Yeah. She can see that. She takes a deep breath to keep herself calm before taking one tentative step into the room, so she's not talking at him from the hallway.
"Tyler and I met when Lydia and I first moved to Boston. He and Elena and Matt were living in the same building as us, and we found each other pretty quickly." Werewolf noses and all of that. "Elena and Matt had just gotten married so Tyler would hide out in our apartment a lot because they're ... well, you've met them."
Elena is Elena and very well meaning, and she and Matt are a great couple, but take as they are with a baby and multiply that by fifty, and you have them as newlyweds. Cora loves her, she does, but they can be a little much.
"Anyway. Tyler's pack is not like ours. His alpha is his dad who is an abusive dick, and was going to force him to marry some bayou werewolf princess in order to build an alliance between their two packs. It was supposed to happen when Tyler finished school, and he even went so far as threatening to kill Caroline if he saw Tyler anywhere near her. We were both sort of in this position where we ... "
She pauses for a moment trying to figure out the best way to say it.
" ... We couldn't really have what we wanted. For different reasons, of course, mine was my own fault and I recognized that, but I think in different ways we were both trying to get each other back where we belonged. I couldn't really do much for Tyler unless I convinced him to leave the pack, but he was so convinced if he did his father would kill him. I kept trying to get him to take a trip to the city with me to see Victor, or to at least call Mom to talk to her, but he wouldn't."
She pauses for a minute, because she was getting to the harder part, the part he was going to hate her for, but she needed to say it, to explain it, to put it out there as best she can.
"I wasn't going to bring him to the wedding originally. I was going to go by myself because I thought that maybe ... I wanted to try and talk to you. But then Scott said you were bringing a girlfriend and I panicked and I thought that if there were any other way for Tyler to see how a real pack was supposed to work, this was it. So I did it, and maybe it was a mistake for me but it wasn't for Tyler. The time he spent with my mom then and at Malia's wedding helped, and when the wedding with Andrea fell through, it gave Tyler the push that he needed to get out."
She runs a hand through her hair and tries to stay calm as she finishes.
"You were with someone else. You were starting a family. I didn't know what was going on, and maybe if I had I would have done things differently, but I didn't. So be angry with me all you want for not saying anything, but don't take it out on Tyler. He didn't do anything but play along when I asked him to."
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"Tyler and I met when Lydia and I first moved to Boston. He and Elena and Matt were living in the same building as us, and we found each other pretty quickly." Werewolf noses and all of that. "Elena and Matt had just gotten married so Tyler would hide out in our apartment a lot because they're ... well, you've met them."
Elena is Elena and very well meaning, and she and Matt are a great couple, but take as they are with a baby and multiply that by fifty, and you have them as newlyweds. Cora loves her, she does, but they can be a little much.
"Anyway. Tyler's pack is not like ours. His alpha is his dad who is an abusive dick, and was going to force him to marry some bayou werewolf princess in order to build an alliance between their two packs. It was supposed to happen when Tyler finished school, and he even went so far as threatening to kill Caroline if he saw Tyler anywhere near her. We were both sort of in this position where we ... "
She pauses for a moment trying to figure out the best way to say it.
" ... We couldn't really have what we wanted. For different reasons, of course, mine was my own fault and I recognized that, but I think in different ways we were both trying to get each other back where we belonged. I couldn't really do much for Tyler unless I convinced him to leave the pack, but he was so convinced if he did his father would kill him. I kept trying to get him to take a trip to the city with me to see Victor, or to at least call Mom to talk to her, but he wouldn't."
She pauses for a minute, because she was getting to the harder part, the part he was going to hate her for, but she needed to say it, to explain it, to put it out there as best she can.
"I wasn't going to bring him to the wedding originally. I was going to go by myself because I thought that maybe ... I wanted to try and talk to you. But then Scott said you were bringing a girlfriend and I panicked and I thought that if there were any other way for Tyler to see how a real pack was supposed to work, this was it. So I did it, and maybe it was a mistake for me but it wasn't for Tyler. The time he spent with my mom then and at Malia's wedding helped, and when the wedding with Andrea fell through, it gave Tyler the push that he needed to get out."
She runs a hand through her hair and tries to stay calm as she finishes.
"You were with someone else. You were starting a family. I didn't know what was going on, and maybe if I had I would have done things differently, but I didn't. So be angry with me all you want for not saying anything, but don't take it out on Tyler. He didn't do anything but play along when I asked him to."