Thanks to everyone who wrote me about my last two stories. I really appreciate the comments. In response to those e-mails I have shortened up my paragraphs to make my stories easier to follow. I hope you like this one.
My fascination with vampires started years ago as a small child. Every Halloween we would huddle around our little black and white television and watch Dracula struggling with some do-gooder for the soul of the beautiful girl. I always secretly routed for the vampire but I never told anyone that. Every year I would ask my dad, “Is there such a thing as a vampire?” Every year he would tell me the same thing. “We’ve gone over this before. There are no such things as vampires.” For some reason I never bought that story. By day I was the CEO to a small Internet company that sold streaming video advertisements. By night I was a vampire enthusiast. I attended vampire parties, hung out at gothic events, and immersed myself in the culture along with all the other want to be vampires. It was a somewhat close-knit group of people and I was very quiet about my escapades in the evening. I was mostly embarrassed and didn’t want anyone to find out.
Things started changing a couple of years ago but it took me a little while to notice. The people at the vampire parties looked more realistic than before. People around the city started disappearing and churches were being vandalized. One day I was at a gathering and a beautiful woman with white skin and dark black hair started walking towards me. I looked over to see who was moving towards me and found myself looking into her eyes. I suddenly felt like my mind was an open book. It felt as if my mind was a set of locked cabinets and she was inside my mind opening each cabinet. I heard her say, “Come to me.” I started walking to her. My mind was screaming at me to run, to break her gaze and that this wasn’t normal and I was going to get hurt but I just kept walking. Suddenly another woman appeared to move quickly and knock the woman with the eyes to the ground. She stood over the one who had held my gaze and said, “You fool! It’s him! H will serve us soon but it isn’t for his blood.” The first woman got up and ran. The second woman turned towards me and said, “Look into my eyes.” I looked and an even stronger feeling of having my mind opened swept over me. “Forget what you saw tonight. You had a wonderful evening; you are tired and will go home and sleep. Tomorrow is a new day and you will not remember this event until we remind you in the future. Now go and sleep.” I saw a large chalkboard in my mind and this woman was in my head erasing the board. The board had logged in everything that had just happened and now the memory was gone. I wandered home with my mind in a fog and went straight to sleep. It would be several months before I was permitted to remember this confrontation.
I joined an Internet chat room dealing with vampires. Everyone had their theories about the disappearances but most people were like my father, they really didn’t believe. I did. I always had but these disappearances and the people at the vampire parties were starting to make me suspicious. Sometimes our parties went into the early morning and we would wait until the morning to drive home. Recently the place was empty before the first rays of sun came up. I was chatting and sharing my theories when I got a private IM. It read, “Hello believer. Stop trying to prove we exist. We are more effective when people do not believe in us. Do you want to meet? I promise not to kill you or turn you into a vampire.” My heart raced a hundred miles an hour and a cold terrified sweat ran down my face. I typed back. “OK, I will keep my mouth shut. Yes, I want to meet. What assurance do I have that you will not kill me or turn me into a vampire.” The vampire wrote back. “You h ave none. I know this is difficult but you must trust me. If I wanted you dead I would have killed you a long time ago. Meet me on your roof in one hour.” This was it. I was either going to be sorely disappointed by a fraud or I was about to meet a real vampire. Then the thought occurred to me, “What if it was some thief who was preying on people in chat rooms?” Damn, I never thought of that! I called my friend Rob. “Rob, can you do me a favor? Can you bring your shotgun and meet me at my apartment in 30 minutes. To ward off a vampire. Stop laughing. I met someone in a chat room and they might not really be a vampire and just might be trying to rip me off or something. Great.” I hung up. Rob was on his way. I put on my favorite vampire clothes and waited for Rob.
Rob got there a little late but I still had time to position him on the roof. Rob laughed at me the whole time I was getting him into position. He thought my outfit was ridiculous. I set Rob in a dark area near the ventilators. I watched the door and waited for it to open. Then I heard a woman’s voice behind me. “Where did you get that ridiculous outfit?” My heart jumped and I let out a scream. She moved the distance of the roof in less than a second and put her hand over my mouth. Her strength was incredible and for a second I thought she was going to crush my skull trying to shush me. She looked right past me into the shadows where I had placed my friend Rob. She said, “It is a wonderful evening for a walk off the roof.” I heard the shotgun drop then Rob stepped out and began walking toward the edge of the roof. I tried to move or scream his name but she held me firmly in place and kept my mouth from opening. Rob walked off the roof with a blank look on his fa ce. He didn’t scream or even throw his arms out as he started to fall. Then I heard him hit with a disgusting thud.
