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[interpersonally]

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action; before shit hits the fan

[blooded]

[ one night when stefan returns to the suite, he will find a fine leather-bound journal and a handsome fountain pen waiting for him on his pillow. there is no note, nor any other indication who it came from. damon's door is closed.

get started on the salt diaries, little brother. ]

action; that second, then the next morning

[interpersonally]

( he approaches his new - gift? he unties it, revealing empty pages. he picks the pen up, looks around his room. he peers through the shared bathroom as Damon's side closed.

he goes into the hallway, damon's door is also closed.

he returns, sitting down. he sets the journal side.

does the house give things? the library does, but he didn't ask the library for anything.

he checks the last page. the first. huh.

the next morning, when Damon does emerge from his room into their shared bathroom, Stefan approaches the doorway. )

Thank you, for the journal.

[blooded]

[ the point of leaving the journal without a note, stefan, was to avoid a scene like this. damon pauses in the doorway of the bathroom, looks at stefan, assessing—

and twists his lips just a little, acknowledgment of thanks without taking any real responsibility, and steps around stefan to get to the sink and his toothbrush. ]

Lots of things to write about already, [ he says, breezy, ] might wanna keep notes on what we've told who—sorry, [ a laugh, but it's not friendly, and he points his toothbrush at stefan, ] —what you've told who. Forgot I'm not as stupid as you.

[ there, sweet brotherly moment averted. thank god. ]

[interpersonally]

( for the record, he's making sure the manor didn't leave it for him. what kind of journal is it, if Damon didn't leave it? so, it doesn't have to be anything gushy or mushy or sentimental.

he's mostly going to use it to make notes and not as a journal. )

Good morning to you, too.