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     Jake and Bob didn't waste time on Kevin.  Jake pushed him out of the way and launched himself at the bathroom door.  Kevin screamed and ran out of the apartment and down the three flights of stairs to the ground level.  When he reached his car, Virginia was already there waiting.

     "How did you....?"

     "I'll explain later, let's get out of here!"

     "Vampires?" Kevin said.

     He sat on his futon couch, safe in his suburban home.  Virginia sat in a chair across from him.  "That's right.  You saw them."

     "I don't know what I saw.  Could have been fake teeth.  You expect me to believe in vampires?"

     She nodded.  "We exist."

     Kevin shook his head.  "You aren't a vampire."

     She opened her mouth and extended her fangs.

     "Whoa!" Kevin said.  "But I talked to you in the daytime.  You'd have burned to ashes or something!"

     Virginia rolled her eyes.  "That's so Hollywood."

     "What?"

     "In the daytime we're like regular people.  At night, we have supernatural powers."

     "But you ate regular food."

     "For appearances.  We can eat and digest food, even though we don't have to."

     "So you, like, drink blood?"

     "Preferably type AB.  Other types upset my stomach, but they'll do in a pinch."

     "That's gross!" Kevin said.  "So what's the deal here.  Why do they want you?"

     "The man who turned me into a vampire doesn't want me to be free.  He sent Jake and Bob to capture me and take me back.  At the start, I guess I thought Nathaniel and I were going to be husband and wife, but what he wanted was a mistress.  A sex slave who would never lose her beauty."

     "Jesus."

     "Sucks, doesn't it?"

     Kevin didn't want to admit how cool it would be to have a sex slave who would never grow old, so he nodded.  "Yeah."

     "Well, Nate grew tired of me, so I took what cash I could find, packed my supply of AB and took off.  I knew they'd look for me, but I thought I could keep a supply of blood on hand--avoid killing anyone."

     "And I broke your only two bottles."

     "That's right.  I had to kill last night to survive."

     "You killed someone who answered your personal?"

     She laughed.  "Actually, I killed some gang members who attacked me."

     "Oh.  That's okay then."

     "How do you figure?"

     "Self defense."  Kevin rubbed his chin.  "So what happens now?"

     "Now we have to be ready for Nate.  Jake and Bob will call him in now that I've been located."

     "They can't find us here."

     "Hate to tell you this, but once they found out what city I was in, it was easy to trace me.  Vampires can always find their own.  They'll be here in no time."

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