A/N - Looks like it's a two-shot after all! Sorry for the shortness of it, but this idea would not leave me alone. I think I need to slow down a bit... one or two more fic ideas are hopping around my head, so maybe my mind will give me a break after that.

"So… Jack." Galvin paced around the young boy, who was currently sitting so close to Mina, he might as well have been on her lap. They had managed to get him into the Stacks with minimal effort, as he was quite happy to be given Luke's jumper and taken inside to warm up.

One thing no one could understand was his obsession with Mina – first he had hidden behind her, then waited for her to tell him that he would be fine, sat by her in the car, and now this. They just agreed that he must have sensed the vampire in her and stuck to the nearest half-life, ignoring the fact that vampires and werewolves generally didn't get on.

"Yes?" He answered politely.

"What were you-Christ, I can't do this," Galvin sighed. "I smite freaks; I don't make conversation with them."

"F-freak?" Jack's eyes grew wide and his bottom lip shook dangerously.

"Rupert!" Mina scowled, rubbing the boys' shoulders.

"What? That's what he is!" Mina rolled her eyes.

"Ignore him, he's hopeless," She smiled at Jack, who grinned in return, sniffing lightly. "Now, what I think he was trying to say was, well, what were you doing out there alone?"

"And naked?" Ruby added.

"Not many people want to be around you when you can turn into a wolf at will," Jack shrugged. He spoke so simply, that they all found it hard to believe that he was only six years old.

"What about your parents?" Luke asked.

"Off getting ready to be all furry," He said. "Full moon tomorrow."

"They just leave you?"

"You're the ones that think we're animals," he grinned.

"That's not what I… I mean you looked like…" Galvin sighed once more and headed into the Stacks, mumbling what sounded like, "Stack eleven, second shelf, third book in"

"Great, he's off to get pissed. What're we supposed to do?" Ruby asked, rubbing her still red nose every now and then.

"Well I don't know about you two, but I've got a piano recital to get to." Mina told them, standing.

"You can't just leave us with him!" Ruby yelled. "He might hit me again!" Jack grinned from his spot at Mina's heels, where he had been since the words, "piano recital".

"You play piano?" He asked her.

"Professionally," Mina nodded.

"Can I come?" Jack looked up at her hopefully, hand gripping the edge of her coat. "I love piano music!" Mina thought for a second, placing a hand on his shoulder, smiling when she realised just how big Luke's jumper was on him.

"You're not even wearing proper clothes," she told him.

"I know where mine are!" He said, still hopeful. Mina sighed.

"Guess you're on babysitting duty," Luke grinned.