The Vampire Diaries Big Bang

The Vampire Diaries Big Bang was a big bang challenge in The Vampire Diaries (TV) fandom. Authors had to write a minimum of 10,000 words, and artists had to create a minimum of one piece of a medium of their choosing.
==Masterlists==
===2010===
Title: Slow Burn On Sunsets
Author: aiscat93
Artist: odysseaia
Title: Haunt Us Still
Author: not_from_stars
Artist: faerisfolly
Pairing(s): Damon/Elena; mentions of Stefan/Elena
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Spoilers for S1
Word Count: 19,584
Summary: In the aftermath of Founders Day, everyone was expecting to be able to heal their wounds, get cleaned up and go on with their lives. For Jeremy Gilbert, this was going to be hard to do as his girlfriend had been one of the vampires killed by the hunters. Making the decision to swallow the vial of blood that Anna had given him and then swallow a bottle of pain pills should have made everything go away. Instead, he was disturbed by the sounds of fighting downstairs from his room. When he tried to help in the fight, Jeremy was knocked out, and when he came to, Elena was missing. Now Jeremy has only one choice to get his sister back alive. He needs to go and get the help of a Salvatore. Not Stefan. He goes to get help from Damon because only Damon will be ruthless enough to do what it takes to get Elena back alive. After all, Damon wanted Elena to be his and he loved her, and you don't mess with what belongs to Damon Salvatore.
Title: Falling Harder than a Landslide
Author: supergoddesss
Artist: satavaisa
Genre: Het, Gen
Pairing:. Elena. Damon/Elena. Background Stefan/Bonnie.
Word Count: 10,000 +
Rating/Warnings: Language
Spoilers: Goes AU during the season one finale. It was Elena.
Summary: When Damon Salvatore loves you, you have to love him back. It’s intense and passionate and all consuming. Its blue eyes staring into your soul, strong arms protecting you, and saying so much more than what you’re actually saying. It’s do you trust me and step away from your life for five minutes But the problem is once you step away from it all, you don’t want to go back.
Title: The Fine Art of Poisoning
Author: turnonmyheels
Artist: cool_rain_kiss
Title: Blood & Tears
Author: mkcalwell
Artist: casper_san
Title: No Matter Above of Below
Author: eenaangel
Artist: pecoe
Genre/type: (gen, slash, het, crossover, etc.) het-crossover
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Mentions of Caroline/Matt, Caroline/Damon, and Caroline/Sam
Rating: FR15, at most.
Warnings: (violence, sexual content, death, strong language, etc.) Violence, death, language, and some sexual stuff (but not graphic)
Dedication: To the lovely Aoife, for the beta. And to Marina, for helping me talk it out. You guys put up with a lot to help me get this done, and the fact that it actually got finished is a tribute to your awesomeness.
Summary: Caroline Forbes is just past seventeen when her life ends.
Five years after Founders' Day, Caroline's got herself a brand new life-new house, new dog, and new hangups. Her uncle has died, her friends are scattered, and she's been betrayed by her boyfriend yet again (always a betrayal-but the act itself is always different). She's carved out a life for herself, one that includes her dog, research, and hardly ever leaving the house. Dean says it's not healthy, but Dean's an ass and who cares what he thinks, right?
Sure, things aren't perfect. She's haunted by the memories of her past, can't shake the sadness over having another loved one die, and now her ex-best-friend invades her dreams every night and makes it impossible for Caroline to get any rest. Elena's all doom-and-gloom in the dreams, but Caroline figures she doesn't really have to listen. They are just figments of her imagination, no matter the dread and the intensity of Elena's pleas. Everything will be all right if she just ignores it, but now Sam and Cas are breaking into her house every other day to tell her she can't ignore it anymore. The dreams are starting to bleed into her waking world and Caroline's amazed she's still got a shred of sanity left in her. Elena's begging for help, and Caroline starts to feel like maybe she should help, but she can't.
