Vampires don't have many kids. Don't ask me why, but it's apparently easier to survive their bites, too—unless you're in puberty. Then you're dead.
Werewolf bites kill most people, but at least pubescent lycans have a shot at surviving. Barely. The horrific bodily stress of the Changes are too much for most people; add in-progress hormonal changes of puberty to that, and at best any health you might've had decides to go AWOL.
That vampires and lycans evidently can't die of natural causes is a bit strange, but God's Word only says "It is appointed unto men once to die." "By natural causes" doesn't necessarily have to be an option. Live long enough, and something will kill you.
Everyone thinks me a little insane, unhinged by what I've been through. I'm still a communing member of the Presbyterian Church of America, even if I fit into the junior youth group even worse than I used to.
Since my body is changing so much, I could die any Change and have to be nursed through them, each one as hellish as the one before it. The vampire who rescued me from the uncle-eating werewolf does that. Eventually, I'll get used to the Changes, and they'll stop hurting; instead of changing every new moon, I'll even be able to control them.
That's if I survive, of course.
PERSPECTIVE
I enjoyed the movie Underworld quite a bit. In fact, it was through that movie that I realized I happen to like vampire and werewolf stories (that are more than excuses for sordidness on bookshelves). I noticed how God was mocked when present in such books, and then I read Stephenie Meyer's Twilight and New Moon, where there's a somewhat Deist vampire. The vampire makes a comment to the effect that he's damned regardless of God's existence or not. But is he?
Somewhere in this mess of thought, I came up with a fun character: a thirteen-year-old recently bit lycan who's a kid genius ("genius" so she doesn't end up on a looney bin) and... uh, fighting not to die from the biting! I then decided to add "presbyterian" to that.
Now my only problem was to find a story that would use that character to her full potential. I used the character for a few poems for a class, which made me realize that a book of poems would work nicely. That is what the title "Pupsqueak" was originally meant for. I've since thought of a novel plot for the girl which I may use the title for, or find a new title if I decide to go through with writing the book of poems.
The story and book of poems would be from her perspective as she has to cope with her new life... aided by a vampiress with PPD.
Am I crazy, or are there people interested in a (almost) thirteen-year-old presbyterian werewolf?