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--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--
Jameson Dade› He had gotten the text from Mora a few hours before, detailing the number and name of a blood doll – a term he had learned only a few days before after having realized that when he fed from someone, they remembered with full clarity who he was. Apparently, that wasn’t how it was meant to work, and he had been surviving on black market blood packs since then. Of course, the cold blood wasn’t terrible, but it lacked the life and warmth that one could only get right from the source. Apparently, Mora suffered from the same affliction, and had set herself up a system to deal with it. Jameson had contacted Robin in order to start doing the same. The only problem was that he knew very little about the whole blood doll thing. Was it like prostitution? Could you sink your fangs in, but kissing was extra? He was…oddly a little nervous. Was there a protocol? What if he insulted the other man? He was seated in the Necropolis, one of the little red sofas dotting the checkered floor. “Evening.” He said, when a man matching Robin’s description approached, plain confidence masking his nerves.

Robin Little› It was Mora that Robin could thank for his recent business. For any business at all, really. After discovering the world of vampires, Robin had realised he could make some money out of it. And, besides which, he was intrigued - and this job that he gave himself seemed to be a seemless way to invade the dark world of creatures that fed on human blood. And whatever else there might be. Thus far, Robin didn't have any consistent customers. None who came back to him, often. In fact, aside from Mora, he'd only had one or two other vampires take his blood. He was, of course, reasonably wary. The text was both a surprise, and somewhat expected. Robin was at a bar, sitting in a back corner writing in his notebook when it came through. He agreed with the other man where they'd meet, and how they'd recognise each other. Robin went back to his motel and showered, dressed - shaved, even. He didn't often shave, but he figured he'd have to sort out an etiquette. If he was going to be someone's food, he'd better make himself look... well, tasty. He snorted at himself in the mirror, before he flicked off the light and headed out. The Necropolis was dark, dim, but he soon found his mark. He slid into the booth opposite the man. "Jameson?" he asked, with an inquisitive narrowing of his blue eyes.

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Jameson Dade› Jameson normally wore dark colours, simple pieces that one could have picked up at any of those large super stores that also sold food, and basically everything under the sun except for cars. The reason for that was simple – if he did manage to accidentally leave behind fibers or something at a crime scene; it was hard to trace something painfully common. He wore zip up hoodie in a shade of teal. The fabric was soft to the touch, loose save for the wrist hems which were tugged up to reveal pale forearms. His pants were black, denim. He hadn’t bothered with a t-shirt, and the zip on the hoodie was pulled just enough to reveal a collarbone. “That’s the name, apparently everyone calls me Jammy though.” Which he still didn’t get, but had been assured it was reasonable. Leaning, he offered his hand to shake, revealing bitten, uneven nails that were, to their credit, at least clean. Mora had told him that Robin was, in her words ‘hooooot’. It seemed she hadn’t been lying. “That would make you Robin?”

Robin Little› Robin smiled. A brilliant, gleaming thing that was only a reflection of his own personality; not some preaching hippie flooding the world with sunshine and flowers, but confident in his own stride. Happy in his own spontaneous life. He liked to call himself an optimistic pessimist - he'd had enough bad **** happen to him in his life to know everything's not grand, but has had plenty enough go his way to trust that everything would sort itself out, sooner or later. His fingers - long and slender, the fingernails stained with ink (because he liked to use a fountain pen when writing) - closed around Jameson's palm. "That's me. I'm kind of new to this job so you'll have to excuse me. I'm working out the stipulations as I go," he said with a laugh; he had a laugh that never failed to touch his eyes.

Jameson Dade› Robin had an honest smile, the kind that people wore when they either knew all of the best of life, or all of the wore (and therefor knew when to find indulgence in the bright moments); Jameson liked it. He couldn’t resist returning the expression, which revealed two rows of ivory, the only real gift his parents had ever given him. Good genetics. Looking at his mouth, it was almost impossible to tell he had abused drugs for most of his life. His eyes had a certain animated quality to them, vibrant like the sky, and equally blue. “I’m new to this vampire thing, so you’re in good company.” He murmured in response, thankful that the other man wasn’t a pro; made him feel more legitimately confident than he had going into the situation. “I assume we talk price and then carry on with the feeding?” Simple. Straight forward. His hand drew back so that fingers could weave together, palms pressed together as he rested his arms on the table between them, leaning forward with shoulders hunched just a little. His hair, which he kept long, was the sunlight to his empyrean gaze, golden where it near threatened to spill against a shoulder with the tip of a head.

