VIKTOR KOVACS
Werewolf
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Posts: 66
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Last seen Nov 3, 2024 20:01:13 GMT
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Sept 4, 2022 19:22:17 GMT
The men and woman had been there two mornings past, in the still dawn streaked parking lot of the motel. One had seen the car coming in from the street, still dew spotted from a night out in the woods. He, Eniko, Aliz had piled in at dawn, clothes pulled on over dirt streaked skin. Straight back from the woods to the motel on quiet roads, despite the numbers of shifters that must have been out there overnight. Eniko had raised a hand and waved back – friendly, too much so perhaps – only dropping her hand after he’d growled a warning at her about strangers. They’d turned away, as though they were continuing to pack or unpack their truck, not glancing their way again in the time he had taken to park and for them to get inside.
Strangers. Too friendly. Now as big a warning sign as those rotating lights on top of the police vehicles.
Their vehicle had been there still this morning, although there was no sign of any of them then. Maybe just passing through, maybe. That small voice in the back of Viktor’s mind had been enough to keep him looking, watching for them as he’d driven to the next town over for a part of the plane. No sign. Perhaps he was just paranoid, too scarred by the village and by the way he had found Harmony with hunter’s hands on her in that Budapest alleyway.
Viktor raked his teeth over his lower lip again and again as he’d driven back – the rear view mirror still clear, everything in this town so quiet, so sleepy. Fingers tightening over the wheel until he’d felt it start to creak beneath his touch. It was easy to imagine her laughter splitting the silence in the car, mocking as she’d started to probe with fingers and that sharp tongue at the edges of his temper. Harmony would work away at it, chiselling at his control a bit at a time until he snapped. Then there would be no worry, no paranoia, only her.
In the cool dim of the motel room that heat would eventually disperse and like on her birthday they would end up curled up together. Then he could see the soft belly Harmony was trying to hide from the predators out there, the one he wanted her to admit to so that she would truly start trying to protect it.
Blue eyes cut to the phone tossed onto the console when he’d climbed in. He had been gone longer than intended, searching the scrap yard like trying to find a needle in a giant haystack. Tedious, but necessary, in case … Viktor didn’t reach for the phone though. In ten minutes he would be back in town, no need to phone and make it seem like he was clinging, fretful as a small child.
He drove through the first thin scatter of houses. They spread out into the woods like they didn’t realise just what hid out there on a full moon, or, worse, on any normal day of the month, just waiting for that darkness to fall so that they could invade themselves. Viktor drummed his fingers on the wheel, still antsy. Maybe he would get food and they would eat at the motel instead of in town, heads down a few more hours. Eventually the people would leave and that itch between his shoulders would ease.
Two blocks out from the square, close enough that he could practically smell the onions frying at the Grill. He should’ve driven closer, parked on the square itself, but he squeezed into one of the narrow streets parallel instead. Careful, not crazy. He was not touched, just gripped with caution with so much more to lose here now. A quick study of the alley showed it empty. Safe.
Fifteen minutes later he was returning from the Grill. Arms filled with bags. Burgers, curly fries, the chill of milkshakes – still a novelty after spending close to two decades somewhere cold enough that they could’ve made them from actual snow but never had. An indulgence it was getting harder to justify considering he still had no income outside of the few bits of manual work he’d picked up at the motel. Keys juggled into one hand, ready to open the driver’s door when the blow came.
Viktor felt the weight come down on the back of his neck, saw his own eyes flare red in his reflection as he roared. The bags hit the ground, were kicked aside in a spray of pale pink milkshake. He swung his elbow, swatted one aside – the woman from the motel, red hair fanning out around her as she folded over the trunk. Hunter. The word had barely hissed through his head before the line of fire was opened up on his own side, scoring his ribs, instead radiating a cold sting that seemed to start taking the strength out of his legs. Wolfsbane. Viktor swayed on his feet, pressing a hand to his side, seeing the blue smoke rising from his blood as he took it away. ”You saw,” he rasped, the accusation slipping out as he did. He dropped to his knees, the blows hammering on his head and neck. Twisting, he tried to avoid them but saw nothing but the blurring blacktop and the feet rushing in. More to join the fun of killing the Alpha.
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HARMONY
Siren
Posts: 116
Played by:
Julia
"You should see me in a crown."
Last seen Nov 22, 2024 20:41:19 GMT
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Post by HARMONY on Sept 18, 2022 23:12:35 GMT
━ watch me make them bow ━ HARMONY DIDN’T CARE HOW LONG HE STAYED OUT. SHE wouldn’t sit around waiting for him like a fucking bitch while he went off doing whatever. During the full moon, though, she’d stayed at the motel for most of the night. Harmony had tried to go out earlier, perusing racks at the mall and pretending she’d find a bar to go to later.
She bought a dress.
… Then sat inside wringing her hands.
She was turning into a nineteen-fifties housewife and it made her fucking stomach turn. Viktor probably loved it, though━that was his whole plan, wasn’t it? Turn her into the girl he wanted. Well fuck him. She’d do what she wanted.
She didn’t miss him at all that day. Harmony welcomed the lack of the fucking irritating buzz that was Viktor’s voice critiquing her every move. Saying stupid bullshit in that ugly language, nattering, do like this, Harmony, do like that.
It was nice making lunch without him over her shoulder complaining about the way she boiled pasta. She made an extra bowl for him, though. Covered it with plastic wrap and stuck it in the fridge just in case he came home early and felt hungry. Whatever. He’d probably whine about it then, too.
She left the motel room in a huff and went shopping. This time, she ran errands, picking up shit they were running low on, along with a couple items she thought Viktor might appreciate. Not that he appreciated anything, but toothpaste and shit like that.
Oh, God, it was fucking happening again. What the fuck was wrong with her? The worst part was she didn’t even want to correct it━the idea of hooking up with someone else made her feel sick.
She was sure to stay away for a while. She hoped Viktor would return, find the room empty, and miss her. He’d be the one wondering where she was, griping when she got back, all pissy and jealous and wanting to know where she’d been.
When Harmony returned, though, he still wasn’t there. It was fucking dark out━where the fuck was he? She could’ve picked up her phone and called or texted, but why did she have to be the one to reach out? She wouldn’t. No fucking way. She wasn’t gonna give him the satisfaction of knowing she’d even thought about him.
Not when she’d set aside the pasta, or when she made sure to leave with both his birthday gifts on her, or even now, when the sun had set and she started worrying.
Deciding to distract herself instead, she put away the non-perishables, the toothpaste, shampoo and conditioner, then organized items with the shit she’d bought to make the motel room a little homier. Command strip hooks to hang things without a place, clear bins for the cleaning products underneath the sink, and snacks on the nightstands for later in the night.
Harmony sat on the edge of the bed when she had nothing left to busy herself with, checked her phone, then cursed Viktor and got up. She asked Alex first, then the girls (because they liked her less), and nobody had heard from him. Something buzzed in the pit of her stomach, something just as irritating as Viktor when he was around. He fucking bothered her either way, didn’t he?
He’d been gone too long. She wasn’t paranoid, but it wasn’t like this town was safe━it wasn’t like they hadn’t met in awful fucking circumstances, ones that could arise just as easily in Mystic Falls as anywhere else. He was the one who was paranoid, always worried about every person he came across, which was why his absence didn’t make sense.
Harmony pulled on a jacket and went out, not bothering to give herself fake excuses this time. She was looking for him. She’d go to the square, do a round or two, and probably find him drinking somewhere━he’d tell her it was for some peace and quiet away from her, and she’d wish she hadn’t bothered. That’s what would happen if she let this bullshit with Viktor drag on any longer, she knew it. Her mom knew it; she warned Harmony about this. Nobody would ever want her for her, and, if they thought they did, the feeling would wear off eventually. Viktor knew it, probably, somewhere deep down.
Glancing into Campbell’s, Harmony scanned the stools and frowned, finding no sign of him. She walked outwards, along the road that cut through the square and across it, venturing further out than she’d anticipated.
She felt helpless. Viktor wasn’t here, and how long could a trip for a fucking plane really take? It was just one part, right? God, she wasn’t listening well enough when he mentioned it. He’d probably call her in a minute, wondering where she was, why she wasn’t at home… or he’d use the time she was out here to gather his family and fuck off. It didn’t matter that he’d promised her he wouldn’t, that she was apart of them now; Harmony felt like shit, allowing every insecurity to slip in.
