Code blinked in surprise as he took in the sight of the vampire in the doorway. Vampires weren't supposed to be able to find this place or sense the vampires inside. He glanced at the bloodbag. Oh course! He always opened them and drank them in the basement. The basement shielded the smell but the main floor did not. He mentally slapped himself for being so stupid. As the vampire approached Blood he carefully backed away, leaning back against the counter and reaching back. He opened a drawer and rummaged inside for a second before pulling out what he was looking for, a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. As Blood's back hit the wall, he stuck one in his mouth and lit it, being careful to not actually inhale. The smoke coming from its tip seemed almost alive as he strode over in between blood and the vampire. He knocked the vampires hand away and glared at her. "I suggest you leave," he said coldly. This vampire was different, tainted even. He didn't want her anywhere near his house.

The vampire shook her head. "Nooo. The newborn had blood. Silthe hasn't had blood yet. Silthe want's blood. Give Silthe blood and Silthe will leave." She said, stretching out the last words of every sentence.

Blood clamed down. She knew if the vampire only wanted some blood and she would leave, then, they wouldn't get hurt. Flitting, she ran downstairs and grabbed a bloodbag, flitted to Code's side, and held the bag out to the vampire.

Silthe grabbed the blood and tore into it with her fangs. She guzzled it down, licking the remains from the bag and her hands.

Code raised an eyebrow at her words. She was defiantly an odd one, but on a second glance, she didn't seem too evil. He watched he drink the blood. For an old vampire she sure didn't have manners. He sighed, his causing the cigarette smoke to waver slightly. Although there was no apparent danger, he stayed tense. This vampire could lunge any second and now that she had blood, she could be a lot more dangerous.
"What are you doing here?" he asked Silthe, "Where did you come from?" He wanted to get to the bottom of this mysterious vampire's case and he wanted to do it quickly. 

"Silthe smelled blood from street. Silthe come to investigate. Silthe come form Italy." Silthe said. She then turned her gaze on Blood. "This is the newborn that will bring an end to the Tainted ones like Silthe." She said, twirling one of Blood's curls around her index claw.

Blood cringed back, half hiding behind Code. She bared her fangs at Silthe and hissed lowly.

Code narrowed his eyes at the vampire and moved so he was completely shielding Blood from Silthe. Blood was his newborn. She was his responsibility and he wouldn't let some strange vampire waltz in and act like she could do whatever she wanted with Blood.

"Who are the 'Tainted ones'?" he growled. "And what does Blood have to do with any of this?" The smoke from his cigarette shimmered darkly as if it was reflecting his emotions.

"The Tainted ones have long since gone crazy from the lack of good blood. They have lived for years on only animal blood. They have slowly gone crazy...The newborn has the power to extinuish the Tainted ones. But what the newborn does't know is that the Tainted ones are many. More than three quarters of the vampires are Tainted. The newborn and her creator will bring an end or perish trying." Silthe said, watching the smoke curl and dance.

Blood, catching his thoughts, felt even clamer than before, peeking over Code's shoulder to watch the old vampire tell her tale. She too followed the dark trendil of smoke whisp around Code. But, more then that, their was a faint mist that swirled aorund him. It was red. Bright red. She notcied it changed color accoding to Code's moods.

Code narrowed his eyes even more, to the point that they were almost cat-like slits. This vampire claimed that she was crazy from lack of human blood and only feeding on animal blood. He'd never heard a tale like that before... but it didn't sound all that far-fetched. That's what worried him. He had always fed on human blood, except in the rare occasions where he was desperate, and knew the difference in quality. If everything she said was true, and word got out about it... there would be a flat out chaotic ma-ssacre at best. Vampires would turn on vampires, not knowing who to trust, untainted vampires feeding mostly on animal blood would attack humans to save themselves, causing vampires to be revealed, and humans would attack them all. Silthe was right about one thing, this needed to stop.

He pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and held it a few inches from his lips between his middle and index finger. "Ok, well I think your story is pretty believable. So, tell me," he said with a smug grin, "what's stopping me from splattering your tainted guts across this room... besides the fact that I'll have to clean it up later?"

Silthe tapped a claw against her head. "The old Tainted one has put a chip in Silthe's head. When Silthe dies, the old Tainted one knows. He come's to find the one who kills Silthe." She laughed manicly.

Blood hissed under her breath. She would probably have to clean it up later. Not him. Facing Silthe, she spoke up, once again commenting on Code's thoughts. "Well, I have heard stories like that. But my brother always told them. He said that any vampire that only drank animal blood would become Tainted. He said that when they drank the animal blood, their own black blood became that of an animal's and they would go crazy or somthing like that. I never really paid attention to him." She said.

(( Wow, lotta bumps o_o sorry, I was sleeping most of the day XD )) 

Code sighed at what Blood said. That information would have been useful. Maybe he'd have to pay her brother a visit to see if he knew anything. He frowned, wondering if he could support another newborn. He shook his head to clear the thought away. He might have a better idea. He pointed the fingers that had the cigarette between them at Silthe. "Alright, no killing, for the moment at least." he said calmly, "Who's this "old Tainted one"? Is he the one pulling the strings?" He needed to find out about the situation as much as he could. After he had heard all he needed to hear, he would decide what to do with Silthe. While they had been talking, smoke had been steadily coming off Code's cigarette. It floated lazily around him but it wasn't enough to arouse suspicion.  

{{Yeah...I get impatient...sorry. I'll try to limit the bumps to two per day... Oh, and the brother was a vampire when he told Blood the info. He is now tainted and is locked up somewhere.}}

Before Silthe could answer, Blood nodded. Her brother had known about him too. "He is said to be the oldest vampire yet. One of the very first. He quit drinking human blood out of self hate and fed on sewer rats instead. Slowlly, he became tainted. Hunters tracked down the other two old ones and killed them. He succesfully avoided the hunters. Being the oldest vampire, he almost instantly became the most powerful. He tracked down every vampire and chipped them. Although he hasn't done a check for the last hundred or so years." She relayed the story her brother had told her the night he dissapeared.

(( lol, it's ok. And ok, but Code still doesn't know that so it'll have to come up at some point before he'll stop thinking her brother is human and might be able to help )) 

Code flicked his gaze back to Blood. She sure did know a lot. The story sounded like it could of been a human fairy-tale if said right. Maybe that's how she knew. As a human he'd never really paid attention to legends, although the story sounded vaguely like a nursery rhyme his mother had sung to him. He shook his head again to rid himself of the memories before turning back to Silthe. "Is there anything else you'd like to add before I tell you you're fate?" he asked.

"No. The newborn has said it all." Silthe said.

"My brother isnt a human. He is a vampire. He was taken away because he was starting to become tainted. It started the night before her was taken away. He had bitten me and my mom burst in. Lukily, she had a gun and shot my brother in the shoulder. The next thing I knew, he was gone." She explained lowly. Her hand instinctivly moved to the bite marks on her neck. There were two. One from Code and one from her brother.

"Please do. It would be a great pleasure to Silthe. She would love to leave this wretched earth." Silthe said, standing tall and accepting death.

Blood turned away. She didn't like death. Not at all. She thought back to that night. When her brother had sat on her bed and told her fabulous stories. Then, when she was cutting up an apple, the knife slipped and cut her. It was very small and only about a drop of blood came out, but it was enough to get her brother to bite her. Shuddering, she walked back to the counter and occupied herself with dusting the cobwebs off of the cash register.