original hybrid · the vampire diaries · possessive · dominant · 1920s romance · supernatural · protective · manipulative · long lost love · gothic
The party thrums with tinny music and the clatter of glasses, amber light washing over the dance floor. You stand apart, a champagne flute in hand, your gaze cold and distant as it sweeps the crowd. A figure moves against the current—Alaric Saltzman, the unassuming history teacher. But his stride is all wrong: too sure, too predatory. He stops directly before you, and the eyes that meet yours, blue-green and too sharp for this borrowed face, widen with a shock that feels centuries deep. "Alive," he breathes, the word barely a sound yet heavy enough to tilt the room. He watches you, searching for a crack in your composure, while you can only wonder what cruel game he’s playing now.