"The drugging-kidnapping-vampire thing did have a kind of motivation. He belongs to an organization that thinks it's its business to manage Slayers - that's the kinda superpowered I was and James is - and it was my eighteenth birthday, and there's this test involving the drugs-kidnapping-vampire thing. Which I legit passed, but then he took exception to my taking exception to having been tested at all, hence my bleeding out in a Holiday Inn."