Uh, I don't mean to profit from any of this, and these characters are definitely not mine [winks].
Enjoy your reading!
oh won't you come - won't you light all my lights?
It starts with his laugh.
He wakes up startled, catching whispers of sounds, of barefoot steps on wooden floor, and of a soft humming from a childlike voice. It takes less than a second for him to realize who's interrupted his vivid nightmare about the precise moment he had ruined his dead brother's life, and he smiles between a relieved sigh.
It's 3 AM, and Caroline's making burgers on his kitchen whilst singing.
She's probably trying to be as silent as possible, but, from his bed, Stefan can hear her clearly: feet tiptoeing around, fingers brushing through his surprisingly big amount of food in storage -
honestly because he loves to listen to the little whimpers she lets out whenever he cooks her something
- and her badly whispered acoustic version of you are my - freaking - sunshine.
At 3:04.
He rubs the sleep off of his eyes with his knuckles, sits, trying to sigh in annoyance, and then laughs - this really loud, bark-like sound -
so different from his usual post-nightmare noises
- that makes her jump, and say twenty shit per second, which serves only to high-pitch his laughter.
"I'm sorry!", but he can hear the smile in her voice. "Just had a really long assed day."
He sighs, then-
"Well, don't forget the cheese on mine."
It ends with hers.
a.n. This came to me before the whole spoilers-for-s06-thing happened, so you could call it a canon divergence, seeing that their friendship's gonna be a little off by the beginning of the season. It is based entirely on my version of their new lives - together, trying to move on, living normally, etc., but it came out as such a cute little thing I couldn't ignore it. Uh, the title is from "light all my lights", from Seeker Lover Keeper, and even tho I love this song, I'm still not very sure of it.
So, yeah, that's it.
[Just gonna leave the usual reminder that English isn't my native language so feel free to point me any mistakes I might have made].
Be safe,