meadowlark | @marcos.diaz

An original vampire. The first of our kind. ( that needs to be specified. he's stronger, faster and just better in all aspects. it's unfortunate compulsion doesn't work around here. ) But let's get to the part where you're threatening me. How quickly do you suppose you'll find yourself missing a vital organ if you or your girlfriend decide to go about telling tall tales about me?

It's not a threat, it's request. There are plenty of other ways to get what you want. Besides, let's not kid ourselves and say you haven't been thinking of biting me since I walked in. I'm not stupid.

[ maybe he was stupid for coming here but whatever. ]

I don't care who you are. Just get your blood from people I don't know.

Fair enough, I suppose. Believe it or not, I'm not looking to make enemies. Well, at least not if I can help it. ( he shrugs and takes a sip of his beer before reaching for another slice of pizza, ever so hungry. marcos is certainly right about one thing. kol does wish he could take a bite out of his neck. fresh blood would do him plenty of good. ) Will you be providing me with a list of people you know? ( kol might want to do him the favour of sparing his life and that of his friends because he's been so brave. knowing what he knows about him and yet, he's here anyhow. ) I do hope it isn't a mile long.

No.

[ which probably isn't helpful or something but he's not going to write some list of 'no biting allowed' people for kol to stay away from. ]

Maybe you should ask Caroline what she does. I know she has other alternatives to people. She might even share with you.

( for someone who doesn't want to be bitten, the man seems to be unable to talk about anything else. if kol hadn't been desperately needy for blood before, he's certainly focused on it now. he can hear the rush of blood in marcos' veins, the thumping of his heart... ) She mentioned something about an El. ( of course he'd been wary about believing her. )

[ marcos shrugs. ]

Yeah, one of the...I don't know, AI or something. They might know where to get some. Just message them. I don't know how good they are at answering but they're probably better to talk to than Cassius.

( he has got trust issues a mile wide. suppose he gets in touch with this el and he gets himself labeled as a vampire. wouldn't that put a target on his back whenever whatever or whoever it is decides they'd like to be rid of his kind? or perhaps they already know what he is. all those experimentations he must have been part of. this thing embedded in his chest... )

I had meant to stay off the fresh stuff... ( he had wanted to be good for the love of his life, but he'd accidentally killed his girl while he was under the control of the ancestors. long story short: he no longer sees the point of a blood bag only diet. ) I'll think about it. Is Cassius also some sort of an A.I.?

Yeah, but he's a prick.

[ blunt but true. he has no love lost for cassius. he doesn't know a lot about el to really make a judgment there but at least they're helping. ]

Just my opinion but it's also the truth. [ eff cassius. ]

And what do you think about this glowy thing in our chest? ( kol's been thinking about the ways in which he can try to remove it. but seeing as to how he's lost the ability to heal himself, it's going to be risky to attempt anything. ) Aside from the weird empathy bond or whatever, perhaps it can also kill us in an instant. ( who knows what its true function is. ) Has anyone ever tried to remove it out of one of the dead? ( surely someone's died here before. )

[ well, there's something marcos hadn't actually thought of before. he puts a hand on his chest, rubbing the spot where the blue emanates and cringes. ]

Not that I know of. They're usually too concerned about bringing those people back, you know. You die here, you come back.

[ as far as he knew anyway. ]

I haven't heard of people staying dead. I've heard of people disappearing and going somewhere else but not permanently dead. Not the people with the blue in their chests, at least.

Is that so? ( how very interesting. what's to stop him from killing just about anyone now if they'll simply spring back to life? isn't that convenient? it shouldn't be a problem for him to have a bit of a feast every now and then, right? no hard feelings and all that? )

How exactly do you bring someone back from the dead?

I'm not the guy to ask about that. I haven't died so I don't know what goes into it. I'm gonna guess advances in medical technology and praying but...

[ he shrugs. ]

If you really want to know, you're going to have to find someone that's died and asked or die yourself.

[ not that he was encouraging that. ]

And what if I said I'd be willing to play the part of the lab rat for the sake of "science and research"? ( yes, he's quite psychotic indeed. ) Surely someone can dig this out of me after I'm dead. ( he taps a finger to his chest. he's likely not the only who's awfully curious about it and there's also the fact that he doesn't particularly care about being brought back to life even. perhaps dying in this world might also give him that opportunity to return back to where he came from. or if he does end up dead for good then he'll be at peace, won't he? )

Now I'm betting Caroline would be more than happy to snap my neck. Shall we rope her in? ( someone ought to remind him that he's got his niece that he ought to think about. the poor girl's just recently lost her father. )

Two things.

