Jade laid naked on her bed with Hannibal's arm laying up the length of her torso. She smiled softly as he moved his hand down to lay above where her heart was. For some reason, this felt weird to her, of course maybe it was because even after being with both Hannibal and Will she still wasn't used to the after scene. Before she had always booked it herself or kicked the guy out. Something she couldn't do with either men.

"It is very odd not feeling your heartbeat, but knowing you are alive," he said softly.

"Undead," she corrected.

"Pardon?" He looked up at her.

"We prefer undead. Actually, that is a lie, we really don't give a rats ass. But the more used term is undead. " She paused for a moment. "You know, by sleeping with me, you are technically partaking in necrophilism."

He seemed to think about that for a moment, something Jade noticed he did often. Hannibal was hardly was ever one to just say something without thinking it through. She wondered if that was just how he was, or if it was from having to watch what he said around people such as Will, or even worse yet, Jack.

"Taken literally perhaps but that is technically incorrect. Necrophilia is about power and denomination; corpses, after all, will not fight, will not struggle, and are in fact completely unresponsive. You are anything but unresponsive, Jade." he finally said. "Besides, it is not the worst thing I have done." He smiled at her.

Jade raised her eyebrow. She was intrigued by this answer. Wanting to know exactly what he meant she opened her mouth to ask but she noticed him glance at the time. So instead she changed directions. "Something wrong?"

"Not at all. I just have a new patient coming in today."

"Oh, if you need to go I won't mind."

"Are you sure?"

"Hannibal this is your work. I am surprised you aren't already out that door."

"I would never just walk out Jade. That would be..."

"Rude. I got it." She smirked at him.

They shifted around on the bed until they were untangled from each other. Since Hannibal was leaving Jade figured she would get up too. Maybe she would do something today, though she wasn't sure what. She quickly threw some clothes on as he did the same, only with much more precision than her.

"So this new patient..." Jade knew Hannibal wouldn't give anything away. He never did. But every now and then she felt like testing him, just a bit, to see if he would finally give in and talk to her.

"Jade, you know I can not speak of my patients with you."

The answer Jade had figured he would say. "A girl's gotta try Doctor Lecter."

"Why do you..."

But he didn't get to finish his sentence for Jade opened her bedroom door to reveal Liam standing on the other side of it. He looked like he was about to say something when the full picture hit him. A deep growl resonated throughout the silence.

Jade placed her hand before her, hoping to stop anything Liam might throw their way. "Liam..." she growled in warning.

"Jade," a soft voice spoke from behind Liam.

She narrowed her eyes before lightly shoving Liam out of her way, but made sure she was still standing between him and Hannibal. She was surprised to see who was behind him however that she almost forgot everyone else was in the room.

"Emily," she whispered. In a flash she was in front of the smallish woman, hugging her with all her worth.

"Jade... bones.. crushing..." Emily groaned out.

"Sorry." Jade released her friend before taking a good look at her. "You haven't changed a bit. You are still the same skinny, brown frizzy hair, chocolate eyes, and pale as fuck girl as you always were."

"Being a vampire tends to have that effect, my love."

"I see you still have small boobs also," Jade smirked.

"Not everyone has access to magic."

"I think this is more nature and not magic hun. Your mother also had a small chest. By the way, how is Kida?"

"Oh, you know. Same ol' same ol'. Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't make me knock the cents out of you. I will get the frying pan."

Jade chuckled. "Of course, I should have known."

"Sorry we interrupted your..." Emily trailed off as she looked behind Jade.

Jade, confused for a moment, turned to see Hannibal still behind her. "Oh, Sorry! Uh. Hannibal, this is Emily. My best friend. Emily this is Hannibal. My... er...Hannibal."

When Emily raised an eyebrow Jade just shook her head.

Hannibal stepped forward then, extending his hand. "Pleasure to meet you, Emily."

"Nice to meet you too." She took his hand and shook it gently.

"I hate to run out like this, but I was just leaving." He moved around everyone then to head for the door. "Hopefully I will see you again."

"I'm sure we will." Emily smiled as he left the house before turning to Jade. "I come back and you have a pet."

"She actually has two pets," Liam grumbled from where he was standing.

"Now that I can believe." Emily giggled.

"Hey now." Jade stuck her tongue out at Emily. "So what brings you here?" Jade walked with Emily over to her couch so they could sit and talk.

"Actually I was brought here. By that lump of rock behind you."

Jade turned to look at Liam. She raised an eyebrow at him, wondering what possessed him to do such a thing.

"I overheard you talking to the humans some time back, about how you missed Emily and such. And with everything that happened, well I am not as heartless as people know me to be. "

Jade smiled at him. "Thank you." She then turned her attention back to Emily.

"So is it serious? These two boys I mean?"

"Em, you should know me by now. It is never serious." She heard a small noise coming from behind her. Turning she shot Liam a glare. "Shouldn't you be... Oh, I don't know... anywhere but here?" she snapped.

"Jade." Emily frowned.

"Sorry love," Jade said softly. "Really Liam, I am grateful for this. But could you ... please ... leave us alone."

"Shee-it. Like I really wanna stay here and listen to you girls gab. Ya right. See ya." He gave them a half-cocked salute before walking out the door.

Jade turned her attention back to Emily again. "God Em. How I have missed you."

Emily frowned then. "I am sorry," she said softly.

"For what Em?"

"That I wasn't here."

At first, Jade was confused by what her friend was talking about, but then it clicked. "Liam must have told you."

"On the way here. Ya."

Jade was quiet for a moment. It had been some time since the battle with her dad, and yet no matter how much she tried to forget about it, someone or something was always reminding her of it. She took Emily's hand then and pulled her off the couch.

"Come on." She pulled her towards the door.

"Where are we going?"

"Who knows!" She laughed as they ran out the door.