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[mistyday]

"Hey y'all, it's Misty, leave a message after the beep!"

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[stefanged]

[The tears don't stop for a while. Stefan melts into Misty's embrace, allowing himself to release the tension and frustration and even the sorrow that he had been holding in for so long.

At one point, he had been able to tell Alex everything, but she wasn't Salvatore's biggest fan. (Neither was Stefan.) She couldn't understand how he couldn't press pause on something so important, and he couldn't understand how to reconcile two so vastly different people.

God doesn't give him what he can't handle. This, Stefan knows intimately. He has to keep believing in that, that he can get through this. He's capable. He has to be.

Muffled:] I love you too. I'm - I'm sorry you're seeing me like this.

[mistyday]

Are you kidding me? After all the times I've freaked out on you - you deserve this one.

[stefanged]

Yeah, that's one way to look at it. [He laughs, despite the tears still streaming down his face.] Thanks, Misty.

[mistyday]

Besides - what are friends for anyway? I've always got your back.

[stefanged]

[He nods, scooting so he can rest his head on her shoulder.]

And you've got mine, though you probably know that.

[mistyday]

[She rests her head on his.]

I do.

[stefanged]

[He grows quiet, settling into the comfort and the solace that being with Misty brings him. A little sleepily - since all that crying wore him out - he mumbles:] That'll never change. I promise.

[mistyday]

I know.

[She wraps an arm around him and tugs him closer.]

C'mon, sounds like you need some sleep.

[stefanged]

Mm, okay.

[He doesn't resist, even trying to make himself lighter as he falls back onto the bed. Hope she doesn't mind him crashing into dreamland for a little while...]

[mistyday]

[She doesn't, not at all. In fact she just snuggles in right beside him and quietly uses him as a pillow as she continues to work her way through her book.]