[ wtf kol wtf. ]

What happens if that kills you? Do you want to die? [ and if so, why? you had a long life ahead of you, crazy or not. ]

And I'm not going to ask Caroline to kill you. No matter how much you might piss her off, I think she'd have to be provoked into doing that and I'm not going to just ask her how she feels about killing another person. No.

It's not murder if I'm saying you can do it, is it? ( he finishes yet another slice of pizza, seemingly looking as if he intends on staying alive at the rate he's gorging himself and yet here they are discussing this. )

And it might or might not be a permanent death for me. ( it doesn't quite matter to him. ) I suppose we'll find out then, won't we? ( there's nothing to lose really. this new life of his in this strange world isn't exactly one that he's fond of. and it's not as if he hasn't died before already. it wouldn't be a new experience. been there, done that. )

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No, but it's still killing someone and that can affect a person. [ he's still not going to ask caroline this. absolutely not. if he wants to do this, he can ask her himself and see what happens. ]

Are you really going to do this?

[ kol wtf. ]

This is a stupid idea.

Perhaps we can do this together. It'll be our little secret. ( no one else has to know. ) Have you ever killed someone before? ( asked so casually as if they're discussing the weather. kol has ended the lives of more people than he count so it's really no big deal to him. )

Yes.

[ he doesn't know why he makes the decision to be honest but he does. he has killed someone before. multiple someones, in fact. ]

You think this means I want to kill you?

( well, isn't that an interesting tidbit of information. see how they're getting to know one another already? nothing like a disturbing conversation to twist things around. ) Why not? I am giving you permission to do it. In fact, I can even stab myself in the heart and all you would have to do is rip this device out of me. ( and of course, hope it doesn't explode in his face. perhaps some precaution ought to be taken. )

You said it yourself. People spring back to life here. What's the big deal? And I'm no longer immortal so you won't have much trouble at all. ( he shows marcos the little paper cut he has on his index finger. ) Strange how this hurts a great deal for something so tiny. Do you happen to have a band-aid on you?

Because if I rip that device out of you, you might not come back. You don't know if that's the thing that makes it so you do come back. And then you'd be dead and many people would be sad.

[ his niece would be sad, wouldn't she? ]

I left my first aide kit in my other pants. I'm sure you can suck it up and deal with it. It's just a little cut.

A little cut that ought to have healed many hours ago. Which is why I think this device needs to be looked at by someone who'll be able to figure it out and perhaps make some modifications or help us get rid of it entirely. It's likely the thing that's inhibiting our abilities. ( what else could it be? life would be a lot easier in new amsterdam if he could compel people. he could then have himself a feast without the hassle of his victims remembering being attacked and screaming vampire. of course he could always just leave them for dead, but there's his niece who he hasn't gotten to know, but whose opinion he cares for already and what if... what if davina were to show up and see that he'd gone back to his psychotic maniac ways? )

And look. ( he picks up a fork from the table and with some difficulty manages to turn it into... something that barely resembles a spoon. ) How is this supposed to be useful for anything?

That's not convincing enough an argument to make me kill you.

[ it would take a lot more than that to get marcos to go that far. he's killed before, probably will again but he doesn't see the point to it right now when there are so many unknowns associated with the whole plan. ]

Is that your power? [ he nods over at the weird looking spoon. ] Or are you just really skilled with silverware?

If you can call it that. ( power my arse is what he's thinking. it's more of a nuisance than anything. attempting to do more with it has given him two nosebleeds so far so he's stopped with the powers practice. ) I suppose it's some form of matter transmutation. I used to be able to do something like this back when I was a witch. A form of magic called Kemiya. I could turn a piece of rope into gold. It was fairly useful. ( it's no surprise that he's been given this ability in this world. the only question is: why? )

I bet.

[ his power where he'd come from had been useful too. the power he'd been given here is...still something he doesn't really understand though he's trying. ]

Can't do that here, huh? Too bad. No gold for you.

Well, at least there's pizza. ( he doesn't however reach for another slice of it. he hasn't fed on blood in over two days now. pizza and beer can only stave off his true hunger for a short period of time. )

Now perhaps you ought to go. Before I change my mind about letting you leave here unharmed.

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