Weiwei brought her scolding hot coffee up to her lips. Her anger suppressing the pain she was feeling.

"I mean, how could he say that to begin with? Jump out a window!" She slammed the empty cup down scaring Hao Mei. Shanshan was nodding her head.

"Feng Teng did the same weird thing to me as well. He asked to expose my neck and allow him to drink from it. In a book shop! I thought the older you are the more sense of decency." Both sets of eyes landed on Hao Mei who merely looked at them with wide eyes.

"What is it?" Weiwei asked.

"And you two didn't do what they asked?" Both of them scoffed.

"Of course not!"

"I would never!" A course of anger hit him.

"You do realize that Vampires have compulsion. They were trying to compel you into doing something yet you still didn't do it."

"What?" Shanshan gripped her mug tighter. Her knuckles turning white.

"Its why vampires have never been caught or outed before they wanted to be. They can quite literally make everyone forget they were even with you. Wipe a memory, make you more complicit. Easy for them to get blood, less fighting. If vampire wanted to make you think you could breath underwater they could do it. All they have to do is make eye contact and put in some sort of 'force' or something in order to make you do what they wanted you to do."

"Like jedi mind tricking?" Weiwei put out.

"Not like jedi mind tricking...okay maybe like jedi mind tricking." Hao Mei smiled, turning to Shanshan a sudden realization coming over him. "That's why the German's couldn't one up you. You video called with them and their compulsion wasn't working. Thats how you find out they were stealing, the figures didn't match with their words." Shanshan looked at Weiwei. Her hand reaching out for hers. No matter what, vampires could never make them do anything they didn't want to do.

"Why can't be compelled though?" Shanshan asked. Hao Mei shrugged.

"I don't know. For that you might need to ask the vampires who were trying to get you do things. You two have a super power." He smiled into his latte. "Use it wisely."

Weiwei knew he could sense her. If not he could definitely smell her, hes proven on multiple occasions that he was aware of her presence long before she ever made it to his office door. She had gotten a few looks from the night shift vampires. A concerned look from Yu Banshan who she merely brushed aside, telling him she wasn't quitting. She knew she couldn't go to bed until she had answers. Weiwei had already waited a week, without getting him to talk to her.

"Miss Bei?" She heard Xiao Nai call from the other side of the door. Taking in a deep breath in, she entered more determined then when she had arrived. His eyes weren't even on her when she entered. They were focused solely on the papers and stack of files she had laid out and labeled for him earlier that day. "Can I help you?"

"Why haven't you asked to see me since...since the incident?" He flipped another folder open, going through a spreadsheet.

"I didn't need to see you. Your work as been perfect and there was no need to speak to you. Also I've been keeping my distance, just how I promised."

"I never asked you to keep your distance, I asked that you forget it happened."

"Everytime we seem to meet something bad happens to you. I thought it would have been in yours and my own best interest to not be near you." His voice was more mater of fact then it should have sounded. Weiwei sat in the chair in front of him. Her arms crossed, while he continued to ignore her, quickly typing away on an email. He didn't seem to mind her being there, not bothering to ask her to leave.

"Why were you trying to compel me?" His fingers paused, hovering over the keyboard. "Did you know I wouldn't do as you asked? How could have known when even I didn't?" His eyes finally met hers. The piercing gaze, made her heart rate excel just by a beat or two.

"You know Feng Teng, my boss. He had tried to compel Shanshan, yet it failed. The older you get the stronger the compulsion, it still didn't work. So he suggest I try on you, due to your blood relation."

"So you didn't know it would work on me?"

"No."

"So you were going to let me jump out a window if it did." Xiao Nai shook his head.

"I would have stopped you the moment you tried to break the glass with the chair." Xiao Nai leaned back, his gaze never leaving her.

"Then why did you try to compel me to kiss you?" She watched his eyes dart down, his hands clasp together slightly tighter, before responding. Suttle fast movements she barely caught, yet saw him almost nervous.

"I'm a vampire, do I need to have reasons?" Weiwei's eyes narrowed in a glare.

"You said it was my skill as a hacker that drew you to me, but I don't remember hacking anywhere in your business area before. In fact I made it a point to stay away from the majority of Vampire businesses." He tapped his fingers on his desk. His eyes finally glancing, the smile gone, a seriousness to him that she had yet to see since that night he helped her in the coffin.

