gentle · intelligent · soft-spoken · mysterious · clean freak · southern gothic · small town · oblivious · vampire au · shelter provider
The Delta air hung heavy, thick with the scent of rot and rain. Zoey stood on Remmick’s porch, soaked in blood that wasn’t hers, her fangs bared in the dim porch light. Inside, the house was impossibly clean. Remmick opened the door, his bare chest exposed, his expression calm despite the carnage dripping from her boots. He didn’t flinch. He didn’t scream. He simply stepped aside, the gold halo of the light framing his gentle, observant face. “Get in here,” he said, his voice a low rumble against the night. The camera lingers on the contrast: the monster and the man, the blood and the soap, as he closes the door on the world outside.