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ᴍᴏɴᴋᴇʏ ᴅ. ʟᴜғғʏ (rubber) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2012-07-19 23:54:00

Entry tags:

caroline salvatore, damon salvatore, elena gilbert

Who: Caroline Forbes and Elena Gilbert.
What: A friendly visit. Also mistletoe.
Where: Caroline and Damon's house.
When: Early evening.
Rating: PG-13 to be safe.
Status: Incomplete.

As much as Caroline felt bad for what had happened to Elena, knowing her friend had emphatically not wanted to be a vampire, she couldn't help feeling closer to her since she had transitioned. She knew part of it was just that she felt Elena finally understood her and what she had gone through. When she had turned, Bonnie and Elena had pulled away. It was their fault and she didn't hold it against them, but they had. And while they had repaired that damage and gone back to being the best of friends, it had still stuck with her. Now, she felt like the hurt between them was finally gone for good. Yes, there were some awkward things, like compulsions fading away and Elena remembering both that she had met Damon before Stefan and that Damon had confessed his love for her, but Caroline wasn't worried about it. She was secure in her relationship, and she knew that neither Damon nor Elena would ever do anything to hurt her. Besides, she was pretty sure Elena was too busy being torn between her love for Stefan and her desire to climb Elijah like a tree to get too caught up on Damon. And as for Damon...well, he knew she'd rip his heart from his chest if he ever cheated on her. Communication was important in a relationship, after all, and she had communicated that fact very clearly.

At the moment, Caroline was spending some time hanging out with Elena while Emma slept and Damon cooked dinner. She could have been helping, and she often did, but tonight she was totally taking a note from Jenna's book and letting him do the work while she played boozy housewife. She was pretty sure they kept the ABC store in business with how much alcohol they bought. Plus it helped with the cravings. And, as much as she adored Elena, she wasn't having her in the house with her so-far human baby if her cravings weren't under control. That was just common sense and practicality. She and Elena had just been chatting, with some very subtle - read, not so subtle - prodding from Caroline's end about how maybe Elena needed to stop with the vampire love-triangles and just pick someone already because getting laid would do her a world of good. What? It was totally true. Besides, it was her prerogative as Elena's best friend to point out when she was totally wallowing in sexual frustration instead of doing something about it with one of two very attractive men who were into her. She was just looking out for her. She was also out of wine.

"I need more wine," she said, getting to her feet. "Come with me. We can bug Damon while he cooks." She grabbed Elena by the arm, dragging her to her feet and pulling her along, forgetting that she and Damon hadn't actually got rid of all the mistletoe that had popped up...because sometimes it was fun to have an unexpected makeout session. Okay, let's be honest here, they'd been having a lot of unexpected sex since the stuff appeared. It was awesome. Or at least it was until she ended up under said mistletoe with her very female best friend.

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doppelgangs
2012-07-20 05:50 am UTC (link)

In a lot of ways, Elena felt closer to Caroline too. She really did get what Caroline had gone through, because she was going through all of that stuff. Now she felt bad about how she'd kind of treated Caroline at first, when she had become a vampire. It hadn't really been on purpose, it had just been one of those things that she didn't know how to deal with. They had got better though. Now though, Elena was walking a fine line between avoiding everyone that she knew, and trying to be there for everyone. As much as she wanted to, she was going to be an aunt soon, and she was already a pseudo-aunt to Caroline and Damon's kid. The fact that she had to step up and be there for her brother and everyone else was the only reason she hadn't just kind of shut herself away. Not to mention that she didn't want to be that girl, who moped and acted all broody. She wasn't that girl. Still, Elena couldn't hide the fact that she avoided Damon like he had the plague. She barely ever said two words to him. It was way way too weird now. It was easier to avoid him, even if he was in the other room, cooking dinner.

As far as Elijah and Stefan was concerned, she kind of wished she could avoid them both too. Only because that was easier than making a decision. Stefan had broke her heart, but she still loved him. And yes, she wanted to climb Elijah like a tree. However, even though Elijah had said it had nothing to do with what she looked like, some part of her still worried that she would just be a replacement for Katherine. Actually all around, she was a replacement for Katherine, no matter which way you sliced it. Stefan kept pressuring her though, which she didn't like. She actually didn't think that getting laid would do any good at at all. She had been so set on moving on completely. No more vampires. She'd get a nice, normal boyfriend. A human one. Which she could eventually marry and have babies. Now? That was gone. And all of her friends were having or had kids. That part was like a giant stab in the stomach, and the worst part about being a vampire. The part she hated most. Not the drinking blood thing, it was that she couldn't have a family, when she had decided that was what she had wanted.

