[The Vampire Diaries] choices we (don't) make - multiple pairings

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Title: choices we (don't) make
Author: Kagome
Series: The Vampire Diaries (television series verse)
Word Count: 1617
Rating: PG-13
Characters, Pairings: Damon/Elena, Stefan/Elena, Stefan/Rebekah, Damon/Rebekah, Stefan/Katherine, Damon/Katherine.
Summary: They don't choose to love them both-but then again, who does?
Warnings: Spoilers

Comments

[swirlsofblue]

Oh, I absolutely love this, it's gorgeous and beautiful and sorrofully sweet. I love how you've done Elena's voice and Rebekah's voice and Katherine's voice, each so distinct and yet going together so well. And Savage Garden lyrics tying it all together, lovely.

And maybe what hurts the most is the fact that he doesn't sound surprised at all.
Such a gut punch, awesome.

She also shouldn't be bothered by this, because the fact that she is an Original means that she is stronger than both of them put together; she could crush them under the heel of one of her pretty stilettos if she wanted to.

(if she wanted to.)

She's already given Damon a taste of her special brand of cruelty, and now she's given the brothers a reason to truly mourn; she's given them a reason to hunt her down and she's given herself a reason to kill them both.

This bit is just so evocative, and there's so much to it, and it's just so Rebekah. I love the duality at play here.

She can't, because her stupid, fragile (dead) heart has already (unfortunately) chosen them both.

She wonders how they're doing, but doesn't bother calling. She'll return someday, when Klaus is no longer in the picture and when Elena is only dust and bones with nothing clinging to her but old memories, twin flames. She'll return and maybe they'll be singing a different tune; maybe they'll all start over and get it right for once.

(Maybe she'll figure out how to put them first and herself second-that's no way to survive, but it seems to be the way to love.)

Katherine's survival instinct still comes through so well, and adds so much more weight to her saying she would do otherwise to have their love.

In summation, this is an awesome fic, thank you for the fill :D

[kagome_angel]

Oh wow. Thank you so much for leaving this comment. I'm so glad you liked the fic and I was so nervous to post it. :) Thank you as well for pointing out the lines that stood out to you and that you liked--that means a lot to me, when a reader takes the time to do something like that.