So this is my first submission that isn't a poem. It's just a little crap drabble that I came up with randomly and thought 'Oh what the heck,' and posted on here. Reviews are nice but not expected.(:

Disclaimer: I don't own it.


Blood

Tru Blood.

'All flavor, no bite.'

Well, there certainly was flavor. Rather unpalatable and far too coppery. Like the human interpretation of how blood should taste. It just wasn't the same

You missed the rush of the hunt. You missed the whirling rush that came with that first crimson mouthful. You missed the lovely adrenaline buzz left afterwards. Hell, you even missed the tedious task of removing blood stains.

But the thing you missed the most was that moment, that glimpse of mortal life. Mundane things really, someone's birthday or a new book by a favorite author. And sometimes, sometimes, those completely human emotions like giddiness or aggravation or… love. Things that seemed so trivial, so insignificant. For those few precious moments, you were allowed to look through the windows of normalcy.

But the thing was, if vampires were going to survive going public, they needed to soften their edges a little bit. Vampires weren't cuddly or sparkly. They were parasites, and you understood why humans were so apprehensive. For thousands of years, vampires had just been legends. They were stories meant to terrify and enrapture. Something for Mother to chase out from under the bed at night. They couldn't really hurt anyone because they weren't real. Ignorance is bliss and all that rot. Now vampires were undoubtedly real. Live and in stereo. What next? The Loch Ness Monster?

(The Loch Ness Monster had been in fact just a very eccentric shifter.)

Tru Blood made vampires just a bit less frightening. A little more domestic. It gave them another option, made the humans relax just the tiniest bit.

You had a feeling that the offensive, vile, synthetic substance in the heavy glass bottle was going to save your, and the rest of the undead population's, neck.

That didn't do anything for the taste though.