Nice (Damon/Rose)

[upupa_epops]

Title: Nice
Rating: NC-17
For: a multifandom women comment ficathon; Would you kiss me once in the sunshine?/Would you kiss me twice just for old times? prompted by plural-entity
Characters/Pairings: Damon/Rose
Wordcount: 250
Summary: Rose knows she's going to die.
A/N: set in s2.

Comments

[fluffyfrolicker]

oh this is gorgeous, especially It's been a while since Rose slept with someone old enough to understand the darkness of night and the fears of winter seriously, prettiest sentence is so pretty and all of this

Damon gives her a soft smile, and Rose is tempted to ask if he remembers breaking thin layers of ice in a basin to wash your face at dawn and listening to sermons about chastity every Sunday morning, your lips still swollen from previous night's kisses. She doesn't ask, of course, doesn't really want to know. But it's a nice thought to play with as she rocks her hips and traces Damon's shoulders with her finger, very nice indeed.

You should have something nice before you die.

bless you ♥

[upupa_epops]

Hee, the "night and winter" sentence is actually the first sentence I came up with. Thank you! <333

[catteo]

It's been a while since Rose slept with someone old enough to understand the darkness of night and the fears of winter.
THIS SENTENCE IS GLORIOUS. I wish I had thought of it.

This is just quiet and kind of haunting and I really like it.

[upupa_epops]

Thank you!

I'm a little bit obsessed with how people right now experience certain things (like darkness or cold) so differently from people in the past, and how it alters our perception.

[istne_pieklo]

Gorgeous, haunting atmosphere. <333

[upupa_epops]

Thank you! :D

[swirlsofblue]

Beautiful glorious fic, so evocative. I absolutely love the whole understanding the darkness of night and fears of winters thing.

[upupa_epops]

Thank you! One of my favorite things about vampire fiction: you get to play with how people might've experienced things differently in the past.

[bogwitch]

Lovely.

>>the darkness of night and the fears of winter.

You didn't happen to be watching that documentary on the art of Winter were you?

[upupa_epops]

Ooooh, I've actually never heard of this documentary!

[bogwitch]

That line immediately made me think of it:

Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice - Winter was not always beautiful. Until Pieter Bruegel painted Hunters in the Snow, the long bitter months had never been transformed into a thing of beauty. This documentary charts how mankind's ever-changing struggle with winter has been reflected in western art throughout the ages, resulting in images that are now amongst the greatest paintings of all time. With contributions from Grayson Perry, Will Self, Don McCullin and many others, the film takes an eclectic group of people from all walks of life out into the cold to reflect on the paintings that have come to define the art of snow and ice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q6qj6/Tales_of_Winter_The_Art_of_Snow_and_Ice/

[upupa_epops]

I see. I never saw this documentary, but I knew from other sources that winter wasn't always perceived the way we perceive it now. So there is historical inspiration behind this story, but I accessed it through a different medium :).