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"Here, eat this" A strange-looking pill is held in front of you along with a glass of water while you sit quietly on the dusty old couch, remnants of your lightheadedness still crawling through your mind. You gaze up to see Taehyung looking back at you with a straight face and you pass him a questioning glare before taking the pill from his hand, not to consume it but to study the tiny red contraption close up.

"What is this?" you ask rather rudely for you are more than annoyed at the entire vampire race right now, considering there ought to be more such monsters. The only thing they brought into your life so far is trouble and you are not even a tad bit happy about it. If it wasn't for them, you'd right now be at school with your friends, chatting away about the upcoming prom!

Taehyung chooses to turn a blind eye to your annoyance and keeps his cold demeanor on as he shoves the glass closer to your face, almost dropping some of the liquid onto your clothes. At this, you land him with yet another angry scowl but that too does little to no harm to the indifferent vampire.

"It's a pill made from vampire blood, it'll help heal your wound faster" Taehyung's indignant reply makes you widen your eyes and you look at him with utter shock.

"Gross!!" you yell before dropping the pill onto your lap, surprised to the core as to how he can even put forward such an offer. "You want me to ingest blood? That's insane!"

And that too not just any blood but a vampire's blood. Your insides churn up at the thought itself and you grit your teeth in disgust and aversion.

Yet your reaction only manages to earn a bored eye roll from Taehyung and he heaves a deep sigh before turning to face you dead on.

"Look woman, if you don't want the pill it's fine with me. Just keep your whines low when you bleed out to death through that wound on your neck..."

"Yeah right. I'm not dumb you know. I won't be bleeding out cause though slowly, the wound will eventually heal-"

"No, it won't. Vampires release a certain kind of deadly venom from their fangs when they bite somebody, which infects the nearby skin pretty badly. And that infection can only be cured by the regenerative cells present in a vampire's blood"

Your pulse rate accelerates quite a notch as you formulate a mental image of what Taehyung just said and that makes you snatch the glass from his hand. Picking up the pill from your lap, you gulp it down in one go but it still leaves a metallic aftertaste at the back of your throat. The vampire lets out a small but triumphant scoff, clearly rejoicing at your defeat and you can do nothing but rain him with an enraged grimace.

The fear and anxiety you previously felt around him have now somehow faded to nothingness. It's not that you forgot about his sharp fangs and emotionless eyes, they are still vivid in your mind but still, his presence doesn't scare you that much anymore. In fact, after the incident with Namjoon, you kind of feel secure having Taehyung around. Sure you are revolted by your own feelings but if Namjoon is to jump in front of you right now, you won't think twice before taking refuge behind the comparatively more familiar vampire. It's like something inside yourself is assuring you time and again that Taehyung is not here to cause you any harm.

"So......what's up with this cure thingy? I have a feeling that I somehow have it, though I don't remember buying or getting anything as such. But why do you guys want it anyways? I mean, that Namjoon dude wants it for sure, you... I don't know though. You blasted off through the window like a scared cat earlier when you learned that I might have this so-called "cure""

A futile one way chat with a stranger is still better than an awkward silence, which you are currently trying to break. You are well aware of the term "cure". It's something people often find in pharmaceutical shops that if ingested or consumed in some other way might provide relief from some sort of ailment. Well, there goes the dictionary definition of the noun "cure". But why are two undead creatures, who can't possibly be suffering from any humanely ailment, looking for it and how is it that a teenage girl who's a mortal human supposedly has it?

"You don't have the cure, you are the cure..." and the mystery prevails.

You've already been dumbstruck so many times within the last few hours that you don't even react likewise to Taehyung's blunt comment. Instead, you just stare at him with blank eyes, waiting for him to get the hint and elaborate. Lucky for you, that's exactly what he does.

"Your blood is the cure for vampirism. The myth says that a vampire who manages to drink a large amount of the curing blood will supposedly turn back to its mortal form within hours and will be blessed with a normal life for the rest of his or her time" Taehyung answers as casually as he can. However, you are caught off guard for this isn't a fiction you are familiar with. A vampire who isn't filthy rich and an aloof girl who's a potential cure, what kind of sick vampire novel is this?

"How can you be so sure that I am the cure?"

"Human blood can be sweet or savory depending upon the person's food habits but your blood tastes bitter like a medicine. So it's either you're the cure or you eat too much broccoli"

"Yeah, I'll go with the first one"

Springing up from the couch you start roaming about in the room, now much more engrossed in the topic than before. And also, the medicine seems to be working as you no longer feel as much lethargic as before. You didn't deliberately choose this new adventure, it chose you. Though this is a bit too much, but a thrilling life is what you always wanted. So it's only likewise that you get yourself accustomed. But to make that happen, you need more answers, more information.

"Do you know anybody else who has this curing blood?" you ask away without hesitation to which Taehyung shakes his head absentmindedly.

"There's only one and that's you. There's some prophecy about it, didn't your parents tell you about it?" he asks impassively.

A chuckle gurgles up your chest as the thought of your parents preserving knowledge about supernatural beings registers in your mind.

"What? No! They are just boring doctors, they don't even know about the existence of a supernatural world" you scoff before shrugging but that only brings confusion to Taehyung's face.

"What are you talking about? The cure is supposed to be born in a warlock family. Aren't you a witch?" He asks immediately, making the confusion spread to you with a pinch of offense.

"You partially dead piece of sh-! Do I look like a witch to you?"

"Do you really want me to answer that?" 

Taehyung looks at you with smug eyes while you stare him down with annoyed ones. The intense eye contact lasts for a couple of seconds as you search in your head for a savage comeback but when none comes to your rescue, you land him with a typical eye roll.

"You know what, I don't care about your stupid cure. You ruined my night so now I'm going to bed" saying so you turn around, ready to stomp your way into the room you escaped in the first place. However, you are stopped in your tracks by a high-pitched whine.

"Hey, why are you going there? That's my room!" yells a dazed Taehyung, with eyebrows furrowed and all.

"Well, not anymore" you answer simply before sprinting into the room and locking the door behind you.

"What do you mean? Aren't you going home?" you hear the vampire howl from outside the closed room. His audible annoyance soothes your soul and with a smirk, you respond,

"Nope"

"What? Why!?"

"You exposed me to Namjoon. So, what if I go back home and he sniffs out my whereabouts, shows up at my doorstep, and eats my family alive? I am not risking it and I'm not going back home. Do whatever you wanna do but I'm staying right here..." with that, you stride to the bed and let yourself fall on the mattress, sleep consuming you moments after.

└──» To be continued ✎ 。