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 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:23 pm
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♣ Tate nodded when Elena claimed that she'd hide behind him if the movie gets too scary. "Don't worry, i'll protect my little lady" He meant that more than anything he's said all day. He's going to try to protect Elena at all costs. When he followed her to the kitchen and she produced both chocolate and vanilla ice cream, Tate grinned happily. "Yes, this is good. But we won't touch this until after the pizza" Tate quickly took both tubs of ice cream away from Elena and put them back in the freezer. He didn't want to risk sounding like a mom by saying 'you'll spoil your dinner'. Tate grabbed Elena by her hips and lifted her on to the counter. They had overstepped enough boundaries today, this was just another to add to the pile. "I'm gonna take you away from here one day" he said, grinning. "Like on a vacation or something. Just a way to get ourselves out of this town for a little. There's so much weird in this town that it's overwhelming. And i don't need you following my chronic pattern of missing school due to full moons; someone needs to be there to get my homework" It was a joke, of course, but Tate really didn't want Elena to miss too much school. Tate rested his hands on Elena's thighs and look at her, growing pretty serious suddenly. " Promise me that you'll tell me if you feel like something is wrong, or if everything has just gotten to be too much for you and you want to leave. I just want you to tell me so i can make sure you're fine. I don't trust your vampire friends - Damon looks like a molester - and i don't know how much Jeremy could do if anything happens so please just tell me".
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:02 am
  Elena let out the different tubs of ice cream and set them on the counter for Tate after his question of having them. She did, because whenever Jeremy would get high, he would have the munchies. However, Jeremy stopped doing weed after many Elena threats. The condensation outside the boxes showed some finger prints from Elena. Though most people like ice cream, Elena was still the type of girl who liked coffee over eating. Seeing that dimpled grin on Tate's face was enough to make Elena smile and be proud that Alaric went grocery shopping recently for them. Though he asked for the two tubs of food, he simply stated that this would follow the pizza rather than come before, and shoved them back in the freezer. "Alright, alright," she said with a happy grin. Soon, Tate grabbed Elena's hips and lifted her onto the counter that she was leaning against. She didn't mind quite at all. His first admittance was a big pile of weight, though she would gladly storm through buildings with that weight. Elena would love for Tate to take her away from all of this some day. His joke, however, caused Elena to look offended but wear an amused smile, and punch his shoulder much like after he scared her. She knew he was joking, but so was she. As the tension in the room build up, so did Elena's serious side as it peaked through that sheer happiness on her face. "I promise, Tate, I will tell you whenever I feel down or discouraged, or anything." Elena wrapped her arms around his neck and embraced him into a big hug. She cradled her head at the curve of his neck, and one of her hands reached up to mix her fingers in his blonde hair. "You are so good to me."
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:32 am
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♣ He was glad when she agreed to tell him when she didn't feel too good about this. Great, that's all he could ask for. He may not be her boyfriend but he could be as close to it as possible while remaining her friend. Tate wrapped his arms around Elena when she pulled him into a hug. " I've got to be good to you" he said, smiling over her shoulder. " You're my best friend" He wished that he could change that to 'you're my girlfriend' but he hoped that he could do that eventually. Tate fixed himself between Elena's legs and lifted her off the counter, carrying her like one would carry a baby. " And because I love you. I don't use that term lightly, I reserve it only for people who mean a lot to me. I don't even say that I love my dad, that's how seriously I take the term" Yeah, yeah, there's a whole lot of 'you're supposed to love your father' s**t in Tate's life but he knew that his father would kill him if he found out what Tate really was. Tate sat them down on the couch. " We have to lighten up" he said, looking up at her. In that moment, the doorbell rang and Tate practically flipped Elena over onto the couch so that he can answer it. It was a win/win situation since it could either be pizza or his sister with his clothes. It was his sister. Tate took his bag from his sister and thanked her, giving her a kiss on the forehead, before coming back inside. " I can change!" he declared.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:26 pm
Elena let Tate rest himself between her legs before he wrapped his arms around her thighs. With a light squeal, Elena hooked her arms against the opposite elbows as she held on. She felt herself be lifted away from the counter and carried in Tate's arms. His paused action, Elena slid one hand down to the side of his neck, her fingers touching the tip of his blonde curls. Her elbow tucked in rather than hang out and risk getting banged against any doorframe. "I love you too," Elena confessed honestly with a grin. She was just waiting for him to start walking about since she could already predict this. Soon, Tate eased himself onto a couch, with Elena on his lap, much like their last movie night. Elena let her fingers mix in with his blonde locks at the back of his head. "What did you have in mind?" asked Elena tauntingly at his comment of how they need to lighten up. Before anything else happened, Tate heard the door and immediately placed his hands at her hips to lift her off his lap and let her fall onto her side on the couch. Elena placed a hand at the top of the couch and lifted herself up to where she sat on her knees, looking at Tate as he gathered his clothes from Kailan. "You're a real charmer, aren'tcha?" asked Elena, placing her chin on one of her palms. Pointing up the stairs with a joking smile, Elena told him, "And you can change in my room. I'll be down here." When Tate walked upstairs and disappeared, Elena found herself lifting away from the couch and waking towards the kitchen. In there, she decided to do something, or just about anything with her hands and started to tidy up the place. The countertops were wiped down, the little items were stored away, and everything looked so organized, Elena moved back towards the living room that was connected to the kitchen. However, just before she could sit down, the doorbell rang and Elena guessed that it was for pizza.
