Imagine Yourself

♥︎ Genre: Vampire au, lots of angst, fluff, maybe some smut later on.

♥︎ Pairing: Vampire! Jaehyun x Reader

♥︎ Warnings: Language, violence, mentions of blood.

♥︎ Word Count: 3K

♥︎ A/N: Again, sorry this took forever, at least it wasn’t as long a wait as some chapters :’) Schools keeping me busy.

1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8

Spinoffs following the series; Serious // Hesitation // Believe

Days had passed without a single word or visit from any of the boys. You were starting to become concerned and you could tell it was taking a toll on all of your friends. Two days after the stormy night you had all started acting like zombies, walking around the apartment without a word and only getting up for necessities.

“I can’t keep doing this,” Melody was the first to break the silence, five days in. She pulls at her hair in annoyance and lets out a groan.

“Do we really have a choice?” Hana’s voice is oddly quiet, the silence from the past five days having an effect on her tone.

“Usually I’d be the one to say yes and drag us all out to the cemetery… but I don’t think I want to get killed by vampires today, so no,” you sigh, pulling your knees to your chest, sinking into the couch for comfort.

“I don’t think I’ve ever known you to back down from a challenge,” Hana smiles softly, and you know she’s not suggesting you make a plan but instead trying to lighten the mood. You smile back and roll your eyes.

“I’m tough, but not vampire tough,” you say. Silence washes over the five of you again, Mei looks out of the window, having not said a word. Prita walks in from her room, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

“Pri, you realize it’s 2 in the afternoon, right?” Melody looks at her in concern.

“Not like we’re on any schedule or going anywhere,” Prita mumbles back, looking uncharacteristically grumpy.

“Guys—”

“No need to be so grumpy Pri,” Melody frowns at her friend.

“Uh, guys?”

“Sorry, I thought not being able to leave your apartment for almost a week and not seeing your boyfriend was reason enough to be grump,” Prita retorts.

“GUYS,” Mei finally yells in annoyance.

“What?” The rest of you all turn to her at once.

“There are two guys that I’ve never seen walking into our building,” her voice is so quiet, you almost don’t hear her.

“You’ve been people watching too much,” Prita rolls her eyes, still grumpy.

“Exactly, which is why I know these guys aren’t from around here. I’ve seen enough people go in and out of here to figure that much out,” Mei looks concerned.

“Shit, do you think… Do you think it’s the other vampires? How the hell would they find us?” Your eyes widen.

“Why the hell would they come up here in the middle of the day though?” Hana looks confused.

“Because it’s more unexpected…” Melody looks grim.

“Everyone stay quiet and go to my room,” You look at the four of them and start walking as quickly and quietly as you could. Once you were all inside, just as you were shutting the door, you hear a knock from the front door. Your eyes widen and you quickly lock the door and grab the bat you kept by it, slowly backing away. Suddenly you all hear the front door being kicked in. You try your hardest not to make a noise, but you’re terrified.

“No point in hiding girls, we can smell you… Hear your heartbeats,” a deep voice remarks creepily. Your grip on the bat tightens, ready to swing. You see Melody shaking beside you with a pair of scissors in her hand. You all watch silently as they try moving the doorknob. Unfortunately, a locked door did little to stop a vampire. The door bursts open and hangs awkwardly half off of its hinges as the two vampires stride in.

“Well well well, what a pretty bunch,” The one who had spoken before looks over all of you in a way that made your skin crawl. He looked just as creepy as he sounded, with his dark, sunken eyes and crooked smirk, “And courageous too. It’s a shame we have to kill you, otherwise I turn you and make you all my little pets.”

“Go to hell,” you growl, sounding more confident than you felt. You’re ready to swing the bat the second he moves any closer. The guy behind him lets out a laugh and pushes his messy bangs back so he can look you in the eyes.

“You first, princess,” his ice blue eyes send a chill down your spine. The first one moves closer and you quickly swing the bat, but he catches it with ease. He yanks it from your grip, causing you to fall forward from the force.

