revengeandretribution:

#I HAVE SO MANY EMOTIONS #AND I WAS JUST GONNA CRY AND REBLOG#BUT ALSO LIKE #jeremy is very much guilty in the series of trying to ‘fix’ elena when she turns because it’s not a life she ever wanted and he just wants #to make things better for her. jeremy doesn’t want this life and rebekah wants to make things better #but she knows the only way she can do that is by being a rock for him. helping him try to BE better with the hand he was dealt #which goes back to her blaming herself for putting him in a position he hates and so that guilt is always kinda there #and maybe just MAYBE if he can figure himself out and finally start thriving with the life he has now she could start to forgive herself #because she loved him and didn’t want to lose him and is afraid that she lost him anyways because of that#he finds that he’s lost himself because he didn’t recognize a person who would just wrecklessly kill people but it was like watching #someone ELSE do these things and he couldn’t stop- almost like when elena’s consciousness lived through katherine killing jeremy thanks to #kat’s mind being in her body #but i truly believe being away from the scooby gang might actually be the one thing that SAVES his eternal damned soul #and finally he has someone who realistically he will never have to bury- someone who he will never have to feel the loss of #and him following her without question back into the house is not even a sire thing- it’s about clinging to the one thing that makes him #feel like he’s not a lost cause- like he won’t lose his home and his life because he’s struggling. #she’s the first person to allow him to feel his grief and not feel guilty about his sadness- and DOESNT TRY TO MAKE HIM FORGET #and OH GOD when he remembers being forced to forget and exactly WHAT he couldn’t remember #she will probably be the only person in the world who could get him through that. #together they will discover that they arent broken OR bent- just beautifully tragic and that it’s OKAY #their struggles shaped them but it doesn’t have to define them #i dont like thinking about what watching him like this is doing to rebekah but i also wanna think abt it all the time #anyways thank u for coming to my ted talk i love jerbekah

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lemme just talk about rebekah’s guilt for a moment. the guilt oh god the guilt she feels the guilt she’ll carry around heavy on her chest EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY FOREVER because it’s her fault. she’s the one who took this beautiful soul who was so wonderfully human (so much so it completely entranced her) and she went and forced him into a life he never wanted. one, in fact, that he hated with a passion. just because she LOVED him because she couldn’t be SELFLESS for him and just let him die like he wanted. she’ll walk around drowning in that guilt while doing her damnedest to make sure he doesn’t see. because she’s gotta be strong for him it’s her job to protect him and offer a guiding hand through this. she’s the only one who can do it for him properly, the only one who can give him what he truly needs as he transitions into this new life as a vampire. and she will DIE before she puts any more on his shoulders. he’s going through so much and she will not — SHE WILL NEVER — make his burden even heavier by maybe making him feel like he has to be strong for her. so she will pick him up, pick up his burdens as her own. she will follow him and stay with him loyally and unconditionally. she will clean him up again and again if she has to. she will burn bodies and she will dig graves, all without judgement, all without trying to make him feel like he’s some kind of monster or that he has to be trying harder because he’s not fully in control yet. she will let him go through this at his pace, no matter how slow it is. and she will never treat him differently or expect the impossible of him during this. like you said, she will be his rock through and through. and during all this during every second she will be crush by guilt and fighting so hard to make sure he doesn’t know. and OH GOD. as he begins to settle into his new existence, as he learns control, as he becomes exactly who she knew he could be (with that same beautiful soul), her guilt will not go away. she won’t forgive herself. but as his suffering lessens more and more so will hers. and they will find comfort in each other. they will learn that just because they’re made of broken pieces it does not make them lost causes, especially in each other’s eyes. they’re the only people who won’t judge them for their jagged edges and difficult pasts because they’ve both been there and they both understand. they’ll learn that they’re not impossible to love and they’re not just misfits as everyone else sees them. they will start to find the light IN EACH OTHER. 

in other news i’m already planning their wedding while crying.

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