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It had only been a few days since I put the ad on Craigslist. "SWM seeks F vamp to receive blood donation in private setting. Possible repeat." I was expecting an email, but she skipped straight to ringing my doorbell 30 minutes after sunset on Friday night.
"I'm Alva," she said. "I saw your Craigslist ad." She didn't seem nervous or even cautious. Of course someone like her would be accustomed to the lifestyle.
She wasn't how I'd pictured someone responding to my ad. She wore downscale office clothes, including full-length loose pants and low kitten heels, plus a baggy windbreaker zipped all the way up and even a knit cap on her head from which no hair escaped. But her pale eyes pierced me hungrily like an authentic vampire's, and she was beautiful enough to get away with having extremely sharp and severe facial features.
"Come in," I said.
She swept past me, but not far into the house. She just leaned against the entryway wall with her arms crossed. "Shut the door."
I did. Instantly I was pressed shoulderblades-first against the wall by a slightly chilly hand on my chest, with another hand in my hair pushing my head over to one side so far and so fast I thought my neck might break. I know a vampire's fangs are an inch long at most, but the pain of penetration seemed to lance down to my stomach.
There was no accompanying reflex to move or escape. There was no fear. The bite effect suppresses those things. Clinically, I knew what to expect, so the localized rolling sting around my jaw and collarbone didn't surprise me, but if it had, I don't think I could have done anything about it. When she swiped her tongue over the punctures to spread coagulant, it was so fast I almost missed it.
She stepped back, completely physically disengaged. I gingerly straightened my neck, and despite myself, I touched the wounds probingly like the first-timer I was. In the time it took me to do that, she had left, even locking the front door before she closed it from the outside.
I felt a little faint, but also calm and confident. This too was an effect of the bite. Stage one: response to pain suppressed, inclination to hold still induced. Stage two: enzymes on the vampire's tongue encourage clotting around the wall of the blood vessel. Stage three: false sense of security (but in cases of dangerous or fatal feeding, stage two is skipped and stage three sets in before the vampire is done).
The average bloodbag in the scene is after that stage three feeling and thinks of it like a drug high. It's a fashionable alternative to certain recreational drugs. Some say it's easier to live a normal life as a bloodbag than on heroin. It's definitely cheaper if you can find partners. Some bloodbags even get paid.
Other bloodbags are in it as a fetish. To them, some or all of the process is a paraphilia. They might reach sexual climax simply from being fed on, but more often they have to touch themselves afterwards or arrange to be stimulated during. Vampires look down on these people, or so the stereotype goes, but they're so convenient that they can get what they want.
I was not in either category. I washed down two multivitamins and two vitamin C tablets with a glass of orange juice. With the right diet and a limited feed volume, you can safely v-donate as often as every four days. I put band-aids on the fang wounds — obvious as hell, but I didn't care who knew a vampire bit me. I definitely felt calm and confident, and it wasn't just from the effects of the bite.
When nobody had contacted me about the ad in the next 48 hours, I checked it and discovered it was gone. I wondered if it had something to do with Alva's ability to find my address. Maybe she worked for Craigslist and had decided to keep me for herself. I had mixed feelings about this. It wasn't according to plan, but it would make the plan more manageable. Still, I had been more ambitious. Goodbye, my dream of juggling six vampire women!
It was almost a week later when Alva reappeared. I didn't even know how she'd gotten inside my house. I was watching TV when suddenly the TV went off and I was lifted off the couch. "Wait!" I said.
I wasn't sure if it would have an effect, but she responded, setting me down on my feet and stepping back in a very measured way, like a duelist.
"I got a DNA test recently. I have a rare genetic condition. NUR-CLK3-B. This makes my blood addictive to vampires."
"Really?" said Alva.
"Yes, and withdrawal is pretty bad. The testing service said I should tell vampires before we did anything."
"Show me what they sent you."
I pulled up the email on my phone and handed it to her.
"'Inform v-partners before exchange of fluids,'" she read. "This is from two weeks before you posted your ad."
"Yes," I said. "I knew. What happened to that ad, by the way?"
"I had it removed," she said. "If you supplied anyone else, you could not keep up with me."
"How'd you remove it? How'd you find my address? Do you know someone at Craigslist?"
"No. I work for the government." She switched topics. "You deliberately addicted me to your blood."
"Yes."
"Now there is something you want from me, or else I'll go into withdrawal. You don't expect me to kill you, because then I would have no source of addictive blood. Also, the security camera on your porch recorded me, and it's a remote-upload model, so police investigation of your murder would be easy."
"We understand each other perfectly."
"How do you know I don't already have another source of this kind of blood?"
"I'm rolling the dice on that one," I said, wishing I could have done this part after a bite so the confidence would come more naturally.
"You are in luck. What do you want?" I was impressed with her poker face. Even in the middle of getting leveraged like this, she remained outwardly completely calm. Probably normal for all but the youngest vampires, and I got the feeling she was on the older side too, but still remarkable.
"I want a vampire girlfriend who does whatever I say to please me and get her fix."
"Huh." For several seconds she just looked at me. Then she licked her palm and pressed it to my forehead — another formal movement with seeming ritual significance. "Deal."
"Let's start small. Get on your knees and suck me off. You can feed when I'm finished."