else has been ripped apart and flipped on its head? ] We always are. [ it's said sadly, but with strength of plenty conviction. ]

[coy]

[their version of okay is not really anyone else's version of okay. okay means they're alive, surviving, breathing (sort of).] Always. [caroline sighs softly, her heart aching for those who aren't okay, that didn't make it, that are lost to whatever this thing is. she's going to fight to make sure elena never feels that way.]

[risks]

[ it's a little too late to stop her from feeling that way. to stop them both, elena thinks, her eyes dropping from seeking out caroline's. always is a long time. she's not sure she believes in always anymore, if she ever did, but she'll believe in it until she's proven wrong, and many times besides. for caroline. for herself. to survive and make it through. her eyes flick back up. ] We should get some sleep.

[coy]

[her eyes meet with her friend's before she closes her eyes, sighing again.] We should but can we? [her eyes open up again.] Weirdest slumber party ever.