V FOR VAMPIRE // jenlisa

Chapter 18

L.

I stay still, darkness engulfing me whole. What's happening? Is something even happening? The void I feel and see around me tells me otherwise. My mind races back to the sharp pain I had felt against my chest when that fuckface Namjoon had thrown a dagger at me. I don't find it in myself to care the least about my chest being torn open. Instead, I think back to Jennie, her painful sobs that torturously echo through against the walls of this darkness surrounding me. I wish she didn't cry like that for me. I feel guilty for the fact that we had to end with tears streaming down her face when she deserves so much more than that. End? I wonder, am I dead? What's this darkness? It almost feels like the time I had been turned by Somi, a vast consciousness of nothingness. I start to panic.

"She hasn't dusted..." I hear Wendy's voice coated with awe, exactly resembling mine.

"The dagger didn't make it through her heart. Just more than a little piercing." Jisoo says as I try to exercise my face in an expression of shock, but I can't feel it.

I try to force my eyes open. I try to move my fingers. But absolute nothingness like the time when I was turned is all I feel.

"What are we supposed to do now, Jisoo?!" Irene's voice hollers in panic as there's a beat of silence. It highlights Jennie's quiet whimpers.

"We can't delay this. There's too less time. We need to bring her to our backup lounge. It'll be fast enough. Taehyung,  call your connection for enough blood bags and-" Jisoo cuts in through Seulgi's hurried speech.

"It's dangerous. I- I have a few visions. I don't know which one this is because usually they all separate into branches through choices at certain intervals. One vision is that...the blood bags just don't make it and Lisa..." Jisoo finishes as Jennie's sobs cuts through the air. I feel my chest press around nothing painfully at her state.

"We're running out of time, Jisoo! There has to be another option!" Wendy says in distress as there is a smack that booms through the place.

"The only option is human blood for its incredibly restorative qualities. The bags might not come. I can't beat around the bush so here it is—The only option left is Jennie." Jisoo says frustratedly as my anger flares.

I want to slap this stupid vampire.

"What?!" Rosé exclaims. "How can you say that?! What if something happens to her?! We don't have to be a nurse to know it's fucking dangerous how much blood Jennie's going to lose!" She continues angrily as I feel a sense of triumph at having my point across.

"There's no other option, Rosé." Jisoo says calmly as there's a deep inhalation.

"Take it. My blood." Jennie says, her voice serious as I try to move my body in a panic.

I scream my thoughts to Seulgi but it's like she can't even hear me.

"Jisoo, how bad does it get in the possibility that Jennie's blood is used?" Wendy asks cautiously.

"Her death is the worst-case scenario. I'm sorry." Jisoo says heavily as I hear the werewolves gasp.

No fucking way. No fucking way I'll be the reason for my Jennie's...I try to scream, to flail my arms, to do something...anything, but I'm stuck. I feel trapped in this darkness.

"I'll still go through with it." Jennie says determinedly and I angrily try to move again.

What is this girl saying?!

"But Jennie-" Rosé starts desperately but pauses, her words lost.

"Death will still remain my destiny if something happens to Lisa. I've loved this girl since I was thirteen. Even her being a vampire could not change that so please let me save her. It's one and the same, I'll die without her." Jennie says, her words laced with unshed tears of helplessness.

God, baby, please don't do that, I think, troubled and trapped.

"That's it! This is that one." Jisoo exclaims. "Kai, Rosé, race Lisa and Jennie back to the lounge. Man-made cars are junk. Seulgi, run with them. You know how to work your tools back at your place. Taehyung, call for exactly 3.2 units of blood that matches Jennie's blood type. It's A-positive?" Jisoo asks, I assume to Jennie as there's a pregnant silence. "A-positive. Let's do this." Jisoo affirms as I hear shuffling around me and stay still, no other way to be.

"We'll save you, baby." I hear Jennie's sweet whisper, my anxiety dissipating a little.

I want to reach out and kiss her, but all I can do is wait in this darkness.