Meme Time!

[telaryn]

Swiped from mizzy2k (natch):

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

99% of my fic is here. A few other random fics are here.

Oh this should be fun...*g*

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Also, what happened in the days she hung around after this?

[fictionalfemme.livejournal.com]

“Do we have room to negotiate here?” Damon asked cautiously.

Faith shrugged. “I don’t see how. The Council already knows what you are.”

“I can handle them,” Damon said dismissively. “Now that I know they suspect something, I can roll their minds – make them forget. It’ll take some doing to get around the vervaine…” He paused, knowing he was taking his life in his hands by saying it, but in the end he said it anyway. In for the proverbial penny… “I could roll you too. Make you forget what you know about me – why you came to Mystic Falls in the first place.”

She was quiet for an impossibly long moment, clearly considering all the implications of what he was saying. “You’re a hell of a good time,” she said finally, “but I don’t put myself at anyone’s mercy like that.” She blew out a quiet breath, taking off her mask and staring him down. “Here’s the way we’re going to play it. You’re going to do what you have to do to make things safe with the Council. I’m going to stay in town long enough for you to convince me you’re not a danger to the people of this town.”

“And if I don’t?” Damon asked, taking off his own mask. Faith glanced pointedly at the slender stake resting in her left hand. “I’d make a fight of it,” he said again.

He was stunned to see a flash of sadness in Faith’s eyes. “You’d lose.”

Damon tried to consider her absolute certainty, weighing it against his natural instinct to fight his way out of any difficult situation.

“You’ve got a deal,” he said at last.

Re: Also, what happened in the days she hung around after this?

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

There were so many levels at work here when I wrote this. The elegant clothes and the genteel setting are a perfect parallel to Faith and Damon trying to be mature and responsible about their situation. They desperately don't want to kill each other, but they will if it proves to be the right course of action.

I think Faith is reacting to those bits of her younger self that she sees in Damon. Now that she knows vampires can live successfully as a part of normal society, she really wants him to take that path - almost like paying forward her own redemption.

For his part, Faith is like nobody Damon has ever known, and I think this is the moment where he realizes that he could happily spend decades trying to figure her out. The fact that it's also the first time he completely believes her when she says she'll kill him says a lot about where their relationship is going. She's the rush of Katherine without the mind games.

And as to what happened? I'm pretty sure they didn't have sex on this trip, although they got close and certainly not for want of Damon trying. I'd say he probably tried to show her the best time he possibly could around town, and they probably had a hell of a lot of fun.

I'm envisioning a dinner with Stefan and Katherine at the Salvatore home where much hilarity ensues. In the end, Faith would let him live with the promise that she would check up on him often.

I need to get back and write more with this pairing.

Re: Also, what happened in the days she hung around after this?

[fictionalfemme.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you do.