Disclaimer: I don't own Being Human, I only wish I did. This is just for fun.
OBLIVIOUS
It was a Sunday afternoon and they were all gathered in the living room watching television. Hal would rather have been in his room reading, or just thinking but Annie's rota said that after feeding Eve, and bathing Eve and giving Eve a massage and taking Eve for a walk, it was 'family time' because it was important for Eve to grow up knowing that she was part of a loving family. Hal was fairly certain that Eve really didn't care much about family time, as long as she was fed and clean she was happy. So she was destined to fulfil an ancient prophecy and destroy all vampires, she was still just a baby at the moment. He'd tried to point that out to Annie once but the woman was quite inflexible on the matter and one of her glares had convinced Hal that it was probably best to just go along with her. So here they were.
Annie sat with the baby on her lap, bouncing her gently, while Tom sat beside them on the sofa watching the screen with a quizzical expression.
"But… I fought he was married to the lady with the black hair." He said, utterly confused.
"Oh he is, but he never loved her."
Tom ran his hand over his shaved head and frowned.
"Well if he didn't love 'er then why'd he marry 'er?"
"Because she's rich and he owes a lot of money to some gangsters who are going to break his legs if he doesn't pay them back soon."
"Is he some sort of a div then? I wouldn't be friends with people who'd break me legs over money."
"He's not friends with them, he just borrowed money from them."
This seemed to confuse Tom even more and while Annie tried her best to explain the complicated plot of this ridiculous soap opera , Hal just watched Tom.
He'd been watching Tom an awful lot lately. He couldn't remember exactly when it had started, or when he'd realised he was doing it, it had sort of dawned him gradually. He certainly couldn't explain why, he just knew that for some odd reason, he liked it, he liked watching Tom. There was something quite endearing about the young werewolf's childlike innocence and Hal was pleased that it had somehow been left untarnished by the blood & violence he'd been raised amidst. Tom was unlike anyone else Hal had ever met, and he'd met many people during his time on the earth. Maybe that was why he found Tom so fascinating… attractive even.
At last the programme ended and Tom got to his feet with a low groan.
"Fank goodness for that." He said. "I've got an 'eadache now. I'm gonna go and lay down for a bit."
Hal watched him rub his eyes and run his hand over the top of his head again and smiled to himself, still watching as the young man trudged wearily out of the room. When Tom was out of sight Hal cocked his head just a fraction and listened to his footsteps on the stairs. When the stairs fell silent he sighed quietly and turned back to find Annie staring intently at him. It unnerved him slightly.
"What?"
"You should just tell him you like him." She answered.
Hal stared at her dumbly.
"W… what?"
"Tom. You should just come right out and tell him that you like him. The long lingering looks are not going to work, I can tell you that for sure. Tom isn't experience enough with…" She lowered her voice to a whisper so Eve wouldn't hear. "You know what… to know what they mean."
Suddenly it dawned on him what she was talking about and he was horrified.
"Y…you've gone mad." He stammered. "I do NOT like Tom. I mean I… I like him, of course I like him, he's a good person but I don't LIKE him."
"Oh please. I'm dead Hal, not blind. You've been mooning after him for weeks and it's driving me mad."
Mooning? Wasn't that something teenaged girls did?. He was a vampire, an old one for pity's sake, old ones did NOT moon. HE did not moon… over anyone, especially not over werewolves, even if the werewolf was actually quite attractive in his own way. Oh God, did he really just think that? It seemed he had. Well, so what? So what if he thought Tom was attractive, it was possible to find someone attractive without actually being attracted to them. Annie was attractive and he wasn't at all attracted to her, it hadn't even crossed his mind. Of course Annie wasn't Tom.
Annie continued.
"If you don't tell him soon I might just have to do it for you." She said, standing up and balancing baby Eve on her hip.
"NO! You can't, please." He urged, terrified but not really understanding why. "I mean… That is to say…" He thrust his hands behind his back, straightening a little and trying to appear unruffled. "There's… uh… nothing to tell." He stood perfectly still, trying to project an air of calmness far greater than he actually felt and all the while wondering if it was really Annie he was trying to convince or himself.
Annie glowered at him for a moment then sighed dramatically, shaking her head waving her free hand in the air.
"Aarrgghh! You men are all the same. You're hopeless. Fine, deny it if you want but that won't change anything. You can't just ignore your feeling and hope they go away. Sooner or later you're going to have to tell him, and you're going to have to be clear and direct about it too because seriously, I think the only facts of life McNair taught him were 'vampires bad, stake sharp'." She shook her head at him again. "Come on Eve, let's get you down for your afternoon nap and leave silly old Hal to brood shall we?"
Hal didn't watch her leave. He dropped back down in his seat and closed his eyes. What had just happened? He wasn't entirely sure, he was sort of shell-shocked to be honest. He tried to organize his thoughts, to make sense of them but nothing seemed to make sense except… could it be that Annie was right? No, no, she couldn't be, she was seeing things that weren't there… wasn't she?He groaned miserably. Earlier he had wanted to be alone with his thoughts. Now he wished he could be as far away from them as possible.
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