A/N: Please see separation anxiety's note but to sum it up I couldn't update cause I was gone.

Trillinka—wow uh… I don't want to lose my sneaky author persona here but if you could just go watch the movie again or something so I don't actually have to tell you that would be awesome. It just didn't occur to me that some one would not know that 'cause I'm such a comic nerd.

The rain falling in the woods was cold and the wind made Seleena shiver. Ok so what if she couldn't get hypothermia, so what if she was covered in hair from head to toenail and everything in between, so what if she was naturally cold. The weather was brutal!

Logan seemed to agree, but he never missed a session. "You tired of tag yet?" he asked, leaning against a tree. The rain beat down and made the smoke from his cigar sticky.

"A little, yeah." she said, fighting the urge to huddle next to him for warmth. "But what're we gonna do?"

"Figure we'd hunt something other than each other this time." He snuffed out his cigar and threw it to the ground, mingling tobacco with the falling maple leaves.

"I'm not so sure… I mean who else could we fight?" she asked trying hard to ignore his obvious meaning.

"Nah, no fighting. There are deer on the other side of that fence" he said motioning past the area in which they usually practiced. "We'll hunt there."

"Logan," good right name, "I… I'm not…"

"Look Darlin' I'm tryin' to be nice! I'm not a fool, I can tell a hungry person when I see one, and you're damn near starving!"

"I've been eating." She protested mildly, embarrassed that he knew.

"A rat is not a meal." He told her calmly and strangely it seemed as though he spoke from experience.

"How did you--?"

"Not many things get by me. You smell like rats now, and not pigs blood like when you first got here. Plus, you've gotten skinny. Now I won't let you starve to death so we're going hunting! Besides it looks like you'd be good hunter. I'd like to see it."

They hopped the fence and started off across a field. "Who owns this land?"

"Hell if I know." Logan shrugged. "I just figure…" he was cut off by Seleena's sudden stop and a militant gesture telling him to keep silent. His eyes asked her what was going on.

Her eyes were fixed on a spot about two yards away, just into the trees, but the rain what keeping down any and all scents and pitter patter, blocking out noise from that distance. Slowly, silently Seleena rose off the ground and pointed while gliding smoothly. Then Logan could see her, a doe standing just past the tree with her head sticking out in to the clearing, munching overgrown grass. He nodded signaling for her to go ahead. She closed her eyes and furrowed her brow, then shook her head. If she fed off this small doe it would surely die, and she would need more blood. Completely full or starving were her only options. "Yours" she mouthed back as she landed just as quietly as she had taken off and watched Logan work. It was much like when James had hunted. The man in front of her, (they had to be the same body but they were little alike) was much more skillful. He showed no intent of harming the animal. The way he moved, delicately, thought the high grasses, stopping when he reached the trees, using the brush for cover, staying downwind. Everything about him spoke of a careful hunter that wanted to make no mistakes. But the leisurely pace made it clear that he did not need this food to live or even really want it.

He waited in utter silence for a good 30 minutes with out so much as yawning. Suddenly he darted forward and tapped the does on the hindquarters with just the tips of his fingers. The doe ran off as fast as she could, startled beyond reason for having the man there for half and hour.

He smiled staying under the same tree for dryness. Seleena caught up in a few seconds and smiled back under here hood. She felt the fabric shift and knew Logan wouldn't miss it. "Don't care for venison?" she asked leaning against the bark absorbing his heat.

"'Ro wouldn't stand for me killin' with meat on the table at home." He said and she watched his aura flicker and heard his heart skip a beat.

Seleena didn't know if she should be hurt. She'd always been the second love, with every one. James had had Rose before her, and Beastboy had had Terra. She didn't blame them. Who would choose a vampire over a warm blooded human? Some one who's alive and there to keep you warm at night. She swallowed her pride. "Then I really shouldn't be out here. There's no need for me to be hunting. I'm doing all right." She really thought she was getting better at lying thought her teeth.

"And I guess you got tons of blood and home? And you're not taking it outta anyone, so go find your self an animal!"

She stepped away from his tone. "Logan I-I can't believe that you would even think that I would consider hurting anyone in the mansion! I'd kill myself first!"

"Look, I'm not saying you bite any one!" he said defensively. "I don't know what you think you have to do penance for but starvin' yourself won't help anyone and you're scaring away the deer so go find one. I don't know why I even care! There's something… never mind just go find something!"

She threw her arms up. "FINE!" Birds scattered and the rain stopped. Logan raised an eyebrow at that and Seleena shifted. She sincerely hoped that was beauty's doing. Controlling the weather takes some power; she had thought she didn't have that anymore.

"Huh" was Logan's only comment. Seleena arranged her legs in the lotus position and closed her eyes as she floated ever so slightly above the tops of the wet grass.

The world around her went black. Then slowly, light appeared thought her eyelids. Gradually the outline of a male appeared, standing next to here, the image formed in small red lines. The out line filled in as her inner sight locked onto the moving blood. This animal would be easy prey. He wasn't moving and she was hungry. His scent was familiar but in her primal state she couldn't be bothered to place it. A voice whispered to her that there were larger, more satisfying meals in the woods tonight.

Her focus shifted from the man, he would survive the night. Smaller things flitted in and out of Seleena's panoramic range, birds or squirrels, maybe a skink, not her concern. Finally, she found what she'd been searching for, several yards away there was a large being… bigger than the man next to her. Four legs mammal, probably a deer. This was her dinner, maybe for the week.

The vamiress was off like an arrow form a bow. Her inner eye now formed a tunnel ending at her target. That large male seemed to be tailing her. She was almost annoyed. Then she had to swerve form her path because of a tree. With no time for the man to catch her or scare off her prey, she was there. The red form started to run but she grabbed the beast and sank her fangs deep in the animals throat threw her hood pricing the skin. Spot on the jugular. The thickest red line.

Seleena's mind returned as the blood flowed in to her system. Logan stood a few feet back watching the buck wither under Seleena while she supported it. A bit like a friend, it was a twisted rendering of an embrace. After a few minutes the deer's eyes rolled back into it's skull and Seleena allowed the caress to fall. There was still a little blood left bit the animal's heart could not longer pump it to the wound. It was just as well, when Seleena peeped back her now torn, blood stained, ruined, hood she glowed against the twilight with the fresh life running thought her. She couldn't hold any more and for the first time in too long, if you pricked her, she too would bleed.

The blood rush made her giddy like a sugar high.

"Not bad. I'd expected more skill less speed." Logan commented form behind.

Seleena wiped the last of the crimson liquid form her face with her sleeve. With all that energy coursing thought her she couldn't control herself. At this point in time, if you ever happen in to she her in this state, she would tell you ever her most inner secret with out a second thought because she has the mind of a four year old. So she couldn't help but respond, "Why are you surprised? You taught me how to hunt James!" After a split second she clapped her hand over her mouth.

Logan looked at her in shock. "wha'd you just call me!"