Life Cycle of a Vampire

     Susannah still remembered her birth. The conception of her final form.
     Though she had no recollection of how exactly they came to be, she knew how it started. The final stage was the beginning, you see. First, they were a speck. Not a spore, or an egg, or anything of such substance. They were a speck. A chemical. The beginning of life began as a base component within the saliva of the full grown. Sometimes, a lucky speck would be transferred from the home, to a new location. It didn't happen often, which was why so many victims died.
     For some, it was a rebirth.
     Susannah had been an exceptional speck, and made an actual effort, though not conscious, to escape the bonds tying her to this specific vampire's saliva. You might call such an organism a virus. It was a need to procreate, to propagate the survival of a species. So she was a lucky speck, who fell into a wonderful puddle of warmth. This puddle was, in fact, a river that never ended, but merely looped continuously through infinity. The warm red water caused an enzyme reaction adding onto her as a speck. Suddenly, she was no speck. She was a chain.
     Within the veins of a victim did she reside.
     It came to be after three passes through the heart, that the white blood cells finally stopped attacking her. Susannah hadn't like them, those pesky defenders, and had infiltrated their cell membranes. Now, the white blood cells she had infected flocked to her. She was no speck. She was no chain. She was a fully-fledged independent organism.
     Slowly, she began to convert the blood cells as well, and like the rabies virus, began working on the victim's nervous system. Though the victim suffered stiff muscles and sore neck, it was only natural. After all, she had been bitten by some unknown madman, hadn't she? Susannah carefully convinced the different pathways to help her ascend.
     The organism went up, up, up. 
     At the brain, it was simple enough. The parasite form gorged itself on the grey matter. Absorbed memories through a combination of synapse synchronization and neural alterations. The personality was taken as well. Eventually, no brain remained within the empty skull cavity. Only a snake sized coiled organism inhabited the space. This parasite form burrowed deep into the remaining tissue lining the cranial bone, and plugged in.
     Eyes opened.
     Susannah was miraculously, wondrously alive. And she remembered it all.
     From speck, to chain, to independent organism, to full on parasite, to human. To Susannah. While this speck had started with no name, it had one now. Now, it was a vampire, one who could continue spreading the child specks through the populace, drinking others dry.