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Lifetime Contract

By
Victoria Queen Payne

I played the fool, I acted so stupid, so absolutely insane when I signed that contract.

I sat there in that sleazy bar and drank myself into a stupor. There sat Dr. Lucarda all sympathetic to my troubles and fool that I was, I poured out my heart to him. Told him how I'd lost my job, my home and every cent I had. How I hated my face, so badly scarred and disfigured when my car exploded one day and left me lame and ugly. Moaned about being broke all the time, complained about other men so lucky with beautiful women clinging to them.

Oh yes, I played the absolute, total fool when I said that I'd sell my soul to the devil just to be wealthy; to be handsome with a neat trim body; to have all the beautiful women I wanted and a long life to enjoy it all. Ha! He might as well have been the devil, he's the next thing to it."

"Talking to yourself again, Martin?"

"Do you see anyone else here to talk to, Lucarda? All I see around here are stinking old bats."

Now, now, don't be so sarcastic. You know you brought all this on yourself. I've honored my part of the contract but you tried to cheat me more than once."

"Sure, so you bring me to this filthy hole, chain me to a wall and come take what you want anytime you feel like it."

"Well now, I told you what I expected before you signed, I kept my promise. You received fifty million dollars the moment you signed the papers. You're handsome; you have a healthy, trim physical appearance. You've lived long life and enjoyed it all and you always managed to have several beautiful women surrounding you.

But you tried to run out on me, you even attempted to kill yourself more than once. What else am I supposed to do? I have the right to enforce that contract, after all, it is a lifetime contract."
"Yeah, sure a lifetime contract, but you never said how long I'd have to live to fulfill it. We always up and leave everything behind and go somewhere else when ever you feel we might arouse suspicions because we don't age like others. I'm tired of doing that all the time. I'm tired of seeing the same old things, of doing the same old things, in life. I'm tired of you always draining me, why don't you just drain me dry and get it over with?"

"Oh no, I can't do that. New supplies are hard to come by now. Why, I remember once when I got acquainted with this really foxy chick. I took her out to a nice quiet lover's lane and just when I started to sink my teeth in her lovely neck, she changed into one of those revolting werewolves! And what with all these new diseases, I might contact something, something disgusting like Syphilis or Hepatitis, or even HIV. There's nothing more pitiful than an Undead with a living disease. No thanks.

Besides, you've only lived a hundred and fifty years; you still have at least another one hundred years left and maybe more with this latest formula of mine. Now let me have what I came for. After all, a rare beefsteak just doesn't satisfy the hunger like a sip of nice, fresh human blood. Ah, that's it, see you in a few days."

"Yeah, right. I look forward to that, you bet your fangs, I do!" "So he's gone. Sure, but he'll be back in a few days to stick that needle in me for another pint.

Oh yeah, I played the fool, all right. All those promises he made put avarice in my heart. Why did I let greed get the best of me? Look at where that greed put me. Sure, he made me wealthy, gave me so many women that I lost count, and he gave me a long, long time, too damned long! Damn vampire, when will he let me die?"

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