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Nocturne | ONC 2024

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Reads 2,135
Votes 456
Parts 24
Time 4h 54m

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'There was a stain on the floor that used to be a vampire, and Aaron Evans was starting to feel like he really wasn't being paid enough.'

*****

Aaron is only in Supernatural Investigations for the pay. It's stressful and dangerous, and he's certain it's aging him beyond his years. When the remains of a high-ranking vamp from London's most powerful underground gang show up on his turf, even the excellent pay seems like poor recompense for trying to prevent all-out war in his city.

All he has to work with are his wits, some stolen evidence, and an enigmatic vampire investigator who appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Nikolai Meier is surly, uncooperative, but frustratingly competent, so Aaron has no choice but to make it work. 

But Nikolai has secrets, and those secrets may prove just as deadly as failure.

***

#ONC2024 Entry for Prompt 56: 'In a world where humans and magical creatures coexist, a detective must solve a murder case that threatens to plunge the two communities into war.'

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Alexandra Williams doesn't like the idea of staying in a house cooking, cleaning, and sewing all day; so she leaves her home and runs into two men dressed in black. They take her, thinking she's a guy going by the name Alexander, to a tryout to become one of the king's assassins. She makes it, but ends up being paired with a man named Aaron Smith. Aaron runs the tryouts for the archers like he always does, but this time a boy named Alexander stands out amongst the rest. He is absolutely amazing, but something is off, but Aaron doesn't pay attention to it. But at the end of the day his superior pairs him up with the mysterious Alexander, much to Aaron's dismay. Alexandra has to keep her gender a secret or she could be killed, but with her job as dangerous as it is she could be killed anyway. Aaron gets more and more suspicious of his silent partner and tries to do everything he can to try to make him reveal his secret, but 'Alexander' thwarts him every single time. Will the two be able to trust each other even with their secrets getting in the way?