Vampire Lovin'

The randomness

Okay, I have been a lover of vampire fiction ever since Anne Rice converted me with Interview with a Vampire several years ago.

The strength, the beauty, the tortured, alienated existence (that part was especially appealing to me as a teen - hence I use to be a very big fan of Rice's brooding Louis vs. the charismatic Lestat) and finally the fact that they no longer had to deal with "gross" human factoids such as disposing of bodily waste and aging.

Currently, I am in deep like with HBO's True Blood and am enjoying a brief affair with Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series ;)

Nevertheless, I feel the attraction to vampire lore fading. Beyond the lovers (hmm, are there any stories about vampire/human friendships - why are they always lovers?) being from two "separate worlds", it's starting to dawn on me how stupid and dangerous it is to fall in love with someone who wants to eat you and whom you would be utterly powerless to stop from sed chopping down.

But the defining moment that wrecked took away my infatuation was watching a love scene on True Blood. For reasons to mundane to bear repeating, Vampire Bill has been was buried. Young, naive (stupid, stupid, naive, stupid) Sookie rushes to his grave site. He burrows his way out of the grave and with dust still falling from his body, makes love to Sookie then and there.

Romantic and life affirming, no? Well, no actually no. Like reading the "love scenes" in Twilight, I am suddenly left scratching my head with why vampires even feel the need to "have relations". Isn't that what the whole blood sucking thing a metaphor anyway?

And on the human front: Why would you want something dead inside of you?

Oh, don't worry, I'll still be reading up/watching on how vampire/human relations are fairing, I'm just looking for something a little less common now.
How about a heterosexual vampire story with a female vampire and male human? And seriously, how about a non-physical relationship between human and vampire? Heck, I'm even interested in a romance where one of the love interests is allowed to die from old age - that would be something?