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“You’re back...” Tessa stated, relief washing over her at seeing Liv. Of course her and the woman hadn’t ended things on great terms when they first met, but she knew that Liv had died as well as Luke. If she was back... “If you’re back, then Luke is back, right? He has to be back too...”

ethanmachado:

“i can’t see you drink blood” he said with a chuckle. a human who drank it? nah. that would be weird. ethan’s gaze fell on the ground when she continued to talk “checking? are you worried something bad might have happened to everyone?” he asked, frowned and looked up, glanced over at tessa “saw my sister being hurt, but it wasn’t real, other than that, i am feeling perfect. very good actually, never been better. i feel more alive than ever”

“No, I definitely don’t do that. I’ve had vampire blood before,” she admitted, though she supposed that wasn’t what he cared about right now. “Something bad did happen to them. I don’t know what happened where they were, but it couldn’t have been easy to be separated from loved ones and the world again. And I want to make sure they all made it back.” She knew the cost of how they got back, but she couldn’t help but worry there might have been even more that they lost in the process besides Andrew and Josie. “I saw similar things. It was awful and painful. I can’t blame you for wanting to find a way not to feel that,” Tessa said. “But shutting out the bad things... You’re also shutting out the good too. I hope you keep that in mind Ethan.”

xpenelcpe:

“it’s understandable after everything” she could understand it. all of this might make anyone jumpy.it was horrible what has occurred the last few days, maybe weeks, she lost track of time “thank you, miss carson” would someone see her being kind right now, they were going to think it was fake. penelope couldn’t always be mean to people, she had a friendly side depending on who it was she talked with or was around “yeah, i thought things were going to go well after i asked her to visit me here, but when this…” she shook her head, closed her eyes a brief second to fight the tears from coming “i didn’t know she recently came back from the dead, she kept it from me and i didn’t know either what she was. i don’t see why that’s something you keep from someone you are dating when you have told them about you” yes, she was hurt, which is new to her. easier before, when she barely cared, perhaps pretend, or no, she thought it was easier before.

She put her own issues aside for Penelope, ready to listen and be there for her. She wasn’t sure if she could help, but at the very least she could listen. Tessa frowned, feeling for the other. She put her hand on the girl’s arm, letting her know she wasn’t alone. “It can be hard to admit to yourself that you died, let alone someone else. Especially someone you care about so much. You should get the whole story from her before you make a judgment. Let her know how much it hurt you too. Hopefully that will keep any more secrets or anything from happening again.”

ethanmachado:

this wasn’t the first time he had taken innocent humans life. the first time was it a little out of control, an accident, wasn’t meant to happen. now this was not planned either, more an impulsive act. he threw a match on the body, studied it while it caught on fire. a new sound could be heard, the quiet and peaceful moment was gone. he turned around with a smile on his lips “what? did you want a snack too?” he asked, his head tilted to the side “sorry not sorry. you should have come earlier, but i’d probably not care to share” he wouldn’t share with anyone. but he knew other creatures wouldn’t want to drink blood, he said it anyway “and, what are you doing here? don’t you have other things to do than to trying to sneak up on someone who is busy to get rid off his evidence here or wait, that’s not it, i only let it burn because it’s fun to watch” was it a stupid idea to turn everything off? maybe. he did not know what would happen with him when his humanity was off. in his defense, he had to, he couldn’t take it anymore, to see his sister and mom being hurt. he could not tell if anything was real or not, but it made him feel bad, sad too because he couldn’t protect them, and to forget everything, he only thought of to turn it off. not feel anything felt good, for the first time in his life was he finally feeling good without any worries.

“No, definitely not,” Tessa stated, shaking her head as she watched Ethan carefully. He was still her student and she still cared about him, but she knew enough about vampires to be wary in a situation like this. Bloodlust could turn even the kindest vampire into a villain. “I was checking on people who had come back and I guess you were along the way. Are you okay?” she asked softly, still concerned despite her suspicions of what might be going on.

xpenelcpe:

did not come much as a surprise that this would happen. she had a feeling when she came to the city that nothing would stay the way they were. when it came the death, it most of the time came with a price, same as magic. they were not supposed to be alive, they should stay dead, but to live in the supernatural world, you could keep it as a thought that your loved ones were not gone forever “sorry” she apologized when she closed the door “i didn’t mean to scare you. i can go if you want to?” penelope bit on her lower lip. she could go somewhere else and hide from the bad date she had a few minutes ago. of course, she liked the woman she was currently dating, but it felt awkward after her.. well, she did not know what to call her, had come back from limbo. she didn’t know she had returned from the dead until all of this happened “i just wanted to hide from my.. not sure if i should say girlfriend anymore, it’s complicated”

