V For Viktory {Jake}

After Vinnie’s head stopped spinning from downing half of the vampire blood from the vial he began to feel like he was invincible. Seconds and minutes later the feeling just got stronger and stronger. Vinnie felt different, almost as if he had a power running through him and he could take on anybody, take on the world. The man who had sold Vinnie the vial forgot to mention the reason for taking the V in small quantities; because the drug was made from vampire blood the more you drank the more like a vampire you became, from the immense strength and super senses down to the craving of blood, but not human blood, vampire blood, you craved the V, that was just how good it made you feel. Vinnie was so high on his own personal trip he didn’t notice the other guy approach him until he began to talk. Vinnie squinted to look at him, even for October the sun was streaming through the sky.

Vinnie began to laugh uncontrollably at first, but not wanting the other guy to think he was crazy and disappear and have his opportunity to sell the other vial of V taken away from him he put his hand up with one finger motioning for him to wait a second. Once Vinnie calmed down from his laughing he grinned at the other guy. “Hey, it was goin’ great an’ now it’s goin’ even better.” Vinnie began to laugh again and then felt a head rush come on him, so he laid back in the bench and put his free hand up to his head. “Whoa, head rush man.” He began to laugh again a little and then calmed down again realising that the laughing wasn’t helping his head rush. The guy’s question then came back into Vinnie’s head again. He held up the vial with the rest of the contents of the V in it. “This ma friend is somethin’ called V, have ya heard of it?” Vinnie asked curiously, although Vinnie had only heard of it about a week ago when Sookie spoke of Ben and Viktor getting annoyed that some of their people had been getting held captive for their blood.

Vinnie being Vinnie and protective of Sookie had gone right to Ben to get answers from him and Ben filled him in on the story. Naturally with Vinnie always feeling different to Sookie he knew he had to give it a shot, just to see if it would make him feel different and it had certainly done that. Vinnie wasn’t sure how much about the drug he should tell this guy, after all what if he told him the truth and he didn’t believe him and laughed at him? Ah well it would be his loss thought Vinnie, then he realised that no, he had to believe him, this was his chance of being able to get more, if he got another interested in the stuff. “It’s a drug made from vampire blood. An’ afore ya go sayin’ they don’ exist an’ all tha’, trust me they do. Ma sister dates one an’ works fer one. Found out it makes normal people like me feel different. Got told to take it in small quantities, but I couldn’ help maself, an’ now I feel like I could stand in front of a bus an’ it wouldn’ even put a scratch on me, I jus’ feel, I dunno man, I feel like I’ve got this inner strength I ain’ ever had afore ya know?” Vinnie got up from the bench he was sitting on.

“I wanna see if it’s jus’ ma imagination or if I really do have some strength.” With that Vinnie grabbed a hold of the bench he had been sitting on and tugged at it. It didn’t take much of a tug when it came out of the concrete ground with ease. Vinnie’s eyes opened wide, “D’ya see tha’? Did ya?” However when the guy who sold the V to didn’t tell him what drinking a lot of the drug could do, he also didn’t know about the temporary effects, unknown to Vinnie the vampire attributes he had now would begin to wear off after about an hour or when he started to come down from the trip. He looked at the other guy and pulled out the other vial from his jeans pocket, “If yer still interested, maybe ya could buy this one from me, an’ then I’ll set ya up with the guy I got mine from.” Vinnie wondered if the guy would go for it or not, he hoped he would because it would be Vinnie’s golden ticket to get more of this stuff, which according to Vinnie was definitely the best trip he’d ever been on.

Vinnie had such a trip and head rush from the V he had taken it took him quite some time to compose himself to talk to the guy who had come up to him asking what he had. Vinnie was in desperate need for someone to buy the other vial off of him so he could then get more from the supplier, as that had been the deal. So once he had stopped laughing, he began to get serious, or at least, as serious as he could to talk to the guy. Vinnie had then gone into detail about what it was he had taken and where it came from. He could tell the guy didn’t believe him at first, but the soon as he told him his sister dated one and worked for one it seemed to work, as instead of walking away which Vinnie thought he might do, he stayed.

