Vampirical -- Lauren Jauregui x Reader

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She cracked a smile which soon turned into a laugh, a genuine, nose-scrunching, eyes-almost-closing laugh which tumbled out from her and into me, making the same fall from myself too.

"I actually love you so much." She laughed out and it reminded me of why we'd come upstairs in the first place.

"Lauren, what is all of this? What does it mean for me? For you? Where do we go from here?" I asked all at once and her laughter subsided.

"Let's sit down and talk about it." She replied, pointing towards the bed, and I happily obliged.

"What do you really want to know?" She asked me once we were sitting on the bed, leaning up against the pillows, but I looked over at her and didn't like the distance between us very much so I shuffled over and rested my head on her shoulder, despite its coolness through her clothing.

"Tell me more about this bond thing. All I know about it is that I love you and you love me; nothing else." I said, unable to stop the smile that returned to my lips and when I looked up, she was sporting a similar one.

"Well..." she thought for a moment, probably about where to start, "Okay, so it was only a theory really. I don't know if I even believed in it before I met you. Vampires we- we basically have things like soulmates. That's you, my bonded. It's kind of like how mutts have mates but more... emotional, I guess. You know that mutts have mates, yes?"

"Yeah, I guess. It's in like every werewolf book and movie out there." I joked, and her smile grew a little as she leaned her cheek against the top of my head.

"So you're my soulmate, so to speak. We're destined to be together... for as long as we both shall live." She said that last bit a lot quieter, and her smile faded with every word.

"Laur, won't you live way longer than me? I don't want to ever leave you. I don't want-"

"Yes, I will. You see... when Ally asked earlier if I'd sealed the bond, she was asking if I'd turned you. Since you're human, I'm supposed to turn you and that finalises the bond, makes it official, kind of."

"Oh." That's a little frightening. The memories of my hallucinations from before flooded my mind but I shook them away and thought of something else, "But won't you then want to drink more human's blood? If you drank mine?"

"No." She let out a nervous laugh, so I brought my hand over to hers and she quickly grasped it, stroking her thumb up and down, "Unless I was addicted before I bite you, which, as you've seen, is very possible... I wouldn't be addicted afterwards. You'd fill me up, actually, for a very long time. I wouldn't want to drink anything for a while, mostly so I could look after you while you transition, and it would help me be able to devote my time then getting you onto animal blood and calming you down a little. Newly-transitioned vampires tend to go a little crazy."

"When will you turn me?" I asked, and she didn't reply, so I did for her.

"Wait 'til I've graduated." I told her, "'Til I've got a place of my own, or probably live with you if you'll let me. Then do it."

She was silent once again, and I cuddled further into her as a yawn fell out of my lips. It was well into the early hours of the morning, after all, and I hadn't slept a wink all last night, too worried about what the wolves were doing to her and where she was, and then actually trying to save her.

That reminded me...

"What did the wolves do with you? Why were those people tied up in front of you?"

She gave me another moment of silence before she replied, "Well they knocked me out pretty bad, long enough to tie me up in that chair in that godforsaken basement. Then they... did some pretty horrible things. Then they wanted me to get back onto human blood so they picked three people who just happened to be walking by and drugged them so they wouldn't move or try to run away and then put them before me, tempting me. I thought of you, though, so I didn't drink them. Plus the stench of wolf wasn't very appetising. Then you came in and saved the day." She smiled again but her eyes were distant and I knew she was hiding something.

"Laur, what were those horrible things? What did they do to you?" My voice was shaky. They shouldn't have done anything to her! If I wasn't here -if I hadn't been so adamant to talk to Laur -hell, if I hadn't gone and fallen in love, she'd be perfectly fine.

"Nothing for you to worry about, my love." She replied and wrapped her arm around me, and I could've sworn I heard a Latin accent roll off of her tongue, "Just some broken bones, nothing I'm not used to."

"Are you sure?" I asked again, and she nodded and pulled me onto her before peeling the duvet back and patting the space I was just laid, but I didn't get off of her. She sighed lightly and moved a little so she could get us both under the duvet before speaking up again.

"Sleep, you're tired."

The duvet above me and the coolness of her below me reminded me of sleeping on the cool side of the pillow, except the pillow was human shaped and wrapped their arms around me protectively as I sprawled out on top of them. I liked it.

"Okay," I said with another yawn. All this thinking about yawning was definitely making me yawn more than I needed to.

Right before I fell asleep, I thought of something else.

"Laur?"

"Yeah?" She replied, probably looking down at me since I could feel her cheek on my head again.

"Can vampires fly? Like, like Marceline?"

She chuckled softly and shook her head no, "Not quite, but we can walk up walls and upside down and we can jump pretty high."

"That's so cool," I muttered before my eyelids fell too heavy to hold open any longer. I was furious with the 'wolves for treating her how they did, but I didn't tell her anymore. She didn't like it when I was worried or angry so I tried not to let it on. Instead, I focused on falling asleep in her arms, in her bed, and how damn good that felt.