She can't go back to Mystic Falls, can't even think of it. He's still there, she thinks he will always be there, and she can't handle seeing him ever again.
Damon Salvatore has always been her breaking point . . .
Title: Love Takes Hostages
Author: scorpiod1
Artist: tinnny, chosenfire28
Mixer: heeheegifted
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 130,402
Characters/Pairings: Primarily Stefan/Damon/Elena in all permutations (including Stefan/Damon, Stefan/Elena and Elena/Damon), past Stefan/Damon/Katherine (including Damon/Katherine and Stefan/Katherine), with background Anna/Jeremy and other canon pairings.
Warnings: Graphic sexual content, graphic incest, past dub-con (discussed, involving compulsion), non-con (non-graphic sexual assault, not between main pairing), bloodplay, violence, strong language, minor character death and underage sex.
Summary: An AU of season one, post-Fool Me Once (1.14)
After Katherine shatters Damon's world, Damon's forced to reconsider his priorities and decides that rekindling the bloody mess of a relationship with his brother is the best remedy for his broken heart. Of course, Stefan is with Elena now, but it isn't that difficult for Damon to show Elena exactly how truly twisted his relationship with his brother is—and how susceptible she is to being drawn into their tangled web.
But Elena has never been the only one taken by the charms of the Salvatores. An old flame resurfaces. More fickle than Damon and twice as lethal, Katherine's never particularly liked sharing her toys and all Elena wants is to survive the experience.
Title: Tomorrow You'll Wake Up Afraid of the Day
Author: morcalivan
Artist: fanarts_series
Pairing: Damon/Tyler/Jeremy overall, with a bit of Damon/Tyler and Tyler/Jeremy to get them there
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 15 250
Warnings: Language, underage sex (because of Jeremy), threesome, light D/s overtones and some light bondage (mostly just Damon amusing himself)
Summary: When the lines between want and need blurs and common sense can go hang itself. (In which Tyler wants something he's not willing to admit to, Damon enjoys holding little boys down and Jeremy isn't entirely sure what the hell is going on). Set mid-season 1. Mostly an excuse for porn *koff*
Title: The Ungrateful Undead
Author: bond_girl
Artist: milky_haven
Fandom: True Blood/The Vampire Diaries/AI RPF
Genre: Slash, gen, crossover.
Pairings/Characters: Eric Northman/Damon Salvatore. Damon Salvatore/Stefan Salvatore. implied Adam Lambert/Damon Salvatore.
Rating: nc-17
Word Count: 11,200.
Warnings: consensual incest between siblings; graphic descriptions of sexuality and vampire feeding habits.
Summary: Meet the band: Damon is a rockstar, Eric is a Viking run aground, Stefan is a good-looking revolutionary, Godric is on an annoying plane of existence and Adam hides a secret identity in his pants. They're on a tour through one fateful night where no-one gets what they want but everyone gets a taste of what they need - whether it's bloodlust, blood ties or TruBlood.
Title: Shadows of Her Broken Heart
Author: fireinmyboness
Artist: satavaisa
Genre/type: Het
Word Count: Over 10,000
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Damon/Elena, Damon/Elena/Stefan/Katherine.
Rating: T
Spoilers: All the aired episodes.
Warnings: Strong language.
Summary: Elena finally makes her choice... not that she doesn't know who she wants to be with, but when Katherine arrives back into town she finds herself being drawn into her games. Slowly Elena comes around and begins to understand her, resent her, and then finally hate her. In the realities around Elena, she has to follow the path which will lead her to her kingdom, and avoid the games she is ultimetely forced to play.
===2011===
Title: with teeth sharper and blood hotter (i’ll return someday)
Author: crickets
Artist: gigglemonster
Word Count: 12,300
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: caroline/stefan/tyler (others/mentioned: ensemble, bonnie, matt, elena/stefan, tyler/matt, caroline/matt, tyler/vicki, damon/stefan, damon/elena)
Warnings violence/blood, sexual content, death (supporting character)
Summary: Stefan escapes from Klaus and returns to Mystic Falls. He is followed by the hybrid, and the town pays for his mistake. Mystic Falls is abandoned. Stefan embarks with Caroline and Tyler. On the road and off, we follow the threesome for the next decade.
