Oh patient readers, I have my rough draft developed enough to announce that things get steamy in chapter ten. Excites! Next update 6/16.

MBAV fan66: I'm looking forward to writing about Rory's mayhem :-D I am making Jane's personality a little like Evelyn's. I figure it make sense now that Evelyn is teaching her magic. I also have plans to delve into vampire urges more, but not for a while yet. So many plans :-p

"Sarah!" Ethan screeches, dumbfounded that his best friend just attacked his girlfriend. As quick as he hops out of bed, Benny bodily blocks him. A wall of chest and shoulder pushing him back till his shins hit the metal frame of the trundle.

"She vamped out!" Benny explains, resisting Ethan's attempts to shove him off. "You're bleeding!" Benny continues, which apparently is the preamble to Benny shoving his fingers in Ethan's mouth.

"Beeny," Ethan garbles angrily, batting at his arms. He can't even see Sarah anymore.

"Abluere vulnus vampiric tactus. Sanare vulnus quod feci," Benny barks out, pinching the puncture on Ethan's lip. His aggressively clumsy fingers inflame Ethan's injury, but the incantation sears like a hot nail jammed into his face.

Ethan hisses in a sharp breath of pain. Fast healing is a deep sting that whites over your vision and makes it difficult to sit still. Being subjected to the well intentioned torture only infuriates Ethan further.

"Get off!" Ethan shoves Benny off. The spell caster steps back, his eyes darting back and forth between Sarah and Ethan, assessing the situation. He holds his bloody fingers away from his body.

Sarah's fine. Standing a little hunched over with her hands up in a placating gesture. Wary, but clearly not injured. Ethan doesn't want to let go of the anger.

"Ethan, Benny's right." Sarah's calming voice strikes Ethan as condescending. "I lost control and that's dangerous," Sarah reasons. "In fact we probably always play it a little too dangerous when we get intimate."

"Always?!" Benny sounds mildly terrified, his eyeballs saucers in his putty face.

Ethan glares at him. Out of all the things wrong in Ethan's life, a couple small nicks and cuts are nothing compared to the implication that he wouldn't be allowed to kiss Sarah.

Sarah, for her part, looks sheepish.

"So…" Benny looks supremely uncomfortable and also extremely reluctant to leave. "On a scale of Fluttershy to Kylo Ren how likely is necking going to turn into necking?" Benny emphasizes the second 'necking' with a fang-biting hand gesture.

"Uh…" Sarah hedges, brows furrowing. Ethan rolls his eyes at Benny's antics. "You know I would never hurt Ethan," Sarah answers finally.

"Remember the time I accidentally love-potioned all the girls in school? And when it wore off you tried to kill us?" Benny asks.

"Right, 'accidentally,'" Sarah mocks. "But that wasn't me that tried to kill you, that was the magic."

"And what if you were really hungry? Today is your feeding day." Benny asks.

Sarah frowns. "I can't stop the fangs, but I never want to bite him!" her voice laced with indignation.

"I know you're a good guy!" Benny replies. Ethan wonders if he really does. "But like maybe we should set up precautions…" Benny rubs the back of his neck nervously.

"Like what?" Ethan snaps challengingly, spinning around to face Benny. His foot slips on the blanket hanging off his bed. Ethan saves himself with a quick step backward-

"FUCK!" Ethan yelps. "Jegus fucking fuck." Ethan is yelling and he doesn't care. Ethan balances on one foot to knock off the lipstick red plastic block with the sharpest corners.

Defeated Ethan just sits on the ground.

Benny shrugs, which must have been a signal for Sarah because her arms wrap around his sunken frame. She nuzzles into his back affectionately. Benny slouches down against the dresser, sitting obliquely from the lovers. If he pushed his socked foot out, he would bump Ethan's toes.

"I'm fine," Ethan announces unnecessarily. He only stepped on a Lego.

His friends have nothing to say that that.

"I guess we don't need to borrow trouble," Benny says. "Obviously Sarah doesn't want to hurt you and if it hasn't been an issue yet, then I won't worry about it"

Sarah more thoroughly wraps herself around Ethan, like a cuddly boa constrictor. Sarah was never mad.

"Yeah, thanks, Benny," Ethan answers. His "I forgive you" to Benny's "I'm sorry."

"Benny?" Sarah queries, her chin hooked over Ethan's shoulder so she can see Benny.

"Yeah?"

"Will you sleep with Ethan?" Sarah asks earnestly. Ethan chokes on spit.

"Uh…" Benny stalls. The corners of Benny's eyes crinkle mischievously.

"Ethan needs someone to help keep him calm during the seer dreams. And it can't be me," Sarah digs a golden nail into chest, the finger bowing the wrong direction, before she turns it to point at Benny. "So I think it should be you."

Ethan hides his face in a hand, knowing full well that both of his companions could see the flustered coloring of his ears.

"Sure," Benny agrees immediately. "What do I do?" Of course Benny wouldn't bother to wait to hear what he was agreeing to first.

"Just sleep with him," Sarah replies easily. "No funny business required," Sarah teases. "Although Ethan said that cuddling helps."

That is not what Ethan said. Ethan tries to communicate as much with poignant raised eyebrows, although twisting strains his neck.

While the expression is lost on Sarah, Benny jumps on the opening. "Aww does little Teethan need some cuddles?" He bites his bottom lip in a way he means to be condescending, but could easily be flirtatious.

"Not like cuddle, just… Uuhhhgg," Ethan buries his head in hands again; Benny outright laughs at him.

"Sure baby, you can snuggle up with the B-man" Benny coos, seductively stroking Ethan's arm. Now Sarah is laughing too. So unfair.

"It's just that physical contact is really grounding," Ethan justifies before remembering that his original point he had tried to make to Sarah had nothing to do with physical contact. The words ring true though.

"Ouch is that all I am to you? Physical contact?" Benny feigns hurt, his hand over his heart. Evil bastard.

Sarah interrupts the torment train before they get too far away from the original question, "So that's the plan then? Sleep with Ethan to help him through the prophecy dreams?"

"Yeah, sure," Benny says, fidgeting. "I mean I want to help Ethan, so no big deal."

The day is quiet around them, cementing the sense of calm that has settled around the three friends. Outside a bird calls.

"Good," Sarah says, "I am really glad Benny is there for you. And honestly I'm not too surprised. You guys are very touchy-feely, you know for guy friends." Sarah explains. Benny shifts away from Ethan.

"I mean it's not a big deal!" Sarah tries to backpedal, but it's too late. Now both boys are embarrassed.

Tune in next time for what might be science