There was once a young kid who felt lost and powerless, barely had any friends. An overbearing mother and an aloof father who cared more about the city then his growing child. He spent hours every day just wandering the floors, trying to find something…anything to fill that emptiness in his heart.

And then one day he came across an old lighter.

Rusted over, barely functioning and it took him minutes to get it to flicker but the moment the flames sparked to life, he was transfixed. Something awoken inside his soul that captured it with infernal fingers and drew him into her dark embrace.

So he brought her to life wherever he could. Little bonfires here and there, old abandoned buildings rendered to a cinder, even accidentally burning the one friend he had didn’t take away the need and desire.

Even the lecture from his father, the rage in his voice, the fear in his eyes couldn’t douse the smoldering blaze. Only death did. Only the cinders of his childhood and a fear that it was all his fault she was gone snapped him back into reality.

As he finally saw the fire for what it truly was.

The Devil in an Infernal dress.

And Harold, she’s got you in her deadly embrace right now and you don’t even realise it.

Because you might not be a firebug like I was as a child but fire comes in many forms. And the purest of them all is rage. The overwhelming desire to hurt someone specific that it overrides every other sense.

And for someone who makes his living being cold and aloof, you’ve never been able to escape the call for vengeance.

First it was Jasper, then it was Cade, now it’s Klaus and despite knowing your daughter is safe, you don’t bargain. You go to violence and burn it all to the ground, not caring who gets hurt in the process.

I get it,  I’ve looked the murderous scum in the eyes who took her away from us, it is taking everything I have to not tear him limb from limb in slow, terrifying agony.

The reason I haven’t done so is because I know men like Nox don’t go quietly into the night. We go for his throat and the collateral damage would be huge. Innocents burn before he does and I refuse to lose their hope for scum that doesn’t deserve to take it away.

You know what they call a man who burns down a circus full of people just to get to one man?

They call him a villain. Because Klaus is filling your daughters with lies on the man her father is and all you are doing with the flames is proving him right.

You got a choice old man, you ignore her whispers,  come to your senses and try and bring your daughter home the right way.

Or you keep dancing with the devil and watch everything you know and love succumb to the fire within the flames.