Disclaimer: Don't own Dance in the Vampire Bund or Buffy. Nozomu Tamaki and Joss Whedon respectively.

A/N: Same universe but un-connected to my DitVB fic.


Mina Tepes laid, curled around her werewolf consort, and thought. Nothing particularly deep, nor about any issues her people were having (no new news on the Telomere front). Instead she thought about her mother for the first in a very long time.

It wasn't that she didn't miss her mother, she did... so very much. It was rather that with all the threats that it had been a very long time. Back to her mother, she wondered what Lucretia might have thought about her now. wrapped so tightly around the werewolf she'd only recently gotten to stop trying to fuck her through the mattress when his werewolf stamina finally hit it's end and he'd passed out.

Mina liked to believe her mother would love Akira just the way she did... well, not just the same way but close enough. Her mother would look him over, ask Mina if she was sure, and Lucretia would hug him and whisper, "Welcome to the family," in her wolf's ear. He'd blush and smile and she would be loved. No, that was unfair to Nelly, Nella, Nero, Vera, but most importantly it would be unfair to Akira. She would simply be more loved.

Mina was unaware but there was a spirit in the room, the very vampire she was thinking about, Lucretia and she was very happy for her daughter, finally free to be with the man she loved, Lucretia would have blushed had she any blood left as she recalled how much man there was. She might have taken an earth clan lover if she had known how... healthy they were. Shaking her head she smiled, her daughter would have happiness, even if it was thanks to a slayer.