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Penny Dreadful AU: The story begins in 1891 in the city of London where Alecto Carrow — a young woman with impeccable taste and manners but with a dark secret that she keeps close to her heart — lives. Benjamin Avery is a beautiful young man with an genius mind that people envy and an appearance that casts everyone to shame and a thirst for the dangerous. Their first meeting happens by chance when they are both invited to a little fête hosted by a Mister Slughorn. Soft caresses of words drift over her when he introduces himself with a keen eye that seems to stare directly within her. The party events only serve to entice the dangerous, the supernatural and the demi-moor that Alecto finds herself in. Where superstition and science walk hand in hand. Hunted by a demon that she can hardly comprehend, the intertwining of their lives along with Amycus Carrow, Evan Rosier, Alice Fortescue and Regulus Black set them on a journey deep within the underworld as they touch, see and smell the living dead. The darkest secrets will be told as Benjamin and Alecto straddle the borders between life and death as they run from a faceless malice.