title: ash and dust
summary: cora hale arrives in mystic falls with ash in her lungs and smoke in her hair / or that time cora grew up in mystic falls.
disclaimer: i own neither teen wolf or the vampire diaries.
She watches a chick flick with Caroline when she's fourteen, curled up on the Forbes' couch with a bucket of Ben and Jerry's and decides that someday she wants to kiss someone in the rain and be chased through gardens and have pillow fights with someone she loves. It sounds beautiful, perfect, like the kind of thing she's been missing all her life – all fourteen years and seven months – and when she shares her thoughts with Caroline, the blonde giggles and nods her head and says something about Matt Donovan, the kid Elena Gilbert's practically been dating since diapers.
She wants to tell the blonde no, that's a fucking terrible idea, but she's a good friend so she nods her head and flashes her brightest smile – which she remembers used to be much brighter, and which she misses a little – and nods her head and starts planning ways to get him away from Elena-I'm-so-perfect-Gilbert.
Tyler Lockwood is sloppy and his kisses are too hard and his hands too rough but Cora figures this is it, what all those songs that Caroline loves and that Bonnie sings along to are about, this is love.
She gets sick after spending so much time in the rain and she trips in the yard and cuts her knee and pillows aren't so fun when they smack you right in the face.
Cora Hale turns her back on love and Tyler-stupid-Lockwood and chick flicks with her heart in her hands and tears on her cheeks.
She swears to herself, to the tree they carved their names in and a messily drawn heart, to Caroline over a box of chocolate, she'll never buy into that shit again.
notes: i feel a little like i should warn you that the time line for this is confusing and sporadic and most things will be in the wrong place-ish. but review?
Terans-DinosaurCostume: your reviews make me feel so fuzzy and warm inside, omg. anyway, believe me, i try so hard and ugh it always sounds stupid shush. anyway, you're flawless be quiet /pets ur face
Goddess of Night Eternal Faith: thanks for the review, hope you liked it!
