Short chapter. I have now seen 4x04 and I swear, I wrote this on Sunday afternoon, before I'd seen it.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, but I do take unhealthy delight in messing with their lives.

"There's nothing for it, we're gonna have to stake her. Or kidnap her, or… Bertrand, maybe you could run off with her?" In fairness, Bertrand looked almost as appalled by this suggestion as Erin felt, but she rounded on the the three men all the same.
"What is wrong with you, Vlad? Just tell them you want to call it off. You're a bloke, you get to do that!" She'd been spending less time with them and more time with Adze over the last two weeks, it was true, but she hadn't realised she'd been absent long enough for things to get this extreme.

Bertrand and Jonno exchanged worried glances and suddenly remembered they had somewhere else to be as Vlad sighed.
"Erin, do you have to argue with every decision I make? This is for you, it's for us. This is what needs to happen."
"Just tell him you don't want to marry her."
"I can't risk offending Ramanga-"
"So you'd rather drag Adze's name through the mud? Again? She's right, I don't know how I can stand you."
"What do you mean, she's right? I thought-"
"No, you know what, Vlad? Don't even bother trying to get out of this for me. We're done." She turned and fled, and he let her go.

She wasn't even aware of where she was going until the door opened under her knuckles.
"I could hear the crying. What's happened, Erin?" Before she knew what was happening, she was throwing her arms around Adze, sobbing into her cloak as the vampiress brought her arms around to hold her.