Behind the door stood a very tall, bulked man who looked as if he just graduated high school with his young face with stubble. Reaching out, Elena grabbed the wad of cash out from her back pocket. After taking out a twenty and handing it towards the pizzaman. Then, she saw how blue his eyes were. Almost neon. Brows furrowed together as she grabbed the pizza box, Elena asked, "Are you wearing contacts?" But the man merely smirked and shook his head before exiting the premises, leaving her confused as to how his eyes looked as if they were glowing. Shaking her head, Elena closed the door and placed the pizza in the kitchen.
Walking back upstairs, brushing her finger tips over the top of her forehead briefly, Elena called, "Tate, pizza's here!" She took a quick pause in her steps to turn around and face the door, thinking about the pizza man and his eyes. Shaking her head once again, Elena continued her path up the wooden stairs to her room. Taking a hunch that Tate was finished, Elena knocked on the door before opening her white door. "Hey, is the movie you were talki-" Elena paused in her words when seeing Tate still dressing and pulling up his underwear. Her jaw dropped, and a hand slapped over her eyes as she quickly apologized. "I thought you were finished, I'm sorry!" Elena backed up but accidentally backed herself against the door and shut it. Feeling her back against her door rather than the other side, her hand reached out to find the doorknob. But she had trouble locating just where the doorknob was. Finally dropping her hand, Elena immediately looked to the door and reached for the doorknob. When opening the door quickly, Elena glanced back, a proper poliet way before leaving room, but then she remembered what she walked in and embarrassingly walked out. "Sorry!" And she closed the door, pressing her back against it with a huff. "Nice going, Elena.." she whispered to herself.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:24 pm
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♣ Tate would have finished changing faster if he didn't occupy himself with examining the pictures Elena had in her room. He wasn't going to go through her underwear drawer or anything but there was something about seeing people in pictures taken prior to yourself meeting them that was just....surreal. It wasn't like neither of them haven't been in this town for a while, they just never noticed each other before Kailan made Tate go over to Elena and Bonnie. But looking at the pictures made him wonder if he somehow could have gotten to know Elena better a lot earlier than he actually did. Eventually, he realized that Elena would probably come looking for him so he began to strip down so that he could put on some dry pajamas. He was done with the stripping part and was now in the beginning of putting on fresh clothes when Elena came into the room while he was mid-underwear putting on. " Jesus, Elena!" he exclaimed, hauling up his underwear so fast that it didn't even go on correctly and just ended up all twisted. But he rather it look twisted than him being all exposed to Elena. But she didn't leave the room. She backed up into the door and shut it. If her hands weren't over her eyes, Tate would feel like they were going to skip the romance and jump straight to sex. But no, it was just Elena's clumsiness. Tate stood there in his boxers and watched her as she made her way out of the room.
♣ When she was gone, Tate let out a sound like a dying animal and nodded his head, already blaming himself for that. He would have been changed quicker. Now he didn't know what to do. He wasn't sure if he should leave the room now. It was clear that he couldn't hole himself up in her room but he wasn't sure if he wanted to leave the room now. To prevent himself further embarrassment, Tate threw on his pajama pants and T-shirt. Tate paced on the room for a brief moment, taking deep breaths. It was okay, this was just a simple accident and Elena was probably feeling a lot more embarrassed than he was. Tate threw open the door and held Elena by her shoulders. " Do you smell pizza? I smell pizza" he said, moving her away from the scene of the crime. If he didn't say anything about it, then they didn't need to talk about it. " Let's eat"
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Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:11 pm
Elena tried to recollect herself after a fatal accident of seeing one nude. It's not that she intended on doing so, and, yes, she should've known that if he hadn't exit the room, then he wasn't done and was preoccupied by changing into clothes than his soggy, car washed ones. Her back was firmly pressed against the door while on the opposite side was Tate changing/ Her heart race was soon slowing down to a normal pace and Elena exhaled out a breath. Her eyes closed tightly as she tried to think of anything other than what she just saw, but her mind kept trailing back to where she first open the door and soon Tate came into view. However, Tate exited the room as if he read her mind, placed his hands on her shoulders, and started to lead her to the stairs on the topic of pizza. Elena's mouth opened to apologize and talk of the moment that occurred embarrassingly only short of a few minutes ago. However, the idea of pretending as if it never happened was a good mindset.
