003. The Saving Blood - canon!Katya
Revenge is dish best served cold, and it is on cold February night that Katya is stepping from shadows of Kiev alley to put end to mentor, confidant, lover and her would-be killer.
He had told her again and again, "Trust no one." She thought she had taken lesson to heart until day he slipped knife into her and left her for dead. It is lesson she will now never forget. For once Snow Queen blazes white hot. She laughs under breath as she pulls wire of her garrotte tighter and tighter, hears his feet drum on pavement and then stop. When his hot blood splatters her face she laughs aloud. She is more angry than she has realized. She has pulled so long and so hard in her fury she has nearly torn head from body.
Until that moment she was not knowing how literal phrase "seeing red" could be.