[FIC] Landslide (Damon/Elena) R

[shipperjunkie]

Title: Landslide
Recipient: upupa_epops
Prompt: Damon and Elena - I don't love you, but I always will. A future!fic in which they are on-and-off for decades. They have an understanding.
Author: shipperjunkie
Characters/Pairings: Elena POV, Damon/Elena
Word Count: 10,200
Rating/Warnings: R
Spoilers: AU after early Season Four
Summary: Elena chooses herself. Clean breaks are a myth

Comments

[ever_neutral]

Let it be known that this was absolutely a treat to read after my semester finally just ending. You have gr8 timing. ^^)

Damon glances up, sneering as he says, “What’s it look like I’m doing? Sorry, that’s a stupid question. Clearly neither one of you know what packing looks like.” … “You . . . broke in . . . to pack . . . for us?”
THIS FUCKING HOUSEWIFE I'M SO DONE

She didn’t want to be swallowed up by love.
<<<<<33333. Yes. This is my favourite part of the consuming nonsense -- these two, they DO ~consume~ one another, but Elena never romanticises it (unlike Damon - lol). She does not want her relationships to be destructive. Thank God.

Then he drops her gaze to give her unflattering brown-and-green bridesmaid’s dress a slow once over, eyebrows lifting in obvious, exaggerated judgement.
oh my god this fashionable bastard, I'M EVEN MORE DONE

There’s so many things she still wants to do, see, know, learn--and while she knows she could do all that with Damon by her side, it wouldn’t be the same. She wants to stay single and carefree and do exactly what she wants to do exactly when she wants to do it, without regard to anyone else’s wants or needs.
PARFAIT

Elena sits soaking in a claw-foot porcelain bathtub on her fiftieth birthday and cries while Damon washes her hair.
HE IS WASHING HER HAIR WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS I'M 9000000% DONE

“Nice tits.”
lmfao IT COULD BE NO OTHER WAY

oh lord that ending is lovely. And I fucking hate happily-ever-afters so this is saying something. But I love that Elena just took her sweet time about it and finally she went and knocked on Damon's door for no other reason than that she wanted to. That is everything.