Summary: You just died. Those four days you were gone, Adrian went through the stages of grief.
AN: Takes place between the end of book 2 and the beginning of book 3.
Tagging @choicesficwriterscreations
Day One: Denial
Turning you was Adrian’s only option. Everything good in his life had always been ripped away, like a page from a book. And as he watched you slowly be taken away from the waking world, he knew all he could do was to turn you. But they waited, and waited. You never woke up. He turned you just like he would have turned anyone else. Everyone helped perform the ritual to a T. But you still never woke up.
After waiting hours, it was decided to bury you. To bring you to the cemetery and put you to rest. Adrian couldn’t do it. He could not believe that the one precious thing, the one person he could see himself having a future with, was gone. Lost to a war you had no reason to be a part of. Killed by someone who was supposed to be dead.
And so as they shoveled the dirt over your coffin, he hoped and prayed that you would come back to him. You had to come back to him.
Day Two: Bargaining
Adrian woke with a start. The events of the day before hit him like a dagger to the chest. He wanted answers. He jumped out of bed, dressed, and headed to his office. He needed to research a turning not working. He needed to know why. Why did it not work? If he had turned you immediately, as soon as you were struck, would you have lived? Instead of facing his grief, he dove into books upon books.
After hours holed up in his office, Kamilah came barging in. And the sight of her dear friend stopped her in her tracks. He had so many books stacked around him that it was quite ridiculous.
“What the hell are you doing?”
Adrian sat up a little bit, looking up from his book. “Researching, obliviously,” he said as he made a gesture to all the books around him. “I need to see if there was anything we missed, anything that we need to do differently since she’s a Bloodkeeper. In all our history there has to be-“ Adrian was cut off by Kamilah shutting the book he was currently reading.
“Adrian,” she started, “I know this will be hard to hear, but we did everything we could. I’ve already checked multiple resources and could not find anything that we could have done differently. I-“ she continued as her eyes started to water. “I am afraid she is truly gone.”
Adrian felt himself grip the book he held in his hands. He looked up at Kamilah, his eyes shinning as tears flowed freely down his face.
“I can’t give up Kamilah,” he said as he ran his hands through his hair, tired and almost pleading. “I love her. I can’t just not try to fix it. She does not deserve for me not to do anything about it.”
Kamilah watched as he spoke. She’s seen him at his worst, hell she’s known him for more than a century, so she likes to think she knows him pretty well. But this? They’ve witnessed more deaths than she can count together, but she has never seen him grieve like this.
As gutted as she is over your death, she must be Adrian’s voice of reason.
She placed her hand over his that was still gripping the book tightly, and spoke with a heavy heart, “My dear Adrian, I don’t think this is something you can fix.”
Day Three: Anger
Kamilah was right. This was something Adrian could not fix. And all he could feel was anger. He was frustrated that he could not bring you back, and angry that he couldn’t find anything in his hours and hours of research to bring you back. But mostly, he was mad that he had let Gaius near you. If he would have been stronger, he could have protected you. He could have prevented all of this. His rage hit him like a wave hitting a wall and within seconds, his fist made contact with the closest wall.
“Woah, woah, woah what’s going on?” Jax said has he entered Adrian office, hearing the sound of his punch.
“Nothing,” he replied, cradling his hand that punched the wall in the other while looking down at the ground, seething.
Jax gave him a look, not believing him for a second. He could feel his energy, and it felt like a giant ball of fire.
Despite Adrian looking at the ground, Jax could see how bloodshot his eyes were.
“Listen,” he stared, “It’s been three days, I-“
“Don’t you think I know that?!” Adrian snapped back at him.
Jax was taken aback for a second by his tone, and judging by Adrian’s instant look of regret, he was too.
“I’m… I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to snap at you. I just… I still need time.” He turned towards his window, looking outside at the city.
“Of course,” Jax replied, “We’re all here when you’re ready.”
He quietly stepped out and shut the door, leaving Adrian alone with his thoughts.
Day Four: Depression and Acceptance
He wasn’t really sure how he was supposed to continue without you, but he knew deep down that you would not want him to spend his days wallowing. So today was the day he would leave his office, see how everyone was doing after the fight, after loosing you.
But first, he was going to visit your grave. He needed to be with you one more time.
When he arrived, he was surprised to see Lily leaving.
“Oh!” Lily said once she saw him, “Didn’t think I’d see you out so soon.”
“Well, I wanted to talk to her.”
Lily gave him a sad smile. “Good, I’m not really a religious person but I think she’d be happy to hear your voice.”
Adrian couldn’t muster any words, so he nodded his head, eyes already watering. Lily squeezed his shoulder as she walked by, leaving the cemetery.
He continued forward, remembering exactly where they had buried you four days ago.
He stayed with you for an hour. Sitting next to where you lay as the gentle night breeze swept by. He told you about how you were extremely brave to take on Gaius as you did, and how selfless you were to save them all. He told you multiple times how much he loved you, and how much he missed you until it all became too much for him. That’s when he stood up, and said goodbye.
He walked for the rest of the night, anywhere his feet would carry him. When he ended up in Central Park, he realized that dawn was near. And at that exact moment, he heard a scream, and saw someone who looked just like you chasing a human.
In a state of shock, he stood there for a minute, not believing that you were here. Alive.
Then he watched as you tried to feed off the human, and he was pulled out of his state of shock. You were a vampire now, and very much alive.
I thought of this idea and finally had the ambition to write, which I haven’t had in months. So I’m very surprised I wrote this in one sitting lol. I’m sure there’s a lot of errors and things that are not canonically correct, but I tried 🤷♀️
Can we talk about how Bloodbound introduced a warrior-turned-pacifist who could become invisible at will, and a fucking vampire cyborg, then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with them?
For the trans event, may I request my BloodBound MC Jasmine Yin?
Jasmine Yin
Thanks for the request. Her hair was hella fun to draw!
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Say hello to my Bloodbound MC Jasmine Yin! I don't have a lot of headcanons for her, but I will figure out her character more throughout the story. Here's what I got so far:
She loves badminton. It's a sort of a weird lighthearted comfort sport for her.
She's very easily excitable, but does know when to take things seriously.
She's a non-op trans woman who identifies with both masculinity and femininity. She loves expressing both, but also hates feeling like she owes people femininity.
She's bi (no shit, everyone in Bloodbound is bi), and will have romantic relationships with all the LIs. She will also have relations with hookup options like Priya and Drac. I also headcanon she has romance/relations with Nikhil. Not sure who I'll choose her to become closest with.
I might make her part of a big family with multiple siblings, but I'm not sure. Still figuring it out.
