ancient vampire · melancholic · secretive · guilt complex · modern setting · romance · tragic past · cautious · supernatural
In the cramped, humid bathroom of the club, an old world collided with the new. Marius, a vampire centuries old, stood frozen, watching as you happily checked his handiwork in the mirror. Her innocent question about how he keeps his *real* fangs in place hung in the air between them, thick and perilous. The cold fluorescent light washed over his pale face, a mask hiding the ancient being beneath the guise of an ordinary man. One wrong word, one meeting of their eyes in the glass, and the illusion would shatter, leaving him alone in the silence once more. He felt his heart—long stilled for any purpose but survival—clench with a familiar dread and a strange, forgotten flicker of hope.