Jack hesitated at that for just a moment, trying to decide how much detail to go into.
"Not precisely," he said. "He didn't give me many orders, not by then. But we'd just moved to Baltimore, and vampirism was a crime in America at the time. It was better for him to lie low for a while, and that was easier to do if he lived alone. The funny thing is it was supposed to just be until I turned 18, but by then I had friends here and wanted to finish the school year. And then after graduation I started bouncing back and forth."
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Date: 2012-11-02 07:56 pm (UTC)"Not precisely," he said. "He didn't give me many orders, not by then. But we'd just moved to Baltimore, and vampirism was a crime in America at the time. It was better for him to lie low for a while, and that was easier to do if he lived alone. The funny thing is it was supposed to just be until I turned 18, but by then I had friends here and wanted to finish the school year. And then after graduation I started bouncing back and forth."