"It could get bad," she says softly. "I give my mom more credit than I knew at the time. I mean, she didn't know what caused him to go all taunting London's finest, and maybe it's not just the source blood but..."

And that's the part that scares her. What if it is just who Druitt is?

"I never even had time to really look it up and see if it's hereditary. I mean, where would you even look? There's no articles out there about your father being a century old serial killer juiced up on source vampire blood, and is that something you can inherit, you know?" She pauses, making a face. "God, I hope there's not articles about that."