[A lot of vampire movies make getting bit by a vampire look sexy, even if the victim is dying. It is decidedly not sexy. It really hurts exactly as much as you'd expect a bite that breaks the skin and digs into your veins to hurt, and Peter's natural instinct towards someone jamming fangs into his arm and keeping them in the wound is to try to shake them off.]
[(He's been bit by more creatures and sometimes people than any person should be in their life.)]
[He has to fight his instincts to fight back, and he has to keep paying attention to how he's feeling as Jonathan feeds, which isn't exactly easy when he has no equipment to do it with and no way to measure how much he's drinking. With a smaller vein, it's fortunately not easy for Jonathan to drain him dry quickly, and even though it hurts, it's a relatively minor wound to heal. Veins don't bleed out the way arteries do, less hydrostatic pressure.]
You're going to find my blood probably has a slight radioactive tang. It shouldn't hurt you, even though you're probably a different kind of vampire than the one I knew. It actually made him less hungry if he fed off me.
[He grounds his feet, keeps himself bolt upright (so dizziness becomes apparent sooner) and presses the fingers of his free hand against his neck to keep an eye on his pulse. He tries to breathe deep so the pain and stress of something weird and unnatural happening to him doesn't cause his pulse or breathing to be heightened and skew his judgment of whether it's from blood loss or not.]
[Deep breaths in, deep breaths out. Nothing unusual going on here, just a grown man clamped onto his arm like an over-sized lamprey, sucking his radioactive people juice out.]
[He'll know when it's getting too much, he's dealt with dangerous levels of blood loss before: faster heartbeat, feeling faint, sweating, cold skin.]
[(God, it's so weird and gross having someone's mouth clamped on his arm.)]
[But he's pretty sure Jonathan is probably having a worse time of it than him. The hunger has to be painful and miserable. The lack of dignity that comes with that kind of desperation has to be degrading. His fear of harming others is obvious. That's why it's better to risk doing this than letting it go until something catastrophic happens - because it'd hurt both the doc and whoever his victim was.]
[After he's a little less desperate, maybe he can figure out a better long-term solution than whatever he's been doing before now.]
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[A lot of vampire movies make getting bit by a vampire look sexy, even if the victim is dying. It is decidedly not sexy. It really hurts exactly as much as you'd expect a bite that breaks the skin and digs into your veins to hurt, and Peter's natural instinct towards someone jamming fangs into his arm and keeping them in the wound is to try to shake them off.]
[(He's been bit by more creatures and sometimes people than any person should be in their life.)]
[He has to fight his instincts to fight back, and he has to keep paying attention to how he's feeling as Jonathan feeds, which isn't exactly easy when he has no equipment to do it with and no way to measure how much he's drinking. With a smaller vein, it's fortunately not easy for Jonathan to drain him dry quickly, and even though it hurts, it's a relatively minor wound to heal. Veins don't bleed out the way arteries do, less hydrostatic pressure.]
You're going to find my blood probably has a slight radioactive tang. It shouldn't hurt you, even though you're probably a different kind of vampire than the one I knew. It actually made him less hungry if he fed off me.
[He grounds his feet, keeps himself bolt upright (so dizziness becomes apparent sooner) and presses the fingers of his free hand against his neck to keep an eye on his pulse. He tries to breathe deep so the pain and stress of something weird and unnatural happening to him doesn't cause his pulse or breathing to be heightened and skew his judgment of whether it's from blood loss or not.]
[Deep breaths in, deep breaths out. Nothing unusual going on here, just a grown man clamped onto his arm like an over-sized lamprey, sucking his radioactive people juice out.]
[He'll know when it's getting too much, he's dealt with dangerous levels of blood loss before: faster heartbeat, feeling faint, sweating, cold skin.]
[(God, it's so weird and gross having someone's mouth clamped on his arm.)]
[But he's pretty sure Jonathan is probably having a worse time of it than him. The hunger has to be painful and miserable. The lack of dignity that comes with that kind of desperation has to be degrading. His fear of harming others is obvious. That's why it's better to risk doing this than letting it go until something catastrophic happens - because it'd hurt both the doc and whoever his victim was.]
[After he's a little less desperate, maybe he can figure out a better long-term solution than whatever he's been doing before now.]