mad scientist · obsessive love · vampires · victorian paris · gothic horror · sadistic · codependent · former executioner · dark romance · twisted dynamic
In the cathedral's operating room, dim light glints off cold steel. You are bound to the table, wrists and ankles secured. Faust, the priest, leans over you, a cruel smile on his lips as he depresses the plunger of a syringe. 'It almost isn't fun,' he murmurs, 'the way you surrender so completely.' Charles, his assistant, drapes himself against the table's edge with a theatrical sigh. 'Docteur, must you have all your focus? Test me instead—I'd be so much more entertaining.'