A time-travel fix-it AU came to me in the form of a dream last night, so here I am to share it with you all.
The Plot: Somewhere during the events of The Trials of Death and The Vampire Prince, Darren messes with shit that he was explicitly told not to mess with and winds up passing out during one of his trials/a battle. He then proceeds to wake up in an unfamiliar place, a place that quickly proves to be unfamiliar because it is several hundred years in the past. While trying to figure this out Darren manages to stumble across a pre-Larten Seba, who takes one look at Darren and says “Yes sir, there is something up with this child” while also promising himself that he will track down and kill whomsoever blooded this kid if it is the last thing that he does.
Darren is both understandably terrified of this situation and completely agreeable to the idea of staying with Seba, because he knows Seba and Seba would never hurt him despite being an old-time vampire that is always prepared to throw-down on a moment’s notice if need be. Two or three months go by of these two just trying to exist, and then suddenly BOOM! Larten. So now Darren is really freaking out because Seba is still trying to non-too-sneakily track down and kill whoever blooded Darren, how does Darren even begin to go about explaining that this kid ACTUALLY IS the one who blooded him and he isn’t from this time your honor.
But Seba is, while not completely oblivious to this internal struggle; not getting very much warmed in his guesses about the truth yet so what happens is basically just “Oh, hello there small and vengeful child! This is my other child who is already a vampire, I am trying to find and kill whoever blooded him, play nice now!” :D
So long story short Larten and Darren get progressively closer whilst Seba politics with Paris about his growing brood and Darren delights in calling Larten a twat sense they are equals now and he can do so whenever Larten screws up. Wester then get’s introduced at right around the same time that Seba and Paris finally figure out the truth and confront Darren about it, Darren whom does not handle this well and has a breakdown (Seba and Paris are surprisingly down to comfort him rather than scold or berate him, like obviously there is tough love there too but Larten you could learn a few things from this.)
Darren goes home after a few more months of past-life therapy, idk how dream was nonspecific.