"Wake up sleepy head." Courtney giggles.
"Princess?" Duncan lifts his face out of the pillows. "Princess!" He yells and launches out of her bed and pulls her into his arms. "I thought I'd never see you again." Duncan murmured into her hair.
"That would explain the lack of clothing." Courtney replied, looking pointedly down.
Duncan followed her gaze and realized that he gotten so use to living at Courtney's house that he did what he had done at home, sleep naked.
"Um," Duncan started, running a hand though his recently cut hair.
"Don't worry. I like it." Courtney replied and danced out of the room.
Duncan watched her go and then flung himself across the room to the closet. He drew on a relatively clean pair of boxers and a black t-shirt with a skull on the front. Duncan ran down the hall and into the kitchen. Courtney was already unpacking her newly bought grocery supplies. "Are you living here now?" She asked.
Duncan ran his hand though his hair again. "Yeah, I hope you don't mind. I really missed you, and I never got the chance to say goodbye." Duncan muttered and took a seat in his usual spot.
"Missed me? Never said goodbye? Duncan baby, I wasn't gone that long." Courtney said sweetly, setting a plate of fresh fruit down in front of him.
"Not that long?" Duncan asked incredulously. "You were gone for almost a year!" He exclaimed.
"So?" Courtney shrugged, as if to say, 'A year isn't that much time.'
"So! What if I'd died or something? Would you have even noticed I was gone when you came back?" Duncan asked, sounding very much like a lost, scared, little boy.
"Duncan, if I remember right it was you who said you weren't coming back to see me again. You did say goodbye, even if you weren't ready to accept it at the time." Courtney replied logically.
"I…" Duncan frowned when he realized she was right. "I came back, I came back within a month, and you were gone." He said accusingly.
"Yes. I had no choice But… I'm back not and will be for the next decade or so years. After than I think I might want to Japan. I haven't been there since the early sixteen hundreds." Courtney said dreamily. Shaking her head she continued with her chore of unpacking the groceries, completely unaware of Duncan's frozen position.
When Courtney finally turned back around she noticed Duncan, he was completely still. "Duncan? What are you doing?" She asked sweetly.
"S-sixt-teen h-hun-ndr-red-ds?" Duncan stammered.
"Yes. Why? Do you find this startling?" Courtney asked, completely oblivious of to what she'd just done.
"You've been alive since the sixteen hundreds?" He asked, no longer stammering.
"More like the thirteen hundreds." Courtney replied grinning.
"How old are you?" Duncan asked, remembering how Courtney always skirted around the question in the past.
"Sixteen, take a little bit." Courtney replied without missing a beat.
"Courtney?" Duncan asked again.
"Around seven hundred years." Courtney replied, still completely unwaveringly.
"How?" Duncan asked, trying hard not to find a way out of believing her story.
"I'm immortal. A vampire." Courtney added.
Duncan opened his mouth to scoff, but Courtney beat him to it. She smiled her smile that always made Duncan melt, only this time the smile had to fangs interrupting the pretty picture her eyes and white teeth made...
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