paris ♔ tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away

[necessaryevil]

♬ Facade (reprise) - Jekyll & Hyde

WHO || Faith Lehane, Max Rast, Lissa Dragomir, Helen Magnus
WHAT || The Knights investigate a string of vampire attacks in France
WHERE ||Paris, France
WHEN || April 11th, 2015 [backdated].
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

One vampire attack is cause for worry enough, but when bodies are found with telltale puncture wounds and heavy loss of blood become a recurring nightmare across any city, alarm bells are raised.  Such is the case recently in Paris, where Wynn suspects that either a careless clan has moved in, or some lone vamps are stirring up trouble.  With the locations of the bodies marked out in the eight block radius where the deaths have been occurring, the team arrives in the late evening, staring at the rows of apartment blocks, small businesses, and pubs that comprise this section of town.

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[likedillinger]

[ he lets those words sink in his chest, tries not to fight them for once, even though every instinct in his body screams at him to do just that. to reject the notion that there could ever be a happy ending for him, so that he's not just building himself up for disappointment all over again. It's hard to feel shattered by something new coming along if you never allow yourself to try and put the pieces back together fully in the first place.

Finally, he turns his head to brush a kiss against her hair, his hand squeezing hers as, not without some struggle, he gives himself one moment to believe it.

His voice is as rough as she's ever heard it when he says: ] Yeah.

Maybe it's gonna.