It wasn't that Elena was upset with the sight, since she wasn't complaining, but she didn't want Tate to think that his bare body was the only thing Elena has thought about before she saw the show. When descending down the long, narrow staircase, Elena nervously tried to find some way to ignore the topic of what happened moments ago. "Pizza guy came here not too long ago. I think he was going to a party or something, because his eyes were crazy blue," admitted Elena, walking towards the kitchen where she had set the pizza. "I paid for it in a way of saying thank you for the chinese breakfast." Elena just smiled at him, an attempt to help him forget what happened. "I call the first big slice!" shouted Elena as she started to run for the kitchen; a childish act but still looked rather adorable on the brunette.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:06 pm
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♣ Tate was appreciative of Elena going along with pretending like nothing happened. He would have fought her for the first big slice of pizza if it weren't for her mentioning the guy had blue eyes. " Wait, you cannot touch that pizza yet!" he called out, running after her and picking her up from around her waist to drag her away from their dinner. Tate didn't think that Elena would make a big deal out of someone with normal blue eyes. Tate felt that Elena saw a beta. Tate sat Elena down on the counter and leaned against her to prevent her from moving. " What do you mean blue eyes? Like neon blue? " he asked this frantically, wanting to get the answer out of her as quickly as possible. " Elena...." he didn't want to be too worried or over protective but a werewolf just delivered their freaking pizza. What if that werewolf knew the alpha that had tried to attack Elena? What if it reported back where Elena lived? The bedroom incident was now currently the last thing on Tate's mind. Now he was back to worrying about Elena's safety with these werewolves. " I think I'm going to have to have my brother werewolf-proof your house. They're freaking delivering pizza now, are you kidding me." Tate didn't even look like he wanted to eat anymore. He was too stressed about the werewolves.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:16 am
It was as if Elena was on a ride when Tate wrapped his arms around her waist and swung her away from the direction of the fresh smelling pizza. At first, Elena thought it was Tate being playful, and let out a laugh. But Tate grabbed at her hips, lifted her onto the counter, set himself between her legs so she couldn't go anywhere, and gave her his rare serious face. Finally, she stopped trying to squirm free from him and just let her eyes brush over his face. "What.." she stammered, confused by the rush of questions that were hitting her. Elena's mouth opened and closed constantly, trying to frantically remember what happened for Tate's sake. "Um," she drawled, unable to remember under pressure. "It was -- yeah, neon blue. Does that mean--" Elena cut herself off when Tate commented how they were now delivering their pizza. She knew what he meant by 'they'. Werewolves. "Werewolves. Is that who was delivering the pizza? I would've thought that they have gold eyes like you and --" Pausing, Elena let out a curse. "Kailan looked at me briefly during her change, and I saw blue eyes, but I couldn't help but look at the chains. I should've known. I'm sorry." Elena heaved out a heavy sigh and looked at the nervous Tate. "Hey.." she whispered, placing a hand on his shoulder and massaging it. "We're gonna be fine. I've survived death before. We can do this. Hand in hand. I mean, we're closer than ever before." Elena wanted to joke about the earlier bedroom scene, but felt as if this wasn't the appropriate time. "Why me? Why are they after me or trying to scare me or whatever. Why me?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 2:07 pm
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♣ Tate looked at Elena incredulously. For him, she was acting way too calm about this. Tate wanted her to be worried about this. But he didn't want to panic her. " I-I don't know" he said, not understanding why the werewolves were suddenly making big appearances. " Maybe it's not you, maybe it's me and my sister or something, I don't know. Kailan was involved with this pack before she came back home, maybe they're just trying to get to her by getting to you which will get to me" He didn't sound as rational as he wanted to be he was trying to make sense of the situation. He can make Ash completely werewolf proof the house but Tate wouldn't be able to come over. " You need to get Jeremy out of this town." he said. He knew it was harsh but the boy literally just came back and Elena's lost so much, he didn't want Jeremy to be added to the list. " You need to get Jeremy out, you need to werewolf proof this house, and you need to stay away from suspicious people." Tate moved away from Elena, gripping his curls. He couldn't just eat pizza and watch a movie now like it was nothing. " They know where you live!" That was the worst part for him. He can't watch over Elena 24/7, even if he wanted to, it was impractical. " Let's just get something straight, okay?" he said, looking at Elena. " Me? Yellow eyes? We're bitches, basically, but werewolves are werewolves. I'm technically the standardized shipping of werewolves. Kailan? Blue eyes? Run. Anyone with red eyes? Run faster. They're that next day delivery kind of shipping. I-I can't let you not know about this stuff. He could have clawed out your throat as soon as you opened the door - you could have been dead" This was all that worried Tate, Elena dying or getting hurt. He knew himself and his sister, they could handle themselves to an extent. Ash wasn't a sitting duck either. But Elena and Jeremy were human. " I-I can't just sit down and eat pizza and pretend like this didn't just happen, I need to call my sister."