“Did you really think that would work?” He smirks down at you. Just as he’s about to lift his foot to kick you, Melody rushes forward and drives the scissors towards his heart. She barely manages to cut him before the other guy has her pinned to the wall by her throat.

“LET HER GO!” You scream, looking at your cousin struggling to breathe.

“You little bitch… you really think some scissors can kill me?” The guy towering over you turns to her before looking back at you and pulling you up by your hair. His grip sends a searing pain through your scalp and you claw at his hand.

“Get off of me. Let. Her. Go!” You growl, watching angrily as Melody started to look as if she was going to pass out. Prita looks at you and then turns to rush over and knock herself into the guy holding Melody, causing her to fall from his grasp coughing and trying to get her breath back. Just as the guy is about to turn and grab Prita, a voice cuts in.

“Lay a hand on another one of them and I’ll make sure your death is as slow and painful as possible,” Taeil stands in the doorway, with two boys you’d never seen right behind him.

“I don’t understand how you could trust humans so easily and blindly,” the guy gripping your hair talks, still holding tight. He moves you out in front of him so Taeil can see your face, “Don’t you see they were trying to kill us?’

“Only because you attacked them first. You’ve been here for weeks. If they wanted to kill you or warn people about our kind they would have by now,” one of the guys behind Taeil speaks up.

“Your ways are outdated and largely unaccepted. Just because some mates are still human doesn’t mean we can’t trust them,” Taeil looks down at you then over to Melody and something dark flashing in his eyes, “Jungwoo, grab the girls and get them out of here.”

The one who’d spoken moments ago steps from behind Taeil and blocks the other vampire who had choked Melody, motioning for the girls to exit the room.

“What do you think you’re doing?” The guy he’s blocking pushes into him. From the way he looked, you could tell that Jungwoo wasn’t exactly the kind of person who cared to get violent, but the look in his eyes would make you think otherwise. He turns to the guy and looks him dead in the eyes.

“I’m protecting my clan,” he growls before ripping the other guy’s heart out in the blink of an eye. Your eyes widen in shock and you feel as though you’re about to puke. Hana screams and Mei looks faint, as she clutches Hana for support. As the guy’s body drops to the floor, the one gripping your hair pulls you closer to him, his fangs almost grazing over your neck. Tears stream down your face as you feel his breath against it.

“Oh, you’ve done it now,” you can hear the smirk in his voice as his fangs start to poke your neck. Before he can bite though you’re being pulled from his arms and against Taeil’s chest. The man flies back against the wall groaning.

“Funny you think you would stand a chance against me,” Taeil says steadily. He releases you and lightly pushes you behind him, into the arms of the guy who was standing quietly and waiting. Jungwoo ushers the others out of the room and grabs you as he leads you all to the living room. From the noise in your bedroom, you can tell Taeil had taken the guy out quickly. He and the third guy join you all in the living room.

“We have to get you girls out of here,” is all Taeil says.

“W-wait,” you grab his arm with a shaking hand before he can walk away, “What… What’s going on? Who are these guys?” You shakily wipe tears from your eyes as Taeil looks at you and lets out a deep sigh.

“This is Jungwoo and Yukhei. They’re newer members we recruited recently when we realized how bad this situation was becoming,” He starts to walk, signaling for you to follow him. As you all walk out of the building to the parking lot he continues to explain, “When we got back that day from explaining everything, the other group was extremely suspicious. They wanted to know why so many of us had randomly gone off without a word and all came back at once even though we left separately. They started to question everyone. We all made the decision to stay away for a bit in hopes that they would drop it and think it was nothing.”

“That clearly didn’t work,” you frown.

“No, it didn’t. Things got tense and we told them leave our territory, but it only caused more problems. They left, telling us we’d regret it,” Taeil stopped in front of your car, “It was at that moment I realized they had probably found where you guys were. So right after they left, we split up to follow them out and see if any of the strayed off course.”

