AUTHORS NOTE

This contains smut and romance with spoilers for Bloodborne, but I would still read this even if you haven't beat the game yet since the spoilers aren't too bad. This is after the hunter has beat Mergos Wet Nurse and the living failures but before he has defeated Gehrman and Maria. This is not my first story but I am relatively new to writing fanfiction. That's about it, now sit back and enjoy!

The Hunter lit the dream's lantern and rose from the Lumenflower Gardens. Amazed that he even survived the arcane-meteor attack that the Living Failures sent at him let alone beat the creatures still left him in shock. He decided to keep exploring and go forward to explore the Astral ClockTower, but The Hunter was no fool and knew that Lady Maria lay ahead. Never in his entire life had the Hunter heard such differing opinions on a person. Some told stories of the Great Lady Maria and her acts of bravery and prowess as a hunter, some told about her lineage from Cainhurst and her natural beauty and some told about her sad and tragic death. But, Simon had warned him about her presence in the clocktower and that if he wanted to know the secret of the nightmare, defeating her was the key to it. But, The Hunter thought nothing of it and shook it off as Simon becoming mad or perhaps even blood drunk. After all she was dead and how could a corpse pose a threat? So he continued walking through the Lumenflower Garden until he opened the door to the Astral ClockTower. As soon as he opened it he noticed two things. One: There was someone presumably Maria sitting in a chair in the middle of the room. And, two: She was dripping blood from her wrists. He slowly started to walk towards her and started studying her features. The stories about her beauty were true, she was absolutely gorgeous. In fact the most beautiful women he had ever laid eyes on. He slammed his palm on his face. " Now is not the time to start thinking about that idiot, you have a hunt to finish." He said out loud. He then noticed that a strand of hair covered her eyes and for some strange reason went to move it out of the way. Maria then suddenly grabbed his arm and said "A corpse, should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well how the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you from your wild curiosity.". She then rose up from the chair and split her blade in half and dashed towards the Hunter. Realizing she was attacking with the intend to kill he rolled away and started talking " What the hell are you thinking and how are you even alive?". Maria said nothing and continued attacking. After dodging for about a minute the Hunter realized that he would eventually get hit and would probably then die. He finally decided to start attacking back with a Chikage and Evelyn. He didn't particularly like having to rely on bloodtinge but he had to end this fight. Maria looked at him with a look of disgust and hate " A blood weapon how typical." " I don't really like blood weapons but I have to end this quick." Maria smirked " So do I." As she dashed toward him but he was faster. Shooting her with his Evelyn and hitting her right on the mark, Maria was right there, perfectly open to a visceral or even just a basic attack, but he couldn't find himself to do it. "What am I doing." He tossed his Evelyn and Chikage to the side "I'm so sorry I- I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm such a monster, I'm meant to hunt beasts this shouldn't have happened." He was now kneeling and looking to make sure she wasn't hurt. "So you are a fool and a coward. Very well I will do what you won't." Maria then started hugging him stunning him but she then quickly grabbed she Rakuyo off the ground and plunged it into his chest. "My oh my how did you get this far cowardly Hunter.". His body then started to disappear and he returned to the Hunter's dream.

Maria got up and walked back to the chair she was sitting on. Not to pretend to be a corpse but to instead think. " What a strange Hunter." She thought. Never in all of her days had someone made sure she was ok. Not even her mentor and close friend Gehrman did that although that was probably because he was making sure he was ok himself.". She didn't know what to do. For the first time in her life someone had taken the time to make sure she was ok and she stabbed him in the chest and killed him. She started laughing, she couldn't believe it. She was suppose to say thank you and make sure he was ok as well not stab him in the chest but she panicked and just acted on her instinct. She wanted him to come back so she could say thank you but she thought that after what she did he would probably want to fight more than talk. She sat up from her chair and walked towards the door of the ClockTower. Quickly closing it she again started thinking and felt where he had touched her hair. Why was she having this burning feeling in her heart. She didn't know his name, face, age or even anything about him besides that he was a hunter who happened to make sure she was ok once. So why in Kos's name was she acting like an eighteen year old girl. Sure she had felt this before when she met a man or even sometimes a women she found attractive but nowhere even close to this burning feeling that she felt when she thought of him touching her. She thought " Its just stress from fatigue just take a quick bath and relax.". She opened the doors of the ClockTower and started heading down the staircase eventually reaching a room titled "Patients Bathing room". She opened the door and was surprised to see it hadn't been open in sometime. "Well duh obviously they don't need to bath if they have turned crazy." Maria thought with a pang of guilt. Taking off her clothes and turning on the bath she was surprised it still worked after all this time. Walking into the bath she was even more surprised that it was warm water. Once in the bath she started thinking again. " Why am I even taking a bath. I've never taken one before even after a fight. Am I taking one because of him? Because I want to look good? I'm such a fool. He probably thinks I'm a crazy corpse lady who has a temper. I'm such an idio-." Maria stopped thinking and heard the door from across the room slightly creak open. "Um hello? I'm not hear to hurt you I'm a hunter and I was wondering if I bath myself once you were done.". Maria stopped dead in her tracks." Oh sure of course." " Thank you Madam."And the door was quickly shut. Maria let out a deep breath. "Thank Kos if he had realized it was me I would be completely exposed, but maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing." Maria slapped herself for thinking such a bad thought and then got out of the bath and put on her clothes and walked back to the clocktower dial hoping that the hunter hadn't realized she left or that it was her in the bath.

End of chapter 1 hoped you liked it I'm enjoying writing this since I have so much ideas for this. Stayed tuned