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:49 am
Elena could see the worry on Tate. If he could radiate the worry off of him, she could feel it. His words were quick from his mouth, and his actions were tense. She could tell that Tate was clearly upset of this whole thing. Elena was too. In fact, she was terrified. She was worried of all the things that could happen to her now that the werewolves knew where she was. Where she slept. The fact that they can easily enter the house wasn't pleasing either. In the end, though, she needed to try to act brave, because if one was going to constantly state the emotional obvious, then how were they to cope if both of them shared verbally and physically the same emotion. Elena let her arms rub Tate's shoulder in a sign of trying to relax him. She could nearly see his vein throbbing out of his neck. The lesson of the day was informational, and she was glad to know of this now. All she knew were of werewolves with yellow eyes, and now there were more and different stages of strength. When Tate stated that Elena could've been dead, it was as if the gash on her forehead returned from the car wreck. "Tate--" Elena cut herself off as she tried to include Jeremy in this solution. She needed to call him. "You call Kailan," said Elena, repeating what he said of his actions, "And I'll call Jeremy."
It was about an hour until Jeremy arrived at the house, confused at the urgent tone that Elena spoke when they were on the phone with each other. Some bags were packed and by the door, but only of his suitcases. "Jeremy," said Elena, jogging down the stairs with a bag on her shoulder. His bag. "You're leaving town again." Jeremy grabbed the bag from Elena and set it down, wanting an explaination. "Werewolves know of us, they will hurt you, or, quite frankly, kill you. And I need you alive in my life. I'm gonna stay here and we're gonna figure out a way to get rid of these things, but Jeremy, you have to go back." Jeremy understood, and he knew how possessive Elena was. So, he hugged his sister, told Tate to take care of her, grabbed his bags, and walked out to the taxi. "He's gone now. One less problem to take care of."
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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 1:57 pm
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♣ Tate had frantically called Kailan until she picked up. When she had, it all came out in a rush of words. He recalled everything as quickly as he could and told her to come back to Elena's house. Tate was a man, he felt that he was a man, but he needed his sister a lot more than he'd like to admit. He wasn't as....exposed to life as she was. She's dealt with other werewolves before, he really hasn't. The most contact he's ever had was tying up Kailan and being too close when they were both changing. Tate promised to take care of Elena when Jeremy told him to. He didn't need to be asked to do that, he would have done it regardless. This was all to protect Elena. Tate nodded when Elena told him that they have one less problem. " For now" he muttered. Tate didn't work well under stress. When reacting to stress, he would either freak out to much or not freak out at all. But they had to pay attention o this for Elena's sake. " My sister will be here soon" He informed. Tate stalked back off to the kitchen and went to the box of pizza, slapping the first big slice onto one plate and taking another slice and putting it on another plate. Tate brought the plate with the bigger slice to Elena and began to devour the one he had taken for himself. " You know, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but you should totally knock first" he quipped, his words partially muffled by the pizza. Tate winked at Elena. " It didn't happen." That was as much as he as going to say. He wasn't going to ask if she saw anything - he wasn't sure if he wanted her commentary on anything she saw.
