A Flower Made Of Iron

Eden Parker has learned how to survive by staying soft in a world that punishes it.

Adopted young, raised in the quiet fractures of Mystic Falls, and carrying truths no one else can see, Eden moves through life balancing grief, loyalty, and a dangerous kind of hope. He loves deeply. He trusts carefully. And he has no idea how many forces-human and otherwise-are already watching him.

When new friendships form, old wounds reopen, and the supernatural begins to bleed into the ordinary, Eden finds himself at the center of something far larger than a high-school existence should allow. Monsters lurk in forests and shadows. Love arrives when it shouldn't. Protection becomes complicated. And the past-buried, sealed, and forgotten-refuses to stay quiet.

Some bonds are chosen.

Some are fated.

And some are forged in pain, blood, and devotion.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, Smallville, or The Originals. I do not own any of the characters besides Eden Parker and Ben Monroe. All rights reserved to the writers.

*Story is available on AO3 as well.*