Hi!

Here I am with another chapter!

There's more 2 chapters I think and than the Epilogue...

I hope you'll enjoy! :)

(I do not own Nick nor Jeff)

When Jeff woke up Nick was still playing the piano, which gave him the feeling he had just slept for a few minutes and yet he felt well rested.

Jeff yawned and pulled his arms up to stretch his back, only noticing then how his muscles were sore from sleeping on the couch. The piano stopped and soon Nick was sitting on the couch beside Jeff.

"Hey! Slept well?" He asked smiling softly at Jeff.

"Yeah…" Jeff answered sleepily. "For how long did I sleep?" He asked rubbing his eyes and sitting up.

"You slept all night." Nick informed and pulled Jeff closer by his waist.

"And you played the piano all night?" Jeff asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes," Nick nodded smiling softly and closed the gap between him and Jeff to kiss him.

Jeff smiled against Nick's lips and kissed back gently, his hand moving up to tangle on Nick's dark hair tilting his head and pulling him closer deepening the kiss.

Nick started pulling them down, making Jeff lay down again and flipping them around so Jeff would be on top of him. Jeff's heart beat faster for a couple of seconds, Nick groaned and kissed Jeff harder pushing his tongue inside Jeff's mouth.

Jeff's brain was still fuzzy, and all that just made him feel like the room was spinning around them, if Jeff wasn't laid down he would probably be losing his balance right now.

But Nick leaned away, once again, it seemed like the vampire was in Jeff's mind and knew what to do next. "You should go eat," He said calmly resting his forehead against Jeff's.

"Not hungry." Jeff muttered but his stomach gave him away by making a completely not attractive loud growl.

Jeff blushed deeply as Nick chuckled. "Cute, but go eat, darling. We don't want you to pass out." He grinned.

Jeff was starting to hate this human needs and characteristics. Why did he need air? Or food? Or sleep? Why couldn't he be strong enough to handle Nick's strength? Why couldn't he be as fast as Nick? Why did he have to smell? Or blush? Why couldn't he control his heart? All that small human things were starting to annoy him.

Those small things were the only things that kept Nick and Jeff from having a normal relationship, in which Nick hadn't to worry about Jeff at all and Jeff didn't have to worry about dying every single second, even though now he trusted Nick and believed the vampire wouldn't hurt him much.

"You know that it's the fact that you're human, that your heart is still beating, that you breathe and blush, that made me fall for you in the first place, right?" Nick asked, and Jeff wondered if he also read minds or something like that, because how in hell would he know Jeff was thinking about that?

Maybe it had just been a coincidence? No, coincidences didn't work in here. It was on purpose. It was a bit creepy though.

"No, I didn't know." Jeff confessed. "You never told me the reasons why you fell for me." He said in a low tone.

"Maybe I'll tell you later," Nick smiled and gave a quick peck on Jeff's lips. "Now go eat." He said calmly gesturing with his head towards the general direction of the stairs that would lead Jeff to Nick's room and moving aside so Jeff could get up.

Jeff nodded and got up walking towards the stairs whining a little as his neck hurt from sleeping on the couch.

"Is everything alright?" Nick asked loud enough for Jeff's human ears to hear, glancing up at him with an eyebrow raised. Jeff shouldn't be in pain! The newer bites shouldn't hurt anymore.

"Just sore from the couch." Jeff mumbled as he climbed the stairs slowly.

"Oh," Nick wasn't on the couch anymore he was right beside Jeff.

Jeff jumped and yelped. "Would you stop appearing like that on me?" He said his blood still rushing in his veins due to the small scare. Jeff punched Nick's chest, positively sure that he had hurt himself more than Nick.

"I'm sorry." Nick bit his lip and chuckled as Jeff punched him. "Adorable." He mumbled under his breath, and the only reason why Jeff understood that was because he was staring Nick's lips.

Jeff huffed and continued his way, but before he knew his feet weren't touching the ground anymore. "Nick!" He yelped as he realised he was being lifted by the vampire.

