Bill Compton (one of the main characters in TrueBlood) was a Confederate soldier and in 1865 the war was over and he was anxious to get back home to his wife and two children. He traveled by foot, day and night, and one night, exhausted, he sees a shack deep in the woods. He pounds on the door and gets in to find a young woman there alone. She says her husband was killed.

Bill is thirsty and starving. He asks for food and water. She toasts him bread in the fireplace and frys two eggs. He is ready to leave but she says she is lonely and hints for sexual favors. He says he is going home and will not be untrue to his wife.

Suddenly she jumps on him, knocking him to the floor, and to his horror, he sees her fangs emerge--he is caught by a vampire! She drains him till he's unconscious. He wakes up in her bed and she is astraddle him, saying if you want to live you must drink from me--she makes a slit on her wrist and he winds up drinking some of her blood.

On shelves around the room he sees the dessicated corpses of other visitors she has drained. He still thinks he can go home to his wife, but the vampire says he can never go back into human company again. He insists, and she takes him in darkness to the woods near his home and he can see his wife and children on the porch of their house, waiting for him. Then the vampire leads him away as he looks over his shoulder for the last time at his human family.