<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The vampire's face softened as he turned his head back to the girls and took a deep breath. "Okay, well two things...and I hope you wont judge me for either." he started. "What I do for money is contract work. Private Military Contracting in the Middle East, north Africa, South America, and a variety of other places. The reason I'm so successful is because I can charge much more than your typical ex-Green Beret or ex-Navy Seal...because I am a vampire, and have been alive for nearly three hundred years." He was paying close attention to their reactions, waiting to find out just how much damage control he'd have to do. "Don't let that frighten you though..." he added.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Don't let that frighten us?" Bridget asked, incredulous. "You can't be serious, right?" Bridget's lips pursed together tightly, as a million thoughts raced through her head. She knew that it was illegal for vampires to commit crimes. She also seemed to recall that it was illegal for them to feed off of humans, unless those humans were willing. She was fairly sure that she remembered that from a preternatural law class she'd taken. So it was unlikely that he planned to kill them, at least not here in the middle of a nightclub full of witnesses.<br/><br/>"So you're a vampire mercenary...wonderful." she said. She shook her head, and rolled her eyes. "Well thanks for being honest." she said, her harsh tone hard to hide. "You are sooooo not feeding off of us, if thats what you were hoping." she felt pretty comfortable speaking for Rachel and herself on that topic. "So you can drop the whole smooth, charming act." she told him.  "God, I can't believe I actually thought you might turn out to be a decent guy." she muttered, mostly to herself.<br/><br/>"Rachel, what do you want to do?  I say we get the hell out of Dodge." she said as she turned to her friend to gauge her reaction to Karl's revelation.