The Dark Side

AN: Hello everyone and happy Spooky Month! I wasn't going to release this until closer to Halloween, but I'm impatient haha

This story came to life after I listened to the song 'The Dark Side' by Alan Walker which I highly recommend. I have never written anything like this before, so I hope it goes down well!

Chapter 1: Primal Instincts

Don't be afraid

The shadows know me

Let's leave the world behind

Take me through the night

Fall into the dark side

We don't need the light

We'll live on the dark side

The first time she saw him he was slamming the front door shut of his family house and stomping down the drive, his jaw clenched in frustration and hurt, his heart pacing with adrenaline. El could hear it from the forest where she watched him, hidden in the shadows of the trees.

She could hear the pumping of his heart and the whoosh of blood that spread through his body. It made her mouth water as she dug her nails into the bark of the tree to try and feign off her hunger for him.

El had never experienced a lust like this before. Never truly giving into her primal instincts unlike the others. But that was before his scent drew into her nostrils, dilating her eyes and making her thirsty for him and only him.

She closed her hazel eyes that were streaked with red from the moment of her transition and listened to his thoughts, using a combination of her new skills and the telekinetic powers she was born with.

His name was Michael Wheeler, although he preferred Mike. He was 21 like El had been when she was turned, forever frozen at this age. Her fingernails dug further into the bark of the tree as she continued to listen to Mike's thoughts and feel his emotions.

He was scared and angry. He had come home for the summer from college to find that his parents were fighting again, only this time it was volatile. His father had always ignored him his whole life, disappointed in his only son and forcing him to take an engineering programme in college when all Mike wanted to do was teach. And his mother? Well she was more concerned with her sordid affairs with much younger men to notice her son.

Mike had enough, packing his bag and leaving his family home and parents behind him as he headed to his friend Will's house. El couldn't help but smirk slightly to herself when she realised that the Will Mike was friends with, was El's same friend. A newly fledged vampire.

She found herself following him, her sense of smell and instinct taking over, leading El to her prey. She would have been surprised that Mike was walking in the dark to Will's house instead of taking his car if it wasn't for the fact that she could read his thoughts. She knew he wanted to blow off some steam, needed time to think alone.

The humanity inside of El flickered to life and she blinked, allowing her hold on Mike's thoughts to loosen. If he wanted to be alone with his thoughts, then she would allow it. It didn't mean she would stop following him though. He was alluring to her in a way she had never experienced before. She wanted him and as her skin tingled with desire, she wasn't sure if his blood was the only thing she wanted.

Mike was moving through the woods now, clearly knowing a short cut to Will's house. El followed him, keeping her distance for her sake and his. His scent was overpowering her, and she honestly didn't know how she would react if she got any closer. But the decision was taken out of her control when Mike suddenly froze and turned around, their eyes immediately locking.

They both gasped in unison, El from the contact of his dark eyes, so captivating and magnetic to her soul. Mike gasping not only from the fact that his intuition that he was being followed was correct, but that he was being followed by the most beautiful and ethereal girl he had ever seen.

El could hear Mike's heart skip a beat as he stared at her and she practically felt the ghost movement of her own heart pounding with adrenaline and desire. Her mouth began to ache, her gums begging to release the sharp teeth that would sink straight into Mike's neck, his scent and pulse pounding against his skin making it incredibly difficult to resist him.

"A-Are you okay?" Mike stammered, the sound of his voice, so warm and soft it made El dizzy. "Are you lost?" He asked as he moved a step closer to her. His dark amber eyes flooding with concern as he took in how white her skin was.

His proximity was not helping her primal instincts as a hint of her sharp teeth crept through her gums as she stared at Mike, her eyes darkening. El tried to fight her desire, her need for him as she took a careful step back.

"I'm sorry," Mike gulped, his perfect eyes wide with embarrassment as he noticed her edging away from him. "I didn't mean to scare you."

El almost wanted to laugh at his words. Him scare her? Oh, if only he knew…

"You didn't scare me," she whispered softly, her words travelling along the slight breeze of the summer night to his ears, prickling his senses as he stared back at her with a growing intensity.

She knew he could feel it too. There was something between them, her whole body and her mind screamed it. Soul mates. In another life he should have been hers and she should have been his. If she had never been turned, if she had never become a vampire.

Mike cleared his throat, El's gaze snapping to his Adam's apple which bobbed nervously. Her eyes grew darker and her teeth ached desperately, wanting his blood, wanting the softness of his warm flesh on her mouth, completely under her control. El's thirst was only growing, her body practically sweating with desire.

"Can I walk you home?" Mike croaked weakly, subconsciously tightening his grip on his back pack. "These woods aren't that safe. Especially at night."

El carefully bit down on her lower lip to stop herself from smiling too widely. She loved that he was trying to protect her despite the fact that she didn't need it. She could look after herself, even before she became a vampire.

"I was walking to my friend Will's house," El spoke innocently, her hazel eyes gentle but a sly smile threatened to curve her lips when Mike gaped at her in surprise, blinking in confusion.

