[Although it's hard to say what he does and doesn't know, she can say that much. There are definitely still gaps in his memory of her, of them. It's going to be things that either time will fill in or she will, and there's a number of feelings that arise at that thought, but she pushes them aside.]
But he knew enough to lie to me. He pretended like nothing was wrong. But he always had this tattoo on his shoulder... [Elena briefly gestures to her own.] We got caught out in a rainstorm and I noticed the tattoo was missing. I think he tried to lie about what happened to it, but he came clean with everything.
[And that frankly doesn't mean as much to her as Stefan probably would like for it to. Telling the truth after lying (and lying about something that important) doesn't make the lying go away or okay.]
He said being around me helped him remember more. Until he spoke to me, the only thing he could remember is that I can't cook and that we dated. Memories started coming back to him that he didn't have the first time we talked on the Fleet. He has his tattoo back and he's trying really hard to be the Stefan I know, but...
[Elena shakes her head a little. It's just not the same. She's worried it will never be the same while simultaneously worrying it will be exactly the same.]
He still doesn't know everything about us or about himself. I'm worried.
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He does. He doesn't know everything.
[Although it's hard to say what he does and doesn't know, she can say that much. There are definitely still gaps in his memory of her, of them. It's going to be things that either time will fill in or she will, and there's a number of feelings that arise at that thought, but she pushes them aside.]
But he knew enough to lie to me. He pretended like nothing was wrong. But he always had this tattoo on his shoulder... [Elena briefly gestures to her own.] We got caught out in a rainstorm and I noticed the tattoo was missing. I think he tried to lie about what happened to it, but he came clean with everything.
[And that frankly doesn't mean as much to her as Stefan probably would like for it to. Telling the truth after lying (and lying about something that important) doesn't make the lying go away or okay.]
He said being around me helped him remember more. Until he spoke to me, the only thing he could remember is that I can't cook and that we dated. Memories started coming back to him that he didn't have the first time we talked on the Fleet. He has his tattoo back and he's trying really hard to be the Stefan I know, but...
[Elena shakes her head a little. It's just not the same. She's worried it will never be the same while simultaneously worrying it will be exactly the same.]
He still doesn't know everything about us or about himself. I'm worried.