Fangs // a 5SOS fanfiction

eight

I woke up to the sound of chains clattering, and the thick smell of smoke filled the room. I tried to move my hands but they didn't budge.

"Shit!" I yelled, pulling my wrists against the grip of rope.

"Michael!" I screamed, thrashing around with little success.

My eyes began to get heavy, without my control, and my attempts to keep myself awake failed. My breath caught in my throat and before I went under, I managed to hoarsely whisper one last thing.

"P-Please.."

«« Michael's POV »»

"Literally Luke, fuck off." I said, my stone cold hands pushing his chest back.

"Ever since your stupid episode, she's been scared shitless of all of us! All thanks to y-"

"That's the point though, it's been the point since the beginning! We take them, we gain their trust, we scare them, we kill them!" Luke interrupts.

He was right.

It's always been the plan between the 4 of us, but something is different about her.

"And no matter how much you like her, we kill her. It's tradition, Mike." He huffs through clenched teeth, leaning a hand on the door to the room Elise was in.

"No!" I yell even louder, running my hands through my freshly died black hair.

"Shut up, or she hears you, and then the process just speeds up." He smirked, pushing me up against the door, using his free hand.

"You may have been here longer, but you don't scare me. And I'm not letting that start now." He spits at me, his voice laced with malice. That asshole thinks just because he's stronger, he's better.

Wrong.

My chest is relieved from the pressure of his hands before I had time to hurt him, and he's gone in an instant.

I let out a sigh of relief, knowing I would have thrown the whole group of us off if I had beaten him up, while turing around and leaning my forearms against the heavy, metal door.

I can't kill her.

Traditions are shit anyways.

The one who finds them, kills them, Calum reminded me the night I went looking for someone.

The words echoed throughout my head, leaving a ringing in my ears and a pain in my chest.

I pushed my arms off the door, and leaned my back against it, and I slid to the bottom into a sitting position. My elbows rested on my knees.

I can't kill her.

"Michael!" I heard from the other side of the door. Her voice sounded panicked, and I heard the chains move and clank onto each other.

I clenched my eyes tight.

'She thought of you first', my subconscious told me.

I leaned my ear to the door, even though I expected not to hear too much. I think she used all her energy on that scream. Ashton drugged her earlier with too many sleeping pills mixed up in her food.

"P-Please.", She whispered. A simple word to make my heart melt and to make me feel like utter shit.

After thinking it through, I had to go into the room. I had to help her. So that's exactly what I did. I went in, untied the ropes, picked her up, and carried her bridal style to my room.

She was shaking, and I can't tell if it was from fear or cold.

I tucked her in under the huge blanket after we got to my room, and I stared for what felt like hours at the patterns of her chest. She would go long periods of time with an even breathing pattern, her chest falling up and down rhythmically. And every so often, her eyes would shut tight, and her fists would ball up and clench the covers. Her breathing would quicken and horrible, strangled noises would come out of her mouth.

By the third time this happened, she began to say coherent words. Words consisting of stop, no, please, don't, and Michael.

When she said my name, I lost it. I had to get out of that house, before I hurt her.. or myself.

I have to hurt something though.

I have to hunt.

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OKAY GUYS IM SO SO SORRY. A LOT IS GOING ON AT HOME, MY DAD AND STEPMOM ARE GETTING A DIVORCE AND IM JUST STRESSED. PLEASE DONT HATE ME GUYS. IM HAVING MAJOR WRITERS BLOCK AND THIS CHAPTER FELT VERY STIFF AND FORCED. I JUST KNEW I HAD TO WRITE FOR YOU GUYS. PLEASE DONT KILL ME. I WILL BE WRITING MORE FREQUENTLY. I LOVE YALL.. PS, I DIDNT HAVE TIME TO EDIT THIS SO IF ITS SHIT, SORRY !!

-mac 💓