“If you were following them then why did you even let them get into the apartment?” Melody cries, rubbing her now bruising neck.

“I went alone. I had to rush back to grab backup when I realized where they were going. I moved as fast as I could,” you can tell he’s upset he hadn’t gotten to you sooner. He looks up and unlocks your car. You hadn’t even realized he had grabbed your keys on the way out.

“Get in, I’m going to take you to the house and we’re going to keep you there. Jungwoo, clean up the bodies. Yukhei, follow me to make sure we aren’t being followed,” Taeil gets in your driver’s seat and the rest of you pile up in the back.

After driving for some time to the outskirts of town, Taeil pulls off onto a secluded road. After what seemed like ages, the trees on the sides of the road opened to reveal a large, dark house. As he parks, the boys come flooding out from the front door.

“Y/N!” Jaehyun catches you as you rush out of the car and fling yourself into his arms.

“Jae!” You hold him tightly, burying your face in the crook of his neck. He whispers calming words in your ear and runs a hand through your hair which causes you to wince in slight pain. He frowns and looks at Taeil, holding you a little tighter.

“What the hell happened?” You hear Johnny growl, assuming he had seen the bruises forming on Melody’s neck.

“These two guys… they broke into the apartment. We tried to fight them off… thankfully Taeil got there just in time,” your voice was quiet as you spoke.

“Of course, you would try to fend off vampires,” Jaehyun breathes out and you can almost hear a smirk in his voice, “You can’t fight off vampires baby.”

“It was worth a shot…” you let go of him enough to turn in his arms to look at everyone. You watch as Johnny takes Melody inside to take care of her. You look over at Prita, crying in Yuta’s arms. Hana and Mei looked as though they were still in shock, trembling in the arms of their mates. You hated how this had happened.

“Let’s get inside,” Jaehyun pulls you along into the house, taking you through the entry hall into a living room area. Taeyong was waiting there for you, leaning against the fireplace. Jaehyun pulls you down into his lap as he sits in a chair. The rest of the clan slowly trickles in, looking to Taeyong.

“What’s going on Taeyong… what are we supposed to do?” You look at the leader, watching as he paces.

“I can’t let what happened to my mate happen to any of you. We’ve gotten rid of them for now but they’re really after our territory… and now probably after you girls too,” Taeyong looks grim. It’s quiet for a few minutes as he thinks, everyone waiting for him to say something. Finally, he continues, “We can protect you all here, we have to keep an eye on you now.”

“I mean our apartment is wreaked anyway so I don’t really mind…” You let out an exasperated sigh. Jaehyun pokes you in the side, signaling that this isn’t a time to joke.

“D-didn’t you say that… that they only want to kill us cause we’re humans and they feel threatened by that?” Hana speaks for the first time in the past hour.

“Well, yes technically that’s why. That, and because they want our territory so they’ll do anything they can to affect us. Including going after mates,” Taeyong stops pacing and looks at her.

“So, what if we were vampires too?” She squeezes Sicheng’s hand as she looks at him next to her, “Then you guys won’t have to worry about losing us as much right?”

“No-“ “Not happening!” “Do you realize what that means?” All the guys start to protest at once.

“You’ve barely lived. Most of us didn’t have a choice when we were turned. That’s not a decision you make lightly,” Johnny runs a hand down his face with a groan.

“Yeah, this isn’t exactly the ideal life, granted some of our situations are a little different,” Jeno sends a glare around the room, stopping specifically on Jaehyun and Yuta.

“Stop giving us the death glare, at least we didn’t kill you,” Yuta rolls his eyes.

“Only because of Y/N being Jaehyun’s mate,” Donghyuck yells from the back of the room.

“Wait, you would have killed them?” You look at Jaehyun, confused.

“Okay look! Enough arguing about it. Girls, they’re right. It’s not an easy life and most people don’t choose it directly. With mates of course it does get more complicated if you aren’t already a vampire,” Taeil steps in to shut everyone up.

