Who wants a willtresor vampire AU this fine Friday? Got kinda long so putting it under the cut
Montresor is the vampire in this one. His gold tooth is in place of one of his fangs that got pulled out. He slaughtered his way out before the cultists got his other fang too. He starts wandering with no real aim and eventually becomes a legend that sows fear in travelers. The Great Plains Devil/Demon is what he's known as
Even if he and Will are from different time periods, I figure that Montresor either doesn't age or ages very slowly in this au so he could absolutely meet Will in the 1930s when he briefly passes through a town, not at all expecting to stick around, yet a kind shopkeeper catches his attention. They start chatting. Montresor keeps finding excuses to visit the store. Eventually they move on to meeting outside as well.
Then one day as they're in the store Will gets a paper cut or something, and Montresor has to straight up run away because the scent of his blood drives him insane. I mean fang sharpening and irises turning a little red and all
When Will inevitably finds out Montresor is the being from legends terrorising the area, he's less freaked out about that than he is about the fact that Montresor is starving and might genuinely die if he doesn't feed soon. And of course he offers himself up
Montresor getting kinda carried away feeding and almost making Will bleed out to death. He then proceeds to avoid Will for at least a week, because he feels awful about having hurt him. And he's terrified that he'll once again be the reason he loses something he holds dear. And still he won't leave town, he has to know Will is fine. Will has to be the one to seek him out first, and you can imagine he isn't at all happy with having been abandoned.
I don't exactly have an ending for this in mind so I'd love to hear any ideas you might have 👀