❝ A vampire’s bite can be both thrilling and dangerous ❞

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{ it brings pleasure and pain in one delicious stroke }
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(( Gavi's not that different. A friend once told him he's like Jane in Pride and Prejudice: too apt to think the best of everyone. That doesn't mean he wants to befriend everyone, though, so Asher's already got a leg up on the 'competition.' ))

It's nice to know you like me.

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good. because i do.

now what kind of plans did you have with your loser of a date?

( surely ash is in a place to judge as someone currently stuck in a hotel lobby! )

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The usual. Dinner. Probably Netflix and chill.

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( why is the thought of gavi netflixing and chilling with some other person making ash wrinkle his nose disdainfully? we just don't know. )

seems like you dodged a bullet. 😒

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(( What what what? Is that a feel Ash is experiencing? ))

I think you're right. I don't wanna spend time with someone who cancels plans last minute anyway. Rude.
What are you doing after work?

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sleeping.

( he Loves to sleep, even if going to bed around 10 am has been a weird adjustment since he was turned. )

unless someone gives me something to do.

( again, "someone". )

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Someone specific or will anyone do?

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well, i don't know if i'd say just anyone...
preferably someone tall and fluffy with bad eyesight 🤔

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Fluffy??? Is it my hair or my sweaters?

(( He can't rightfully deny that accusation either. SAD FACE. ))

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yes
😌

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🥺
Well... I'm free when you are. We could get breakfast or just hang out.

(( You know, Netflix and chill. ))

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my shift ends at 5.
are you a night owl like me, or are you gonna take a nap until then?

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I'm a night owl. I usually work at night.

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oh? where do you work?

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A nightclub called Amour. You know it?

(( It's pretty well known among supernaturals. ))

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( he knows it. dayya, the trickster spirit who works at the concierge desk, has tried and tried to convince him to go there when ash is particularly hungry and, by proxy, pissy. instead, he convinces dayya to let him take a little sip from his wrist, even though the spirit's blood doesn't even taste good to him, always makes him sick after even if it briefly staves off the hunger.

there's something about the thought of amour that unsettles him, though. maybe it's the freshly former human part of him. )

isn't that place dangerous?

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It can be. Sometimes patrons get territorial. That can cause problems.

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( territorial????? what kind of vampire would get territorial?????????

definitely not this one that's trying to pretend like the thought doesn't annoy him. )

doesn't that scare you?
how do you protect yourself?

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There are bouncers and, in a pinch, even pepper spray will give a few seconds to escape.

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( ash is practically squirming at the thought — why do vampires have to be so fucked up? )

you should get a job somewhere safer
like
waiting tables at a hotel restaurant
vacuuming rooms
you don't need some bloodsucker trying to chomp on you

( the vague self-loathing jumps out — but gavi doesn't need to know that. )

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The money's good. A few hours a few nights a week and I'm set. Apparently, art and music don't pay the bills.

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so i've heard.
is it


unpleasant

( does he wanna know........ )

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Sometimes. But in the way any job can be unpleasant, you know? Crass customers, patrons being inappropriate, that sort of thing.

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but the bite?

( 😬 )

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(( 😰😰😰 Why you gotta ask that? ))

Most of the time? It's really not so bad.