A once forgotton story idea

I was looking though stuff when I found this it's old idea for a story...........

I am a vampire but to look at me you would not know it. You will find it hard to liken me to those of us portrayed in books, pictures and films. My face is not wrinkled or haggard. When I feed my face does not change, there are no demonic bulges busting from my brow. My teeth are as straight and level as yours are. For I do not need fangs to open a vein to drink you life away, mine is a different hunger. I do not fry like a piece of meat on a barbecue in the suns rays, if truth be told I enjoy a sunny day just like you. However I do object to the ideas of the tan addicts who’s ritualistic sun worshiping does more harm than good. We may not fry but skin cancer is just as much a risk for us as it is for you.

Like you also we to face death we are no more immortal than any other living creature and I too was born to the union of man and woman, there is no magic there only myth just like so much of your ‘knowledge’ and beliefs about my kind.

Our kind are very similar there are good and bad as well as the indifference among both our kin, and human and vampire can produce offspring from a union, our genetics are not so far apart, we are very alike you and I. Nonetheless I cannot be human just as you cannot be Vampire.

Although we are similar we are as different as cat and dog. Vampires you see cannot be ‘made’. Drink my blood and nothing other than the salty warmth of my sanguine liquor will fill you. As I have said we must be born you can no more be made a vampire than can I be made human, no matter how persuasive you are.

A lot of that which you take to be true about me is nothing more than fantasy, mere fairy tales. What was originally a metaphor to allow people to easy understanding has become myth. Fuelled by a lack of knowledge and ignorance this has lead to fear and hatred toward my kind, however there are a few that know.

I do not need to drink blood to survive, frankly the thought of drinking blood although not abhorrent (if needs be I as any animal will do that which is necessary for survival) does not appeal to me a great deal. I do not need you blood to make my own I like you eat food to allow me to grow. Nonetheless we need you to survive and you need us.

You see there was a quirk of nature that created our two species which now links us forever in a symbiotic relationship.

Many moons ago when we were as one we could gain all we needed from food and though our kinds habitual need to discriminate against and damn difference, bred ourselves apart.