"You don't have to keep apologizing for biting me," Kai told Victoria as she kept bringing him cookies late on Halloween night. "I liked it!"

"How could you like it?" Victoria asked. "You could have been killed! You may be annoying sometimes, but you don't deserve to die for it."

"Well, you're one of the few people in my life that has that opinion," Kai remarked. "How do you think I would be as a vampire?"

"Why do you want to know?" Victoria asked. "What's wrong with just being a warlock?"

"I'm not stupid," Kai said. "You know that James is out for my blood and that the second I leave here, I'll be powerless. Vampire powers are some that I could have that wouldn't be taken away. So…what do you think?"

"I think you'd be a really good vampire, honestly," Victoria admitted. Then she giggled. "I can just imagine the look on my grandfather's face if I brought you home and he tried to kill you only for you to just pop up alive again."

"All right," Kai said and pulled off his shirt before offering her his neck. "Let's do it then. Go ahead and bite me."

"No!" Victoria shook her head. "I'm not gonna do that."

"Why?" Kai asked. "You just said it would be funny."

"It would, but I'm not sure you know exactly what you're asking for," Victoria told him. "I want to make sure you know exactly what you're giving up before I turn you."

"I know I'd be giving up feeling like some fragile doll you can't do certain things with cause it'll kill me if you do," Kai replied. "And isn't that in itself a good enough reason to make the change?"

"It would be," Victoria nodded. "Except…"

"Except what?" Kai asked. "Whatever is standing in the way of this, just tell me and we'll get it taken care of."

"Well," Victoria blushed a little. "Before we turn you, I'd like…I'd like to have a family, and you can't do that if you're a vampire."

"You want to have a family with me?" Kai asked in shock. "Why?"

"Cause I won't be leaving you to have a relationship with anyone else any time soon, right?" Victoria reasoned and pushed her dark hair out of her eyes. "What other choices do I have besides you? And though you like to act like you're so bad, I think you've got a good side too."

"I might," Kai agreed. "But that's not exactly a good reason for us to have a kid."

"You might change your mind in time," Victoria said. "You have that. It's not like I'm gonna force you to make me pregnant now. That would be crazy."

"Yes," Kai nodded and zapped up a beer, which he chugged for a bit before coming up for air. "Yes, it would." He paused and held the bottle out to her. "You want a drink?"

"Sure," Victoria nodded. "Normally I wouldn't be old enough, but what the hell?"

After the bottle was empty, Kai threw it away and went to get another one. "All right," he said when he sat down again. "Tell me about vampire stuff, so I know what I'm getting into when it's time for me to turn."

"Well, all right," Victoria replied. "Surely I don't have to tell you everything, though. What do you know already?"

"I know about the blood-drinking and the not being able to be killed," Kai replied. "And I know I'll have to kill people to stay alive. What else do I need to know?"

"Nothing, I suppose," Victoria replied. "I suppose that as nutty as you are now, nothing will faze you."

"No, no it won't," Kai smiled and came to take her in his arms. "What's your excuse against turning me now? Other than the 'having kids' thing?"

"You could be too dangerous to be a vampire. You'd do too good of a job," Victoria said. "I want to wait until you've chilled out a bit."

"Well, look at you, coming up with an answer for everything," Kai told her. "But in spite of that, you will turn me eventually, right?"

"Yes," Victoria nodded. "I'm sure there'll be a time where you'll be powerless and lost and you'll need a little pick me up. That's when I'll turn you."

"There'll never be a time like that," Kai replied. "I promise you. So you might as well just turn me now. Or at least bite me. Please?"

"No, biting you is bad," Victoria said patiently. "It takes you time to recover, and as we've already seen, I have a tendency to go too far if I'm not careful. But, I suppose…I suppose you could try some of my blood if you wanted, just to get used to tasting it."

Kai smiled widely. "All right. I'll accept that. It's not like I haven't tasted it and enjoyed it before." He paused and then went to get a knife. "Let's start now. Perfect thing to do on a Halloween night, don't you think?"

"Yeah," Victoria nodded. "I suppose I do." Then she zapped on a black bikini. "To give you more places to pick from when you're deciding where to get blood," she explained when Kai raised an eyebrow. "I think it wouldn't hurt to give you options."

"You're taking this request of mine remarkably well," Kai said as he admired the sharpness of the knife he held and she lay down on her back on the floor. "Anyone else would be terrified."

"Well, you have to remember," Victoria said. "I'm not just anyone. I'm someone who's grown up around stuff like this my whole life, so why the hell would I be scared of it?"

Kai cuffed her just for the heck of it and then gently made shallow scratch marks around her belly button with the tip of the knife just so he could hear the little squeaks come out of her mouth. "Did that hurt?" He asked.

