Outside Looking In
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Sarah: and here's Tyler's chapter, the last of what I call the 'core group' at this point in the series. After this, we will have an intermingling of repeats of the 'core group' chapters as well as chapters from various others from the first three seasons. Possibly even one from Jenna on the Other Side towards the end! Now wouldn't that be interesting? But before we can get to any of that, review replies then Tyler's first chapter.
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KarinaGuardian: poor matt indeed. I like him, too, but I had to put him in here somewhere. Here's the next chapter, the last one that I had completed during a burst of inspiration a couple weeks ago. Hope you enjoy Tyler's view, too.
Chapter 7
I Wish I Had Known Her Better Before
Given how well I have gotten to know Elena ever since my transition first into a werewolf then into a hybrid, I wish I had known her better before. I can sort of understand my bastardly behavior back then was because of the latent werewolf gene, but I had only ever known her as 'Matt's Girl' and didn't bother getting to know her as a person outside of that.
Even though we had never been what you would call 'friends' growing up, she had still done so much for me after I had activated the werewolf gene thanks to Katherine's games. And that had made me so ashamed of myself for sticking a label on her and just going by that label.
After the activation of my werewolf gene, it wasn't Caroline who helped me incorporate into their core group far faster than should have been possible or even wise, it was Elena. Damon had decided because I was a werewolf and my venom was deadly to most of them, I couldn't be in the group. Caroline helped me in spite of that, but didn't tell me about the others until I had found out other ways, keeping me isolated.
It was Elena who put her foot down and ignored everyone else's warnings and my reluctance and dragged me into the group inch-by-inch until I had turned around one day and realized that I was somehow suddenly part of a 'pack' with Elena serving as its heart and Damon serving as its brain, though I was the only werewolf and thus the only one thinking of it as a 'pack'.
That was just in time for Klaus to return to Mystic Falls and turn me into a hybrid. And somehow it was Elena who had figured out the key to keeping me alive when the vampire and werewolf halves were trying to rip each other apart. And it was because of Elena, the only one who had fully accepted me, bratty behavior, werewolf side, and all, that Klaus was hurting, that is what gave me the incentive to find some way to break the sire bond.
But as I walk into the boarding house to give my weekly report to Damon on what Klaus is up to, I screech to a halt. I'm serious: if I had been driving, tires would have squealed and rubber would have burned with how fast I put on the breaks. "Oh, sorry! Don't mind me! I'll come back later!" I yelp, dashing out the door that had been standing open and closing it behind me.
I do not get far enough away in my dash to safety to avoid hearing Damon's howl of frustration and Elena's groan. Yeah, well, if you guys didn't want someone walking in on you, you should've been in Damon's room or at least had the front door shut and locked! Trying to go at it on the living room couch with the front door standing wide open is asking for intrusions! Come to think of it, wasn't that Stefan's couch?
Doesn't matter. I wish I had known her better before, when I was still purely human. Then I'd actually feel comfortable teasing them about how many times this makes for them to get interrupted in a 'public' place. I had momentarily forgotten about what the others had said about catching them in increasingly indecent scenarios in places they shouldn't have been doing them in. When are they going to get a clue and find somewhere private?
Sarah: I know I hadn't included any descriptions of just how far Damon and Elena had gone before being intruded on in the last two chapters, but I'm sure from what I said, you guys have a pretty good idea of just how far they had gotten before Matt and Tyler had walked in on them. I know if Matt had done that in the show at this time, he would not have wanted to describe it even in his head and would've wanted brain bleach afterwards to wash it away. And the way I portrayed Tyler has him a little proper about describing even to himself such scenes when he's not one of the ones involved.