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Elena, her erstwhile Salvatores, and Stefan's childe Mikhail run into Angel. Elena learns part of the truth of Mikhail's siring...but other details are left out.
5/26/2016 8:00 PM
Mystic Falls Beacon Hills
Mystic Falls[]
The town square of Mystic Falls is like a slice of Americana, with picturesque storefronts and well-maintained administrative buildings. In the center of the square, a pleasant park stretches from one end to the other, providing a welcome splash of greenery accented by the numerous trees and shrubs planted to beautify the place. A few persistent structures exist in the park area, most dedicated to gatherings and amenities for the weekly celebrations and festivities that take place here. A few blocks to the north, the area gives way to the Warehouse District of Beacon Hills proper, the larger town that has absorbed Mystic Falls. To the west lie the town outskirts and the countryside, where the settlement began long ago.
The sun has set.
In spring, daytime temperatures approach an average of 65?F. The plants are budding and blooming with new life with the spring thaw and warming temperatures. It's fair and mild, with a few clouds in the sky.
The waning gibbous moon is visible in the sky.
It's well after sunset. Angel did head up this way on occasion...after all, there were two seperate towns here, and Angel spent most of his time up here in the Beacon Hills sections with his werewolf allies. He didn't usually find himself on the Mystic Falls side of town. Then again, he was here to find Stefan, mostly, and Stefan was not in evidence at the moment.
It's well after sunset. Angel did head up this way on occasion...after all, there were two seperate towns here, and Angel spent most of his time up here in the Beacon Hills sections with his werewolf allies. He didn't usually find himself on the Mystic Falls side of town. Then again, he was here to find Stefan, mostly, and Stefan was not in evidence at the moment.
Elena Gilbert is at the park with her two boys. She is texting her roommate to assure her that she is safe even though it is after dark. "Nice to have you two both out and not having to worry about curfew and all the crazy stuff for a while. I just wonder how long before you two prickle the other too much."
"Yeah, uh, why am I here again? I hate both of you." Damon rolls his eyes and just tries to figure out what the hell is the point of all this. He narrows his eyes at what's in front of them and is already preparing to get his vamp speed on so he can get away from this awkward situation. "I can think of a hundred things better than being a third wheel to you two. Sex. Bourbon. Sex /with/ Bourbon."
Mikhail generally has to check in with either Stefan or Angel and as they're both in this neck of the woods so is he, strolling over from the Beacon Hills area his head is very much elsewhere, a music shop with a certain blonde to be exact. Just catching part of a conversation with his vampire hearing he keeps walking onwards while pondering, "Who has sex with bourbon?"
Stefan Salvatore finally steps inside, eyes first finding Damon. He sighs, "Damon what are doing here?" He then finds Elena and Angel, "Ah.. well Angel it must be important if Damon's here. Probably something that concerns vampires rather than demons."
Angel finds Elena, the brothers, and even Mikhail all in one spot. One big 'happy' family. In theory. Still, Stefan was who he originally came to see, and, "You doing alright?" He knows Stefan was originally going to show up. But there could've been any number of things to distract him. "Mikhail made it. He fought pretty hard." With a nod towards Mikhail coming in. He also greets Elena with, "Hey." Yes, he sees you Damon. He's keeping an eye on you.
Elena Gilbert finds herself in a gathering of four men. Two she knows well and two she does know so well. She takes a moment to look at each in turn. "Damon you are here cuz this is where the interesting stuff is." She looks to Angel, "so you made it through the weekend, congratulations. I hope it was a success." Then there is Mikhail, "Who are you? You and Damon friends?" She gets the feeling she is missing lots of information here.
"Ugh." Damon immediately rolls his eyes as the convergence of pretty much everyone he can't stand happens. "Welp. That's my cue to be anywhere but here." Damon immediately tosses a sarcastic salute to everyone that is -- okay, that's a lie. To Elena. Because he could probably do without the rest of these fools. "Not friends. Never will be. Stefan, tell your girl what you did." Damon points to Angel. "You're still alive. Dammit. I gotta' spread the word louder next time." And then to Mikhail. "Just because I haven't killed you yet doesn't mean I won't. I might get bored. Soon." And now that he's threatened people he can prepare to get the hell out of dodge.
Stefan Salvatore is not exactly happy to be here with Damon so it's not quite a happy family. He sighs, "Damon what are you still doing in Mystic Falls? In Beacon Hills for that matter?" He glances at Angel, "Angel it must be important if Damon's here. Probably something that concerns vampires rather than demons." He doesn't seem to want to bring Elena into this so he doesn't say anything to her.
Mikhail nods to Stefan in greeting, "Err, thanks for the blood", is offered to Angel, he didn't get a chance to thank him before, at Damon's words he starts to pull on his magic but as quick as he started finds himself stopping, the want to do violence still there but the will to act on it gone, "We've actually met Elena, told you you'd do well in France", he keeps his eyes on Damon as he speaks.
