Comments | cassiehayes: [ fic ] the blood runs red down the needle and thread ; caroline/damon, the vampire diaries

cassiehayes

[ fic ] the blood runs red down the needle and thread ; caroline/damon, the vampire diaries

Dec 08, 2011 00:37

Written for the prompt "with pretty-eyed boys girls die to trust" by youcallitwinter, happy holidays!

the blood runs red down the needle and thread » the vampire diaries. caroline/damon. pg-13. 1,345 words.
She hates herself for saving his life when it's the last thing he deserves. warnings: references to rape and an abusive relationship. I don't own these ( Read more... )

⏏ tvd: caroline/damon, ⌦ tvd: damon salvatore, ∆ pg-13, ⌦ tvd: caroline forbes, ► vampire diaries, [ fanfiction ]

Comments 14

catteo December 8 2011, 09:19:49 UTC

GAH! This is beautiful and gorgeous and lots of other superlatives.

But she wonders if she ever would have felt something off, felt the stirrings of the stolen memories underneath her skin, in the veins he fed on - where his blood runs now. She hates that most of all, how permanently he is a part of her.
I love this part especially. The fact that he will always be a part of her because he inadvertently made her who she is now. And the ways that she hates it.

*flails*

cassiehayes December 13 2011, 02:45:03 UTC

Oh gosh, thank you!! ♥ I am so so glad you liked it, I have a lot of feelings about these two.

youcallitwinter December 8 2011, 12:25:09 UTC

This is so, I can't even DDDD:

MY BB /HUGS FOREVER. I felt so terrible for Caroline here, I can't even tell you. I think you took an already brilliant canon scene and added so much more depth to it. Because the whole ordeal seen from Caroline's eyes, and having to reveal herself to her mother and get rejected, just, GUH. After all, we all know TVD parents are pretty much the worst (which is amusing in a show so centred around ~family), and yet you can't blame them because the way Liz saw Caroline first, her reaction was just what would be expected, what anybody's reaction would have been. And I think you're addressing such an important issue her because the whole 'Caroline saving the Salvatores' storyline just got subsumed by the Katherine's-planning-something storyline and I can't help but be ecstatic that you gave it its own space. And when she thinks she only did it for Stefan and it's not fair, I was literally DDD: Everyone was hard on Caroline for hating on Damon in 2x04, which, what? I blame canon because it never gave this ( ... )

cassiehayes December 13 2011, 02:59:12 UTC

alskldsljdsld flailing so bad over this comment and the WONDERFUL DAMON/CAROLINE DISCUSSION FROM YOU and I am so glad you liked it and and yeah ♥

I found the scene(s) in that episode SO interesting, and I do wish it had been explored a bit more, so this was really fun for me to write. I will forever wish the show had allowed more time to Caroline/Damon interaction/fall-out after she turned, with deeper reaction on Caroline's part to her memories, instead of pushing that storyline to the backburner. I mean, I get that there was a lot of other stuff going on but STILL... I still want an apology, ugh. It needs to come up agaaaaain. Because then exactly, we get people being hard on Caroline for her dislike of Damon in 2x04 and it makes complete sense based on everything that happened but the show never gave it huge importance, so it doesn't register D:

And eeeee, I am glad that worked for you, I feel like these two need to be non-romanticized 99.9% of the time because there is such an abusive, painful history there.

There is nothing ( ... )

ever_neutral December 9 2011, 05:03:56 UTC

This is OUCH and haunting in all the right ways. I have to give serious props to any fic-writer who gives Caroline's trauma its due, because the show certainly did not. The last line is a killer (mind the pun) stab in the gut.

cassiehayes December 13 2011, 03:01:30 UTC

Thank you!! The show really didn't give it proper attention at all, and I will forever wish we got way more fall-out, or insight into what it must have been like for Caroline to remember. So glad this worked for you :)

wheatear December 9 2011, 23:50:49 UTC

Ugh, see, this is how the show should have dealt with Damon/Caroline. And that last line is fantastic.

cassiehayes December 13 2011, 03:03:15 UTC

Ahh gosh, I'm flattered you think so, and I totally agree there should have been more attention given to this storyline than a simple shove in a hallway. Thank you!

brainzz_insanee December 12 2011, 02:20:53 UTC

So tragic and beautiful... I love what you did with this. If only the show had followed this out- properly showing her torment instead of skipping over it. There's so much pain underneath her skin.

cassiehayes December 13 2011, 03:04:27 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed :) I really wish the show had followed up on this storyline more too, I can't even imagine what it must have been like for Caroline D: