••complete 2016•• harry has an abusive boyfriend and louis moves next door

❝I bet I can make you feel pain.❞ ❝I'd like to see you try.❞

It's 2031. The Protector Core - a surveillance & defense program for the wealthy's children - has corrupted society across Europe. For years, populations have been driven into poverty & sickness, reasons unexplained & sealed from the public. Serena has been the poster child of the Protector Core since she was 17 years old - wealthy, educated, heavily guarded, & suspicious of it all. That all changes when Harry enters her life, throwing her into an underground world built from the deception above. A world she never knew existed. The world of a Deviant. /// Strong language, violence, substance use, and sexual themes. Read at your own discretion. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2024 by cxstles

"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back. "And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms. I swallow. "Because you'll be the one to kill me first." // Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band. Appalled and frightened, she's trapped. *HIGHEST RANKINGS* #1 IN HARRYSTYLES #1 IN ONEDIRECTION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @happydays1d NOT ALLOWING TRANSLATIONS! CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH READ AT OWN RISK!