Chapter 1
I was once known as Lucrezia Alma Capello, the only daughter to Leopold Capello, a grand lord from Rome, who's only purpose in life was to seemingly gain more political power by being a complete bastard, and using his children in order to gain political advantage.
It was such a long time ago, I can hardly remember all the details. I was born in a time when Italy wasn't a single country, it was a number of separate kingdom's and states ruled by many different dynasties. I think knowing all that I know now, my father's aspiration for power was fuelled by the knowledge that one day, if he played his cards right, he could be a ruler of some sorts, how unlucky for him that it never happened, and death got in his way.
I was born in 1480, into a country that was deeply religious but also in a time when many developments took place, many improvements had been made in the fields of mathematics, medicine, architecture, engineering, and the visual arts. My country was beginning to thrive and prosper, slowly transforming into something that would someday be magnificent. Italy was my home, my family line went back hundreds of generations, and that had filled with such pride. It had made me feel as though I was part of something bigger. Better even. If only I hadn't been so deeply naive in my ways of thinking, it may have saved me from the events that were still to come.
I had been staying in one of my families apartments in Rome, my husband, Andres, had been away in Spain for many months, for reasons I hadn't been informed of, after all I was a women living in country dominated by men, and religion.
I remember feeling immensely grateful that he had gone away, I had married a man nearly three times my age, I myself only being 19, quickly approaching the eve of my birthday where I would be turning 20. He was an unkind man, several of his wives before me had each died from from unspeakable 'accidents' people were unsure of. He was patronising and rude, and would often used his fists to try and get me to obey him, and become as docile and broken as he made his other wives before me. We had only been 1 month married, before he was requested to return to Spain, and one month was enough for me to realise, my life wasn't going to be quite how i had imagined it as a small girl.
It had been a blazing hot day, the day I learnt of my mothers health, and how it was rapidly declining. My maid, Sofia, had handed me letter with nervous fluttery hands, I knew she had read it, but I hadn't minded, Sofia had been in my life since I was a child.
It had immediately put me on edge, and for one brief moment I had wondered if it was Andres, and he had gotten into some terrible accident, and felt a sliver of joy trail down my spine for the first time in weeks at the thought. But, as I soon later learned, it was a letter from my mother requesting my presence in Paris immediately, explaining how she had developed a small tumour on her stomach, and it didn't seem hopeful that she would see the year through.
I had quickly spurred into action, requesting the maids to pack my trunks and I quickly secured my journey to France with no more than having a word with Sofia. I was soon on my way to France, questioning to myself why I even bothered to go at all, my mother had been absent for most of mine and my brothers lives, I had hardly known the woman, the memories I had of her weren't all that pleasant either, so my main thought as I was traveling to a different country, away from all things familiar, and heading straight into the unknown, I had kept on thinking why? Why am I doing this?
I still to this day, don't quite know the answer to that. Perhaps it was the thought of Andres return to Rome that caused me to flee that apartment so quickly, or maybe somewhere deep inside I had hoped that my mother had cared enough about me that she would want to see me before she took her last breathe.
Perhaps, one could call it destiny, or a twisted sense of fate. After all, Paris was the place where my human life ended, and my new life as a vampire began.
* A.N: Hey guys, so this the first fan fiction I've wriiten, I hope you guys like it. Feel free to give your opinions, and thoughts on it so far. Also free to ask any questions you may have. The first few chapters will be giving my OC a background, so the story makes more sense later on. Thanks, Roisin :)
