[ caroline is right, as usual. under a certain kind of light, reasons can look like excuses.

she thinks bonnie would tell her the same thing. her fingers tighten around caroline's just a little. she flexes the muscles at her throat. ]

Bad. Apocalypse levels kind of bad. He's leading the charge to save... everything. [ he even has the hero hair. ] I know he wishes he didn't know certain things he can't change while he's here, though. I know the girls wish that, too. [ to a degree, it's informed her own choices, but not entirely. because caroline is right about that, too: she doesn't, usually, let anything stop her. once she knows her own heart, there's no betraying its nature and what it wants. ]