Steve, one night I might even get hungry enough to attack you!"
The only thing none of us counted on was Doc. Not enough, that is.
Once he'd been introduced to Tatiana and heard her story, his shoulders straightened and the lights came back on in his eyes. The sick children would be all right now. That was most important. And as for Tatiana—
"Nonsense," he told her. "Vampirism might have been an incurable disease in the fifteenth century, but I'm sure It can be handled in the twentieth. First, this nocturnal living points to a possible allergy involving sunlight and perhaps a touch of photophobia. You'll wear tinted glasses for a bit, my girl, and we'll see what we cari do with hormone injections. The need for consuming blood, however, presents a somewhat greater problem."
But he solved it.
They make blood in a dehydrated, crystalline form these days. So every night before Mrs. Steven Judd goes to sleep, she shakes some powder into a tall glass of water, drops in an ice-cube or two and has her daily blood toddy. Far as I know, she and her husband are living happily ever after
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