Donor House: A Conversation with Morgan

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Based on the prompt eternity from dreamwidth user ariestess.

This was a very difficult prompt to work from because it’s very open but at the same time I had trouble thinking of something I could write. I started it about three times with three different stories so I might go back and do them at some point.

“Would you want to live for eternity, if you had a choice?” Morgan asked, looking at her best friend as she folded another pair of jeans.

“I don’t know,” Jessica replied, running her hand over the rim of the suitcase. “Eternity seems like a very long time and everyone I loved as a human would die, unless I changed them all.” She bit her lip. “Maybe, if I fell in love with someone who was going to live forever and I wasn’t, but I don’t think that eternity even really exists. At some point the world is going to end so even those who believed they would live forever would die.”

“Would they then go on to an afterlife then or is there no afterlife for vampires?”

“Probably. I don’t think that vampires are really actually dead as such, so it’s not like their soul’s already going to be in an afterlife while their body is here. It’s just not a logical point of view. I’d think that no one would want to be a vampire if they didn’t actually have some form of soul. Personally I think the no soul thing is just an excuse to have no morals.”

Morgan smiled at Jessica. “They loan money so that they can get people into their donor houses. I’m not seeing any morality there.”

“At least they give you a chance to pay off the money that you’ve borrowed and you’re stopping your family home from being repossessed.” Jessica sighed. “It will take a long time to pay off all that money though.”

“Mum will pay them about a small amount each month. When we talked to the vampires they said that it was better that way, otherwise I’d be in the donor house for about six years just to pay off the interest. As it is I’m going to be there for a long time Jess and I don’t want to be. I just want to live a normal life.”

Jessica stood up and wrapped her arms around Morgan. “Maybe you’ll like it there. From what I’ve heard, being a donor isn’t really that bad. When my cousin spent a year in one she said that they make sure that the donors have regular days off, there’s food and you can keep the tips.”

“People still die.”

“We both know what happens if a vampire kills a donor.”

“That doesn’t stop the person from being dead.” She sighed. “I know I’m doing a good thing for my family, and I feel selfish for talking like this, but I just wish that someone else was around to do this.”

“It will be over before you know it.”

“Yeah, and so will my life.”

“Stop being melodramatic. There are plenty of online degrees that you could do so that you’ll have a good job when you come out and that law is passed so that employers can’t discriminate against ex-donors.”

Morgan looked at Jessica, wondering if a law would really be enough.

Originally posted at dreamwidth.org as kajones_writing.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.