[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

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Part Three

[fallinangelz21]

She’d forgotten to go by the store and pick up more cream.

Shit! This is me right now, too!

So she tucks the brochure into the top drawer of her desk and sends him a one-word text: Asshole.

His reply comes back instantly, as if he’d been sitting somewhere with his phone in his hand, waiting. It’s just a ;) but it warms her immeasurably, making her smile even as she shakes her head.

Hehehehe. Of course he was.

Elena doesn’t even want to kiss him, not yet, not in such a busy, bustling public place with an interested audience watching them. All of that will have to wait for later, for when they’re alone with plenty of time, because once she starts touching him she doesn’t plan to stop for a good, long while.

Mmmmmm, yes. :D

After that there may or may not have been karaoke involved, and Elena’s determined to find out everything she can from Caroline, including any and all available evidence.

LMFAO! I just love how you phrase that more than anything.

“Nice tits.”

I can’t resist quoting that line because, yes. Of course that’s what he said. LOL

I could have quoted this entire section basically because it’s really great how you managed to keep Damon Damon while still making your section work. He wasn’t just Dude in Hammock to Elena’s Woman in White Shirt. They still felt like themselves even though at the time that you wrote this we’d never seen them in anything even remotely resembling this conversation. The closest I think they’ve ever come is the “What’s this face?/I’m happy” exchange from 4x08. Very well done, my friend.

“Maybe nothing happened. Maybe I just wanted to see my girl and didn’t want to wait for winter.” Between one heartbeat and the next he has her flat on her back and he stretches out along the length of her body, pressing her into the mattress with his weight. Grabbing for her wrists, he drags them above her head and holds them there with a firm grip. They’re nose to nose, so close their lips brush, whisper soft, like his voice when he speaks. “Maybe I’m just tired of waiting, Elena. Ever think of that?”

You know that this is and has always been my favorite section and it’s because of lines like this. Damon is so understanding and so accommodating that it’s just amazing and while I believe that it’s the truth, it’s just awesome to hear the other part of that truth as well. He’s fucking in love with her, knows that she’s in love with him and probably gets fucking sick and tired of waiting and wondering when it’s going to be right, right now.

“I know, I’m an asshole, it’s just . . . will he never get it? Nothing helps long-term, nothing sticks. Animal blood, mixed blood, blood bags, nothing works. Is he ever going to learn how to control himself?” The question is rhetorical, so Elena says nothing, just lets him continue as she unbuttons the fly of her pants and lowers the zipper.

Dear, sweet baby Jesus, THIS FOR ALL OF THE FUCKING AWARDS! UGH! When will the idiot get his shit together? When? Blarg.

“But I don’t want to talk about Stefan anymore, I didn’t come here to talk about Stefan,” he says, surly and sleepy and sad. “Sick of Stefan. Fuck Stefan. Hate him.”

And this just because, aww. Poor Damon. LOL

A time-out from their lives. It isn’t enough, Elena muses.

I could quote the entire last section of Elena’s inner thoughts, but I’ll stick with this part because the way you have her slowly realizing that the time is nearly at hand for her to really BE with Damon is wonderful.

This section just makes me happy. I really can’t say enough about it. I’ve read Damon taking care of Elena - a lot - and I’ve read Elena taking care of Damon, but this is different. Damon’s vulnerable without being a mess and I really appreciate that. Like, I love the whining because he KNOWS he’s whining and he just needs to vent, goddamit! And Elena knows him so well that she’s nothing but concerned and wanting to help HIM.

It’s awesome.

The whole section is awesome and my favorite and I just...LOVE.