Well vampires creatures using the name vampires are the technically the un-dead but I wouldn't think of them much like zombies. Now some vampires like creatures, especially in some old slavic region stories are more zombie like, but I wasn't pulling as much from those as I was from Stoker. ^__^


and then locked him in a cage until they could figure out a cure, a la dealing with friends who are werewolves.

Well for this ficverse there isn't, not now that Tony is fully a Vampire. I wrote on the asusmption that he was already dead, do he's pretty much the Lucy character here, not Mina ^^

Adn because he is dead, even lifting the Vampire curse would leave him dead.