Hello there! Look who is back so soon! And guess what, this will be a really, really good one. This chapter will be full of Aidan & Anna goodness. And no, they will be no sex, at least not yet. And this will be more about their building a romance than anything else as well as her growing friendships with Josh and Sally. And as I've said in my last author's note, Aidan is more than willing to wait for Anna but, that doesn't mean he's gonna be entirely patient (or that Anna is gonna less nervous about it). And for you Josh fans (Joshettes, maybe?), this chapter will have some Josh/Nora stuff to hold you over. And Anna & Aidan will not date in this chapter but, soon.

And expect some great 'girl friend' humor with Sally and Anna. As well as similiar man humor with Josh and Aidan. YAY!

Read on and I own nothing (if I had given them the right address, Aidan should have been here sooner).

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"That was amazing." The slender blonde next to him murmured sleepily.

Josh looked over at his bedmate and smiled. The night had gone better than expected. Which had surprised him. He hadn't had sex since his 'change' and he quickly found that the wolf hadn't really changed his bedroom performance. Just made him more... aggressive, really.

Something he quickly found that Nora liked, a lot. Completely contrasting the controlling, tough doctor she was at the hospital, she had been more submissive than he had expected.

She was soft and pliant in his hands, following and giving into his every move.

Now, Josh had OCD in the worst way. And that made him annoyingly anal. And coupled with his pre-med education, made him also prone to memorizing every little detail. Something it seemed he also practiced in his sex life. Getting to know every single inch of his partner's body before getting to the grand finale.

Some women had liked that about him; others hadn't. Nora had loved it, though. And she had been more than extremely vocal about it, too.

Placing a hand on her naked hip, Josh began nuzzling the back of her neck as he spooned her, smiling when he heard her contented sigh.

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"Sally!"

Aidan's voice almost boomed inside the seemingly empty house as he slammed the door behind him, yanking off his leather jacket, tossing it carelessly on their louge chair.

The aforementioned ghost appeared and immediately kneeled next to him while he sat on the couch, an odd expression on his face. "Are you okay? I really didn't mean to scare you off with what I said earlier, it's just-"

It was then she realized the smile forming on her roommate's face. "What? Why are you smiling like that?"

"I asked her out." He looked straight ahead as he spoke, the smile disappearing quicker than it came.

"Her who? You asked who out?"

Aidan just glanced at her, a weirdly sheepish expression planted on his handsome face.

It took Sally exactly a minute to deduce who he meant. "Anna?"

He nodded slowly, meeting her eyes seriously. "Oh my god! Yes! I wish I could hug you! This is so great Aidan-"

The vampire waved her off. "Hold on a minute Sally. It's not for sure yet. She didn't even say yes." He nearly pouted as he slumped back onto the couch.

Sally paused in her happy dance. "Well, what did she say?"

Aidan heaved out a useless breath. "She said... maybe." And when he said the last word, it was said with disdain.

She tried cheering him up. "Oh, come on. 'Maybe' doesn't mean no, right?"

"It doesn't mean yes, either, Sally." He snapped back at her, crossing his arms over his built chest like a 5-year-old deprived of candy.

Sally rolled her eyes to the ceiling, smirking silently before smiling widely at her friend.

Sensing her eyes on him, he grumbled. "What is it, Sally?"

She began laughing through her next words. "Man, you've got it bad."

The laugh became louder as his pout persisted and he huffed, smacking his head against the couch edge.

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"You change your mind yet?"

Anna chuckled into her phone. It had been 2 days since Aidan had kissed her and then asked her out. She had been so overwhelmed by his visit in the first place that she wasn't sure she could say yes. The way he had held and embraced her. The emotions in his demeanor and kisses had scared her. It freaked her out that she could cause such a reaction out of someone like him.

And the fact that he hadn't forced sex out of her (even though she had, ahem... felt that he wanted to), made him seem too good to be true. Still, she was unsure. Stupid, really. She knew deep down she was probably gonna end up saying yes anyway. And why delay the inevitable, right?

But, she really wanted to see if he would wait for her. Not just sex but, her.

She wasn't gonna make him wait long. Honest. But, she was just testing out the waters. Playing hard to get. Her version of hard to get, to be safe.

"Well?"

She focused back on his voice on the other end. The voice of the man in her head. "Ah... define change?" She asked, a teasing lilt in her voice.

"Jesus, your killing me." He gave an exaggerated, overdramatic sigh.

"Well, I swear... it's not on purpose." Okay. Maybe a little.

As if reading her thoughts through the phoneline, he countered, his voice lower and slightly husky. "Liar. You know what your doing to me." His voice did bad things to her libido. "Confession's good for the soul. Come on."

Giggling lightly to cover her own reaction to his voice, she pushed back. "I will confess to no such thing."

He chuckled lowly. "Alright, have it your way then."

"Oh, I will." She said back smartly.

