Vampirical -- Lauren Jauregui x Reader

Condition

Lauren's POV

"I really shouldn't be doing this." I muttered as my fountain pen kept moving across the old-looking paper (Something about the style of the paper and ink was just so appealing, so it became my signature 'thing' when I make deals with devils- Well, not devils this time; Wolves. Though they do share some similarities), "I really, really should not be doing this."

As I finished the first clause of my new contract, something started buzzing beside me on the table.

"What?" I answered my phone bluntly, not appreciating the distraction.

"Where are you?" Normani replied just as bluntly.

With a sigh, I answered as innocently as I could, "The house. Why?"

"What are you doing?" She almost snarled at me. Had she been a mutt I'd have thought she was changing.

"Writing..."

That wasn't very smooth.

"Writing what, Lauren? This better not be about that girl you fought us over today."

"Um, first of all, that girl has a name." I snapped, "Secondly, you were going to kill her! And there was a wolf there!"

"Yeah, Camila. She's weak."

"Camila used to be your friend, Mani. What happened with the split wasn't her fault, it was our parents. And besides, she may be weak but she would have the whole pack on us in minutes, and we can't have that. There's only four of us-"

"And five of them, but she wouldn't lay a finger on us. She's terrified of her own shadow. We could take them and get all of the town back."

I groaned. What she was saying might have been true but it was still preposterous to me. As soon as I got this girl into our possession I wouldn't be tempted to cross the boundaries anymore... though what exactly I planned to do with her I still wasn't sure.

"What did you call me for, Mani?" I sighed, rubbing my temple with my hand that had the pen in it.

"To talk you out of this. You have a condition, she's making it worse, we need to get rid of her. It's not like anyone would miss her."

"She has a family-"

"That hasn't stopped any of your other kills. They had families too."

She's right.

"Y/n's different," I confessed and heard Normani click her tongue in response.

"You gave her a name."

"Her parents gave her a name! Do you not remember anything from your life? Your actual life? Because we sure as hell weren't brought to the world the way we are now."

"We aren't people, Laur. We're not humans. Humans are weak and we are strong. Humans are cowardly and we are what they fear; we are the monsters that haunt their dreams. Don't forget that Lauren. Don't go wanting her to see you as anything different, or getting lost in the fact that she does, because she will find out and you'll only have to take her life then instead of now-."

I hung up the call and tossed my phone onto the desk beside me, thinking and re-reading the half-written agreement sitting before me. Giving up, I pushed the paper away from me and sat back in my chair with enough force to push the chair all the way across the room.

Everything Normani was saying was true, especially that she was making my 'condition' harder to fight. She was bad for me.

But then she appeared in my mind's eye and I was torn once again. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had no idea what my options were.