Nick chuckled and grabbed Jeff closer. "What? I'm just trying to help," He grinned. "I'm sorry, I should have carried you to bed when you fell asleep, but I keep forgetting about these little human details…"

"Put me down." Jeff rolled his eyes. "I'll meet you downstairs after I've eaten."

"Um… No." Nick said and only put Jeff down when they arrived at the room. "Wait just a couple of seconds." Nick mumbled before disappearing and appearing a few seconds after with the bag from the supermarket.

"You're a show off." Jeff rolled his eyes and walked to the bed laying down and sighing relieved. "This bed is so comfortable." Jeff mumbled rolling onto his stomach.

Nick smiled at Jeff and walked to the bed. "What do you want to eat?"

Jeff sat up heavily, resting his back against the bed's headboard. "Just give me an apple." He shrugged.

Nick threw him an apple and Jeff caught it easily. Jeff ate it slowly. As the apple was finished Jeff threw the core to the bin and laid back on the bed.

"Turn around," Nick said calmly kicking his shoes off and walking to the bed.

Jeff raised an eyebrow at him. "What?"

"Come on, roll around!" Nick gestured with his hands for Jeff to roll so his back would be up.

Jeff kept his eyebrow raised but did as Nick said resting his head on his hands.

Nick sat on Jeff's lower back supporting his knees on his sides so he wouldn't put too much weight on Jeff's back, Jeff looked over his shoulder to him. "What are you doing?" He asked.

"Nothing, try to relax your muscles." He said running his hands from Jeff's lower back to Jeff's shoulders.

As Nick started rubbing Jeff's neck gently Jeff understood what he was doing. "That feels good." He muttered, his lips curling up in a smile.

Jeff didn't need to look at Nick to know he was smirking.

Nick continued to massage Jeff's neck, making him hum when he reached a spot that was in worse state.

Then after a while Jeff tried to turn around and with Nick's help he made it. Nick was looking at Jeff with an eyebrow slightly raised, Jeff just grinned and pulled him down for a kiss.

Nick smiled into the kiss. He broke apart after a while lying down beside Jeff puling him on top of him.

Jeff didn't need to move a muscle, when he found himself he was laid down on top of Nick. He leaned forward to kiss him again, running his tongue along his bottom lip.

At first Nick didn't open his mouth, he didn't want to go too far now, but he could sense Jeff just wanted a bit of fun, he wasn't in the mood for more, so it was okay.

Nick opened his mouth as Jeff started tracing random patterns along his bottom lip, Jeff slid his tongue inside the vampire's mouth, it was always kind of weird, but he would get used to it. Jeff ran his tongue through Nick's mouth exploring every corner of it.

After just a few more minutes of that Jeff leaned away to rest his head on Nick's chest breathing a little heavily, but has usual Nick's breaths were even, like nothing had happened.

Jeff started tracing patterns on Nick's arms with his fingers, his skin was smooth and it was neither cold nor hot, like the rest of him. But then Jeff noticed his skin had a weird thing on it and glanced at his arm, he had a burn? But didn't he heal himself?

"What's this?" Jeff asked quietly.

"Remember when I got burn with the sun?" Nick asked calmly.

"Yes," Jeff answered, a feeling of guilt washing over him. "I thought you vampires could heal." He muttered.

"No, we can't. Any mark that we do in our afterlife stays there for the rest of the eternity."

"That sounds permanent." Jeff mumbled feeling more guilty, it was something truly stupid to say, of course, eternity was permanent but sometimes things like this escaped Jeff's mouth before he could think if they were intelligent things to say or not.

"It is permanent." Nick said quietly. "But don't worry, it doesn't hurt anymore."

"I'm sorry," Jeff looked up at Nick and gave him a quick kiss.

"It's fine, really." Nick said stroking Jeff's hair gently and smiling a bit, the fact that Jeff cared made him feel warm inside.

"I'm still sorry." Jeff mumbled and leaned down to kiss Nick's scar gently.

