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clockbox2017-01-01 09:59 pm
lockwouldnt) wrote in clockbox2017-01-01 09:59 pm
(closed) live inside of a moment
WHO: Tyler Lockwood & Caroline Forbes, and later Camille O'Connell
WHAT: Tyler has a Christmas surprise for Caroline - and well? Now's the best time to show it.
WHEN: December 25th, late morning and evening
WHERE: Lockwood Den
WARNINGS: Grossness, probably makeouts in the first thread? Young love's a thing.
For possibly the first time since he's arrived, the Clock has been calm, almost quiet, and (dare Tyler say it?) peaceful. Tyler half-suspects that something's gonna happen, and that something isn't very good. In the meantime, he's elected to not look a gift horse in the mouth.
After exchanging presents with Caroline, he has an even bigger surprise up his sleeve. He thinks about home - about the piece of home that he had found - and summons up a door that wouldn't be out of place in the Manor.
He urges her to open it first. "Go ahead. You can be the first one in."
The verbal invitation's key - it's a home, not some random place - and Tyler has to unlock the door before she steps inside. Upon opening it and stepping inside, they would've arrived in the Lockwood Den. A modified, somewhat larger version of it, anyway, with a small Christmas tree in the corner and mistletoe hanging from the three doors in the back.
Tyler had taken generous liberties to string white lights along the top of the walls, and even along the windows and Christmas Tree. He's no expert - that award would go to Caroline, any day of the year - but he had spent way too much time decorating it to her tastes.
Also? There's a fresh batch of hot chocolate (with marshmallows!) on the table, as if he'd been waiting for her to come in all along.
WHAT: Tyler has a Christmas surprise for Caroline - and well? Now's the best time to show it.
WHEN: December 25th, late morning and evening
WHERE: Lockwood Den
WARNINGS: Grossness, probably makeouts in the first thread? Young love's a thing.
For possibly the first time since he's arrived, the Clock has been calm, almost quiet, and (dare Tyler say it?) peaceful. Tyler half-suspects that something's gonna happen, and that something isn't very good. In the meantime, he's elected to not look a gift horse in the mouth.
After exchanging presents with Caroline, he has an even bigger surprise up his sleeve. He thinks about home - about the piece of home that he had found - and summons up a door that wouldn't be out of place in the Manor.
He urges her to open it first. "Go ahead. You can be the first one in."
The verbal invitation's key - it's a home, not some random place - and Tyler has to unlock the door before she steps inside. Upon opening it and stepping inside, they would've arrived in the Lockwood Den. A modified, somewhat larger version of it, anyway, with a small Christmas tree in the corner and mistletoe hanging from the three doors in the back.
Tyler had taken generous liberties to string white lights along the top of the walls, and even along the windows and Christmas Tree. He's no expert - that award would go to Caroline, any day of the year - but he had spent way too much time decorating it to her tastes.
Also? There's a fresh batch of hot chocolate (with marshmallows!) on the table, as if he'd been waiting for her to come in all along.
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She misses her mom and Bonnie and Matt and Elena. She even misses Jeremy a little bit if she squints. (It's more of missing home and Jeremy is just a natural extension of that through Elena.) She also misses people that have left her here, Elliot and Jess and Tony chief among them. But she has Tyler and Argos and a hen with no name and that is perfectly fine with her. Now she has Cami and Eddie, so things aren't looking so bad, it's just not home.
When Tyler unlocks the door for her and invites her in, she's not entirely sure what she is expecting, but it turns out? Part of the Lockwood mansion is not it. She crosses the threshold with wide eyes, lips parted in surprise as she looks around, noticing everything and nothing at once.
"How...?"
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Tyler remembers his reaction the first time he had walked inside. The room smelled like Mom's perfume - Mom's favorite bottle of Chanel - and he had spent a few hours rifling through everything to find it. It doesn't have that trademark scent anymore, let alone the smell of booze.
(The Den's got a proper kitchen now, with a wine fridge that puts the one in his actual house to shame.)
He takes a seat on the couch first, letting her take all the time she needs. He knows he would've needed it, had he not stumbled upon this place a few days ago.
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"Everything is the same."
Well not the same, there are differences, but it's still... How many times had she flopped across that couch with Matt and Tyler when they were kids, playing checkers and trying to understand the concept of backgammon? How many times as teenagers did they steal his dad's bourbon from the liqueur cabinet? How many times had Caroline changed into her bikini in this room because she wasn't allowed to change in Tyler's room, even when they weren't together.
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He gets up now, following her and stuffing his hands in his pockets as he does so. While he's decorated the place, he certainly hasn't touched anything else - the pictures still hang on the wall, and the drawers in the desk are filled with the same junk they had back home.
Tyler doesn't want to force conversation, so he gently nudges one of the back doors open. Instead of opening into the Clock and whatever room awaited them next, it instead opens into a walk-in closet - big enough for Caroline's entire wardrobe, should she choose.
"Last I checked, that would've opened up outside."
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She rocks her shoulder into his lightly. "Welcome home."
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Sure, Tyler had ostensibly wished up CDs from their awkward middle school years - and a couple from her first year of college - for one combined music collection, but this? Right here? This was his real present to her (and himself, he will admit only much later).
They don't have to move in right away, if at all - the apartment had been Elliot's, after all. Tyler doesn't want to remove the last remaining link to someone who had been so important to Caroline.
“If not, well — we've always got backgammon and hot cocoa.”
CHRISTMAS EVENING | family christmas
So she texts Cami and sets about making the most impromptu Christmas dinner which turns out to be Chicken Cordon Bleu roll ups with green bean casserole because that is all Caroline could wish up with no notice and also two of the few recipes she remembers off the top of her head and can execute without the recipe right in front of her.
While the food is cooking, she sends Tyler to fetch Cami -- because it's Tyler's home, it's the Lockwood home -- and then bustles about neatening up the mess they made being teenagers in love.
CHRISTMAS EVENING | family christmas
(Chocolate chip cookies aren't standard Christmas fare, but then again, what is standard in a place like the Clock?)
He heads to Cami's apartment and knocks on her door, careful to step back just so it won't hit his face. "Hey! You ready to go?"
He even has a present for the mice in hand - a carefully wrapped box of apple pastries and cut-up pieces of red & green applies - so even they can partake in the festival of Pretty Presents or whatever they'd end up calling it.
CHRISTMAS EVENING | family christmas
She didn't have a lot of time to throw together her normal level of celebration for the event, but she does at least have enough time to put on something nice and choose a bottle of booze for the evening. Every good Irish guest knows to bring a little something to Christmas dinner, especially if you don't have a present on hand. She steps out of the apartment with a smile before hopping forward and pulling on her other shoe.
"Thanks for inviting me."
CHRISTMAS EVENING | family christmas
Better to go ahead and let them have it now, right? Just to keep them preoccupied for the night? (Rather than the obvious truth: Tyler had grown a little too attached during her absence.)
He'll set it aside, given that she's got Very Important Booze in her hand, and then get them going towards Lockwood Manor.
"And um, because you're family? You can always come in."
CHRISTMAS EVENING | family christmas
"I appreciate that," she nods. "More than you know."
CHRISTMAS EVENING | family christmas
(Did she know before now? Eh, she's family. She deserves to know that he's completely depowered.)
Per southern gentlemen etiquette, he even holds it open for her as they walk in.
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Shut up.
It takes her a second to swallow but then she is skipping over to Cami with a happy little squeal. "Merry Christmas!"
GOnNA HUG IT OUT. GET ON CAROLINE'S LEVEL.