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• Living Or Otherwise by starrsilly

  Fandoms: Cirque du Freak | The Saga of Darren Shan - Darren Shan  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/F, F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  26 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Major Original Character(s)
  • Original Character(s)
  • Originally Posted Elsewhere
  • gonna add as i go on
  • i’m gonna be honest i have no clue how this works
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Original Character Death(s)
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Blood and Violence

  Summary

  There are certain rules to being a vampire. Rules about blood, loyalty, names, death, and the creatures on the other side of an ancient feud.

  Over the course of centuries, those rules are followed, broken, misunderstood, and occasionally ignored altogether by a collection of people who probably should never have met. Some are bound by blood, some by love, some by pure circumstance, and others who have the profound misfortune of being in the wrong room at the wrong time.

  People come and go. Names change. The dead leave things behind. The living make a mess of them.

  The story carries on.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  11,324

  Chapters:

  7/?

  Kudos:

  16

  Hits:

  34