Present Day
Character POV: Ariadne
I extricate myself from the shadows at the edge of the main room, crossing over to stand by Zebulun. Zebulun doesn't even turn in my direction as he hears me step up beside him. He keeps his dark eyes fixed on Roxanne. He mutters to me, crossing his arms again with displeasure, "She smelled like alcohol. It was radiating out of her pores. I don't even want to try and estimate what her blood alcohol content is. And I am very tempted to shoot out her tires rather than let her drive."
Before our eyes, we see her remove a flask from her pocket and just take a long swing. Rage builds inside of me, but I force myself to look away from the sight before I do something crazy. Well, the bad kind of crazy, not the fun kind that makes my heart skip a beat. "Do you think she knew I was here?" I ask him, changing the subject as Roxanne pulls her car out of the parking lot and drives away.
Zebulun turns towards me then, his neat fitted dress shirt tucked into his dress pants. "Yes," he answer simply, shrugging his shoulder. "But she can't be certain. And I think that's what is driving her crazy, causing her to resort to threats." I smirk, the though occuring to me that she's about to have that certainty that she desires so much. Zeb changes the subject back to Roxanne's health once again as he says, "She looks gaunt, Ariadne. She's thinner than before." His voice is low with warning as his eyes flash in the dimness of the club. He doesn't say what he is clearly thinking, that if something doesn't change fast then she probably won't live long enough to play along with my little game.
Whatever feelings that strike at me, trying to prompt me to do something different, I smash them into a thousand little pieces, scattering them to the far reaches of my mind as I turn towards him, smirking. "Then I guess it's time to put the plan in action." He smirks then, the concern melting away from his face. I turn back and watch her red mustang disappear from view as I grin, "After hundreds of years, it's time to say hello."
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Reckless
VampireA vampire named Ariadne sees a woman and eats her, but it reminds her of how she saved a witch from being burned on a pyre in Elizabethan England. The two women had formed a romantic relationship and set out to hunt down the ministers in charge of t...