“You could be giving up the kind of life you may want outside of this, like Johnny said, this isn’t something to be taken lightly,” Taeyong crosses his arms with a sigh.

“Well then let’s talk about it and figure it out,” you look him in the eyes, completely serious. Everyone turns to you, slightly shocked.

“Wait seriously? A few months ago, you wanted nothing to do with Jaehyun and now you’re actually taking this into consideration?” Doyoung looks at you like you’ve grown an extra head.

“I know that sounds a little crazy coming from me, but you should be proud I want to actually talk about it and that I’m not just making a decision,” you roll your eyes.

“That’s not a bad idea, we can weigh out the pros and cons,” Herin backs you up. You smile at her in return.

“Okay then, let’s start throwing them out,” Taeyong leans back against the wall in front of everyone.

“We’ll be stronger, so you guys won’t have to worry about protecting us all the time. What happened today wouldn’t happen again,” you start.

“While you’re not completely wrong, new vampires aren’t as strong as older ones. It’s something that grows over time,” Jaehyun says, running a hand up and down one of your arms.

“Okay well, what about the fact that we know we want to be with you guys, and we’re meant to be together? The only way we end up together forever is if we’re vampires too, right?” Melody’s voice is faint as she speaks. You’re a little surprised she felt that strongly considering your cousin hadn’t been involved in any of this until recently. You knew she had a point though.

“Well it’s not like we have to turn you right now. We have quite a few years before you actually start aging,” Taeil looks over to her as he speaks.

“What if we don’t care to wait and we’re sure about it?” Prita counters.

“Think about the fact that you have to drink blood to survive. You’re weakened by the sun. You live forever which means you have to watch your whole family die basically,” Mark argues against her.

“Speaking of families, if you’re vampires you stop aging so you’ll have to let your family go before they start to see you aren’t getting any older,” one of the boys you recognize from the apartment earlier, Yukhei, speaks up.

“It can really suck not getting to see your family, or your friends,” Jaemin frowns thinking back on the past year without you and Hana in his life. The boys who had been turned a little over a year ago would know that pain better than anyone.

“If we were turned now, our parents wouldn’t have to know. We’d have a few years to spend with them and come to terms with it,” You say confidently. You feel like you could be okay with it as long as you had the time to say goodbye, though the idea still hurt a lot.

“They’re making good points Taeyong. Not only that, but if they do turn, we would have more vampires and that clan would be much less likely to try and take our territory. They’re already slightly outnumbered, we could widen that gap,” Ten, who you rarely seemed to see, adds in.

“Let’s take a few days to think about it, and we can come to a group decision then. Is everyone okay with that?” Taeyong looks around the room at his clan. Everyone nods in agreeance, “We’ll talk about this again in three days then. For now, get some rest.”

There are only two anons I’ve had that send me stuff more than once and draw out their letters 😂 so I’m guessing this is either my bee anon 🐝 or my twinkle anon ✨?

Did I guess right? 🤔☺️

Trust me it’s not always a good thing!! Though I will say, you just have to find a group of people you’re comfortable with and that helps a lot. I was really quiet and didn’t go out almost my whole 1st year at school because it took me til the end of the spring semester to find people I could be myself around. Then my 2nd year I started working where I’m at now and I met so many people I’ve gotten close to and I’m myself around. The people I’m with kind of pulled it all out of me and I got into a very “I don’t care what people think of me as long as I’m happy” attitude.

I feel like a lot of it is just your personality and how much you open up to people. It’s so much more fun to party with a good group of friends, to let loose with people you trust. If anything you can try something you’ve wanted to do at least once in a controlled environment with people you trust and if you don’t like it or don’t have fun then you don’t have to do it again. I wouldn’t recommend being a wild child sexually unless you really just have an “I don’t care” attitude cause I’ve been hurt a couple times from guys stringing me on when I thought something would come out of it. It takes a little hurt sometimes to make you go a little wild and crazy though too sometimes.