On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Louis Eastman wrote: > How so? > On 12/17/05, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 lincicum at comcast.net wrote: > > > > > I'm not a huge fan of Vampire stories in general, but I don't think I've > > > ever heard one (Brust or otherwise) with a pregnant Vampire. > > > > The Buffyverse comments on this in typically heart-wrenching style. Honking big Buffy and Angel spoilers. Seriously, if you don't want Buffy and Angel spoiled, skip this. So in the Buffyverse, Angel is a vampire cursed with a soul - cursed in that he is wracked with remorse for his earlier unlife of murder and mayhem, and if he's ever happy again he'll lose his soul. He was sired by a vampire named Darla, who is killed in Buffy but brought back as a human by some evil lawyers with the goal of destroying Angel. After various awful events, Darla is a vampire again, Angel is in despair (D to A: "God doesn't want you, but I do."), and they have a fling (risking Angel's soul due to the terms of the curse). Darla, to everyone's shock, becomes pregnant. As a result of this, she gets some share of the baby's human soul and, like Angel, is tormented by guilt. Drama this, drama that, a vampire can't give birth, Darla kills herself so the baby can be born.