losing my grip;

SAWYER HENRIKSON | 19 | WITCH The thing with power is that once you've got it, you have to work to keep it. It's a fight. You can't just get power and think that everything is good to go. Power has a cost, a price. It's paid in blood and in pieces of yourself, until there's nothing left of you.

[h-ellriot]

“Hey, woah - Sawyer, what’s wrong?”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“Everything is wrong. You look like shit. What happened?”

[landslidewritings]

“I’m glad we were able to come to an agreement of sorts.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“Yeah, whatever. Do we shake hands here?”

[noraainsley]

“Sawyer….”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“What, Nora?”

[landslidewritings]

“Make no mistake, witch. I give orders; not take them. If it’s stronger vampires you need, then it’s stronger vampires you will get but do not think for a second that I am doing this being you asked me to, because as I’ve said many times before; witches can be replaced.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“You’ll know it if I’m giving you an order. But maybe you should work on not beating the crap out of people who are working for you willingly. And don’t worry, I don’t think anything about you anymore. You've squashed any hopes I had of us being actual friends.”

[arizonaadler-deactivated2020073]

“Sawyer — calm down — now.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“I don’t want to calm down. I want what was taken from me back. You don’t get to tell me what to do anymore, Ian.”

[howlingmarshall]

“Hey, calm down. What happened?”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“Where do you want me to start, Hayley? Everything happened and I’m tired. I’m tired and I can’t.... I can’t fix it. I’m not strong enough.”

[landslidewritings]

“And you’ll hate it a lot more if your anger continues to blind your actions.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“Says the guy who is constantly blinded by rage and paranoia. Yeah, I’ve heard all the stories. You let your temper get the better of you. So don’t judge me, help me. I need stronger vampires to steal power from. And you’re the only person who can get me what I need.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“I hate this town.”

[brotticelli]

what have you got that feels like flying, he asks, fingers running over scars, body pressed against yours in the corner of some club as the bassline pounds in your chest -what have you got that feels like flying, he says again, so you kiss him, so you let him taste the sky on your tongue, so you are just two burned boys looking into each others’ eyes and seeing only the sun.

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[rosalinebriand-deactivated20170]

“I could turn you right here and now and you’d be fine. Wouldn’t want you to give up that witchy juju of yours, though.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“I doubt Marcel would let me live long enough if you turned me. Plus I need this witchy juju. You have your revenge and I have mine.”

[noblemanelijah]

I am aware of that, but what you have to understand is that the enemy is no longer just Marcel. Suddenly everyone has been feeling encouraged to try and spill some blood, to play Gods, it is becoming contagious. Perhaps it is for the best. You seem to be better, at least on the outside.

[sawyerhenrikson]

Marcel is my only enemy. He is the reason I’ve lost everything. I don’t need to spill blood or play god, I just need to get rid of him. It’s not. I wanted a goodbye. I never got... I loved him, Elijah. He was the last good thing I had and now he’s gone and no one’s... everyone’s too busy for a homeless orphan. I get it. I’m better at acting. It makes people less uncomfortable. They don’t have to think about how to deal with someone who’s grieving if I pretend I’m better.

[landslidewritings]

Then keep your eye on the target and do what you’re told; no questions asked. 

[sawyerhenrikson]

Fine. You got it. One mindless lackey, coming up.

[shiroyoshidas]

[arizonaadler-deactivated2020073]

And what is it that you could possibly need? 

[sawyerhenrikson]

My camera. Some boots I left behind. A picture of my parents. Just... can I get them or are you going to be a jerk about it?

[landslidewritings]

Perhaps you shouldn’t get it twisted, little witch. I need no one. 

[sawyerhenrikson]

Even a king needs some one. What’s a kingdom with no one in it? I don’t want your crown, I just want to help you get rid of Marcel. I want to make him pay for everything he’s taken from me. He’s wronged me and that’s not going unpunished.

[rosalinebriand-deactivated20170]

“It’s your will of determination that’s kept you alive. Live three hundred years and you’ll see what I mean.”

[sawyerhenrikson]

“Yeah, I don’t really see myself making it past nineteen in this place. At least I know I’m not going down without a fight.”

[rosalinebriand-deactivated20170]

"Luck has nothing to do with anything."

[sawyerhenrikson]

“Maybe not for you, but it’s one of the reasons I’ve survived this long.”