Things were getting better, she was really good now at putting on a smile and acting like she was totally fine. People even believed her, which was nice. She was way better at controlling her cravings than when she had first shown up like this. Leave it to Katherine to force her to drink and become this thing and then disappear. Bah. She was soon dragged up by her arm and dragged into the kitchen to get wine. "Oh joy," she said with some fake amusement. "What is he making anyway? It smells.." she trailed off as they ducked under the mistletoe and this very odd sensation went through her. Wow. Caroline was so pretty. She reached up and brushed Caroline's hair behind her ear and smiled. "You smell nice," she corrected her earlier statement. It was hard not to lean in and kiss her, and so she did just that, brushing her lips gently against her best friends.

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rubber
2012-07-20 05:59 am UTC (link)

Oh jesus. She was under evil mistletoe. With her best friend. Her very, very female best friend. Who was not her fiance. Sometimes, she really did just want to punch Asaph in the face. Except Elena really was pretty. She'd always been pretty and Caroline had been jealous for a good portion of their lives because she'd never really thought she measured up to her. Elena was all silky dark hair and dark eyes and she was the one everyone wanted. It had been frustrating in middle school and high school. And it was still frustrating now, except in a different way. Because she was really noticing how pretty Elena was. It was impossible to notice anything else really. She wanted to touch her hair or her neck or kiss her. Anything.

Then Elena was touching her and complimenting her, and she was leaning into it without thinking. And then Elena's mouth was pressed to hers and she kissed back without even thinking. As much as it started off chaste, it didn't stay that way. It went from zero to sixty in seconds, as she rested her hands on Elena's hips and then slid them up her sides, deepening the kiss and turning it rougher. That was the awkward thing about being a vampire and making out with your best friend, who was also a vampire. Everything was heightened, and everything included moments like this. It was hard to pull back, and while she could manage it with a human through will-power and the knowledge she didn't want to break them, she saw no reason to with someone who wouldn't get hurt.

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doppelgangs
2012-07-20 06:18 am UTC (link)

Thankfully, or maybe not, Elena was totally oblivious to this whole evil mistletoe thing. She hadn't seen any, and she didn't remember ever being here to witness this phenomena either. Where was all of this lust coming from? She had barely even seen the mistletoe, to be honest. Oblivious as usual, she had just kind of went in for the kill. Clearly this evil mistletoe was not messing around. Somewhere in the back of her head, Elena was very much going Oh sweet mother of Jesus, I am making out with my best friend who is a girl and she has a fiance and a baby and her lips are really pretty. And no no oh god I have to stop this. Though as try as she might to listen to those thoughts in the back of her head, her body was deciding to just go right for the pleasure center.

If she had thought this was going to be a nice, tender kiss, she had another thing coming. Not that Elena had ever kissed another girl, but their lips were much much softer than guys lips. That was all she could really feel, up until she was being pressed up against Caroline and very nearly tearing off her face with the force of her kissing. She hadn't kissed anyone since she was a vampire. Her fingers went into Caroline's hair, tightening on the strands and she kind of whimpered against her mouth. All of her emotions were running on extra speed, which made her back her best friend up against the wall and be so so very grateful that she didn't need to breathe to kiss anyone anymore. As good as it was, they had to stop some time, right? Maybe now was a good time for some intervention.

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rubber
2012-07-22 01:10 am UTC (link)

Caroline probably should have been more weirded out by what was happening, and on some level she was, but that was mostly buried under the thought of how good this felt. It wasn't that it was Elena, because she didn't actually have any long-hidden attraction to her best friend or anything lame like that, it was just that she really liked kissing. It felt good, and she liked feeling good. There wasn't anything more to it than that. There was a small part of her mind that was telling her that Damon would never let her live this down, once he stopped laughing his ass off or having dirty thoughts and possibly trying to join in and turn it into a threesome - she still wasn't sure which reaction he'd go with - but she couldn't actually bring herself to care when Elena was pressed against her and whimpering.

She pressed closer to the other girl, one hand slipping down to Elena's ass and the other moving up to settle over her breast as she slid her leg between her friend's. Thank god Emma was both asleep and nowhere near old enough to be properly traumatized by what was happening. She really didn't want to be responsible for potential years of therapy. She was also exceedingly grateful that she didn't need to breathe, because she wasn't sure she could bring herself to pull away long enough to do that. Okay. She totally needed to stop macking on Elena before Damon noticed. She really needed to do that. But she really didn't want to, and willpower wasn't exactly winning out over pleasure at the moment.