“No, no. It’s fine. It’s not your fault. I’m the jumpy one,” she explained, shaking her head. She didn’t want her students thinking that they had to tiptoe around her. That wasn’t any way for them to be around her. Or let the students think they couldn’t rely on her any more. “My students are always welcome here,” Tessa explained, gesturing for the other to join her in the classroom and take a seat if she wanted. “I get that. I have a... complicated situation of my own I have to deal with eventually. No need to explain.”

The visions were gone now. The dead were back yet again. Hopefully this time for good. And yet despite all that, Tessa was shaky, jumping at every little noise. Maybe it was because of the visions, still affecting her even though they were gone. Or because two students she cared a lot about were their worst selves right now and she had no idea how to help bring them back. Or maybe it was because now she had to face a certain someone again and the aftermath of what happened just moments before they disappear. Whatever it was, it made her jump when a door closed behind her, resting a hand over her racing heart. “Despite my years in the supernatural world, I don’t think I have ever been this much of a nervous wreck.”

#nolalhq.start

antiripper:

💨 ― At her hand, he jumped. His body hardly moved, but there was a jolt of reality at the touch. MG’s hung head lifted a little and he tried to blink away the pain. “My friends. I keep… hurting them.” This was nothing like the spell from before. He didn’t witness the attacks, but there was no mistaking what he was seeing. It was an aftermath; his aftermath.

“You’re not hurting anyone. This is all in your head,” Tessa told him, hoping that he would believe her. She kneeled down beside him, putting her hand in his. “Don’t believe what you are seeing. You know who you are. You know that you’re a good person deep down. You wouldn’t hurt them. Even with your humanity off, you wouldn’t do that.”

malivoreson:

🔥 ― Emotions were high, for a lot of people. The school alone took a big hit and everywhere they turned, it seemed to only get worse. “Hey, hey..!” He laid a hand on her knee, gentle pats to accompany his equally gentle words. “We’re going to figure it out. Whatever it takes.” He paused, taking everything in. “Do you want to talk about it?”

Tessa wiped her tears away, trying to be strong. He was a student after all. She was supposed to be here for him, not the other way around. She did appreciate his comfort though. “No. There isn’t much to talk about besides figuring out what happened and how to fix it. Not that I am finding much in here,” she admitted, holding up one of the books she had been looking through.

thejergilbert:

the supernatural was a mess, no lie there. you never knew what would happen if you knew about them. jeremy ignored the visions he saw, made him happy to see his parents as he remembered them, but he knew they were not real. not anything he could do about, he tried to communicate with them, not working. he would lie to himself if he said it didn’t hurt him, hoping they would come back. despite knowing how everything could change right in front of you, it did not not stop him from wanting to investigate in whatever was going on here. why would someone or something bring back all of these dead people and later throw them back to their death again? nothing made sense, it was more behind it than they probably understood. the best way to hopefully find information was a library. didn’t matter where. after entering the library he noticed the woman, he walked closer to her “hi, did not expect to see anyone here. i agree with you, i’m gonna try to find information about it. would be strange if there wasn’t a way for this to be fixed” he wanted to reach out his hand when he introduced himself, but decided not do, to be polite “i’m jeremy gilbert”

Tessa did her best to try and calm down. It wasn’t going to help anything to keep crying and freaking out. She had to stay calm if she wanted to actually help things and not be a hindrance. She took a few deep breaths, wiping some of her tears away. “Sorry. It’s just a lot right now,” she admitted, trying to stay calm. “Tessa Carson. I work here at the school. And I usually know a lot about supernatural stuff but this is something very new to me.”

kasparweitz:

“Times have changed much? Witches are most vindictive.” It did make him ponder a philosophical question. “The scrutiny of witchcraft based on the vices and virtues of itself maintains the problem. You soon find that whichever side of history you find yourself on, none is equally as terrible or better than the other.” While he could not say that the times were better now than then, he could contest that witchcraft play a centre part in the chaos throughout history. “Balance of nature plays a part, in us all, you can not have good without evil.”