Nick smiled at him and kissed his hair.

As Jeff had his breaths even again, they decided to come back to the living room, where even if the curtains were all firmly closed it was slightly brighter than the room. They both sat on the couch and Nick reached for a book to read but before he could Jeff called to his attention again.

"Nick? Can I ask something?" Jeff asked turning to him, resting his elbow on the back of the couch and his head on his hand. Nick looked at him hesitantly. "I swear it's nothing bad." Jeff assured him.

"Yeah, sure, go ahead." Nick said putting the book down again and looking over at Jeff.

"How do you buy stuff if you don't have money?" Jeff asked casually and Nick burst into laugh. "What? It's a legit question!"

Nick continued to laugh. "Really? With so much you could worry about you go for, how do I buy stuff?" Nick said still chuckling lightly.

"Come on! I am curious! Do you just run out of there without anyone seeing you? Or you rob the bank first and actually pay for the stuff? What?" Jeff asked getting more curious.

"You really want to know?" Nick turned completely to Jeff with a grin on his lips.

"Yes, that's why I asked!"

"Take your shirt off." Nick said still grinning.

Jeff raised an eyebrow at him. "No." He didn't want to, the room was slightly cold and he didn't see a point on doing that.

Nick's grin grew wider as he moved closer to Jeff. "Why Jeffie?" He asked in a deep soft seductive tone, his face expression changing completely.

Jeff's eyes were fixed on the vampire's face. He never before looked like this, he never before looked this less human, not even when he was angry he looked this less human. He looked like a God or something like that, Jeff never thought it was possible to look this perfect. His lips were curved into an inviting grin and his hazel eyes were looking deeply into Jeff's. "I-I... Don't want to?" He tried and swallowed. "It's cold."

"But I can warm you up, Jeffie." Nick said and pushed the blond locks out of Jeff's sight, running his fingers through his jaw to his lips. "Your lips look delicious." He said staring down at them and moving in slowly but stopping still quite far from Jeff. "Come on, Jeff, take it off." He asked softly.

"O-okay," Jeff stuttered out and moved his hands to his shirt.

Nick's expression lightened and he looked 'himself' again. "Stop it." He chuckled lightly, stopping Jeff before he actually took his shirt off. "Don't need to do it."

Jeff blinked a couple of times and shook his head lightly. "What the hell?" Jeff mumbled.

"That was me flirting. Vampire's style." Nick winked.

"So you flirt with people until they give you what you need?" He asked after a while still trying to get over this.

"Basically, yes." Nick shrugged and reached for the book he had tried to read before.

Jeff stood there for a few minutes to get over the initial shock. And there he felt something inside him, he couldn't quite tell what that was. But it was some kind of anger?

No, it wasn't anger, it was jealously. But Jeff Sterling wasn't a jealous guy! No, never! It just really upset him to know Nick was flirting with someone else once in a while. Someone who wasn't Jeff. Sure, Jeff didn't like to feel that helpless when Nick did that to him, but Nick was his and he didn't want anyone else to think Nick was theirs instead.

"Are you alright?" Nick asked as he glanced up at Jeff.

"I'm fine." Jeff said between his teeth.

"Are you sure you look-" Nick paused. "Oh, Jeff, there's no reason to feel jealous!"

"I am not jealous!" Jeff would never admit that out loud, and for once he wished the vampire couldn't read him this well, was his face that expressive?

"Then what is going on?" Nick asked softly.

"I just don't like the idea of you flirting with some random girl or boy or whatever." Jeff mumbled twisting his hands on his lap and looking down at them.

"Oh Jeff… You seriously don't have to worry, it's a woman, I'm gay. And besides my eyes are all turned to someone pretty especial." He smiled and tried to meet Jeff's eyes.

Jeff let their eyes meet. "Me?" He asked just to be sure. It was a stupid question. It also sounded like a stupid question.

"Of course silly! Who else? The rat that lives downstairs?" Nick rolled his eyes. "That would be creepy."

