Laura moved closer to Carmilla in the back seat of— wait who's car where they in?

Barely anyone at Silas had licenses to drive in Austria and certainly nobody had a car.

But, LaFontaine had been whipping down the country roads away from Silas in a Volkswagen as fast as they could for almost an hour. The car's GPS had a USB port, for some reason, so JP was giving directions as fast as he could.

Perry sat in the passenger seat, tightly gripping the door handle and looking as if the extreme speed and intensity of the fleeing was way too much for her to handle. Or maybe that was about JP and LaF. Laura still had not gotten much of a chance to talk to her about it.

Laura had no idea how after coming back from the dead, the other stuff…, the town hall and the rapid fleeing of campus Carmilla could have possibly fallen asleep. But, she had somehow had, using the only thing she took from their room: Laura's yellow pillow.

Laura turned to look out the back windshield. She saw the single headlight from the rest of their fleeing party and smiled. Danny was the only one with an Austrian license and it was for the motorcycle she bought on a whim during her freshman year. Kirsch clung on for his life with his one good arm behind her.

Laura scooted even closer to her girlfriend— it still felt weird for her to even think it now that it was actually true. She wasn't going to be able to sleep, she knew that. Even if the town hall hadn't been called, she hadn't been singled out for spearheading the attack against Lophilformes and killing the Dean, she hadn't tried to help everyone escape the hungry light's return to campus, she would still be too excited about Carmilla being alive to sleep at all.

But she rested her head on Carmilla's shoulder anyway. The vampire stirred slightly and wrapped her arm around Laura. She moved her head down onto her chest.

"You know, this isn't really what I meant when I said I was looking forward to our first time sleeping together," Carmilla stated quietly in the same cheeky way she had been saying sexual innuendos since she had returned.

"Well, I'm not really going to be sleeping at all. Like, how are you even calm enough to be sleeping? Carm, come on. We didn't kill it and it could quite possibly be chasing us and that is only if it didn't stay behind to kill everyone in Styria."

Carmilla turned her head slightly so she could see Laura's face. Laura reached up and pushed a few strands of black hair off her eyes.

"With how LaF is driving we probably have outran it already and thanks to you, cutie, I don't think anyone is left at Silas," she said, smiling down her girlfriend, who looked cuter than ever lite only by the moonlight.

"You're probably right."

"But if it got that old roommate of yours, I'm fine with that. She seemed better when she was pod-peopled," Carmilla said with the stark she had since the moment she moved into Room 307, but now it was followed be a smile.

Laura couldn't stop herself from smiling too for she agreed. But, she knew Betty had gotten out safely with Natalie and Elisie and the rest of the residents from her hall. She and Perry had made sure, while Danny was evacuating her Summer Society sisters through some network of underground tunnels, Kirsch got the Zetas out on their party bus and the Alchemy Club was using something that sounded a whole lot like teleporting to get students out. She even saw on Twitter — before they got too far from campus and she lost service — that Professor Cocrahne was taking students out by steamboat.

"Unpopular hostel up ahead. Maybe we should stop for the night, Laugh front training," the GPS system seemed to say.

Carmilla and Laura smiled. JP seemed to have taken over the voice of the GPS, but still couldn't make it pronounce things correctly.

"We're nearly in Munich," LaF said to the car. "It should be safe for us to stop. We can figure out a better game plan in the morning, yeah?"

The roommates in the backseat nodded. They could see the pair through the rearview mirror.

"Perr?" LaFontaine said, looking at her for the first time during the trip.

"Yes, all right. Just let me do all the talking. We will be safer if we blend in."

LaF pulled the car into the parking lot of the hostel when JP told them to turn. LaF ejected him from the USB as they and Perry got out of the car. Carmilla groaned but exited tightly holding the yellow pillow. Laura followed her, slinging her backpack over her shoulder. She had filled it with mostly her clothes but a few for Carmilla's and her laptop.

Danny's bike loudly rolled into the parking spot beside them.

"How did you even get a license for this thing, Summer Psycho?" Kirsch exclaimed as he jumped off the bike, pulling the helmet of his head.

"Aww did I scare you, Dumbass?" Danny replied.

"Will all of you stop talking? Please!" Perry commanded.

The group instantly silenced.

Perry spoke to the desk clerk in German, giving the illusion that they were a group of normal German college students on break. Carmilla grumbled a few things in German to Laura, which she did not understand. LaF throw in a few words here and there, which Laura assumed was nothing more than "hello" and "thank you".

The six of them were place in a room that slept 20, but they were the only ones there.

When Laura was done showering, she started waking toward the bed she has selected beside LaF and Perry.

"I don't think so, cupcake," Carmilla said as she grabbed her arm and pulled her onto the bed closest to the washroom and furthest away from anyone else.

"Carm!" Laura exclaimed as her towel almost unwrapped itself from her chest.

"Oh, you going to be all shy now? Urhm, you didn't seen that way back at Silas,"

Carmilla pleaded, her smile so wide her fangs were showing.

Laura leaned in and kissed her, realizing it was for the first time since they fled.

"Umm we were alone at Silas, you stupid vampire. Well like for the most part but there is a difference between someone bursting into the room and them being able to see us from across the room," Laura pointed out in a rapid whisper.

That time, Carmilla leaned in and kissed her.

"But it is pretty dark in here," Laura was able to get out before Carmilla kissed her again.

"And if we stay under the covers how will they know anyway. We just can't be too lo—"

She was cut off by a kiss again.

Carmilla had raised both her hands into Laura's wet hair. She had moved one hand to the back of her girlfriend's head and was using the other to keep the towel around herself.

Carmilla pulled away and found herself gazing into the eyes of a desperate looking

Laura. "Out of excuses yet, cupcake?"

She nodded with a lopsided smiled. "Yeah I'm out."

She dropped the towel and climbed under the sheets with Carmilla. Laura had been right, nobody could see them. They could probably hear them, but Carmilla was right it was stupid to be nervous in front of her friends.

Sure she was still nervous about other things. But she would deal with her friends' broken relationship, ancient unbeatable evils, her university seeing her as one of its biggest threats and essentially being a homeless person in Europe later, because in that moment she was just going to focus on her terrible roommate, who had been resurrected and became her girlfriend less than 24 hours ago.