Fandom: Van Helsing
Pairing: Anna/Aleera
Length: 200 words
Note: Necessarily melodramatic. Because that's the sort of a movie that was. Written for the LJ community Femslash100.

What Lurks in Her Lusting Heart

The worst part of it wasn't when Aleera opened her mouth, when her face stretched and opened and became a maw filled with knife-sharp teeth. It certainly wasn't her punch, like a horse's kick, or her madness, her rolling eyes, nor her voluptuous body twisting and turning into a nightmarish sharkskin shade, her bat wings stretching out behind her.

The worst part was when she looked at Anna with simple desire. Desire for violence, but with the same widening of eyes, the twist in the corner of her sweet lips, as when she'd reached for Anna with different things in mind. There were memories hidden on those very lips, on the tips of her fingers, of comfort in the dark, joy in the sun, memories Anna could reach out and touch - and have her skin and flesh torn for her trouble, and burn in hellfire for all eternity, with all her family.

Anna knew her duty. She'd cried her tears for Aleera a long time ago. There was nothing left now but herself, a monster, and a stake. She stabbed up, and Aleera gasped, opened her mouth.

She watched the monster scream and die. She watched closely, choking back regret.