Ask me about a pairing I have written (or haven't and you think I should write) and I will give you five facts about them or a ficlet or a song that is CLEARLY THEIR SONG or what they order from the Chinese place down the street, etc, etc.
ONE. Stefan lights the match that burns the Salvatore boarding house to the ground. Caroline stands beside him and holds his hand.
Side-by-side, they watch it burn.
TWO. They bury Tyler together.
Neither of them were there when it happened, and they both curse themselves for finding his body cold, the telling spray of blood across his face.
"He was all alone," is all Caroline can say, placing a bouquet over the mound of fresh dirt -- wolfsbane and vervain bound together.
"Everybody's alone, Caroline," Stefan tells her, taking her into his arms. And even as he says it, Caroline doesn't really believe it. She closes her eyes and doesn't let go of him for a very long time.
THREE. Caroline kisses him first.
It's been decades, and they're in the middle of a holy supernatural war, and though their colors reveal that they're on different sides, Caroline had thought he was dead.
Both of their faces are marred with dirt and blood, and both of their hearts are heavy with the knowledge that they've been played, like hundreds of thousands of soldiers before them in every war since the beginning of time. Stefan drops the gun he's holding to the ground, the one filled with wood-tipped bullets, and it lands with a thud on the wet, solid earth at his feet.
He never picks it up again.
FOUR. They like to pretend that they don't know each other. After the wave of knowledge spreads across the world, the earth's religions find some way of covering it up again. Destruction has a very useful way of covering up the truth, and pretty soon there's no one left alive who remembers it. In times like these, their immortality once again becomes something they have to hide.
So they pick a place, a town, somewhere they haven't been before, sometimes even a place that they have. They arrive separately, make friends, start separate lives. Stefan even gets married once, to pass the time.
He fucks Caroline in the back seat of his family car, his wife and step-children sleeping at home.
She takes no care in trying not to mark him, make him bruise, make him bleed.
Secretly, even though she knows that he is hers entirely, she wishes he wouldn't heal.
FIVE. Stefan kisses her last.
She's in his arms and dying -- the doing of a Lockwood descendant come back to remind them of their past, to seek revenge for some long-buried grudge.
Stefan carries her out to the riverbank and throws both of their rings to the bottom.
"No, don't," Caroline pleads with him weakly.
"I've lived a long life," Stefan tells her, brushes back her hair with his thumb. "We've lived a long life." He kisses her then, presses his lips to hers, and waits for day.
Oh wow dude this is amazing. What a punch to the gut - the whole thing! But written so so so beautifully. Poor Tyler :( I especially love #4. I love that detail of Stefan getting married to "pass the time", that is just such an affecting thought. And the end *sniffle* oh you two. Thank you SO much for this. You are awesome :D
By the way! Thank you! I thought I had replied to this comment already. Guess not! I am so glad you like this. I know it was a little depressing but I thought you might like it anyway! I love writing them. I love them.
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Date: 2011-03-25 04:16 am (UTC)Hmmmm what abouuuuuut
Jawyercita! Haven't had any of them in a while :)
Five Things About Caroline & Stefan; r
Date: 2011-03-25 11:43 pm (UTC)Stefan lights the match that burns the Salvatore boarding house to the ground. Caroline stands beside him and holds his hand.
Side-by-side, they watch it burn.
TWO.
They bury Tyler together.
Neither of them were there when it happened, and they both curse themselves for finding his body cold, the telling spray of blood across his face.
"He was all alone," is all Caroline can say, placing a bouquet over the mound of fresh dirt -- wolfsbane and vervain bound together.
"Everybody's alone, Caroline," Stefan tells her, taking her into his arms. And even as he says it, Caroline doesn't really believe it. She closes her eyes and doesn't let go of him for a very long time.
THREE.
Caroline kisses him first.
It's been decades, and they're in the middle of a holy supernatural war, and though their colors reveal that they're on different sides, Caroline had thought he was dead.
Both of their faces are marred with dirt and blood, and both of their hearts are heavy with the knowledge that they've been played, like hundreds of thousands of soldiers before them in every war since the beginning of time. Stefan drops the gun he's holding to the ground, the one filled with wood-tipped bullets, and it lands with a thud on the wet, solid earth at his feet.
He never picks it up again.
FOUR.
They like to pretend that they don't know each other. After the wave of knowledge spreads across the world, the earth's religions find some way of covering it up again. Destruction has a very useful way of covering up the truth, and pretty soon there's no one left alive who remembers it. In times like these, their immortality once again becomes something they have to hide.
So they pick a place, a town, somewhere they haven't been before, sometimes even a place that they have. They arrive separately, make friends, start separate lives. Stefan even gets married once, to pass the time.
He fucks Caroline in the back seat of his family car, his wife and step-children sleeping at home.
She takes no care in trying not to mark him, make him bruise, make him bleed.
Secretly, even though she knows that he is hers entirely, she wishes he wouldn't heal.
FIVE.
Stefan kisses her last.
She's in his arms and dying -- the doing of a Lockwood descendant come back to remind them of their past, to seek revenge for some long-buried grudge.
Stefan carries her out to the riverbank and throws both of their rings to the bottom.
"No, don't," Caroline pleads with him weakly.
"I've lived a long life," Stefan tells her, brushes back her hair with his thumb. "We've lived a long life." He kisses her then, presses his lips to hers, and waits for day.
-fin
Re: Five Things About Caroline & Stefan; r
Date: 2011-03-25 11:47 pm (UTC)I especially love #4. I love that detail of Stefan getting married to "pass the time", that is just such an affecting thought.
And the end *sniffle* oh you two.
Thank you SO much for this. You are awesome :D
Re: Five Things About Caroline & Stefan; r
Date: 2011-03-27 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-26 06:48 pm (UTC)Here:
http://crickets.livejournal.com/433874.html
I made a post cause it was to long for a comment.
(I totally just typed that it was too long for a comet! Hahah!)