Title: Watch You Bleed Me Dry
Author: waltzmatildah
Artist: tinnny
Word Count: 18,000
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Damon, Elena, Stefan, Katherine, Bonnie, Caroline, Klaus (Damon/Elena, imp Stefan/Elena, imp Stefan/Katherine, imp Damon/Katherine)
Warnings Sexual content and violence (including character death)
Summary: A season three AU set in the aftermath of Stefan’s deal with Klaus
Months of dead-end searching for Stefan across the best part of two entire countries eventually come to a terrifying crescendo just seventy miles south-west of Mystic Falls.
Along the way, Damon and Elena battle desperately, not only against archrival Klaus, but also against their own personal failings, their respective relationships with Stefan and, perhaps most importantly, their tumultuous feelings for each other
With the help of some unlikely allies in the shape of Bonnie and Katherine, can Damon and Elena get to Stefan before it's too late, or will his deal with Klaus have pushed him beyond the point of no return?
Title: singing a bittersweet song
Author: littledivinity
Artist: sucksucksmile
Word Count: 10,021
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Damon, Elena, Damon/Elena, Stefan, Jeremy, Alaric
Warnings N/A
Summary: As Damon and Elena try to save the man they both love and understand what they are to one another, the rest of Mystic Falls settles back into normality. Alaric becomes the man caught in the middle, while trying to take a bigger role in Elena and Jeremy's lives. Damon and Elena think they finally have a lead, and maybe a way to save Stefan. But when a devastating secret of Stefan's is revealed, how will everything unravel? And can anyone come out of it whole?
Title: Can't Say No
Author: ellensmithee
Artist: sourpony
Word Count: 14,500
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Alaric/Katherine
Warnings Sexual context, non-sexual violence, strong language, mild gore, bloodplay, vampire!death, references to child abuse/child murder
Summary: When Katherine shows up on Alaric's doorstep looking for a place to stay and his aid in fighting an enemy, he can't bring himself to refuse. As she insinuates herself more and more into his life and drags him into hers, Alaric starts to realize that she has ulterior motives that could mean his doom—or his salvation.
Title: A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi (A precipice in front, wolves behind)
Author: swirlsofblue
Artist: mylifewithin
Word Count: 19,755
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Stefan Salvatore/Klaus, Damon Salvatore, Katherine Pierce.
Warnings Violence, torture, controlling relationship, character death, mild sexual content. 
Summary: This is an AU story show-casing Stefan and Klaus’s relationship through the last ninety-four years; exploring its dysfunction, and the obstacles and issues they face. It begins in 1917, with them alternately challenging and accepting each other; while on a wildly careening path of violence and destruction. As the tumultuousness of their personalities ebb and flow, their relationship does with it, and there are transformations and acceptance encompassing many shades of grey. Running parallel to this is Katherine’s present day story, wherein she is held captive and tortured by Klaus.
Title: Damon's Diaries
Author: persephone20
Artist: rainyrocket
Word Count: 16,000
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Damon, Stefan, Katherine, Lexi, Original Female Character, Original Male Character, Elena and ensemble
Warnings No Warnings
Summary: Pre-season one. This story follows Damon's life from his point of view before being turned into a vampire by Katherine, to the missing years with Stefan and Lexi, through two World Wars and, finally, to Elena.
