The official transcendence blog had a submission about Hank becoming a vampire and getting revenge on Portland’s vampire mafia a while back, I remembered it tonight, and this wreck ended up happening ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Warnings for gore, blood, and a newly turned vampire’s questionable morals
Hank wakes to hunger. He feels like a starving man, feels like his organs are eating themselves, feels like he’s on the brink of death.
He manages to move into a runner’s crouch, somehow can work broken legs again, when he notices the blood. There’s a pool around him, he can see the silhouette of his body outlined in it, and all he can feel is relief.
Hank’s licking blood from his hands, wishing it was fresher, when he realizes what he is. He looks down to find the ground washed clean, opens his mouth and gently traces a finger along his canines. They’re sharp, designed to cut through flesh like it was silk, and he lets out a hysterical laugh.
Hunger slices through the panic, and Hank raises an eye to his surroundings. He doesn’t know where he is, only that it’s a forest, only that the acrid scent of magic coats the air. He should summon Dipper, should reunite with Vivian, but the need for blood comes before them.
Hank’s found a road when the memories come rushing back, of a vampire and her lackeys, of fangs on his neck and a bullet in his chest. He remembers their laughter, remembers that one of them had made a deal to keep his uncle unaware, remembers how they threatened his family.
Twenty different ways to kill them have been considered and discarded when Hank hears it, or more accurately, them. Five heartbeats, healthy and strong, and his mouth waters as he follows the sound.
Finally, finally, he reaches where they are. It’s a small shack that looks like it’s about to collapse, and ordinarily he’d wonder why someone would want to live in it. The emptiness overwhelms any other thoughts though, reduces him down to instincts.
He’s at the door when his conscience makes an appearance. Hank’s about to turn around, about to keep walking and search for a pay phone, when he hears when one of them speak. He knows that voice, heard it as he died, and any lingering hesitation disappears.
The man lounging against the wall lets out a mangled scream when Hank bursts through the door and sinks teeth into his neck. Hank’s drinking deeply, ignoring the screams of the prey when a bullet sinks into his shoulder. He turns then, sees the humans from before and the vampire they followed.
Their eyes are wide with fear, their hearts hammering like drums, and Hank moves before they have a chance to fire again. He smashes them against the shaking walls, ignores their cries and kneels down to drink. Hank’s drained the first dry and is halfway through the second when he hears the sound of running footsteps.
He steps outside to the vampire-the prey-sprinting away into the forest. He stalks them then, follows them through the twisting brush. The prey’s slowed down, considered itself safe, when Hank makes a move.
“Hey, are you lost? I know I’ve got a map somewhere.”
The vampire whirls around to face him, and Hank lets out a laugh when he recognizes who she is. A captain of the Portland seethe, a vampire centuries old, and she accidentally turns him.
“You-”
“I’m going to kill you”
“Nicholai will-” she starts, desperation in her voice, before Hank interrupts her.
“Nicholai won’t avenge you. I’ll watch him bleed out, watch him look up at me and realize what he has done.”
He gazes down at her, smiles gently, before continuing.
“And then I’ll hunt down every member of your twisted little clan, and I’ll tell them about this night. I’ll tell them you turned me, and they will spend their dying breaths cursing you.”
Hank smiles, sunny and bright, before wrenching her head off. He grabs it by the hair and hooks and arm around the body before kicking both into a clearing.
When the disposal is done he walks back to the shack, ignores the urge to vomit, the disgust at what’s he done.
He has a meal to finish.