Robin Little› Robin's laughter deepened, tinged with a knowing, wary kind of tone. As if Jameson weren't a stranger and a vampire, but an old friend who'd just offered him a challenge, a dare that he could not resist. New to the vampire thing, indeed - that put Robin in more danger than he'd care to think about, right? Surely the new ones were the ones that messed things up. The ones that couldn't control themselves. The ones that might tear the skin rather than just pierce it, thus causing Robin to like... bleed out. But, what Robin had discovered, which he hadn't had much of a chance to discover before, was that he was a kind of fatalist. Addicted to the adrenaline and the possibility of death. Robin nodded. "There's no society for this kind of ****," Robin said. Again, like Jameson were just an old friend rather than a 'customer'. "I haven't got blood doll buddies to talk to, so I know what price is reasonable. I figure - I need enough to live off. And I can't go giving away ten pints of blood a night, right? So. How does five hundred sound?" Robin asked. Five hundred seemed a lot to him to make in one night - but why not pull out the big guns, first? Besides. Call it insurance money.

Jameson Dade› Laughter came easy to Robin, a boon in Jameson’s book. There was very little in life that he could manage to take seriously, at least when it came to the day to day things. That was probably one of his fundamental flaws, and the cause of his own self-sabotage. None the less, he joined the man in his laughter, his own relaxed; showing some of the depth of his voice. He could almost taste something…different about Robin. Maybe it was a junkie’s sixth sense, but he felt like there was some kind of danger tangled in the man across from him, and that only made him want to try that blood all the more. He took risks every night. His entire life was breaking into buildings, jacking loot, getting out before the cops could hunt him down. He’d quit his job at the gas station because what he did paid well. Paid enough for his father’s prison commissary and paid the rent for his perpetually strung out mother. “Five hundred’s a lot. I pay two hundred a day for blood packs.” But there was the chance it’d be worth it. Warm blood from an attractive gent? “I guess it depends where I’m drinking from and how often I get to have you.”
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Robin Little› Robin shrugged. He could be persuasive when he wanted to be, and his palms were flat against the table in front of him. He didn't want to move them. They were warm and clammy, because underneath it all, this whole business transaction thing was making him nervous. The entire thing, really, was making him nervous, and he wondered whether it would ever change. Whether it would ever be easy. "Ah, but a blood pack isn't a living, breathing person," he said. "Put yourself in my shoes," he offered. "Someone's about to sink their teeth into you and take your blood. Someone stronger than you. Someone who could kill you without a second thought," he said. "If you were in my position... would you think that such a risk should come cheap?" he asked. But he paused, lips pressed together, watching Jameson carefully. "How about - you help me out, as much as I help you. We'll make it mutual. We can agree that you will pay me between two hundred and five hundred - it's got to be more than two hundred. Think of me as organic and fresh," he says with another of his grins. Organic, and fresh fruit is always more expensive than the generic mass-market stuff. "But you can take the blood first, and decide what I'm worth," he said, tentatively. Doubting himself, just a little.

Jameson Dade› Robin was being a salesman, not that Jameson anticipated he’d act any different, but the vampire had been in the business of getting people to take what he had to offer for years. When he had been younger, his father had wanted to expand his drug business into the local school and Jameson had been the logical ‘in’. He could tell when someone was trying to push their product on him. But that didn’t mean Robin was wrong on any account. Quite the contrary. “Oh, I don’t think I’d ever kill you.” He answered, though he didn’t elaborate further, his gaze lingering for a moment on those slender, ink stained fingers. He moved to stand, and gripped the edge of a table, pushing it from between them, the legs screeching on the tile. That drew a couple of brief stares, but Necropolis was a place of personal ecstasy. People were busy wrapped up in their own fantasies. He bridged the gap between them by putting a palm to either shoulder and pushing Robin back in his seat, only to drop right into his lap, facing him. He wore a smile. “Since you didn’t answer where I feed from, I’ll assume I get to pick. Consider that a few extra dollars in your pocket.” He said in a light tone, the tip of one finger tapping at the underside of a chin as if to demand it get out of the way.