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:33 am
Elena had to admit. She was sharing a fair amount of nervousness. First, her life was normal and now all sorts of shenanigans happened. If Alaric were to hear about this accident, then he would officially move right back in her house. Or at least Elena liked to think. Either way, all this was just too stressing. So much information and death threats were thrown on her shoulders in just a short matter of days. Gazing her brown hues over to Tate, she scanned him over in a form of telling herself that he was physically here. In this moment. Now. His dimples revealed themselves briefly as Tate devoured a bite of his pizza, his blonde locks curled at the edges to frame his face all so perfectly, and his dark eyes beamed at her with pure innocence. As Elena rubbed the side of her arm, she wished she had that sort of feeling. The dark thoughts were snatched away when he joked regarding the earlier show accident. He didn't need to ask. He should've known that Elena did, in fact, see everything. The sight of it in her head again brought a rosey tint to her cheeks and she turned to the pizza so he couldn't see. "Shuddap," she muttered, the smile loud when she rebutted back. Turning to him, Elena caught his wink and heard his second comment. "In my defense, I thought you were finished. And who takes that long to change. Plus, I did knock, but I should've just waited until-" Elena cut herself off and let out a deep breath. "Never happened." Elena turned to the pizza, but instead of getting herself a slice, she picked up the box, examined it briefly, and set it right back down on the counter. She didn't know how Tate could eat that pizza after a werewolf delivered it. Instead, she shook her head, tucked hair behind her ears, and moved to the coffee maker. "'m just gonna have some coffee."
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:52 pm
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♣ When she said that it never happened, a weight was lifted from Tate's chest. Good. Now he can go through life wondering whether or not her eyes managed to focused on his manhood rather than him going through life with the embarrassment of her knowing his naked body. He wanted a relationship with her and having a relationship would eventually lead to sex but he wanted her to know his body whilst thy were dating and intentionally, not by accident. Tate shook his head in protest to Elena choosing coffee over food. He knew that sometimes she just didn't want to eat but if he was able to munch on something, she could too. " C'mon, stress eating is good". He said, following her over to the coffee maker. " If you don't eat, I'll break that thing" He didn't think that the werewolves would go super spy and put something in her pizza. They weren't like that. If he wanted to kill someone, he'd do that. But the werewolves they were dealing with seemed more brawn than brain from his own observation. " Eat just a little bit, okay? For me? Kai will be here any minute and when she does, we can talk about what we're going to do. We'll either have to werewolf proof your house or you'll have to come live with us...." Tate looked at her hurriedly. " Temporarily, of course. But the choice is yours. I just want you to be safe."
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:36 pm
Elena put a hand on her hip and faced Tate when he said that he were to break the coffee maker if she didn't at least eat something. "Now what did this coffee maker ever do to you?" she teased with a smile, but she saw how concern he was. With a sigh, Elena turned to the coffee maker and pressed the on button. "I'll eat something later. Something I made." Elena turned her front towards Tate's front, and crossed her arms as if to embrace herself. "With all the threats, I think I would feel comfortable at your house," admitted Elena as she guiltingly looked up in his eyes. "I can sleep on the couch."
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 7:08 pm
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♣ Tate grumbled when Elena insisted that she'd eat later. He understood why, he couldn't blame her, but he wanted to make sure that she got some food into her system. " Alright" he said, accepting that he couldn't force her to eat. Tate listened to Elena as he bit into the pizza. He honestly didn't expect her to be so comfortable with spending some time at his house but clearly he was wrong. He didn't like the look on Elena's face as she told him she could sleep on his couch. Tate sighed and put his pizza down on the counter before wrapping his arms around Elena, pulling her in for a comforting hug. " Alright, you'll come live with me until he can sort all this out. But you won't be sleeping on the couch. I'll fix up my room so that you can be more comfortable in there. I'll sleep on the couch. Or get an inflatable bed or something. But you're not sleeping on the couch" He'd probably let any other guess sleep on the couch but not Elena. He wants her to be comfortable in his house. She was the one in danger. The only problem was that he was afraid their dad may blow into town while she's staying with them. If that happens, Tate would have to force her out and stay with her at her house just so his dad could piss off. But he doubted that would happen. Tate rubbed Elena's back reassuringly. " I'm sure Kailan would care if you stay once I explain everything to her. So we'll get you packed up and you can come live with me until we figure out what to do next" Was it bad that Tate felt a small amount of excitement at the idea of Elena staying with him for some time? Maybe this was the push she needed to realize his love for her? Tate needed to ignore his feelings for Elena briefly so that he could keep her safe. " I won't let those werewolves do anything to you, okay? I promise." Tate would even give his dad a call if it meant keeping Elena alive. The boy let go of Elena and went back to munching on his slice of pizza while looking at her. " We've got this under control, okay Little lady?"
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