"You stupid little idiot." Anya exclaimed as she hit already bloody Connor again. "Didn't they warn you what I do to men who go searching for me?"

"I did" Tom said as she snuck up behind Anya, grabbed her necklace, and smashed it. "Now will you please come home to Sunnydale? You must miss it just a little."

Still dazed by the destruction of her amulet, Anya ran deeper into the dark alleyway.

"Guess not" Tom continued watching the disappearing figure. Then turned to Connor, "You are so luck I can track you." And headed back towards the cab.

"Tom, wait." Connor gasped still a bloody heap on the floor. If Tomorrow had not had super hearing, she would not have heard it.

"Sorry, I'm preoccupied with my hectic schedule. I am already late to SNL, but if you feel like continuing the awkward, 'I don't know how to break up with you' speech at dinner I am free then. Hey maybe you can call my dad and he can tell you how to do it, since he's running every other aspect of our relationship."

Connor groaned as he got up. He knew Tom was just mad about him being scared of their relationship, but he had never felt like this before, he did not want to make a mistake, but what if slowing down was the mistake. "I'll think about this over a shower," he decided as the headed back to the hotel.

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"Connor, I'm sorry for the way I snapped at you earlier" Tom exclaimed as she came running into the hotel room around six that evening. "If you really want to slow things down I can accept that."

"No Tom, I never should have let your dad get to me like that."

"But my dad can get really scary and persuasive. He probably is scared as hell right now that someone is take his little girl away from him and there's not a thing he can do about it. It is not that he does not like you, he loves you, it's that he knows you're the right guy and it scares him, because I'll start drifting further and further away from him and me and mom are all he has."

"But I'd never want to break the bond between you and your dad."

"I know that, but I also know that you've been feeling left out of my life a lot lately, and I wanted to do something to prove that we can survive everything, including my dad."

"What?" Connor asked suspiciously since he knew the glint in Tom's eyes meant serious trouble for him or somebody else, usually both.

"I want you to bite me."