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Re: Later
Julian listens to Lisa's words, looking up into her eyes silently as she speaks. This tone, this posture is unlike her. He's sensed it since the meeting the other day, but he wasn't sure what it was until he'd encountred it Minnie's posture and now, Lisa's.

Each seemed almost threatened by the other, to his mind.

He doesn't say anything for a long time, silently debating how much Lisa is entitled to know about his past and his family. She's never really asked before, as he's never asked about her family or her own history (sexual or otherwise), outside what he needed to know to avoid scandal.

When it seems as though he won't answer, he finally speaks.

"My mother is not a nice woman. Wait, let me rephrase: my mother is a cold, calculating and ruthless woman with no little to no compunction about who she sates herself upon. I learned many important lessons from her.

When I was thirteen, my powers emerged for the first time. I drained the family cat dry before I even knew what was happening. Father loved that cat. His name was Mister Buckles. I told him I let Mister Buckles out of the house by accident.

Anyway, Minnie was the daughter of our housekeeper. She and I played together all the time. She followed me everywhere, even when I told her not to. My mother showed up the night after I first used my powers and told me that I needed to learn about control. Control, she said, was the key to prolonging our existence, to keeping ourselves alive through the ages.

Yes, there are times we can feast, but often times, we must keep a rein on our hunger, lest it rule us outright, making us monsters that need to be put down. Minnie was eaves dropping that night, and Mother knew she was there immediately. She forced her to enter the room and then told me that I was going to learn my first lesson in control." Julian says, looking /through/ Lisa now, as if his mind is back in the sitting room in Anton Howard's house.

"Mother told me to slake my hunger upon Minnie, because, well...that's what she was there for. I told her that I didn't want to, but Mother is....persuasive. So, Minnie was the very first person I fed upon, Lisa. I barely stopped myself before killing her, but I stopped.

She is my first in many ways and the only person I can count on fully. She's never turned away from who I am, from /what/ I am, Lisa.

And I will not give her up." he says finally.