"I'm going to Will's too," he said breathlessly, the low tone of his voice making El's ghostly heart beat pound. "I didn't know he knew someone so…" Mike coughed awkwardly, his pale cheeks blushing as he averted his gaze to the forest floor.

El smirked playfully, watching him intently for a moment. He was beautiful, especially when he was embarrassed, and his heart was jumping erratically in his chest. "So what…?" she asked innocently, fluttering her dark eyelashes slightly.

Mike gulped loudly as he looked back up at her, the hand that wasn't holding onto his bag went to the back of his neck, only exposing the skin more vividly to El. It made her want to sink her teeth immediately into his flesh, to really know what his blood tasted like. She clenched her fists to stop herself, wanting to know what his response to her question would be.

"I…um, I didn't know Will knew someone so beautiful."

El knew she shouldn't be surprised. After all she could hear the alluring racing of Mike's heart. But his words still sent a shot of electricity through her body as she stared back at him, her lips parting slightly in awe.

She was a vampire, a creature of the night, a predator. And yet this man, this living human was making her weak at the knees. He had his own control over her, something he didn't even realise yet.

El's natural primal instinct told her to fight back for dominance and she very carefully took a step closer to Mike, watching through darkening eyes as his nervous gaze danced over her features while his heart pounded. Those amber orbs captivated by her and the beat of that perfect heart was alluring El more than she could ever explain.

It would be so easy to have her way with him, right here in the shadowy woods where no one would hear him gasp. No one would see him succumb to her as she sunk her teeth into his neck. Her mouth watered but as El kept her focus on Mike's eyes she found herself able to fight the urge to take what she wanted from him.

Instead she smiled sweetly, her eyes hungry as her stare flickered between his untameable dark hair, his long nose, those sharp cheek bones, his tempting dark eyes and onto his lips. Those lips.

El licked her own dry lips as she stared at Mike's. They were almost red in contrast to his pale skin and plump, filled with blood. She managed to supress the moan that wanted to leave her throat at the image of her sinking her teeth into his bottom lip. She could practically taste it on the tip of her tongue as her body ached with thirst.

With great difficulty El managed to remove her gaze from Mike's lips, slowly moving back up his perfect face until she met his eyes again. They captivated her in a different way to his mouth. His lips were a promise of desire and deadly hunger, but his eyes. El could have drowned in them, they were so soft, so open to her.

She took another step closer to Mike, his scent threatening to overpower her as she tried desperately to stay in control of the situation. El didn't take her eyes off the amber orbs as she moved forward, hearing Mike's heart trying to jump out of his throat at her proximity.

"And I didn't know that Will knew someone so handsome…" she whispered the words, her breath swirling delicately in the cold air between them.

El didn't miss how Mike inhaled sharply at her words or how his eyes widened in shock. She smirked playfully at him, enjoying his body's reaction to her for a moment before speaking again. "Would you like to walk me to Will's house?" Her words were gentle and quiet, but she could tell they may as well have been screamed within the dense forest for the reaction they caused in Mike.

He nodded his head quickly, his eyes bright and alert. "Y-Yeah," he stammered, shuffling from one foot to the other. "I'd love to." A shy and sweet smile quirked on his beautiful lips and El felt herself swooning. He was so delicious.

She smiled back, a flirtatious grin that only heightened Mike's racing heart as they walked in the direction of Will's house. El could see his eyes darting from looking at her every few seconds to following the dark path in the woods.

"I'm Mike by the way," he finally blurted out, running his tongue over his lips, wetting them and making El's eyes darken with desire as she watched the glisten on his mouth for a moment.

She finally looked up at him, both of them walking side by side while she tried to tame her desires to sink her teeth into this gorgeous and captivating human being. A sly grin curved onto her lips as she stared at him, "you have a cute name. My name is El."

Mike blinked at her in surprise when she complimented his name, a red blush creeping into his cheeks, only reminding her of the perfect supply of blood under his pale skin.

"I've never been told my name is cute before," Mike chuckled nervously as he split his focus between staring at El and then hurriedly looked ahead of himself. "But you're name, that's pretty. Really pretty."

"Thank you," El answered with a wide smile that made Mike's heart jump. Her fingers itched to touch him, wanting the warmth of his skin, craving the taste of him; she could practically feel it on the tip of her tongue and it was making her delirious.

El had always managed to control her lust for human blood, being able to satisfy the need with animal blood instead. But Mike…he was different. He was adorable, cute and beautiful. And yet he was mysterious, addictive and more tantalising than he realised. If anything, he was more dangerous than El was.

"So," Mike coughed awkwardly, his clammy hands gripping onto his back pack. "Do you live in Hawkins? I'm pretty sure I've never seen you around before."

El managed to bite back her honest answer as she tried to think of what to say that would have at least a semblance of truth. "I have lived in Hawkins for a while…but I was home schooled and didn't really go into town much."