Robin Little› Robin had no idea what was going on. Why had he expected more discussion, more bartering? There was none. Instead, just a simple statement, before the blonde vampire was manhandling the furniture. Robin was forced to remove his hands from the table top, the sweaty handprints left behind, steam from the heat of his body clinging to the surface. Not only was Jameson manhandling the furniture, but he manhandled Robin, too--the beat of the writer's heart kicked up a notch in his chest. Not because he was afraid. Not because he was attracted in any way. But because there was that usual anticipation; the expectation. He was addicted to the feel of fangs in his skin, and it was moments away. But this was the first time, it would seem, that it would be taken from the neck. He hadn't allowed it with Mora. But he was allowing it now. It had something to do with the atmosphere - the dim secrecy of it. A backlit den of intrigue. Robin leaned back. His arms draped over the back of the booth's chair. His chin tilted sideways, the back of his nestled against the black leather cushion. "Be my guest," he murmurs, and clears his throat. And waits.

Jameson Dade› The body heat was a big part of the attraction that came with feeding with someone live. Warmth in the belly, against the flesh was worth its weight in gold. And then there was the way that a heart’s pace quickened. Jameson could almost feel it when he touched, the electric pulse of it. Like prey on the run, trying desperately to flee. But this prey was not so interested in saving its own skin. The vampire liked that, because it was like him. Making the wrong choice because it felt good, because it was something to chase after endlessly. “Gladly.” The tone was a whisper against the skin of the flesh of the other man’s throat. To one side there was an Adam’s apple, close enough that he could have brushed his tongue over it if he’d wanted to. His breath was neither cool nor warm, just the movement of air before his fangs appeared. White, glistening spears, they punched through the skin. The fingers of one hand curled on a shoulder, and the others tangled in hair. He probably should have taken better care, but he was hungry after days on cold food. It spurted into his mouth, splashing against the back of his throat and suddenly that grip grew tighter. He huddled closer like a starved animal that wasn’t going to let its meal get stolen by scavengers. There was the trickle of redness from the corner of his mouth as he drank. Chemical reactions immediately went off in his head, like when a runner released endorphins into their bloodstream, the feeding filled an ache and stewed his brain in hazy pleasure.

Robin Little› There it was. The pierce of the sharp teeth through skin. A gurgled moan inadvertently slipped past Robin's defences, until he swallowed and forced himself to stay quiet. He didn't touch his 'customer'. Instead, his hands curled into the slightly cracked leather of the seat he was straddled upon; for the first few seconds his body was tense, before it finally relaxed, giving in to the sensation. It was fascinating, the way the body responded to danger. It knew that it was unnatural, the way it was losing blood - the tug of the blood faster than it should be, moving the wrong way through the blood stream. The heart picked up the pace to accommodate; the system flooded with adrenaline. A sigh dropped from Robin's mouth. Knuckles, previously white with pressure, relaxed. Maybe he should have set up a safe word. Some sign to let the vampire know when enough was enough. He supposed his survival instincts would kick in if it went too far. He hoped. But for the moment, he was enjoying himself - eyes closed against the room beyond them, the pounding music, the other bodies - and anyone who might be watching. Who gave a ****? He was sprawled, languid, at the mercy of the blood drinker.

Jameson Dade› He had expected to enjoy the feeding, but he had not anticipated Robin would feel the same, but if there was one thing Jameson knew well; it was that expression one took when they were finding their own bliss. It made sense though, for a blood doll, and it made the vampire wonder if the man was an adrenaline junky, or some kind of masochist. Either way; it didn’t really matter. That Robin was having fun only made Jameson enjoy himself more, made the experience better for him. The taste of salt was immediate, but that was common for humans. Their skin was also usually a tiny bit oily, and he tasted that too. There was something else there, a rich spice that left him inhaling as he drank as if he were trying to enjoy the full bouquet of a good wine. The blood was clean, and tasted good enough to pull an accidental groan from him while he pressed physically closer. Chest to chest, body plastered to his donor’s so that there was scarcely an inch to separate them.

He slowed the process down when he realized that it wasn’t a situation where they needed to rush their way through, his lips sealed over a wound with his tongue pressed against one bite mark to keep it covered while he lazily suckled from the other. He planned to relish the experience, and so seconds ticked by. Longer than was necessary. But that was the point, to drag out the high, to leave both of them useless to the world, piled together and freshly indulged. It was only when he realized he should stop or he would begin to impact the other man’s health, that he bit into the end of his wet muscle and smeared some of his own blood to seal the wound. But even then, he continued to enjoy the taste of that skin, lips pressed where drying saliva marked the former wound. “Wow.” He said eventually.

