Prologue
It was quiet, there was no one around me, and my heels made this awful loud clicking noise every time they came in touch with the snowy pavement. My hand was clutching the cross hanging around my neck tightly and it was safe to say that I was completely and utterly terrified. Not so much of the lack of light or people around me, but of the sole fact that I was about to go on the scariest most frightening mission of my life. Or maybe you couldn't call it a mission, but definitely a frightening and scary task. Or something.
I was about to stay at a hotel. And no, it wasn't the hotel itself that made my stockinged legs almost shake with fear. It was the guests currently staying there. It was the fact that I, Alchemist, Sydney Sage, was about to walk into a building filled to the core with vampires.
Having been homeschooled and very much on my own my entire life, even the prospect of walking into a building full of humans could slightly overwhelm me. But having to walk into one full of the creatures I'd been told was the epitome of evil by every one around me my entire life, was a whole different type of scary. One I wasn't taking very well at the moment. "Relax, Sydney," I scurried myself quietly out loud, "Dad wants you to do this, so get through it. Just be happy it's you here and not Zoe." Zoe. Another thing worrying me more than it probably should have. But these days my little sister was worrying me more than anything else. She was acting different and not in a good way, I didn't know what to do about it, and I liked knowing what to do about everything, my logistical thinking not letting me stay unknowing... ever. Stop it, Sydney, stop always worrying about everything at once. I thought to myself while taking the last couple of steps up the front porch to the resort.
Taking a last deep breath I gingerly shook the snow off my dark grey wool peacoat before grabbing the handle to open the door. Okay, Sydney. You can do this. It won't be hard. It won't change anything, it won't change you.
Little did I know that it would do just that.
This is the first fic I've ever written so I'm a little nervous. I always thought the idea Sydney and Adrian meeting in Frostbite was super interesting and since I couldn't find a story with that certain plot, I thought, why not write it myself? Anyway, this is just a little prologue, but I hope it was in character and you liked it.