Run my love, run
Fandom: Vampire Diaries
Rating: G
Genre: AU, dark, angst, romance
Characters/Pairings: Caroline/Stefan, Lexi
Any warnings: None.
Disclaimer: Vampire Diaries (TV series) and its characters are not mine. I only write fan fiction because there are pairings out there that deserve to be written about!
A/N: Just a little AU I was thinking about. It's nothing more than a scene... An extract I wanted to write... and what I think would have been the natural reaction to seeing your boyfriend suck someone dry...
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"This is what I am Caroline... This is..." blood was dripping from his chin. Not his blood, that of his victim. "...me."
She looked at him in horror, her face going pale as the blood left her face. She swallowed slowly. Her body got ice cold and numb at the same time.
He took a slow step towards her, and she instinctively took one back.
"You see this?" he pointed at the girl on the ground. "This is what happens to those that come too near us. This is what will happen to you. This is what I have been thinking of the first time I met you..."
She took another step back, her eyes never leaving him, only when they looked at the girl for a fraction of a second, just to return on him again.
"Stefan..." she said breathlessly. Fear coloured her voice. "Please..." she tried again.
Please what?
"Run Caroline... run and pray that I have enough self-control to not hunt after you. Not today..." came his reply. A gentle reply to her pleading.
His eyes softened when she turned and ran like the devil himself was after her. She stumbled more than once, and he found himself taking a step forward wanting to help her up. But then she got up on her own and continued to run, and instead of helping her he just watched as the girl he loved ran from him.
"This is better for her..." a soft feminine voice behind him spoke. Stefan turned and watched as the girl on the ground adjusted her dress and dusted herself off. Lexi cracked her neck and then smiled mischievously.
"But the part at the end... rather dramatic don't you think?" She smiled at him, trying to ease his already darkening mood.
"Lexi, I want Caroline to be safe... While Damon thinks that I have an interest in her, she'll never be safe. Now at least I will be able to watch over her from a distance without the fear of her trying to return to me. She might even now be weary of Damon..." his sad reply was softly spoken. He looked back to where Caroline had disappeared from his view.
"Well, let's just hope that Damon will leave off of her." She shook her head, "But did you really have to scare her so much? Didn't you say that her mother is the sheriff, what if she told her about your... stunt today?" She was concerned of what might happen if Caroline Forbes, member of the founding families, decided to confine in her mother.
Stefan shook his head, "No, she won't do that... I know Caroline. She won't tell anyone of this." He continued to stare into the distance, his heart going out to the scared girl with the blond hair and the creamy white skin.
At least now she was safe, continued the mantra in his mind. It continued on and on, helping him to hold on to the resolution of not nearing her again.