don’t forget you’re bones and skin

Aug 22, 2012 11:02



summary: Bonnie and Jeremy deal with things after a fashion.
warnings: self-harm, suicide, substance abuse, violence, sex.
rating: high R/m
note: Written for the TVD Smutathon, softly_me's prompt, Bonnie/Jeremy, i'm alive, you understand? alive alive alive, (and also partially for a prompt I saw in the Adult Theme Ficathon that I’ve now lost). This isn’t as ‘ ( Read more... )

ficathon, character: bonnie bennett, fandom: the vampire diaries, character: elena gilbert, fic type: one-shot, genre: drama, character: jeremy gilbert, character: caroline forbes, bear with me, rating: m, pairing: bonnie/jeremy, tv: the vampire diaries, writing: how the hell do you do it?

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ladygawain August 24 2012, 09:18:42 UTC
Ahh, thank you /o\ - I'm so glad this worked for you.

This ship just took on a life of it's own here.
\o/ all I could ask for!!!

The way she's so drunk on her power, so turned on by how much he trusts her. And Jeremy so helplessly drawn to her because she's a danger to him, because coming that close to death is the fix for an addict like him. (And because Jeremy falls for girls who could rip him apart.)

Yes this entirely. Like, this ship has really great ingredients - the show isn't quite sure what to do with it but it's just so there.

I love this image of Bonnie drawing a line around Elena's life. They've lost so much, but she sunk her feet into the ground and refused to lose her best friend too. Not that any of her refusal changed a thing. It also really makes their quiet lives post-Elena's-transition all the more tragic. Maybe things would have quieted down a lot sooner if Bonnie had just let Elena die earlier, maybe she could have spared everyone so much pain and anguish if she weren't so stubborn.

It's one of my favourite things about Bonnie, this unhealthy way in which she committed herself so fully to "saving Elena" and I think to me it was always not entirely about Elena (that's why it's bearable) but Elena becomes the kind of figurehead for so many things. And this loss? This "failure" will be a blow (and it's not even like she's the one whose dead but gosh). Ugh. And that's exactly what I was going for with the mundaneness of it all, the rather quotidian way in which everyone just gets over it. Because apart from the initial flurry and ongoing angst etc., I think Elena will adjust to being a vampire just fine (she's Elena) and they've all been through this before with Caroline. And things will settle. And it'll make Bonnie wonder, wonder about all those months spent looking up spells, almost killing herself to save, treading into really ambiguous waters etc. etc. and then, guess what? Life happens, and they just go on. What was she fighting so hard for, in the end? Obsessed with what it'll do to her to have to carve out a different sense of purpose all her own.

goddamn

my life is complete.

fuck. hot and creepy all at the same time. bless this fic

Heee, all I wanted. I feel like hot and creepy should just be my tag for half the ships on this show.

Thank you for this comment, seriously. Because I'm obsessed with your tags and your fic and your meta, it means a lot that you liked this.

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angryzen August 24 2012, 15:24:07 UTC
And it'll make Bonnie wonder, wonder about all those months spent looking up spells, almost killing herself to save, treading into really ambiguous waters etc. etc. and then, guess what? Life happens, and they just go on. What was she fighting so hard for, in the end? Obsessed with what it'll do to her to have to carve out a different sense of purpose all her own.

It's super sad. I wish the writers would sit down and think about this character and realize this and write her season 4 journey accordingly. Because we've already said that Bonnie can't completely deal with the "Life goes on philosophy," not for major things like this. Narducci is the only one who could make sure this was explored, but he's not an executive producer.

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