Tell Him - Drabble ft. Will
Even as she listened to Will, her mind whirled to tell him so many warnings about The Countess. Tell him about the ones who hadn’t survived. Tell him about the ones who survived, but had scars inside and out.
Tell him about her mental and emotional scars. Tell him how painful it was to grow up and find out the Báthory name was a curse. Tell him being a Báthory wreaked so much despair, destruction, and disaster that it was a wonder she survived it at all.
Tell him about the ones surviving in this house day to day.
Tell him how so many people connected to The Red Lady ended up paying the price for the woman’s actions.
Tell him about Toulouse
Tell him about Dorian
Tell him about Adrian
Tell Will about the ‘thing’ named Abaddon who found pleasure in torturing Izzie, who terrorized her in her sleep, and always found a way to remind her that none of this could have been possibly without The Red Lady.
Tell Will that for those who died underneath the Red Lady’s house, they were the lucky ones. They found peace and freedom.
Tell him this relationship he had with The Red Lady could only end in tragedy.
Tell him all of this, but it would be all for nothing. Will wasn’t ready. He might never be ready judging by the look in his eyes. The man was in too deep with Red Lady. He wasn’t born a Báthory, but he’d end up just like the others.
Tell him he was ments meg, uram, dead man walking.