I wondered back into the bedroom, hours after Alec had left; it had gotten dark, chilly as well. I sat on the bed and crossed my legs, leaning against the headboard. I picked up a book, turned on a nearby lamp, and started to read. I got half way through when a familiar knock came on the door. It was Doreen with dinner, Zane to look at my wound and Alec, I didn't know why here was here.

"I wait almost all day for someone to talk to, and then I get three at once." I said closing the book.

Zane and Alec smiled; Doreen on the other hand looked worried and nervous.

"You're dinner ma'am. I'll take away your breakfast and lunch if you're not going to eat them," she said.

Alec frowned.

"Thanks," I said to Doreen, "but please call me Darcy," she gave a nervous glance to Alec but then left without saying any more.

Zane knelt beside me and lifted my top up slightly to look at the wound.

There was silence.

"So..." I said. "Vampires, what's difference between real life ones and the ones from myths?" I asked, playing them at their own game, unless they really were vampires. Yeah right.

Alec sat in the chair opposite the bed facing me, watching Zane study my wound.

No one answered my question and everything remained quiet. Then Zane finished and stood up.

"Eat." he said before he left the room.

Alec remained, staring at me intently. I quickly pulled my top down. I sat up, picked the book back up, and started to read again. I could still feel Alec looking at me and I couldn't concentrate.

"What?" I questioned him as I closed the book.

He didn't answer my question but answered the one I asked previously.

"The difference is that the real ones are much more charismatic."

I frowned, "That wasn't really the answer I was looking for," I crawled onto my knees placing the book onto the nearest table. "How old are you?"

"203."

"Is that young...or old?" I asked.

"Do I look old to you?"

No he didn't, he looked my age, if not a bit older.

"Do you have special powers like, I don't know, super strength, or intensified hearing or..."

"Slow down Darcy," he said. "Yes we do have more strength then humans but amongst vampires it differs with how much, it's the same with speed and we do have better hearing. But we don't have powers like teleportation or invisibility," he laughed as if imagining what he could do with those powers. "We can heal as well, very quickly, I'll show you if you want," he said pulling out a pocketknife. He was about to cut his arm when I shouted.

"No! That's ok," if he had convinced himself he was a vampire then I really didn't want to watch his arm bleed and the fact that he had a knife in his pocket worried me.

He smiled at me and placed the knife back in his pocket, which I silently let out a sigh of relief to.

"Are you dead?" I asked carrying on the conversation.

He chuckled again. It was a nice chuckle, innocent and sweet, but I didn't think about it long, wondering what his reply would be.

"No. I was turned into a vampire when I was slightly older then you. You don't have to die to become a vampire, in fact you have to be alive."

"How are you...you know "turned"?" I asked.

"I'd rather not say, not now anyway. It's not bad or horrible; it's just not something I like to talk about."

I was silent for a while, thinking about what he had said, he had his story covered well, and I wondered if I asked Zane the same things, if he would give me the same answers. Then a thought occurred to me, Alec said he needed me to drink from….."How often do you need to drink?"

"Not often, once a week, sometimes twice but a vampire can last up to two months without drinking anything, if he wants to."

"Do you drink from animals as well as humans?"

"No," he smiled. "Their blood is too sour."

I flinched at blood; I didn't like the thought of drinking blood.

"Can you drink from other vampires?" I asked.

"Yes, but you don't get as much energy from it like from humans."

I flinched again but carried on asked questions, "Do you kill when you drink?" I didn't like the thought of killing either.

"Never," He looked away when he said this and I couldn't help feeling…

"You're lying." I stated before I could stop myself.

He sighed. "I have once or twice, but it was a mistake, I hadn't drunk for a while, and I regret it profoundly. I would never let it happen to you, I promise."

I flinched again. Even if he did save my life, I wasn't looking forward to what he had planned with my blood, well that's if he was telling the truth. It's strange because the longer I listened to him the more I began to believe him, which I kept telling myself was stupid, but it just seemed like there was truth behind his words, or was he just a convincing liar? I really didn't know; I was confusing myself the more I thought about it.

"Are all vampires the same then, do they all not kill?" I asked.

He sighed and glanced over at my still full dinner.

"I'm not answering another question until you eat something."

"I'm not hungry."

"No more answers then," he answered as he got up and started to leave.

"Wait," I said. I picked up a piece of bread and started to nibble it.

"You're going to have to eat more than that." He said, turning back around.

I sighed and started to eat the contents of the plate.

"So…the answer?" I asked.

He sighed again, "No Darcy, not all vampires are the same, some do…kill."

I didn't know what to think of this, I stopped chewing for half a second; hopefully not long enough for Alec to notice. I then decided to forget about it, I mean, all this, it was made up, or at least just a story to scare the kidnapped, wasn't it? I carried on asking him questions as I ate, just to see if there were any flaws in his answers, I even sometimes asked the same questions again to see if his answers changed, they never did.

"So many questions," he finally said cutting me off mid sentence. There are other nights, it's late now." he said getting up.

I looked out of the window and saw he was right. It was pitch black and there were many stars in the sky.

Alec got up, "Night," he said leaving me sitting on the bed with an empty plate. He closed the door behind him and I heard the lock click. I changed into the nightdress again and collapsed onto the bed pulling the covers over me, thinking about the vampire tales until I fell into a deep sleep. Surprisingly my dreams were full of vampires.