Salt Shades

pairing. marcus/seth
prompt. 003. grey
theme set. colors
title. grey
words. 314 words
notes/warnings. None.

. grey .

Seth had always seen things in different shades of grey. He knew that things weren't black and white – that people weren't just good or evil – which was probably part of the reason why he'd always been so accepting of vampires, unlike a number of his pack mates. Judging a book by its cover wasn't something that he usually did.

Which was why when he came to Volterra he was able to befriend a few of its members; not all of them were crazy, evil bloodsuckers who happened to be psychopaths. That was just a select few.

It wasn't like they were given much of a choice in how they lived, all of them just had to make the best of it; and while some of them clearly revelled in being seen as monsters, some of them were a little more reserved and just tried to live as best they could. Alec was one of those. He didn't particularly like how he lived, but he had no other options so he'd just learned to live with it; and Heidi was very much the same.

Marcus, though, was a little different. Because he'd always been trapped in a world where killing was the only way to survive, it was just something that he'd grown apathetic to. But he didn't find any particular joy in how he sustained his existence; he didn't believe in causing unnecessary suffering.

Seth wasn't allowed to watch them feed – not that he wanted to – because of Marcus' orders, and he wasn't about to disobey the vampire on that. He knew why Marcus did it and he couldn't help but agree; he didn't need those memories. Marcus was only trying to protect him, he could understand that.

FIN.