five acts meme - round four
YAAAY IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN.
Like I needed more fic to write but I'm never passing on this meme whenever it happens.
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Like I needed more fic to write but I'm never passing on this meme whenever it happens.
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Stefan wakes to find himself strapped to a bed, the ropes binding his arms and feet laced with just enough vervain to keep him weak. His mind is a jumble of thoughts, the events of the past few months melding with the events of the last few hours. The only clear thought he has is that he wanted this. He wanted to be found.
“Morning, sunshine,” Damon says and Stefan turns his head in the direction of his brother’s voice. Damon’s lounging beside the bed, his long body draped gracefully across a chair. “Still crazy?”
“Let me go, Damon,” Stefan demands. Damon shakes his head.
“No.”
Stefan strains against the ropes and feels a scream bubbling in his throat as every twist brings the vervain in contact with his skin. He wants to be free, wants it desperately, but he’s not sure what exactly he wants freedom from---this room or Klaus or fucking Damon or himself.
“Please,” Stefan knows he’s begging, can hear the sound in his voice and resents himself for it. “I can’t do this, not again. Just…let me go. Walk away.”
Damon is beside Stefan in the blink of an eye, his face perilously close to Stefan’s. He runs a hand through his brother’s hair and leans down to meet his lips, his mouth is cool against Stefan’s feverish skin and he tastes familiar, like Damon, and someone else---
“Alaric?” Stefan mutters against Damon’s mouth. “Did I…”
The sound of someone clearing their throat draws Stefan's attention to Alaric lingering by the door. He smiles lightly.
“I’m not dead yet, but I’d appreciate it if you would keep your teeth to yourself. At least for a few more hours.”
“Ric’s not looking to join our ranks,” Damon says, as he gives his brother’s cheek an almost affectionate pat.
Stefan swallows and closes his eyes. His been done this road before. He’s not looking forward to the next part.
“Klaus will come for us,” he says.
He feels the sudden absence of Damon’s weight as he gets up from the bed.
“We know that.”
“We just don’t care,” Alaric adds.
*
Stefan’s screams echo through the abandoned house and Damon imagines them reverberating through the mountains to find Klaus’s ears, to bring him to their door. Alaric stands beside him, the pale light of the moon illuminating his face, as they stand guard together.
“He’ll get through this,” Alaric reassures.
“You are too damn optimistic for your own good, Ric.”
“It’s a curse.”
Damon catches Alaric’s eye and half smiles. He’s very glad that Alaric’s still among the living.
“It’s really not.”
Another scream pierces the air and Alaric flinches. He’s clearly never had the joy of listening to a vampire detox before.
“I guess you're right,” he says simply and takes Damon’s hand without asking or hesitating. This is a new, but not at all unpleasant development.
Damon lets him.
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Okay, I might be incoherent here, but: OH MY GOD STEFAN ACTUALLY WANTING THEM TO FIND HIM. OH MY GOD DAMON WANTING ALARIC TO BE THERE AND FEELING OUT OF HIS ELEMENT BECAUSE HE'S NOT THE GOOD GUY AWW. ALARIC STICKING WITH DAMON REGARDLESS OF WHAT DAMON SAYS. EVERYONE BEING IN EUROPE (which I approve of). Also the dynamics were so perfect here -- I loved how Stefan switches between before they get him and after they tie him up. Also DAMON FEEDING ALARIC HIS BLOOD AND KISSING HIS FOREHEAD - GUH. This fandom, making me thing bloodplay is sexy, lol. Also Damon being sort of affectionate with Stefan anyway was <3333 and THE END I DIED THEY WERE HOLDING HANDS THIS IS S3 UNTIL I'M PROVED OTHERWISE OH MY *swoons*.
I don't even - thank you so much, I love every comma of this ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
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