Leanne is a human. Marcus is a vampire. When trouble comes to Oxford, Marcus will do anything to keep Leanne safe. Evolving feelings complicate things further - i suppose this is what happens when you fall for a vampire?

A bit of a weird mix up really? Basically Matthew and Diana go down to dinner with Philippe and Marcus is supposed to be there but isn't? Cue worried Matthew rushing to save his son from someone from the past... Really cute, Matthew babying Marcus. Out of character Philippe. Mentions of past abuse so rated T.

They say your life flashes before your eyes, but fifteen hundred years is a long time. At the end, his thoughts are full of the same thing they always are: Diana.

Episode tag to 1x06. Matthew is alone with his thoughts while Diana sleeps, and they are dark things indeed.

When he first met her he'd feared, making the same mistake as all the other blind fools. Blanketed in her warm, heavy scent, his desires convinced him that he would too easily break her, a fragile bloom of gold rooted unexpectedly in the Oxford cobbles.

A minute, two, to indulge the ache of his parting, then my eyes open and I send it back. I am not so easily drowned. (Diana in the rain, post 1x04)

When he gives his word that he won't harm her, it's less a promise to her than to himself.

He supposed he should be offended when the red headed witch with the nervy voice refers to him as that, but if he could calculate anything more likely to put steel in Diana's spine and send her walking over he can't account for it. Matthew's thoughts on taking Diana home during 1x03