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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Vampyr (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Geoffrey McCullum/Jonathan Reid, Geoffrey McCullum & Jonathan Reid Characters: Jonathan Reid, Geoffrey McCullum Additional Tags: Blood and Injury, Dark Jonathan Reid, Re-Telling of Geoffrey's Turning, Guilt, Vampire Turning, Blood Drinking, Childe/Sire Bond(s), Pre-Relationship, Moral Dilemmas Series: Part 1 of The Lachesis Thread Summary:
There was often a sense of lonely helplessness when you knew you were about to lose a man in the field, or any patient for that matter. It was loud and palpable—explosive even—despite death being such a silent entity. Sometimes, there was fear, other times, resignation. There needn't always be obvious grave injury; you could take one look and see it in the glistening rheum of a person’s eyes, or the cracked paleness of their lips. They were about to die in your charge, at your knee in the mud and curdled muck, or in an already death-soiled cot, and there was nothing more you could do to prevent it.
Geoffrey McCullum had that look about him now, though he was still fighting for his last, laboured breath.
Grievance of the self. Denial seeping slowly into acceptance.