Jeff chuckled at his own stupidity and turned to Nick to kiss him lightly. Nick kissed back until he pulled back. "Besides with her I just have to say 'Oh I forgot my wallet, again!' making puppy eyes and she'll let me go. I like to do it, it's funnier than to just steal the stuff."

"Poor girl though." Jeff muttered.

Nick rolled his eyes and chuckled before returning to his book once again.

Jeff remained still for a while but then he got bored. He tried to glance over Nick to the book he was reading, raising an eyebrow at the foreign language. "What the hell…?" He mumbled.

"Latin." Nick explained.

"You speak Latin?" Jeff looked up at Nick.

"I am not American, Jeff. I am Italian. Latin was common there. At least, while I lived there…"

"Nice…" Jeff nodded. "Say something in Latin or Italian, please?" Jeff asked looking at Nick with his puppy eyes.

"No," Nick shook his head. "I haven't used either of them for more than two hundred years, my accent must be… A misery." Nick said looking up at Jeff.

"Oh, come on! It's not like I am going to notice! Please?" Jeff tried again.

"No." Nick said firmly turning his attention to the book once more hoping he would be able to read it at once.

Jeff crossed his arms over his chest and pouted, waiting for Nick to notice. But he didn't, Nick kept his impassive expression and his eyes never left the book again.

Jeff felt like a little child, but he didn't care, he was bored, so why couldn't Nick just pay attention to him for a while? An idea crossed Jeff's mind. He didn't know if it would work, but it was worth the shot, right?

Jeff sighed loudly to see if Nick would notice him. No reaction from the vampire. Jeff sighed again louder.

It seemed like Nick had tuned Jeff out because he didn't even blink.

Jeff let his head fall onto Nick's lap. "Nicky!" He whined.

Nick took a few seconds to finish the book, close it and put it aside. "Yes?" He asked looking down at Jeff and leaning a bit down.

A smile grew on Jeff's face. "Speak Italian." He said excitedly.

Nick rolled his eyes playfully, smirking. "Seriously? You're still with that? I won't speak Italian!" He said.

"Please? For me." Jeff made his best puppy eyes.

Nick shook his head. "No," He said leaning more down to close the gap between them and kiss Jeff, but Jeff moved his face away.

"Nu-uh, speak Italian first." Jeff grinned.

"Jeff, I can make you kiss me if I want." Nick smirked looking down at Jeff's lips.

"Not if I close my eyes and cover my ears."

"That way I only have to lean down again."

Jeff pouted. "Just a few words, please!" Jeff gave him his puppy eyes again.

Nick sighed and rolled his eyes. "Ti amo." Nick said with a smile on his face and leaned down to kiss Jeff.

"That sounds nice, what does it mean?" Jeff asked as Nick's lips were almost touching his.

"It means, shut up and kiss me." Nick said playfully before connecting their lips.

Jeff kissed Nick back bringing him closer by the back of his neck. The kiss quickly turned to a passionate one.

Nick moved them both so he would be in a more comfortable position, with Jeff on top of him. Nick slid his tongue inside Jeff's mouth even without permission making Jeff moan lightly as their tongues met. Nick pulled Jeff closer by his waist but then he pulled away from the kiss.

"I'm sorry, I didn't feed last night, I have to be careful." Nick muttered looking up at Jeff, and for once Nick looked like he could be breathless, but his breaths were even as always.

"It's okay," Jeff gave him a small smile. "I understand." Jeff assured, he didn't want Nick to feel bad.

Nick stared at Jeff for a few seconds, he seemed to be in an internal battle, Jeff knew this because it wasn't the first time he saw Nick like this. Jeff was about to ask the vampire if he was alright but before he could Nick crashed their lips together again.

Jeff gasped lightly before kissing back but once more Nick leaned away too soon.

"Go upstairs now, please." Nick mumbled. "I'll meet you in a minute."

Jeff nodded and got up running upstairs.

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