Humans had grown increasingly predictable over the years, Brooklyn noticed. With the rise of technology, it was easy to misconstrue vampire lore. Anne Rice had a terrible grasp on them, along with Charlaine Harris. Stephanie Meyers was by far the worst.
(Vampires didn’t sparkle. Never had, never would. The memory and the attention to detail was accurate, however.)
The closest she had seen to truth was from the popular show The Vampire Diaries. Vampires could cross running water, they burned in the sunlight, they survived on blood, and they had to be invited in to private homes.
Something made this human interesting, however. She watched him with a wry smile. “You asked me to tell my story. So here I am. I honor my promises,” she replied.
he couldn’t help but the chuckle sheepishly. that one was his own fault, he could own up to it. “no -- not here, in this room with me, but here, this state, this place here.” he couldn’t imagine why a vampire would do things so mundane as hang around libraries and mingle with literature students. or allow themselves to be found out by a literature student. that didn’t seem very wise.
he’d always assumed they existed, ever since his summer abroad in europe. there was just something about the dreary streets of london and the fragrant city of paris that just made the implausible seem so very tangible. then he had found the diary of a poor inn owner in the eighteenth century, had spent hours pouring over its archaic english, decoding the spelling and translating its curling, ruined pages.
vampires had existed to him since, because as far as alex was concerned they had always existed, and now he’d actually managed to find one. “where...did you become a vampire?” he asked carefully, unsure if the question was considered rude. surly all of this was rude.
“and how long have you been one? were you human for very long before? are you changed or born? is it like in underworld? a huge clan of fancy, victorian style vampires?” he had the good sense to be embarrassed. “or...whatever you feel like answering is fine.”
