Lost Alone In The Dark ● Calum Hood fanfiction ○

Chapter 55 ● Convince ○

"I'm not gonna believe that" Daphne replies back to Calum. "You better cause I love being a vampire; I'm so much stronger and so much more powerful" he responds to her. "But you're hardly yourself anymore" she responds to him. "Well this is the new me, get used to it" he replies to her. "Can you guys do something to help?" Daphne asks Michael, Ashton and Luke who seem to have turned into statues seeing Calum in this state. "Hello?! Earth to the three of you!" She shouts snapping them out of whatever trace they were in. "Sorry, it's just weird seeing him like that" Luke tells her. "You're not in control of yourself, please try to resist the voice in your head it's not yours it's Darren's" Ashton tells Calum. "I don't care!" he tells him in an annoyed tone. "Uh oh! I think we're gonna have to work a lot harder to make him himself again than we thought we had to" Michael tells them. "Why not just give up if it's that difficult?" Calum replies a question back to him. "I wasn't talking to you Cal" he answers him. "Well then don't talk about me in front of me when it's about me" he replies to him.

"You guys keep trying, let me know when you're done and I'll just sit back and enjoy the show" Darren tells all of them. "You say that like you don't have a part in it" Daphne replies to him. "Okay, I may have control over Calum now but I'm not him" he replies to her. "Yeah sure, I remember back when you did this to Valley and Cade had to wait a whole week until he finally managed to get through to her and give her the potion I made" she replies to him. "Well I'm not letting what happened to Valley happen to Calum I'm a lot smarter than I was back then" he replies to her. "That's where you're wrong Dare, yes you maybe smarter but I have people close to Calum that I'm working with as well as Valley herself so one of them will easily get through to Calum and he will become himself again" she tells him. "You say that as if he's not Calum now" he replies to her. "That's cause technically he isn't himself, he's your puppet or whatever" she replies to him. "He'll be so broken when he's human again, remember how Valley felt when you did this to her?" He states and asks her a question. "She hated everything she did while you were controlling her, she had a lot of regret and lost her identity for a bit but she managed to overcome it and I'm sure Calum will too" she answers him. "Wait, so that's what will happen to Calum when he's human again?" Luke questions. "Tsk-tsk why are you missing out important details when you tell them about what will happen to their best friend Daph?" Darren questions her.

"So you admit defeat?" Ashton asks Darren. "No, I didn't say that" he replies to him. "You used the word 'will' instead of 'might'" Ashton points out. "Slip of the tougue, I didn't mean it like that" he replies to him. "Why is everyone except Darren acting like I didn't choose that I want to stay a vampire? It's so frustrating" Calum asks them. "That's because you actually didn't choose to stay a vampire stupid" Luke replies. "I'm sure you wouldn't stay a vampire if he wasn't making you want to stay a vampire" Michael adds to Luke's reply. "I don't know, maybe you're both right" Calum replies to them. "No, they don't know what they're talking about, don't listen to them" Darren tells Calum. "No, wait yes Dare you're the one who's right, I think my mind is playing tricks on me" Calum tells them. "He's so confused, why can't we just give him the potion already?" Ashton asks Daphne. "He might throw it away or something so convincing him he needs to be human again is the best way" she replies to him. "From what I can see he's still partly in control of himself, so maybe if we could try and help him gain more control over himself we can give him the potion?" Michael suggests. "Before you people came here everything was fine but now it isn't, so why don't all of you leave?" Calum requests. "We won't leave until you drink the potion" Luke replies to him. "I'm not drinking that shit" he replies to him. "Calum doesn't want you people here, so maybe all of you should just listen to him and leave" Darren tells them. "You mean the Calum you have control over wants us to leave" Ashton tells Darren. "I'm gonna go see if Valley's still around, keep trying to reach him" Daphne tells them. Daphne leaves to go outside to see Valley.