All human modern AU. Drusilla was just a normal girl until she was kidnapped and her family killed. A psychopath has spent the past five years slowly unraveling her mind. One fateful night, she escapes and runs into a certain poet. Enter poet and student William Pratt, who is in for the surprise of his life when he grants her asylum. warnings inside.

A newly sired vampire is supposed to be full of hunger and rage. Drusilla is not. reeling from her own destruction, follow her through dreams and reality, murder and madness. "In all the fairytales she'd read, the princess never died, least of all at the start, and the demon always died. No one told her what would happen if the demon killed princess"

every valentine's day, Angelus liked to do something horrible. Usually, he'd start the day off with Dru. This time is different. "that cursed number, fourteen. The number of this day: February fourteenth (...) Daddy knew that, because he'd started the pain, twenty one years ago, on the floor of a church." Warnings inside