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“Carmilla” recap (2.13 & 2.14): So much at stake

When we last saw the Silas gang, Laura was trying to get the goods on the board from Vordenberg, when they were interrupted by a very nude, and very dead vampire. Well, not exactly a vampire anymore. Enter JP. You see, LaFontaine went and Frankensteined JP into Will’s staked corpse. (Vamps hold up remarkably well, apparently.) Perry is PISSED about the whole thing-so much so that she slips on LaF’s pronoun while she’s scolding her BFF and trying to get Carmilla on her side. LaF, however, is utterly pleased with themself, and it is kind of impressive.

Perry needs to go bake some of her anger into cupcakes, so she bounces, leaving JP to address his growing hunger pangs. The thing is, since LaF used a vampire’s body, they essentially turned JP into vamp, too. I guess it beats living in a USB stick. Carmilla figures this out pretty quickly when he dives at her Cup o’ Blood.

She and LaF send him off to get dressed, leaving Laura and Vordenberg alone. Vordernberg tells Laura that Carmilla has a pretty nasty reputation, but Laura knows that Carm has turned over a new leaf, with all the saving and sacrificing and sexytimes. Vordernberg tells her that, once upon a time, Carmilla was betrothed to his great, great, great, great, grandfather. His ggggpaps was so devoted that even when she was turned into a vampire, he tried to protect her. In return, Carmilla slaughtered his whole family. Oops.

Vordernberg leaves with a quickness, and Carmilla and Laura are left to deal with that bombshell. I have to say, Laura takes it pretty well and Carm is like, “Come on, who doesn’t like to watch the world literally burn when they are young and foolish?” Laura decides that a good old fashioned protest might help fight the Corvae Corp. She wants to involve Danny, whose name is like a tiny stake in Carmilla’s heart. Laura is not feeling the jealously right now, though. It’s kind of killing her “saving the world” boner.

Laura invites Danny over to make a covert SNN report trying to inspire students to rise up and protest. After some serious chanting, Laura and Danny lose a little steam.

Laura and Danny are kind of disappointed that their announcement hasn’t really sparked any action, and Mattie hasn’t tried to you know, kill them. Just then, some creepy Latin chanting starts up and a flock of freaking crows heads their way. (p.s. Corvus is Latin for crow. Corvae Corp…crow…get it?)

Carmilla grabs the girls and tries to protect them from the angry flock. Upstairs, however, is a different matter. The birds aren’t there for Laura and Danny-they are there for Perry.

Thankfully, the birds didn’t hurt Perry but no one can figure out why she’s being targeted. Was it that day in the newspaper office? Is Mattie tying up loose ends? Is Perry our new overlord and mistress? Perry goes off on a rant about wanting the craziness to stop and she has so become the Cordelia Chase of this show. Poor JP tries to offer his assistance but she just snaps at him to leave her alone. Because Laura is Laura, she can’t stop thinking of the next step. She gingerly asks Carmilla how to destroy her sister. Carm doesn’t take kindly to this. The fact that Laura doesn’t even consider what a huge sacrifice she’s asking Carmilla to make shows the growing disconnect between the two.

Just then, Mattie struts in wearing leather like a boss, and some really adorbs little shooties (boot and shoe hybrid). She tells Laura that her protest isn’t going to do squat. Danny then reveals a stake she’s been carrying on her hip like some sort of supernatural Olivia Benson. Mattie scoffs at that, too-she’s not so easily killed off.

JP politely interrupts to say that the board is powerless unless there’s a student representative on it as well. Laura immediately volunteers Carmilla. Mattie walks out before Carmilla can actually answer for herself, but Laura is so sure of Carmilla’s blind devotion that she never bothered to ask Carmilla what she wanted. What Carmilla wants is to not be everyone’s hero right now. She tells Laura no, she’s done playing these reindeer games.

Laura plans and plans to avoid facing the truth of her situation, and Carmilla has always been the reluctant hero because she loves Laura. But is love enough?

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