"Oh okay, cool." Mike smiled nervously. "I go to college in Chicago, I'm just home for the summer, but um…"

El's ears pricked at the stutter in Mike's breathing and she turned to look at him properly, curious if he would admit to the fact he was leaving his parents' house for good.

Mike ruffled his dark locks completely captivating El for a moment, her eyes glazing over with need and her ghost heart aching at how incredibly attracted she was to him.

"My parents are assholes," Mike finally said in a shaky laugh. El frowned, hearing his desperate thoughts, his need to make his parents proud, his longing to be loved and to belong. Her human empathy was back in full force, hitting her just as strong as it had before she became a vampire.

"Is that why you're going to Will's house?" El couldn't help but ask quietly even though she already knew his answer.

"Yeah," Mike nodded, giving her a small grateful smile for taking the topic off his parents. "He's been my best friend forever. I'm actually surprised he never mentioned you." A strange look filtered into Mike's eyes and El almost snorted from the question she could see bursting into his thoughts.

He coughed awkwardly, averting his eyes to the forest floor as they got closer to the edge of the trees. "Are you Will's girlfriend?"

El was proud of herself for controlling her laughter and tried to look serious as she turned her hazel red eyes back onto Mike. "No. I don't have a boyfriend."

He looked back up at her so quickly she distinctively heard the crick in his neck from the strain. It only made her mouth water more at the thought of that gorgeous pulsing point at the base of his neck, god she wanted him. His blood, his body, all of him.

"You don't have a boyfriend?" Mike asked in disbelief, his voice thick and his eyes perplexed. "But you're so h – I mean…"

"Hot?" El couldn't help but tease him as they stopped walking, loving and hating how his cheeks filled with blood. Damn that gorgeous man.

"I didn't m-mean," Mike began to splutter, his heart beat so erratic it was kind of deafening El. "I meant…um…I well, okay…you're hot…"

He looked mortified and El couldn't help the giggle that escaped her body. Mike was surprised by her reaction and he blinked in confusion, looking at her in awe.

El stared at him, her pupils dilating and her nostrils flaring slightly as she took in his tall slim frame, his broad shoulders, the dip of his white t-shirt showing off delicious collarbones, his bobbing Adam's apple and then that face. Her own breathing was coming out ragged as her gums ached for release and her skin felt too tight to contain her.

She took a step closer to him, she couldn't help it. Mike's lips had parted slightly as he stared at her, she could tell he was attracted to her too. That his own primal instincts wanted her, that his soul was calling for hers, that his heart belonged to her.

El's body was taking control as she tentatively reached out with her right hand, her fingers twitching with contact as her palm slowly brushed against Mike's cheek as she cupped his face.

She felt electricity spark from the tips of her fingers, rushing down her arm and straight into her chest. It was so powerful it might have even started her heart once more. El knew Mike felt it too, his breath catching in his throat as his dark amber eyes settled firmly on El's gaze, drawn in by her.

Her thumb carefully caressed along Mike's cheek bone, the man in question barely breathing as he stared at her in disbelief of her actions. When he finally stuttered out a breath, the warm air was pulled into El's lungs and her eyes immediately darkened.

Mike was captivated by the way her irises became flooded with red, his attraction and awe not leaving any room for logic.

Through El's lust and her urgent need for his blood, she could feel sharp fangs creeping out of her gums, ready and waiting to be released on him. Her eyes flickered to his long neck, to the fast beat of his pulse, the whoosh of blood racing through his veins.

El began to lean in, her eyes focused solely on Mike's neck as he panted in anticipation.

It was time. Time to make him hers. Time to feast on him; his blood, his body. His life.

His life.

El swallowed anxiously, her clouded thoughts clearing as she remembered how Mike wanted to be teacher in the future. How he was trying to make his parents proud. That he wanted to belong.

She couldn't do this to him. He was too good.

At the last moment El steered away from his neck and moved up to his ear instead, closing her dilated eyes to try and ground herself as she whispered, "I think you're hot too."

She ignored the way Mike's Adam's apple bounced with his sharp intake of breath and how his heart smacked against his ribcage. Instead El straightened up, giving Mike a coy smile as she started to walk again.

"Come on," she beckoned him, her eyelashes fluttering slightly in the moon light. "We're almost there."

Mike stayed rooted to the spot for a moment and El took advantage of the separation to inhale some desperately need air, the redness in her eyes subsiding slightly as she tried to control herself.

She planted a smile on her face as Mike hurried over to her, walking back into step beside her. Behind her smile was pain; not just at the fact that she was fighting her primal instincts. But because she wanted him, wanted him as more than a meal.

She couldn't have him though. He was a part of the light side, he was still trying to find where he belonged.

And who was El to control his destiny?

AN: Okay I'm nervous! What did you guys think? Are you excited about this one? I'm currently thinking it's going to be 3 or 4 Chapters long.

Stay tuned for Chapter 2 when we'll meet some more vampires ;-) As always thank you so much reading!