Sometime during Jeremy's reverie, Anna started to gain enough strength to move. She could feel the flow of blood through her system again as Jeremy's blood washed the vervain infected blood out of her.

Her eyelids fluttered and she moved her mouth slightly on Jeremy's wrist. He noticed. Jeremy blinked, trying to clear his head and saw that Anna's eyes were now open.

"Anna," he said her name for what sounded like the hundredth time this night.

Anna blinked again and slowly she started to sit up, but Jeremy caught her, wrapping his arms around her.

"No, you need to stay still Anna. You're still weak."

But he didn't let her go, he just held her, and in time, she put her arms around him too. Then, she gently placed her head on his chest, and relaxed against his body.

Tears started to emerge from Anna's eyes as the cocktail of intense feelings started to flow out of her. Jeremy stroked her hair gently and thought that he would never see a Vampire this vulnerable again.

"It's okay, it's okay," he said, trying to calm her. There wasn't really anything else that he could say. He remained silent, letting her get it all out.

Finally, once the sky became tinted with orange in the east, Anna pulled back and looked at Jeremy, staring into his eyes.

"I'm done now." Her voice sounded unsteady. She continued to stare at him. After a while she continued. "Thank you, Jeremy, for saving me last night. I was stupid, acting like that, I guess I was hurt, I don't know, I don't know what I was feeling ."

Jeremy then knew what he was going to say.

"Anna," he paused. "Anna, I'm sorry for what I said to you last night. It was stupid. But there was something that I was going to tell you, something I was going to say before you disappeared. I know it's going to sound really strange and probably surprising, knowing that I've given you so many different signs since I first met you, I'm sorry for that. Anna, what I was going to say is that," he put his hand on her cheek, " I think I'm in love with you."

Anna then went as still as she had been during the night.

A couple of minutes later, her eyes narrowed, then she replied. Like Jeremy suspected, she sounded confused.

"You-you love me?" She stuttered.

Jeremy smiled. "Yes."

"Despite what I am. Despite what I did to that man."

"Yes."

Her breathing paused.

"You don't know what you're saying, Jeremy. I'm a vampire, I'm not good for..."

Jeremy silenced her, pressing his lips to hers. He could taste the rust and salt of his blood in her mouth, but he didn't care. He drew her closer again, and she started to respond.

His feelings for Anna now were irrational and he almost felt tired with the emotion of the night.

He deepened the kiss, and weaved his hands in her hair. He forgot that he was kissing a vampire.

Gently, while their lips were still moving together, he started to lay them down on the sofa. He laid down beside her and continued to kiss her softly for a minute. Then, he broke away.

"I suppose you're tired from last night," he whispered. " I won't ask you how you ended up like that last night, I think we should save that conversation for another day."

Anna smiled. "Thanks. And you too must be tired, after all, you've been up all night."

"You know what," Jeremy smiled, "I think I might rest here for a bit."

Anna smiled again and then began to close her eyes. "That sounds like a good idea," she mumbled.

Jeremy began to close his eyes too, starting to feel lethargic in his comfortableness.

He was on the verge of drifting off to sleep, and therefore, he wasn't sure whether he'd just imagined it but he thought he heard a very quiet "I love you too."

Then they both drifted off to sleep in each other's arms.

When Jeremy woke, he blinked at the glare of the sun though the windows. Suddenly, all at once, a deluge of memories flooded into his mind from last night and he looked across to see Anna sleeping peacefully beside him. She looked beautiful and soft, apart from the dry blood around her mouth. He lightly got off the sofa and went over to the old sink in the corner. It was rusty and he was pretty sure that no water could run from it now. However, when he turned the tap, although it was quite stiff, water emerged. He put his sleeve in the water, then noticed that his wrist had dry blood on it too. He quickly washed it off in the water. Then, with his wet sleeve, he walked back over to Anna's sleeping form and lightly dabbed the dry blood from around her mouth. She didn't wake.

He didn't know what to do then, though he knew that he couldn't leave her, so he decided to sit on the old wooden stool across the room and wait for her to wake up.

Finally, when she started to stir, he was across the room in an instant. The first word that came out of Anna's mouth when she woke was:

"Jeremy?"

"Right here Anna," Jeremy said as he knelt down beside her.

Anna took her hand and placed it on his cheek drawing him nearer, then kissed him softly, though Jeremy sensed there was something off in the way that she kissed him, it wasn't as deep as last night.

"Anna," he said, once he broke away. "What's wrong?"

She seemed hesitant to answer.

"I-I still think you're going to run away. You're going to realise what I am really, and then never want to see me again. And I'm scared that if you run away from me, I'll feel like I did last night. It was so horrible, I never want to feel that again."

"Anna, I will never run away from you. I love you. I realise that now."

"Do you?" There was still questioning and regret in her voice.

In Jeremy's mind, an idea began to form. He had never done it before, let alone with a vampire, but if he could just let Anna know that what he felt for her was a real and irrational, then maybe she would gain confidence in him.

He climbed onto the sofa beside her and stared into her eyes. Jeremy had never felt so nervous, yet eager to share this with Anna. What he was most scared of was whether she would accept this move.

"Anna, "he said, weaving his hands in her hair and pulling her face close to his. He kissed her passionately pressing against her, and Anna's hand wound around his back pressing him closer to her. Jeremy felt encouraged by this.

Jeremy then unwound his fingers from Anna's hair and slowly stroked down her neck as if she was a delicate angel, not a vampire ten times stronger than him, and took to unbuttoning her cardigan.

He felt Anna's lips pause on his, and his fingers immediately stopped what they were doing. Then Anna shocked him by swiftly taking off his t-shirt. He looked down at his bare chest, amazed. Though he wasn't distracted for long because Anna eagerly pressed her lips to his.

Jeremy got through the rest of her buttons easily, and it wasn't long before they were both down to their under wear. Jeremy couldn't believe how beautiful Anna was beneath the clothes too. He looked down completely dazed.

"You're beautiful, Anna," he whispered, weaving his hands in her hair again.

"Thank you," Anna replied simply.