Lessons

Circe unlocked the door to her apartment and opened the door strolling in casually. Starting to take her jacket off she turned to Kol to ask him for his coat in return to put on her coat rack but instead cocked her head to the side in confusion when she saw her soul mate standing out in the hall way of her apartment building.

"You're going to have to invite me in, darling. I won't be able to able to come in otherwise." Kol said a confident smirk on his lips.

Circe raised an eyebrow before talking, "I'm guessing this is part of what you need to explain?" She put her coat on the rack before walking closer to her door.

"Kol, will you please come in?" She asked.

"Of course love." Strolling in like he owned the place (and he might as well have he is her soul mate) he pressed a quick kiss on her cheek and laughed a little as he face immediately turned a bright red.

(And wouldn't everyone at Camp Half-Blood laugh when they find out the super tom-boy Cici Jackson couldn't be reduced to silence, red faced, by the man that was destined for her.)

"It's kinda small, is it not?" Kol stated looking around the apartment.

"It's the only thing I can afford being on my own here in the city." Circe sighed as she finally took Kol's coat and hanging it up next to her own.

"Hmm…" Kol responded as he made his way over to the ratty couch she had once picked up from a flea market she had once gone to in New Jersey. Plopping down on it he made himself comfortable.

"Would you like some tea? I have green and chai?"

"Chai please darling, a little milk and two spoons of sugar."

"Got it." Grinning she made her way into the small kitchen attached to her living room and made herself and Kol the tea. Deciding to grab a plate of cookies (blue!) she walked back into the living room and placed to plate down and then went back to grab the tea and handed it to her soul mate.

"Blue cookies?" Kol asked when she returned the second time.

She grinned sheepishly. "It's an inside thing with my mom. Blue is my favorite color too. Look forward to many blue things."

"Will do poppet."

Kol grabbed a cookie and took a bite out of it making a noise of approval. Circe took one herself and ate it before finally asking the dreaded question.

"So… what are you?" She asked bluntly.

Kol stared her dead in the eyes before sighing running a hand through his short dark brown hair.

"If I told you I was a vampire would you believe me?"

"A vampire?" She asked breathlessly. She knew there was blood sucking monsters around, had in fact run into them herself a couple times, but an honest to Zeus Vampire?

"Wow, for real?" She asked.

"Better believe it darling." And then Circe watched as red crept into the whites of his eyes and the veins around his eyes darkened and became more pronounced. She gasped and moved over a bit so she could touch them. It was then when she was facing him and closer that she noticed his teeth were longer and sharper.

"You… you really are…"

"I'd understand if you are afraid of me." He said sadly. "Though I'm sorry to say you'll never be able to escape my line of vision. I'm very possessive and you are my soul mate…"

"I'm not scared of you Kol." She told him forcefully. "You are my soul mate. I know you'd never be able to purposely hurt me. You aren't the only one who isn't human. Or rather, full human in my case." She sighed.

"You're not human?"

"I'm half-human. I'm… actually a demigod." She said softly, her hands still on Kol's cheeks. Kol leaned in eyes fluttering closed as his face turned back to normal.

"Demigod? I didn't know the gods were around." Thunder boomed outside and Circe rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, they do. My father is Poseidon-The God of the Sea."

"So that's why you weren't bothered by how cold the water was when I first met you despite it being November."

Circe huffed. "Yeah that's part of it."

"How about this Circe—"

"Cici."

"—Circe, I'll tell you how I became a Vampire and you tell me all about your life as a Demi-god." Circe nodded as she moved close enough to Kol to lay her head on his shoulder. And that's just what she did.

"Okay."

Slipping an arm around his soul mate, Kol began his story.