Siss Gets Her Neck Bitten....But Good

So, why do I see Siss as the "Damsel in Distress" who never gets rescued (see previous post)? Well, this occurred to me even before I thought of the vampire spin on "The Green Dress Diaries". Siss is a natural damsel in distress, especially the "distress" part. Outwardly brisk and competent in her everyday persona of "Super Nurse", she is actually needy, self-serving, clinging, and quite childlike. These qualities are perfect for her to slip into the role of "that woman" in the early vampire flicks.

"That Woman" is a weak sister as far as I am concerned. She always falls prey to the Vampire's come-hither, and takes to her bed for several days of feverish muttering and declining strength. The Vampire visits her nightly to feed on both her blood and her wits, and by the end of the third night (or so), she dies, is encrypted (so to speak) and rises again as a vampire version of her former self. The downside of this is that she is always staked through the heart by well-meaning relatives who want her to "rest in peace".

Siss fell for The Wet Rag, as she fell for others before him, because she was needy of a partner. At the same time, he was needy of the look of being a normal person. Ha! I think that he always knew he was not a suitable candidate for spending life with someone else; he is too much of a brooding loner, just like a vampire. Siss was his energetic victim, and she went willingly to the slaughter, just like "That Woman". She kept coming back for more until he bled her absolutely dry and then kicked her to the curb because he "needed to be alone"...."had never loved her"...."it was not ever a marriage". Consider Siss dead and in her crypt.

Now look at what happened next. Siss rose from the crypt when he moved in next door to her, and she does his bidding, acts like his best friend, gives him the cover of normalcy, and has no other life save for The Wet Rag Vampire.

I guess this would leave me to play the well-meaning relative who stakes her through the heart so that she can rest in peace. The "stake" would be the final letter I sent (see earlier chapters). You see, just like "The Emperor's New Clothes", Siss never saw what she really looked like, didn't want to see what she really looked like, and wanted everyone else to go along with her little charade of emotional health. I forced her to look, and it was like a stake through her heart.

Will Siss rest in peace? I don't think so.
Has she seen the last of The Wet Rag Vampire? Not by a long shot.
Will she ever try to contact me again? Too late; she lives in another world now.

This is all a nice narrative, but it needs to be fleshed out with imagery, and the characters given names. Next chapter...."The Evils of Count Ragula".