[text] @helsing; I've always liked to play with fire [open]

[kungfuey]

I'm looking to speak to anyone who;

1. Has communicated with the Church hermit
2. Has come across any railroad tracks in Beacon
3. Has seen any antibiotics lying around

[ She would have left it there but figures maybe she should probably let people know this next bit; ]

I also spotted a giant spirit in the woods around the museum. Try not to get killed by it.

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[tribridfreakshow]

I know a little about estranged family...

[is her voice strangely bitter? I'm sure it's nothing.]

It always is. [Complicated, that is.] Just because I know what I am in theory didn't mean I know how it all works. Comes with being the only one of your kind.

Most don't have one. You have to know a witch that can actually do the spell, and those are few and far between.

[kungfuey]

[ The stories these two could swap.

Scarlett catches it but doesn't push - at least not yet. ]

Technically my sister - [ One day that won't feel weird to say. ] has the same deal but... we haven' t exactly had a chance to compare notes.

[ Give she didn't exactly know she had a sister until very recently. ]

That explains a few things. [ Like why they hadn't gone on a murder spree before The Rising. ] Have you ever... Been bitten by one?

[tribridfreakshow]

No, I guess not. The vampires at school only drink from blood bags, and it's not even human blood. I gave my blood to a werewolf once...two doses, technically, but that ended up being a really big mistake.

[kungfuey]

[ You didn't actually think that Scarlett was going to let it end at that, did you? ]

Define, mistake. Raged out werewolf ripping people apart kind of mistake or... dead werewolf kind of mistake?

[ It says so much that these are her two 'mistake' scenarios. ]

[tribridfreakshow]

....both? sort of? But it didn't have anything to do with my blood.

[Not the answer either of them wanted.]

He was being bullied really bad at school. I helped him turn into a hybrid because he asked for my help. Half-werewolf, half-vampire, and new vampires tend to lack self-control. He accidentally killed someone. A witch, actually. So the witches wanted justice and the werewolves wanted to protect him and it was a huge mess.

[A beat.]

He ended up strung up in the streets of New Orleans with his heart missing. He was fifteen.

[kungfuey]

So your blood actually turned him?

[ Her tone a mix of surprise and confusion. She'd started to think of Hope as exactly like her, only with the WItch & Werewolf additions. ]

Jesus.

[ Hearing Hope talk about a fifteen-year-old boy being strung up like that? She wants to believe that even in her world, she'd have been horrified but the fact is? She probably wouldn't have been. ]

You talk like... he was still him.

[tribridfreakshow]

I still have the magic that creates vampires running through my veins. If someone dies with it in their system, they'll go through transition like anyone else.

[That should include her, but things are weird here.]

Well, yeah. That's because he was still him.

[kungfuey]

Magic. [ What the fuck is it with people associated with Vampires messing with her understanding of... well. Vampires. ] That's what you believe makes them?

[ She can't quite shed the note of disbelief as she asks that either. ]

I thought you said he'd killed. Fed.

[tribridfreakshow]

Well, yeah. My grandma is the one that cast the spell and made the first vampires out of her entire family. She basically invented dark magic.

[She doesn't believe that's what makes them. She knows.]

You have to feed to fully transition anyway. In order for him to survive becoming a hybrid, that blood had to be mine.

[kungfuey]

Different worlds, different Vampires.

[ It's said like a revelation rather than an argument or statement of fact. Even if she wants to see Hope as like her, they're still completely different. ]

So your blood turns them into Hybrids. [ She's been saying that but none of this has really sunk in until now. ] What if a vamp bites you?

[tribridfreakshow]

That's my guess, yeah. Similar, but not exactly the same.

[Which was still a slight comfort. After all, they both had dealt with some pretty heavy shit.]

The bite itself wouldn't do anything. If they took too much and killed me, I'd probably transition into a vampire, but that's only because I'm weird. Humans have to ingest vampire blood and then die to turn. The same thing would happen if a human died with my blood in their system.

[kungfuey]

Heh - [ A dry, bitter bark of laughter. ] My world would be a lot less fucked up if things worked that way there.

The infection comes from the bite. Like... Zombies or some shit.

[ An infection, not magic. At least, that's how she's always seen it. ]

[tribridfreakshow]

...What are your vampires like, then? Mindless?

[kungfuey]

No... well? The feral ones are. Vampire goes long enough without human blood and they become more animal than Vampire.

[ Notably not human. ]

Normal ones seem human but.... It's twisted. They become these extreme, fucked up versions of who they used to be and they're driven by their need for blood, death and power.

[ So. Mikaelsons. ;) ]

[tribridfreakshow]

...like they've turned off their humanity.

[Her voice is a little quieter.]

Ours can do that too, but they have to choose to do it. Sometimes they just don't care about anything anymore, but sometimes it's like that.

[kungfuey]

Yeah... I guess?

[ But not all of them. If she were being honest, there had been one who broke the mold. ]

There was a... man I knew. Before here. He was a Vampire. No idea how he managed to do it but he was able to cling to some part of who he was before. He never killed anyone. Wouldn't drink blood from a living donor. He couldn't sustain it though. He would have ended up like the rest of them or dead, eventually.

[tribridfreakshow]

Vampires feel things more intensely. It's a survival mechanism, to be able to turn that off if they're overwhelmed and too weak to deal with them.

[Her family committed those atrocities without really ever turning theirs off, though. She tries not to think about it too much.]

Someone in transition has 24 hours to drink human blood or they just....die. [A beat.] So what happened to him? You said he 'would have' ended up like them.

[kungfuey]

Uhhh. [ I mean. She wasn't going to be able to keep it a secret forever, was she? ]

He got cured... [ Something in her tone suggesting that she knows how insane that sounds. ]

[tribridfreakshow]

Oh, gotcha.

[She doesn't sound...that surprised.]

Is that as rare for you as it is for me? There's literally only...one cure for us.

[It was her Aunt's turn to use it next. It was weird.]

[kungfuey]

[ W e l p. ]

You could say its a finite resource.

[ I mean? That's true.

A soft huff of air spilling over. ] Or I guess, it was is more accurate now.

[ She considers not saying it but here? Did it even matter anymore? ]

It was me. And... my sister, technically but. I don't even know if she's alive or not. Wouldn't be the first time she came back from the dead, though.

[tribridfreakshow]

[Whoa, back up.]

You mean, like, literally you? Is it your blood or something?

[She didn't realize Scarlett had a sister either, but one thing at a time.]