Ah, how long have you been...
VampireOh, an eternal child of the darkness? Since, ah...'92.
Vampire
[chuckling] I know. It's hard to believe it's already the last century.
And in all this time you've never considered making yourself a mate?
Vampire
How do you mean?
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, joining with them?
[Vampire looks down at her hands covering his then gives a laugh.]
Vampire
No! That'd just be weird.
Vampire
[shakes his finger at her] No, you been reading too much Anne Rice lately! You've got no idea how this thing works!
Vampire
Oh, what, you want me to make you?
Why do you think I came into this bar, for the snacks?
Vampire
Sweetheart, in this bar, you are the snacks.
[smiles] I live nearby. We can go back to my place, you can do it there.
Vampire
Y-you're serious about this. [Darla nods slightly] So what? I make you and then you'd be like my immortal babe?
Vampire
Ah, well, that kind of sounds like commitment to me.
Then use me for as long as you like, anyway you like, then discard me. No strings.
Vampire
There is an alley out back.
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. Vampire's eyes popped open wide.]
Vampire
I-I-I should probably mention that I... I'm not real clear on how this thing works.
Vampire
Well, ah, I never actually did it, ah, to anybody before and I was kind of out when it happened to me.
I'll walk you through it. Drink. When you feel my heart start to slow stop.
[Vampire leans in while Darla closes her eyes. He's about to sink his fangs into her neck when he dissolves into a cloud of dust revealing Angel.]
Hey, I'm all for being idolized, but what the hell is going on?
Vampire
To protect the miracle child.
Protect? Ah, that's good. We're all here for the same thing.
[The guy with the sword that Lilah called earlier suddenly jumps through one of the glass windows above, dressed like a ninja and holding the sword in front of him, screaming 'die!' The miracle child worshipping vampires jump on him en masse, and he goes down with a strangled scream. We hear a crunch and someone gulping down liquid.]
Vampire
As it has been prophesied by our great potentate Ul-thar, we vow our lives to protect this special child.
[aside to Darla] You hear that? Our kid. Special.
Vampire
Now let us kill the humans so we may use their blood to nourish the mother and her miracle child.
[smiling] Guess I'm getting dinner after all.
Darla, you might wanna join the fight.
Sorry, darling. I'm gonna have to be Switzerland and sit this one out. Now, you did say you were just gonna kill the humans, right?
Vampire
Yes, just the humans. Then we will nourish you, slice you open, wear your entrails as a belt and consume your eyeballs before we worship the miracle child.
Gunn, you and I can hold them off for as long as we can. The rest of you, get Darla to the car.
Oh, I'd rather stay and fight. Show these youngsters a thing or two about real carnage.
That's thoughtful, but, you know, you should go.
Charles, do you have an extra dagger I could borrow?
[Gunn pulls out a dagger and hands it to her.]
No my count of three. One, two...
[Fred holds the dagger against Darla's belly.]
You freaks make one move and I'll slice the miracle kid into triplets.
It's always the quiet ones.
Vampire
Wait!
[quietly to Darla] They don't know the knife can't hurt the baby.
[smiling] They do now. Vampires have great hearing.
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