Robin Little› There were plenty of things in this world that Robin was not. For example: he was not responsible. He did not have his **** together. He was not rich. He was not entirely reliable, either – not because he didn’t try to be, but because he didn’t quite believe that the world should be as stressful a place as people make it out to be. He just… didn’t care about the mundane things, the things that so many people placed so much importance upon. Being exactly on time for work, for example (which had lost him a lot of jobs). And, nor was Robin gay. At least, never had he harboured the idea that men were attractive to him. He’d only ever gone out with women; only ever kissed women. Only ever undressed – and been undressed by – women. By all rights, this position should have had him feeling uncomfortable. This unfamiliar territory. But somehow, it was different. The man straddling him wasn’t just another man. He was a vampire. Right? There was a difference.

The difference came mainly in the way that Robin felt. The weird kind of bliss that accompanied giving his blood away; his current light-headedness, as his body tried to recuperate the loss. He lifted a hand to scratch at his temple, to touch his fingers to his own forehead. His chin was still tilted away from the vampire; his hands still aloft, not touching Jameson. The laughter came in a low breath. He turned, just a smidge, to face the blonde. “So. Wow? Worth five hundred, then?” he asks, curious, his voice slurred as if drugged.

Jameson Dade› He was having trouble putting together his thoughts. They were a lot like a flock of butterflies, and he only had a net big enough to catch one at a time, leaving the others to flutter away, outside of his reach. He was happy to just…float. And he could have done that for ages, just sat there with the other man under him and not done anything constructive. That was how he had spent a huge chunk of his life, curled up with Max, with **** injected into his veins or death breathed into his lungs. The two of them had experimented with everything they could come across, and his thoughts turned naturally to the man that had died only around a year and a half before. That was when he realized his pants had grown…uncomfortable. And on some level, that made him feel a little guilty. Like he was rubbing Max’s face in the fact he found someone else attractive. So he dragged himself up and away, dropping to sit back in the booth he had been in before with his leg crossing one ankle right over a knee so that it wasn’t obvious exactly how he’d responded.

“Right then, five hundred seems fair.” He replied before his hips lifted so he could dig into a pocket to tug out a wallet. The bills were fresh, twenties. He stacked them together and then leaned to set them beside the other man. “When can you be available again?” He asked.

Robin Little› The aftermath was almost as addictive as the process; the lack of blood, the adrenaline, they combined to cause the goosepimples to flare the lengths of Robin's skin. Making him sensitive, almost. Full of energy and enthusiasm and yet he could just lie back and remain utterly open and vulnerable. He wasn't sure he felt what he thought he could feel. And, before the thought had even crossed his mind, the weight shifted and the vampire returned to his former position. Normalcy returned. If normalcy is what it could be called. Robin watched the man's progress - realised, in that moment, how androgynous the guy was. How, well, Lestat-like. Interesting. Was that why he had been turned? Robin had to shake the thoughts from his head; had to force himself to take a deep breath, and not to grin too broadly as Jameson agreed on the price. That seemed way too easy. Robin fingered the cash; folded it, and tucked it into his own pocket. He tried to think of his own health. Tried, but failed. He hesitated, before he lifted his gaze and answered. "Tomorrow night?"

Jameson Dade› There was a certain vulnerable quality to the other man that made him want to have another taste, explore more. Push. More. But that was why he lifted himself up from where he sat. He loved to give himself over to a power greater than his own, the power of addiction and need; but it was dangerous for both of them. Besides, he had some things to do anyway. Five hundred a night wasn’t exactly cheap. Worth it, but not cheap, and that meant he needed to hoist more than a few microwaves out of local stores. “Tomorrow night works. I’ll text you my address since this is going to be a regular thing. Doesn’t make much sense to meet in public every night.” The words spoken, he slid past Robin, his hand moving as he walked so that he could briefly let the tips of his fingers skate across the skin of the other man’s cheek. Warm, soft, inviting. He was gone seconds later, leaving only that lingering sensation of touch, and the euphoric high of their encounter to remember him by.

Robin Little› Money did seem to be a thing, and Robin was wondering whether Jameson would even agree. But he did - and wanted Robin to meet him at home. Maybe Robin could add that to his list of stipulations - the first meeting must always be in public, so that he could determine whether the other could be trusted. Robin nodded, mouth open to respond in some manner, though all words were halted in his throat as the blonde brushed fingertips over Robin's cheek. He should have guessed, really, given the chosen method of feeding. But, given the fact that he was fraternising with a vampire, any preoccupation with the other man's sexuality wasn't exactly paramount in Robin's mind. He shrugged, waited until the other was gone entirely, before settling back in his seat. His went to his pocket. He laughed. Grinned, even, like a mad man. And hailed the waitress to order a bottle of whiskey.
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