Fic: The Book Of Night Was Opened Wide

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The time for reveals has come. I wrote The Book Of Night Was Opened Wide, which clocks in at 61,506 words. Given it was for Dracula, if they hadn't already guessed it was me behind it, nobody should be surprised.

The Book Of Night Was Opened Wide (61692 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Westenra, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, Jonathan Harker/Lucy Westenra
Characters: Mina Harker, Dracula, Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, John Seward, R.M. Renfield, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Blood, Fog, Vampires, Mind Control, Blood Drinking, Character Death, Vampire Turning, Stake through the heart, Friendship, Horror, Gothic, Suspense, Animal Transformation, Rats, Van Helsing Is Thwarted At Almost Every Turn, Possession, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Love, Bats
Summary:

What if Lucy didn’t return to her crypt when she was confronted with Van Helsing and crew? What if she went away with Dracula, and thus avoided the stake? What if Lucy targeted another to get closer to Mina, with Dracula’s assistance? Mina finds herself making a dark choice as her husband wanders into the night, and the ripples of those choices change everything.

The notes and deleted scenes will be posted later, and then linked back to the end notes over on Ao3. I don’t know if I need to cross-post this to hidden_passages, seeing as I was recced in the Yuletide related post over there.