Badlands >> H.S. AU

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Static came in over the radio, and I turned the small knob slightly to make the sound clearer. This, this was what if been waiting weeks for. This message, this voice playing over the radio waves. I took another drag on my cigarette and listened carefully.

"Hello, and I'm sorry.

A salutation and a farewell.

I don't have much time.

This times new roman is going to fly from my fingertips like a plague of moths. The hollow black litter shells crunched into the ground like the skin of a cicada. This is all that's left, and you can do whatever you want with it. Keep it to yourself or let it serve as a warning.

The city is disgusting, a corpse of what it used to be. The people are filthy. Gluttonous. Moved by the power exchange of sex from the hands of the proletariat to the bourgeoisie. The tops of the skylines buzz with the lacklustre enthusiasm. The ground level is caked in dirt and rust and grime and the people that dwell there wake and rub the filmy layer off their lukewarm eyes.

There are some here I love, some who fear me and some who wish I was dead.

I didn't ask for this.

No one asks for this.

You're born into it.

You grow up oblivious and sheltered and one day the evil realities of this place hit you square between the eyes like a perfectly aimed bullet.

If this were a movie, I would ride off in some blood red sunset down a stretch of road into the wasteland that keeps us captive here...

But this isn't a movie.

These are the badlands."

It's her. Their leader. The one we've all been waiting to hear from. The one we've been looking for. We searched high and low for her rebel bases, but they always seem to elude us.

But now we've got her. Now we can travel to where she is. They call her Halsey, though no one knows her real name. I planned on finding out that information from her.

Right before I finally put an end to her.

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A/N

So this is my new Harry Styles fanfic called Badlands. I'm really excited for this story, and I hope you are too. Now a little thing you should probably know: this story is only going to start to be updated again once I finish my story called Rejects. I have so many stories going on, so once that's over I'll be able to write another story.

This book is going to be in parts with chapters in each part. Because this is based off the album (Badlands by Halsey, for anyone who might not know), each part will stand for each song on the album. It should make sense as I go along.

Also! This book is completely inspired by an edit of the Badlands trailer on YouTube. I put the official trailer for the album with this chapter, but after this, I'm going to have the Harry version that inspired this. It's by meg's edits on YouTube so go subscribe to her because her videos give me life.

Love you all!! Enjoy this!

~CC <3