Caroline Forbes Comment Ficathon

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HOW THIS WORKS:

1. Prompts can be for anything pertaining to Caroline Forbes from The Vampire Diaries --  any ship, slash, crossovers. No limits, no rules. Just go crazy with the Caroline love.

2. Prompt in the comments. Format is thus: Character(s) or Pairing, prompt. (Or, you know, just do what everyone else is doing).

3. When writing fic, put in

Comments

[ashtrayrock]

It takes three years. Three years of plans that quite honestly made Caroline's head spin a million different directions, three years of friendships taken the edge, broken, shattered, haphazardly put back together and reassembled. Three years of feeling like the world will fall out from under them at any moment. Three years of more lies to protect people than she could ever keep track of. Three years of pretending she was fine (you don't have to pretend with me he would always, always remind her). Three years of more heartache and pain than any of them could have ever imagined. Three years of of wishing for a normalcy that slipped further and further away every day.

By the end she's not pretending anymore. At least about how she feels. The rules they had all thought were written in stone at the beginning crumbled early on. Everything was different at the end than the beginning. She breathed out an I think I love you one cold winter night when they sat perched in the trees watching the oncoming wolves. He'd taken her hand, given it a squeeze and later when they pulled the wooden bullets from each other's bodies he repeated her words with all the conviction in the world.

After that her days, as fucked up and awful as they are, end and begin with three words. Her and Elena don't talk for months. Tyler calls her a whore who constantly falls for her best friend's leftovers. She doesn't care. She doesn't pretend, she moves beneath him and she doesn't have to be careful or hold back, she doesn't have to lie, she doesn't have to be anyone but who she is. There is no such thing as close enough, and the favorite part of her life is hearing his footsteps cross her doorstep.

The world is cruel and guided by things put into motion long before any of them were even thoughts in the stars. Their lives are not theirs. They're lives molded from the mistakes of others.

Elena dies one summer afternoon. Bonnie three weeks later. Caroline kills Tyler in that winter she breaths her confession to Stefan. Katherine proves herself at the end, dying to try to save Elena. Matt was the first. Damon flees. Her mother falls to a Elijah and Klaus destroys the town. Three years. Everyone and everything takes only thee years to fall in pieces around their feet. They'd never thought they'd win, but she never thought loss would be like this.

They make a pact. They disappear. They scatter their lives to the wind and take a cue from Katherine who started it all. They survive. And every night her heart aches for the sound of his footsteps at her door.

[mistress_britt]

So beautiful yet heartbreaking at the same time. This was fantastic :)

[sing_song_sung]

I love this! (And I love your username, too.)