In our house made of paper

fairytales have rules // written for retelling for the multi_genfic bingo, or my version of it anyways // this is dawn rewriting different versions of what happened after the gift

( once there was a girl )

title: she’s the giggle at a funeral
fandom: the vampire diaries (with a slight crossover with the originals)
characters/ships: caroline, klaus, stefan, and some visits from Elijah (caroline/stefan, caroline/klaus)
word count: 8k-ish...it kind of became a thing.
rating/warnings: pg-13, spoilers for tvd up to 6x17, regular warnings for vampires, emotionless vampires and the things they do, death, blood, and the what not.
summary: Klaus heard about the two of them long before he saw them, before he knew they were the force of nature taking the country, the supernatural world, by storm.
a/n: written for the lovely ishi_chan who wanted to see Klaus having to deal with a humanity-free!caroline and stefan. I hope this is even a little what you wanted.
a/n 2: mostly takes place in NO, but very little from the show plays a part. it just wouldn't work for the story. so we get klaus and elijah but everyone is...gone for the weekend? also this somehow ended up being more about Caroline than anything else. it happens when I write things.


( “It’s always been a game, Klaus, you know that better than anyone,” Caroline says, “It’s just that I’ve finally learned the rules.” )

title: won’t look down (won’t open my eyes)
fandom: the vampire diaries
characters: caroline-centric and ensemble (slight/some caroline/enzo but not in a full on ship way…that’ll make more sense after you read it. I hope.)
disclaimer: I own nothing.
rating/warnings: R (for sex/illusions of sex), a tiny bit of bloodplay, minor character death, spoilers up to 6x10.
summary: she likes the bluntness and the sex and the alcohol and how it all reminds her of sophomore year in high school. before she knew that vampires existed. before she knew anything of the supernatural. when she had two living (estranged) parents, always there when she screwed up.
a/n: I don’t know what this is, just that it wanted to come out.

( Caroline Forbes is everything a grieving daughter is supposed to be. She does not turn off her humanity, the switch stays on, and she does not contemplate otherwise. She goes through the human emotions made worse by her vampire nature and she never tries to stop it. )

title: maybe damage seeks out damage
fandom: the vampire diaries
pairing: caroline/jeremy (mentions of others/ensemble)
word count: 3308 (yeah...that's alot more then three sentences...It just happned.)
a/n: written for kwritten for my writing meme and the prompt Jeremy/Caroline, kiss me like I'm not the worst thing I've ever done. I hope you like it.
a/n 2: goes AU after 2x03, leading down a caroline/jeremy path and also ignoring in the story most plot that was happening because, well, I can. also, it gets a little pg-13/light r at the end.

( She cuddles up to his side, because no one stops her and she likes the sound of his heartbeat, likes the way he feels solid beneath her. Caroline had missed that. Solid land. )

title: take another breath
fandom: the vampire diaries
characters: Caroline (probably turned out more Caroline centric than intended), Alaric, some Elena and some Caroline/Stefan that can be seen as friendship or more, read as you like.
rating/warnings: PG-13 (For talk of subject matter but nothing you would hear on the show, also warnings for talk of torture/light torture and a slightly darker Caroline as she deals with Ric.)
word count: 2706
summary: Alaric smells like vervain when she’s too close to him. She keeps her distance, stands across the room in his apartment, across from him in the woods as she tries to teach him how to hunt she steps away when he gets too close. Caroline thinks he might notice sometimes, he gets a look in his eyes that seems almost like an apology, but he never says anything out loud. (Post S5, hints of spoilers from S6 and definite spoilers from S3. This is Caroline and Alaric gaining their footing on how to act around each other, trying to get over the last time she saw him alive, and the torture he put her through. Basically the summer they’ll never give us/the Caroline-Alaric screwed up dynamics they’ll never give us either.)
A/N: this is a very different thing than it started out as, but I like it anyways. TVD never gives me Caroline’s trauma shown/dealt with, so I wrote it myself.


( Alaric smells like vervain when she’s too close to him. )