Naked Came the Vampire (Hypernaturals 1)

Where Do We Go From Here?

I am still Adrian Sagan: Nerd, geek, programmer, son, brother, friend... all of it. I am also superhuman. Not Jessica level and apparently never will be. 

I lose some precious things.  Now that we are both Vampires, I wondered if she could get pregnant from the little Vampire swimmers. After we made love I asked Jessica about birth control. Yes: After. Jessica shook her head 'no' and told me sadly "Never going to be something either of us has to worry about anymore. Vampires don't get pregnant. Male Vampires don't father children. Not with humans. Not with Vampires. Males Vamps are around if rare. They have frequent sex with female Vamps. Some female Vamps think that sex is male Vampires only purpose. There has never been a baby Vampire."

I wanted to someday be a parent, and now that is not going to happen. I would have to watch my friends and family all grow old and die while I am still a young Vampire. Watch their kids grow old and die. Over and over. For generations. The price of being with Jessica kept getting bigger. It has been charged and is not refundable.

That all assumes I survive my meeting with the council. My new male Vampire status seems to be that of 'disposable'. I don't show up when summoned, they hunt and kill me. Nice.

I could not stay angry at Jessica: she did not choose this for me. She said in her own defense "Male Vampires hardly ever happen! We drink from human men and have sex with them all the time! All the Vampire women in the world hooking up one way or the other nearly every month and they hardly happen. Most women never create one in their entire Vampire lifetime of feeding. It should not have happened to me: I'm less than a hundred as a Vampire!"

Statistics are a bitch sometimes.

Human men are at the top of the USDA food pyramid for Vamps and not because most Vampires are women. Men are the far safer choice to feed on because they rarely turn. I am glad male Vamps like things other than human blood in our diets. I am not homophobic, it just sounds... to be technical... yucky. Drinking blood from a woman does not sound all that great either. Or drinking blood. Pretty much any of it. I hope to never experience the compulsion that Jessica said drove her to choose to bite Arnold.

The Puritans would think I got my just deserts. I 'fooled around', and became infected by something very rare and incurable. Sex did not need to be part of it so screw them. All it takes is being bitten. Being the prey. This could have been any Vampire biting me for general feeding reasons, not the mind-blowing sex. That is Vampirism with benefits. I 'turned' because I am genetically susceptible. No deities are punishing me for my wanton ways.

Apparently, I am also tasty. "No. Really. You are yummy. Literally." Jessica assured me as we snuggled. I wonder if my genetic susceptibility is also why I am 'yummy'.

My bad luck to be susceptible had been my good luck. What if a Vampire other than Jessica had bitten me and then left town? What if I was a boy Vamp alone? Adrift? Not knowing what was happening or why and not having a gentle, caring person to help me through it? To help me with the Council, assuming they figured out I even existed. Being genetically vulnerable to being turned Vampire meant that the one and only way Jessica and I have a future of any kind or for any length of time came to pass. Given the odds of being a male who could be turned, this is star-crossed lovers with some exponentiation added for good measure.

Looking back inside the bedroom I recalled her scent and her body and her voice. I wondered if I would have been able to be with Jessica if I was still as a human. Getting older while she stayed young. She would not have given me that choice, so I suppose that path of thinking is useless. As much I would like to think I could have dealt with it, it did not matter anymore.

She did not say it, but the reverse would have been hard on her too. She may have some kind of duty to me as a male Vamp now, but as a human, I would have been getting older and older and she would have ended up having to take care of me and then watch me die... or leave. Vampires clearly normally left when the getting is good. Wham, bam, thank you sir.