Finally relenting, she pulled out her phone and called him. It rang once, and then… she could hear it. It wasn’t far, maybe around the next turn. She scurried along the sidewalk, dipping into one of Mystic Falls’ side streets, and found…
“No!” Harmony shouted before she could think, sprinting the short distance to him. They didn’t stop, not even when he was on the ground, taking blow after blow. They were like dark shadows, demons, dancing around him, producing unstoppable torture.
He hadn’t left her, he was here and he needed her.
One of the shadows turned, suddenly becoming a physical manifestation. He had a face, broad shoulders, and long arms that encircled Harmony like a straight jacket. She fought, wriggling and sending up knee after knee, but she caught nothing━did nothing. She finally tore her gaze from Viktor and stared up at the man, realizing that’s just what he was. A man. She might not have enhanced strength or speed, but she’d never met a human she couldn’t control.
Sucking in a breath to steady herself, Harmony let the energy explode from her. The pull she had, like a magnet, attracting the attention of all those around her. The blunt sounds of metal against skin slowed, almost stopped, but to halt them completely she needed something more. She felt his hands drifting, sliding into her curves, and Harmony welcomed them━a stranger’s hands━for the first time since she’d dragged Viktor to that club.
Closing her mouth on his, she let her venom seep into him, slowly feeling the power crawling up her spine. This was what she needed; she’d been starved of it. Harmony wouldn’t change her last few months with Viktor and his family for the world, but she required this feeling to survive. Someone under her spell, ready to do her bidding no matter what she asked.
“I want you to kill your friends.” Harmony commanded, her voice low and sultry. He didn’t hesitate; he was gleeful at the idea. Though he released her and turned to draw his weapon on the other shadows, she didn’t cut off what attracted the rest of them to her like a siren satellite.
As soon as she was free, she rushed to Viktor, falling to her knees beside him. “Are you okay? Are you healing?” She whimpered, scrambling hands moving to turn him over so she could see his face. In the process, though, she found her questions answered━and not in the way she’d hoped.
“You can’t do this, evil vampire bitch!” While the violence exploded in a bloody fury at her back, there was one hunter━one shadow━still standing his ground over them. Harmony didn’t know how he wasn’t enamoured with her like the rest, she’d never had this happen before, but there wasn’t time to work out all the shit her mother never explained.
She crowded Viktor closer, arms curled around his shoulders, trying to shift to act as a human shield. Harmony didn’t know how to fight; she couldn’t win this battle if her only defences refused to work on him.
If they died here, if her one compelled warrior didn’t reach him in time, at least she tried. She’d done far more than her mother ever said she would━more than Harmony thought she would. And she was here with Viktor, the man she…
No, fuck that. She’d been through too much shit to die in a back alley of some small fucking town. Harmony tugged her knife from its sheath in her pocket, ready to take out the hunter’s fucking ankles if she had to.
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VIKTOR KOVACS
Werewolf
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Posts: 66
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Last seen Nov 3, 2024 20:01:13 GMT
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Oct 8, 2022 16:09:30 GMT
It had slipped from his pocket, was laying on the cracked blacktop beside him. Viktor could see it lighting up those police cars he’d avoided for months on end, lights screamed danger, not safety – until it was Harmony’s name lighting up on the screen. They paid no attention to the rumble and tinny dance of its song, the blows continuing to come until everything, including the phone, vibrated at the edges of his vision. He roared, trying to push back against them, but the weak was working its way through his system from that wound on his side.
Slumping back down, Viktor realised the black working its way into the edges of his vision weren’t just the wet, stinking ground. Fear bit with razor sharp fangs. Was this what it had been like for nagyapa? Laid out on the vibrating floor of the plane, the poison – he was sure if he fumbled for the wound he would see black blood on his hand – working its way through his system. He’d known it was Death, calling his grandson to him to pass the alpha spark. Eniko wasn’t here for him to do the same. Like Harmony she would have been waiting back at the motel for him. How soon would restlessly come this time? Not soon enough to do anything, maybe not soon enough for them to avoid this too.
Viktor’s fingers curled against the ground, the weakness in his muscles frustrating enough for him to growl against it. Knees dragged against the blacktop, coming towards his chest. It opened him up for blows to the soft underbelly he’d shared with Harmony when she’d hidden her own, and then took advantage. Boots swinging, connecting with the wound they had opened up in a way that left the darkness sweeping in on his vision thickening. Squinting against it, he turned his head again, expecting to see their friends strolling down the street to witness his end – ready to celebrate another one of those things dead. That was good, yes? Less to pollute this town, to slaughter humans like cattle – unimaginable, unheard of in his pack.
That fresh shadow swam in and out of focus, before her voice sent it snapping back into one running form. Blonde hair, fear – was that his or hers? Harmony, not just on the screen of his phone.
”Fuss. Kicsikém. Fuss.” It felt like something tore in his side, the warning cut off with another kick from the one right over him. Rolling to his side, Viktor struggled to half turn, claws barely piercing his fingertips. Enough, maybe enough. He raked them over the ankle of the one doing most of the damage. They were down, only serving to reveal another, wrapped around Harmony in an echo of how he had first seen her. Harmony’s eyes were on his. Would he have to watch her taken this time? Killed?
Blue eyes flickered to red, sputtering like the fire in the cabin on those windy nights that were so cold it felt like your marrow would freeze in your bones. Viktor roared again, more of the alpha in the sound now, but the blows continued until a wind of a different kind rolled through the alleyway. It went almost silent, the blows on his back slower now. He swayed, feeling the crackle work its way over his skin, into the wound at his side where it throbbed like a heartbeat. Black blood, still with that blue steam rising from it, pattered faster onto the ground (not only slick with fetid water and milkshake now). Viktor stared, his chest working like the bellows that had worked the forge in the village – sparks exploding from it as they had taken turns in working them – as the man’s hands started to work over Harmony in a different way.
Jealousy joined the anger, fuelling him as he turned again, swiping for the one crawling away from him, the one still working that bar over him like they wanted to pulp his insides. Harmony’s voice didn’t penetrate the haze of pain and anger, not even as the man who had held her pulled a weapon and turned on those he had appeared with. Temporarily alone Viktor went back to hands and knees, swaying, grunting as he tried find the energy to get back to his feet. Muscles trembled under his skin, a growing vibration that only partly muted as Harmony sank down beside him.
He let her turn his head towards her, his frown sharpening at her question. Viktor made a low sound in his throat, shaking his head at her. Even that sent the world whirling around him again, a ride like the one he had been on at the carnival with Aliz. ”Somethin’ on blade,” Viktor grunted. ”Like nagyapa … weak …” He had told Harmony of what had happened on the plane, what had slowly been killing nagyapa, the stuff that smoked in the wound and turned his blood to oil. Lazslo had given it a name in those minutes after nagyapa had died – something deadly to wolves, unless it was … The frown deepened, mental fingers slipping on the memory.
Not all of them were down. As he tried to grasp for what he had forgotten one came back. Voice a cutting sneer over the sound of the men and women fighting against themselves. Harmony’s arms went around him, pulling him close, like somehow she could protect – like nagyanya, trying to give them the time to get to safety, taking all of that violence on herself. ”No!” Another of those bellows that set everything to trembling against her. He squirmed, trying to get himself free, but everything was harder now.
Another sputtering flicker of red, catching just long enough for his claws to emerge, patches of hair trying to work their way over his skin, his fangs pressing against his gums. Viktor slashed again, not the man’s ankles this time, just a nick on his calf, enough to have the man dropping to his knees though, a weapon clattering beside him. ”Use it! Harmony, Hagynod kell, hogy megízlelje a vérét.” If she didn’t it would be a dead man she cradled against herself. The black stain was covering almost his entire vision now, the world turning red as it shrunk down to narrow slots that revealed all that violence in the alleyway. Their blood ran scarlet, his own black still, the poison working its way towards his heart with those smoky fingers.
Tagged: HARMONY * Word Count: 1082 Translate: Run. My little one. Run/You need to let it taste his blood
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HARMONY
Siren
Posts: 116
Played by:
Julia
"You should see me in a crown."
