#nikl3us

yeah.... Yeah

“  you did, and yet i still failed to heed your advice,  ” the hurt was layered into thinly veiled sarcasm, it seemed in her later years it became tougher to not give way. or perhaps it was just the effect he had on her. what once may have felt like an odd kinship to her, an unlikely companion, now proven to be naught but one more of the universe's cruel ways to punish her. “  suppose i've gotten soft in my old age.  ” she expects a retort of some sort, a sharp response or a joke at her own expense, but bianca doesn't grant him the satisfaction just yet. “  or perhaps it's still too easy to meddle with my mind––  ”

“ oh, don't be so dramatic. i've only set a few necessary boundaries. and your compliance, i'll let you know, is extremely and happily appreciated –– i have full faith you could strike out and disregard them with little hesitation if you really cared to. ” her dazzling smile is bright and wide, and a bit separated from the matter at hand ( the matter at all times being a bit of bloodshed in one's back pocket ). “ but it all means that we'll need to be creative. and not cause a scene. ” a bloodless resolution was all fine and lovely in theory, but in practice required thinking a bit hard at what, exactly, there was to do when dealing with undesirables besides bringing them to violent ends.

“ and if it did, i would still not tell you anything. you seek to harm whoever you’re tracking… i don’t want to be a part of that, ” she can still smell the blood on his hands ( not so much on his breath, unlike some vampires, it’s like he kills for entirely different purposes other than feeding ) “ and this place… i can’t see anything here. It’s like … a mantle, you know? a shadowy mantle over mystic falls. it there is anything to see, i can’t see it.” maybe that’s why she’s begged Jasper to stay longer, maybe she’d stay forever if it means not seeing ever again.