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Jessica Hamby || True Blood (brattyvampire) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2010-06-15 02:37:00

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dracula, jessica hamby

WHO: Jessica Hamby and Dracula
WHAT: Getting dinner.
WHEN: Around 11PM January 14th.
WHERE: The seediest part of town they can find.
WARNINGS: There will be blood. But no dead people.

Jessica wasn't really all that used to having to not live off of TruBlood. Really, she was torn about if she liked the idea of not having to drink it all the time or not. On the one hand, no more dinner that tastes like ass. On the other? She didn't want to be a vampire, therefor she didn't want to always have to bite people for dinner. What she wanted was to be a normal teenage human girl. Not some undead freak who's hymen grew back every time she had sex, therefor it had to hurt like hell every time it happened.

And yes. That was worth mentioning. Because Jessica was very hung up on that fact.

But either way, if she wanted to or not Jessica had to eat. She had no idea where any bloodbanks were in Lawrence, or anywhere back home for that matter, and animal blood was horrible. Like, way worse than TruBlood. So when Dracula offered to take her hunting she accepted. Much as she hated being a vampire, human blood did taste the best.

So after he made the offer she changed into one of her pretty new, not to mention free, dresses and a jacket to blend in before heading out to meet him. Luckily, she was faster than the average human, by a lot, so it took her no time at all to get to the designated place. Now all she had to do was wait for him to get there.

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brattyvampire
2010-06-17 05:59 am UTC (link)

Considering the fact that Jessica had only been a vampire for just over a month, she really wasn't sure of what to do with herself just yet. Heck, she wasn't even all that sure of how to do most of what she knew vampires were supposed to be able to do. Eric had taught her some when he felt like it, but he didn't always feel like doing that sort of thing. Still, he taught her a whole lot more than Bill ever did, and Bill was the one that was supposed to be teaching her, what with being her maker and all. Maybe he was just stupid and thought that if he didn't teach her he hadn't really had to make another vampire, but not teaching her wasn't going to change what she was. It would just make it harder for her to stay alive. Or, well, stay up and moving around.

She didn't jump or anything when Dracula was suddenly walking up behind her, even though she'd been more worried about running her fingers through her hair, trying to make it look less windblown from the run she had gone on. Instead, she just turned around and grinned at him. "Hey, Drac," she said simply, her northern Louisiana accent apparent even in those two words. Usually she didn't nickname people so quickly, but she figured she might get weird looks if she went around calling him Dracula in public. But then he was asking her a question that made her nod. "Yep, I'm ready. I haven't eaten in like two days so I'm really hungry."

At least she didn't have to eat as often as she did when she was a human. Now she could go a couple days without meals before she started getting testy and irrational.

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betrayedchrist
2010-06-18 12:48 pm UTC (link)

It was a very good thing Judas didn't know just how inept Jessica's maker was. Regardless of the vampire's person feelings on the issue of synthetic blood, it was irresponsible in the extreme to completely disregard the hunt when teaching a new vampire. Humans could often not experience something and simply not know what they were missing. Vampires could too, but this was not one of those cases. The temptation to feed from a human was always there. It was what they were built for. How could someone choose to resist such a temptation when they never knew the other side?

Judas was perfectly fine allowing Jessica to make her own choices in unlife. He wasn't her maker, and therefore she wasn't his responsibility. So he was taking her hunting, that meant little. He was just trying to help, which was such a new thought he had not fully digested it. However, he did feel she needed to make an informed decision, and especially in a world where the choices were simply human-or-animals, she needed to know the taste of both before she could truly decide which diet she wanted to adhere to. One could not make an informed decision without the experience. Still, if she backed out now, he would respect that.

The accent reminded him of his previous time in Louisiana and it actually drew a small smile from him. This was odd. He was being pleasasnt. He didn't mind the nickname. You could tell by how he didn't become disdainful or simply leave. Besides, there was wisdom in her avoidance of the name Dracula in public. Likely most of the assembled masses would think the two of them crazy, or perhaps assume they were...what was that word he read about? LARPing. Still, in a world where hunters appeared to be more prevalent, one could never be too careful. Judas really didn't want to kick things off with a bloodbath, which would be necessary should hunters come after him.

When she said she hadn't eaten in two days, one eyebrow arched again, this time in concern. A famished fledgling was a delicate matter, especially a famished fledgling eternally stuck as a teenager, as Jessica likely would be in some form. At least, if her world's form of vampirism was anything like his, she would be. Even an adult fledgling could find it hard to control themselves during a feeding if they were famished, one who was still gripped by the whims and emotions of a teenager could be even worse.

He would just have to keep a watchful eye on the proceedings. If it looked like things were slipping out of Jessica's control, he could step in. It was very convenient, having the ability to edit the memories of a human like they edited their little films. "Very well." He nodded towards the humans moving about them. Then he lowered his voice to a stage whisper and moved closer to her so she could hear it. "You have options. If you simply wish to feed and be done with it, anyone will do. If you wish for things to be a bit more pleasant, and to be a bit less blatant, you should choose someone that pleases you and coax them into an alley. How is up to you, but it should be in a way that allows you to feed from them without them knowing. Many vampires seduce their prey and use the excuse of," he paused here, looking for the right word, "I believe the common term today is 'making out' for why they are spending an inordinate amount of time on their prey's neck. If that is unsavory, I would recommend pretending to be in need of some aid and luring them into the alley that way. Some memory editing may be necessary afterward, however."

He wasn't really sure how much she did and didn't know about hunting. Right now, he was assuming she didn't know much, given what little he'd learned of her maker. He actually wasn't giving the advice in a condescending manner, though, which might have been a first for him. Then again, she was a vampire, and at least in some loose sense that meant she was one of his people. Had anyone really known him, they would not be surprised to find that he did have a gentler side toward those of his people that did not displease him, as the "harpies" had.

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brattyvampire
2010-06-19 03:16 am UTC (link)

Jessica nodded as Dracula spoke, thankful that there was someone that was seriously willing to teach her what she needed to know. Hopefully, he'd have tips on some of the stuff that the vampires in her world could do, especially since it seemed like the small handful she'd come across here weren't able to do them. Like flying. Eric could fly but he wouldn't tell Jessica how or anything, which was so unfair. Because flying seemed like something that would make being what she was a little better.

But she did notice that he wasn't talking to her like a five year old, and that seemed to be pretty rare for vampires when they were speaking to the so-called newborns, which was another thing that wasn't fair. Just because she hadn't been a vampire for very long didn't mean that she was a complete idiot, and that's what so many of the others seemed to think of her. "Eric taught me the basics of huntin', at least," she said simply once he was done speaking. It might be good if Dracula knew what she knew, at least. "And glamors are no problem. They're like... the one thing that Bill bothered to teach me, and I'm really good at them. He even got mad at me once cause he had trouble overridin' one that I put on someone, and he was alive during like... the civil war or something. So he's pretty old."

That thought made her smile a little. She hadn't been all that fantastic at many things in life, mostly because she hadn't been allowed to try many things in life, but glamors she was a natural at.

"But anyway, the basics were all I really needed back home since, you know, vampires are all out in the open there and everythin' and there's all sorts of people who just want to get bitten." That made it a lot easier to hunt, when people were looking for vampires. And not looking for them to kill them, but because they liked being bitten and everything. But here that wasn't really the case. Here hardly anyone knew that vampires were real and out of the ones that did know there didn't seem to be very many that were willing to offer themselves for a meal. Even if a bite seriously wasn't just going to kill them or turn them or anything like that.

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