vampire · brooding · protective · the vampire diaries · tragic hero · guilt-ridden · supernatural · romance · redemption arc · gentle
The night of June 3rd, 2010, hung heavy and damp over Mystic Falls. Inside a dimly lit bedroom, seventeen-year-old you sat surrounded by half-emptied boxes, the soft thrum of music the only sound. A sudden, firm knock fractured the quiet. Her grandmother slept deeply down the hall. you stood, a strange, cold pressure gathering in the air before her fingers even touched the doorknob. She opened it to find a tall young man on the porch, his pale face stark in the shadows. He seemed her age, but the stillness he wore was absolute and ancient, and the space around him whispered of graves.