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Carlos hadn’t been to a circus in years – not since he was little. But there had been a raffle at work and Carlos had won a coupon for a free ticket. He kinda hoped that his brother and/or his dad were in town so he could invite them to go with him.
Carlos made his way to the ticket office that was set up, standing in the line with his coupon as he looked at everything around him. Some things were different than what he remembered or imagined a circus to be like, but not everything could be a dated cliche trope he supposed.
Once at the ticket office he smiled and offered the coupon. “Hey… this any good?” he asked in a joking manner.
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was a very strong part about Skip that made him think how Carlos could
just be looking to humiliate him, but he didn’t have to be remembered by
these people anyway, he could snap away their memories if things went
sour. “Sure.. Yeah, so do you wanna test me first or just get started on
the public image..?”
“We can test it before, if you’d prefer, but I’m alright with having fun with the test,” Carlos said. “But it’s up to you.”
“I’d like to just warm up, if you don’t mind?” He hoped with a nervous smile, “Do you think your colleagues might be upset if I draw their blood?”
Carlos shrugged. “I can’t speak for them. And Jake’s the only one here. What, are you hungry?” He asked it as if he was asking to take him out for pizza again.
The vampire shrugged and glanced away in embarrassment, “Yeah- yeah, just a little bit…” He trailed off and crossed his arms loosely, not meeting eyes.
Carlos nodded. “Okay! Well, we have a store of blood for blood stone use. Would you like a pack?”
“Sure-“ He stuttered and tucked a lock of long pink hair behind his pointed ear, “Do you have B Positive? I’ve kinda got a craving for it..”
“Well, we mostly have A,” Carlos murmured, running a mental inventory of what they have. “Yeah, we do, actually. Jake’s B-positive, so we have a bag of that.” Carlos typed a few more notes into his ipad before he stood up from his chair. “Let’s go to the fridge and get it.”
Skip was almost too eager to get up, jerking up from the chair and hurriedly following Carlos into the break room. “Thank you.. really.” He muttered with hunger in his voice.
“No problem,” Carlos said. “When was the last time you ate, by the way?”
“Blood..?” He attempted to confirm, “The last time I had a fill it was.. about a week ago, it’s getting a bit harder to feed around here.. Everyone I so suspicious.. I can hardly sink my fangs into anyone.”
Carlos nodded in understanding. “Yeah… but again, that has nothing to do with the vampirism. It’s just the town’s attitude toward strangers. I was a fluke – I and my team were liked well enough when we arrived.”
Carlos got to the fridge and opened the door. “Okay… Jake… Jake… where’s your blood, buddy?” After a moment Carlos opened a drawer and plucked up a bag of blood with Jake’s name and type on it, as well as the date of the draw. “Here you go,” he said, offering it to Skip.