12 Damon & Elena Drabbles
Please note: All of these drabble where written during the six-week hiatus near the end of season two. They do not reflect anything in canon after episode 2x16, The House Guest. Some of them I like very much, a few are admittedly a little weak, but I hate to leave a thing unfinished. And, after holding on to them for so long, I wanted to post them all so that I could move on to other writing projects, TVD-themed and otherwise!
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Prompt #1 | Forsaken
Title: Illusion Shattered
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Timeframe: Takes place during 2x08, Rose.
Summary: He can’t live in denial anymore.
The pretty illusion Damon created, the one where he and Elena shared an understanding, a connection, is neatly shattered the moment she runs down those stairs and into his brother’s arms.
Her thank you means everything and nothing; she doesn’t need him, doesn’t want him. She’s already safe in the arms of the Salvatore she loves.
He watches them walk out to the car. Stefan and Elena, bright, shining, good and living in a world where he doesn’t belong.
Her necklace is still on the floor; he picks it up by the chain, stuffs it into his pocket, turns, leaves.
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Prompt #3 | Bleed
Title: A Will Greater Than Her Own
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary: Not everyone is as willing as she is to let go.
The world around her is in perfect chaos, but all Elena feels is cold. The ritual preformed, her blood split, the fight rages on, and she’s left alone. She’s ready; she said her goodbyes, and now waits for the end.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Her face is cradled in his hands; she looks up at him, eyes pleading. Let me go.
“Not a chance.”
She feels the warm coppery liquid pushing past her lips; she lacks the strength to resist. Her vision fades to black.
The world continues to fall apart around them; Damon holds her and waits.
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Prompt #5 | Infidelity
Title: Never His
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary: It’s all smoke and mirrors, but he gives in to her anyway.
His lips trace a line down her neck, and he wishes this were real. She’s real, flesh and bone and here with him {but she’s not his, never his.}
His eyes drift to the locket on her neck. It plays in the moonlight, taunting him, a gift from his brother.
The one she always runs back to. {who’ll she be with tomorrow, the day after, and forever.}
Déjà vu.
He breathes in deep. She leans closer, pulls his face up to meet hers. The vervain burns against his chest. He gives in; it doesn’t matter.
He’s already going to hell.
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Prompt #6 | Bitter
Title: The Girl in Question
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena, Stefan/Elena
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary: He knows the truth long before anyone else does.
His brother and his sweetheart argue outside the tomb; this is the moment Stefan sees the end game.
That girl, pounding her fists madly on Damon’s chest, wasn’t his. His Elena was sweet and content; their world was peaceful.
Damon’s Elena burned; they lived in a world aflame.
With his brother around, her eyes stray but she kisses Stefan harder, says I love you, Stefan more.
He knew this was coming, but he needs to hear it from her lips.
Say it, Elena.
Her face is soft, but there’s a fire behind her eyes.
Why can’t I have you both?
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Prompt #10 | Empty
Title: Long Gone
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena, Elena
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Timeframe: Takes place after The Greater Good
Summary: She can’t help being curious.
His room is wide and empty. Everything left, its owner gone. A disarrayed tower of books piled on the floor, a bed unmade. She breathes deep. The air is stale, dead.
A scrap of white on the dresser catches her eye, folded, her name scrawled across it. Her heart skips and she reads it.
You really shouldn’t snoop, Elena.
She laughs out loud and the sound breaks the stillness of the room. She waits, half expecting him to appear, smirking, dripping with sarcasm.
The room remains empty; her smile fades. She leaves, her note crushed, balled tight in her fist.
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Prompt #11 | Poison
Title: No, Not Tonight
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary: She isn’t giving up, and she won’t let him give up either.
She holds his head in her lap and waits. The room is deadly quiet, and she imagines the poison creeping through his body, burning him from the inside out.
“Why, hello there,” his eyes drift open, his voice weak; there is pain in it. She shakes her head.
“Don’t talk, rest.”
“Better talk. Not much time left.” It’s a joke, but neither of them laughs.
“You’re not dying.”
“Could be.”
“Hush.” Impulsively, she runs her hand down his face; his eyes close at her touch.
