( — march catchall )

[rocinantes]

Who: katherine pierce, amos burton, stefan salvatore, wanda maximoff
What: event stuff and other sundries
When: march
Where: all around trench

Content Warnings: language

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[prescind]

( okay, good to know that he hadn't missed out on some creative and extravagant planting that she'd done. )

Okay, I thought I'd missed out on some dramatic new gardening angle or something.

( because yeah, that looks alive. )

Are they moving?

[manipulative]

[ she presses her hand against the glass and the tip of her nose touches it. she frowns deeply as she blinks a few times. it's… moving. ]

I've never seen a plant move like that before.

[ she looks at stefan, then out the door again. ]

It is moving. You can see that?

[prescind]

Yeah, I can see it.

( and, for some reason, it makes him anxious. he doesn't like it. )

Maybe it's just...something new for us to enjoy?

[manipulative]

[ scrunching up her face as though she's tasted a lemon, katherine faces stefan incredulously. it's a rational thought to have, but katherine refuses to believe her plants are now alive. ]

After all this time? None of the plant descriptions mentioned they'd come to life a year and a half after being planted in the ground.

[ and that made her nervous, although she doesn't wish to show it. ]

[prescind]

Yeah, I didn't think so.

( so, this isn't from them. this is from something else. he frowns and looks at her. )

Should we go out and maybe try and cut them down?

[manipulative]

Maybe…

[ that sounds like a good idea, but katherine reaches for stefan's arm to stop him from going out and doing just that if he was thinking about doing it.

she furrows her brows. ]

What if they just grow back? Like when you cut off one head of the snake, another one grows in its place.

[prescind]

I don't know.

( she does have a good point there. he blows out a breath and watches the plants move again. )

What if they get too close to the house?

[manipulative]

[ then stefan needs to sacrifice a few of his shitty shoes!

katherine huffs. ]

Maybe we can poison it.

[ she looks at stefan and shrugs. ]

I'm that Vile-thing. [ she waves her hand dismissively. despite it being a curious topic for katherine, she wouldn't be katherine if she remembered what-ever-the-fuck it was called at this very moment. ] Maybe this is a thing that I can stop with... vileness.

[prescind]

It might wreck your entire garden.

( not that it wasn't already getting wrecked by these plants that were suddenly there. )

You wanna start from scratch?

[manipulative]

[ she makes a noise as she considers. if she doesn't go out and kill it, her beautiful garden will be destroyed. if she does kill it, whose to say that it won't grow back?

katherine taps her fingers against her chin. ]

I wonder if it'll stop at the garden.

[prescind]

( that...is a good point. he really doesn't want anything to eat their house.

he swallows. )

Okay, you wanna go out there and see what we can do?

[manipulative]

Yes, but—

[ pivoting away from the door, katherine walks to the kitchen drawers and opens the one with the butcher's knife. with that in hand, she opens another drawer and pulls out the rolling pin. ]

We need weapons to take out a plant. [ she curls her lip up. ] Never thought I'd say that.

[prescind]

Do we...have weapons?

( they didn't tend to need them. )

Or anything close to a weapon?

[manipulative]

[ she holds up the butcher's knife and rolling pin, smiling close-lipped at him. ]

We do now.

[ looking at the rolling pin, she shakes it in her hand as she regards it uncertainly. ]

We didn't really need this thing, right?

[prescind]

I cook with those!

( but fine, fine. he sighs. )

Do I get something or just you?

[manipulative]

You can get your cooking instrument thing.

[ dismissively pursing her lips, she waves the rolling pin before extending her arm to hold it out to stefan. ]

We can get you a better thingy at the store tomorrow.

[prescind]

What a professional.

( he takes the rolling pin. )

It's not a thingy.

[manipulative]

It's a thing, then.

[ katherine scoffs. she walks away from the main kitchen to return to the glass door. she doesn't open it. ]

I doubt right now is the time to be pedantic over a name, Stefan.

[ except it is, because she's never going to pick the rolling pin up ever again and call it a "thingy". ]

[prescind]

It's not a thingy.

( gonna die on that hill. but he does give the rolling pin a swing before he takes a breath. )

You want me to go first?

[manipulative]

[ IT'S A THINGY!

at the idea of stefan going first, her heart lurches. if this was three or so years ago, she'd have set her shoulders back and nodded. yes, go first. he deserves to. she'd have reluctantly sacrificed him to secure her own survival.

but it's different now.

katherine shakes her head. ] No. [ clearing her throat, she inhales deeply through her nose and sets her shoulders. ] We go together. If you get hurt by a plant, well… I'd want to be there to give you mouth-to-mouth.

[ if you jump, i jump, jack. ]

[prescind]

Oh, of course. Mouth to mouth. After you murder the plant, right?

( because that's a thing that she's been doing lately, hasn't it? he chuckles but nods. okay, they go at the same time. with a butcher's knife and a rolling pin.

not a thingy. )

Come on.

( he heads for the door. )

[manipulative]

Hang on, hang on. Shouldn't we have a plan first?

[ no, she's not stalling. this is katherine coming back to herself. she's a planner; she's the one who thinks several steps ahead and on various different levels. a plant like this shouldn't be treated any differently.

she tugs on his hand and pulls him back, using some of her strength to make sure he doesn't pull her outside. ]

I don't want to stab you and I don't want to get hit with the thingy. [ yes, thingy. ] One of us should go high and one of us should go low.

[prescind]

Go high and go low on the moving plants outside?

( he doesn't necessarily disagree with the plan part but still. he frowns a bit and shakes his head. )

I can go high since I'm taller?

[manipulative]

[ with an unimpressed purse of her lips, she rolls her eyes. but it makes her feel better, having what feels like a moment of normalcy within a very strange situation. ]

This one time, I'll agree with you.

[ it's probably for the best. she's not wearing her heels and if she goes high, she risks cutting his hair tips off. and she likes his hair tips.

katherine looks at the rolling pin. he can handle it, but she's stronger than him. should she have given him the knife instead? ]

Make sure you smack it hard with that rolling pin, Stefan. Don't hold back.

[prescind]

I can't believe I've got a freaking rolling pin.

( and she gets the knife. he sighs. )

Come on, I'll go out first and you can get in front of me.