"Well, here is definitely a good place in case you need a drink. If you're sticking around you will probably need one." A beat as she considers for a moment, picking up a drink again. "Now are you a history buff or big on those touristy kind of places?"
She thinks of Alaric then, the vision of him coming to her swiftly and without warning. A familiar ache blooms in her chest, but Elena has become to used to the art of missing someone she hardly feels it. "The former," she says softly. If it sounds like there's a story behind it, it's because there is.
There's always a story behind most things. And given that Audrey is already a few drinks in, her reflex to curb her naturally curious instincts doesn't work out quite as well as it usually does.
"Have one of those families that made summers of driving to American Revolution and Civil War battlefields?"
"More like I was usually part of the re-enactments themselves," Elena says. Mystic Falls was always a town rife with Civil War history, and it occurs to her she's yet to be in a world, aside from her own, where the town actually exists.
"Ah-hah," she says with a bit of a grin. "I'd say that's unfortunate, but it seems like you enjoyed it." Which is not a bad thing. Some people are into that sort of thing. Those people are just not Audrey Parker.
At one point, she had enjoyed it. The events and the dresses and the parties. And then afterward, when all was said and done and buried, it hadn't mattered as much. "It meant a lot to my parents," is what she settles on with a small nod. It's why Elena stayed in the running for Miss Mystic Falls. It was more for her mother than anything else.
Audrey pauses, nodding slowly at that. "I can't say I have many things like that." Not knowing her parents - in more ways than one - can have that effect on a person. "But it's good that you do. It's good to have something to keep close to you."
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"Have one of those families that made summers of driving to American Revolution and Civil War battlefields?"
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"More like I was usually part of the re-enactments themselves," Elena says. Mystic Falls was always a town rife with Civil War history, and it occurs to her she's yet to be in a world, aside from her own, where the town actually exists.
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At one point, she had enjoyed it. The events and the dresses and the parties. And then afterward, when all was said and done and buried, it hadn't mattered as much. "It meant a lot to my parents," is what she settles on with a small nod. It's why Elena stayed in the running for Miss Mystic Falls. It was more for her mother than anything else.
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