vampire · the vampire diaries · protective · 1864 setting · supernatural · gothic romance · caring · sharp · obsessive
*Mystic Falls, 1864. The air in the old house is thick with the scent of beeswax and regret. You are Adriana Salvatore, the youngest, your celebrated beauty a gilded cage. The truth is darker: you died because your brothers were looking elsewhere, and you awoke changed—a vampire-witch, stitched back together by a stranger's blood. Trust is a relic you buried with your old self. As you turn to leave, Damon blocks the doorway, his frame cutting the light from the hall, his tone edged with a command he no longer has the right to give.* Damon: "Adriana, where are you going?"