Subject: Challenge: Blood Images (repost)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:32:01 -0700
From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@YAHOO.COM>
To: FKFIC-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU

I'm issuing a challenge based on the events in "Dark
Knight". WOULD Nick receive impressions from the blood
he received as a transfusion from Schanke, and if so,
what sorts of images would he get? Cravings for
souvlaki (as Schanke hinted at)? The urge to go
bowling? Visions of Natalie or Janette in hip waders
(*shudder*)? What do YOU think?

Transcript for the episode:

http://www.fkfanfic.com/fkscripts/dark_knight2.txt

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Part 1 Contributed by Kristen Fife

Nick slowly swam back to consciousness, his mind still
muzzy. He remembered a fire at the loft and
then...LaCroix. He had finally bested LaCroix. A surge
of relief swept through him.  He opend his eyes to a
familiar sight, the morgue. He turned his head and
realized that he was lying down. Then he chuckled just
as Natalie came in the door.

"What's so funny, Nick?"

"I was just remembering the LAST time I was lying here
on your table."

She grinned at the memory of their first meeting. He
sat up, the faint smell of smoke clinging to his
clothing and tickling his nose, which he wrinkled in
distaste.

Concerned, Natalie approached him. "Are you ok? I gave
you a transfusion after the fire."

"No, I'm fine. Just the smell from the fire. We have
an almost primordial flight reaction to fires, since
it's one of the few things that can kill us." He
jumped off the table and leaned over to kiss her
cheek. "Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
I'm going to head on over to the museum to check in
with Schanke."

"I'll go with you, I have some final tests to run."

A few minutes later, as they sat in the Caddy, Nick
suddenly had flash of...something run through his
mind. A lamp with a duck on the base? He'd never seen
anything like that.

They pulled up to the museum and walked in. As the met
up with Schanke, the three colleagues started
bantering. Nick even thought to himself that "Disco
Don" wasn't quite as bad as he had first thought.

They were getting ready to leave after looking around
when Don Schanke caught up with them.

"Ah--you guys ready?  I gotta get home for some
shut-eye.  They fell in step as they approached the
stairway. "You really owe me on this one, Knight.
Let's count up what I did: I, ah, put together the uh,
hospital leads, the blood bank info, um...what else
did I do?"

Nick looked at him. "What about the car?"

Schanke looked at him. "Oh, yeah, I remember, Knight.
Do you realize you've got a pint of
grade-A Schanke running through you?"

Nick stopped and turned to Natalie. "What?  The
transfusion?  Nat, you didn't."

With a quirk of a smile on her lips she replied.
"Sorry, he was the only available donor."

Turning back to Schanke with a wince, Nick heard him
continue "So I guess from now on you won't be able to
walk past a souvlaki stand without feeling the urge."

*Oh no...*

Nick hadn't told Natalie about the experience a
vampire faced when drinking from a human. Schanke's
comments about experiencing urges was so much more
accurate than he would ever know...

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Kristen Fife
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