Canon is BBC's Being Human.

[goingdry]

Eh, not one of your better ideas. Then again what ones are good at four in the morning when you have to be at work at nine?

Not that I'm a proper role model for "good ideas".

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[diana_abel]

Little bit of both.

It's complicated.

[goingdry]

Complicated is a word for it.

Insane is another.

[diana_abel]

Well, in all fairness, it's not like anyone ever told me before we went out.

[goingdry]

[Mitchell can sympathize on that account. He's had some really bad shit happen from not knowing a person that well before getting involved.]

But you're still with them? Did they know about you?

[diana_abel]

They know now.

After "Vampire TV."

Everyone does.

[goingdry]

Jesus.

[Right. That. She'd mentioned that before. It was the one thing his kind feared the most, being discovered by humanity, lucky for him his sort of vampire couldn't be video taped. Which wasn't always so lucky, it just made a whole new set of issues.]

So how has that been handled? I mean, is everyone in the streets with pitchforks and torches demanding all vampires be staked? Is it an all out war?

[diana_abel]

No. Actually. What I've found is the real friends? They like you anyway.

[goingdry]

Really...? I kind of expected a mass uproar on both sides with werewolves and ghosts having no choice but to get mixed up in it all.

[diana_abel]

...ghosts?

[goingdry]

Yeah, ghosts. What? You can't see them? [One of his best friends, kind of sister like, maybe love interest, was a ghost. Best not alive person he'd ever met.]

[diana_abel]

Didn't know they actually were a thing.

[goingdry]

They're totally a thing. They look just like you or I just uh, dead. They're cold to the touch and can't eat or drink, normal people walk through them and can't see them.

Got one for a flat mate, makes an excellent cup of tea. [Annie's tea trumps all tea.]

[diana_abel]

Casper, the tea-making ghost.

Go figure.

[goingdry]

She's much better looking than any Casper I've seen, just as friendly, if not friendlier.

[diana_abel]

Got a little something-something going there?

[goingdry]

Ha... yeah uh... yeah we do. [His smile is slow to come, but it does. He's always been fond of Annie, it just took him a while to realize he loved her. Not until he'd thought he'd lost her.]

Kind of the best thing really. I can't hurt her how she is and she's... she's great.

[diana_abel]

I get it. Believe me. I get it.

[goingdry]

So then you have someone? I mean you mentioned having dated a hunter before-- or was that something still going on? Even after what happened?

[diana_abel]

We've been going together over a year, actually. Give or take the three months when we kinda broke up.

[goingdry]

So how did that work out? I mean they find out you're a vampire and all that, must have been a pretty big shocker. He didn't try to stake you did he?

[diana_abel]

No. No staking. A lot of yelling and angry talk about honesty. Although, to be fair, he didn't exactly tell me he was a hunter so that all evened out.

[goingdry]

Yeah it's not exactly easy to come out and admit you're a vampire to someone. [He did that whole thing once, bit him and his friends right in the arse too. Not always a bad thing, he dated one woman for years back in the sixties who knew what he was, she was a real doll, best thing that ever happened to him back then.]

I'm assuming hunters are much more common place where you're from, or it seems like it. Guessing he understood eventually, if you're both together again. So does he still hunt then? Even being with you?

[diana_abel]

He hunts. But Sam is...well...he uses his brain. I mean, he gets that not all creatures of the night are bad, ya know? He gets that I don't slaughter virgins and bathe in their blood.

He only goes after the bad ones.

[goingdry]

God, do people really think we do that? [That gets a bit of a skeptical look from him.]

Though you know, sometimes the line is far too close on who's bad and who's good. Sometimes the difference is barely there, even if we don't mean for it to be like that.

[diana_abel]

I know.

[She's clearly speaking from experience there.]

But Sam is smart. Damn smarter than I ever could be. I think he knows what he's doing.