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80. Primrose - Jongdae | Part 5

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Genre: Angst & fluff | AU!Vampire/Soulmate Chen, AU!Vampire/Soulmate Reader|

Pairing: chenXreader

Word Count: 4.4k

Summary: Never did you think that the sparrow birthmark you had since birth would lead you to be thrown into a world filled with vampires. A world where you found yourself falling in love more than once and a world that you would try your best to run from.

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2 years later

While everything about the dark rainy day appeared to be normal, you knew better. As you walked home from your job at the nearby hospital you were on your guard. Certainly, everyone passing by you thought you were crazy with the way your eyes flitted around the too dark alleyways and the small crevices beside buildings. The way your white sneakers were tapping against the sidewalk was echoing in your ears in an unnatural way and it had your pulse racing.

You had just changed towns and you really weren't ready to leave again but this strange day was telling you different.

That morning everything seemed as usual and boring even, but as two o'clock rolled around – the hospital grew eerily quiet. You worked in the ER as a nurse and it wasn't common for you to have a second to yourself, and somehow you managed to not have a single thing to do until you got off at five. That wasn't all, though. The locker room was also freezing when you entered and you swore you could smell a strong cologne that seemed too familiar no matter how hard you tried to block it out as you trembled and goose bumps grew over your skin.

While you were afraid, you weren't at the same time. You knew you could protect yourself from the monsters who haunted your life but you also knew that one of those same monsters had a hold on you that you couldn't shake. A bond. You were reminded of it every day when you felt the invisible strings tying you back to the place you ran away from pulling at your skin. It was only a matter of time before they found you here and you would have to leave another town you had grown to like.

It had been two years since you had run away from your fate at the age of twenty-one. Each day that you were gone, was making you weaker and you could feel the effects on your body. Yixing had told you what would happen to you when you ran away and while at first, you didn't believe them, within the first month you started to feel it. At the point you were now you had bags under your eyes that were permanent, your faint muscles seemed to be fading, and you were bruised sporadically from head to toe. It was evident that you were, in fact dying. Your body was slowly breaking down but nothing could make you go back. Although, you knew better.

Running away was hard but staying away, was even harder. Falling to his feet would be easy because, well, because he was special even if you didn't want to admit it.

Your heart started racing as you made your way up the decaying wooden stairs to your apartment. There was a chill in the air so your elderly neighbors that were normally outside were nowhere to be seen and even though there was a logical reasoning for it, it still made you scared. The problem was it was the middle of summer and the storm that was looming in the sky above you was completely abnormal. The clouds were dark and taunting as you looked up to send a curse to the heavens, hating them for letting your life turn out this way.

Once you reached the chipped black painted door of your apartment, your hands started to shake even more.

"Get a grip," you whispered to yourself. As you wrapped your frail hand around the door knob you almost immediately pulled your hand back. It was ice cold. "No, please," you whispered again as tears filled your eyes. You didn't want them to find you. Not yet. You needed at least a week to get out of this town. It wasn't just easy to up and leave once you had barely gotten settled.