Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)lit_chick08September 17 2011, 03:09:24 UTC
He didn't love her. It wasn't about that. Love...Well, compulsion or not, you can't really make someone love you. You can make someone be infatuated, make someone pliant, make someone believe they love you, but you still know it isn't love.
Sometimes you just need the lie.
Contrary to what everyone thinks, he didn't compel her all the time. The compulsion was just to make sure she wasn't afraid, just to make sure she'd keep his secrets; he never compelled her to sleep with him, to laugh at his jokes, to press sweet, little kisses to his shoulder after they were done having sex.
Those things...Andie did those things because she wanted to, because that's just the woman she is.
Was.
He genuinely liked her as a person. He knew he was never going to love her (no, his poor, battered heart belonged solely to the girl who didn't want it, same as the one before), but Andie was his friend, and Damon...He didn't have a lot of those. Ric was pretty much it now; everyone else, they tolerated him or came to terms with him or
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Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)badboy_fangirlSeptember 17 2011, 23:06:52 UTC
*sobs*
OMG. This is just wonderful. I so needed it after 3x01. I really wish there could have been more between them for both their sakes, but this is a beautiful rendering to what I saw there between and what I liked about them. And, well, you know my insanely deep love for all things Damon Salvatore, and this is perfectly him.
Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)lit_chick08September 18 2011, 19:52:00 UTC
I really liked Andie as a character and I wish we would've seen more of her. I think so many people got wrapped up in the "Damon is a rapist!" hysteria that they missed that Andie was actually a pretty strong character even in the small glimpses we saw of her.
And thank you about the title. I really suck at titles, so this made me feel strangely happy :)
Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)distant_autumnSeptember 19 2011, 15:16:25 UTC
Candy pointed me here because she thought I'd love this and she was absolutely right. It's so beautiful and painful and, well, real. I can absolutely see Damon thinking and feeling these things about her. I loved the exploration of the way he saw their relationship, the parts of it he saw as real and the parts he didn't, and the ambiguity as to whether he is right or wrong about that. And the insights into how he sees himself, with the weight of forever failing, losing people, feeling untrusted. And oh, him seeing her as his friend, this woman he compelled, while he backs away from believing anybody else in his life could possibly feel that kindly towards him of their own free will. It's so intriguing to me, that this relationship designed to be utterly unable to ever be real somehow become real to him, as did the woman herself. And I loved so many of the little details, like the casual intimacy of the laundry detergeant reference, juxtaposed with the reference to all the times he had fed off her
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Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)lit_chick08September 20 2011, 00:24:47 UTC
Thank you so much. A lot of people won't even read anything which features Andie, and I feel like it's such a disservice to Andie as a character. I really liked Andie and I'm sorry to see her go without her being explored more.
Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)brightstarmaraSeptember 20 2011, 11:59:30 UTC
You kill me!
Andie's scraf joins Katherine's hair pin, Bree's bracelet, and a half-dozen other trinkets from the women he has known. I love this so much. There is no sign yet that he does this. But he could. I don't think he will ever forget any of them. Not really. Or maybe that's wishfull thinking.
Just the fact that you wrote a story with Andie makes me want to give you a big sloppy kiss.
Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)simply_alyOctober 9 2011, 19:55:17 UTC
Aww, thank you so much for this.
I love that Damon cared about her enough to not only memorialize her, but that even when she was alive, he knew about the parts of her life that didn't revolve around him.
Re: Number the Stars (Damon/Andie)lit_chick08October 9 2011, 23:47:53 UTC
I wish we would have seen more of the Damon/Andie relationship. What little we saw was a strange mix of interesting and disturbing, and I really liked Dawn Oliveri in the role.
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Sometimes you just need the lie.
Contrary to what everyone thinks, he didn't compel her all the time. The compulsion was just to make sure she wasn't afraid, just to make sure she'd keep his secrets; he never compelled her to sleep with him, to laugh at his jokes, to press sweet, little kisses to his shoulder after they were done having sex.
Those things...Andie did those things because she wanted to, because that's just the woman she is.
Was.
He genuinely liked her as a person. He knew he was never going to love her (no, his poor, battered heart belonged solely to the girl who didn't want it, same as the one before), but Andie was his friend, and Damon...He didn't have a lot of those. Ric was pretty much it now; everyone else, they tolerated him or came to terms with him or ( ... )
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OMG. This is just wonderful. I so needed it after 3x01. I really wish there could have been more between them for both their sakes, but this is a beautiful rendering to what I saw there between and what I liked about them. And, well, you know my insanely deep love for all things Damon Salvatore, and this is perfectly him.
ETA: what a clever, clever title. :D
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And thank you about the title. I really suck at titles, so this made me feel strangely happy :)
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Andie's scraf joins Katherine's hair pin, Bree's bracelet, and a half-dozen other trinkets from the women he has known. I love this so much. There is no sign yet that he does this. But he could. I don't think he will ever forget any of them. Not really. Or maybe that's wishfull thinking.
Just the fact that you wrote a story with Andie makes me want to give you a big sloppy kiss.
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I love that Damon cared about her enough to not only memorialize her, but that even when she was alive, he knew about the parts of her life that didn't revolve around him.
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