Good God, [ and if she chuckles now it's only because she can't imagine there's a single reaction left to her that passes muster as polite. ] You are old.
[ -- well, maybe she doesn't come close to polite. actually. ]
I'm considering a Lugosi joke, but I'm also a little worried Mister Jarvis might have already made one.
I imagine that must have stung a little. [ but she's got the measure of stefan, she thinks. he's unlikely to hold something like that against jarvis. or so she hopes. ] Mister Jarvis hasn't been here as long as I have, I suppose -- less opportunity to adjust to the otherworldly. Even back home, he's relatively buffered from the weirdest of what happens.
I figured as much. [Stefan shakes his head fondly.] It's more - I was trying to tell him the truth, and he just tells me that I can't possibly be a vampire because those don't exist.
[He can laugh now, because it's actually Pretty Funny, but he sure didn't appreciate it at the time.]
[ a soft hum. with internal force, she chooses to change the way she approaches her digestion of his 'secret' such as it was. ]
I know a little bit about the sting of others' incredulity. [ and there's a comfort in not needing to explain to him why that is -- not if he's lived through those same decades when she'd tried to carve out a career for herself. ] However markedly different the circumstances.
I'm sorry that you had to in the first place. [He certainly remembers - pieces of it, anyway, in the hazy reaches of Salvatore's memory. Alesci was far more acquainted with a different sort of discrimination.] And I can't exactly blame them, either.
Most vampires aren't super friendly. Feed first, talk later, maybe kill if they're bored - the legends exist for a reason.
Not that I can remember. [World's a big place. It's possible that he hasn't met them – or that if he has, the amnesia isn't making things easier.] We don't kill who we feed, so that might account for it.
A cold mercy, [ peggy offers her verdict. provided she understood the sentiment. ] Not to cast aspersions, but I'm not certain the thought sits well with me.
You, me, and most people from my world. [He can't blame her, and he's one of these nightmarish creatures.] Precautions aren't universal, either; what works for some worlds won't work for others.
Those silly films seem to proscribe -- what is it? Native soil? True faith? [ there's a touch of sarcasm in her voice. not that she's keen to make fun of belief, but she doesn't think of spirituality as a kind of panacea, capable of burning away the monsters of the world. ]
Or, if Stoker is to be believed, the inevitable march of progress and a typewriter that can print in triplicate.
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[ -- well, maybe she doesn't come close to polite. actually. ]
I'm considering a Lugosi joke, but I'm also a little worried Mister Jarvis might have already made one.
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[At least he's aware! He'll lean back a little, comfortable in that knowledge.]
More like he called me a piece of fiction, but same idea.
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[ she tries. ]
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[He can laugh now, because it's actually Pretty Funny, but he sure didn't appreciate it at the time.]
I've gotta say, that was pretty anticlimactic.
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I take it the reactions you receive are usually more...heated?
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They're rejections, Peggy. Every last one of 'em. [ . . . ] Or they used to be, anyway.
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I know a little bit about the sting of others' incredulity. [ and there's a comfort in not needing to explain to him why that is -- not if he's lived through those same decades when she'd tried to carve out a career for herself. ] However markedly different the circumstances.
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Most vampires aren't super friendly. Feed first, talk later, maybe kill if they're bored - the legends exist for a reason.
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Or, if Stoker is to be believed, the inevitable march of progress and a typewriter that can print in triplicate.
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[Can't suspect Stefan of being a vampire if he's running that Interfaith Center, after all.]
Belief has significant power. Some vampires are more demon-like, so holy water actually works on them, but others like me? Not so much.
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[ would it be rude? could she expect a straight answer? ]
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[If not, Peggy is way less observant than he realized. Stefan's made no secret of how often - and how quickly - he runs from fire.]