[ "the lovely elena". jenna makes a face like she's just bitten into something disgusting, but lets it go by without commentary— 'don't you compliment my niece' sounds crazy no matter how you say it, and she has bigger fish to fry than an admittedly innocuous choice of words. ]

You came after us. [ jaw set in a stubborn line, she shakes her head and tries to fight the urge to just start yelling. ] Play the eye for an eye card all you want, but your family invaded our lives and ruined them, not the other way around. I'm sorry any of it happened at all but so help me god if you try and spin this into anything other than that and I swear I'll hit you right now.

[ which ignores the salvatores' culpability and brushes aside history she doesn't fully understand ( doesn't truly understand at all ) but nobody's perfect, and two years is a long time to stew and build narratives. ]

...trouble? [ icy isn't jenna's usual mo, but hearing the euphemism knocks her back for a second. ] Your brother didn't break a dish, he— [ she breaks off, closing her eyes tight as black veins spiderweb beneath them like film exploded to light, shoving back at the tingling pressure she can feel in her gums and jaw. ] I don't care what else you say about me, but you don't get to do that.

[ don't get to take away what he did and make it seem like something else, even if that makes no earthly sense. ]