Title: Mark Off Each Day (And Laugh About What We've Lost)
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries.
Pairing/Characters: Carol Lockwood, Tyler Lockwood, Richard Lockwood, various OCs.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Suggested-domestic abuse, child abuse, and general violence.
Words: 2,500.
Summary: She blames the curse and thinks, this is what you married into, Carol, better toughen up and get used to it, this is your life now.
Notes: Written for
djkiwi2576 's prompt in
The Women of The Vampire Diaries comment-fic meme. The prompt was I'm not as clueless as you think.
This is what she married into. The wealth, the prestige, the elite. It was where she was aiming to be ever since she was old enough to remember her mother drilling it into her head, like a mantra, marry well, Carol, marry well.