"No," Victoria shook her head. "I'm fine." She smiled. "Nothing really hurts me. You do what you will. I don't mind." Her tongue then peeked out and licked her bottom lip.

"Now you stop that!" Kai cried, plunging the knife just under her breast. She screamed, which quickly turned into laughter. "Oh, that was great!" She cried, even as blood seeped from the wound. "Go and do it again!"

"I don't know if I need to," Kai remarked and then licked at the wound. "I seem to have all the blood I need right here."

When he finally decided that he'd had enough, he smiled at her, her blood still clinging to his lips. "You taste so good," he said, undoing her cuffs, taking her hand and sucking on her fingers. Then Victoria took the knife and sliced his palm. "What was that for?" he asked.

Victoria giggled and then licked his blood off the knife. "You think you're the only one who needs some of the red stuff today?" She asked. "I do too, and I figure now is the best time to get it." She sat up and soon had him pinned to the floor after she'd ripped his shirt off. "I'm hungry," she told him, showing her teeth.

"I know," he told her, his breathing picking up. "But aren't you afraid of hurting me?"

"No," she shook her head, leaning down so that her silky dark hair brushed his bare chest and made him feel very aroused. "Not if you're not afraid of being hurt."

"No," Kai shook his head. "Do whatever you want. I can always take revenge later."

"Oh, good," Victoria giggled and clapped. First, she kissed him, biting his lip and licking up the blood with her tongue. Then she licked his neck and whispered in a breathy voice, "don't worry; I'll be gentle." He waited for her to bite his neck, which she did, and let up a lot quicker than she had before.

"I thought you said you were hungry," he told her.

"There's more than one place on a body to get blood," she explained. She then took a little from his wrist and even some from his inner thigh before finally bringing her head up, a smile on her lips. "How do you feel?" She asked, stroking Kai's face.

"I feel so good," he said as he felt her slip her hand under his pants and stroke him. "You have no idea how good."

"Wonderful," Victoria said. Then whispered in his ear, "Trick or treat."


"I'm surprised you wanted to come with me to Selina's birthday party," Klaus told Amy the next evening. "I thought you wanted to stay away from people for now."

"I do, but Selina's not 'people'," Amy said. "If anyone will understand what I'm going through without pushing too much, it's her. And…thanks for your help also. This might not surprise you, but I find you much more comforting to be around than Kol or Margot and Rosalie probably wants to do more with her life than look after me."

"It's really not a problem," Klaus said. "How are you managing?"

"To be completely honest, not all that well," Amy sighed. "I know this is my lot in life now, but when I got out of the shower this morning, I tried to turn on the hair dryer with my powers and then I remembered I didn't have any, so I kind of…had a breakdown."

"You did?" Klaus asked, pulling her to him and kissing her. "Did you talk to someone?"

"No," Amy shook her head. "I just cried it out. It turned out okay in the end. I'm better now."

"That's good," Klaus replied. "I'm happy for you. But you can still tell me anything. I'll be here for you night or day."

"I know you will," Amy nodded. "Thank you."

"Why do you think it's so hard for you this time?" Klaus asked. "It wasn't the first time. I remember that."

"Cause the first time, I didn't make the same goal I am now," Amy replied. "Now, I'm trying to embrace hunting so you and I are on the same level when it comes to that subject. Unfortunately, however, it's a lot harder than I thought."

"Just remember that humans are your prey now," Klaus told her. "No different than when humans kill cows for steak. And that if they caught you, they wouldn't hesitate to end your life."

"I suppose that is a good point," Amy remarked. Then she paused. "Maybe it's not even people that are making it hard to like hunting. "Maybe I don't like the taste of blood."

"Perhaps it's because you haven't tried the right kind yet," Klaus said, biting down on his wrist and holding it out to her. "Here, have some of mine."

And to Amy's surprise, she didn't have the hesitation that she normally did. She just pounced and soon, she was tasting blood that was much sweeter and more wonderful than anything to come out of a human. When she finally pulled away, she was grinning and showing blood-stained teeth. "That's wonderful," she told Klaus. "If I could just feed off of you all the time, everything would be perfect." She paused. "I wonder what your neck tastes like?"

Her eyes were shining and eager as they both undressed, kissing wildly before she pulled away and made a trail of kisses from Klaus' lips to his neck and then bit down again. She didn't hit a particularly juicy spot, but some blood spurted out into her mouth. She swallowed it, then sat back and took a deep breath. "Wow," she said. "Oh, my god."

Then she looked at Klaus. "Did I hurt you?" She asked. "I hope I didn't hurt you." She kissed his neck again, but this time, didn't bite down.

"Oh, no, love," Klaus told her as he held her and kissed her hair. "I'm fine. And I'm glad you are, too."