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To hunt or be hunted~Jimin

Hey everyone, it has almost two years but being in lockdown finally gave me some time (and inspiration) to write soms fanfiction again :)
Thank you so much for the 2k reads, I never expected this!

It was early in the morning, and Daya was setting up the conference room for the monthly staff meeting. She had only worked there for a year and was the youngest of her department. Yet, she was the staff supervisor, a job that was only recently assigned to her by Namjoon, the department manager.
Everyone in the office loved Daya, she was smart, emphatic and a social butterfly. She was small and pretty with fair skin, long brown hair and emerald green eyes. People felt some kind of appeal to Daya, even if she just did her job and bothered no one, people came to her with their problems and she gave them advice. Namjoon saw this immediately and offered her the job after only a few months. She tried to decline it, but he was so certain about it and persuaded her.
It was stupid of her to do it, but she secretly loved the attention and praise.
Daya knew that she had such influence on people ever since she was young, but this sky rocketed ever since she was bitten and turned into a vampire.

Yes, can you believe it? A vicious, blood sucking, people killing vampire.
Out of all people that could be turned into a vampire, someone turned one of the most emphatic people ever into one. It happened years ago when she was a teenager walking home from her after school job. It had been dark and a women approached her. She thought the woman looked strange, but she was too nice to ignore her, too naïve to see any danger. They talked for a while and the woman told Daya that she was too sweet, too fragile for this world. She told Daya that people would use her as a doormat if she kept doing things like she did. 'In this world it is to hunt or be hunted dear.' She bit Daya, sucked the blood out of her body, and left her alone to either change into a vampire or die. It must have been some cruel joke that she survived.
The first few months were the worst of her life. She had no control over it, killed people and burned their bodies after. She discovered she had persuasive powers and used them for anybody who suspected anything so she could never be caught. Daya was miserable, faked her death and left her parental home.

The following years were the worst ones of her life in which Daya lived on the streets in agony. She got better at controlling her ravenous hunger for blood, but it still did go wrong many times. At one point she learned how to use her powers to steal blood bags from the local hospitals. She thought she'd finally knew how to avoid killing people until she made herself a target for hunters by stealing enough blood for the town where she stayed to have a shortage. Daya was very lucky to have escaped them and never encounter another one. It was a traumatizing experience but it did make her realize she had to work smarter. After a some time of she learned to live with it properly. Daya discovered that the vampirism had some sort of influence on people. She had aways been a very social person. Daya had many friends and one could say she was kind of popular at high school, besides the ocasional abuse of her trust. People always had a tendency to follow her around and asked for advice, but it was almost ridiculous how much people liked and followed her now.
When Daya felt like she had enough control over herself, she interned at a publicity agency, everyone there loved her and she got a full time job after a month. She basically grew up working at the office, learned so much from her colleagues.
Until everything went wrong, she lost her cool and killed three of her co-workers during a teambuilding camping trip.
Everyone thought Daya was dead along with the people she killed. She changed her name and moved far away. She ended up in the city where she lived now.

So now there she was, setting up a meeting knowing that she was taking a very big risk by taking this higher position after only being there for a year. As she was setting up everything, Daya got more nervous. It was the first time that she was going to lead a staff meeting. The people that now worked for her had far more experience and she was aware of that. She was planning on changing stuff around the office and there was a big risk doing this to people who had been working the same way for years. Still, Daya felt like she could make some very good changes for everyone, even if it was scary. She felt her heart beating rapidly and knew it was going to be very hard to stay in control with so many people in one room. Being nervous made her bloodcravings bigger.
 It was only a few minutes before the meeting would start and Daya could almost smell the blood bags (aka humans) waiting on the other side of that door. Why was she so stupid? She never should have accepted this job. But now she was in it and she would lie to herself if she said she didn't secretly love it, even if it made her nervous sometimes. Maybe she just liked having more power; being able to control something for once without directly using her vampire powers.