ooooo 14 (overgrown) and/or 39 (accursed) for candy >:)
accursed + candy
warnings: it's dark; blood, death, mentions of injuries. i decided to go all in here..
It wasn’t supposed to end this way.
They hit the ground, suddenly and violently; shards of glass grazing at their neck and face. The concrete underneath them tears the skin even more, leaving behind puddles of blood.
Their vision is red, Candy tries to blink it away, but it’s to no avail. Their injured hands lift them off the ground slightly or at least prevent them from laying face down on the gravel. They’re not healing fast enough, the hunger clouds their vision, whispering to them to feed, to take; they try to shake it away, but it becomes louder and louder.
“Hang on! We’ll help you!” At first they’re sure they’re hallucinating when a very weak voice sounds from above them. “You- You’re losing a lot of blood, but we can help.”
Candy screams as a pair of strong hands lift them up– the pain is sharp, excruciating, and it almost makes their knees buckle, but they manage to keep their balance. Now standing, they examine those who… helped them? A couple, a man and a woman, stand together; she’s clinging onto him, her shoulder severed, and he’s bleeding heavily from the deep wound on his side, but they still focus on Candy, afraid they’ll fall again.
They try to convince themself that they don’t care about the heavy metallic smell in the air even if their throat tightens when they take a deep breath. The taste on their tongue is strong, intoxicating, and they snarl, the fangs protruding. Candy needs to calm down; they have to get away, they can’t– everything else is quickly drowned by the surge of primal hunger, and for a moment all they can see are two sacks of blood. Weak.
No.
The smell is overwhelming, the Beast within Candy is screaming to take what is so carelessly given to them. They must feed, and they must do it now. Their chest burns - from anger or sorrow? - as the woman takes a step closer.
“Can you hear us?”
Stay away.
“We need to get to safety. Stay with us.” The man takes ahold of his lover's hand, and Candy’s eyes zero on the blood he smears on it. They will themself to resist, to cling onto what remains of their humanity.
But the Beast is persistent, and it drags the memories from their brain that is half-submitted into madness– the couple’s faces change into Julian’s, Aila’s, Lettow’s, Theo’s. Anyone and everyone. Candy lets out a cry, a sob, when the man steps closer to them, holding out his other hand.
No, please, stay away!
They take it.
Please...
But they are accursed. And at the end, they surrender for they do not know how to fight the nature of the curse they bear. To fight it would be a battle they’ll never win. They push the woman away, tugging the other towards them, plunging their teeth into his neck. The red is all Candy can see and feel and smell, so they feed. The man quickly falls, and Candy moves onto the next. She doesn’t even resist, empty eyes focused on her loved one.
So they feast.
When they’re sated, Candy doesn’t feel euphoric. There’s only dread and alien loneliness– no hunger to whisper its siren song, no one to offer their hand, no one to look at them as if they were still human. They watch as the remaining blood pools beneath the now dead couple. As their body heals itself, they feel like a broken vessel for their inner darkness.
They’ve painted the world crimson, and they wash it away again with the tears of loss for they have lost themself.
The sun is rising soon, the Beast stays silent. They don’t move.
#THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK BONES ILY !!! #SCREAMING AND CRYING AND THROWING UP ETC ETC ETC #candy you cant joke yourself out of this one please dont drink people dry thank you #i made myself sad with this because like #they clinged to their humanity until a certain point and they were so scared to fall victim to their beast and #to loose it in such a violent way is.. traumatic to say the least and it explains quite a bit about their character #and why they didn't even try to reconnect with their brother #part of the reason was because it'll be hard to explain the whole vampire thing but they are more scared of hurting him #because they saw what they can do and like #idk it just makes me so sad #<- i say as if i wasn't the one who did this to them #nico.fic #my oc: candy