( for a long moment, damon doesn't react. he doesn't move, he doesn't say anything — he can't. he can't process what elena has just said, the words just won't come together in a way that makes sense.
she and stefan broke up?
she chose him?
the only explanation he can think of is that he was wrong, it's not elena he's been talking to this whole time, it really is katherine — she's impersonated elena so often, and he's tried to get better at seeing through the act, but she must have fooled him again. it's the only thing that makes sense, the only thing that could explain the words coming out of her mouth right now. katherine knows what he wants to hear and is giving it to him so that she can tear it away once he begins to buy it.
abruptly, he blurs up to the doppelganger in front of him, ready to throw her into a stasis pod, to threaten her, kill her if that's the only way he will be free of her unending need to ruin his life —
— but it is elena. he knows it is, he's memorized the differences between the doppelgangers, can almost feel the difference between them. katherine takes, in everything she does she is the only benefactor. there is no part of her that is ever open to others, that is genuine. elena is entirely genuine, and gives so much of herself damon is sometimes afraid there will come a day when she has nothing left for herself. her emotions reach her eyes in a way they never did on katherine's version of this face — katherine shows nothing that is not manufactured, calculated to serve a specific purpose. elena can't help but show every feeling she ever has plainly through her every action.
it's elena staring back at him. it is.
why, then, would she lie like this? )
Don't, ( is all he ends up saying, voice low, tension vibrating through every inch of him. )
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she and stefan broke up?
she chose him?
the only explanation he can think of is that he was wrong, it's not elena he's been talking to this whole time, it really is katherine — she's impersonated elena so often, and he's tried to get better at seeing through the act, but she must have fooled him again. it's the only thing that makes sense, the only thing that could explain the words coming out of her mouth right now. katherine knows what he wants to hear and is giving it to him so that she can tear it away once he begins to buy it.
abruptly, he blurs up to the doppelganger in front of him, ready to throw her into a stasis pod, to threaten her, kill her if that's the only way he will be free of her unending need to ruin his life —
— but it is elena. he knows it is, he's memorized the differences between the doppelgangers, can almost feel the difference between them. katherine takes, in everything she does she is the only benefactor. there is no part of her that is ever open to others, that is genuine. elena is entirely genuine, and gives so much of herself damon is sometimes afraid there will come a day when she has nothing left for herself. her emotions reach her eyes in a way they never did on katherine's version of this face — katherine shows nothing that is not manufactured, calculated to serve a specific purpose. elena can't help but show every feeling she ever has plainly through her every action.
it's elena staring back at him. it is.
why, then, would she lie like this? )
Don't, ( is all he ends up saying, voice low, tension vibrating through every inch of him. )