Ch. 4: I May Have Seen You on the Screen
"We meet again," said Damon to Edward, "so you're really the character in the book and movie franchise?"
"Not really," said Edward, "so you're really like the character in the TV and book series."
"Touché," Damon dropped the subject.
Bonnie approached the pair, "now that you're done embarrassing yourself, Damon, I'd like to speak to Edward"
"Sure," said Damon, "I'll go talk to someone else." He walked away.
Bonnie addressed Edward, "We both know enough about each other from our respective fictional representations, so I'll get down to business. My friends and your family are likely different types of vampire; I'd like to investigate our differences and find out if we can make anything useful of them."
Edward gave a quick response, "I don't think we should get into this type of relationship so quickly. The kind of research you're suggesting involves sharing quite sensitive materials, with which I am not yet ready to entrust you."
"If you're not up to investigating physical samples," continued Bonnie, "we could start with lore. My friends' vampire species was created by a witch who wanted to make her family strong enough to withstand their enemies. How did your species come to be?"
"This information is very obscure to me," began Edward. Bonnie gave the briefest flash of a superior smile before controlling her expression. Edward continued, "We came to be like very few other species. We are the product of a virus that immeasurably changes us for the privilege of using our bodies to survive and reproduce. Anything approaching the concrete origin story you have would be kept secret by the oldest of us. I don't know it."