Last seen Nov 22, 2024 20:41:19 GMT
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Post by HARMONY on Nov 1, 2022 23:08:58 GMT
━ watch me make them bow ━ IT WAS FRIGHTENING HOW QUICKLY THINGS CHANGED. Not only the events that unfolded around them, but in her mind, too. Within seconds, there was no more time to pretend not to care about Viktor. Within seconds, she was sure she’d lose him, and suddenly nothing mattered more than saving him. Keeping him━despite how often she claimed she could leave at the drop of a hat. The realization that he could be gone at any moment was painful, like a hammer to her chest, though she was sure it couldn’t be as bad as the wound literally smoking from his side.
He wasn’t healing. Wolfsbane━the same thing that killed his grandfather. It was killing Viktor now, slowly dragging him away by his claws, and he needed… she needed… fire. That was the cure━he’d told her as much, and now the fact floated to the forefront of her mind, bypassing all the medical training that wouldn’t help, not with a werewolf.
But to burn it out of him, she’d need materials she didn’t have and time that wasn’t available. Harmony huddled around Viktor as he squirmed, sure this would be the end.
And then she wondered why━or when━she’d become so God damn helpless. Admitting to herself that maybe she’d care if Viktor died didn’t mean she could no longer do anything to save him. Attachments were a weakness she didn’t need, but Harmony’s wasn’t fucking weak. Viktor was half dead and still fighting, so what was her fucking excuse?
The man that was something━had to be because he wasn’t at all affected by her abilities━dropped to his knees, brought closer by her wolf, and served up on a silver fucking platter. All she had to do was listen.
Drawing back, Harmony lifted her arm and swung blindly, slashing the blade across the hunter’s chest. She rotated her shoulder and let it glide through the air, circling back to rip open his throat. Rubies exploded from the knife and danced with it, splattering across the sullied ground and painting her hand red.
He dropped forward, and she felt no remorse. He’d ended up dead, face-down in the bloody, milkshake-y slush, just as he’d hoped Viktor would’ve. He deserved this.
“Lay on your back,” Her voice betrayed her, sounding far more shaken than she thought it would. She’d intended to avoid Viktor’s eyes, but found them anyway as she gently guided him down. The sounds of violence had melted into the background, but she noticed them now━or, rather, the lack of them━as they halted. Harmony glanced over her shoulder to find her “valiant soldier” standing with a pile of bodies at his feet. He returned to her side, awaiting another order. Harmony frowned, reaching out with her palm open. “Get me a lighter. Quickly.” He searched his own pockets, then the pockets of his dead friends. Finally, he dropped one in her hand, and Harmony hissed, “Now k*ll yourself. Do it to prove how much you love me.” Without a second thought, her voice ice cold. And because he was desperate to make her happy━uttering nonsensical promises aloud━he pulled out his gun and obeyed.
Her attention went back to Viktor, ignoring what she’d had the stranger do. Harmony tried to think about this like cauterizing a wound. It wasn’t exactly the same process, but it was close enough, and it would hurt either way. Her eyes found his face again, ready to say some soft shit like “just focus on me” or “hold my hand,” but she refrained. Almost. “I’ve got you.” Harmony whimpered, holding the lighter under her knife until it was hot enough. She planted herself onto one of his thighs and pulled his shirt up with her free hand, both to get it out of the way and to hold him down. The blade’s tip went in, producing more blue smoke as the wolfsbane sizzled. That meant it was working, didn’t it? It had to━she wasn’t gonna lose him. Not now, and not in some grimy fucking alley.
“I’m almost done, just━just hang on.” The only other thing fighting for her attention was the fresh blood tainting the ground. Fucking disgusting. And yet, if the most important person in her life wasn’t about to die, she would’ve leaned over for a “snack.” Ugh, fuck.
Flicking the lighter on again, every movement frantic, Harmony heated the centre of the knife this time and really did cauterize it as an added measure. She just wanted to see him heal, if he did… once he did, everything would go back to normal. She could keep pretending she didn’t want him around, and he could keep annoying her every time he opened his stupid fucking mouth to say some bullshit in Hungarian.
Harmony couldn’t help herself in the end. Her palm drifted from where it was pressed to his ribs, lifting to cup his cheek and stare into his eyes, a far deeper blue than her own icy, almost silver ones. That meant something━she was cold, nothing on the inside, not without him. “Start fucking healing, Viktor. Ne ostavlyay menya.” Watching through a haze of tears, she commanded him as if that alone would save his life━as if he’d ever listened to a word she’d said.
VIKTOR KOVACS | translation (Russian): don't leave me
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VIKTOR KOVACS
Werewolf
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Posts: 66
Played by:
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Last seen Nov 3, 2024 20:01:13 GMT
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Nov 14, 2022 20:02:45 GMT
There’d be no satisfaction for Aliz to tell him – or his body – I told you so. She’d sworn they were only safer if they stuck together and each time something had happened in the months he thought they’d been on the island, he’d felt a relief that it hadn’t happened with them there. They were safe. None of them would ever have realised what had stopped him from coming back, but they would go on being safe. With them in town the fear that now their lives, and Harmony’s, would be in greater danger had returned to burn in his chest like a flame. He’d let it rip like a fújólámpa, a flame hot enough to melt metal, but apparently not his sister’s attitude at the carnival. Still it wasn’t enough to convince them. Maybe this would.
Viktor wanted to fight it, to push back the darkness at the edges of his vision and stop the acidic burn from working its way through his muscles. The anger and fear that burned just as hot there, coalescing into that torch’s point in his brain and heart did nothing to push it back, maybe only accelerating the rush of the wolfsbane through his system. He couldn’t stop the emotions, or the confusion that cloaked the part of him still thinking as he looked at Harmony’s face. It had shifted, something in her just for a moment as she had ordered the men to turn on one another.
His vision blurring where it hadn’t already been swamped in that darkness, Viktor tried to break free of her when he had come. Another one to cut down all that mattered, violence and hatred radiating from her, Harmony right there… No. The word had echoed from his lips hadn’t it? A roar of desperation that preceded the swipe of his claws. Did he have the energy to finish it as brought him down? No. She would have to do it to save both of them. A huff of breath puffed out of him, relief leaving him sagging into Harmony as that rain of blood joined his own on the ground. Down. Safe. Surely safe now.
He heard Harmony’s order, grunted – even that sounding weak as he tried to obey her. Was that the ground rushing up at him or death? That was definitely Harmony’s touch still, maybe not death, not yet, but soon and none of them there to take his place with the slash of a blade. The ground was cold – or was that just him? – not hard under him any longer though. Bonelessly he lay there, looking up into her eyes until they tore from him to him. The growl came again, distrust boiling up, as he groped for Harmony’s arm. ”N-not him. D-d-don’t trust…” Not that he could do anything about it. Weakly, all he could was squirm there, and watch distantly as the man who had fetched what she asked pulled his gun and shot … Viktor twitched, a cry rolling from his lips as he expected blood to spill from Harmony, but she wasn’t the one to fall. The man …
A blood spattered hand groped towards her, didn’t have the strength to hold on to her. Not she touched him, not yet. Just that promise, the one he wanted to believe and hold onto, when everything in him wanted to tell her to leave him and be safe again. They were not … the men were still … He tried to arch his back and look, but Harmony was already doing what he’d once instructed her to. Heat, the only one to burn it out. A blue flame in the dark, flaring before Harmony was there, rising over him, but not in a way she had before. His lips quivered with the effort to breathe as she worked his shirt up, then parted on a scream as the blade went in. Heat in his gut, not metaphorical this time, searing flesh, thickening those streams of blue smoke as they rose from him.
”Not going …Nélküled sehol.” A promise slipped from nearly bloodless lips that broke off into another holler that echoed in that narrow, fetid space. Fingers groping again, Viktor tried to find her wrist as it was something softer pressed to his cheek. His eyes opened, fixed on hers. No sooty dark obscuring everything now. He could see her eyes, as glassy as his own. Fingers found her wrist, held on as he willed his body to fight. A slow tide turning, the burn shrinking back to the super nova of the wound itself.
Even that began to dim, the warmth returning to fingers gone icy. Viktor tugged gently against her, trying to find the strength to ease himself up. It felt like an eternity to get there, eventually curling into her, the protection of the arms that had shielded him when it seemed each breath would be his last. He curled into her, hands gripping her arms, holding himself upright as he rested his forehead against her shoulder and tried to draw life into himself with every breath. Someone would come soon, the sounds of this must’ve been heard all over town. Viktor’s boot heels scraped against the blacktop, still too weak to push up on his own. ”We move,” he croaked. ”Someone come. See this, us.” Them.
