[fic] This Hopeless Place

[badboy_fangirl]

Title: This Hopeless Place
Recipient: dante_kent
Prompt: Damon/Rebekah: I love that I don't love you.
Author: badboy_fangirl
Characters/Pairings: Damon POV; Damon/Rebekah (implied Damon/Elena, Klaus/Rebekah) with appearances by many of the other characters.
Word Count: ~2300
Rating/Warnings: R (sex & language)
Spoilers: Goes AU from 4x01 "Growing Pains."
Summary: Damon

Comments

[badboy_fangirl]

Going into it, I decided that Rebekah wouldn't be expecting Damon to actually care about her -- she learned her lesson about that, so they were on more even ground this time around. And by giving her that vantage point, and then Damon's natural generosity, they were able to be total equals in their not-relationship.

So, thank you for commenting on that, because it was a very deliberate choice I made with her, but I still wanted some of her snottiness to come through, so once she wasn't as sad about Klaus, she could return to more of her normal mean girl antics.

I also thought about having Damon keep trying to kill her, but like you mentioned, it just wasn't necessary. Damon's deal is and will always be about Elena, and Rebekah was his perfect distraction--someone who needed him as much as he needed her, so it didn't feel right that he would hold on to his anger about Elena's death. In fact, wouldn't it be more fun to piss everyone off with his decision? Yes, yes of course, and Damon would so do that, because, well, he's a dick.

So YES. Thank you for this comment. You got the whole thing, and I love you for it. I'm glad you enjoyed it and gleaned from it just what I was trying to convey without, you know, whacking you over the head with it. :D That thrills me, it really does.