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[secretshame]

"Hey. You've reached Jenna Sommers. Leave a message and I'll get right back to you!"

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Wine cellar, remember? [ She gave a smile. She was more glad of the company than anything else ]

London was that for a long time for me. I travelled but I hadn't considered settling anywhere else. [ She may have lived in other places before settling in Old City but it wasn't the same - it wasn't home ]

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Hey, that doesn't mean I can't bring some myself one of these days. [ the company is definitely the best part, jenna can't deny it. and she's not used to that, but it's very nice. ]

There's not really a need for me to go anywhere anymore. Jeremy and Elena have another few years of high school. And now... [ she ducks her head for a moment and that miiiight be a bit of a blush there, but well it's tempered by sadness. sob alaric. why. ]

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Perhaps. [ Although there's more reason to drink it at Jenna's ]

And now... [ Helen starts to ask but she knows that look. Oh she may not have used it often but she's still a woman ] Alaric?

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[ she nods. she can't help it. it's pretty clear she's head over heels for him. ]

He's the nicest guy I've ever met, but he's got so much baggage... more than me and that's saying something.

[ she fingers the wine glass, debating explaining the whole thing to helen, why it's such a strange situation. prompt her, helen. she needs to talk about this. ]

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[ Helen gives a small nod, curious but not quite certain whether or not to press - with Logan she had known not to, not with how Jenna spoke but Alaric? It was fonder, and prompted her next question ]

Never have I ever said that someone had more baggage than myself. [ Which was true anyway - she had centuries of it ]

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Okay that was cheating. [ but she takes a sip anyway. ]

There's a lot about Mystic Falls that I don't talk about. At first it was because I couldn't... trying to protect Elena from something that could have happened. But she's gone. So until you came... I didn't really have anyone I trusted enough to explain it all to.

[ yes, helen, that means alaric and his wife are all wrapped up in this vampire mess. ]

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[ She just gives Jenna a small smile at that - she knew that it was but she was enjoying the conversation ]

As home as Mystic Falls is it would appear that a lot happens there. [ She could relate, partially ]

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It seems to attract the vampires and criminally insane. [ meaning scumfell. ] Most of which no one knows about. But I wouldn't have it any other way. I do miss it, even with school and my thesis looming over my head. It's a tiny place where everyone knows me as Miranda Sommers-Gilbert's kid sister, but it's still home.

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Home does have a habit of being a little 'odd', but it will always be that.

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Yours, too, huh?

[ oh she has a good one now. she gives helen a mischievous smirk. ] Hmm Never Have I Ever had a boyfriend in Taxon.

[ come on, helen. fess up. ]

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In many ways.

[ If Helen Magnus blushed (or properly so) she would have been blushing then. There's a slight (cheating) part of her that's tempted not to sip - it is new - but with the truth she's been given? She's playing fair ] Caught. [ Sip. The floor is open ]

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I knew it! [ she crows triumphantly, leaning forward on the arm of the chair. ] Come on, who is it, what's he like?

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Jenna. [ She may have answered but that didn't mean that she was going to give you everything - it was new and these things were some of the more private to her ]

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Oh come on, you can't dangle that in front of me and not expect me to ask! [ she's like a teenager sometimes. just forgive her. ] I just want to know if he's going to be good to you. Friends are allowed that much.

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I hardly dangled it. [ She'd answered the question, there was a difference. But she gave a nod ] He will be. [ And if not? Helen could handle it ]

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[ siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. she'll let it go for now. ]

Your turn.

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[ Helen paused in thought, lightly tapping her nail on the side of her glass ]

Never have I ever [ She wanted to make this one good ] listened to an old woman blather about her life.

[ And there's a slight challenging look that dares Jenna not to drink. She's beginning to feel more honest, more so from the trust she has in Jenna but a little from the wine. And if Jenna didn't take it then? She'd let her ask another time ]

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[ jenna just gives her a disbelieving look. ]

Oh come on. You can't expect me to drink for that. You can't be any older than my sister.

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I can't? [ There's that cheeky expression again ] Unless your sister is over three centuries old, and from what you've mentioned I know her not to be, I do believe that you should drink.

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[ it's a good thing jenna's used to the idea of vampires or she'd be a little freaked out. as it is, she just grins and takes that sip. ]

You're not a vampire or you would have mentioned something when we had the vervain talk. So, what... how is that possible? [ she's honestly curious! she's had almost a year to get used to the idea of strange things and she wants to know what strange things helen's world holds. ]

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I'm not. I am still human. [ Human abnormal, really. Technicalities and classifications ahoy ]

I possess an abnormality- ability known as longevity. Extended life, simply put.

[ The how? Is a far longer story, one she'll gloss over ]

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Huh... Wow...

[ she's not particularly worried, upset, or shocked at this. she's interested, curious... but she won't pry for more than helen's willing to give her. ]

Never have I ever, before tonight, known that a human could be older than Stefan.

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[ And the half temptation not to drink is there again but she's playing fair. So she does ] How old is he?

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I'm not sure exactly, but he wasn't much older than like... a hundred and fifty-something. He was one of the original founders of Mystic Falls - or the son of one of them - in 1864.

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I was born in 1850. [ Which didn't actually tell Jenna why she was as old as she was either - her story was as long as her years ] London. [ That part was obvious ]