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Alice is complicated. Before Nick entered her life she was a hunter. Her decision to hunt vampires was based on what she knew about them, and what she knew wasn’t good. What most people knew wasn’t good. She was born long after the vampires made themselves known to the rest of the world, so she’d grown up with vampires, which taught her they viewed humans as little more than food. What she didn’t know was that there was more than one type of vampire. It was when she met Nick she realised that, because he made the decision to save her from one of the auction vampires. Nobody with any sense would have done that, so she gave him a chance, and it was that chance which led to her becoming a vampire.
She knew relatively early on that Nick had left his creator. What she didn’t know was how much his creator wanted him back with the ‘family’. In an attempt to get him to see that he didn’t have a chance of having a life around humans his creator attempted to kill Alice, only Nick found her before she died, and there was only one thing he could imagine doing – he turned her into a vampire to keep her in his life. Of course she wasn’t best pleased with him when she woke up, because she knew being a vampire meant she was going to have to leave everyone she cared about behind. At the same time she was relieved. Her family wasn’t pleased with her choices and she knew it wouldn’t be long before they made the decision the world would be a better place without Nick in it. If they’d tried to kill him she would have saved him, the same way he saved her.
Getting used to being vampire isn’t easy for anyone. Fortunately for Alice Nick was the sort of vampire who only fed from willing donors, and she spent the early months of her new life somewhere she could easily have called home. He couldn’t. As they spent more time getting to know each other again, with him being far more open than he had been when she was a human, she learnt that he didn’t dare call anywhere home in case his creator came after him. The only reason he didn’t leave her home village was because his emotions had got in the way. One of the problems with being a young vampire is that your emotions are heightened, and Alice didn’t know how to feel about anything. One minute she was furiously angry with Nick and the next she wasn’t.
At the time of the Donor House’s creation Alice is still a young vampire, especially when compared to Issac and Lewis. This is the reason they listen to her when she tells them how best to deal with the donors – she is close enough to being a human that she remembers what it was really like. She’s the one, at the beginning, the donors can relate the most to, so she’s the one who helps them when they first enter the House. As time passes the donors also get to know the other vampires, but, if they need something, she’s almost always the one they turn to.
The Donor House becomes home to a mix of people, including a vampire Alice helped. She met him when he was an addict, and all he wanted was to be free from that need to be bitten, so she offered to turn him. Very few other vampires would have made that offer, because they viewed addicts as being less than humans, even those it was the vampires who created them. Blake accepted, but Alice found she couldn’t turn him. Instead Nick turned him, for Alice, and then does his best to help her deal with her emotions when Blake disappears a couple of weeks later. When Blake steps into the House the two of them work things through, and it’s because of Blake they make the decision they’re going to help any addict who walks through the door.
Even if Blake hadn’t turned up Alice would have helped. She’s that sort of person, which is how she becomes so involved in Sam’s life. Sam is a hunter, the younger brother to the owner of one of the local bookstores, and she recognises who she once was in him. When Cate asks Alice to help Sam to see there’s more to vampires than he thinks she takes on the task, only to become far too emotionally involved. For the first time she can understand the decisions Nick made that led to her becoming a vampire. In the end she’s the one who has to turn Sam, and can only hope he isn’t angry with her for doing it.
Most people, including Sam even before he was turned, call Alice the heart of the House, and they aren’t wrong. She’s close to a lot of the donors, the vampires, and the people outside the House who have come to see it for the sanctuary they were trying so desperately to create. One of the outsiders is a police officer called Garion, who works the night shit, and does what he can to help with the House. She’s open-minded, so lets in vampires others might not have, because she knows that people change, and she does her best to give everyone a chance. She’s there for anyone who needs her, even if they don’t know they do.
She’s one of my favourite characters to write, and I look forward to writing more about her in the future.
Alice is complicated. Before Nick entered her life she was a hunter. Her decision to hunt vampires was based on what she knew about them, and what she knew wasn’t good. What most people knew wasn’t good. She was born long after the vampires made themselves known to the rest of the world, so she’d grown up with vampires, which taught her they viewed humans as little more than food. What she didn’t know was that there was more than one type of vampire. It was when she met Nick she realised that, because he made the decision to save her from one of the auction vampires. Nobody with any sense would have done that, so she gave him a chance, and it was that chance which led to her becoming a vampire.
She knew relatively early on that Nick had left his creator. What she didn’t know was how much his creator wanted him back with the ‘family’. In an attempt to get him to see that he didn’t have a chance of having a life around humans his creator attempted to kill Alice, only Nick found her before she died, and there was only one thing he could imagine doing – he turned her into a vampire to keep her in his life. Of course she wasn’t best pleased with him when she woke up, because she knew being a vampire meant she was going to have to leave everyone she cared about behind. At the same time she was relieved. Her family wasn’t pleased with her choices and she knew it wouldn’t be long before they made the decision the world would be a better place without Nick in it. If they’d tried to kill him she would have saved him, the same way he saved her.
Getting used to being vampire isn’t easy for anyone. Fortunately for Alice Nick was the sort of vampire who only fed from willing donors, and she spent the early months of her new life somewhere she could easily have called home. He couldn’t. As they spent more time getting to know each other again, with him being far more open than he had been when she was a human, she learnt that he didn’t dare call anywhere home in case his creator came after him. The only reason he didn’t leave her home village was because his emotions had got in the way. One of the problems with being a young vampire is that your emotions are heightened, and Alice didn’t know how to feel about anything. One minute she was furiously angry with Nick and the next she wasn’t.
At the time of the Donor House’s creation Alice is still a young vampire, especially when compared to Issac and Lewis. This is the reason they listen to her when she tells them how best to deal with the donors – she is close enough to being a human that she remembers what it was really like. She’s the one, at the beginning, the donors can relate the most to, so she’s the one who helps them when they first enter the House. As time passes the donors also get to know the other vampires, but, if they need something, she’s almost always the one they turn to.
The Donor House becomes home to a mix of people, including a vampire Alice helped. She met him when he was an addict, and all he wanted was to be free from that need to be bitten, so she offered to turn him. Very few other vampires would have made that offer, because they viewed addicts as being less than humans, even those it was the vampires who created them. Blake accepted, but Alice found she couldn’t turn him. Instead Nick turned him, for Alice, and then does his best to help her deal with her emotions when Blake disappears a couple of weeks later. When Blake steps into the House the two of them work things through, and it’s because of Blake they make the decision they’re going to help any addict who walks through the door.
Even if Blake hadn’t turned up Alice would have helped. She’s that sort of person, which is how she becomes so involved in Sam’s life. Sam is a hunter, the younger brother to the owner of one of the local bookstores, and she recognises who she once was in him. When Cate asks Alice to help Sam to see there’s more to vampires than he thinks she takes on the task, only to become far too emotionally involved. For the first time she can understand the decisions Nick made that led to her becoming a vampire. In the end she’s the one who has to turn Sam, and can only hope he isn’t angry with her for doing it.
Most people, including Sam even before he was turned, call Alice the heart of the House, and they aren’t wrong. She’s close to a lot of the donors, the vampires, and the people outside the House who have come to see it for the sanctuary they were trying so desperately to create. One of the outsiders is a police officer called Garion, who works the night shit, and does what he can to help with the House. She’s open-minded, so lets in vampires others might not have, because she knows that people change, and she does her best to give everyone a chance. She’s there for anyone who needs her, even if they don’t know they do.
She’s one of my favourite characters to write, and I look forward to writing more about her in the future.