Vinnie had then begun to feel like he had this inner strength and to prove it he got up from the bench he had been sitting on and was able to uproot it with ease and then asked the guy in shock if he’d seen what he had done. Of course the guy had seen what he had done, but it was just one of those figure of speech moments when something amazing happened. The guy said it was pretty impressive and Vinnie began to laugh again, “Yeah, ya can say tha’ again.” Vinnie had then brought out the other vial and asked the guy if he wanted to buy it from him and then he could set him up with the guy he had got his from. He wasn’t sure if the guy would go for it, but it seemed he would as he brought his wallet out and handed Vinnie two hundred dollars. Vinnie hadn’t paid quite as much for his vial, but he wasn’t about to argue, so he shrugged slightly, “Yeah tha’ll be enough, thanks.” He took the money from the guy and handed him the vial.

The guy then asked him how much he was supposed to take, Vinnie shrugged slightly, “I was told to take it in small quantities, but man I took quite a lot of it, an’ ya seen how I was. Up to yerself how much ya wanna try I guess.” Vinnie wasn’t about to tell the guy what he should do one way or the other, but at least he had told him what he had been told himself, to take it in small quantities, it was up to the guy if he did that or not. Then Vinnie realised they hadn’t even introduced themselves to each other. So without any more hesitation Vinnie decided to do just that, he held his hand out, “Vinnie Monroe by the way, pleased to meet ya.”

After Vinnie had given Jake the vial and he thanked him Vinnie nodded his head slightly, “No worries, yer gonna love it, I can assure ya.” Vinnie was definitely on a high that he never wanted to come down from and yet he knew he would have to come down eventually. It meant only one thing, he would have to get some more and if the guy refused to sell him more, then he’d just have to hunt a vampire down and drain them of some of their blood, either way Vinnie would make sure he would get his kick, especially if it was going to give strength like he had now.

The guy then began to talk about how much he was going to take. It didn’t really bother Vinnie one way or the other how much he would take, all he knew was he had the best trip of his life just then. Vinnie nodded his head, “Tha’ sounds like a good plan to me.” Although he could pretty much guarantee that this guy would take more of it sooner than later. Then again what would he know, if he’d taken a smaller amount to begin with it might have still had the same affect. Vinnie then introduced himself. He smiled as Jake introduced himself and said he was pleased to meet him too. “Good to put a name to yer face.”

Jake then asked if there was a place the drug was made. Vinnie shook his head, “I dunno mate, I mean I dunno where the guy I bought it from got it, ya know?” All Vinnie knew was it was made from vampire blood, he didn’t even know if there was anything else to it, or if it was sheer vampire blood. “But I tell ya wha’, if ya like it, an’ ya wanna get yer hands on more, ya jus’ hafta contact me an’ I’ll get ya some more.” Or he could put Jake in touch with the guy Vinnie had got his supply from. He gave Jake one of his business cards from the building company he worked for. “Ya’ll find ma mobile number on there, jus’ give me a call anytime ya wanna.”

Then Jake asked Vinnie a question he wasn’t quite expecting. “Hell man ya don’ wanna be gettin’ yerself mixed up in anythin’ like tha’. They can be damn righ’ dangerous ya know, an’ the only place I know of like tha’ the humans don’ do it by choice, they’re chained up in some basement somewhere, it ain’ a nice sight to see from wha’ I been told by ma sister.” Vinnie’s eyes were almost popping out of his head at the mere idea that this guy would want to do that to himself. Let vampires feed on him.

“An’ jus’ to make ya feel better, when they’re finished with them, when they feel they’ve had as much as they like out of them until they’ve completely drained the energy and life source from them, cause they sure as hell don’ feed them or water them, they jus’ drain them of all their blood tha’s left an’ burn the bodies.” Vinnie only knew about it because of his sister Sookie working for that vampire Viktor that he didn’t really like so much. In fact he hated his sister working for him, Viktor wasn’t exactly evil per say, but he didn’t give a damn about ending a human life when he felt like it and on top of that he let that feeding ground survive, it disgusted Vinnie.