#turns out being in a dark quiet enclosed space resets my brain a bit

[urbanbirdbud]

having a category 5 neurodivergent event (overstimulated bc all sounds all the time) so ive made a nest in the closet and am just chilling here in the dark eating pretzels and trying to not go insane

[noona-clock]

Better? - Part 2

I was going to write this even if nobody asked for it BUT SOMEONE DID!!! Praise. Tagging @vrutivru so you’ll see that it’s posted!

Genre: Vampire!AU

Pairing: Jaebum x You

By Admin B

Part 1, 2, 3, 4

When you realized what you were doing - kissing Jaebum - you pulled away, your eyes wide with panic and confusion. And when you looked at Jaebum, you saw his expression was just about identical to your own.

“I -- I --” you stammered, momentarily forgetting about the fact you were currently stuck in a dark elevator. Because Jaebum had just confessed to you. And you had responded by kissing him. “I’m sorry.”

“No, I’m sorry,” Jaebum replied. “I didn’t mean to just... blurt it out like that. I never meant to tell you, actually.”

Your brow furrowed at his statement, and you immediately got defensive. “Why not? Were you afraid I would attack you or something?”

“No! Y/N, that’s not it at all.”

“Then why did you never plan on telling me?”

“Because I know you’re not interested in me,” he explained. “I would just be making a fool out of myself telling you how I feel. Well, I did make a fool out of myself.”

“Okay, but you can’t really say that because I kissed you,” you reminded him.

“But your anxiety and adrenaline are both through the roof, causing biological shifts in your brain. You reacted erratically, of course.”

“Do you always have to be so... scientific?”

“...Yes? I’m a doctor.”

“You know what I mean,” you scoffed. “What if I kissed you because I just wanted to?”

“Did you?”

“I don’t know!”

“I rest my case.”

You huffed and crossed your arms over your chest, now thoroughly annoyed with him. But before he could say anything back, the lights came back on, and the elevator started moving.

“Aha! There we go,” he murmured, standing and turning the flashlight off on his phone.

“Do we still have to do tests?” you whined as you carefully stood back up. Your legs were still a bit shaky.

“We might as well! You’re here, we’re on the fifth floor now the power came back on...”

“Ugh, fine.” You followed Jaebum out of the elevator once the doors opened. He led you down the hall into the lab, instructing you to sit while he got the instruments he would need to draw your blood.

“Arm,” he said, waiting for you to hold your arm out so he could try and take your blood pressure. He wrapped the cuff around your bicep, squeezing the pump until it felt like your arm was going to fall off.

“Mmm,” he murmured. “Just as I thought.”

“What? What’s just as you thought? I don’t have blood pressure?”

“No, you do. It’s just very high.”

“Oh. Why would you think it would be high?”

“Because you were just in panic mode in the elevator. Your pulse will probably be too high to draw blood. Try to calm down, okay?”

“Oh, yeah, sure. Let me calm down after being stuck in a dark elevator and kissing you. Yep, I can do that. Easy peasy,” you replied sarcastically, rolling your eyes.

“Okay, then, you’ll just have to come back another time.”

“Or you can just forget about running your little tests on me at all,” you snapped. First, you got stuck in the elevator, allowing Jaebum to see just how terrified dark, enclosed spaces made you. Second, he sprang that confession on you out of nowhere. Third, you had kissed him out of nowhere. And now, apparently, your pulse was too high for him to draw blood. You shouldn’t even have a pulse! YOU’RE DEAD! All of this added up to make you one extremely annoyed, pissed off vampire.

You ripped the blood pressure cuff off your arm and stormed out.

You’d had your feed for the week, so you shouldn’t get hungry for a while... Maybe it was time you took a vacation. You realized now you hadn’t done anything relaxing since you’d been turned, and you deserved a break. Even vampires deserve breaks, okay?!

By the time you arrived back at your apartment, you were a bit calmer. But you still wanted to leave town for a couple days to refresh and reset. So you grabbed your laptop and looked for an AirBnb within a couple hours’ driving distance.

After searching through dozens of options, you found a quaint little cabin located in the nearby mountain range. You had loved visiting the mountains with your family growing up; your vacations there had always been so peaceful and relaxing. It sounded like just what you needed right now.

You booked it for tomorrow night, wishing you could just leave now. You were irrationally scared that Jaebum would try to contact you to, like... talk about what had happened. That was the last thing you wanted.

You spent the rest of your night packing and shopping for everything you might need at a secluded cabin. At the store, you made a mental list of what you would have packed for meals.

You really missed food. Pizza, especially.

You had tried to eat a few times before, but nothing tasted the same. It was all bland and dry, no matter which food you tasted. It was the worst.

You managed to get through the night without hearing from Jaebum, and when you woke up the next evening, still nothing.

Thank God.

As soon as the sun was completely down, you packed up your car and headed out, blasting your favorite road trip music through your speakers. You were looking forward to this more than anything you could remember recently.

When you arrived at the cabin a couple of hours later, you made sure to unpack everything before going to explore. It was currently freezing outside, and while you didn’t really feel weather like you used to, you still bundled up. For old time’s sake. And you didn’t want to have to explain yourself if you ran into anyone.

You walked for what seemed like hours, enjoying the mountain air, the peace, and quiet. It really was just what you’d needed.

After coming back from your walk, you spent the rest of your night reading, playing solitaire, and doing your best not to think about Jaebum. And you... kind of... succeeded. Until you went to sleep just before dawn.

He showed up in your dreams. Multiple times. You woke up sporadically, but every time you fell back asleep... there he’d be.

When it was finally dark enough to get up, you did what you normally did upon waking: you checked your phone.

GOD DAMN IT. There was a message from the dream lurker himself. You rolled your eyes as you opened it, but then when you actually saw the message... you were confused.

Why would he need to bring you blood? You’d just fed the other day. And you always went to him.

...Oh, shit.

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