Anthony Kane
Here's the story of the character I had in mind, hope it isn't too long though
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Anthony Kane hasn't been a vampire for very long, approximately four years in fact, Kane isn't his real last name either. Before we get into that though he led what he thought was a fulfilling and productive life before becoming a vampire, and he led it far, far away from Western Europe, in Australia in fact.
Anthony Felhurst's childhood was uneventful, but had a looming element of Christianity imposed by his mother, and though Anthony became convinced of the existence of God, he was never one to believe the omni-present being was totally on his side.
Primary school was followed by high school, he did well academically, and went on to earn a degree in psychology at university. This seemed to mesh well with the natural empathy he had for people. Much to his parents' dismay though he opted for a job with the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (equivalent of the FBI), and after some hard work, became a detective.
Australia being Australia, Anthony didn't get as many cases as he hoped he would, realizing this is a good thing though, he decided he had more time to prepare for when cases did show up. He learnt his way around small arms pretty darn well, even started making his own ammunition, and spent a lot of time brushing up on his people skills and anything else that he thought that would aid him in investigations.
A few years went by, and the year 1999 rolled into occurrence, and with the new year came Anthony's biggest, and strangest, case. He had amassed some experience by this time, so when he walked into the crime scene and started trying to add up what he could, it didn't really add up to much of anything. A politician and his entire family had been killed, in their homes, while they slept, for reasons unknown. ASIO was called in because it was a politician, and that was their domain.
Within the following few days Anthony had added up what he could ascertain from the crime scene. What Anthony first thought to be four cases of slashed throats from the bruising about the throat turned out to be three cases of strangulation and a death by vampire style blood drainage poorly disguised with a slashed throat, the politician. Questioning neighbours revealed little, save for an old woman telling Anthony about how she heard a vacuum cleaner going in the victims' premises at about 3am, which turned out to be definitely after the lab's predicted times of death. No one saw anyone enter or leave.
The only other clues at the scene were the prints on the vacuum cleaner, but even though the machine was quite heavy the suspect only used it with one hand, the prints weren't in the national database either, and skin cells under the finger nails of the wife, suggesting there may have been a struggle, but the lab said the skin cells had been dead for a considerable amount of time, far longer than they'd been under her nails. Anthony was clueless, and where the clues pointed seemed far-fetched, even ridiculous, but he couldn't deny that's where they directed his thinking. Within a week since the murders he had earned the nickname 'Vampire Hunter'.
The politician was a minor player in Immigration, and though he was a politician, he hadn't had any enemies who could be considered capable of the crime and he was never implicated in anything illegal or immoral. He searched the politician's office, and found something in a waste-paper basket. A written proposal to the politician saying that he would be owed a great favour if he could allow a certain person into the country discreetly. The note wasn't signed. After some research the person turned out to be a close relation to a leader in organized crime in Sydney. He brought in a list of possible suspects for questioning, known thugs, the illegal immigrant, but most of them seemed to know nothing, except for the illegal immigrant who decided to spill the beans on how he got into the country in order to get a deal. It certainly involved the politician, but other than that, it appeared there was no intention of killing him. And so the trail was lost, and Anthony's superiors started pressuring him to just blame it on one of the organized crime thugs, just so ASIO wouldn't lose face.
Something dawned on Anthony while he was going back over the evidence. What if the politician wasn't the target? That note was certainly easy to find, and normally Anthony was accustomed to such documents being destroyed, maybe it was placed there intentionally. Also, the death of a politician would certainly attract the attention of ASIO, and the first thing they'd assume is that the intended target was the politician, Anthony certainly did. What if what was done to the politician was merely to draw attention away from other members of the family? Anthony thought it through, but he wasn't certain about what he was looking for anymore.
The wife was a ranking officer in Customs, so that’s where he decided to look. He went through lists of recent things seized, looking for something even vaguely suspicious. Eventually he came across a coffin, occupied by a deceased person, closed but apparently unsealed (for an upcoming open-casket funeral), and left in one of Customs' large freezers. It was certainly a long shot, but Anthony was quite suspicious about it, and though Customs were puzzled he was able to inspect the coffin unchallenged as they were unable to contact the people who were expected to pick it up.
In truth, he only did this satisfy his own curiosity and to put his suspicions to rest. He walked into the freezer, and spent a minute locating the coffin calmly. He was shivering by the time he found it, and was surprised to see it wasn't wrapped in anything to protect the seemingly expensive wood from the cold. His hand shivered more as he hesitantly went to open the lid...
...and found nothing within. No body. He was startled, and confused. He didn't know what this meant. There was supposed to be either a dead person or a sleeping vampire there. What exactly had he found here? His erratic thoughts were interrupted by a slow clapping. A pale woman was standing but a few meters away, dressed in formal attire and looking at him smugly.
"You know, I promised that woman money, but she rejected it, demanding that I give her eternal life," she said, and leaned against one of the shelves, "And I'll be desperate indeed before I actually grant that someone in exchange for a favour."
Anthony noticed no mist left her mouth as she spoke. He was getting quite cold, and he was shivering even more now.
"You're a-a...?" he stammered, partly from the cold, partly from surprise.
"Yes," she replied quickly.
"B-but it's daytime," he said.
"No sunlight in here," she chuckles, and spreads her arms to indicate around her, "So, should I call you officer or agent? I don't know much about your organization."
"D-detect-tive," Anthony draws his pistol from under his coat, the cold ruining his aim.
She laughs, her body unaffected by the cold.
"That w-won't w-work," she says, faking a shiver, "You should know the basics, right?"
"...u-under ar-rest..." Anthony stutters at length.
"What? During the day? Its a death sentence for me to leave here, and I don't believe your country has them. You couldn't force me to anyway," she says arrogantly, then notices Anthony's current state, "My goodness, you mortals aren't affected by cold well are you? I'll just speed this along then. When I left I told the others I'd send someone back in my place who would be useful for them. You, sir, or detective rather, have the opportunity to be that someone. I believe by tracking me down you've earned it. Well, either you can accept my offer or die from the cold because I closed the door in and you can't open it up in your current state."
Anthony did the only thing he could, and accepted the offer, nodding weakling, barely standing.
"...b-but w-why... did..." he starts.
"Why did I leave? A story for another time. My name's Lara by the way" she says, and without waiting for a reply, appears behind him suddenly and sinks her fangs into his neck.
When someone came to check on Anthony, seeing as he didn't come back, they couldn't find him and assumed he had left already. Lara had put him into her coffin, and was lingering around invisible.
Afterwards, through Lara's contacts, he was sent to Western Europe, and he started using the last name of Kane instead of Felhurst. He was given the job of investigating any unexplained deaths of vampires, though that never stopped him from using his knowledge of small arms and ammunition in the war against the Lycans.
Obviously Anthony's disappearance caused a ruckus in intelligence circles, sparking an investigation which didn't get any definite results in the end, by now he's presumed dead.
Lara hasn't told him why she left, nor has anyone else told him yet, so he waits patiently for that, knowing that he can wait effectively forever for it if the need arose.
