2. Donor House: Basic Information

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The donor house building, which was once a hotel, is an alternate universe version of a hotel I used to live near. It’s been adapted to make it suitable for it’s new owners, so it’s now nothing like the hotel it was before the vampires took it over. I chose the building because it’s in an area I know well and that makes it easier for me to write about the town itself. Of course, in the vampire’s world, it is a very different place to the one I know. The whole world is.

From the beginning three vampires lived here: Nick, Alice, and Issac. Each have their own room on the top (seventh) floor of the building and all three have offices on the sixth floor, which is also the floor where many meetings are held. This number increased with time and as August 2008 in this collection’s timeline there are twelve vampires living in the house.  Two of the best known resident vampires are Blake, Alice’s vampire brother and Nick’s vampire son, and John Good Road, a Native American vampire.

Also by August 2008 there are between twenty and fifty vampires visiting the house each day. Lewis is the best known visiting vampire, because he made the choice from the beginning not to move in with his business partners due to his other businesses. Being a part of the creation of the donor house has changed his priorities though, so he spends some of his time purchasing property in the local area that he can later rent or sell to patrons or residents of the house. Most of the vampires find themselves not only visiting the house to feed, which is something they have to do three times a week, but also to socialise.

Each of the thirty-five donors (August 2008) live in the donor house, in a room on one of the five floors below the vampire’s area. Short term donors enter the house for a minimum of six months, but most stay for around a year, often in order to begin paying off student loans or to help their family out with smaller problems. There have been cases of short term donors becoming long term donors, because of the atmosphere of the donor house, and this is likely to increase as time passes. There are, as of August 2008, 10 short term donors and twenty-five long term. Nick is aiming to increase the number of long term donors, but he wants the right people in the house, instead of simply picking people because they need help with money.

The best known long term donor is Morgan, as she has been in more stories than the others, but also currently living in the house are Dominic, Georgina, and the two newer arrivals, Lacey and William.

Each of the donors is given a two hour block when they can be fed from every day for five days and they get two days off a week. No vampire can feed from a donor more than once a week, although there probably wouldn’t be a problem with one feeding from the same donor twice. It is purely to keep both the vampires and the donors safe. The donors could, under specific circumstances, become addicted to being fed from, and occasionally a vampire does get addicted to the taste of one human’s blood.

Since the arrival of Caleb in September 2006 the number of addicts that they are attempting to help has risen to 4 by August 2008.

If anyone would like donor house information from any period in the future, let me know.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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>>It’s been adapted to make it suitable for it’s new owners<<

That should say "its new" above.

>>Nick is aiming to increase the number of long term donors, but he wants the right people in the house, instead of simply picking people because they need help with money.<<

Very prudent. I really like the sense of community that is developing here, including how Lewis buys property so that donors and vampires will have options elsewhere.

>>If anyone would like donor house information from any period in the future, let me know.<<

I'd love to bring it up to current time, but first I'd like to flesh out the "death in the house" storyline. That's going to have huge impact on everything that happens later.