She was real all right. I could smell blood on her breath and I had just watched my best friend hypnotized into walking off a 10-story building. She turned me towards her and I found myself looking into her eyes. She was beautiful. She was stunningly beautiful. I felt my mind melt into nothing as I stared into her eyes. “We cannot stay up here. People are already congregating around the body. Why did you bring him up here? I told you I would not hurt you.” I could not lie to her. She held the key to my mind. I replied, “I thought you might not be a real vampire. I thought you might be a robber or thief and Rob was here to protect me. He was my best friend and he died protecting me.” In spite of her power over my mind I felt a tear run down my eye. The vampire wiped my tear away and said, “I am sorry. I felt his presence and commanded him to commit suicide. In the future a friend of yours is a friend of ours. Meet me at the Shady Hole in 1 hour. And Mike, c hange out of those ridiculous clothes.” She broke my gaze and I immediately went down, changed my clothes, and went down to the lobby. The place was crawling with police and an officer stepped up to me. “I’m sorry sir. No one can come in or leave until we have finished our investigation.” I protested. “But I have to meet my dream woman in one hour.” The officer put his hand on my chest and pushed me back into the lobby. He suddenly stood upright like he was in great pain. I heard a woman behind me say, “You are okay. You can go. Have a nice evening.” The officer looked at me with a blank look on his face but obviously he was in an incredible amount of pain. He said, “You are okay. You can go. Have a nice evening.”
As I walked out the back door I looked back. Blood was running from the officer’s ears and eyes and he dropped to his knees in front of the woman who had told him what to say. I heard a thud and then she ran up along side of me. “Run Mike. We do not have a lot of time.” She took my hand and suddenly energy and speed transferred into my body. We ran like the wind and hit the Shady Hole in 10 minutes. My morning runs take me past this spot and it usually takes me 30 minutes to get here. I got to the door and she stopped outside. “Go in Mike, she is waiting for you. Oh yes, I almost forgot. Look into my eyes and remember.” I looked into her eyes and suddenly remembered the day at the party. I realized the woman who had stopped the other vampire from killing me was standing in front of me. I wondered to myself why I was so important to them. Then I went inside the Shady Hole.
The woman from the roof was waiting for me. She didn’t need hypnotic eyes to make me obey. She was so beautiful that my pants became uncomfortably tight. The waitress came over, “Can I help you sir?” I pointed to the woman and said, “I am with her.” The waitress turned and said to me “With who sir?” I looked back and she was gone. “I’ll just take a table for one thank you.” A waiter came over to my table and handed me a note. He was in a trance and walked away before I could ask him who had given him the note. The note told me to go to the back door and knock three times. I complied and the door opened. A hand reached out and with incredible force it yanked me into the backroom. There she was again. She came to me. “I think you are safe now Mike. There are other forces trying to eliminate our race.” She took me into her arms and gently kissed me. I kissed her back. I wanted her more than I had wanted any woman. I didn’t care that she was a vampire. I dreame d of beautiful women and I had dreamed of meeting a real vampire. I was living two dreams at once. I found myself gazing into her eyes. She entered my mind as I stared helplessly into her eyes. She announced to the others in the room, “He is safe. There is no mal intent inside his mind. He is already falling in love with me. No one has followed him and no one knows he is here.” Then she said to me, “Make love to me and fall in love with me.”
When she broke my gaze I went to her. I did everything I could to give her pleasure but she could not seem to orgasm. Was a vampire incapable of orgasm? As I licked her pussy I realized what she needed. It hit me like a bullet filled with knowledge. I reached under the sofa she was sitting on, found a staple that had been used to hold down the fabric, pried back the staple and purposely ripped my finger open on the staple. I jammed my finger in her mouth as I plunged my tongue deeper into her pussy and she screamed with pleasure. An incredible roaring sound came out of her mouth and the other vampires rushed to cover her mouth. She pushed me back, climbed on top of me and as she pumped me she held my gaze and commanded that I would not orgasm until told to do so. The pressure built and built and when I finally was allowed to cum I would have roared too if I were a vampire. I looked up at my vampire and knew I was hers. I would do anything for her. She kissed me and said, “My name is Helena and you belong to me now Mike. I cannot tell you how yet but you will save both our race and the human race from extinction.”
There was another triple knock at the back door. A man walked in and Helena jumped up and hugged and kissed him. I sat there thinking I had to share her. Great! “Poppa. He will help us.” The man came over and shook my hand. “Has she explained the plan to you or was she too busy screwing your brains out.” I shook his hand and said, “She was too busy screwing my brains out.” She turned into a little high school girl for a moment and playfully hit me. “Mike, that wasn’t very nice.” The father said, “He is an honest man. We can trust him. Let us proceed.” We sat around a table and Helena explained the plan to me. “We have a dilemma Mike. When a vampire feeds that vampire can only kill its victim or after three feedings, turn its victim into a vampire.” I replied. “Just like in the movies?” “Yes, just like in the movies. This creates a problem. If we continue to feed we will either kill mankind and that will lead to our extinction or we will turn them all into vampires and that will lead to our extinction.” That sounded like a real problem for both races. “Are you sure you have the right guy? I can’t possible be the chosen one who will save both races. Can I?”
