A/N : Hey. So, I'm a student in Med school with a sleeping problem. Basically, Mr. Sandman hates me. So, I have grow this weird habit of tiring myself to sleep by writing a couple of words before I close my eyes. And since I read an article about Carmilla's fandom the other day on buzzfeed, I re-binge watched the whole thing and it inspired me some kind of plot. It's a Hollstein fanfiction because I identify as a Carmilla person with her Laura moments so I wasn't feeling like writing from Perry's point of view. So yeah, anyway, I thought some of you might like it.
CHAPTER 1 : [INSERT ADJECTIVE HERE] Danny
On a night of winter 1998, as 8 years old Laura Hollis woke up in the middle of night, she felt a sudden urge to pee.
Heavily yawning, she got up on her tiny feet and left her pastel bedroom for the darkness of the corridor. Everything seemed to be shadow at this moment, but the kid, mind still wrapped around her dreams, kept walking down the hallway.
Until her eyes fell on the figure of a giant cat, and she stopped.
"I'm sorry." the cat whispered, as blood dripped from its mouth.
Laura's chocolate eyes fell on her mom's dead body and the cat disappeared.
As a young girl, Laura's dream had always been becoming a famous journalist. But hey, things never work out the way you'd expected when you grow up. And, Laura did, grew up. And she grew up full of motivation. Because that's what happens when you're made out of optimistic material.
So, giving up on her bright future as a TV-presenter, Laura had chosen to study science, more precisely, vampire science. She had entered the most prestigious school in the country, and using her hard-working nature, she had done her best to stay on top of her class.
Until the letter came.
Honestly, Laura would have never thought she'd be this happy to receive a letter that wasn't from Hogwarts. Yet, she had been. Because being invited to work inside a top-secret lab searching for a way to kill vampire ? Perfect as Laura had felt like a witch about to work on a way to eradicate a whole bunch of deatheater. Except she was kind of a wandless witch. Oh wait, did that made her the female equivalent of Snape the potion master ? Well she certainly was skilled at vial-manipulation.
So Laura had packed her things and accepted the job. The next morning, she had gone in a private governmental jet that had landed in front of a giant building. Laura had jumped out of the plane with excitement, her dark blonde hair following in a gracious manner, and she had run toward the building, amazed as she had realized how glorious it looked.
Since the discovery of Vampire existence, every country in the world had built a policy in order to counter the threat they represented. Special forces had started patrolling streets and some vampire had landed in special prisons. And, eventually, realizing that what book told about how to kill a vampire didn't work, Labs like this one had been built, and researchers hired.
It had been a month now, and Laura had already met the whole scientific staff, easily becoming friend with most of it because of the fact that they were very few of them. Five little geniuses, or hard-working people, that had been selected by the government itself.
The first person Laura had met had been a person called LaFontaine. A red headed stylish scientist that always seemed to work on ten things at the same time. Laura had immediately liked her because how couldn't she have ?
Then, Mattie had come. A gorgeous woman with charcoal eyes and dark skin that had seemed a bit harsh at first, but as Laura had digged deeper, she had realized that the woman was actually nice behind her mask of irony and down-to-earth comments.
There was also J.P an energetic researcher who was also LF bff. Nice guy, very polite.
And Danny. Tall fit Danny.
Beautiful tall fit Danny.
Sculptural beautiful tall fit Danny.
Laura softly sighed, a dreamy look on her face as she stared at the nothingness. Until a high-pitched voice woke her up.
"Miss Hollis," Perry Dean said in the sharpest of tones "Why exactly are you drooling instead of doing your job ?"
Laura's eyes opened wide at the statement, and quickly, she wiped away any trace of daydream evidence left on her chin. Mrs Dean threw her a disgusted look. God, this woman was terrifying. Laura felt shame color her cheeks and she made an appological face. "Errr... Sorry."
Dean sighed with disdain and put both hands on her hips. With her flawless suit and high heels, she surely looked powerful.
And she was.
Being the boss, Dean had every right to fire anyone with a flick of the hand and a sadistic "bye bye.". Creepy woman with gorgeous looks. No wonder why LF had a crush on her, Laura probably would have too if the mere presence of her boss didn't cause heavy fear-sweating problem.
