Caroline Forbes Comment Ficathon
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 ( Read more... )
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 ( Read more... )
Bonnie used to be the nice one, bubbly and happy and sweet. She’s cold now and hard around the eyes. Half the time, Caroline doesn’t know what to say to her, if Bonnie is looking at her and seeing only vampire, and not Caroline; if maybe she should only see vampire and nothing more. She scares Caroline, just a bit. Maybe it’s fair, because Caroline scares Bonnie, too, but it’s not the same; Bonnie can bring people to their knees, make them scream in agony, and set them on fire, all without moving a muscle. Caroline can’t do that.
But Caroline is different, too-she has blood on her hands now, lips and mouth stained red and dangerous. Elena says, it’s okay, it was a mistake. An accident. Or, you saved us, don’t feel bad. Stefan says, it happens to everyone. You can control yourself now, you’re learning. Damon says, it’ll happen again. Even if you go fifty years without feeding on a person, you’ll kill again. Get used to it.
She tries hard not to think about it, but sometimes, when she hasn’t fed, when she’s frustrated, or when she’s plain angry, she can feel something feral tugging under her skin, hunger pushing and pulling. Sometimes, when it occurs to her that she’ll have to leave home in fewer ten years, because she’s a fucking vampire and everyone will notice she’s not aging, she wants to scream.
She tries really hard not to think about it. Live in the now, right?
Elena, though-Caroline used to be so envious of Elena. She used to think she was so perfect. Elena had everything-parents who paid attention, a boyfriend who never treated her bad, and was never, ever second best. Golden Girl of Mystic Falls.
No one knows the Golden Girl has a price on her head, a ticking clock that counts away the days-not that Caroline sees it that way, but she can see it Elena’s eyes, a weariness weighing down her usual warmth. It feels like Elena is drifting away, like she’s retreating into herself, waiting for an inevitable end. She says she’s not giving up, she’s going to fight, she’s going to keep fighting, but they all know Elena wanted to offer herself up for her friends’ lives and-
Elena is tired.
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They were all cheerleaders, once upon a time-smiling and happy and bright as the sun. Now they are vampire and witch and doppelganger. Now it’s fighting every day and crying and pain, while all of Caroline’s friends start to look unfamiliar and the lines have grown murky and blurred. There is no reaching back to the innocence; there is no going back in time. Blood and tears stain them all.
But some things stay the same-some things have to stay the same. Caroline will not let them all fall to pieces.
After all, they’re all going to be sacrificed if Klaus finds Elena. They’re all in this together.
After Elena’s parents died, Bonnie and Caroline came to see her. Elena didn’t say anything for days (it felt like longer), speaking in only the simplest of phrases, her eyes vacillating between empty and red and teary-eyed. It was almost as if she’d died as well and it broke Caroline’s heart.
She might have kissed Elena then, softly on the lips, just to make her feel better. Elena might have giggled, like she was still young and instead of pulling away, clung on harder. And Bonnie’s eyes might have gone wide, like she wasn’t sure what she just saw, but she hadn’t backed off, didn’t run and freak out. Bonnie curled her body closer into Elena, comforting and kissing her hair, her hand trailing down Elena’s side tentatively-and Elena pulled them all to her. They held on to each other, arms wrapped around Elena like they could hold her together-if by kissing her, they were somehow taking away the sting, if by touching her, they could somehow hold inside her pain and tears.
They don’t talk about it-they don’t really need to-they’re friends and that’s all that matters. That’s all what mattered.
Elena still cries in the night, Bonnie’s alone in a way she refuses to talk about, and Caroline’s terrified of losing them both one day (and she will, she will, she knows that in her heart of hearts), but they’ll find their way back to each other again, because they’re still Bonnie and Caroline and Elena.
They hold Elena on the bed once again, Caroline at her back with her arms wrapped around her and Bonnie pressed to her front, an arm thrown around them both. And if Caroline presses her lips against the back of Elena’s neck for a little too long, if Bonnie leans in and nuzzles her nose against Elena’s cheek, if Elena locks eyes with them both and asks them to stay without saying a word-that’s okay. It doesn’t matter-they’re all in this together, until the very end.
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They are not the friends they used to be.
This is the best opener I've read to date. It's so true and so vital to what they've become.
She scares Caroline, just a bit. Maybe it’s fair, because Caroline scares Bonnie, too,
God, this breaks my heart a little. I remember last season when these two were so close and now they don't know how to be around one another. It's terrifying that they're scared of one another considering everything they've gone through together.
Sometimes, when it occurs to her that she’ll have to leave home in fewer ten years, because she’s a fucking vampire and everyone will notice she’s not aging, she wants to scream.
Poor Caroline-that has to be on her mind a whole lot these days.
No one knows the Golden Girl has a price on her head, a ticking clock that counts away the days
Best description of Elena's new worldview to date.
After all, they’re all going to be sacrificed if Klaus finds Elena. They’re all in this together.
And that's the real scary part-they'll even be together in death and while it's comforting, it must tear at them all in different ways.
Beautiful story. Thank you for filling my prompt-I need more OT3 in my life, especially after that last episode.
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Very nice. I find it intensely interesting the way these three have diverged. It's far more interesting than this whole business of vampires- how do these best friends change in the face of the rather terrifying odds against them. I love your assessment of Elena. Bonnie gets angry, Caroline transforms, Elena is tired.
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