[Getting to the hotel and being able to book a suite where they can separate some is likely the best thing they could have done. Kieran was hanging by a thread as it was, and she needed some space to regain her composure in order to keep her cool in front of everyone else. After Jackson leaves to update the Underground on the situation, Scott and Davina take one of the bedrooms, she and Kol in the other, and H on the couch is cramped, but being able to put a door between herself and the rest of the world is helpful, even if she can't manage to catch her breath just yet.
Really, what she needs the wall between is herself and Julian, stuck in a catatonic state that her initial impulses, magic-wise, aren't able to rouse him from. She doesn't like that she doesn't have the answers to fix him, as having answers is generally what she's best at. She pauses in front of the dresser, pulling her rings off her fingers one by one and removing the rest of her jewelry. The manual process lets some of the scales of armor fall away and helps to clear her mind and wind her down.
This is a safe place. She is allowed to be vulnerable here. She glances back to where Kol is stretched out on the bed. Part of her just wants to curl up under his arm and be held for a moment, but there's still a voice in the back of her mind that won't let herself let her guard down that completely. Not right now.]
Have you heard about your sister?
[She hasn't forgotten that he chose her over Rebekah and her safety, despite the fact that the two other Original vampires went off to help her.]
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Really, what she needs the wall between is herself and Julian, stuck in a catatonic state that her initial impulses, magic-wise, aren't able to rouse him from. She doesn't like that she doesn't have the answers to fix him, as having answers is generally what she's best at. She pauses in front of the dresser, pulling her rings off her fingers one by one and removing the rest of her jewelry. The manual process lets some of the scales of armor fall away and helps to clear her mind and wind her down.
This is a safe place. She is allowed to be vulnerable here. She glances back to where Kol is stretched out on the bed. Part of her just wants to curl up under his arm and be held for a moment, but there's still a voice in the back of her mind that won't let herself let her guard down that completely. Not right now.]
Have you heard about your sister?
[She hasn't forgotten that he chose her over Rebekah and her safety, despite the fact that the two other Original vampires went off to help her.]