The bodies were spread around the car, the violence that they had wreaked on him – the bruises, the welts, the wounds – covering them. Viktor stared, his chest still heaving as he drew in ragged breaths. Confusion furrowed his brow as he looked at her again. ”You told them … do this … Harmony, mit csináltál velük?” She had saved his life, but how? And at what cost. He shook his head, remembering the way she had returned to their room, blood slicking her skin and excuses on her lips.
Tagged: HARMONY * Word Count: 980 Translate: Blowtorch/Nowhere without you/What did you do to them
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HARMONY
Siren
Posts: 116
Played by:
Julia
"You should see me in a crown."
Last seen Nov 22, 2024 20:41:19 GMT
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Post by HARMONY on Nov 22, 2022 19:01:26 GMT
━ watch me make them bow ━ IT WAS BECOMING CLEARER THAT HARMONY WOULD do anything for him. That revelation, just like all the others today, was terrifying. There wasn’t time to dwell on them, though, so Harmony tucked them away to deal with later━or, more likely, continue ignoring them in the hopes that they’d go away. By this point, she was more likely to explode than allow her feelings to disappear, but that was just another thing she’d be willfully ignorant about.
Even when all the hunters were dead━and they were hunters this time, not the Hungarian police Viktor had initially saved her from━Harmony’s hands still shook, and her heart stuttered rapidly in her chest. This wasn’t over until they were home, and, even then, could they begin to rest knowing this danger was out there? If she hadn’t come looking, she would’ve lost Viktor, and no matter how many times she promised herself she’d be fine without him, Harmony realized she didn’t want to test that theory.
Slowly, as she burned him from the inside out, Viktor began to heal. He held onto her wrist, and then his eyes seemed to hold focus a little more easily. And, not long later, he was tugging, trying to pull himself up. Harmony wanted to coo (or sharply demand) he stayed put, but she wasn’t his nurse or his mother. Her free hand slipped around his side, trying to help guide him up to her.
Harmony found comfort in his breaths; the multitude of them━the confirmation he was still alive. She rested the side of her head on his and pulled in a few shaky ones of her own, trying not to fall apart even if she was able to now.
She wanted to tell him he was stubborn. That he should shut up, ‘cause he needed to rest, but Viktor was right━it couldn’t be done here. She had to get him back to the motel, as she’d thought before; at least there, they’d be a bit safer than they were now. “Okay,” Harmony sniffed, amazed by the meekness in her own voice. She began to rise with Viktor, using that arm around him to help get them both to their feet. Walking was the next challenge, and she did that steadily, the soles of her expensive shoes (you wouldn’t know it from the blood and muck on them now) scraping against the asphalt at first.
Of course, the questions finally came. She sighed and stayed silent for a moment, getting towards the car. “I still don’t know how to speak your shit language,” Harmony muttered, trying to tease him, though it didn’t seem to relieve any tension in her gut. By now, though, she could understand the gist of it. “I’m not a vampire if that’s what you’re thinking.” She practically sneered, reaching out to tug open the passenger’s door and deposit him inside.
Harmony dug through his pockets to retrieve the keys but found them empty and, with a frown, looked back toward the mass of bodies. She considered buckling him up, disgusted herself at the thought, and then slammed the door before retrieving the keys from the murky ground. Within seconds, she was dropping into the driver’s seat and pulling it forward while starting the car, trying not to waste time while adjusting for her short legs.
By the time Harmony was peeling out of the alley, she glanced sideways at Viktor, frowning, “I can make most men━most people━do what I want. I only have to kiss them once and then… well, you saw. He thought he loved me.” She didn’t want to tell him anything else. That was more than anyone other than her mother knew about her, and what made Viktor so deserving of her fucking life story when no one else was? Maybe because she knew his, but… he’d been willing to tell her. He didn’t think Harmony would see him as a monster, which made it easier. She didn’t have the same luxury.
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Dec 6, 2022 22:48:15 GMT
His were the hands running over her in that narrow alleyway in Budapest. Looking for wounds, marks left by the men he had been sure would kill him. Eyes wide, meeting hers for the first time, offering up an apology for not getting there sooner in a language he’d quickly realised she barely caught a word for. Not the weak one. Not the one barely holding on while she shook and her heart raced, desperation filling the air in a cloud he couldn’t escape. Was it Harmony’s or his? Viktor was choking on it, on his own screams. Some of it faded as the flame was snuffed out, but he knew he would still feel this when they got back to the motel, the fear, the realisation that this place wasn’t safe for the pack seared into his veins. What Harmony had done seared into his brain.
She had saved him. She had stopped them by asking them to … something inside of him recoiled, what had once been covered by certainty that she had been the victim every time one of them had laid hands on her suddenly bared, doubting. His vision was stronger now, the weakness draining out like the black blood had done on the ground. He could see Harmony, the men on the ground, the damage to all but himself. Harmony’s hands were on him, one at his side, guiding him up so he no longer sprawled there on the battleground they had created. Viktor’s eyes fluttered shut for a moment, Harmony’s head resting against his, the way it did when they were in bed in the motel. A sanctuary away from all of this that would now feel tainted, insecure. They would need somewhere new, somewhere else to try again.
The plane could not fly now, not without the magnetos – he hadn’t found enough in the yard, they’d sworn to look for more, but they could not take off without them – they were stuck. Aliz and Alex might have argued anyway. This place had been good enough for him with just Harmony, what was the problem now. This. These people and the near miss with Death, without Harmony …
Her quiet agreement, weak enough to have his hand sliding up to the side of her neck, his thumb sliding up beneath her chin in reassurance. They had to, no choice. She saw that didn’t she? Had done the impossible to make sure they had a chance for it. Gravity tried to reassert it’s hold on him as they finally got upright. Viktor’s hand slid down to her waist, gripping as he stubbornly put one foot in front of the other, still trying not to put too much weight on her. Picking their way amongst the bodies, resisting the urge to kick the closest – see how they liked it. The man’s eyes were open though, fixed, blood spiderwebbing skin already starting to go pale. ”Lôfasz! Understand enough.” The bite wouldn’t come to his voice though, it was rough, a concerned edge to it that usually would’ve had him turning to her, laying hands on her and shaking until she stopped lying to his face. Or at least he thought she had.
Not vampire. Ha! Nagyanya had plenty of stories about those. So many believing the Roma were the start of all of that, as he’d said to Harmony – lôfasz!. Vampires couldn’t affect him and maybe she had, eroding all self-control until they had … the tremors bit back for a moment as Harmony eased him down in the car, her fingers worming their way into his pockets. Viktor sucked a breath in through his nose, his eyes shutting as she turned back. He didn’t bother to buckle up, no point now, all rules thrown out the window. ”Fast,” he ordered hoarsely as Harmony got behind the wheel, jamming the keys into the ignition, pulling out. ”They might have … friends.” How many had been at the motel? Had they all come for him now.
Lines carved deep as he opened his eyes, frowning at the rear view mirror. Viktor dragged his eyes away as Harmony began to speak. Maybe his English still wasn’t perfect, but he caught every word that came from her lips, the ones that could apparently drug – most people, him – making them do whatever she wanted. He twisted, ignoring the catch in his side, like he was a child again and had run too far. ”He thought it? What about me? Ezt a fejembe adtad? Azt hittem, hogy szeretlek?.”
A light tremor remained in his fingers as he dragged a hand over his face, holding it out like he could stop her a moment later as they roared towards the motel. Blood still stained his skin, smears of it outlining the boot prints stamped in filth on the back of his hand. If he could bruise there would have been others on his ribs, a road map of damage that had been undone the moment Harmony had burned what had made him weak from his system. ”Why you not tell? Why you let them hurt you? You tell them to do that to you?” She had told him, pressing and arguing until his head spun and he would have said and done anything to stop her. Viktor’s hand curled into a fist, remembering the way she’d felt beneath his touch, melting for him, he had thought, just for him, but maybe it had been her forcing him to melt for her. All of it like the baby she had sworn they were having – not real.
Tagged: HARMONY * Word Count: 932 Translate: Bullshit/Did you put this in my head? Made me think I loved you?
