#motor jacket

She met Giselle at one of her favorite local dives, after narrowly escaping a brawl she started (whoops) and having to protect the wayward (and frankly, lost looking) half-vampire with said blue flames. This seemed to immediately catch the other girl’s attention and she would not leave her alone about it, following her all the way to a second bar like a loyal puppy and asking a million questions about it the whole way. A couple more drinks and demonstrations later, Giselle confided in her that she’d always been jealous of the Moroi’s magical abilities, not having any herself. She’d mentioned always wanting to be accepted into their universities and imagined what it would be like to study magic and at least TRY to see if she could attempt it... I mean she is HALF vampire after all, there must be some magic lying dormant in her veins, right? Right?? Just to shut her up, but mostly as a joke, Esme had suggested that they switch places and would just “let her take all her classes for her” if she ever found herself enrolled. The next few hours were spent trying to calm down a very drunk and extremely determined Dhampir from creating and enacting a plan to do just that. It seemed though, that whatever cockamamie scheme they’d come up with that night had actually worked, and next thing she knew, she found herself attending vampire college with a new “bodyguard” and budding BFF. One who can’t stop taking in everything with a look of pure awe and has somehow already covered their dorm room in human movie posters and potted cacti plants with bizzare actor names from movies she’s never seen... It’s almost endearing. However, their switcheroo plan is working maybe a little too well, seeing as they’ve run into some unforeseen attention from other clans, but none of it for the reasons they’d expect.

Esme was sure everyone there would instantly peg her as the Moroi she is, knowing how famous her family claims to be, but it seems that as long as she keeps the blue flames and other elemental magic under wraps, everyone takes her claiming to be the Dhampir bodyguard of Giselle at face value. Guess it helps to be the black sheep no one wants to talk about sometimes... The only real issue is when she has to go outside in full sunlight but... that’s a bridge they cross when they come to it. Otherwise, she’s been enjoying the relative freedom she gets from training alongside the other bodyguards that reside with their Moroi counterparts, bonding with the group and finally feeling like herself for the first time around other vampires.

Giselle, on the other hand, is finding herself quite the target of another kind of controversy. She expected to be outed the second it was clear that she didn’t have any type of powers, but the administration just took that as a sign she’s an embarrassingly late bloomer, and put her into a special study program. She’s been a little isolated from the general population that way, but it’s to her advantage, since no one else knows she can’t really do magic. What they do know, however, is she’s a new and unknown Moroi face in their elite world, and everyone is deathly curious about her. Including a new transfer student, Tulio, who seems to be getting awfully friendly for a guy who has little reason to be around her. Esme picked up on “no-touch” vibes right away, and made it her mission, as the supposed bodyguard, to scare him away. What she didn’t account for was just how devastatingly charming the fucker would be. Or how much chemistry they’d actually have... This is going to be all the more heartbreaking when the girls learn of his true intentions as a spy for the infamous Victor Dashkov, who is still out and about doin his weird evil vampire deeds (may or may not be played by Frollo here...). That being said, Tulio seems increasingly conflicted about doing his job as his feelings for the firey Esme continue to grow- something he did not expect, considering she can be such a pest! Will Tulio go through with his two-timing trials? Will Esme figure out why everyone seems so obsessed with Giselle? And will Giselle ever develop a single magic ability in time for the school’s very public showcase? Or more importantly, find a date to its accompanying ball?? Just how long do these two think they can keep fooling the entire vampire world about their real identities?