Love can be a dangerous thing. It destroys you, but it can also shape the person you will be. Cassandra was a very powerful witch, although she didn't have powers of her own, she was a siphoner. She was part of the Gemini coven. In this coven being different wasn't accepted. Cassandra was looked as an abomination of nature, an outcast. When your own family doesn't accept you for who you are, it changes a person. That isolation turns you into something else, something unrecognizable. She worked extra hard learning new spells, dabbling into dark magic, wanting to be as powerful as she could be. She turned cold, showing no emotions, no empathy for the wrongs she did against others. Her family didn't accept her because she didn't have magic of her own, so once she was old enough to care for herself they shunned her from the coven. She was left alone to navigate the world. She eventually ended up in Roanoke, that was where she met someone.

Sebastian was a newly turned vampire. He didn't understand what was happening to him, all he knew was that he was hungry. The last thing he remembered was having his neck snapped, then he woke up with a terrible hunger. He roamed the streets of Roanoke and found a helpless man walking, he couldn't resist the hunger he was feeling so he made his way to the man and sank his teeth into his neck. The man screamed in pain, but Sebastian drained him out. He let the man fall to the ground and savored the taste of his blood. That one taste had him craving more. He kept walking looking for his next victim, that was when he saw her. He saw a blonde woman walking, he vamp sped over to her grabbing her by the neck.

"Don't scream," He said looking at her in the eyes. Cassandra was taken aback by what happened. But she realized what he was, a vampire. She grabbed his hand and siphoned some of his magic and gave him an aneurysm.

"Your tricks do not work on me," Cassandra said as Sebastian fell to the ground.

"How are you doing that?" Sebastian screamed in agony.

"I am a witch," she said stopping the pain

"Forgive me for wanting to hurt you, the hunger was unbearable," Sebastian said standing up

"What is your name?" she asked him looking at him closely,

"Sebastian," He responded. He looked at her, seeing her clearly and was mesmerized by her beauty. Her blond hair falling down her shoulders, and blue eyes that he could get lost in.

"Cassandra," she said smiling at her, which he returned.

"I should get going, it is getting awfully late," she said breaking eye contact. She turned around and walked towards her home.

"Will I see you again?" he asked

"Well shall see," she said looking back giving him smirk. She walked back to her home.

Once she arrived, she felt different. It had been years since she felt something. Sebastian had stirred feelings inside of her, something nobody had been able to do. She didn't want to get to close, but she was drawn to him, it was an unexplainable feeling. But she knew she wanted to see him again.

Over the next couple of months, Cassandra and Sebastian would meet at dusk. They would talk, laugh and got to know each other. Cassandra had told him about her family and how she was treated. Sebastian had told her his past, who he was before he turned. She was falling in love with him, and that terrified her. After their clandestine meetings, Sebastian would go feed on the people of Roanoke, leaving trails of dead bodies. He didn't even bother to cover his tracks. Cassandra figured out what he was doing, but loved him despite it.

She was approached by the councilmen, wanting for her to find the creature responsible for terrorizing the people of Roanoke. They knew who she really was and was she was capable of. When they asked her to perform this task, she knew that what she did would lead them to Sebastian, they would kill him and Cassandra couldn't let that happen. So instead she summoned something worse, something to draw out the liars and hypocrites, the Croatoan. The Croatoan killed the town's leadership to keep them from finding Sebastian, but then it went crazy. It killed everyone who had secrets, which meant it would go after Cassandra. When Sebastian found out what she was plotting he went to stop her, he couldn't let her die because of his secret. But before he could intervene, Cassandra desiccated him, she couldn't let him get hurt. Before sealing him in the box she took some of his blood, it was a failsafe in case anything were to happen. She also gave him an amulet, it would keep him safe. Before she could safely seal Sebastian, the Croatoan killed her, Sebastian saw the events played out in front of him. He saw the women he loved die unable to do anything.

The last thing Cassandra remembered was the desiccating Sebastian and the Croatoan killing her. She woke up on the ground with an insatiable hunger, she was in transition. Cassandra looked at her surroundings, she was in the same place she had died, but Sebastian coffin was gone. She had lost him in her attempts to save him.

Five Centuries Later

Sebastian had spent the past five centuries desiccated in a coffin. That was until he got a little taste of blood, just enough for his mind to wander. He felt drawn to something or someone, it was familiar. He arrived at a place that looked like a barn. That was when he saw her, he saw a blonde girl, with blue eyes he could get lost in. He thought he would never be able to see again, after that night. It gave him hope.

"Cassandra?" Sebastian whispered, making the girl turn around, it was not his great love, it was Elizabeth Saltzman.

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