Carmen stepped closer, reminding herself to breathe and look a bit more human, smiling with a mouth full of teeth that looked like shards of glass.  "Don't you understand the gift I've given you?" she asked, her voice like sandpaper running across a cheese grater as her fangs glistening with a strange black liquid.  "I've given you eternal life, for the simple price that you love me.  Will you deny or return that gift?"  She reached out and touched Seth's shoulder, her cold hand gripping him tightly.<br/><br/>A draft shot through the cabin, rapidly cooling the reunion of the two vampires even more.  From the darkness of the cabin, a drop of water fell from the sink, the plop punctuating their friction.