Title: Fray
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,615
Summary: “Seldom do these words ring true when I’m constantly failing you.”
Author's Notes: Response to this prompt.  Vague spoilers for “Fool Me Once” and “Rose.”
( “All the times I’ve apologized, all the times I’ve tried to be good, it doesn’t mean anything. Words don’t mean jackshit when I’m constantly failing everyone. Failing Stefan. Failing you.” )

Title: Keep You Safe
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries (show)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,239
Summary: “As long as I’m around, nothing bad is gonna happen to you.”
Author’s Notes: Response to this prompt.  Spoilers through “Blood Brothers.”

( Fuck it, Stefan, I made you a promise back then, and I let it get broken. It won’t happen twice, hear me? If that means keeping you on lockdown for the rest of eternity, you bet your ass I’ll do it. )

Title: The Road Less Traveled
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries (show)
Rating: G
Word Count: 947
Summary: “My mama told me, ever since I was seven, ‘hold your head up high’...”
Author’s Notes: Response to this prompt.

( “Do me a favor, though: don’t just hold your head up. Give looking backwards a shot.” )

Title: The Cruelest Irony
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries
Rating: PG
Word Count: 658
Summary: It’s no secret Damon and Stefan have an entirely dysfunctional relationship. But that doesn’t mean that at the end of the day, when Stefan’s lying there broken and bleeding, he’s not still Damon’s little brother.
Author’s Notes: Response to this prompt.

( Elsewhere, deep down in a part of his soul he didn’t know he had, he feels entirely different. This feels…wrong. )

Title: Stay Awhile (and Maybe Then You’ll See)
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries
Rating: G
Word Count: 653
Summary: I’m not crazy, I’m just a little unwell.
Author’s Notes: Response to this prompt.  Vague spoilers for “The Return.”

( She sees Stefan like he wishes she’d see him, but the way she regards him-fondly, if not deeper than that-is enough, for now. Maybe for forever. )

Title: Fear Not the Storm
Fandom(s): The Vampire Diaries (show)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,716
Summary: Fear not the storm. Fear the bright light that appears in the midst of it.
Author’s Notes: Set S2-ish. Spoilers for “Lost Girls,” “Founders Day,” “The Return,” and “Katerina.”

( He’s caught in this awful in-between, this vortex of repeating history. He watches himself as he does things, like he’s a man possessed. Watches himself methodically destroy everything around him, burn every bridge. )