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HARMONY
Siren
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"You should see me in a crown."
Last seen Nov 22, 2024 20:41:19 GMT
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Post by HARMONY on Dec 27, 2022 17:48:34 GMT
━ watch me make them bow ━ “WHAT?” HE WAS RIGHT; SHE COULD UNDERSTAND ENOUGH, but Harmony thought she might’ve misheard him. There was no way… he wouldn’t admit something like that to her.
But he was angry, just like she thought he’d be.
She couldn’t be as heroic as Viktor. Her story wasn’t about living through a big family’s turmoil, doing what was necessary to protect her family or giving up everything to provide for them. Her eyes burned, pained because part of her had wanted him to understand, while the other half was sure he was seeing the truth. She was a monster, but she couldn’t help it. She didn’t have claws and sharp teeth, and she didn’t have anyone to explain how this worked. She was on her own.
“What about you?” Harmony snapped, glaring sideways at Viktor for a moment too long before her focus returned to the road. “Who the fuck━nobody was fucking talking about you.” Defensive now, she curled into herself for protection and shot needles at everyone else like a porcupine.
The ache was so clear in her chest. She hadn’t felt it since her mom told her to leave, clearly turning her back on her own daughter when Harmony━no, Jessa━needed her most. Harmony hadn’t attached herself to anyone since━no one except Viktor. And now he was turning on her, too.
His questions came fast as she neared the motel. Harmony would’ve answered the first question just fine━she hadn’t told him for exactly this. But the rest? Her fingers curled hard on the wheel, knuckles turning white, anything to stop herself from breaking and letting out a sob in front of him. She shifted her chin away the best she could, tears beginning to slip hot and fast down her cheeks. Harmony didn’t rub them away, knowing it would only draw attention, and she still hoped he wouldn’t notice.
He thought it was all contrived for him, as if she’d wanted Viktor to fawn over her when she was hurt. Harmony did everything to distract him when she came back trembling, hating that he’d seen even a glimpse of her soft underbelly.
It would’ve been a great ploy if she’d meant it, or if she’d ever wanted someone like him. But she didn’t. Fuck Viktor. She’d never tried to get him, he had just never left her the fuck alone.
“Fuck you.” It was a soft breath at first, filled with the uncertainty of whether or not she’d release an audible cry. “Fuck you, Viktor.” She was so mad she could hit him. She could reach over and stick a finger in the fucking wound she’d fixed for him, but it just felt like rage. Her chest was breaking open and spilling out, and Viktor was kicking at her insides.
Peeling into the motel’s parking lot, Harmony didn’t try to stay in the lines as the car halted to a stop. She’d barely put it into park before she was jumping out of the vehicle, desperate to be as far from him as possible. And she fucking meant it this time.
She couldn’t help what she was. Harmony couldn’t help when they tore at her clothes and didn’t listen to “no” because all they felt was the power she couldn’t control. She’d denied him her body because of Viktor, killed him for survival, and now the same man wanted to know if she’d done it on purpose. As if she’d ever go through any of this willingly.
“I didn’t let them do anything!” Harmony shouted━despite the fact that she was in public now, no longer in the safe confinement of the car and not yet within their motel room. Viktor could drag himself from it if he fucking wanted to; she wasn’t helping him anymore.
As she unlocked the door with his keys, Harmony found herself trying to wish she would’ve left him there. She should’ve abandoned him instead of paying back the favour that started this, let him die there in the mud. But, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t think that. Not with any truth to it.
Flicking the lights on, Harmony tossed the keys onto the nearest surface and started towards the bed, dragging one of her designer bags out from under it. That was just it━she’d repaid him for what he’d done. Harmony never infected Viktor, at first only in exchange for what he’d done, and later because of how she felt. How he felt. How anyone had felt about her for the first time without her intervention.
He didn’t have to know anything else; she’d repaid her debts.
“We’re even now, so we don’t have to do this shit anymore.” Furiously pulling open the drawers, Harmony started stuffing her clothing into the bag. “I don’t owe you fuck all. You saved me━wait, no, sorry, I wasn’t actually in danger. I asked them to come after me so that I could get my hooks in you… as if anyone gives a fuck about some random fucking Hungarian orphan who barely speaks English and turns into a fucking dog once a month.” She scoffed loudly, voice dripping in sarcasm, but she wouldn’t look at him. She didn’t want Viktor to see how wet her eyes were or how deep the pain threaded through them.
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Jan 2, 2023 19:39:38 GMT
She had heard, and for once, the I don’t understand your shitty language was true enough. She hadn’t heard him promise not to go anywhere without her, and he wouldn’t, not even with this. Doubt was already spreading through him like the poison had done. Had what he’d come to care for, what he’d wanted to protect all been a lie? Was he going to hold onto it with blood stained fingers under orders when Harmony had protested feeling anything for him but derision the entire time. Playing dumb, letting him take the lives of those men in the Buda alleyway when she could have done this? It seemed it would have been simple enough for her to do it, but Harmony had let him come to the rescue and had thrown it all back in his face since, only softening in those short moments.
Soft had given him comfort in the alley here, and had been returned in that promise he might as well have screamed at an empty sky. Soft now bristled, the surface trying to harden like a turtle’s shell to protect what was again soft and vulnerable inside of him. Poison burned from his body, but not his mind perhaps. Whatever was left there burned in his chest alongside his sudden burst of temper, embers of it all stinging there.
Viktor’s teeth flashed, gritted as though he had to hold that pain back the way he had the other. There was no physical fight he needed the strength for now, not in the way he had, but keeping that shell around himself needed it in his head, in his chest. ”Nem,” he spat at her. ”Never talk, problem right there. You didn’t tell … you kept blind.” With that invisible mask over his eyes as she’d talked him into doing things, pushed him with something more behind it than just button pushing maybe. ”Did you do to me, Harmony?” There was a sharp edge in his voice, the need to know only growing as they drove away from the scene and the familiar route carried them closer to the motel.
He tried to wipe it away, dragging his hand over his face, but like the blood and the muck from the alleyway it just smeared over him, tainting everything. The questions had hissed out past his hand, then balled up in the air between them like the fist he rested against his thigh as he looked in the rear view mirror, in the one on his side, checking behind them. She was quiet, the questions left hanging until he almost growled again. Face crumpled into those deep lines, the rusty brows unknitting slightly as he watched Harmony angling her head away from him. Now shy, now back to hiding from him, until the poison started to slip out of her in another way.
So soft, as she’d been in those rare moments, like on her birthday. No soft anywhere else to her though. The second time the sharp was back in the curse. Fuck him? He almost laughed, but there was no humour inside of him, only the ache. ”You already do that,” he said coldly. She’d always dragged it out of him, that wave starting and ending with the heat he’d let consume him. Had the other men been pushed the same way until they’d snapped too, only with enough violence to … Viktor’s jaw went tight enough that it was a wonder he didn’t crack his teeth, especially when she squealed into the parking lot and to a stop that left him grunting. The wounds might have healed, but he wasn’t one hundred percent yet his body protested the sharp stop even though he wasn’t wearing a belt that would’ve snapped tight around him.
She was fast, scrambling out of the car, leaving him behind to drag himself out after her. His knuckles were white as he gripped the top of the door, staring after her as she unlocked the door. He wouldn’t ask for her now, but there was still a weakness in his legs that galled him as he slammed the door finally and started after her. ”You start them … you can’t stop them same way?” Viktor asked sharply. He’d seen nagyanya and even Alex control all sorts of things, never people, maybe if they had he wouldn’t have been here now, they wouldn’t have lost so many and been left like … ”You come here hurt … I don’t … Nem értem, hogyan védesz meg engem, de nem magadat. Why not stop?” There was no doubting she had saved his life today and that had been against a half dozen of them with no help from him because he’d gone down with those first blows and had knelt their in the street, pathetically, while they’d come close to killing him.
Viktor stepped in after her, the door flung closed behind him. It banged open again once, then slammed shut, although it likely wouldn’t do much to stop this from reaching all of their ears. The first thing he was going to hear out of Aliz’s mouth was I told you so and maybe she had. ”Even…” Viktor spat, stalking towards her. He growled, slamming the drawer shut again as he crowded in to Harmony. ”Who ever said you owe … this just a … a … visszafizetés. Megmentem az életedet, hogy maradj, tedd magad az életem részévé... aztán megmented az enyémet, és kész? No.” His voice was icy now, like the creeks got in winter, cracking as he growled again, a finger pointing at her as she twisted what had happened. No. She might have played him, got under his skin with … that … but he’d gotten rid of men who were going to hurt her.
