Blood Like Yours | Lady Dimitrescu x Female Reader

Chapter 9: Hope?

After cleaning the blood pool from the floor and doing all your chores, you decided to explore the Castle, who cares if they find you, you didn't care that's for sure. You walked up the stairs, quietly past the wine room, through another door. You closed it behind you and saw a statue of some sorts in front of you. It had a removable mask on it, which didn't make any sense to you.

"Why would this be removable?" you shrugged it off and put it back on, then walking into another room with a silver door. The room had a gigantic full body portrait of your Countess, you took a few steps back to take it all in.

"This is...." you shook your head and walked towards the painting, hearing a cold wind go through. You tried to push it open, harder and harder. After a while, it finally moved a bit. You squeezed yourself through the small crack and started to freeze immediately, it was a small way to a ladder, which lead up to the towers. You huffed and exhaled deeply at the final climb. You laid down for a second before continuing the exploration. There were a few vases next to you and a few tables ahead, one of them had a small letter on it. You took the letter and turned it around, reading it and feeling a sense of hope?

"Dagger of Death Flowers...coated in a concoction of poisons...it's supposed to kill demons and monsters. AND it's inside the Castle?!" you smiled and put the letter back down, not wanting her to find it on you. You climbed back down the ladder, through the painting, back out of the room.

"What are you doing here, little one? Roaming around all by yourself?" a voice approached you from all corners, then a figure started to form in front of you, it was Bela. She smiled and grabbed your arm, which hurt you a bit more then Danielas grip. Bela laughed and dragged you across the halls down to her Mothers room.

Fuck, not again... you groaned and tried to fight back, but it didn't help. She kept on laughing at you, she then threw you in front of her Mothers chair.

"Mother. This Maiden was in a room where she shouldn't be in"

Lady Dimitrescu took a long sip from her wine.

"Thank you, Bela. You are such a good girl~" she praised her daughter and motioned her to leave. Bela smiled proudly and left the room, closing the door after her. Your Countess stood up from her chair, turned around and looked down at you. She gave you a little smirk while walking towards you.

"You are such a curious. Little. Brat. Aren't you?" she extracted her claws, one by one. You gulped and slowly stood up holding your arm since it still hurt. "So? What about it?" you backed away a bit. She chuckled and held her claw against your neck,

"Curiosity killed the cat. Don't forget that~" she sliced open your arm, which was already in pain. You groaned and held the wound. She laughed and licked off your blood from her claws retracting them so she could take your face and make you look at her.

"You shouldn't have entered a mysterious Castle, expecting it to be peaceful" she looked into your eyes, her bright yellowish ones were glowing in the fireplaces light. They had some hint of grayish-green in them, which would look pretty, if it wasn't your Countess torturing you. Without noticing, you also said your thoughts out loud. Startling her.

"Pardon me?" she raised an eyebrow. You realised what you just said and tried to talk yourself out of it,

"I mean. Petty. I'm petty, yeah..." you looked away, avoiding eye contact. She was still startled and slowly let go of your face, trying to take in what just had happened. She couldn't even form a sentence at first and sat back down in her chair.

"You can go now. Don't do that again..." she shook her head and took a big chug of her wine. You nodded and quickly left the room, still holding your bleeding arm.

"That was awkward-" Daniela stopped you, "Here's some food before you head to bed, bloodbag!" she gave you a bag of some weird substance, making you almost gag. You took it with a sigh and walked after her, back to your room where you were locked up again. You put the bag down and looked out of the window, down to the village.

"I'll get that dagger...and then I'll get out of here! Till then, I have to get on that hags good side.." you laid your head down on the pillow, wanting to sleep but the disgusting smell from the bag kept you awake. You rubbed your face from annoyance and got up to open the bag, it contained a small letter, you opened to read. Every sentence disgusted you more and more, you dropped everything, backing away on your bed. You were almost at the verge of crying. The bag included the rest of Magnolias body parts. You soon felt multiple tears roll down your face, you punched the hard wall again and again and again, making your fist slowly bleed. You couldn't care less about the pain on your fist. You were going to make these witches pay one day, you were sure of it.