So I have done it! Here is my alternate version to LibraDiva83's vamp fic "Bite of Life". Im going to try and post the next chapter tonight as well. Anyways guys, please tell me what you think - especially those of you who have already started reading Libra's original story! Thankies! Characters are OOC because...well, Max's a friggin vampire! XD

Preface

It hurt, it hurt like hell; the sheer force of the pain within itself was enough to nearly make Max scream…and scream she did – her body cringing and convulsing upon her apartment floor. "Max! What's wrong?" Terry yelled out. What's wrong? She couldn't seem to form the words to describe it – plus she just had no fucking clue. Something inside was finally changing after the past couple of days, burning, growing infinitely stronger – stronger, at least, that anything she had ever been capable of.

But none of that mattered. All Maxine Gibson knew was that she was in horrifying pain; and she was positive that this agony had everything to do with that man…the one she had tried to help…only for him to sink his teeth deep into her neck as the sound of something gulping – the sound of quenched thirst – filled her ears. The sound of a thirsted creature from fables as old as time; a creature she'd refused to believe existed... And now that same thirst was beginning to burn in the girl's throat. Her eyes fixing urgently on the neck of Terrence. Max could all but see his blood coursing through his veins, all while the poor fool stared at her with worry and confusion.

Her hand extends forth and clutches tightly onto his shoulder – the pain subsiding as rapidly as it had come – an untamed expression burning her features. "Terry-," her voice, dry and hot, manages to cough out.

"I'm here for you," McGinnis declares, allowing his best friend to pull him straight into her chest, her lips at her ear as if she were about to reveal a secret. "You seem better, it's going to be okay. What happened?"

"Terry," Max sighs out again, her nails gripping tighter, her mouth extending to his neck. It called, beckoned for her. Have it! She must have it! She'd die without it! Her golden irises grow wide with a maddened stare as her jaws were just inches from where the blood was flowing strongest; Gibson's mouth opens wide, her fangs flaring outward for the flesh that laid there. Hungry…she was so hungry! She inhales and states, "Feed…"

"Max?"

A creature she'd refused to believe existed…the sound of a vampire.

To be Continued…