An excerpt from a story I wrote about some troubled teens one of which claimed to be a vampire

"If a cat bites a mouse does the mouse turn into a cat?"

"No." She snorted at the ridiculous question.

"Then why would a human turn into a vampire?" He retorted.

"What about your teeth" she asks "do you grow fangs or something."

"No." He looked at her with mild irritation

"Well then how do you eat?"

"Like this." He grabbed her wrist and turned it over she tried to pull away when she noticed she was bleeding.

"How did you?" He turned his hand around showing a needle protruding out of his ring.

"It's very sharp and enters very quickly. Can't feel a thing."

Her heart began to race as she stared at the blood pooling out of her wrist. He smiled and threw her a towel.

"Put some pressure on it."

"You're not going to eat it?"

His eyebrows pinched together "Do you eat every time someone puts food in front of you?"

"No."

"Either do I. Besides I prefer vegetarians. Meat makes the blood too gamey."

"Can you go out during the daylight?"

He shrugs "We are designed to be nocturnal so our eyes and skin are a bit sensitive to light but it won't kill us."

"So do you go out during the day?"

"I try not to. It gives me a headache and the smell is nauseating."

"Smell?"

A twinge of a smile came across his lips "We have more sensitive noses then you." He leans in closer "In any given group of humans you have the smell of cologne, sex, sweat, dirt, food, piss, and shit. Not exactly something that gets the appetite going."

"So do I stink to you?"

He smiled. "Do you really want me to answer that?"

She shrugs. "So can you have sex with a human?"

"Why?"She felt heat flush her face but before she could answer he continued "I can stick my dick into anything that has a hole in it. That doesn't mean I want to."

"So you don't find humans attractive?"

"Would you?"

She shook her head and shifted on the bed. She had to change the topic before he thought she wanted him. "So can you drink another vampires blood?"

"You can but it's the equivalent of having unprotected sex. It's just not worth it."

"So you can't get human diseases?"

"Nope. "

"Then couldn't you use that to cure disease?"

"Who says we haven't. But there are limits. We have laws. We can't do anything that would draw attention to the fact that we exist like kill a human or mysteriously find the cure to every known human disease at once."

"What about me? You're telling me about all of this stuff. Isn't it against your laws?"

"Maybe. But if you tell anyone it isn't like they will believe you."

Given her current predicament that was likely true. "So nothing that the movies say is true?"

"Not really. It's not like we are immortal. We can die we just have quicker reflexes and faster healing capabilities. I don't mind garlic in fact some food needs it."

"You can eat normal food?"

"Of course, you can eat grass can't you? It's a bit harder to digest but it gives me energy. "

"What about churches and crosses?"

"Lies, as is the holy water, silver, and the other rubbish they make up"