"You smelled sweet. In all my years, I've never smelled someone as sweet as you do. Virgin blood is sweet because it's untouched by drugs or alcohol, but yours...the sweet smell is different."

"So you did bring me here to be what those men said. As a blood bag?" She finally said the words she didn't want to say, yet knew it was true.

"I don't take pets if that's why your asking."

"I just find it hard to believe that-"

"I kept you around because I appreciate your talent." He interrupted whatever thought was going to come out. "Unlike my maker I don't lie or cheat my way into keeping things I want. I work hard for it. I was raised to earn things not to expect them to be given." Weiwei stood up. Holding her arms close to herself.

"I'm not some thing you can earn or win. Sir." She bowed quickly, leaving him there. Xiao Nai stood up from his desk, his fists clenching, his gaze watching her leave. He felt his body react, almost every fiber of his being begging to run after her, taste her, make her his. But he was taking his Maker's advice. He had to be sure, if it was her or the blood calling him.

Shanshan clutched the piece of scrap paper with the address on it. Her gaze fell on the half burned remains of a house. The cab driver waved at her before driving off. She had made Yu Banshan promise to inform Feng Teng of her destination. Shanshan knew this was the only way to truly get his attention. Walking through the rusted iron gate, she found herself moving around broken pieces of furniture. The front door off its hinge, she walked into the once great room. If she focused enough she felt like she could picture what it once looked like. It would have been breathtaking to be hold. Bending over she picked up an old half burnt photo of Feng Teng and Xiao Nai. The black and white photo showed them in tailored suits and hair only popular during the 1910's. Both looked professional and grim. Looking around, she realized that he probably hadn't been back here in years, why would he, it held only death and destruction.

"Are you lost little thing?" Shanshan felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. That wasn't the voice she had been expecting. His was deep and luring, seductive. The voice that had spoken was mocking and hauntingly eery. Before she could turn around his teeth had sunken into her neck, her legs growing weaker by the second. She tried to fight, but it did nothing. As soon as he started he stopped. His voice hissing in her ear.

"Mine!" He yelled, pulling her back. Shanshan lost her balance, collapsing on the floor. She felt the blood trickle down the side of her neck. The gapping wound he left raw and open. Feng Teng was a blur, grabbing a broken wooden leg, he jabbed the wooden stake through the vampires heart. She watched her attacker fizzle away to a pool of blood and sludge. Feng Teng was over to her faster then she could blink. Lifting her up slowly, she reached up, tracing his teeth with her fingers.

"Pretty." She whispered, the white glistening.

"Shh, little one, he got you good." With every breath she took, a new stream of blood came out. Lifting his own wrist to his mouth, he bite off some flesh to expose his own. Dropping it to her lips, he nodded his head.

"Drink, you'll feel better." She went to protest, but he shook his head. "You won't turn into a vampire, I promise." Shanshan took slow slips of his, feeling the warm liquid flow down her throat. After a few sips he pulled his wrist away, titling her head to the side to watch the hole close, the bleeding stop. The smell had over taken him. Bringing his lips down, he licked the remaining essex of blood off of her neck. The taste was more then what he could have bargained for. It took everything in him, not to drain her right then and there. Standing he wobbled on his feet, a sensation he hasn't felt in thousand of years. He was 'drunk'. The feeling came as soon as it went. Not enough blood to keep in him drunk, but enough he knew he wanted more. Helping her stand, he shook his head, the blurriness in his eyes gone.

"I think I better take you home kitten." He said, wiping his blood from the corner of her mouth.

"You saved me twice."

"I saved your friend, not you."

"Feng Teng I-" He shook his head.

"Home, this isn't the time or the place for us to talk. You can't be here anymore."

"I"m not a child!" Feng Teng gave her a wicked smile. Reaching around he tugged her waist pulling her flushed up against him. Catching her hand in his, he brought it up to his lips, a simple kiss on the back.

"I know that. Would you like me to take you to my real home and show you?" He took enjoyment watching the blush spread across her cheeks. "I didn't think so." Picking her up, he held her close, while avoiding the rotting blood and flesh that had been her attacker.