A heart that hurts is a heart that works.
Josh doesn't come home one night and, for some reason, Sally can't help but freak out. He's like... her family. And you're supposed to freak out when family members disappear for no reason, right?
Aidan waits with her in the living room, his eyes alight with interest as he watches her pace back and forth. "I'm sure he's fine," he says. "Josh is a big boy now. He's probably... out with Nora."
That makes her pause. "But then why didn't he tell me?"
Aidan quirks an eyebrow (something that seriously pisses her off). "Why should he? You don't tell us every time you go out to... visit Danny."
She flinches. Visit meaning haunt. Which is totally not the same thing, like, at all. "I don't leave at ungodly hours." She thinks for a second. "Though that would probably really annoy him."
Which is always a total score.
She doesn't want to think about Danny-the-Douche anymore. Thinking about him leaves her stomach so twisted and she always starts to regret Aidan's self-control. He could kill Danny so easily... and she could finally watch the pathetic life drain out of him. Maybe she could even cackle, to really freak the shit out of him. Haha...
She shakes her head, realizing how creepy she's being.
"He so should've called," she finally states.
"You don't get this worried about me," Aidan says without hurt. Just a fact. "So why all this angst about Josh?"
He's doing his psyco-analyzing things again. Where he looks straight through her (is that considered a pun?). "Well, Josh is the good little boy," she reminds him, collapsing down on their couch. "He's too cute to not to worry about."
"Cute?"
If she had blood, she would blush.
But before she could cover up for her slip, he bursts through the door, like a madman, seeming to forget how freaking late it is.
"Speak of the devil..." Aidan's voice trails off and his eyes widen at the sight of Josh.
Josh's doe-like eyes are hard as he wipes blood off his hands onto a white towel. "Hey, guys," he says casually. "What are you doing up?"
And Sally explodes. "WHAT ARE WE DOING UP? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" They can practically see the steam coming out of her ears. "WE WERE WORRIED SICK AND IT SEEMS LIKE YOU WERE LIVIN' IT UP, SLAYING VAMPIRES OR WHATEVER THE HELL RAY BRAIN-WASHED YOU INTO DOING." She takes a deep breath, her voice significantly lower and, thus, more dangerous. "Next time call before you decide to be Buffy the fucking vampire slayer, you ass."
And she stomps upstairs for the effect, seeming to forget that she could just zip up.
Josh's eyebrows raise. "Buffy the who?"
Aidan sniffs. "That's not vampire blood."
A scary grin graces Josh's baby-face. "Nope."
"Um, whose...?"
Josh collapses in one of the arm-chairs with a proud smirk. "Danny's."
There's a few moments of silence. "Is he...?"
"Dead?"
"Yes."
"Nah. Not yet anyway. Pretty damn close, though."
Aidan smiles a bit, his fangs peaking out. "Good." He pauses and then asks, "But, out of curiosity, why did you beat him up without Sally knowing?"
Josh shrugs. "No one kills our girl and gets away with it."
"Our girl?"
Josh blushes, but pretends not to hear him.
Aidan tries not to laugh. "So, I guess you and Nora aren't going to be working out."
He's immediately hit by a pillow and Josh's dark, "Shut up."
Hi. So, I saw that there were no Josh/Sally fics. I know in the UK version, the vampire and the ghost get together, but seeing that in the US version, these two have GREAT CHEMISTRY, maybe there'll be some changes!
I haven't seen the other version, so I don't know which one is better. I seriously don't care. I just really like this show so far and I hope they don't screw it up by sticking so close to the original!
