(Darla is sitting at a table in a real dive. Across from her sits a vampire showing off his vamp face.)

DARLA: That's great. (Smiles) Really - very threatening.

VAMPIRE: (laughs) It's getting to you, isn't it? You know, when I was a-a human, I didn't have much luck with the women.

DARLA: Hard to believe.

VAMPIRE: I had kind of a skin condition. But now - it's something about the teeth I guess. (Bares his fangs) Chicks go crazy for it.

DARLA: You got girlfriends everywhere I imagine.

VAMPIRE: Well, mostly I just kill 'em. Dump the bodies.

DARLA: That must be very lonely for you.

VAMPIRE: We're a lonely sort, we - creatures of the night. Doomed to walk the earth, that kind of deal.

DARLA: Ah, how long have you been...

VAMPIRE: Oh, an eternal child of the darkness? Since, ah - '92.

DARLA: 19 - 92?

VAMPIRE: (chuckles) I know. It's hard to believe it's already the last century.

DARLA: And in all this - time you've never considered making yourself a - mate?

VAMPIRE: How do you mean?

DARLA: Well, isn't it true that some vampires choose a mortal, someone they can sire, someone who, too, can walk those lonely nights, hunting with them, feeding with them (puts her hand on his), joining with them?

VAMPIRE: (laughs) No! That'd just be weird.

DARLA: Weird? - It's mythic!

VAMPIRE: (shakes his finger at her) No, you been reading too much Anne Rice lately! You've got no idea how this thing works!

DARLA: Then teach me.

VAMPIRE: Oh, what, you want me to make you?

DARLA: Why do you think I came into this bar, for the snacks?

VAMPIRE: Sweetheart, in this bar, you are the snacks.

DARLA: (smiles at him) I live nearby. We can go back to my place, you can do it there.

VAMPIRE: Y-you're serious about this. So what? I make you and then you'd be like my immortal babe?

DARLA: Yes.

VAMPIRE: Ah, well, that kind of sounds like commitment to me.

DARLA: Then use me for as long as you like, any way you like, then discard me. - No strings.

VAMPIRE: (after a beat) There's an alley out back.

(Darla gets up, grabs his hand and drags him out into the alley.) VAMPIRE: How do you know I won't just kill you here, drain you and leave your body?

(Darla puts her purse down on the hood of a car and gives him a hard kiss, then steps back.)

DARLA: I'll take my chances.

VAMPIRE: I - I- I should probably mention that I... - I'm not real clear on how this thing works.

DARLA: What?

VAMPIRE: Well, ah, I never actually did it, ah, to anybody before - and I was kind of out when it happened to me.

DARLA: I'll walk you through it. (Steps closer) Drink. (Exposes her neck) When you feel my heart start to slow, stop.

(The vampire's about to sink his fangs into her neck when Angel dusts him.)

• Vampire Lore

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