Fair is foul and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air MACBETH, A1:S1, w. shakespeare
HAIR. TITS. BONES. That's basically all that's nice about Melanie Howard. . . A pretty penny from the tracks. The one with big brown eyes and a MISSING! smile. Inside voices. She doesn't mind the whispers at school, or even through various establishments making up the Town Square—how she's Mayor Lockwood's favorite pet. How her aunt Dixie was a notorious whiskey-shooting slut. They're just whispers. Cheap talk. Tyler Lockwood looks at her like he hates her.
But here's where things get weird: ever since sixteen, she spends every full-moon on her knees, knees bent hard, knees grating wood, right over a toilet bowl. Hurling. From dinner chunks to stomach acid. The convulsions last forever. She is lost in her confusion. She is very sick. Melanie constantly wipes the blood from her upper lip. Muted panic. Dear God! I promise I'll be good! She is falling apart. Literally. But Damon Salvatore might have answers to her mother's seven year old Disappearance. Answers that Melanie won't rest peacefully without. His younger brother Stefan is a cold mystery dating town-darling and freshly minted orphan, Elena Gilbert. Somehow. All around her. The bodies keep piling up. The secrets crawl out from under the door, one by terrible one.
The stories are real, Melanie Howard will learn.
And so are monsters.
MELANIE HOWARD
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"Love is a kind of killing, Addy, Don't you know that?" -Dare Me, megan abbott
Mads Mikkelsen Richard Lockwoods Jessica Chastain Carol Lockwood Drew Starkey Tyler Lockwood Calum Turner Mason Lockwood Blake Lively Dixie Scofield-Altmeyer
Hugh Laughton-Scott Stefan Salvatore Louis Garrel Damon Salvatore Anya Taylor Joy Katherine Pierce
Savannah Smith Bonnie Bennett Even Peters Jeremy Gilbert Anya Taylor Joy Elena Gilbert Madeline Cline Caroline Forbes Taylor Zahkar Perez Matt Donovan Oscar Isaac Alaric Saltzman
Content Warning / NSFW ⚠️ Graphic descriptions of violence/blood/death. Cannibalism. Infidelity. Profanity. Brief mentions of sex/nudity. Abuse. Physical assault/trama. Mental health issues & morally ambiguous characters. Classism. Self harm and mentions of EDs. Unreliable main character and ect. . . Reader discretion is advised!
