Fic Rec: Forever Is A Long Time (Care To Spend It By My Side?) by sarcastic_fina
This fic is GORGEOUS. It’s a future!fic featuring Stefan/Caroline with background Damon/Elena. Everyone picks a team and separates - Elena and Damon, Bonnie and Jeremy, and Caroline and Stefan, and then the pairs leave Mystic Falls. This fic spans the next thirty years or so of Caroline’s life with Stefan.
This fic makes me want to go back and rewatch S2 Stefan/Caroline. ALL THE FEELS.
(an excerpt from the middle)
They move to a small town and she can’t help but like it. She joins all the committees and digs her hands into every event they have. It’s not long before she’s running the show and she’s quite proud of that. Stefan opens his own family clinic and Caroline can’t help but think it’s sweet how they can’t walk down the street without one child or another recognizing him… and subsequently asking if he has any suckers or stickers on him. What’s even sweeter is that he always does.
The town thinks they’re married and neither of them has ever corrected them. Maybe it’s the lapis lazuli rings that seem to match or the fact that she always holds his hand when they’re out together. It’s a habit now and one she doesn’t feel like breaking. She doesn’t think he does either because half the time, he reaches for her hand first.
He buys a new motorcycle and her favorite nights are the ones where she just sits on the back, her arms wrapped around his waist, her head on his shoulder, watching the world blur as they drive and drive and drive. She tells him she doesn’t need a helmet because hat hair, but he gets her a pink one and she smiles every time he plunks it on her head and does the strap for her.
They have a nice house; a two story with more bedrooms than they need, one of which, predictably, becomes his library. She often finds him writing in his journal at the desk he set up. Sometimes her inner snoop begs her to find it and read it, to drink in every word and pick them apart. She wants to know if he writes about her. If he still misses Elena. If he remembers the kiss.
But she doesn’t. She doesn’t look for it even though whenever she walks past the room her hands twitch. Even though she knows he’ll be at work for hours and there’s no way he’d catch her.
He trusts her and she doesn’t want to break that trust, not for anything, especially not her ego. So she lets him keep his secrets and his journals and she tells herself she’s happy with what they have; that it’s enough.
Go read!
This fic makes me want to go back and rewatch S2 Stefan/Caroline. ALL THE FEELS.
(an excerpt from the middle)
They move to a small town and she can’t help but like it. She joins all the committees and digs her hands into every event they have. It’s not long before she’s running the show and she’s quite proud of that. Stefan opens his own family clinic and Caroline can’t help but think it’s sweet how they can’t walk down the street without one child or another recognizing him… and subsequently asking if he has any suckers or stickers on him. What’s even sweeter is that he always does.
The town thinks they’re married and neither of them has ever corrected them. Maybe it’s the lapis lazuli rings that seem to match or the fact that she always holds his hand when they’re out together. It’s a habit now and one she doesn’t feel like breaking. She doesn’t think he does either because half the time, he reaches for her hand first.
He buys a new motorcycle and her favorite nights are the ones where she just sits on the back, her arms wrapped around his waist, her head on his shoulder, watching the world blur as they drive and drive and drive. She tells him she doesn’t need a helmet because hat hair, but he gets her a pink one and she smiles every time he plunks it on her head and does the strap for her.
They have a nice house; a two story with more bedrooms than they need, one of which, predictably, becomes his library. She often finds him writing in his journal at the desk he set up. Sometimes her inner snoop begs her to find it and read it, to drink in every word and pick them apart. She wants to know if he writes about her. If he still misses Elena. If he remembers the kiss.
But she doesn’t. She doesn’t look for it even though whenever she walks past the room her hands twitch. Even though she knows he’ll be at work for hours and there’s no way he’d catch her.
He trusts her and she doesn’t want to break that trust, not for anything, especially not her ego. So she lets him keep his secrets and his journals and she tells herself she’s happy with what they have; that it’s enough.
Go read!