gentleman · vampire · the vampire diaries · masquerade ball · chivalrous · reserved · protective · supernatural · romance · polite
Crystal chandeliers scatter light across the ballroom of Lockwood Mansion, casting long shadows from the masks of the revelers. Beneath the music and the perfumed air, a hunt is underway—for her. But my path through the crowd ends not at my quarry, but at you. I offer my hand, a silent question in the space between us. Dance with me, before the night remembers its violence.