The rest of the night, he slips in and of consciousness; she stays wide awake.
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Prompt #12 | Cry
Title: Get Him Back
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena, Elena
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Timeframe: Takes place in the same timeline as The Bait, When Darkness Comes and And Found
Summary: In this instance, she has only one thought.
It’s a trap, they all say, but Elena doesn’t care. Klaus has him and it’s because of her; she has to fix it.
“Help me or get out of my way.”
We can’t save him, they tell her, over and over again. Angry, frustrated tears streak down her face, but she remains resolved. She looks to Stefan for support, but he doesn’t speak. There’s a hint of a question lurking in his eyes; she leaves it unanswered.
Their continued noise barely reaches her ears. One thought, unbidden, circles her mind, overriding all others, constant as a heartbeat.
Get him back.
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Prompt #13 | Scar
Title: Souvenirs
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary: The morning of the beginning of forever.
They linger together in his enormous bed long after the sun comes up, with hands intertwined, rings that touch.
He takes her in, eyes memorizing the lines of her neck, bare of the necklace that once always graced it: a relic of times long gone. He runs his fingertips down the curve of her side and stops to trace the only blemish on the otherwise perfect skin of her abdomen.
A gift from Klaus on the night she was to die.
He pulls her closer and rests his hand gently over her scar; it’s the last one she’ll ever have.
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Prompt #17 | Loss
Title: Names Carved in Weathered Stone
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon & Elena
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary:
The dampness of the earth soaks her jeans. She runs her fingers over two names etched in stone {there should be three}, over today’s date, minus a year.
She feels him long before she sees him.
“Don’t wallow, Elena.”
Before she can protest, he takes her hand, pulls her to her feet, and leads her away to another headstone, one that reads Salvatore and Loving Mother.
Parents die, he says, eyes fixed on weathered stone, not your fault.
Her hand still in his, she confesses.
I wanted to go to a party.
So does he.
I wanted a little brother.
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Prompt #18 | Ache
Title: Waiting, Listening
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena, Damon
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Timeframe: Takes place after 2x08, Rose.
Summary: After his confession, Damon can’t bring himself to leave right away.
Damon waits in the shadows of the porch and listens, waits until he hears her breathing slow as she drifts to sleep; waits because he’s not sure where to go from here.
He’d said it. She wouldn’t remember, but she’d heard it. That was enough. {It had to be.} He tries not to recall the expression in her eyes; it’s too easy to imagine things that weren’t there.
He waits for the flood of relief, for the crushing weight to be lightened, but it lingers on. That same old ache, dull but constant, still pulsed where his heartbeat should be.
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Prompt #19 | Secrets
Title: Words Left Unsaid
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Summary: There is something there she can’t quite remember, can’t quite forget.
The boarding house is silent in the wake of a backfired spell, one that left a vampire without his voice and Elena his babysitter.
She watches Damon pace the floor, fuming, lips moving violently but without a sound. She can’t help herself.
“What? I didn’t catch that.” He glares; she grins, presses on.
“It’s like there’s something you want to say, but just can’t.”
His eyes find hers and all traces of playfulness melt away. A whisper {memory} tugs at her mind, but before she can grasp it, it evaporates like a wisp of smoke.
Then he’s gone; she’s alone.
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Prompt #20 | Writer’s Choice
Title: A Wandering Mind
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Characters/Pairing: Damon/Elena, Stefan/Elena, Katherine
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD.
Timeframe: Takes place after episode 2x16, The House Guest.
Summary: Katherine gets to the heart of the matter.
After hours spent, pouring over the Gilbert journals, Elena’s attention wanders. Her eyes drift from Stefan in the corner to Katherine sprawled on the couch, Damon by the fire. She lingers on one brother a second too long; it doesn’t go unnoticed.
“Why don’t you just admit it, Elena? Save us all the trouble,” Katherine taunts when the boys are out of the room.
“I love Stefan.”
“You say that an awful lot. Just who are you trying to convince?”
Elena doesn’t respond, and when the brothers return, she doesn’t look up, eyes firmly focused on the book in her lap.
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