ren. [tvd spinoff]

3 | charles

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c h a r l e s

1854

"You completed the transition. You're a vampire now, Lawrence. You may as well embrace it."

Ren looked up at the man and shook his head. He glanced back down at his hands which were covered in blood.

"I did this, Charles. This isn't who i am. I don't want this." he muttered, avoiding eye contact.

The man laughed and shook his head, "I turned into a vampire, what? Like, 5 years before you. Trust me when i say you want this."

"This isn't what i want, Charles! I don't want to kill innocent people just to survive." Ren sighed, ignoring the blood rushing through his veins at the sight of his hands.

"Turn it off."
"What?"
"Your humanity. Turn it off."
"But what if i change my mind and it's too late?"

Charles groaned and ran a hand through his hair. "It's called a humanity switch for a reason, idiot. When you've had enough and you're ready to feel again, switch it back on." he said, using his fingers to mimic turning a switch on.

Ren pursed his lips but nodded nevertheless.

He closed his eyes and allowed all of his feelings to drain away. Within a few moments, the switch was flipped.

"Welcome to your new life as a vampire, brother." Charles smirked.

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now

Ren stared at himself in the mirror.

Why did he bring his goddamn humanity back?

No humanity meant no feelings towards Juliet. That way, she couldn't get hurt.

He splashed his face with water and carried on staring at himself.

"You're such a selfish bastard, Ren." he groaned, running a wet hand through his hair.

He was currently standing in his bathroom with a towel hanging low on his waist. He was going through the vampire version of a crisis.

"Keeping her away from you would be the safer option yet you choose to be selfish. Good going, buddy."

All he needed now was for Charles to come find him.

"Come on, baby brother. You're so predictable." said a voice.

Crap.

He turned around, only to be met with the sight of the one and only.
"Charles? Are you fucking kidding me?" Ren sighed, leaning backwards on the sink.

"Now now, you know i prefer Charlie."
"And i prefer being a dick. Why are you here?"

Charles pursed his lips but refrained from snapping his brother's neck.

"I got bored and you suck at covering your tracks. All i had to do was follow the trail of ripped corpses and ta-da, i found young Lawrence."

"Ren." he corrected, "And besides, my humanity's back now. I stopped killing people at least 500 miles away from Rayville."

"Ah, yes. You turned your humanity back on for Juliet, correct? Take it from me, brother. Love is painful, pointless and way too overrated."
"That's a lot coming from someone who's never been in love."

"Ah!" he exclaimed, raising his hand in the air, "That is where you are wrong, brother."

Ren sighed again and grabbed his shirt from the side, slipping it over his head, "Wrong about what, Charlie."
"I seem to recall your ex girlfriend Mary from 1886 being rather tasty."
"You fed on her?"

"What? No, gross." Charlie paused to make a face of disgust, "I'm pretty sure you thrusted some disease into her. I just meant she was hot."

Ren rolled his eyes and grabbed the rest of his clothes.

"You've been chasing me since the 1860s. I'm done running from my own fucking brother." he said.

Charlie laughed and shrugged, "I promised i would kill you, even if it took me the whole of eternity."

"You can't seriously still be mad about that whole Eliza thing, could you?"

Charlie sped from the other side of the room to right in front of Ren, placing a firm hold on his neck within a few milliseconds.

"Don't you dare speak of Eliza unless you want to be killed right this second."
"I'll take my chances." he choked out, glaring at his brother.

"I'm giving you a chance, Ren. A chance to build up a life with Juliet so that you can be all be happy feeding on squirrels." Charlie smiled, reluctantly dropping the hand that was on his neck.

Ren stared at him and furrowed his eyebrows, "You're really giving me freedom?"

"Of course! And then once you two have a happy family, i'll murder Juliet and whatever kids you obtain in cold blood. Killing you would be too easy but killing the supposed love of your life... I'd be a real party pooper then."

Ren froze and stared at Charlie who just simply smiled sweetly. "Goodbye, brother." he laughed, disappearing within a moment.

Silence rang out through the apartment but it was soon broken by Ren's quiet chuckles. "He's an even bigger dick than i am." he said, his tone suggesting that he was impressed.

He turned back around to face the mirror, continuing his decision making in a profound silence.

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"And what might a lady be doing by herself on such a fine day?"

Juliet looked up to see a man hovering over her, smiling as his blonde wavy fell over his eyes.

She gave him a small smile and glanced down at the coffee in her hands. She was sitting on a park bench in one of her favourite places, Rayville Park.

As original as it sounds, it was also quite extraordinary. Juliet didn't know how, but she just felt it.

"Drinking coffee. What about y-?"
"Great. Now here's the thing," he interrupted, sitting down next to her, "How much do you know about Ren Williams?"

Juliet furrowed her eyebrows and edged away slightly, "Not much... we only just met today. How do you know him?"

The man let out an over exaggerated gasp and smirked lightly, leaning back, "My bad, my name is Charlie. Charlie Williams."

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a/n plottwist: charlie is ren's brother 😩

i have a hella load of homework to do but i just cba with it ?? i've just done my maths which isn't due in for another week but i kinda haven't done my physics homework which is due in for tomorrow

oopS

anyways i gotta go stop procrastinating, i hope you have/had a great day 💗