Creeped Out
Vlad and Henry look at each other with both their mouths hitting the floor. "Vlad, why do you look like me, and why do I have a craving for blood?" "It was D'Ablo, Henry. He wanted to be pravus by switching bodies this time. I guess when you touched that weird helmet thing, we got switched." Henry looks at his hands hoping this is all a dream. After a few moments of silence, Vlad finally says, "We'd better get you some blood bags, dude. And we should probably tell Otis about this." Henry nods and we head to his car.
They didn't speak on the car ride home, it felt kind of awkward in a way. Vlad is thinking about his new body. He's human now. He's good looking. He's popular. And now he's Henry's drudge. The thought of that creeps Vlad out. Henry could tell him anything and Vlad would have to do it. But now he's human. Vlad has always wanted to be human, and now here's his chance to know what it feels like. Maybe this isn't such a bad thing… for Vlad anyway. Now that Henry is a vampire, he'll have a craving for blood, people are hunting him, and Bill and Tom will probably beat him up. Vlad won't let that happen. He's sick of those guys, and he's not going to let them bully his best friend.
Immediately after getting to Nelly's house, Henry takes a blood bag from the freezer. After he sucks dry about three of them, Vlad says, "Henry, you have to use telepathy to reach Otis." Henry's eyes go wide, "How?" "Just reach out with your blood, and say we need help." Henry answers with a blank stare; this is going to take longer than Vlad thought.
After a good few hours of telepathy lessons, mind control lessons, and all things vampiric and Elysian, Henry finally starts to get the hang of it. "Okay Henry, do what I taught you." Henry closes his eyes to concentrate. A few seconds passes by, and Henry shouts, "I did it! He's coming over right now!" Right after he says that Otis opens the door. "What is it Vladimir?" Vlad and Henry look at each other, Henry looks at Vlad with a pleading look. Vlad sighs and says, "Otis… the problem is… that I'm Vlad, and he's Henry." Otis gives him a your-joking look. But Otis sees that he's serious, and asks, "What happened?"
Vlad tells him about his late-night walk, and how D'Ablo took him and how he found another way to take Vlad's part as the pravus. Otis just sits silently and still. He didn't move at all for what felt like a few hours. "Otis?" Henry says, "You do know how to fix this, right?" Otis looks up for the first time since Vlad revealed what had happened. "I have a way, but it will take me some time. You'll have to act as yourselves, and please don't tell Nelly, she will be terribly worried. I will let you know when I've got the solution. And Vlad… make sure your drudge doesn't get into too much trouble." Vlad and Henry nod and Otis walks back out the door.
Henry breaks the next moments of silence. "So… now we have to act like each other." Vlad replies, "Yeah, I guess so." They talk for a few minutes and Henry says, "You should probably get back to my house before my family wakes up." Vlad agrees and heads to his new and temporary home.