[visual / location: don's apartment] (way backdated)

[verylittlesugar]

It's been a couple days since the attack and her phone call to Don, and Mattie's feeling better physically, but still a little wrung out emotionally. Mostly that manifests in being very quiet and trying convince Don to let her cook meals for him, and a noticeable absence of tiny sternfaces. There's a lot on her mind, however, and one or two questions in particular keep coming up.

So she turns to her tablet, and the Taxon community, for answers. She's curled up against the headboard of Don's bed, wrapped in her father's coat over her nightgown, with a small white gauze bandage on her neck.

"What happens when a vampire bites you? And how are you to tell if you are seeing one?"


[Location for Don, visual or voice as you like for everyone else. Let's say this is backdated to around May 9 so Mattie hasn't been languishing all this time.

ETA: Don may be hovering around and keeping an eye on conversations, expect possible threadjacking. ;)]

Comments

[visual]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

"Think that depends on what sort of vampire it was." Amy peers at the girl a bit curiously, but is in no way surprised by the question. "For instance, I was bitten by vampires once, but they weren't the traditional kind, and I didn't change into one."

[visual]

[verylittlesugar]

"I do not know, until lately I did believe vampires could be real." Even now, she's not completely convinced that there isn't some other explanation. "What are the traditional kind like?"

[visual]

[iminmynightie.livejournal.com]

"Oh, well the traditional kind suck out most of your blood, I think." She tries to think back to movies she's seen. "I can't remember if you just turn into one, or the vampire makes you drink their blood to turn you into one." Amy's eyes focus on the bandage.

"Did one attack you?" Amy is on the periphery of the vampire culture in Taxon, but she's seen enough broadcast on the tablets to know they're real.

[ voice ]

[allthefunever.livejournal.com]

[ holy pinged, batman. ]

Now, why would you ask that, Tiny?

[ voice ]

[verylittlesugar]

[Mattie still hasn't received the packages Damon left -- he can thank Don's sudden burst of protectiveness for that -- so at least he doesn't have to deal with her certainty that he's trying to woo her. Yet.]

Because it is very important that I find out.

[voice]

[selfmadman]

[Don recognizes the nickname--and that needling tone--if not the voice.]

It wasn't because she thought you were running low on excuses to waste her time.

[ voice | locked ]

[virtued.livejournal.com]

What the hell did you do?

[ ...sob stef, this wasn't damon trying to get your attention for once. ]

[location: Don's apartment]

[selfmadman]

Don knocks softly at the bedroom door before letting himself in. His shirt is crisp and bright, his hair combed with customary severity and face freshly shaved. And yet it doesn't fit together as it should--there's no ironing out or washing away the restlessness of his movements, the way his expression will drift into remoteness.

"You sure this is a good idea?" he asks, waving a cigarette at her tablet.

[location: Don's apartment]

[verylittlesugar]

Don has temporarily won the battle of wills that ended with Mattie taking over his room, but she's considering broaching the subject again, as soon as she's gathered some information on what she might expect to happen with this vampire bite situation.

"You do not know anything about vampires, and I do not know who would be best to ask. And I feel that this is a much better use of my than fretting."

[Visual] [locked]

[smecker.livejournal.com]

Have a visual of Smecker lying on his own bed, a not-dissimilar bandage on his own neck. His expression is wry as he takes in Mattie's appearance.

"Looks like no gardening for either of us for a while."

[Visual] [locked]

[verylittlesugar]

Mattie's eyes widen at the bandage, and she leans a little closer to her tablet.

"You were bitten as well. Do you know anything helpful about them?"

[Video]

[painsinger.livejournal.com]

Those weren't exactly questions that he was entirely qualified to answer, but that bandage was new and in an unfortunate place. He might not have been here all that long, but he was still more than a little concerned. It was far too easy to bleed out from a wound in that particular area. She seemed to have avoided that, but. He could still worry, even if he didn't know her that well.

After a few moments, he finally managed to wrestle the tablet into doing what he wanted.

"Are you alright?"

[Video]

[verylittlesugar]

Mattie remembers the young man from the arrival room, and wonders if anyone has warned him that there are demons about the city.

"I...do not know just yet. But I shall hope so, because I intend to go home soon and I do think being turned into a monster will be any use to me at all."

Her reply is perhaps a bit aggressively defensive, but maybe she can be forgiven, considering.

audio;

[ironfright.livejournal.com]

Did you get yourself into trouble, little minnow?

[ despite the nickname, Puck's voice lacks it usual vitriol... if anything, he sounds oddly neutral at the moment ]

audio;

[verylittlesugar]

I hardly think being attacked unexpectedly qualifies as getting myself into trouble.

[There's less defensiveness than usual in her tone, probably because she's still shaken from the experience.]

[visual]

[slayersidekick]

"Well... the vampires from my world are afraid of crosses, holy symbols, a-and holy water really hurts. So, if you have any of those nearby, they make really good weapons." She pauses to think of what else.

"Also, if you look in a mirror, they don't have a reflection."

[visual]

[verylittlesugar]

"I have heard crosses and holy water from others as well, it seems to me these must be the best defenses." She's going to ask permission to use Don's hatch immediately, now that she has confirmation on the usefulness of those items.

"I think I would prefer not to let one get so close to me as to be able to test it in a mirror."

[ voice ] SO LATE i am sorry.

[herotypical]

[ hmm. another victim? ]

...You don't turn, if that's what you're wondering.

[ voice ] it is okay i am the slowest right now

[verylittlesugar]

How can you be sure? I have been told there may be more than one kind. Are they all the same in that regard?

[ voice ]

[lajolieblonde.livejournal.com]

[ ...oh dear. ]

You okay, sweetheart?

[ voice ]

[verylittlesugar]

[The accent and sympathetic manner ping something like homesickness in Mattie.]

Yes, ma'am, or I will be.

[ voice ]

[virtued.livejournal.com]

What?

[ he's been with katherine this entire time, so his mind immediately jumps to damon, being unaware of dawn. gdit brother, if this is your way of getting his attention, here it is. ]

[ voice ]

[verylittlesugar]

[Mattie is getting better at identifying voices, but 'what?' isn't very much to go on, so she's making an educated guess and hoping she's right.]

Stefan?

[a-pretty-fire.livejournal.com]

Didn't they rip your throat out?

[verylittlesugar]

They did try.