004 // Video

[zmeyjr]

[The feed opens up on Rose, teeth gritted, propped up on a few mismatched pillows on a couch. She's clearly trying to suppress something and it makes her look more constipated than anything]

Alright. I get it. I've seen the videos. The Underworld can kiss my ass right now.

[She takes a moment, trying to breathe through it, trying to angle the

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[kicked_it_out]

I have alcohol.

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[zmeyjr]

[Yeah, pretty much]

You should have led with that. [Now for something she figured he wasn't expecting] I'm half Vampire. I don't drink blood or anything just... It's a thing where I'm from. So long as you don't snack on the unwilling, I don't care what you do.

[Still, the dead thing made him sound Strigoi and that made him not fit into everything she knew about Vampires, which despite her age, was a lot]

But if you're all, dead vamp walking... Why donor only?

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[kicked_it_out]

Half Vampire, is it? That's a little strange where I'm from. [Practically unheard of, really.]

I've a shiny soul residing in here. Brings with it all the messy morality I lived without for a bloody long time.

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[zmeyjr]

Yeah? Dead Vampires with souls are pretty unheard of where I come from too.

[She laughed... and regretted it immediately as pain shot up her leg]

Don't ask me how it works. I'm Dhampir. We're basically half human half vampire, but you can't have sex with a human to create one. Vampires have sex with Dhampirs, you get another Dhampir. Dhampir and a Dhampir you get a bucketload of nothing.

[And why, oh why was she explaining the mating habits of her kind to him of all people]

So how'd you end up all soulful then?

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[kicked_it_out]

[Out of all that, he only has one question.] Where did the first Dhampir come from? [What? It's important.]

It's a long, long story.

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[zmeyjr]

[That blank look on her face really says it all]

Don't know, never asked... [What, it didn't seem important!]

Cliff notes version?

[video]

[kicked_it_out]

I put myself through hell and found a soul at the end of the soddin' rainbow.

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[zmeyjr]

[OK now this is making her do a double take]

Did you ever get past it?

[Cryptic, yes. But for once in all their interactions, the edge of arrogance and sarcasm had vanished]

The guilt, of all the things you did, the people you hurt?

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[kicked_it_out]

[People ask the stupidest questions. Of course not.] There's a hell of a lot of people on that list and most of them I can't do a soddin' thing for. There's no use dwelling on it.

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[zmeyjr]

Oh. [It probably didn't matter much now she was here but hell, he was the first person... Vampire she'd come across in this situation that wasn't...]

Oh well. [Hello forced brightness] Didn't figure you would. [Just hoped]

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[kicked_it_out]

[A sigh.] I try to save people now. It's not to make up for it all. It's the right thing to do.

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[zmeyjr]

[There were so many questions that she wanted to ask but her teeth sunk into her lower lip - yeah she could totally write that one off as pain]

Yeah, it is.

[The ghost of a smile touched her lips. She'd maybe said that once or twice herself]

So does that mean you're all warrior guy now?

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[kicked_it_out]

That's me: champion for the weak and helpless.

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[zmeyjr]

[Hey, technically that meant her cause of the whole... damn it]

I'll be sure to send you the shining armor.

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[kicked_it_out]

I'm not so big on shining armor. My coat's good enough for me.

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[zmeyjr]

[Dear god, if he wore a full length coat she was going to find the nearest wall and beat her head against it, repeatedly]

Coat?