"Would you like help?" Godric asked as he took my bags from me.

"I guess since you already have them." I answered dully. He smirked, traipsing up to the huge house.I looked up at the tastefully decorated house. "Nice."

"The bar is getting closed early, so Eric and his Progeny will be here soon. Would you like to use my room? I hardly use it." I followed after him with a smile. He seems happier lately.

"Yeah, I guess." I answered. He flashed a smile at me, then opened a door to the right and entered. I followed him to see that the room was dominated by a California King sized bed with a wooden frame and posts that was pushed to the left wall. The room was decorated in deep blues and soft grays, It looked like the average bachelors room. On the right side of the bed, an ajar door led to a walk in closet, while on the left, Godric disappeared into what I assumed was the bathroom.

"You won't have to worry about me intruding too often. I usually bathe and go." His voice echoed back to me. I followed him in, and stared at the expensively done bathroom. He has a jacuzzi bath tub... and a stand up shower. I looked in the stall. With a detachable shower shower head. I could feel myself becoming impressed.

"You could be in the room all the time and I wouldn't care, Godric." I said absently. Godric watched me inspect my surroundings. I approached him calmly, and took my bags from him, sorting through my newly bought belongings. He left me to do my setting up, which I was happy about. I set the toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash in one of the far corners of the counter, put my feminine hygiene products in the cabinets under the sink, and pulled out my usual body wash, shampoo and conditioner and set them aside. The rest were just clothes I would be wearing while here, so I just left them in the bag. I walked out, tossing my bag of clothes onto the bed, and went to find Godric. He was sitting in the living room, surfing through channels quickly.

"Are you settled in?" His eyes never left the screen as he spoke. I plopped myself down beside him.

"Yes." I stared at the screen. "What's on?"

"Nothing interesting. Shouldn't you be sleeping?" He was looking at me now.

"I slept all day." I shrugged.

"Have you eaten yet?" I paused, counting back in my head how long it's been since I ate... a day? More? Guilt swept over me. "That isn't healthy." I could hear the disapproval in his voice.

"In my defense, I don't eat in front of most people. I have some weird form of mutation or something that requires me to eat an insane amount of sugar. I get all my nutrients from vitamins." I rubbed the back of my neck nervously.

"That is no excuse." I could feel his stern stare bore into my very being. I sighed.

"I could go pick up some sweets? I've already got my vitamins in my bag."

"Yes. We'll need to head out soon." Godric had risen and grabbed his keys.

"We?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Surely, you didn't think I would let you wander in the dark alone, did you? You need protection." Godric was smirking. "I think that smart mouth might get you into a lot of trouble."

"Well, you're not wrong."


Godric's POV

"She survives on cake and vitamins? How the hell isn't she as big as a house?" Pam hissed, watching the fiery brunette eat some kind of cake at the kitchen counter.

"Must have one hell of a metabolism." Eric commented absently. He was also watching her, but with a hunger in his eyes. I could feel the lust rolling off of him. "At least you don't have to worry about garlic fouling up her blood."

"She tastes like what I assume chocolate tastes like." I murmured. "But there is something else... cinnamon... and coffee?" Pam snorted.

"She eat's enough sweets, I'm surprised she doesn't bleed sugar."

I could feel myself glaring at her. Eric growled at her. "Watch it."

Contentment washed over me, and I turned back to the intriguing little woman, sipping hot chocolate that she had made from scratch. A soft smile made it's way across my face. Her emotions always seemed so guarded, it was hard to believe that she was human. Then again, she may not have strong emotions to begin with. That was hard to believe, simply because of the strong waves of contentment washing over me from her, over a hot beverage. It had also been that way earlier when I fed. Even after, when I held her close, relishing in her scent.

"She is cute though. I can see why both of you have a thing for her." Pam smirked as she left to go shopping. Both Eric and I froze.

I didn't have a problem with his interest in her, but I did not want to give her up. I wasn't sure how she would respond to the offer of being my human, let alone being shared between Eric and I. Then there was a thought. I cleared my throat. "Samantha?"

"Hmmm?" It was an almost lazy response.

"You've told me what my soul looks like, but what does Eric's look like?" I watched her eyes open and direct themselves at Eric. No. It was more like she was staring through Eric.

"It's darker than yours. That doesn't mean anything bad though. It looks like a spiral galaxy. But with intense reds, blues, purples, greens, pinks... Lots of colors. There are even dustings of white stars. His soul is the second most beautiful soul I've ever seen. It's clear, no mirky film over it... breathtaking." She murmured almost to herself as she allowed me to feel the breathtaking wonder and joy of seeing his soul.

"I'm flattered." Eric was smirking.

Then she looked at me, and I was almost bowled over with the sheer joy and wonder that slammed into me. It was much more intense than when she looked at Eric. There was more, though. I couldn't place this emotion. Such an intense feeling, that if my heart had been beating, it would have stopped from the odd sense of heartbreak. I felt something wet oozing from my eyes, as I watched her move closer to me. She began to clean up the red trails down my face, and I felt the emotions slowly ebb away. "Godric?" Eric was worried.

"I am fine, my child." I stared into her eyes as I spoke. "I just felt what she felt when sees my soul."

"Now you understand? I couldn't bear to know your soul had disappeared from this world." She searched my eyes, "This world needs you. I am sure of that, and there's nothing that can convince me otherwise." I wrapped my arms around her.

"You will not have to." Eric watched us with a growing sense of jealousy. "Little one... There is something I wish to speak to you of." Curiosity.

"Yes?"

"I want to publicly claim you." JEALOUSY. The sheer force of Eric's emotion shocked me. I turned to see my child staring harshly at the ground. "As well as allow Eric to bond and claim you." I spoke slowly, wary of my progeny.

"I... what?" She was staring at us both wide eyed. "I understand you wanting to claim me, but to share me between the two of you?" Eric frowned. "...what exactly would that entail?"

"Whatever you want it to." I could barely bring myself to hope. Eric moved closer to us. "But with Eric's growing attraction to you, I cannot willingly take you from him in such a manner."

"You're still going to keep trying to seduce me, aren't you?" Her voice was flat.

"You bet your sweet ass I am." Eric flashed a cocky smirk. "It'll just bring you under me quicker."

"There isn't going to be much of a change anyways... so I suppose I can't justify any reason to say no." She looked between the two of us. "I don't have to supply blood for both of you do I?"

Eric burst into laughter. "Neither of us take too much blood." I explained. "But you don't have to if you don't want to."

"...I guess I'll stock up on supplements for anemics." She mumbled.

"Can't hurt." Eric agreed.

"Eric?"

"Yes?"

"If you leave fang marks, you can find someone else to bite."

We both burst into roaring laughter.