“Exactly, there is good and bad in both things. History is often written by the victors, which is part of the reason I love speaking to people who were alive at the time to see another side of the story that isn’t in the books,” Tessa explained, nodding in agreement with what Kaspar was saying as well. “If people would only come to accept the good and bad together rather than villainizing the bad stuff. It often leads to much worse things to just ostracize people who do bad things.”

antiripper:

💨 ― He was slumped over, on his knees, and doing what appeared to be cradling his own chest in a tight embrace. In his mind’s eye, it was someone he cared about in his arms ― the vision a different one every time. Throat torn out, eyes devoid of life. MG held the body close and quietly sobbed. He remembered them all yet still, every time felt more real than the last.

Despite her own pain and the visions she was seeing, she still felt a responsibility to her students. She had to help them through this hard time too. She found MG, seemingly hugging nothing, and approached him, placing a gentle hand on his shoulder. “MG, what are you seeing?”

malivoreson:

🔥 ― “There always is.” As confident as he forced that to sound, there was stress in his brow. A certain dread in the way he turned the page of the next book. He had been running on no sleep, for what he thought had just been nightmares at first had become ever so vivid. Focusing here, keeping himself grounded and on task seemed to help, for now. “Have we heard back.. from anyone?” All of the dead who’d returned at all, just vanishing like this. And the visions.. “They didn’t come back at the same time. That must mean something.”

Tessa swallowed hard, long enough to try and calm down and give a semi-coherent answer. “Someone disappeared right in front of me... I can’t get a hold of some of my friends who I know had come back... They all seem to be gone,” she said sadly, pain evident in her voice. Having people close to her like this and not just in a research way... it didn’t happen often for Tessa. So feeling the pain of the disappearances made it hurt even worse. “I just want to bring them all back.”

If it wasn’t enough that the man she cared about disappeared right after she kissed him, then the nightmares and visions began. All the ways she had imagined her mother dying, though she hadn’t seen it for herself, were once again haunting her. And her father... She actually saw him die, held him in his last moments and she was experiencing that pain all over again. It was so much pain to remember those things, to feel them. It wasn’t just Ansel that had disappeared either, it was everyone who had come back. Luke, who had become her best friend was gone. Klaus was gone. Kaspar was gone... It wasn’t fair. She had to find a way to bring them back. So Tessa was in the library, making a mess and scouring the books there. “There has to be some way to fix this.”

#nolalhq.start

kasparweitz:

“Of course.” He nodded in agreement to her suggestion willing to divulge information that may not appear in history books or rather least of which he had seen himself. “I’m not certain I know anything of what happened to the coven, I was, long gone before anything of significance occurred.”

“I think a first-hand account would really help them understand how awful it was,” she said with a nod. “Well, from what I have researched and the journals the school has on display, the coven tracked down the final two living doppelgangers and used a spell to get rid of all traditional magic, though it was cut off with the death of one of the doppelgangers and it was only located in Mystic Falls, Virginia. It lifted the curse on Travellers, but a lot of local vampires who lived there couldn’t step foot inside the town, since it took away the magic that made them vampires and killed them. The Travellers were killed in an explosion and the spell eventually siphoned away by Kai Parker, a siphoner witch. If you want more information, there are still some people who were there at the time who can explain more,” she offered.

kasparweitz:

“No need.” He said with a shake of his head only to clarify. “I lived during those times and while I am not in the habit of sharing, I do make exceptions for colleagues.” He preferred to keep such information discreet. “My people. The Travelers as they are known were accustom to less traditional types of magic. Casted out by the magical community themselves. For me, it came to an understanding of what makes us different when we are all one the same. It is our minds that we possess the most powerful tool.”

“It could be a great experience for the students. Maybe we could plan some sort of week long coverage of those times and you could be a guest speaker,” she suggested, smiling brightly at the idea. “Yes, I have done my best to study the Travelers, though it’s very hard given the very nature of the coven. Have you heard of how the Travelers ultimately came to an end and for a short time stopped their curse?” she asked, since she had heard the story before.

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@grandpawolf

After her talk with Luke, Tessa decided he was right. She needed to make a move. So once again she found herself driving out towards the bayou, where he had set up his home. She hoped she wasn’t intruding, but if she waited any longer, she was going to chicken out. She climbed out of her car and headed to the door, knocking quickly. God, she felt nervous as hell. As soon as he opened the door, Tessa went up on her toes, pulling him down slightly to match her height and pressed her lips against his.

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