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itsnotinme
2012-07-22 01:28 am UTC (link)

Unfortunately, the 'before Damon noticed' bit had already passed, having spotted the pair of them when he'd turned to get a spice out of the cabinet that he'd forgotten he'd needed. Paused midturn, Damon arched an eyebrow at the pair, allowing the scenario to play out in front of him before figuring it was probably best to alert them to his presence before they started climbing each other like a couple of redwoods. "Now, now, you girls didn't have to put on a show for me just because I'm fixing you dinner," Damon practically cooed. Hey, it was a better option than singing bow-chicka-bow-wow at them and less likely to get him throttled. If only by a bit.

"Could one of you grab me the tarragon out of the cabinet?" Damon asked, a playfully mischievous smile on his face. "It'll only take a second, and then you can go right back to sucking each others' faces off. Really. I don't mind."

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doppelgangs
2012-07-22 05:00 am UTC (link)

Elena didn't have any attraction to her best friend either, but she did have to admit that it felt good. She hadn't been kissed in.. uh well, she wasn't going to think about that. Nope. Besides, she could only concentrate on kissing Caroline. Of course most of her was feeling like this was wrong, and she shouldn't be doing this and it was weird. But then, Elena rarely gave into those kinds of impulses when she was alive, much less now that she was a vampire. Belatedly, she had realized that Damon was watching the two of them, but even that didn't get her to pull away. The mistletoe seemed to be too strong for her to want to do that. At least at the moment.

Though perhaps she had been about to pull away, the moment that Caroline's hand was on her ass, and on her breasts, all she could do was moan and press into her. The leg between her own made her just want to grind up against her, and so she did. God this was so wrong. So so wrong. Her hands were sliding up the back of Caroline's shirt, feeling soft skin against her fingertips and she shuddered. Then she heard Damon's voice and blinked slightly. It was enough to finally get some sense to her brain and finally she pulled back with a huff.

That didn't stop her from being completely mortified. "Oh god. I.. I don't.. crap. I should go. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Oh god." She couldn't look at either one of them. She just turned so that she could get her jacket and leave as quickly as possible.

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rubber
2012-07-22 06:12 am UTC (link)

Caroline was going to smack Damon so hard it would break something. Possibly the wall it sent him through, possibly his stupid face. Of course he had to be a complete jackass and make an already impossibly awkward situation even more awkward. Seriously. Sometimes she wondered if he actually paid attention to the stuff he said of if he just opened his mouth and hoped for the best. She was really starting to think it was the latter. Didn't he realize how much Elena was going to freak out. She honestly wanted to strangle him, but only a little because she still loved him. Instead, she focused on Elena, catching her arm before she could leave and holding her in place. She'd deal with Damon once she was sure Elena was fine.

"Oh, sweetie," she said, pulling Elena away from the mistletoe to avoid a repeat incident and looking in her eyes. "You don't have to apologize. You really don't. It wasn't your fault. Or mine. Or anyone's...unless you want to blame Damon, which is fine by me. I just forgot we had mistletoe up, and...it tends to be a little...different here. It was just the mistletoe affecting you. So nothing to apologize for or to freak out about or anything like that. Okay, honey?" She was honestly worried, and she really hoped Elena would stop freaking out. After a moment's hesitation, she pulled her friend into a tight hug. "Just ignore Damon. Annoying jackass is his factory setting. I'm working on training it out of him, but it's hard work. Maybe I should just trade him in for an easier model."

Looking over at Damon, she gave him a stern look. "Get your own tarragon," she said. "And stop talking. It's a really unattractive quality coming from you." Normally, she had more patience with Damon, but Elena was so clearly upset that she couldn't find it in herself to humor his jerk-ish tendencies.

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itsnotinme
2012-07-22 06:26 am UTC (link)

Well, that was odd. Damon hadn't expected Elena to react to the situation like that, and as his eyes tracked her for a long moment, his brain wrestled for some kind of reason for her to feel like she needed to apologize and flee. It wasn't until Caroline had started to explain that it dawned on Damon what the issue was. Elena didn't know. After two Christmases and two summer Christmasesque extravaganzas, the vicious and insistent mistletoe had become rather old hat to the pair of them. Not that it didn't have its uses, it most certainly did, but getting pulled into a random makeout session was bound to happen to all of them eventually.

