Mitchell checked his watch. Five o'clock in the morning.
'Good, I still have a little darkness left.' He thought, checking into his microscope.
He worked the night shift for the blood bank; checking the donations for diseases and so on.
An endless life supply for him. Especially since he recently lost all of his teeth.

"Sir, you have a visitor." A plump woman interrupted his work, standing in the doorway.
"Tell them I am busy." He responded gruffly.

The woman that had entered was his assistant, Hannah. She annoyed him... but then again, so did a lot of the human race.

"Um, sir... She is being quite persistent about seeing you." Hannah continued.
"Fine! Send whoever it is in." Mitchell growled, turning back to his work.
"Asshole." Hannah cursed under her breath before leaving. He heard her, but chose to ignore the comment anyway.

He never looked up to face the visitor when she entered, just continued his work. He knew he had to finish so that he could leave before sun-rise.
"Vampire!" A woman began to shout after shutting the door.
Mitchell looked up in surprise.

"Excuse me?" He asked the young woman standing in front of him now. She had a heavy Romanian accent, reminding him of his old home. He could also easily tell that it was another of those annoying 'vampire hunters' and that she must be a beginner.
"You are Mikel VonHoss, are you not?" She asked.
"Well, I used to be... now it's just Mitchell Lang. New life, new name." He replied.

"You are a vampire." She said fiercely.
"Okay... and?" He raised his eyebrows.
"Vampire!" She continued to shout, starting to reach into a bag.

"I think we've established that." He said, starting to get frustrated. Within a minute, she started to pull things out . The first thing being a string of garlic; shoving it in his face.
"Garlic? Are you going to cook me some Italian food, m'lady?" He joked. She looked in shock before tossing it aside with a frown.

"You're not going to bite my neck?" She finally asked in confusion.
"Not with the diseases you humans carry nowadays." Mitchell said while crinkling his nose in disgust.

The girl was fairly attractive and despite what he had just said to her, his gums ached to have a taste of her. He longed for the old ways of feeding again.
"Besides, I don't have my teeth anymore." He added finally, flashing his bare gums at her.

She stood there and gawked- stunned at never having seen a toothless vampire before.

He chuckled a bit and shook his head.
"I'm afraid all I could do to you now is give you a hickey..."

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