@inxbreakableheaven for Katerina
Isabella had pondered everything that had happened in the past year or so. For having lived for centuries, it felt like what should have spanned another century happened all in the matter of months. A blink of an eye, really, for a vampire such as her. It all started with a phenomenon that Isabella still wasn’t sure what the actual cause was, but it had caused people in Windham to act differently. This included her king and queen and certain things developed. Arthur and her had gotten closer, confessed things that she never thought she would be able to tell him. Feelings that had developed for him over years that she hid because she believed it could have never happened. But it did and now, things had become even more complicated.
That wasn’t the only difficult situation that had come out of this event. A demon from her past had come back and haunted her every moment. Stefano. The only monster that had terrified her in her mortal and eternal life. Of everything she had seen and done, it was him that lingered in her mind as the most terrifying creature on the face of the planet. She was sure he had died. She had been sure that she had stabbed him to death that night. Yet he was living. Not just living - a vampire. The same deadly creature that she was. The same blood-thirsty hunter in the dead of the night. And while she hadn’t seen him since that first interaction, the fact that he was in town somewhere, watching her every moment, still made her look over her shoulder everywhere she went.
It was just so much. Her emotions swayed from panicked to conflicted to calm to petrified. It was too much. She almost envied Arthur and Katerina and their abilities to just not feel their humanity. And maybe that was what she needed - she needed to turn it off. Turn off her own feelings and her own humanity. Turn her into nothing more than a huntress who cared only for herself and feeding her hunger. So she approached Katerina, knocking on her door before entering. “Do you have a moment?”
