New Oneshot - TVD

[feckyeslife]

I have jumped fully into my re-discovery of The Vampire Diaries tv show and have emerged oh so briefly from the world of exchange fics with this angsty little piece.

Title: Something Comforting
Rating: T
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries (TV)
Pairing/Characters: Damon Salvatore/Elena Gilbert
Critical Tags: Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Season 3, Temporary Character Death
Summary: When Elena is so caught up in surviving moment to moment, she doesn't give herself time to actually stop and process what is going on around her. After Alaric gets attacked, she needs somebody to help stand vigil. After all, there's no guarantee he'll come back this time.
(Aka I'm still really bitter over Damon not taking that phone call at the end of Bring Out Your Dead)
Excerpt:

Her hands are still shaking though even as she wraps her arms around her knees and scrunches against the spokes of the stairwell railing. Her phone screen wobbles in the corner of her eye. The light catches her attention, and Elena realizes belatedly that someone's calling her.

The effort to bring her hand up to her face will be herculean and feels, honestly, like a waste of time. Alaric is dead. He'll be fine, maybe, hopefully if doppelganger counts as supernatural in the same way that immortal vampires or cursed werewolves count. It's a question they've never needed the answer to. Elena doesn't want to break from watching for any sign that Alaric will stir. She lets the phone screen fade back to black, and the trembling of her palm blurs in the darkness of the hall.

The worst part about this, she thinks, is that she hasn't even cried. Surely coming home to find the one caretaker left in her life attacked and bleeding out should have elicited something more than a systemic, pragmatic decision to finish the job.