Now Harmony’s fingers were on that blade again, twisting one they couldn’t see inside of his chest until she was cutting something out. He picked up her bag, tipping the whole thing off of the bed, away from where she could fill it. His face was white again, his lips pressed together so hard they were near bloodless. Viktor forced himself not to squeeze as he gripped her arm though, just pulled until he could lower his face towards hers. ”You don’t talk about them,” he hissed. Dog he couldn’t argue, his English – bah, he had enough for her to understand him – but orphan, as though he had a choice in it, as though that didn’t cut him every day with her hands the ones that covered the wounds, that stopped the pain for a moment. ”You hid,” he hissed. ”Why not let me see? Why twist all? Why, Harmony?” His other hand rose, fingers gripping her chin, trying to drag her face up so all that anger could spill right out at him instead of sneaking in, insidious like the poison those men had filled him with, the one she’d saved him from … all so this could happen.
Tagged: HARMONY * Word Count: 1167 Translate: I don't understand how you protect me, but not yourself / Repayment. I save your life so you stick around, make yourself part of ... part of my life ... and then you save mine and we're done?
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HARMONY
Siren
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"You should see me in a crown."
Last seen Nov 22, 2024 20:41:19 GMT
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Post by HARMONY on Jan 8, 2023 23:11:41 GMT
━ watch me make them bow ━ SHE WOULDN’T ANSWER HIM. PART OF HER COULDN’T bring herself to, but the other part… she wanted Viktor to wonder. She wanted it to itch, to torment him for… for the rest of his fucking existence, maybe. She wouldn’t be there for it, and he’d always consider her the evil fucking bitch who forced him to love her. Maybe that would make it easier for him to let go once she was gone.
She’d never cared about them before. She left and learned not to drag that guilt with her because they were tools she needed to survive. Harmony had used Viktor in some ways, sure, but it wasn’t the same. Nothing was, and that was exactly why she had to leave.
All he earned back during the drive was a sharp laugh. Yeah, she’d fucked him━it was easier to get what she wanted that way. And Viktor was all pent up when she met him, full of some old-ass ideals━shit that wouldn’t matter out here. She’d wanted to see some of the shit he held so close crumble, but maybe she’d been trying to make it easier on herself, too. Easier to co-exist with him… easier to love him.
Harmony held her breath as she curled forward into the door while unlocking it, unwilling to let out a sob━shouting at him brought her near enough.
Why not stop?
It was so easy, all laid out like that. Why don’t you just stop, Harmony? “God, why didn’t I fucking think of that?” She muttered sarcastically, shouldering her way into the room like she had to fight with the door, too. “It’s like you weren’t even there.” She huffed, though the breath came out shakily, and was dragged back in just the same. “Did you see him stop before he put a bullet in his own head?” But Viktor would argue that she’d done that unnecessarily, like there was a way to end it before death.
She didn’t flinch as the door slammed shut twice━this was actually more comfortable than when everything was quiet and they were curled up together. She could handle chaos; she’d grown up in chaos━in a home where no one cared about her. Her mom chased her through the apartment to convince her she’d never find genuine love, and this felt the same. Viktor wouldn’t want her when the truth came out; he wasn’t looking for a real answer, only what he wanted to hear.
Harmony stayed hunched over the drawer, pulling her fingers out just in time to keep them from getting squashed. She turned to Viktor as he invaded, and mentally cursed herself as she took a step back. She wasn’t moving away from him out of fear, she was just gaining her balance, and the last thing she wanted was for Viktor to think he had the upper hand.
“Exactly.” She hissed, narrowing her eyes. “Except I didn’t stay, you forced me to. You’re the one who wanted to keep me safe; I never asked or said I needed it. You saw a helpless girl... a bajban lévő lány… because you wanted to.” Maybe if she said it in his dirt language, he’d get the fucking hint. And she wouldn’t take his “no,” either━he didn’t get to fucking decide. “És kész.” She repeated his words back to him, and then went for his throat, just like a wolf would’ve. Maybe if he bled when he touched, he’d no longer reach for her.
Harmony was gone now, in one way or another. It had always been inevitable, but she allowed herself to sink into the fairytale.
Her eyes had long met his, refusing to keep them down now that they were so close. Allowing him to see her tears wasn’t as bad as bowing her head like a submissive little bitch. She cursed and reached for her bag as he took it away, but his hand was on her, overpowering Harmony in a way she couldn’t fight. Not with him, anyway.
She bared her gritted teeth like he would’ve, glaring up into Viktor’s blue eyes. In colour, they weren’t nearly as icy as her own, but they would never be cold━even now, all she could see was emotion burning through them. If she were a different girl, maybe one who was good enough for him, she might’ve bent then and there. Begged for forgiveness, apologized, just to see the pain drift out of them.
But she wasn’t, and she never would be. He couldn’t make her into the woman he wanted.
She knew it would hurt. It wasn’t like she was chipping away and trying to find a spot that would bother him; Harmony knew where to strike and did so confidently. And when Viktor reacted, she didn’t recoil or back off, though she had to swallow the bile in her throat to drive the knife deeper. Hurting him hurt her, which was exactly why she had to do this.
“Why? They’re dead. Keeping me around won’t make you any less alone. I’ve never been a part of your life, Viktor, you just kept dragging me around and trying to force me into it… you didn’t even want that baby.” The one she lied about but, nevertheless, he hadn’t been particularly excited. She cursed herself for letting the admission slip out after it did, because it felt like she was showing her belly again. “You’re only mad because you know it’s true. You were never that important to me, not enough to control━not like him.” Only it was the opposite, that she refused to touch Viktor because of who he was, what he meant to her.
Of course she hid. She could never be herself around him, around anyone, because of this. Her mom had warned her, and she’d foolishly believed it would change with the right person. Even if she didn’t infect them, they would still think of her as a monster.
Harmony tried to shift from his touch and wiggle away from his hand like a rabid animal, but she was forced to meet his eye again. Forced to show him how upset she was despite her words. The tears had dried up now, but her cheeks remained flushed, eyes red and wet for someone as stupid as him.
She hadn’t touched him before, but her hand automatically came up to wrap around his wrist, protecting herself like she was afraid he was someone else. One of the ones who would lower their grip and dig their fingers into her throat while they confessed their love, or nearly break her bones because they couldn’t let her go. “Because of this.” Her voice was softer than she’d intended.
She frowned, but slowly the expression loosened, lines smoothing on her skin. The hand on his wrist peeled away and came slowly toward her mouth. “You wanna see what it’s like?” She asked, voice languid and steady now, shifting into someone else━into Harmony. Two fingers dipped past her lips, swiping her inner cheek, though she didn’t let any venom gather there. Her index and middle fingers drifted through the space between them, then spread her saliva over his bottom lip. “All it takes is a kiss. I could’ve done it any time and you’d have no fucking clue.”
Harmony puffed out a breath, using her proximity to push upwards on the bottom of his jaw with her palm. She was trying to twist away from him, to get back to the clothes she was packing. She was leaving whether he fucking liked it or not.
VIKTOR KOVACS | translation: 1. damsel in distress 2. we're done
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Feb 3, 2023 23:21:32 GMT
Retreat. Lick your wounds until the danger is gone and then try and collect what’s left of the pack. The temptation had been there, burning like he had been run through with the red hot blade of Harmony’s knife, when they had landed on the island. He could have stayed, they could have tried to recover together before they had set out again as a pack. Aliz would have pleased and he would have suffered through his grief with the pack around him – the question of whether he was doing the right thing by risking them all eating away at the edges of that wound. Instead of going with his first instinct he had run.
An alleyway in Budapest, those men laying hands on her, trying to kill her. Viktor had fought them, putting his safety on the line for a woman he hadn’t known. After he had forced her to run, but they hadn’t hunkered down for long. No time to question what had happened, to try and sort of the truth to all the wounds he’d imagined had been there, cutting deeper into Harmony’s skin than he had been able to see. No time to regroup, only to push on, hoping that more of them wouldn’t catch up to them. Find a place, feel safe, then bring the pack to start to try and rebuild.