Elena's face is rapidly going from happy to annoyed and headed toward upset. She crosses her arms and rests a hip, having picked up a few of Katherine's manerisms now that they live togeher. "Okay. You boys need to dial it down and start talking plain." She points at Stefan, "Why is he thanking you for blood." Then to Damon, "Don't you dare leave, that's not an idle threat." She then nods to Mikhail, "I remember what you said, I also remember you let slip on being way older then you look." She finally points at Angel, "You better not be bringing drama and trouble to where I live. If I told Katherine that she would NOT be happy."
Angel first responds to Elena, "Yes, things went as I hoped they would. The curse is gone." Which means unlife is a WHOLE hell of a lot better for Angel. "You were a comrade that day, Mikhail." And as long as he continues to be, Angel will continue helping him out. He shakes his head at Stefan. "I just wanted to be sure you weren't caught in a battle you couldn't get out of." At Damon's comment, "Maybe you don't have as many friends as I do." And then Elena is unaccountably worried about him bringing trouble. "Why would you think I'd have trouble following me? Wolfram and Hart threw most of their quarterly resources at me on Sunday, and got very little out of it. They aren't going to have the resources to do much else for a while." With Angel, as a Champion of the Powers, it's more he seeks out trouble then trouble seeking him out. Usually.
"Wouldn't doubt it." Damon's response to Angel about having friends is a bit more snarky than it probably normally would be. A nerve might've been struck. He then turns to Elena. "Okay. Your not so idle threat has been noted. Anything else before I go? Want to slap me? We can get that out of the way too." Damon is already turning his back on the group so that he can get to stalking off towards his car. Which is probably parked far away from here. But he's got vamp speed.
"What can I say, man of mystery", Mikhail keeps his eyes focused on Damon, that seems to be all he can do as of now, still he smiles a little at Angel's comment, "What is with the vamp convention here anyway?"
Angel shrugged, "I hadn't anticipated a 'convention.' I was just stopping by to see my friend, and then a few more showed up. I didn't have any great news other then the efforts last weekend were successful." Sometimes, it's not an epic call to action. Sometimes...it's just a visit.
Elena takes a moment after she listens to the others talk, "I wouldn't slap you without good reason Damon. You know that." She motions to the Mikhail, "So you are one of Angel's then? Part of his invesigation team I take it." She isn't so sure about what to do with this information. "Damon. Please don't go," her eyes saying she doesn't want to be 'left' like this.
Mikhail raises an eyebrow, "One of Angel's?", he figures Elena must mean who turned him, "Stefan's actually but I've been told Angel's my other babysitter", apparently he needs one of those, "I was under the impression those two didn't get on...", he points between Stefan and Damon.
Angel...opts to be quiet. It looked to him like Elena hadn't known exactly who Mikhail's sire was, or even that he was a vampire. All he says is, "It isn't wise for me to sire another vampire. Such a being would have no soul, and would therefore be evil." But Mikhail clearly has a soul.
Elena Gilbert's dark eyes zero in on Mikhail as he claims to be one of Stefan's and states flately, "What." No humor, tone suggesting this is not the time for casual comments or jokes. "Don't try to deflect this back to the brothers. I want to know what you mean by being Stefan's. Because I suspected something with the date slip in the pizza place but didn't think you wer ea vampire then. You clearly are now, and not one of Angel's breed. So talk. Fast."
"Stefan's my sire, his blood turned me", Mikhail is a little caught of guard by Elena's reaction, "Is there more that needs saying? Further questions? Cause kinda feeling I'm on trial right now and that wasn't much fun last time", he shrugs.
Now Angel goes very quiet. This is a family issue now, and it's not a family he's a part of. "...would you like me to go, Elena?" Because he's not sure it's appropriate for him to watch such a conversation.
"And just when did this happen? Because while I may not know all of Stefan's past I think he would have mentioned turning someone else to a vampire." Not to mention how against that he always sounded. Elena still is with the 'not happy' face and sort of doesn't care if Mikhail feels on trial a the moment. Eyes flicking to Angel just for a moment. "Don't you dare. I may need someone here til a ride comes and gets me." Because those named Salvatore will be in the dog house. "How long have you known about this Angel?" Then back to Mikhail, "and what do you know about me? If anything."
Mikhail hmmms, "One month, twenty two days ago? I think", he gives Angel a look of 'don't leave me to deal with this!', what is it with the girl and questions? "Your name is Elena, you like olives on your pizza and you've never been to France", thats pretty much it.
Angel verifies with, "I was there when he was sired. I didn't see him rise, though." Looking straight at Elena. "It wasn't my place to tell you."
Elena takes a deep breath and forces herself to relax. "Sorry. Just... this is rather a big deal and to find out like this and at this time. Not exactly idea, and it makes me wonder what else my boyfriend is hiding from me." She gets plenty of that from Katherine at home. "Look. I am not sure how to take this all. Angel I get it wasn't yours to tell but you could have suggested Stefan and I talk about some stuff."
