"A Moment In Time"
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters; those belong to their original creators. The way it's all stringed together is of my making. No profit is being made out of this (*sigh* unfortunately).
Fandom(s): Vampire Diaries
Character(s): Caroline Forbes and Tyler Lockwood
Pairing: pre-Caroline/Tyler
Rating: T
Words: 632 words
Requested By: Enx2103
Challenge/Summary: Caroline/Tyler dealing with midterms. (Because supernatural or not, they have to deal with school too!)
Inspiration: I just handed in an assignment today so I figured I might use that in some way.
Spoiler(s): First two seasons.
Time Frame: Post-Sacrifice. In my mind, the sacrifice happened in April which also means that Caroline/Tyler haven't officially hooked up yet (which happens in 3x01).
A/N: At the end to avoid additional spoilers.
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"All Work and No Play"
It was a beautiful mid-May weekend in Mystic Falls. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and all was momentarily silent when it came to supernatural activity. It had been a couple weeks since the whole sacrifice went down, leaving many loose ends in Klaus' escape, but it seemed like that dreadful event was decades ago for this one Mystic Falls resident as Tyler's eyes roamed around a certain vampire's living room.
The werewolf was grateful for all that drama to be over but at the moment, he was extremely bored. He had been starring at her walls for the last twenty minutes, tapping his pen against his book yet she still didn't notice.
He sighed. "Caroline."
Nothing.
"Caroline." He called again when he didn't see any sort of reaction that indicated that she heard him the first time.
He knew that she was able to hear him, what with her super vampire hearing and all, so it irritated him when she flat out ignored him.
"Caroline!" He shouted which caused the vampire in question to snap her attention to the werewolf across the room.
"What Tyler! Can't you see I'm a little busy right now." She exclaimed with a glare pointed at him as she gestured to the pile of notes in her lap.
"I'm bored." Tyler stated with a sigh as he closed his own book.
Caroline groaned as she ran her hair through her blonde hair. Ever since they started hanging out together, she's been picking up a few cues when it came to Tyler and one of them happened to be that he got bored very easily.
"Why are we stuck inside when we should be out celebrating, I mean, it's not everyday that you live through an Original's attack right?" Tyler rationalized in hopes that the vampire would be up for some partying since she was definitely into that type of stuff before all this supernatural stuff entered their lives. It also helped that it was a gorgeous day outside and he'd rather be out there than inside.
Caroline sighed. "Right."
"Then why the hell do we have our noses crammed into the spines of our books?"
"Because whether we like it or not Ty we still have finals coming up." Caroline stated before she returned her attention back to her chemistry notes. She might understand the chemistry between people very well but when it came to the science kind, it truly confused the heck out of her.
Tyler groaned as he buried his head into his hands. "In a month Caroline, why are we studying now? We just got our lives back…we should be celebrating."
"We already celebrated enough Tyler, it's time to focus." She stated once again without taking her attention off her notes.
She knew that Tyler had a point and the fact that she's a vampire should be an advantage for her when it came to retaining information but she figured that they've celebrated enough as it is already. She knew that Elena wouldn't be up to celebrating because of Stefan's abrupt departure with Klaus and she knew that Bonnie wouldn't be up to it either since she's trying to help Elena in any way she can in locating Stefan (or Bonnie was off on a date with Jeremy). With her two best friends being too busy to hang, that left her with Tyler. The vampire knew she could go out and party with Tyler but she just wasn't ready for wherever that road could lead her with the werewolf. So instead she figured studying would be the safer option.
Unfortunately Tyler took the hint as he picked up his notes again. "You're no fun." He grumbled to himself as he picked up where he left off in his studies.
The vampire rolled her eyes for the werewolf's comment but it didn't stop the small twitch in her lip when she got to the chemistry section about opposites attracting.
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A/N #1: How was that? I had the dialogue typed when I originally got the challenge a couple of weeks ago but I got the inspiration to write the rest when I got home. I'm not use to writing Forwood of any kind so I hope I did okay. You know the drill, let me know in a review! =D
A/N #2: Thank you for everyone who took the time to read my latest snippet/challenge on Vampire Diaries, it means the world to me! A special thanks to Ghostwriter and Enx2103 for leaving me a review...I'm loving the thoughts that I get to read.
A/N #3: On a separate note about my other stories, I have one more month of the semester to go before final exams start so hopefully by then I'll have enough time to get writing on my stories but thank you so much for your patience and sticking with me. As much as I'd love to write day in and day out, unfortunately school needs to come first. Thanks again for the support!
Coming Up Next: Life With Derek (challenge)
Originally Published: November 15, 2011