Plans shattered like his bones in that alleyway. The only way to rebuild now was to leave, find another place, but how did you build on the mountain of lies you would carry with you? There could be no drawing Harmony down into the bed in the den they’d made here even before the others had arrived. No holding her until both of them shook from something other than the anger raging through him now, red hot still, like she’d jabbed it into his heart instead of the wound that would have killed him.
The blade jabbed again with the sarcasm dripping from Harmony’s lips. It hadn’t been there in the alleyway when they had both been wrapped in that icy blanket of fear. ”You not let me there. Viktor stay here, you not enjoy...” Bitterness flooded his mouth. The night at the club, had that been what she’d planned to do with the man she’d been talking to. He’d thought it was just an attempt to put him off of ever coming again, pissing him off enough that he would stop asking, stop trying to protect her. Viktor grunted at her question, the sound pained, tearing free of flesh still healing. ”He did as you ask. You stop them all.” Out of fear that he was going to die, all he’d seen of it had been through darkening vision, the poison robbing him of any clarity. Now it was crystal clear. Harmony turned away from him as he stalked over, not meeting his eye, not telling him what he needed to hear to close up the rest of those wounds. Commanding words could drip from her lips like honey, but the truth? Ha! She was running from it, trying to like he wouldn’t fight for it, for her, as hard as he had his life tonight.
No turning now. He felt the vibration of the slamming door in his bones, in his chest when she started to move away from him. Viktor’s chest rose and fell heavily, heat suffusing his face like it had done when he was a child and every emotion had ended up flaming there. He barked out a laugh, his fingers curling into his palm before one jabbed at her again. ”Now you understand filthy language. I held you, chain you here. You free to go at any time, but you not run.” Shaking his head, he tried to deny the portrait she was painting of herself, like she had ever bowed to anything he’d said. Harmony was no damsel, she was fierce, saving his life because he was something more to her than just some sort of captor. ” Téged akartam. Ki vagy, nem az, akinek gondolnak.” The Harmony who’d eaten cake with him on the bed, who’d told him more about herself then as he’d shared his family, his life with her, than she ever had before.
Viktor shook his head, lips peeling back in a sneer. They weren’t done. He wasn’t done with her and that wasn’t out of all the games she’d played with his head. ”Not done,” he snarled. The truth hadn’t spilled out of her yet, he hadn’t turned it over with the way he did everything, trying to fit it into the complicated puzzle his life had become, like the plane’s engine, pieces slotted together, some still functioning, some missing, others damaged, but never beyond repair.
It had never been tears with her, sobs rolling out of her until he backed away from whatever argument they’d tumbled into. Now they shimmered in Harmony’s eyes. Maybe out of anger, the glitter dangerous instead of gut twisting. He should’ve stopped and brushed them away, but she was running, as she always had done before, pushing him until stopped asking and she could escape again. Viktor cursed mentally, trying to tell himself to be gentle, but Harmony wasn’t ready for that. Every choice she made was still to have his control shattering.
Now it trembled, ready to fall apart, for the man she liked him to be to break free. The fingers that gripped her jaw shook, not with the desire to hurt her the way they had, but with the force of her blows. ”You know it so well, az életem.” What she thought she saw of it. Bitterness crawled up into his throat, no amount of head shaking tearing apart the accusations. ”Téged akartam.” Even if she was crazy. Viktor flexed his fingers, trying not to hunch over at the blows she kept landing. ”You never speak truth. Lies, Harmony. Why?” He might have been blind to what she could do, maybe to what she’d done to him, but it had been no spell on her birthday, he was sure of that.
Would she have needed to tear at him with her words until he was half animal if she could have just kissed him and had him be anybody she wanted? No. No. No matter what she was saying, he wouldn’t believe that her game had been that twisted. He had come to care for someone Harmony would allow nobody else to see. Harden yourself up, like a turtle with its shell and you couldn’t be hurt first. Her nails had done the damage to him, not the poison whispered from her lips, digging deep into the shattered remains of his own shell to peel it away, leaving him vulnerable for her and the damage she could do now.
Harmony tried to pull back, but his hands gripped harder, not allowing herself to tear away and thicken that shell again. It was raw for them both now. He wanted to lower his brow to hers, to dig his own nails into those seams and show her that he would not tear that soft part of her to pieces. ”Stop,” he growled. Not to demand that she let go of him, but to beg her to stay. They weren’t running again. His touch softened, his thumb skimming over the line of her jaw. Brows rising, Viktor questioned her statement before his voice rumbled out. ”Because I might see? I can handle.” If he knew the truth.
She moved like maybe she would tell him now, fingers releasing their hold on his wrist, leaving just the brand of her touch behind. Fingertips slipped into her mouth. His own head drew back, the muscles in his head standing out like cords as though just a few millimetres more would stop her doing to him what she had done to those men. ”You didn’t before …" See what it’s like, not already had seen. Her fingers brushed his lips, had him clamping them together as though it would stop whatever it was penetrating. A kiss. Like they’d shared each time she had pushed him across the line.
Wrenching his head away from her, Viktor dropped the hand on her jaw to her other arm. Pulling Harmony in, twisting until he could throw her back on their bed. He dropped down after her, his forearms bracketing her head, his hips pinning her there. The thinnest barrier between them, his face close enough that he could no longer see her poisonous lips, just the blue of her eyes left luminous by her tears. ”Do it,” he growled. ”You want to walk from me, do it. Tell me not to follow, try and get you back. You want free, make me let you go.” He didn’t wait for her to work the poison up again, didn’t want to see it if it was coming. Closing even that gap, he kissed her head, stealing away the chance to carve any more wounds into him tonight.
Tagged: HARMONY * Word Count: 1506 Translate: I wanted you. Who you are, not who they think you are. / My life / I wanted you.
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HARMONY
Siren
Posts: 116
Played by:
Julia
"You should see me in a crown."
Last seen Nov 22, 2024 20:41:19 GMT
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Post by HARMONY on Feb 16, 2023 20:02:07 GMT
━ watch me make them bow ━ BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW WHO SHE WAS. HE MIGHT’VE KNOWN her birthday, but he didn’t know her. No one did. Maybe in the beginning━before she’d hardened into what she was now━she’d shown more of herself. Maybe Harmony had believed their love could be real, and so she’d softened sometimes, offered up jokes and smiles that weren’t one hundred percent tailored. She was like an escort for businessmen who only wanted to be complimented and made to feel important, except Harmony got all the benefits. She never had to give anything she didn’t want.
Until Viktor. He had nothing, no money, barely even a family, and he’d somehow convinced Harmony to hand over everything she’d never given away before.
Maybe Harmony had forgotten that little girl, too. She’d taken the label of a “monster” and accepted it, sank into it, until she really became one.
How could he want someone like that? Someone who didn’t exist anymore?
He forced her to look at him like he could still see her somewhere deep down. It made her feel cared for━loved━in a way she never had; in a way her mom promised her she never would. Viktor might be the exception, but why risk it? Why put everything she’d ever built on the line for one man? She always came first, and when altering that could destroy her, it no longer felt necessary to change.
She knew his life so well because it was hers, too. They were intertwined, one, and that’s what had to be fixed.
Harmony wanted to thump her fists on his chest and tell him he was wrong. She wanted to tear from his grip and scream until he let her go, but she wasn’t weak, and that was prey behaviour. He might’ve had teeth and claws and glowing fucking eyes, but she wasn’t bending to him.
Handle? She laughed wetly at that, rolling her eyes away from Viktor’s stare. The way his touch slid over her jaw made her consider breaking, but she was already too soft. Maybe she wouldn’t be able to worm out of his hold, but she could at least fight like the predator she claimed to be. Tried to be.
Her gaze slid back to him. “Because you’re handling it so well now.” Harmony blinked her vision clear, feeling that lump harden in her throat. He was seeing the sort of monster she was, and he couldn’t accept it. Viktor was holding on because… what? He was nosy? He was used to having her around? She’d never grown accustomed to anybody’s company before, but Viktor was just another exception she had to disprove.
This would be easier if he didn’t keep holding on. If he didn’t want her so bad━somehow even without the venom it took for anyone else to stomach her presence. She could scare him into it, remind him what she was.