Helena then explained the plan, “There are lots of companies that do advertising but only one with a CEO who believes in us and wants to help us. You will write a program that will stream my image into the computer rooms, desktops, laptops, and any other media device we can think of. I will send hypnotic signals into the video and any human who views the video will be entranced.” I interrupted. “What good will that do?” Helena said, “Easy Mike. I will hypnotize the human population to become the most generous blood donors the world has ever seen. We have been stealing from blood banks for years but the blood shortage forced us out into the population to feed. Then we met you at a party, learned your background and came up with this plan. It is easy to hypnotize one blood bank employee but we need your help to control the entire human population. Will you help us?” How could I say no to her? “Of course I will help you. I would do anything for you.” Her father sma cked me on the back and said, “Yup, she screwed your brains out all right.” Then her dad started sniffing in the air. His eyes turned red and his fangs popped out. He looked at me as if I was nothing more than a meal. His voice turned rough and deeper. “I smell blood. Is there another human in this room?” Helena spoke. “No Poppa. Mike is the only one in here.” I held up my hand and realized I had been bleeding the whole time from my self-inflicted wound. He grabbed me and started to pull my neck into his mouth. Helena kept hitting him and was yelling “No Poppa. We need him and I love him.” Her father snapped out of it. He looked at me and said, “I apologize friend. We are starving and we become like animals when we smell blood. Please go with Helena and do what you need to do.”
Helena and I drove to my company. “I need someone to help me write the program, can you hypnotize him to help me?” “Is it mechanical or does he have to think?” I said, “I need him to help write the program.” Helena said, “I’m sorry Mike. I cannot make someone do something out of trance that involves thinking or emotion. I can make someone say something, do something or walk to me knowing I will suck their blood and leave them for dead but I cannot control other portions of the brain.” I replied back,“But you hypnotized me to make love to you and to fall in love with you.” Helena smiled and said, “No Mike. I hypnotized you to keep you from cumming but you fell in love all by yourself. I cannot make a human fall in love with me. This streaming video can only be used to have humans go to blood banks and give blood as often as their bodies can handle. It cannot create compassion or sympathy or we would have taken that approach. That is why you were chosen instead of Bill Gates. We needed someone who would want to help us.”
I set up all the equipment and brought Helena into the filming room. I hit the switch and said, “go.” Helena turned to the camera with her eyes burning right into the screen. “Greetings. There is a critical blood shortage and only you can help. You will go to your local Red Cross, hospital or blood bank and volunteer to give blood. You will sign up to give blood every four weeks so that the blood supplies stay full. You must give blood. The survival of our people depends on it. You must give blood and give blood often.” Helena closed her eyes and said, “How did I do?” I stood there muttering over and over “I must give blood and give blood often.” Helena walked over to me and shook me. “Snap out of it. You were supposed to look away.” I suddenly realized the camera was still rolling. “Damn it!” I stopped the camera and rewound to the part where she was just ending. “Now I need to write the program to get this out onto every computer I can. It will take weeks or even months before every human has seen the video at least once. I will also need to test it. But first I need to go give blood.” Helena grabbed me. “Mike, look into my eyes. I am the only one you will give blood to. Understood?” I replied, “Yes Helena, understood.”
I wrote the program and brought three technicians into view the video. I hit play and immediately watched their mouths drop open. The video ended and they were still in a trance until I spoke. I said, “So what did you guys think? Isn’t she a great spokesperson?” One of them stood up an said, “Hell yes, I’m going to give blood right now.” The other two followed him, “Me too.” Helena was so excited. She nibbled my ear and said, “I will reward you tonight. Are we ready?” I actually had one more test I wanted to run. I had to pick a target. There was an accounting firm across the street from my building. They were always working very long hours so I knew there would still be a lot of them in the building this late. I had hacked their systems hundreds of times. I hacked the system and streamed the video into their network. I took my binoculars and we watched a partner from the firm as his mouth dropped open and he stared at his computer. The video ended and we watche d him get up and leave. We watched the parking lot and suddenly lots of cars were pouring out of the parking lot. I turned to Helena and said, “It worked. Let’s get this out for the whole world to see.”
