You Can Never Forget It

What it's like to be human

[rosemarieporter]

Closed starter for @strawberryxmagic (Josie)

"One...two..." and then she'd been gone. There had been the other side, and then nothing at all.

And now the world, rushing back in around her like she'd been pulled back into it by some sort of spectral hand. Rose hit the floor where a bed had once been, crying out not from pain but from the shock of the impact and her confusion. She lay there for a moment gasping, trying to place her location, but when it hit her things got even worse. More upside down, more confusing, more disconcerting.

It was the Salvatore house. Damon's bedroom. But it wasn't anymore. It wasn't a bedroom, and it didn't even feel like a house. There were voices coming from the open door, and Rose threw herself behind it in case anyone was going to enter. Instead they passed, and she rolled to her feet and zipped down the hall at full speed looking for the front door.

Before she could get there, though, her path was intersected by a little brunette. Rose grabbed her from behind, keeping her voice low. "Don't scream, please. Where am I?"

[rosemarieporter]

Closed starter for @traegics (Elijah)

Rose had followed him for blocks. She wasn't naive enough to think that he hadn't noticed, but as long as he was willing to keep the game up then so was she. As she stalked, she pictured Trevor's body and the feelings that she'd never had time to process before her own death.

Waking up in the Salvatore School had been the most utterly disorienting after death experience possible, with Rose sneaking out past students and teachers and moving into Mystic Falls proper...and then standing on the outskirts, staring helplessly into the place she no longer recognized. Mystic Falls had crashed into New Orleans, and in the middle of it all was...something she couldn't begin to imagine. Fortunately the Mikaelson compound was where she'd expected it to be, and Elijah hadn't been long in appearing.

Finally they crossed under an overpass, giving them some cover, and Rose tired of the game. "ELIJAH!" she shouted, steadying herself for whatever might come next.

[rosemarieporter]

[ lauren cohan | she/her] A new face takes refuge under Dark Skies. ROSE-MARIE, an 22/560 year old VAMPIRE, is one of those from the FUTURE learning to navigate this changed world. People say behind their back that they’re MANIPULATIVE but the truth is that they’re really LOYAL. Their style can best be described as LINGERING DARKNESS, BLOOD AND HORSES, and we’ll see how that helps them fit in.

Born in 1450, Rose was turned by a woman named Mary Porter (the last name she now uses in tribute), who was in turn sired by Klaus Mikaelson, the man whose family would entangle her life for five hundred years. After being unwittingly caught up in Katerina's web, Rose-Marie and her friend Trevor spent five those five hundred years on the run until they discovered Elena's existence and offered the knowledge of the doppleganger to Elijah in return for their safety. His disingenuous promise kept her alive, but not Trevor, and she was suddenly left adrift in Mystic Falls.

She aided Damon and Stefan in learning more about the Originals, even engaging in a brief affair with Damon before she became the casualty of a werewolf bite that would have killed her in agony if Damon hadn't staked her while giving her a peaceful dream in which to spend her last moments.

And aside from her time on the Other Side, that should have been the end. It was, for a time. And then she awoke inside the now-repurposed Salvatore School, cured of the bite but lost and alone in a new time and a place that was nothing like she remembered.