"You wanted to know something ?" Laura asked in an unsteady pitch as she bit her lips, suddenly feeling self-conscious.
"Actually," the dean said while sitting on the desk and crossing her legs in the most elegant of manners, "I wanted to inform you that there will be a vampire transfer this afternoon." Then grey eyes wandered on the desk and ignoring the vials, posed on Laura's junk food. Dean made a face, Laura too. "An old one. I'd like you to try it on this one. If it dies like the rest did, then perhaps we could find a way to turn the poison into a weapon and eradicate the leech from our society.". Dean then intensely looked inside Laura's eyes and added, "I count on you, Miss Hollis" before grabbing the junk food and leaving.
Laura didn't even protest when her boss stole her dinner, only sighing. "I guess I'll have to bring lettuce next time." Then her gase went back on the male vampire's body in his plexiglass cell and seeing him dead, she felt a bit better. Not that she was a sadist, but Laura had strong notions of good and bad. And, killing evil creature in order to bring peace ? Well that was only a means to an end.
Tying her hair into a high ponytail, she grabbed her half-drank cocoa cup and left room 67 for the white corridor that linked every room of the lab. It was almost 20 p.m now, which meant that the staff member were supposed to meet in the co-working room and exchange the info they had gathered today. Not much for Laura herself since the vampire she had been in charge of had spent his whole day rolling all over the floor, trying to fight against the poison, before eventually dying like the rest had.
Laura was confident that the poison they had synthetized was a major discovery. Being released in a gaseous form, the poison could be used without the need to approach the subject, which would prevent some death. Well, not all, since the recipe wasn't perfect and gas couldn't be used in the battlefield. But hey, since most of the captured vampire were now roting inside special prisons, it would be perfect to make more room. Besides, they had time to work on a way to transform it into a weapon.
Laura started happily humming as she walked down the hallway. Eventually entering what LF had named "the Headquarter" because this room was the only one containing a fridge which was actually meant for food.
"Hey Danny !" Laura greeted as soon as she saw her, "how was your day ?"
Danny, her tall fit self resting against the wall, waved in her direction. "The usual. Subject 23 is dead and Dean stole my sandwich because she said peanut butter wasn't healthy." she sighed.
Laura laughed, "Yeah, sounds like any other day." then, taking an apple from the fruit basket, she bit in it while still looking toward the red head. Breath, she thought, because she needed to act like a cool person. There was no reason Danny would want to hang out with herself otherwise.
So Laura tried to be a bit mysterious, imitating Danny's pose as she tried to lean on the wall as well.
She stumbled and fell.
"Ouch !" she said as her bum crashed on the cold floor. Geez, this wasn't cool at all.
But Danny automatically ran toward her and, being her charming-self, tried to help her to get back on her feet. Laura giggled as she felt stupid and yet extremely happy.
I should try and trip over myself more often. She thought.
"Are we interrupting something ?" Mattie asked as she entered the room, closely followed by JP and LaFontaine. Laura's cheeks reddened but she said nothing, pleased because Danny hadn't let go of her hand.
Hey, if you managed to reach the bottom of this page without ripping your eyes off, then thank you. You might be wondering why I'm saying this (or is it obvious ?), but the fact is, I'm French. Yep, that's why writing this is tiring, and basically why it works. So you probably stumbled across some homophone/grammatical mistakes such as "did wanted" or "throw/through/though" because to me it sounds the same or it sound better (even when it's not). Anyway my brain is a mess and I learnt english by listening to it so it's harder for me to write it down. I re-read the whole thing several times though but I'm probably blind to a creeping amount of mistakes.
A bit short uh ? Yeah, I know, the first chapter is short but I already wrote 5 of them. I think this will be around 10 chapters and 30 000 words and I don't know when I'll have the time to update, but I will. I mean, I write every night anyway. Some chapters will be longer than other, I just close one when I think it's done. And yeah, Carmilla appears in chapter 2 and you might want to start grabbing kleenex for chapter 3 because drama-alert and the following chapters too. Yeah, u know what ? Grab the box
Anyway thanks for reading and uh.. have a nice day ?