Helena and I lived together for several years. It was difficult explaining to my parents why Helena never came out during the day. My colleagues hated the hours I kept but I had to sleep during the day to keep my lover’s hours. Helena could speak any language she wanted to so we created the video in multiple languages to reach more people. The blood banks were always full and we ran the video every six months or so to renew the human race’s commitment to giving blood.
One day I came home from work and Helena seemed really depressed. I said, “What’s wrong honey?” She wouldn’t look at me and said, “We cannot keep living like this Mike.” I was blown away. After all this time and everything we had been through. I said, “What do you mean? I love you. I would do anything for you.” Helena reached out and touched my hair. “You’re going gray Mike.” I said, “So? I’m just getting older.” Helena said, “So vampires do not age and we do not die. You will grow old and die. You will leave me on this earth broken hearted and alone. I will look this young and beautiful for eternity but you are aging. Your family and friends will notice sooner or later.” That had never occurred to me. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Helena but I had never thought about the rest of eternity. I solemnly said, “Make me a vampire.” Helena lifted her head up. “Mike, do you realize what you’re saying? You cannot go out in the sun ever again. Food will disgust you and only blood will satisfy your hunger. Your family will wonder why you stopped aging and eventually you will have to fake your death to avoid hurting their feelings. Have you thought about all this?” “Yes Helena, I want to do this for you. No, I want to do this for us.” “You told me you dreamed about having children, raising a family, and finding a woman to grow old with. You would give all that up for me?” I took Helena by her cold hand and kissed it. “Helena my love, I would die for you. I want to be with you forever.”
Helena stepped back from me. For a moment I thought she was backing away to end things. Then she said, “Mike, look into my eyes.” I felt that old feeling of Helena entering my mind. All the cabinets and drawers opened up as my lover rummaged through my mind. “I will feed on you three days in a row. You can change your mind anytime before the third feeding but after that you will be a vampire. You will still love me as you did when you were human but you will also be unable to resist any command I give you. The vampire who turns a human into a vampire becomes the master to the vampire that was turned. Are you sure you are okay with this?” I stood there helplessly staring into the most beautiful hypnotic eyes. I eagerly said, “Yes Master.” Then she said, “Then come to me. You will not feel pain.” I walked to her willingly but even if I were not willing there would be no turning back now. I felt her fangs dig into my neck and as the blood left my body I passed out . I woke up as she was carrying me to our bed. “Sleep honey, you will be extremely tired from the loss of blood.”
I woke up in the evening of the next day. I was very tired and very thirsty. I made my way to the refrigerator and drank a whole gallon of orange juice. I filled up a jug of water and brought it to my bed. I turned on the television and within the hour I had finished the water. The sun would go down soon and Helena would be up. I fell asleep watching television. I woke up to Helena stroking my hair. “You look like death warmed over. That is how I looked 600 years ago when I was made a vampire. My father had accidentally let a vampire into the house turned our whole family. He claimed he was a traveler and needed rest for a few days. We thought we had a virus because we were so weak and white. Three days later we were vampires.” She placed her hand on my head. “I give you strength.” I felt power and energy flow into my body much as it had the night the vampire had made me run so fast. “Make love to me Mike. Make love to me one more time as a human.” Even wit h her energy transfer I didn’t think I could make love to her. “I am too weak Helena. Leave me to rest.” Helena put her fingernail under my chin and lifted my head. “My eyes please Mike. You are a lovesick hormonal teenager and I am the most beautiful woman in the whole world. Now make love to me.” A newfound energy and desire surged through my body. We made love all night. The morning was coming soon. “Helena, leave me awake for this one.” “No Mike, it is extremely painful. My teeth go several inches into your neck.” “Please, just this once.” Helena leaped onto the bed and dug in. I went to scream in pain but she blocked my mouth with her hand. Again, I passed out as the blood left my body. The last day of my human life was dismal. I was so weak and sick from the loss of blood. I could not wait for the dark so Helena could tend to me. The sun went down and Helena emerged from her sleeping chamber. Helena said, “Mike, it is time. Are you sure? This is your last chance to change your mind.” I said, “Yes dear, I will miss the feeling of being hypnotized by you but I do not want to lose you by remaining human.” She caressed my face and said, “Don’t worry Mike; your mind will belong to me since I am the one who turned you. It probably will not feel that much different since I own you now. One last time Mike; look into my eyes.”
I woke up in a very dark chamber. I started to push the top off the chamber when I felt Helena’s hand grab my arm. “Not yet Mike, the sun is still out. It will kill us.” I said, “You mean I am a vampire?” Helena replied, “Yes, you are a vampire and you are my slave. Don’t worry honey; being my slave has lots of fringe benefits. We will feed and then you will make love to me.” I said, “Yes master.” Helena said, “Good slave. I love you Mike.” I replied back to my master and my lover, “I love you too master, I mean Helena.”