One, two, three bottles of beer on the wall.

[brightestlight]

Drunk.

Caroline hadn't really ever understood why Damon and Stefan drank so much, before she was a vampire. They pretty much lived and breathed scotch and brandy and whiskey, and she would just roll her eyes.

And then she was one.

It cut the hunger, and was one of the things that actually made you sort of forget the amount of crap that you had going on. It helped. And that was why, if you asked her, she was drunk as she walked home. Her heels dangled from her fingers, and she still had a glass of rum and something in her hand. It was multitasking at it's finest, and of course had absolutely nothing to do with anything that possibly happened in the last month or so.

Which doesn't really explain why, when she looked up and saw Lauren coming towards her, she actually just stopped. Not slowed down, not flashed her a smile, she just stopped, and her brows furrowed. "Hey," she said, a little loud so that she'd hear her. "Hey, do you have a second?"

And she doesn't even know what she wants to talk about out of the giant list of things she's got that she wants to talk to Lauren about, and she hasn't picked one, but she downs the rest of her drink with a shudder before she just sets it down by the wall so one of the cleaning bots'll get it.

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[dr_lauren]

"Of course you could," Lauren says, and there's a real warmth in her voice in contrast to her usual businesslike tone. "I'd like that." Making friends with a vampire is nowhere near the strangest thing that has ever happened to Lauren - in fact, it feels downright normal. "Especially since there's only so many experiments you can run in a lab before you start to go a little bit crazy."

[brightestlight]

"Okay," she says with a nod, and who knows how she'll feel about this with her being sober, but right now, it seems like a general win. That it could be a general win.

"I... should go home. Because I need to talk to Klaus about some stuff, but- but you have a good night. Okay?" She rubbed the back of her neck with a hand, the one that Lauren wasn't still holding onto.

[dr_lauren]

"Sure." Lauren gave Caroline's hand a quick squeeze before letting it go, her own hands delving deep into the pockets of her oversized sweater. "And if you need anything, I'm here to help. Really."