Title: A Single Rose Left To Remember
Author: not_from_stars
Artist: queenmidalah
Word Count: 21,542
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Damon Salvatore/Elena Gilbert, Tyler Lockwood/Caroline Forbes, Jeremy Gilbert/Bonnie Bennett, Alaric Saltzman, Klaus, Elijah, Katherine Pierce
Warnings Violence/Spoilers for S2
Summary: Elena blames herself for everything that has gone wrong in Mystic Falls and when she is sure that Damon is going to be healed, she leaves the only home she has ever known. She leaves letters for those closest to her, but for Damon, she leaves her journal. The journal is filled with all of Elena's thoughts over the last year—including her growing love for Damon. The last written page in the journal is a letter for Damon—and a carefully preserved rose. The rose he gave her once. Now, Damon is in a race against time to find Elena, because Klaus is looking for her, too. Klaus has discovered that because Elena survived the spell he used, her blood—human or vampire—now has the power to destroy him if used with an ancient spell. Damon is determined to find Elena before Klaus does and he doesn't care how many people he has to kill to save her. However, when Klaus brings in someone to use as leverage, Damon has to make a choice as to which life he's going to save—Elena's... or Stefan's.
===2012===
Title: Handle with Care
Author: ellensmithee
Artist: saltzatore
Word Count: 23,183
Rating: Hard R
Characters/Pairings: Katherine/Elijah, minor Klaus/Stefan, Lucy Bennett
Warnings Sexual content, some elements that may appear to be dub con at first glance, canon-typical violence, and, God help me, fluff
Summary: When Elijah requests Katherine's detective skills to help him find someone, Katherine's curiosity gets the best of her and she agrees. The result? Shared hotel beds, stolen cars, dead bodies, pissed-off werewolves, and a dog named Charlemagne.
Title: When you Tell my Story, Don't Forget Me
Author: kwritten
Artist: fluffyfrolicker
Word Count: 16,085
Rating: Teen
Characters/Pairings: Anna, OC (mention of Pearl)
Warnings: Discussion of abuse, rape, incest, violence (very minor Spoilers for S1)
Summary: After the events in 1864, Anna begins wandering West - ending up in San Francisco at the turn of the century with a human child she must learn how to care for. When she suddenly finds her child is now a fully grown man, Anna must face his desire for her, and vampirism, while also battling a growing awareness that she knows nothing about her own turning, or Pearl's life before they became a "family." After all - what happens when a vampire tries to raise a human child - when she no longer remembers a human life at all...
Title: Torment of Tantalus
Author: swirlsofblue
Artist: thesicko1012
Beta: ellensmithee
Word Count: 12,500
Rating: NC-17 (for violence)
Characters/Pairings: Klaus/Stefan, minor Damon/Elena, Caroline, Elijah.
Warnings Graphic violence, mild sexual content, character deaths, dark themes.
Summary: Stefan gets kidnapped by witches and bitten by a werewolf. Klaus needs to get to Stefan in time to give him his blood and cure him. If Klaus is going to reach his lover before it’s too late he will first have to reach a long lost part of himself. Damon comes along for the ride to ensure his brother is saved. Meanwhile Caroline tries to look after Stefan as he begins to hallucinate and relive the key moments of his and Klaus’s relationship.
Title: Nobody has to Stay
Author: upupa_epops
Artist: lynzie914
Word Count: 14k
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Elena, Bonnie, Damon with some Damon/Elena on the side; mentions of Stefan/Elena
Warnings sexual situations, biting
Summary: Things used to be much simpler before. The good guys were always stalwart and true, the bad guys were easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats (BtVS 2x07, Lie To Me). But now Elena is a vampire, and Bonnie just saved Klaus of all people. There are spells to break and problems to solve, urges to control and decisions to make. But, first of all, there are friendships to fix.
Title: A Season in Hell
Author: goth_clark
Artist: elenarain
Word Count: 10,800
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Damon/Alaric, Elena, Stefan, Jeremy
Warnings sexual context, violence, strong language
Summary: When Alaric goes vampire evil, the only choice is to dagger him and lock him up in a coffin. Angry that Elena chose Stefan, Damon fights the urge to revert back to his evil ways. He becomes obsessed with Alaric, and frees him, discovering that it's much easier to take what he wants than he realized.
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