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Louis woke groggily just on dusk unsure of where he was, looking around for something familiar so that he could put a place to mind. Alas he found no trace of anywhere he had been before and he was surrounded by a group of people he had yet to know.

“Where am I? Who are you people?” Louis questioned as he tried to fight back the headache that came creeping in from the back of his skull.

“We will be doing the questioning here, not you Louis. Who we are is not important, for now, but you are in the basement of the old police station in the slums.” Replied the one that appeared to be in control, wearing an expensive suit and the like.

The others remained quiet and looked at each other with glimpses of caution in their eyes. Louis became rather threatened by the appearance of them as they were somehow not human. Their leader approached Louis and crouched down to his level.

“There is something we must know about your dealings in the last few nights with a certain woman.”

“You brought me here for that? Couldn’t you have just used the telephone?”

“Sadly, no. You see, a rather unfortunate event has taken place without my clearance and we must adhere to the laws of our society, which brings us to you. The woman you have been spending time with, where is she?”

“How the fuck should I know! We always met at a bar, then we’d go out into the alley for, uh, privacy. I never knew where she lived, I swear.”

“Hmm, ever the vulgarity of a fledgling childe.” The man spoke with some disdain in his voice as he looked towards the group. Turning back to Louis he continued. “We are here because you have been cursed by the so-called love of one who is infected by the very life that she clings to.”

Louis was confused by what the man was saying yet at the same time his memory was beginning to focus, only in the slightest degree. “I - I remember her kissing my neck and feeling a sense I’ve never felt before, it was overwhelming. Then she dripped something into my mouth, I thought it was a drug, the trip was so powerful I passed out… then I woke up here. What the hell did she do to me?”

One member of the group became furious, walked over to the man crouched by Louis. The look in his eyes was something Louis could recollect yet he didn’t know where. “Sire, he must be dealt with, now! We’ll find the whore who did this and bring justice to her crime!” He proclaimed as his hands balled into fists.

“And you would do well to remember your place, Damien! This is a matter for this childe to complete. It is his, coming of age, so to speak.” He snapped at Damien as he stood abruptly facing the man, who now backed away with fear. “Now, you will find this girl by any means necessary, only at night and bring her to me. I will be at the abandoned opera house. Until then, keep out of the sunlight.”

The man now stood and began to walk away as Louis began to pick himself up off the concrete floor, confused as hell, his head adrift in an incoherent sea of hunger. One of the girls in the group noticed and ran over to keep him from hitting the floor.

“My prince, he has not yet fed. Will you at least tell him what is happening to his body?”

“I haven’t the time. You stay and besiege his mind with the torment of what he has become. Now, the rest of you, we are leaving.” The prince moved towards the door as the others followed.

Once they had all left, the girl and Louis sat down so that he was comfortable enough for the moment. She had a strange quality about her that he could not quite put a match to, but he felt that he could trust her.

“Uh, thanks. I don’t suppose you got any smokes?”

The girl looked at him and smiled, then placed her hand on his. “No I don’t, sorry. My name is Alyssa, do you have any idea what’s happening to you?”

“To be honest, I got no fucking clue. One minute I’m in an alley having a good time and then I wake up here with some guy in a suit spouting off some shit about the girl I was with.” Louis laughed. “He didn’t even answer me about anything. What in hell did she give me?”

Alyssa grimaced and then looked him in the eye. “You’ve been embraced.”

“Embraced? What the!” Louis cut in.

“The girl you were with, she’s a vampire and now she’s in deep shit about not getting the clearance to turn you.”

“Oh I’m sorry, did you just come off some kind of acid trip, cos I think I just heard you say that she’s a vampire.” Louis didn’t know wether he was dreaming or on some really funky shit. “Ok, so you’re telling me that vamps are real and I’m now one of them, ha! You must think I’m totally fucking stupid to believe that shit!”

Alyssa just shrugged it off and continued her crash course. “That’s the usual response nowadays, but the fact is that there are thousands of us living in the shadows of human society so that our way of life is protected. Humans don’t know that we exist because they don’t want to believe it. Truth is we feed on human blood to survive, that’s why you’re feeling as week as you do. You need to feed, and soon.” With that she stood and offered her hand to help him up.

“You’re not bullshitting me are you? Oh fuck, why the hell couldn’t I just find a normal girl for once in my life? I knew there was something about her that made me uneasy, but no I just had to get my dick wet! Fuck!” Louis became furious with himself for not going with his gut feelings instead of his human urges.

After a few seconds he somewhat settled down and took Alyssa's hand to get up, then lead him outside to feed...