Mavis had had enough of the witch. She pushed her chair away from the table and ran out of the dinning room. She ran through the hallway to the nearest window, where she turned quickly into a bat. Mavis thought that a quick flight might help her clear her head.

She flew quickly over the hotel and through the cemetery. She glided slowly over the forest, looking at all of the trees and thinking about what she wanted to do. It had seemed like an easy decision, she wanted a family, she wanted to grow old with Jonny and she wanted to experience life as a human. However, as she flew over the mountains and saw the river flowing through the forest, Mavis wasn't so sure of what she wanted anymore. She loved being a vampire, she loved being able to fly and see the world in a different light. In her 133 years of living, Mavis had read about the changes humanity had been through and seen. She had learned that those who she had once feared, at least some of them, accepted monsters and even held festivals in their honour. She and Jonny had seen the world together, and she wanted him to be a part of her life forever, or for as long of a forever as they could have together.

Mavis thought about when she had asked Jonny to become a vampire and what he must have been feeling at that time. It was as if every possibility was swimming around in her mind, the positive and the negative. Jonny had once said that the wrong people get immortality, but that wasn't how he had felt for a long time. Mavis thought about her own immortality. She imagined what the world would be like a hundred years from now. Would people care if they found out I was a vampire? What would the entire world say if they knew that monsters were real? Would it be easier, just to be human?

The decision was going back and forth in her mind. Is this how Jonny felt? She thought. Of course this was exactly what he had felt when he had made his decision. Jonny had thought about immortality. He had thought long and hard about staying 25 for the rest of time. He had thought about what life as a vampire would be like. He used to think that immortality was something everyone should want, but as he got older and traveled the world with Mavis, he was struck with a thought one day, growing older is something special that I shouldn't just throw away. He had decided at that moment that becoming a vampire and being an immortal would no longer be something, he desired.

Mavis flew over the nearby city, landing in the shadows of a rooftop. She looked over the small brick chimney and onto the street where the city was alive and thriving in the warm evening air. She saw a family of five enjoying an ice cream as they walked home. She often thought about having children, she always thought that children were something that someone needed to feel whole. She had thought that starting a family with Jonathan was the only way they would be happy and stay happy. What if it wasn't a family of her own that she needed to be happy? She already had a fantastic family who loved and cared about her. She loved Jonny so much that it hurt when she thought about a future without him in it.

Mavis held her legs as tightly to her body as she could. She tried to focus on what she wanted. Did she want to give up everything she had been for the past 133 years? Or, did she want to become mortal and have a limited time left on earth? Mavis rested her head on her knees just as she noticed a shadow growing larger and coming down from the top of the roof to meet her. It was her father. He sat down silently beside her and placed his arm around her shoulder.

"Jonathan came to speak with me tonight. He said that you might need to talk to your father." Mavis felt as if she was going to cry, every emotion she had ever felt was boiling up inside of her. Feeling as if she might explode, Mavis put her head upon her fathers shoulder as she had so many times before.

"I just don't know what to do daddy. I need you to tell me what to do."

"I can't do that Mavy. This is something that you need to decide for yourself. This is something that only you can choose."

"I don't want to stop being me, but I don't want to stand on the sidelines while Jonny grows older and drifts away from me. I don't think I could be without him for the rest of eternity."

"I've done alright." Mavis lifted her head and looked at her father. She had never considered that he had been through this before. She watched her father as he turned his head to meet her eyes.

"Mavy, if I could have one more day with your mother, I would give anything. You have the rest of Jonny's lifetime together, no matter how long or short it is, it will never feel as if it was enough. I wish I could have spent eternity with your mother, but that isn't what happened. You have time now; take every opportunity to be happy with Jonny. Have the life together that your mother and I could never have had. It doesn't matter if he is a human and you are a vampire, all that matters is that you love each other and you are happy. Are you happy Mavy?"

"I've never been happier than I am when I am with Jonny." She smiled up at her father, gave him a long tight hug and knew immediately what she needed to do.