"I'm speaking of romantic love specifically, not familial love or loving a friend. Although, in the 200 years I've been undead, I haven't experienced feeling love for a friend. And the possibility of familial love was taken away from when my progenitor left unconscious in an alley. Just like I was going to do to you. I'm sorry for that."
"I was a prostitute in London when I was turned. My parents were killed when I was young. I grew up in an orphanage. They turned out at 18, so I turned myself out at 19. I couldn't take begging for scraps anymore. After a few years things had gotten better.
I wasn't sleeping on the streets anymore."
"But then he showed up. I rember what he looked like to this day, but I never saw him again. He was tall. He had curly black hair and a pale complexion. He said he was an earl. He claid to be married with kids, but his wife wouldn't sleep with him anymore."
"I normally didn't do married n, despite how many of my prospective custors were married, but he offered an outrageous amount of money. It was enough to where I thought I could retire from the business. The offer was in exchange for becoming his exclusively and doing whatever he wanted to do."
"I reluctantly agreed. He was going to take to a grand hotel where he would pay for to keep a permanent room there, but things went wrong. He told he wanted to try out to make sure I was willing to go through with what he needed from ."
"I agreed that was a good idea. I asked what he wanted from . He said he wanted a lover, a confidant, and soone whose blood he could suck to sustain his immortal undead existence. He revealed to that he was a vampire, but he said even if I did not believe in vampires, which he said he was ok with, he would still need to suck the blood from my neck regardless."
"Again, I reluctantly agreed. This was quickly escalating beyond what I was ready for or accustod to, but the allure of a better life was too strong to make back down yet. He said he would just take a test bite to see if I reacted properly to it."
"He said that his teeth would release a paralytic into my blood stream that would render unable to move. He said that when my legs gave out, he would catch and hold up. When he initiated the test bite, sothing went wrong. I didn't react the way he expected or wanted to."
"I don't know why, but I instinctively bit him back and sucked his blood. He dropped when I did that. I went unconscious at that point and he left. I know this because he wasn't around when I woke up."
"I can guess what went through his mind. He wanted a consistent food source. He didn't want a progeny. Soone who couldn't produce life essence for him to feed off. Soone he would be held responsible for by the Vampire Association. So he abandoned , despite knowing I would beco a vampire."
"The first few years of my vampire life went about the sa as the previous three years. I continued to prostitute myself, only at night, but I only ever worked at night before so that was no different. The only real difference is I had to get thicker drapes."
"I never drank anyone's blood. I fed through sex. It's ironic that a prostitute would beco a sex vampire. Your blood was actually the third ti I've ever tasted blood. Sex got by just fine for 200 years, I didn't see any reason to change it. Also, it allowed to delude myself into thinking I wasn't hurting anyone."
"That I wasn't doing anything wrong. I wasn't hurting anyone long term. People felt groggy the next morning sotis. That was all. And they could bla that on the booze. It was Alice that got out of the prostitution business.
I t Alice ten years after I was turned. I had amassed a small fortune by then, I could afford to fumble my way into a new career."
"So I listened to her. I let her drag out of the alleyways and into the spotlight. The theatres specifically. Alice and I worked as actresses for a traveling theater company. We played minor roles in Shakespeare plays and supporting roles in the lodramas. The Lady of Lyons and The Stranger co to mind."
"We held main roles in the cody farces however. Lots of slapstick humor and quick costu changes. We had such a good ti with those. I would always catch the eye of a gentleman in the audience and he would join in my dressing room after the show." Continue your saga on empire
"Alice hated that. She would yell and scream at and say, "You're breaking my heart." I never really understood what she ant. I always thought she was trying to impose her morality upon . I was just as good at getting upset back at her. I would accuse her of being jealous that I always had a man and she never did."
"I feel awful about it now, but I couldn't tell her the truth. That I needed sex to survive. She would see as the monster I was, and I couldn't live with that. Instead I just acted like every night was an accident. That I was continuously falling into a bad habit. An addiction."
"Ultimately, it was these encounters with n in my dressing room that led to Alice's death. Alice's dressing room was right next to mine, so she could hear everything that was said between and the n I was with. One night was particularly bad. The man was really into degradation. He called a whore, a prostitute, anything to put down in order to turn him on."
"I didn't care. I was getting what I needed, life essence. But Alice cared. She confronted the man afterwards and gave him a piece of her mind. She said to him, "You can't treat her like that!" He said, "I can treat her however I want. I'm royalty." Alice said, "You may be royalty, but Victoria is twice the man you'll ever be!""
"He said, "What makes you think you know so much about her? You didn't hear the things she said to , in private. She's not as great as you think she is." Alice responded, "My dressing room is right next to hers. I hear everything she says, even in private! And I know when she's faking an orgasm and she faked it with you all night!""
"He said, "Shut up you stupid b*tch!" He punched her. Alice tripped backwards and her head hit the wall when she fell. Alice took ill after that incident. In modern terms she suffered a brain injury, but no one knew anything about that sort of thing at the ti. All they told was 'she'd taken a bad turn.'"
"She deteriorated over the next four days, until it beca too much for to handle. She developed a fever and seizures. She would periodically fade in and out of consciousness. I couldn't take it anymore. So I fed her my blood. I told her I was a vampire and that she was one now too."
"It was the weirdest thing. She seed to feel betrayed, but also touched that I would do sothing like that to save her. I didn't understand it. I hadn't fed for several days, so I needed to feed that night. The theatre troupe was going to leave town that night, but I figured I had ti."
"I told Alice to make sure they wait if I didn't return in ti. The search took longer than expected and I beca more and more desperate until I finally found a man, but he bashed in the back of the head afterwards. Made go unconscious. Probably would've killed if I weren't a vampire."
"I didn't get back to the campsite until noon the next day. The troupe was long gone by then, and so was Alice. I tried to find the troupe countless tis over the next twenty years, but I was always a step behind, until one day I heard the troupe disbanded. The mbers all went their separate ways, but no one could tell what happened to Alice."
"I still wonder where she is to this day. Is she still unalive? Does she resent ? Did she forget about ? Does she even think of at all? I've lived a long life and have many stories to tell, but my mories of Alice are so of my most treasured."
I didn't know what to say to that. I had never heard a more thick headed story of almost insane blindness to the feelings of others before in my life! I was tempted to call her an idiot.
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