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That evening, in the hospital's morgue, Theo finds himself naked on a metal table and much less dead than most people had been led to believe earlier.
In fact, he's feeling quite alive.
Theo becomes a vampire
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in-the-breeze
He's not– going to say anymore. Not right now, he would rather not, thank you.
subtle_influence
"...do you want a hug?" he asks, taking a few steps towards the vampire.
in-the-breeze
"I don't think that's– the best idea," he says. He is definitely teary-eyed by this point because– fuck.
subtle_influence
"I don't—think you can be held, held responsible for, um, whatever..." he says uncertainly, taking a few more steps closer to him.
in-the-breeze
"And then I think that I shouldn't be and then I feel guilty because it was still me and so obviously I should be and then I feel terrible and then I think maybe I shouldn't be but now I'm just giving myself preferential treatment and–" he cuts himself off and takes a breath.
subtle_influence
Sadde still smells good. Sadde is still Sadde.
"Look, I'm—you haven't done anything to me yet, have you?"
in-the-breeze
"Yet," he says, sounding like he doesn't particularly want to say it but thinks it needs emphasis.
subtle_influence
Sadde takes the final few steps towards Theo and now they're quite close. "Practice test."
in-the-breeze
Theo, being on the other side of the slightly-open door, still cannot see Sadde at this time.
But then he takes another breath and then he steps out around the door and turns to face Sadde.
subtle_influence
Wow he's pretty. Like. Really pretty. Sadde... didn't remember him being this pretty. Is that just grief and relief, together? Maybe. Whatever. Sadde kinda wants to hug Theo.
Sadde will, in fact, try to hug Theo.
in-the-breeze
Theo pulls away after a couple of seconds, feeling kinda awkward and wrong.
"… At least I didn't bite," he says.
subtle_influence
He pulls away, too, a bit reluctantly, and blinks bemusedly. "Hm? Oh, right. Yes, you didn't."
in-the-breeze
"Okay, but– anyway," he says. "So I've done some– things and people think I'm dead and I'm apparently not going to literally bite everyone I come across necessarily but it's a little bit tempting and I don't know what to do."
subtle_influence
"You could do me, that's always an option," he doesn't say.
"What do you want to do?" he asks instead.
in-the-breeze
"I was going to say live my life out as I thought it'd go because that seemed like it'd be okay but that's probably boring and not going to work well, so– depending on how the vampirism works, I don't know." Sigh. "Solving literally everything with minimal ease would be wonderful, that's a thing I want to do, but vampirism doesn't exactly equate to that, and what vampirism does equate to seems to be: biting, superspeed and super-senses and so far coming back from the dead once and I don't know if I want to test if it's actual invulnerability and I can't test immunity to aging any time soon and– ugh, it would be wonderful if this were one of those nice vampire books where there's a happy ending, basically, can it just turn out to be that."
subtle_influence
"...a priori that seems more like a flaw of your creativity than of your powers, gorgeous, if you do the kinds of stuff mythological vampires do."
in-the-breeze
"… I don't think I've read Dracula if that's what you're talking about but going by more modern vampires where it's basically immortality and superstrength, speed and senses… uh, probably not able to solve literally everything but I can probably do a heck of a lot? Again, while still having the craving to eat everyone I come across. And possibly needing to eat people or else dying. Depending on how it works."