Chapter 03: Meeting Another
The hardest was the first few months after I had disposed of my Maker, mostly because I knew nothing of our vampire culture.
I started out on my own making it to another city and becoming a whore there. I would walk the street early on in the night enjoying my freedom from serving others, ironically dressed as I was, I did it for me. Depending on my mood I would kill on the street going down a back alley and coming out alone; or I would bring them back to my apartments and fuck them to my orgasm, biting down on their neck at my peak. I had meager apartments compared to the rooms I had at home, and no maids but I liked that independence. I no longer had to worry what anyone thought of me or the responsibility of taking care of them.
I moved often to different cities for necessity of fresh meals and to explore what I had been shut off from. But as I moved I glimpsed those that were like me, they had a different feeling than the humans around us. The first few I saw I stayed away from hoping that I wasn't intruding on their hunting grounds, but as time went on I found myself wanting to know more about them and our kind. I had just thrown a murderer in the river after feeding upon him and felt him behind me. Turning I poised myself for a fight but heard him laughing.
"I have no fight with you miss," he said with a chuckle, "just wanting to converse with another one of us."
I let myself relax, but looked at him with my ability and found he was curious and friendly. "I must admit you startled me."
At that he raised his eyebrow but said, "If you would like my residence is but a block from here, then we can talk in comfort, or we could take a walk if you rather."
I thought about it, "We can go to your home." I followed him into a modest house with a lush garden filled with moonflowers, bright and open at night for him to enjoy. He brought me to his library and we sat in cozy chairs before a fire.
"I would offer you drinks but I do believe that you did just had some."
I giggled, "I do believe you are correct, I hope I did not interfere with your hunting."
"No I tend not to hunt so closely to my home, but do not worry about your meal, as I have a feeling that the river will take him far from here. I must admit that I rarely see vampires as young as yourself out alone nor doing as well as you seem to be doing."
If I still had the ability to blush I know I would be, "Thank you, I was a fast learner and found I wanted my freedom than to learn more from him."
"Ahhh that would make sense because if I had been your maker I wouldn't have let you out of my sight, but as it is I have never been in his place. Could never see bringing another into this cursed life," he glances at me, "I am sorry, when you have lived as long as I have you will find that one becomes jagged."
"You need not to worry, I do understand. I do not want to bring this upon another, but I must say that I am enjoying it as long as I am what I am now. So I must ask how old you are as you seem not a day older than 25?"
"I was only 24 when I was turned, my family having just died from the plague and I sick with it when he came. He asked if I wished to be cured and be his companion and in my fevered disillusion I had said that I would do anything to live. I still remember the fire in my veins burning out the disease bringing back from the edge of death, but I was alone in my survival. We stayed companions for almost a decade touring Europe and finding comfort in each other, but after that we started getting into fights and finally I left and started on my own way. That was almost three centuries ago."
Stunned I looked at his library instead of his loneliness and found that all the wall space had been built into book shelves and covered with all types of books. He followed my eyes and said, "I became an avid researcher in my free time and find salience in the information they bring. One of the many topics is the stories of vampire's beginnings, but it is tough to find anything that isn't fictional."
"What do you know of vampires, as I know so very little?"
"I know that there have been vampires before the written history, there seems to be a lot of stories of a single or a couple that started the infection but from there it is uncertain. I am sure that you know that we do not parish as some humans think nor do we have aversions to crosses or garlic. However I still enjoy the stories and research that keeps me busy, one has to past the years somehow. Now what of you, what have you been up to in your youth?"
"I've been mostly getting by, hunting and getting ... to shows or such. Mainly moving from city to city seeing what each is like." I was hoping that he wouldn't notice that I hesitated almost admitting that I was using the men for my sexual needs, but I had no such luck.
"You were going to say something else; I cannot help but see that you have become a whore to trick your prey. Now I wonder if you have been using it to also gain other necessities." A small sly smile forms on his face and I find that I am feeling a bunch of emotions: anger, humiliation, and lust.