Fic: 'The More Ardent' (Raffles)

[regshoe]

This is a bit of a weird one... it's an idea I've had floating around for ages, and I think the shape it's ended up taking is a bit different to what it might have been if I'd written it when I first planned it out. But in any case, here it is: Raffles as a dramatic London vampire!

The More Ardent (6841 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Raffles - E. W. Hornung
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bunny Manders/A. J. Raffles
Characters: A. J. Raffles, Bunny Manders
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Carmilla (J. Sheridan Le Fanu) Fusion, Vampires
Summary:

Bunny Manders meets his old friend A. J. Raffles again after many years. But Raffles has a dark secret—no, another one...

The title is from my favourite passage from Carmilla: 'You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after.'