Eight hours after arriving at Sandy's house, after seven hours of sleep, and an hour of brewing a hangover relief potion and a sobriety potion, she finally arrived home. Theodora was exhausted, not just because of the 'party' but also because crashing on a bad couch hurt like a mother giving birth. Well maybe not that painfully, but… whatever.

She crawled into bed and quickly fell back to sleep, still dressed in her previous clothes. The witch woke up twice, once to use the toilet, and a second time to have a lage drink of water before she went back to bed, to lazy to actually get up even though she knew that soon she would be receiving a headache from oversleeping if she continued with this sleeping pattern.

I'll worry about it later, she thought as she closed her eyes once more, and fell asleep.

"Wake up my itch-witch," a voice called in the darkness and Theodora awoke with a sharp breath as she jumped from fear. Her hand went to grab her wand only to realise that the blond vampiric woman was holding it in her hands as she silently laughed at her. "You smell like alcohol… and sweat."

"I was out partying last night, trying to be someone else," Theo replied angrily to Pam, "How'd you get here anyway?" She had realised quickly that it was the middle of the night and that she had a killer headache from over sleeping, though the latter bothered her more.

"Witches," She replied with a grin. Theo nodded twice as she got out of bed and padded gently to her kitchen where Pam allowed her to take back her wand so she could make coffee for herself.

"I'd offer you something, but I wasn't expecting vampires in my house," she laughed darkly at her own joke before finally taking a waft of herself, "Gath!" she exclaimed in gibberish, "I reek like the underside of the earth!" She sighed at her rumpled clothes and decided that she was going to have a shower.

Pam asked her for something as she looked over the quaint apartment, but Theo had too big a headache and too big of a stink problem to really pay attention, so she gave an almost-sort-of answer as she headed to her bathroom – that is to say, she waved her hand around and murmured incomprehensibly. The redhead closed the door behind her and dared to take a look in the wide mirror she had above her sink.

Ouch, she thought as she stared at her make up smudged, over-slept, face and wild hair that looked as though a swallow had been making its nest within it.

She climbed into the shower/bath and washed her hair with some strawberry scented shampoo as she cleansed her skin with chocolate body wash – both had been a gift from Sandy for her last birthday. They were, thankfully, mild scented and only gave a soft, pleasant smell unlike other stuff she had used before.

"Mmm," a voce whispered outside the green shower curtain, "you smell divine."

"What are you doing in here?" Theo asked; her voice seemed to change in pitch midway through speaking which made her sounded incredibly 'fearless'. Even her heartbeat had begun beating at a faster pace. "You shouldn't be in here."

"Is that what you really believe?" Pam asked as she stepped within the showers boundaries, close enough that her body could graze Theo's own. The redheaded witch shuddered slightly as Pam reached around her and grabbed the cloth covered with the scented body wash. "Have you done your back?" Theo shook her head slowly, shivering once again as the cloth touched down on her back.

"W-why-" Theo attempted to clear her throat before trying to speak again, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here because Eric sent me to take you back, there's been a change in our arrangements, and since you've resigned from work we were able to take you back with force." Theo arched her back as the cloth lowered to the base of her spine. Silently she wondered if seducing was counted as force, then she paused, and wondered if Pam was trying to manipulate her in some weird vampiric matter, to gain the consent she desired to take her blood.

"I have a… question."

"Yes?" Pam stepped closer, her thigh briefly grazing Theo's causing a sudden juxtaposition of the hot water beating down it and the cool vampire body temperature.

"Umm," Theo's mind went blank suddenly as the cloth dropped down to the side of her leg, "Ah… what I was going to ask was…" she tried to stop thinking about cloth, and back to what she was going to ask, "I've read that, ah, vampire's bites can be-"

"Pleasurable?" Pam offered as the she spun Theo around and backed her against the side of the shower so that they were facing each other, eye-to-eye, or at least, Theo was looking at her eyes as she looked the witch up and down, slowly. "It can be very pleasurable." She was so close to her neck that Theo could almost feel the breath that had once been admitted from those lips.

She wanted it so badly; to feel those lips curve around that place of her neck and have the ivory white fangs bury themselves beneath her flesh as she cried out.

She swallowed, her face felt hot, an almost needing ache was building up in her head as she tried to say something, consent or the opposing, she didn't really know, she just knew that if she didn't speak soon, Pam would choose for her.

She swallowed again and looked down at Pam as the vampire suddenly darted out her tongue, like a serpent, and tasted her scented skin. Pheromones clouded the air and Theodora's decision-making skills were waving thinner as each second past with the droplets that fell down their bodies.

Without thinking, the witch felt her hands hold onto to the vampire's waist, silently urging her to come back to eye level.

Her hand dragged halfway up the redhead's body from where she had been moments prior to, before she curved her head to the left so that her lips traced the rest of the way up, until she pulled back. Her hands still pinning the woman to the shower, though now her arms were brushing against the bare flesh of the woman's lower chest.