There was a brief pause. A pause filled with tension and new energy. "I really do wanna see you." His voice was now filled with longing and it made her ache in a bad way.

"I'm going to your neighborhood watch thing, remember? We can see each other then."

"No. I wanna see you." He sounded rougher. More raw.

"Aidan-"

"I'm not trying to pressure you into anything. I just..." He hesitated a minute and she could hear him sigh. "I find myself missing you." He chuckled gruffly before continuing. "Is that weird? I mean, I saw you two days ago-"

"Aidan-"

"I knew I had it bad for you before but, this is just-"

"Aidan-" She flushed beet red. She needed to make him stop talking. The last thing she wanted right now was for him to start confessing things she was definitely not ready to hear.

"Ridiculous. I think about you all the time-"

"Aidan, stop!" She needed mean to sound so harsh but, it had the intended effect. There was a long silence on the other end of the line. And if it weren't for the slight bustle of people she could hear in the background, Anna would have wondered if he had hung up on her.

Then he spoke again and he sounded sheepish, a characteristic she would have never associated with him. "I'm sorry. Too much?"

"A little bit."

There was more silence and she could just hear him thinking. "Does it frighten you? Knowing how much I want you?" There was no seduction in his voice. He suppiled the question like he was asking about the weather and that freaked her the hell out.

Since we're being honest here. "I'm not used to it."

There was another deep, dark laugh before he gently chided her. "Well, you better get used to it, then because I'm not going anywhere." A sounded like both a promise and a warning.

Anticipation fluttered in her stomach.

Before she could say anything, there was a litany of female voices on his end and he cursed under his breath before talking to her again. "Listen, I gotta get back to work. I'll see you soon?" He sounded hopeful and she bit back a smile.

"You will. Goodbye, Aidan."

Another pause. "Goodbye, beautiful."

And that was enough to make her scream at herself for ever resisting him.

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"Hi ya!"

Anna screamed as she jumped at the new voice in her bedroom, spinning to see Sally sitting with her legs crossed on her bed. The ghost's sudden appearance almost gave her a heart attack, although more out of surprise than anything else.

"Sally!" She clutched her red towel to her chest, trying to calm her erratic heartbeat.

The spirit smiled apologetically. "Sorry."

Sighing, Anna went back to her task of picking out an outfit for the evening. "So, what brings to my lovely abode?"

"I have it on good authority that a certain someone is freaking out about going to certain neighborhood watch meeting where a certain vampire will be waiting for that certain someone-"

"You know you suck at speaking in code, right?" She tossed a nude-colored pleasant blouse on her bed next to Sally.

She laughed at the pout on her friend's face.

"I'm sorry. Yes. I called Josh earlier to vent on my standing on with Aidan, where I'm sure you were listening-"

"I was not!"

"-listening like I'm sure you do. And now you are here to help my confidence and give me some wonderful piece of girly advice. Right?" She cocked an eyebrow at the ghost.

"Maybe." Sally grumbled.

She smiled. "Well, in that case, I hope you wouldn't mind helping me pick out an outfit, then." She gestured to her semi-full closet of garmets and shoes.

"Please, just because I can't change clothes doesn't mean I can't remember how to dress." And misted in front of her closet to help with the process.

Minutes passed as Anna began selecting things to wear and indulged in conversation with her new gal pal.

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Josh looked up from his cooking to see his friend freshly showered and dressed to impress. Well, dressed better to impress, that is. It almost made Josh jealous that Aidan didn't have to try so hard to nab attention. Even in his hospital scrubs, half the nursing staff (female and sometimes, male) went after him.

Of course, he knew now that Aidan had his attentions on a cetain she-wolf that was going to join in on the festivities of an oh-so fun neighborhood watch meeting. A neighborhood she wasn't even really a part of.

Josh had only invited her because for once, he wanted a person he actually wanted to talk to at these meetings. They bored him to tears sometimes and it helped that Aidan wanted to see her. When his best friend had told him he had asked her out, he wasn't really surprised. Thanks to Sally, he had gotten an inkling of his friend's feelings for Anna.

That and he hadn't been subtle about eyeing her the first night she had come to the house.

Despite his fiercely protective streak when it came to Anna, he trusted Aidan to treat her right. At least he hoped he would.

"You look like a male model." He cracked at his dark-haired friend as he came into the kitchen, grabbing some blood.

"And your a comedian." He flatly countered.

Josh leaned against the counters, observing the vampire. "Oh, man. You've got it bad."

Aidan finished squirting his blood into the mug he had grabbed. "Why does everyone keep saying that?"

The werewolf laughed as there was a knock at the door.

And so it begins.

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A/N: I hope I didn't disappoint you guys. There will be more of the neighborhood watch meeting in the next chapter and some more Aidan/Anna, because I know that's pretty much why your loving this (that and the adorable Josh as well the lovely and funny Sally!).

Feedback would be appreciated.