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Jessica had swapped Caritas shifts as a favor to Robin this week, but she wasn't about to let that delay updating her blog. She had an important topic to cover! So she set up her laptop on the bar and turned on the webcam.

"So I've been lookin' into thing that are supposed to hurt or stop vampires, on account of that being information that I probably really should know, but there's a lot of weird stuff out there. Like poppy seeds. Did you know some people believe that if you throw a bunch of poppy seeds, or sesame seeds, or any kinds of seeds I guess, at a vampire, they gotta stop and count them all? Don't ask me where that one came from. I dumped some out to see what would happen, but I didn't feel like I had to count them or anything. Mostly I was just annoyed I had to clean them up. Maybe whoever came up with that one ran into a really OCD vampire or somethin'?

"Now, I better get to work, but I'll be talkin' to y'all later. If you know anything about this poppy seed stuff, be sure to leave a comment." She flipped the laptop shut and busied herself with tidying up the bar.

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Caroline plopped onto a barstool, sending a thoughtful look down the bar. "Please let's make tonight be the night where alcohol is magical and gets me so drunk I find the little creeper bartender attractive but still sober enough to not actually make out with him. What do you think?"

Sure she didn't know tonight's bartender, but that had never stopped Caroline before.

Jessica snickered. "I ain't sure we make drinks strong enough to make Tino attractive," she said. "But I sure can try. Anything you want in particular or do you want me to surprise you?"

"You think? I figured if any bar was going to have it, it'd be this one," Caroline replied, sighing with near-disappointment. "But sure, let's go for a surprise. Not like I'm gonna end up hungover. Maybe regretful, but that's nothing new."

Caroline paused. "Oh God, I sound like some lame, unattractive elderly person. Do you have booze that makes that stop?"

"Here, give this one (http://www.webtender.com/db/drink/4795) a try," Jessica said. She pulled out the vodka, gin, vermouth, and tequila and poured them in a shaker, along with some tomato juice and a pinch of salt. She shook the ingredients with ice, then poured it into a glass and slid it over to Caroline.

"You don't get hangovers?" she said. "I got one once when I drank too much Kahlua but now I can't drink alcohol." SIGH.

Caroline almost laughed at the bloody color of the drink. "Nope, it's apparently the one good thing about being a vampire. Well, that and never ever getting all old and ugly." She took a sip of the drink and her eyes went wide. "Holy God that is strong. Good choice."

"It's called a 'Vampire's Kiss,'" Jessica said. "Wait -- did you just say you're a vampire, too?"

This evening had just gotten a lot more interesting.

"Yeah, don't let it freak you out, I'm on a diet of bagged humans, no biting for Caroline!" she shared, downing more of her drink. "Wait, wait, too? You're a vampire!" It excited Caroline beyond belief to finally meet a vampire who was almost as adorable as herself.

"I am!" Jessica said excitedly. "Sookie told me there were other vampires in Fandom but I ain't never met many of them. I mean, aside from Eric and all. But you can drink stuff that ain't blood or Tru Blood? That's not fair -- I wish I could!"

"Oh God, I would be lost forever without human food. Especially cheeseburgers and nachos - the greasier, the better," Caroline told her, feeling sorry for this breed of vampire. "It helps so much with the blood cravings. Do you just like, feed all the time or something? Oh God, do you eat humans?"

Jessica pouted. She missed cheeseburgers and pizza and god even her mother's meatloaf. "Well, where I'm from, vampires always had to be real careful feedin' on humans so they didn't get caught, but blood's the only thing we can drink," she said. "Everybody thought vampires were just from movies or books, but then somebody made a synthetic blood so vampires got to be more open about what they were."

She bent down to get a bottle of Tru Blood from behind the bar. "We're only s'posed to drink this now, at least in public. But it taste like crap."

Caroline's eyes widened. "Dude! You get to be open about it? I would kill to be able to tell people what I am." But then, her own mother hunted vampires, so that was never likely. "Though, I don't get why you'd drink that stuff if it tasted like crap. I mean, it's not like you have to kill to get human blood." She was a master at the blood bag, for serious.

"Well, there's lots of people who don't like vampires, and it's supposed to be illegal for us to drink real blood, even if somebody wants you to bite 'em," Jessica explained, leaning on the counter. "Not like that stops anyone, though. But I did bite somebody here and got into trouble because of it."

Stupid Scully.

"Oh wow, what'd they do to you?" Caroline asked, leaning against the bar a little to listen closer. "Like, jail or something?"

"Well, no," Jessica admitted. "Probably on account of it bein' just students who caught me, not anybody official-like. But they said if I did it again they'd make sure I got staked or somethin'."

"Oh God! ...should I be worried about like, anti-vampire groups or something? I bet they're in my paranormal class. I told Ric that teaching people how to kill me was a bad idea, but do you think he listened? Of course not. Do you think they know how to actually do the whole stabbing stake thing?"

"I don't think anybody here is as bad as those stupid 'God Hates Fangs' people back home," Jessica said. "And they gotta catch us first! Can you move real fast? Or fly? Who's Ric?"

"I jump like, super high so it looks like flying?" Caroline offered. "And I'm speedy and like, super strong. It's kind of disturbing sometimes. Oh, and Ric is this totally hot old dude who teaches at the school? He's from my town and supposedly here to make sure I stay on blood bags, but I think he's really just a dork who likes teaching." So scary, that thought. "Do you fly? And God should not hate us. Holy water doesn't even burn me!"

"What about silver, does that hurt you?" Jessica asked eagerly. "I don't know about holy water -- nobody's ever thrown that at me but a lot of websites says that it's s'posed to hurt."

Then something abruptly occurred to her. "Wait a minute -- do you go to the school? In the daylight?"

Someone was about to get really jealous.

"Oh...yeah? Um, I'm like, B-F-Fs with a witch back home, so there's no lack of magical mojo to help me deal with that whole breaking out in flame-face in the sunshine," Caroline shared, almost feeling guilty. She really didn't know how other vampires did without her seriously amazing ring. "Oh my God, how boring is it to be trapped in the house, right?"

Wow, LJ cooperated long enough to post this.

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