Lucy and I decided to open more wine and have ourselves a little interview. Isabelle’s rules are in full effect which means typing up my scribbled hand written notes into this blog might take time. Why didn’t I just type them into the computer while doing the interview instead of using short hand (which I hadn’t used since college)? Because it’s fucking impersonal to stare at your device while doing an interview that is why. Deal with it.

We started the interview at 9pm on Thursday May 28th.

Alex: State your name and tell me a bit about yourself.

Lucy: Rules! First question and you are trying to break the rules.

Alex: Fine, just tell me about yourself.

Lucy: Hi my name is Lucy and I’m a vampire.

Alex: Fuck you, this isn’t AA.

Lucy: I don’t know what to say, that pretty much dominates your life once it happens to you.

Alex: So who were you before it happened to you?

Lucy: Oh, umm, I don’t know. I mean I know but I hadn’t thought about it much. I imagine it is just as bad as asking you who you were as a teenager. Except I don’t really want to return to those days.

Alex: You still look like you are in those days.

Lucy: Really? I always look twenty two to myself. That is how old I was when I stopped aging.

Alex: When you were changed?

Lucy: No, when I stopped aging. I was nineteen when I was changed.

Alex: Explain that. Vampires are eternal are they not?

Lucy: Yeah as far as I know, but not all of us stop aging, at least not at first.

Alex: So there are vampires who look 100 years old?

Lucy: No, well maybe. I imagine if they wanted to go that long they could. I’m not sure. For some of us aging is a choice, and for others we stop because “our subconscious controls our bloods expression” as Isabelle would put it. For me it was that.

Alex: That is interesting, does that expression vs choice factor anywhere else into being a vampire?

Lucy: Yeah I think so. I think it might be what it is all about. Being a vampire. Our blood says one thing and we say another, and whatever side wins takes the prize. At least for that one thing.

Alex: I’m not sure I follow but I’ll come back to it once I have a better idea what to ask. Can you tell me how you were ‘changed’ and is that the word for it?

Lucy: HA! You really want us to have a lexicon don’t you? There isn’t a set word for it. At least not that I know of. The old ones have their Cant and I’m sure there is a word or words for it in that non sense but I don’t know what it is.

Alex: Cant?

Lucy: Yeah, some language they all speak. It sounds like Latin but with a French flair. Kinda like you should be in church but sexy at the same time. I don’t know, I’ve never been offered to be let on that secret. Anyways, how was I made? Right?

There was this guy in college named Mike. Of course I’m making that name up. Rules are rules. Mike was the hottest thing since sliced bread, and come to find out a campus vampire. I know you like using the most cheesy terms for us, do you like that campus vampire?

Alex: That is cute, it should be an 80s movie title!

Lucy: No kidding! Mike was the type of vampire that liked to pretend that he was in college and hang out at the places all the kids hung out. He had this really deep knowledge of just about everything, and a way with the ladies. I was no exception. I was head over heels for him. Spent all my free time with him and started to neglect my studies so I could stay up all night with him. He on the other hand spent all his time with me, and he professed that it had been ages since he was so attached to someone.

(Lucy stares off out the window for a bit, then comes back to the interview)

I’m not sure if I’m more sad about my emotions for him or how he dropped me like a piece of garbage after it happened. Our kind are petty creatures at times. We are territorial to an extreme, and when I say territorial I mean actual physical area. The more area you control the more potential blood you control. It is that simple. You pretty much said it yourself, it is all about the blood.

Mike and this other vampire, we’ll call him Steve, were having some big fight over a quarter of a block of territory. Some gas station or something off of 50th street, near Brookside Blvd. It was so not worth anything at the time, but territory is territory, and all is fair in love and war. I’m a casualty of that war. Steve kidnapped me and turned me into a vampire against my will, before I knew that vampires were real. He then dropped me off at Mikes place.

One look at what happened to me and Mike shut me out. Slammed the door actually, said I was tainted and spit on me. Isabelle would later say that Mike was a ‘traditionalist’ and didn’t understand ‘the universal characteristics of who we are’, when trying to make me feel better about it. I don’t know what she was talking about.

Alex: How did you survive?

Lucy: Well the change is slow. Sometimes it takes weeks, sometimes it takes hours, it really depends on the person involved. For me I had no clue what was going on, and wondered around sick for a few days. Out of my mind. I blamed it on being raped and then spit on by my boyfriend. That is essentially how it came across in my rationality. Steve raped me and then because of that Mike left me. Isabelle found me. She took me in and made sure that I wasn’t a threat to myself or anyone else.

Alex: Did you ever have to deal with them again?

Lucy: Yeah, they are around, or they were last time I checked.

Alex: Was Mike feeding on you during your time together?

Lucy: He must of been. Why else would he of been with me.

Alex: But you don’t know?

Lucy: We have ways of shifting perceptions away from us. I mean there is the direct mind control that everyone hates you for not falling for but that is just one expression of a greater ability to influence the perceptions and will of those around us. I think Mike was really good at making me have great sex. I mean great sex. Man I still get… I get bothered by thinking about it.

Alex: Am I the only one that it doesn’t work on, and does it work on other vamps?

Lucy: As far as Isabelle has told me you are the only one she has ever encountered who naturally is immune to our evil ways. Vampires can try to control each other but its a struggle, humans however are weak and easily led anyway we want.