Breathing became faster, and Theo's eyes fluttered from the water. She didn't like this feeling, this almost nauseating feeling in her stomach that has happened to her before only a few times.

It was mixed with excitement and want and near, harsh need. She needed to say something, the vampire was watching, her lips parted and fangs out, ready to penetrate her any which way.

"Do-" she began, unsure herself of what she was to say, before something interrupted her.

"Theo honey, are you home?" Theodora inhaled a sharp breath before muttering a string of vulgar curse words, "Sweetheart are you in the sh-" She heard the person attempting to turn the doorknob and panic flooded her system at the sound.

"Don't come in Mum, I'm kinda in the middle of shaving my legs." Pam, suddenly feeling devious decided to toy with Theo's sudden adrenaline rush. She ran a tongue up the witch's neck, feeling her shudder beneath her she retracted her fangs so she was able to safely nibble where the neck met the collarbone.

"Honey, they have potions for that, if you need me to brew-" Theo tried to push Pam away, who only pinned her tighter to wall at the struggle.

"Mum, please!" Though it may not have been obvious to Theo's mother, it was obvious to Pam whom the 'please' was actually directed to. Beneath her arms, the witch squirmed like a cat's prey. The interesting thing about her was that she understood that Pam wasn't human and that she herself had truly been from the start using all of her strength.

"I'm going to make myself a cup of coffee," her mother commented before Theo heard the sound of feet walking away in the soft clicks that have always been so familiar to her.

"Mmm, smelling you makes me realise how ravenous I am, " Pam whispered as she buried her lips in the crevice of the witch's neck. "And that was something exciting was it not?"

"We can't, I mean…" Theo slipped around Pam and held her arms around herself shamefully, embarrassed, "my mother is here," she turned the shower off as she spoke and climbed out, quickly wrapping a towel around her, "and… she's kind of prejudice against… vampires… like, I kind of was."

Pam raised an eyebrow as though to ask 'and your point is…?'

"Could you, I dunno, maybe… hide, no, what I mean is…ah, can you help me out?" Theo had royally screwed up, at least in her mind, she believe that she had offended the blond vampire so badly that the vamp would drain her that instant. She swallowed.

"What's in it for me?"

"Huh?" Theo looked at her strangely, unfathomed by this statement.

"I don't do charity, so I expect equal payment for this… request." Theo chewed on her bottom lip, contemplating on what she would offer as 'payment' in return for this 'request' before she heard her mother knocking on the door again.

"Sweetie, you've been in there awhile."

"Yeah, yeah, I'll be out in a second!" She turned back to Pam, running a shaking hand through her hair, "Fine, fine whatever, I'll- whatever," she hissed under her breath so her mother couldn't hear her articulated words, "just… please stay here."

Pam shrugged.

"So mum, not that I'm, you know, not happy to see you and everything, but why are you here?" Theo wrapped herself tighter in the robe, she didn't feel like getting dressed, so instead she put clean undergarments on and wrapped herself in her thick winter robe, it was only her mother for Merlin's sake.

"Well, you're aware how your family looks at your articles religiously because we're so proud?" Her mum handed her a cup of tea as she did so,

"No," Theo replied honestly, "I thought you didn't much care for them, you never mention them when I visit you, or bring them up, so I stopped doing so." Theo sighed as she realised what was about to happen. She ran her fingers through her damp hair and stared up at the ceiling.

"Now that's not true, we…"

Here we go again, Theo reflected as though the thought its self was a storm cloud that drained the electricity out of her body, she's going to pretend that she's always been interested in what I've been doing because of something controversial.

"And Stacey even said-"

"Mum, I believe you," she lied, the words tasting bitter in her mouth as she said them, "I was just wondering what you wanted to say." And somewhere in Estonia, a young girl is laughing their head off at the pathetic attempt at lying.

"Well, Viv said she read that you were living with a vampire."

"I wasn't living with them, they're the undead, heh, I was sent there to, you know, write an article about them so that the witches and wizards of the world got an idea from someone who was alike them, it was a political thing you know?"

"Well, you know our family has nothing against vampires, but it did seem you were a little sweet on them." Don't fight, just nod and agree, just nod and agree with her.

"Yeah, you know, they're actually quite… ah, charming when it comes right down to it." Theo cringed at her statement, she hadn't meant to sound like that, it was just that one word wanted to come out and all the string of words were all muddled up because one, bleeding vampire decided that she wanted-

Well it doesn't matter now.

"Hey mum, I need to get dressed for a date tonight, I'll talk to you later ok?"

"Oh, is Marcus proposing? Has he already? Are you pregnant?" Theo froze at the comment, of course her parents didn't know that Marcus and her had broken up, Damnit. She sighed and released the fake smile on her face to a pensive expression.

"I don't know Mum, anything's possible."

"Well I hope it's a boy."

"No, mum, I didn't mean-" and then she apparated away. "Merlin's cock."