fic: if these wings could fly

[lynzie914]

title: if these wings could fly
fandom: the vampire diaries
characters: caroline-centric, but really caroline/stefan at the same time. (also mentions of caroline/tyler, caroline/klaus, and very canon caroline/damon if that makes sense. pretty much everyone is in here at some point.)
rating: pg-13 (talk of canonical violence, past abuse and torture

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[fluffyfrolicker]

Damon and Elena (with tear stains still on her cheeks and alcohol on his breath)

of course. THEY WERE GLORIOUS ONCE.

(Caroline couldn’t kill Tom. Couldn’t protect him either.

She wouldn’t fail again.)

I LOVE this. Because yes, Caroline was glad she couldn't kill Tom (for Stefan) and now she couldn't save Stefan (for Stefan) and now she's going to kill someone (for Stefan) and she's so worried she'll fail, guh.

No one notices when she leaves.

(Stefan would have.)

MY BABY CAROLINE. NO. YES. WHY.

Caroline was always good at self-delusion.

(If she was a good enough girl, her daddy would come back.

It didn’t matter what she did to get it just as long as her mother was paying attention to her.

Sleeping with Tommy Fell would make him finally say the words ‘I love you’.

Damon cared about her, she wasn’t just a plaything to him, a distraction.

Vampires didn’t exist.

Werewolves and witches and doppelgangers didn’t either.

Being a vampire made her powerful. Made her indestructible.

She had some sort of hold over Klaus, some semblance of power.)

Self-delusion came easy after all these years.

THIS IS JUST SO WONDERFUL, I HAVE NO WORDS. JUST WOW.

In the end it’s his teeth in her shoulder and her hand wrapped around his heart.

“I’m sorry, Tyler.” She whispers.

And then she pulls.

MY HEART. THE GIRL WHO KILLS THE MAN WITH THE FACE OF HER LOVE BECAUSE OF ANOTHER MAN, BECAUSE OF HERSELF, BECAUSE OF VENGEANCE, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING ELSE LEFT. AND THEN SHE PULLS. GUH. AND SHE APOLOGIZES TO TYLER FIRST. MY HEART.

But Stefan was dead and he couldn’t tell her anything.

why.

Caroline searches out for Stefan, but she doesn’t see him. It doesn’t seem fair.

SHE'S DONE THIS AWFUL, MURDEROUS, HEROIC, STUPID, VENGEFUL THING AND NOW SHE DOESN'T EVEN GET TO HALLUCINATE THE BOY SHE LIKES. HOW CAN THE UNIVERSE DO THIS TO HER.

She remembers her own screams echoing in her ears and she waits for it to happen again.

oh, Caroline/Damon. never leave me, you.

Damon ignores her, just like always, and perches at the bottom of her bed.

“He’s dead?” He asks.

“He’s dead.” Caroline says, her eyes dead too. Her voice is weak and scratchy, but the words are confident. Victorious.

“Good.” He says. It's almost like a thank you.

BECAUSE OF COURSE. DAMON IS DOING THE ADULT, RESPONSIBLE, TAKING CARE OF EVERYONE THING SO HE CAN'T GO AROUND OF A VENGEANCE MISSION, BUT SHE CAN AND HE IS GLAD AND PROBABLY SORT OF PROUD AND OH, STEFAN. This makes me want to reread all my favorite Damon/Stefan fics, you're that good.