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title; rating: second string; pg
fandom, pairing; count: vampire diaries, jeremy/katherine; 328
summary: just a little post-script to jeremy's departure. written for this ficathon

Four hours outside of Mystic Falls, Jeremy takes an unscheduled detour.

They're expecting him in Denver, but he has no intention of ever arriving. If it weren't for the tiny vial of vervain he'd shoved into his pocket before going to confront Tyler that day, he'd still be headed there now.

The motel is not exactly what he would consider her style, and since it's after dark, he looks for her in the hole-in-the-wall dive bar across the parking lot.

He finds Katherine with her elbows propped on the counter, shelling peanuts, a line of empty shot glasses in front of her.

"Saint Mary's Inn?" He asks, leaning next to her. "Kind of ironic, don't you think?"

Katherine rolls her eyes, sets her face in a scowl. "What are you doing here, little Gilbert?"

"Just following a trail of breadcrumbs," he muses, reaching into the bowl in front of her. "Apparently you're not as unpredictable as you like to think you are."

Katherine slaps the peanut from his fingers, too quick for anyone else at the bar to see, and Jeremy flinches when she is off her barstool in a flash, one hand at his neck. "What do you want, Jeremy?"

Despite her grip, Jeremy grins, because this level of interest means that Katherine is game for whatever he's got to say.

"Just a little advice," he says when she loosens her fingers. "They're in it over their heads back home. Besides, I'm banished, you're dog meat if Klaus ever gets to you, and companionship... well, there are worse things."

Katherine can't hide the smirk that tugs at the corners of her lips, and before Jeremy has a chance to point this out, she lets him go, turns, grabbing her keys and compelling the barkeep to forget the bill.

Jeremy takes two steps forward when she walks toward the door, and Katherine turns to him. "Very well," she says with a sigh. "Follow me."

-fin

Date: 2012-01-28 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gottalovev.livejournal.com
ohhh, I'd love it if it turned out Jeremy knew they were compelling him and faked playing along with it. going to see Katherine is a very nice cherry on top. =D

Date: 2012-01-28 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
I know! I'm really hoping he's got a leg up on them. His compulsion is one of the things that has bugged me most about this show lately.

Thanks for reading! Glad you liked!

Date: 2012-01-28 05:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eternal-moonie.livejournal.com
WOOHOO!!!

Absolutely AWESOME!!!

Date: 2012-01-28 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2012-01-28 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellensmithee.livejournal.com
It would be awesome if it turns out this way! I would've loved to see more of their roadtrip.

Date: 2012-01-28 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Me too! I am so tempted to write more of these two. Thanks for reading!

Date: 2012-01-28 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
I think I might have to. I just need to be more diligent about writing period. And I need to keep an idea notebook on me at all times, because I get these crazy ideas and then totally forget about them. (By crazy, I mean awesome, clearly.)

Date: 2012-01-29 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-dragoncrow.livejournal.com
Wow, cool pairing. And in this way I really get it.
I think it would be great if Jeremy really wasn't compelled. And turning to Katherine, who has been notably absent from the last episodes and planing something with her would be fantastic.

Date: 2012-01-29 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
I am crossing my fingers that he either wasn't really compelled or that there is some other unseen twist. Even as simple as Bonnie telling him.

Thank you! By the way. :)

Edited Date: 2012-01-29 02:26 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-01-29 11:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com
ia with the 'yay if Jer not compelled,' but his pupils widened/contracted, and while non-widening/contracting isn't proof of non-compulsion (e.g. when Klaus compelled Stefan, damn you TVD!), I don't think his pupils would've moved voluntarily, you know?

(seriously, people, why don't you carry tape recorders with you any time you're not on vervain? If I were in Mystic Falls I would be *seriously* paranoid about people stealing my memories/compelling me/etc. OK, probably I would either have left or be dead already, but still.)

Date: 2012-01-29 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
This is the most depressing fic feedback ever.

Date: 2012-01-29 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com
Um, sorry? I enjoyed the fic, should've mentioned that, and I don't think the unlikelyhood invalidates your fic at all... :( ....I like this pairing when you write it even though I wouldn't've come to like it on my own.

Date: 2012-01-30 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
It's one of those inexplicable pairings that I invent in my head and then grow to love, haha. I have this odd tendency to do that with fandoms. It's how I survive canon, lol.

♥ No worries.

Date: 2012-01-30 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabiya-al-basri.livejournal.com
^-^

Anime has me primed to expect sibling incest (in subtext or text) *everywhere*, so it's hardly that inexplicable in my brain.

Enjoying it is more than slightly cognitive-dissonance inducing, but I try not to think about that too much.

Date: 2012-01-30 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
For whatever reason, it's something that has historically been one of my "kinks" if you can call it that.

And Jeremy/Katherine is just kind of a twice-removed type of thing.

Here are two metas that I have memmed that talk a little about incest in fanfic and its possible appeal:
incest meta (http://iridescentglow.livejournal.com/603990.html), [livejournal.com profile] iridescentglow
Love Conquers All!1!1! (http://reallyreally.livejournal.com/714796.html), [livejournal.com profile] reallyreally

Date: 2012-01-29 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tellshannon815.livejournal.com
Loving the idea of Jeremy not being compelled, think I might do something with it myself at some point. Great fic!

Date: 2012-01-30 01:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Definitely want him to know the truth one way or the other. (And for Elena/Damon/Alaric to feel really shitty about it.)

Date: 2012-02-04 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sd-twobrothers.livejournal.com
Love this! The thought of a Katherine/Jeremy team-up since he left Mystic Falls came to me just the other night. I would love to see you explore more of their dynamic.

Date: 2012-02-09 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crickets.livejournal.com
Thank you! They're definitely a favorite of mine! :)

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