Now Mikhail is out of the firing line he just shakes his head in disappointment, "Yeah Angel, could you not see what was needed here? I feel like a dirty little secret", from his tone he's clearly kidding, though he is more than happy to push things onto Angel.
Angel looked off into the distance, as if reminiscing. "I expected him to tell you on his own. I learned the hard way keeping secrets from one's significant other doesn't end well. I guess he hasn't had that experience yet."
"He's been on the recieving end from," Elena pauses and edits herself. "The past." She looks at Mikhail. "Look I don't mean to attack you but I take this seriously. I am curious to know how and why you became a vampire but I guess I don't have a right to press you on it. Much." She points at Angel with a hand casual, "you were in a catch 22 but I'm still not happy."
"The how is the usual, drank Stefan's blood, died, woke up again", Mikhail is fairly blase about it, "As for the why, I like being a vampire, better option that having to go though existance as human, simple as", it's not like he isn't better off this way.
Angel looks back and forth between Elena and Mikhail. So he was going to keep secrets from her too, it seemed. Still, he eyes Mikhail sternly. There's a few important parts Mikhail left out of that abbreviated story. But Angel is stuck under 'not his place to say' again. Instead, he asks Elena, "You mean his sire?" That is, Kat? He can imagine her keeping, oh, every secret ever. Still, Angel's not naming names, because Elena isn't seeing fit to name names either.
Mikhail's answer makes Elena visibly mad to hear that. "Wait. So you got turned to the undead, a predator of humans that could fly off an emotional tantrum and kill lots of people.... because being a human was BORING?" She yells at the end. "Funny how millions go through life without the need to do that. I.... and Stefan was OKAY with this?!" She shakes her head and pulls out her cell, teen fingers flying to type a text. She answers Angel, "yes I mean the one who made Stefan but that is not something we should talk about." She sends her text and looks to a street nearby. "I think I'll leave you fang boys club to hang out and play 'white knight' or hero in the alley or whatever. Think I have heard enough."
"Boring? No not boring, try hopeless, try complete utter dispair". Mikhail stays still and calm, "I can't even begin to explain what being human was like for me, empty might be a good word for it, my entire existence hurt, I'd rather be dead, and now I am, and I am happy, I very nearly had my internal organs ripped out the other day, and I'm grateful for that, grateful for any pain I feel as a vampire aslong as it don't have to go back to being human".
Angel, with one of those haunted looks of his, "...I'm not sure it's a good idea for you to be alone right now. I should stay with you until your ride arrives." Whoever that turns out to be. Funny how the actual Champion of the group seems least eager to run off at the moment...he didn't miss the fact both brothers seem to have gone silent.
Elena slips her hand into her purse. Right now she wants nothing to do with vampires. What Mikhail says only makes it worse. "I don't want to hear another word from EITHER of you. I do have a stake and if you wanna be dead and gone Mikhail I will do that for you and you can be at peace and the world a bit safer with one less bloodsucker." She points at Angel with her left hand. "I'm got a ride already on the way. I'm going to stand under the light and wait for it and then go home." She looks angry enough to hurt someone and on the edge of tears at the same time.
Mikhail clenches his fists and is apparently doing so hard enough that blood is dripping down his fingers, he also slips into vamp face, "I have to go, I have this allergy to self-rightous bitch which makes me want to kill things so I should get some distance away from people", and with that he's vamp speeding out of the area.
Angel could comply with 'don't want to hear another word', and his own protective nature at the same time. The silent guardian and watchful protector is something he could be. Besides, he wasn't always given to talking, anyway. There was more to the story, of course, but it wasn't his story to tell. To make it look a little bit less like he's hovering, he receedes into Shadow, doing that thing Willow once called 'that thing where he's gone.' But he's not too far away.
Elena Gilbert hears most of of hat Mikhail says and bites her bottom lip some. Muttering under her breath, "and a new young vamp speeds off to be a threat to people. Again." It reminds her of Vicky all over again and she wonders, maybe she should talk to Ric or someone about handling Stefan's new wayward 'vamp'. It's clear she is upset and not really caring about if Angel is hnging back and watching. This will be quiet the 'talk' later with Stefan and others. "~Come on, show up please.~" Slipping into Bulgarian as he talks to herself.
Angel finds time to brood, while waiting to make SURE Elena's safe. He has eternity, after all, and no matter how much she might be angry at Stefan, the latter wouldn't want anything to happen to her. Still, he finds time wondering if he did make the right choice. There's so much more to this story, some of it might even help...but it's perhaps past the point where he might've done any good. The Bulgarian is interesting...while he doesn't know that particular language, the fact she knows it suggests she's been getting language tutoring from someone else.
A car pulls up and Elena checks to be sure she knows who the driver is. She taps her phone again to text someone, and then gets into the car. Within moments the car speeds away and she is out of Angel's sight on her way home supposedly.