"Elena, really, it's fine," Damon said, laughing despite himself and even in the face of Caroline's annoyance. He was likely going to end up on the couch that evening just for letting things slip and being himself at the moment, but really, Elena would think he was a pod person if he didn't stick his foot in his mouth at least somewhat. "If I dragged you under that thing, the exact same thing would happen. Hell, Ric and I got stuck under one one Christmas, and I was almost certain he'd drugged me to try and get into my pants." That was exactly how it had happened, and it wasn't like Ric was here to correct him anyway.

"You want me to take it down?" Damon asked, glancing over at Caroline. The implication was that he could always put it back up later. But maybe for right now, it would only pose a potential hazard.

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doppelgangs
2012-07-22 07:41 pm UTC (link)

Elena had been about to go for the door when Caroline had stopped her. She honestly didn't even know how she could look at her, she was that embarrassed. Though she felt relieved that it was about the mistletoe and not her. "Really? It just makes people.. kiss each other? Oh god." That made it better in a way, but still. She was so embarrassed. Because now that was all she could really think about, and god it was awkward. She covered her face and looked down at the ground.

"It's not fine, it's not fine at all. I kissed you and oh god, I just want to crawl into a hole." Maybe they were okay with being embarrassed, but she wasn't. And she certainly hadn't kissed anyone since she was a vampire and it had been new and different and it had rattled her in a way she probably wouldn't have cared about much if she had still been human.

Elena shook her head slightly, "You don't have to, I'm going to go. I just.. I can't."

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rubber
2012-07-22 08:32 pm UTC (link)

Oh lord. Elena was having one of her panicky freakouts, and Caroline seriously could not handle her best friend leaving and being awkward and avoidy forever. Wasn't going to happen. Besides, if Elena went out like that, she might eat someone, and then she'd just end up feeling worse. She just had to get Elena to calm down before she could escape and everything would be fine. Luckily, Caroline was pretty good at handling tense situations. Giving Damon a little nod that said that yes, he should remove the mistletoe, at least for the time being, she focused her attention on Elena and did her best to make her friend less uncomfortable with the whole 'oh my god, I just made out with my best friend because of evil mistletoe, how is this actually my life?' thing.

"Elena," she said calmly. "It happens to everyone. You don't need to get upset. Okay. I know it's weird and totally not cool, but it's not you. I was running errands yesterday and saw this one guy legit make out with like...nine people. Seriously, he had the worst luck I've ever seen." She smiled gently. "Just relax and breathe, okay? It's not good for you to get so worked up. Look. You and Damon have kissed. Damon and I have obviously kissed. Now you and I have. No big deal. Everyone in this room has kissed everyone else. So...it's just a thing. It's a little weird, but so's everything else in our lives. We'll laugh about it in a week. For now, you're staying for dinner. We'll have awesome food, some bagged blood, and then we'll see if Emma will wake up so you can see her. Nothing to worry about."

She looked Elena in the eyes. "Seriously, Lena," she said. "It's going to be fine. Just don't run off. Okay?"

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itsnotinme
2012-07-22 10:33 pm UTC (link)

Damon decided that it was probably best to let Caroline handle this situation. There were a few things that crossed his mind to say, but in the end, he realized that all of them would probably only make the situation worse instead of defuse the tension like his mind was telling him that they would. It was hard to judge, after all, what would and wouldn't help when someone was freaking out, but offering to kiss Elena himself to make it 'fair' would likely only make her all that more panicky and get him smacked by Caroline. So, instead, he just offered the pair one of his softer smiles before moving to snag the mistletoe from where it was hovering, catching it with a little help from his superspeed when it tried to flee, and stuffed it into a nearby kitchen drawer and locking it.

"There," Damon said. "Problem solved. We won't have anymore random makeout sessions unless you girls want to surprise me later on. It is Christmas, after all."

Hey, he had to risk getting smacked at least a little.

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doppelgangs
2012-07-23 01:50 am UTC (link)

"Maybe this happens to everyone to you guys, but not me. It was bad enough with the being honest, and the saying things that I didn't want to say to people. But this is so wrong. I know you want me to forget about it, but I can't. It happened." She sighed, wishing she could just put her head under a blanket and not pay any more attention to this. Couldn't they let her just go be embarrassed in peace? Not to mention that the fact that they'd now all kissed each other just made her sick to her stomach. "Oh god, this is like if I'd walked in on one of my friends having sex. I wouldn't be able to look at them in the eye for a while. Not forever. I just.. god I'm so embarrassed." She took a deep breath and frowned, but finally just nodded.

"Fine, I'll stay. If you want me to." She glared at Damon and threw a pillow at him. "Shut up! This isn't funny." Oh how she wanted to crawl in a hole. But she wouldn't, because they asked her not to. "Let's just eat and get this over with."

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