Vampirical -- Lauren Jauregui x Reader

Lunch

"Laur... what's that?" I asked as her and Ally's laughter died down a little, letting me hear a low rumbling sound. Considering we were eating outside, or at least I was eating, it could really have been anything but I was already on high alert and it was eerily close to a growl.

"What's what?" She asked right back and I frowned.

"You can't hear it?"

"Y/n, are you feeling okay?" Ally questioned as the two looked at me like I was crazy.

"I-" I began, but then caught sight of something darting by on the edge of the woods by the school, just behind them, "There's something there."

Lauren sighed and whispered, "I knew I should have charged that crystal a little longer."

"No, Lauren, there is something there. On the edge of the woods."

There they were, two of them this time, rushing about in the undergrowth.

Ally turned around to see but all movements ceased and I sighed.

"Can we just go insid- LAUREN!" My sentence stopped abruptly because before I knew it, one of those somethings had run up behind her and locked it's dripping jaws around the back of her neck, pulling her backwards.

In an instant, she escaped its grasp and was pinning it down, pushing its face into the ground. It was an ugly, dark brown wolf that snarled up at her even as it whimpered in pain. Why did we sit a little further back today, out of sight of the school? It was such a stupid idea.

"Lauren!" I tried to help her somehow, but Ally was holding me back by the arms. I looked behind me to see her searching and scanning the place where the school was, blocked by a hill. She was probably looking for the other girls to help.

Then, I heard a sickening noise. My head whipped back around to witness Lauren's lifeless body being dragged successfully by the wolves, yes two of them now. One of them must have sneaked up behind her and broken her neck, whilst the other is carrying her legs in its mouth.

"No! No, no, no!" I called out, fighting to get loose of Ally's grip but it was no use.

"Shit." I heard Ally hiss under her breath but I couldn't care less. I needed to get to her. I needed to!

...

I laid on the sofa at the girls' place, my right arm bent and tucked under my head as I stared blankly at the ceiling. I had tear stains down my temples but I didn't really care. The girls looked on at me, worried but apparently unsure of what to do. I, on the other hand, knew exactly what to do.

"Where would they take her?" I asked, my throat a little hoarse from the crying.

"To their territory, I guess." Ally answered, but that wasn't good enough.

"Where's that?"

"The other side of town," Normani spoke up, but again, that wasn't good enough.

"Where would they take her?" I tried once more. If this answer wasn't good enough, I'd stay out all night searching the entirety of the town for her.

"The city hall, I suppose-" Dinah didn't get a chance to finish because I leapt up from the sofa and thanked her before storming out of the house.

In a blink of an eye, the girls were back in front of me again, outside.

"Where do you think you're going?" Normani asked a little harshly.

"The city hall, I suppose." I copied Dinah from earlier and tried to move past them, but they blocked me again.

"Why?" One of them asked but now I was too irritated to know who.

"She has to come back." Is all I replied with, but then I got angry because they still wouldn't let me through, "You're all disgusting." I told them, "You call yourselves her friends but she's in danger and you're all too chicken to go help her when she needs it."

"No, Y/n, we can just see that it's pointless to go." Normani tried, "We can't just go and fight the wolf pack, especially when they're already mad at us. Not only are there far more of them than us, there's all sorts of political implications."

"You can't either." Dinah decided to add and I shot her a glare.

"I can try."

Ally sent the other girls a knowing look and they nodded slightly before she said, "Y/n, it's the bond. It makes you irrational-"

"Yeah, you're right." I nodded and she sighed as though in relief, "I guess love does make you crazy."

With that, I stepped around them and took off towards the city hall. It felt like I was living in a dream like I could do anything and there'd be no real-life consequences. I only had one goal, one objective: I had to save her.

...

I was tired and it was raining by the time I got to the large white building. Nobody stood outside. No lights were on inside. I didn't let that put me off.

I stepped up the steps towards the door and knocked, but got no answer. I then tried to open the door but it was locked shut.

"God damn it!" I roared as I kicked the door, making it quake on its hinges. The rain made way for a clap of thunder as if to create the right atmosphere for how I felt. I walked backwards away from the door and ran down the steps, looking for another way in. They had to be in here. They just had to.

A small light flickering off to the side of the building caught my attention, and I jogged around there to see where it was coming from. A small window near the floor, at the bottom of a slope and slowly being buried by the mud that slipped down it, loosened and pushed by the rain. If I peered through its clouded pane, I could see the silhouettes of many people. This had to be it.