Fic: Taking Possession
Title: Taking Possession
Recipient: hisui_ryoshi
Author: kwritten
Prompt: (blend) Elena and/or Katherine: They've always been copies, and they'll never be an original, but some copies are better than the original.
Elena/Caroline: We used to wish to be friends forever. Forever turned out to be a lot longer than we thought it would be.
Characters/Pairings: Elena/Caroline, Katherine
Word Count: ~ 3196
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (implied sex and ~language)
Spoilers: Future!fic - no spoilers past S3 finale
Summary: That isn't Caroline sitting next to Elena...
Author's notes: Written for the tvdfic_exchange. I knew that I wanted to work with E/K the minute I saw the prompts, and then Caroline just sort of jumped in! Which was a bit of a delight. Thanks so much to fluffyfrolicker for being the best cheerleader ever! Also - bolded quotes are from Jean-Jacquez Rousseau. The quote Elena reads aloud is from Jacques Derrida's analysis of Rousseau. (If you want specifics re: which text, please comment or feel free to PM me!)
Teaser:
Their childhood dreams, living them out - playing house with the one who should have been “right” who should have felt “good” - was often the most difficult to grapple with after all these years. Sometimes Elena would see pain cross over Caroline’s face that was eerily like her own, when they inadvertently reminded each other of the lives they had once wanted to lead. It was always with each other that they were reminded of what they had once thought would make them so happy, it was always with them - with their Heroes, their Saviors, their “good ones” - that they felt the most obligated to continue to want a life that they now knew never made much sense. It was an obligation - more than anything - that caused them pain, that drove them back. An obligation to the girls they once had been - to the dreams and fantasies they had once fought so hard for. No longer could they even pretend to be obligated to them - it was more an obligation to the past, and to each other. To the girls they once were to each other.
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Recipient: hisui_ryoshi
Author: kwritten
Prompt: (blend) Elena and/or Katherine: They've always been copies, and they'll never be an original, but some copies are better than the original.
Elena/Caroline: We used to wish to be friends forever. Forever turned out to be a lot longer than we thought it would be.
Characters/Pairings: Elena/Caroline, Katherine
Word Count: ~ 3196
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 (implied sex and ~language)
Spoilers: Future!fic - no spoilers past S3 finale
Summary: That isn't Caroline sitting next to Elena...
Author's notes: Written for the tvdfic_exchange. I knew that I wanted to work with E/K the minute I saw the prompts, and then Caroline just sort of jumped in! Which was a bit of a delight. Thanks so much to fluffyfrolicker for being the best cheerleader ever! Also - bolded quotes are from Jean-Jacquez Rousseau. The quote Elena reads aloud is from Jacques Derrida's analysis of Rousseau. (If you want specifics re: which text, please comment or feel free to PM me!)
Teaser:
Their childhood dreams, living them out - playing house with the one who should have been “right” who should have felt “good” - was often the most difficult to grapple with after all these years. Sometimes Elena would see pain cross over Caroline’s face that was eerily like her own, when they inadvertently reminded each other of the lives they had once wanted to lead. It was always with each other that they were reminded of what they had once thought would make them so happy, it was always with them - with their Heroes, their Saviors, their “good ones” - that they felt the most obligated to continue to want a life that they now knew never made much sense. It was an obligation - more than anything - that caused them pain, that drove them back. An obligation to the girls they once had been - to the dreams and fantasies they had once fought so hard for. No longer could they even pretend to be obligated to them - it was more an obligation to the past, and to each other. To the girls they once were to each other.
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