[That's what's frustrating him most. The inactivity. The stagnation. He knows he's supposed to be learning and hiding, preparing to take on leading his coven when all of this is over, but he doesn't know how to do that when he's still so angry.]
They killed everyone I had, and I've done nothing. I don't want to do nothing anymore.
( She doesn't raise her voice. She knows where he's coming from. She was there, once. Frustrated with waiting, or dying, or being the anchor. Not just feeling powerless, but being powerless. But, maybe having all that ancestral power and not having anywhere to put it, maybe that's worse. )
You haven't done nothing. You've listened and you've learned and you practiced. And for awhile it was dangerous, you being out at all, so, yeah, we had to lay low. This was supposed to be our first step. Reintroducing you and reestablishing that connection. I know the answer, but I have to ask. Why isn't that enough?
[Because the hunters aren't done. Because Stefan and Buffy came back with stories about how they tried to take out the graduation in Mystic Falls, how people almost died.
Because Bridget died trying to protect him, to keep him alive so that he could take this job, and he's done nothing to feel like he's earned it. It shouldn't have been her. It should have been him, if he's going to be this useless.]
It feels like nothing. I can't step up and lead them when the people who tried to wipe out my people are still out there. I can't tell them that things are going to be different unless I make them different. I do what my dad wouldn't.
["Your dad said no because he was trying to protect you," Isaac offers from the barstool he's perched on. Danny shakes his head.]
( But, nobody did, she'd say. Mystic Falls was taken care of and graduation was completely prevented. But, she needs Danny to talk this out and maybe he'll come to his own conclusion that this brute force attack isn't a good idea.
And thinking that Isaac would help him? )
Isaac.
( From someone who's also lost her father, that's not helpful. She sits back. )
The waiting isn't easy. Ever. But, going in half-cocked, when we don't know everything, when we don't know how far they reach, it could get you killed. Isaac is right about that. ( But, he didn't really have any tact that came with it. ) Say Isaac was in, say he wanted to - do whatever it is you were going to do. What was going to come next, Danny?
[What? It's more than his dad ever did for him. But that's another story for another time.
Danny sets his jaw because he knows this is the place where he's going to get sidelined. Because he hasn't, admittedly, thought that far ahead. He just wanted to offer the firepower he had and hoped that Isaac would know where to aim him.
That he would want his help.]
I ... I don't know.
[He admits it begrudgingly, but he does admit it.]
Okay. Well, you could start there. How about, tonight, we sit down and we talk through it. Real things we can do. Next steps. And then tomorrow, after the solstice which you have to take part in, we'll start implementing. Does that sound okay?
( He has barely any choice in the matter, technically, but she wants him to still make decisions he can.
She tries not to tell him that even she can't stop him. She's taken him on, she cares, but if he wanted to, he could lead his coven now. He could shed all the blood he wanted to. Would it end well? And would he regret it? )
[His jaw clenches, uncertain, but at least she seems willing to listen to what he wants. And he's not stupid enough to think that he doesn't actually need a plan.
It just might not be the plan he wants, and he knows it.]
[He rolls his eyes, before getting to his feet as well.]
No. I'm not that crazy.
[Doing the same thing and expecting the same results does not a sane person make. But with that, he will sulk his way out to the car and slide into the backseat.]
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Danny.
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Isaac closes the door behind them, before moving to the bar to fix himself a drink.]
Do you want to tell her why you're here or should I?
[Danny glares, before turning back to Bonnie. "I want to fight back."]
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Okay. And Isaac was the first part of that plan?
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[That's what's frustrating him most. The inactivity. The stagnation. He knows he's supposed to be learning and hiding, preparing to take on leading his coven when all of this is over, but he doesn't know how to do that when he's still so angry.]
They killed everyone I had, and I've done nothing. I don't want to do nothing anymore.
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You haven't done nothing. You've listened and you've learned and you practiced. And for awhile it was dangerous, you being out at all, so, yeah, we had to lay low. This was supposed to be our first step. Reintroducing you and reestablishing that connection. I know the answer, but I have to ask. Why isn't that enough?
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Because Bridget died trying to protect him, to keep him alive so that he could take this job, and he's done nothing to feel like he's earned it. It shouldn't have been her. It should have been him, if he's going to be this useless.]
It feels like nothing. I can't step up and lead them when the people who tried to wipe out my people are still out there. I can't tell them that things are going to be different unless I make them different. I do what my dad wouldn't.
["Your dad said no because he was trying to protect you," Isaac offers from the barstool he's perched on. Danny shakes his head.]
And look how that ended for him.
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And thinking that Isaac would help him? )
Isaac.
( From someone who's also lost her father, that's not helpful. She sits back. )
The waiting isn't easy. Ever. But, going in half-cocked, when we don't know everything, when we don't know how far they reach, it could get you killed. Isaac is right about that. ( But, he didn't really have any tact that came with it. ) Say Isaac was in, say he wanted to - do whatever it is you were going to do. What was going to come next, Danny?
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Danny sets his jaw because he knows this is the place where he's going to get sidelined. Because he hasn't, admittedly, thought that far ahead. He just wanted to offer the firepower he had and hoped that Isaac would know where to aim him.
That he would want his help.]
I ... I don't know.
[He admits it begrudgingly, but he does admit it.]
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( He has barely any choice in the matter, technically, but she wants him to still make decisions he can.
She tries not to tell him that even she can't stop him. She's taken him on, she cares, but if he wanted to, he could lead his coven now. He could shed all the blood he wanted to. Would it end well? And would he regret it? )
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It just might not be the plan he wants, and he knows it.]
Yeah.
[He'll take it.]
Yeah, that's okay.
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( She grabs her bag and slides back out of the booth. )
If I ask you to wait in the car outside, are you going to make a run for it again?
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No. I'm not that crazy.
[Doing the same thing and expecting the same results does not a sane person make. But with that, he will sulk his way out to the car and slide into the backseat.]
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( Alright. )
say you're crazy.
( She sighs, turning to Isaac. )
Walk me out?
( Sighing... )