‘Explain what? There is nothing you need to explain about.’
‘Elijah…’
‘I have to go.’
AU|Meme: Confused by what she feels for the Original, Caroline asks for some time to sort her emotions out. Elijah agrees, since he wants nothing more than for her to be sure about her feelings for him In the meantime, Matt makes a move on Caroline. Elijah being the honorable and moral person he is, doesn’t stand in their way an leaves town. What he doesn’t know is that she had already chosen him.

She thinks of him a few times.
Just a few; not too many. Like a fleeting thought; like when you’re out sitting in a coffee shop and you suddenly make a note of buying milk on your way home or you’ll be very pissed the next morning.
She thinks of him when she smells tea. When she has…