It didn’t make it hurt less when he clamped his lips together, just like the sting when he didn’t deny her claim about their “baby.” There was no venom on her fingers and, even if there was, it shouldn’t have hurt that he didn’t want to be infected. But it did, and Harmony couldn’t explain why.
Finally, he understood. Harmony scoffed before shoving his face away, wriggling again in (what she thought) was her moment to get free. Viktor didn’t fucking let go, though━he tossed her around like a God damn ragdoll. Harmony yelped as she hit the bed, though there wasn’t a moment to shriek in protest before he was pinning her down.
Viktor was all over her all at once, caging Harmony in. She shouldn’t have been scared of him━she wasn’t━but this wasn’t what she wanted. She had to leave and he wasn’t giving her the chance to; he wouldn’t let her go without Harmony doing the one thing she refused.
She wouldn’t hurt him like that. He would never be just another one of them. She loved him, and she’d done this shit for too long. It was time to go.
So, Harmony kissed him goodbye. Her arms slid around his body and gripped the back of his shirt, hugging him close for the last time. She kissed him until her lips were raw━until she couldn’t stand it anymore. Turning away finally, Harmony sobbed and slid one hand down to the wound still fighting to stitch itself up. She pressed her thumb into it, desperate to get away, but refusing to do that.
He would heal from the wolfsbane, but he’d never get better after her influence, not unless she died, and Harmony would endure the pain of leaving him a thousand times before she gave up her life. She was still in it for herself. She had to be.
Finally able to find the window she needed, Harmony weaselled out from under him and got to her feet. She didn’t pause once to wipe her eyes as it got harder and harder to see, she only shoved her clothes into her bag with even less care than before.
Sniffling as she straightened up again, Harmony walked to the door and turned, frowning at him. “I could choose any man I wanted, any one, and you really thought it’d be you?” She scoffed again, ignoring the tears thundering down her cheeks.
“Here.” She hissed through gritted teeth, reaching up to unclasp that fucking ugly necklace and toss it to the bed. She didn’t want to keep shit from him, charmed or not… though she didn’t give up the knife still tucked in its sheath.
He would stop missing her. He’d realize he dodged a bullet. Viktor would be okay because he’d never needed her, and Harmony would be, too. Her kind of monster was solitary, meant to be alone━she was simply the thorn in her mother’s side. A tumour to expel. He was the opposite, a pack animal, and Viktor would eventually see she’d done him a favour by leaving of her own accord.
But her heart stung now. Her chest ached like it was hollow, and she knew she was leaving her heart behind in Mystic Falls with a man who would’ve tossed it away sooner or later. At least they could get this over with now.
Harmony tugged the door open and squeezed her fist around her bag so she wouldn’t look back. If she had━if she’d taken one last look at the hurt and love in his eyes, or paused to hear him say anything else━she might’ve stayed. But she didn’t.
VIKTOR KOVACS | wrap w yours?
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VIKTOR KOVACS
Werewolf
alpha
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Post by VIKTOR KOVACS on Feb 18, 2023 19:51:15 GMT
It had to come all at once, like another hail of bullets to tear his life to pieces. Then he had seen the men approach, had been able to brace himself enough to get out of the line of fire at least. Harmony hadn’t even waited for him to be able to do that. No ‘can we talk about this later’ or even ‘I will explain, I promise’. Promises never came from her, because that would mean if she had to keep them it would show she cared enough to do it and God forbid she do that.
She’d trembled in that alleyway, fingers gripping the blade afraid to use it to burn the poison out of his system. The first time to be scared that way maybe. Harmony had never worried over hurting him before, or again after. Carve Viktor up. Make sure the wounds were deep enough that he’d be too worried about them to try and see how deep hers ran. Don’t let him see.
Nem. He had eyes, she would look in them as she tried to slash at the grip he still had on her so she could run from him. Like a wolf on the hunt, snapping at the prey’s heels to bring it down. Maybe she had always been able to bring him down like that, angering him enough that he fell all by himself, but when someone else had forced him down, Harmony had been the one bringing him up. Viktor refused to believe that meant there wasn’t something there, something more than the poison that coated her mouth. Harmony could spit it at him, order him to be who she wanted him to be, but it changed nothing. The truth was the only thing that could do that and still she wouldn’t give it to him.
Laughing instead, she looked away from him. They weren’t playing the game that way. Viktor’s teeth bared for a moment, then his lips were peeling back with his own laugh – less wet, far harder. ”You blame me?” he asked. For getting angry, for grabbing at her like they had, for discovering that she’d been hiding half of who she was from him, an ability that changed everything. Except them. Why could she not say just that? He was not them, wouldn’t turn from her because of what she was, because she ordered him to.
The poison that could make him do that now shone wetly on her fingertips, a threat he didn’t want to see. Brushing it across his lips would end the argument. He’d already done almost anything she had asked of him, but this would take all argument out of it, would end the push and shove Harmony had always been determined to drag him into. There would have been none of it if she had dosed him before and the realisation almost stopped him dead. Viktor stared at her, the muscles in his neck standing out like cords as he stared down at her. Not yet, but she still could. He let her push him back, gave just enough that she wouldn’t fight when he pushed her again.
She yelped, the sound of it vibrating through him, but he didn’t soften as he followed her down. Apologies failing to spill rough into the hollow of her throat, hands not gathering her in to try and erase all of this with a gentle touch that would take away the evidence of the violence. Not this time. If she wanted him to be like them, she could have him that way, or he would tear away the last of the wall that she had hidden behind. No more secrets, no disguises.
Viktor stamped his demand for Harmony to change that against her lips with his own. There was no bitter rush of venom, just the taste that had always intoxicated him anyway, filling his mouth as Harmony pulled him close. Always bordering on the hard between them, something fierce taking both of them when they got to this point. Lungs burning, one hand dragging back to settle lightly at her throat, his thumb at the hinge of her jaw again, gentle pressure to try and have her look at him instead of turning away as that sob rolled through her. ”You never had to do. Can’t do, can you? Harmony, nincs szükségem arra, hogy maradjak. itt akarok lenni.” He couldn’t flown away at any time, finally stumbling away one of those times she’d tried to push him into doing it. Without his claws, he’d clung on.
He'd have held her until she heard it, but she had one way left to her to push him away. Stupidly, he’d focused on the delicate line of her mouth, the lips he’d kissed until they had swollen and flushed with his touch. The pain roared back like the blade had been heated again before she’d shoved it in, cutting to the centre of him. Viktor rolled away, back arching against the bed, heels digging in, eyes rolling wild as he tried to drag a breath in. She hadn’t bothered to poison him, not when she could tear him apart physically instead, put him down without ordering him to stay like the dog she’d accused him of being a thousand times before.
The reedy whimper became a growl as he tried to fight his way back up. His arms collapsed beneath his weight as he tried to roll, spilling Viktor forward onto the covers instead of letting him stagger to his feet. Eyes going hard, he stared at Harmony as she straightened up with her packed bag in her hands finally. ”No lie now,” he growled hard, fingers curling into the covers like a hard enough grip would get him back to where he needed to be. ”You not use. You would poison if not me.” She would’ve used him the way she had those other men, or turned against him, leaving him to tear his own throat out in some shitty alleyway.
Tears spilled down her cheeks like rain but it didn’t stop her from hissing at him. Her hand rose to where the necklace he’d bought her, the one he’d had Alex lay the protection on, lay, unclasping it to throw it back to him. ”You throw back in my face? Harmony! Don’t. You stay.” You fight it out, the way she always had done. Viktor grunted, his hand balling the necklace up in his palm hard enough for its edges to cut into his palm. She was cutting him just the same, everything the two of them had been to one another since Budapest thrown back at him, her step sure, unlike his own as he tried to stumble up from the bed.
His knees gave way, spilling him down to the floor, but Viktor was still crawling after her. ”Harmony! Please!” Her name, the plea torn out bloody, but could she even hear him when she was so far gone. He stopped in the doorway, reaching out to white knuckle the frame. No strength to pull himself upright yet, but he watched the way she went, would chase her down as soon as he’d pieced together enough of the damage she’d done with her hands and the voice that didn’t even try to coax him to love her now. If he could not fly away with her, then she would not fly without him either.
Tagged: HARMONY (The End) * Word Count: 1241 Translate: I don't need you to make me stay. I want to be here.
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