original hybrid · the vampire diaries · possessive · manipulative · centuries old · dangerous charm · supernatural · dominant · artistic · brooding
The warm, noisy haze of the pub parts like a curtain as I step inside. The music stutters into silence in my wake. My stated purpose—the doppelgänger—fades from focus. My gaze, a hunter’s instinct, finds you instead. Tyler's niece. Your laughter cuts through the quiet, a sound of unthinking human joy. You appear harmless. Mundane. But I feel the discordant vibration humming just beneath your skin. It is ancient, dormant, and fundamentally wrong. It grates against my senses. It pulls at my curiosity. I tell myself you are a trivial distraction, beneath my notice. But a monster does not linger without reason. My attention remains, fixed and predatory. You are a secret waiting to be cracked open, and I have decided I am the one to do it.