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Cerca episode 4, I think
"You're so handsome!"Avid called.
Why am I blushing so much? He wondered. I don't have any feelings for scott: Besides he's a vampire, I shouldn't feel anything.
Avid's chest tightened at that thought.
He decided to take a nap, he hadn’t been feeling the best recently, and his scratch had been acting up.
Not a minute after he stepped into his house, his body was wracked with coughs.
He couldn't breathe, he couldn't get air, he was dying…
Finally, after coughing for what felt like hours, something came out.
A rose.
A single, black, thornless, withered rose laying in a pool of Avid’s blood.
He knew what this was, and couldn’t let anyone else find out.
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Beginning of episode 5
Avid can't fight Scott like this, not when long-dead roses threaten to shred his throat at the mere mention of Scott's name.
"Avid" a voice called.
He muttered something before rolling to face his pillow.
"Avid,” a hand shook his shoulder.
Avid cursed then turned over to fare who dared disturb his slumber.
“You have to wake up,” Drift chided, "It's almost noon.”
Was it really? Avid thought he'd slept for a few hours, not a full night and then some.
"I don't feel good,” he whined. "Let me sleep…”
Avid grabbed a pillow to black out the sun.
"I’ll take you to the Doc,” she offered. "But you can’t stay in bed all day.”
As if the Doc could help, the only person who could truly help Avid is..
"Avid are you thinking about Scott~" Drift teased
Like clockwork, the mention of Scott made Avid's chest tighten in that all too familiar way.
One cough
That was all it took for Drift to retrieve Legundo.
When she returned, Avid’s face was drained of color as blood fell from his mouth onto the floor.
"Avid..?” Legundo asked, "What happened?”
Oh no, they've seen, soon he will know too, Avid can’t let that happen, he can't let them know.
“Nothing that isn't my fault," a single petal dritted.to the ground.
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Mid-late episode 5
“I need a cure,” Avid muttered to himself.
Only becoming a vampire could cure him, but he knew that already. Avid couldn’t let him be his sire, he couldn’t face him, not till he was turned.
Shelby could help him, he already left her a note to meet him at the obelisk beacon that night.
Avid started writing a note to Drift, but he couldn’t get the words out before he had to leave for the beacon.
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“Turn me.”
“What?”
“Turn. Me.”
Avid felt Shelby’s fangs sink into his neck, he felt the blood leave his body, felt the exact moment he became a creature of the night.
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“What do we have here,” Scott sang. “A former hunter turned into a vampire. How peculiar.”
“I’m not…I’m not gonna be like you!” Avid tensed, why does it still feel like flowers are rising in his throat.
“Well, of course. Your fashion sense is horrific,” Scott teased. “Why do you still smell like blood? The bite that turned you should’ve already closed.”
“That’s not…that’s not what I meant!” Avid protester. “I’m going to be a good vampire!”
Scott opened his mouth to reply, but he was stopped by a sound.
Avid’s cough; his weak, bloody cough made Scott pause.
“Oh Avid,” Scott murmured. “I’m so sorry.”
The rose that fell hosted only thorns.
(Quick authors note b4 the next part: —- separates parts ~~~ is a time skip, also Scott knows what hanahaki is, he hasn’t realized who Avid has it 4 (Scott has had hanahaki b4 in this au))
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Episode 7 (at the beacon with Scott)
(I apologize for what I am about to do)
Avid kissed Scott, on the lips; he pulled away before the flowers in his lungs began to rise. (Aka, very fast)
He turned away before Scott could see the flowers he knew were pouring from his mouth.
If only he loved me, Avid thought.
If only
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Episode 7, crypt beacon (you know what time it is)
Avid looked down and saw the stake driven through his heart, the flowers growing to surround it, and thought of Scott.
He remembered when they met, the good times, the bad, when he had kissed Scott, and the final time he saw him.
The flowers were no longer exiting his mouth; rather, they left through the hole that cursed stake had made.
Avid hope he would come back, hoped he could see Scott once more, wished for a way to know if Scott felt the same.
But he knew he never would.
His last thought as the light in his eyes faded was of what might have been; if only he had the strength to try.
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Episode 7, in cave w/ Shelby (Scott pov now)
“Did you love him?” Shelby wondered.
Scott knew what he wanted to say, that he loved Avid dearly, but he didn’t because he knew it wasn’t true. He didn’t love Avid until he was gone, but now he was stuck with flowers blooming begging him to breathe. And he obliged; those flowers were all Scott had left of Avid, Scott’s only connection to the one who showed him how to love.
Scott let out a breath.
“I…I don’t know.”