Questions and Consciences

Feb 10, 2011 20:04

Title: Questions and Consciences
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Pairing/Characters: Caroline/Damon
Rating: M (Mentions of non-con and incest - in a purely theoretical way)
Word Count: 589
Summary: Post-sex, Caroline wants to theorise. Damon just wants to sleep.
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"Is it rape if you compel someone to have sex with you?"

Damon sighs, exasperated. The sex is great, hell the sex is fantastic, but sometimes he thinks it was better when she was human. Then he could compel her to shut the fuck up. And he could feed on her. Sex is thirsty work...

"Damon? I'm asking you a question!"

He rolls over to face her. "I didn't compel you to have sex with me, Blondie. You did that entirely of your own volition."

"I wasn't talking about you. Jeez Damon, guilty conscience much?" She smirks at him, shooting him a look of wide-eyed innocence which anyone else might be fooled by. But he's Damon Salvatore, and he invented that look.

"If I was going to have a guilty conscience, it wouldn't be about whether or not I'd raped you." He drawls, and then regrets it as he sees the hurt flash across her face. But only slightly, because Damon Salvatore doesn't do regret. At least that's what he tells himself.

He should be glad when she turns away from him, burrowing into the pillow. This was what he wanted, after all, for her to shut up and stop asking stupid questions. So why is there a nagging feeling in the pit of his stomach? And why, half an hour later, has he still not managed to fall asleep? This had better not be what a guilty conscience feels like. There is no way he's proving her right.

"What do you want me to say?" He asks anyway. (And it's not his conscience making him do it, definitely not. It's just that if he doesn't straighten this out then she'll sulk for days. And he is not going days without sex.) "That I'm sorry I compelled you? That you weren't just a pawn in my game? That if I could choose between you and Katherine I'd pick you? Because you know that nothing I've just said is reality, Caroline, and if you don't you're deluding yourself."

There's a silence, and then she speaks, voice loaded with pain. "And what am I now?"

He resists the obvious answer (a bloody good fuck) and opts instead to turn the charm up. Pithy compliments always work for Saint Stefan, why shouldn't they for him? "You're the one I keep coming back to."

She giggles like a delighted schoolgirl, then rolls over and slaps him. Damn. The kitten has claws. Maybe he should have tried being less sarcastic.

"What?" He feigns hurt. "I thought it was a nice sentiment. Women like sentiment."

"They do if it's real." Is her quick retort. "Seriously Damon, what are we doing? What's the point to this?"

"You think too much ." He takes advantage of her improved mood to brace himself over her, kissing her chastely on the lips. It wouldn't do for her to think that this was all about sex. "Are you enjoying this?"

She appears to waver for a moment but another, more passionate, kiss helps her make up her mind. "Yes."

"Well then shut up and enjoy it." He continues to kiss her, working his way down her neck to her pert breasts. She stirs beneath him and he smiles against her skin. That shut her up.

But Damon Salvatore would do well to stop underestimating Caroline Forbes' ability to fret. For no sooner has he rolled off her, sated, than her voice cuts through the silence once again.

"If you have sex with the vampire who made you, is that incest?"

character: damon salvatore, character: caroline forbes, fandom: vampire diaries, pairing: caroline/damon

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