[ fic ] the blood runs red down the needle and thread ; caroline/damon, the vampire diaries
Written for the prompt "with pretty-eyed boys girls die to trust" by youcallitwinter, happy holidays!
the blood runs red down the needle and thread » the vampire diaries. caroline/damon. pg-13. 1,345 words.
She hates herself for saving his life when it's the last thing he deserves. warnings: references to rape and an abusive relationship. I don't own these ( Read more... )
I found the scene(s) in that episode SO interesting, and I do wish it had been explored a bit more, so this was really fun for me to write. I will forever wish the show had allowed more time to Caroline/Damon interaction/fall-out after she turned, with deeper reaction on Caroline's part to her memories, instead of pushing that storyline to the backburner. I mean, I get that there was a lot of other stuff going on but STILL... I still want an apology, ugh. It needs to come up agaaaaain. Because then exactly, we get people being hard on Caroline for her dislike of Damon in 2x04 and it makes complete sense based on everything that happened but the show never gave it huge importance, so it doesn't register D:
And eeeee, I am glad that worked for you, I feel like these two need to be non-romanticized 99.9% of the time because there is such an abusive, painful history there.
There is nothing that annoys me more than when someone is writing Damon/Caroline and Caroline's memory coming back is dealt with in ways like 'she realized that she'd wanted everything he did to her', or that he might have compelled her to not be afraid, but all the other feelings were real, or he'd been really sweet to her sometimes which makes up for everything else. Ugh, fandom, stay away from my ship.
'SHE REALIZED THAT SHE'D WANTED EVERYTHING HE DID TO HER'? ARE YOU SERIOUS? UGH FANDOM, DIE IN A FIRE. I CAN'T EVEN. Ugh ugh ugh. Yeah. I tend to avoid Damon/Caroline unless I'm familiar with the author or it looks pretty safe, because there is some really insensitive stuff out there, and ugh no. But yeah, I think I was talking to you about this before too, how I really liked that the arc wasn't about Caroline falling for Damon but rather her pursuing the hot, older guy because why not? It wasn't about her ~loving him or even really having deep ~feelings for him or wanting to be with him regardless - as soon as she realized what was happening, she did try and get the fuck away. And then yeah, when she remembered after she turned, that must have been hell to go through, I can't even D: Whyyyy did we not get to see more, ugh.
LOLOLOL, WHAT I AM VERY LONG-WINDEDLY TRYING TO SAY IS THANK YOU FOR THE LOVELY COMMENT YOU SWEETHEART AND A+ TO ALL THE DAMON/CAROLINE THOUGHTS AND I AM SO SO GLAD YOU LIKED THE FIC! ♥
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