A/N: I use a number of direct or paraphrased quotes and situations in this chapter and the made me realize that I have yet to put in and need a…

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It takes coaxing to get Aidan out of bed most days, but today he is especially reluctant. Even Josh doesn't want to wake up; so, he waits until there are only 50 minutes until they have to start their shifts at the hospital. He rolls out of Aidan's arms and lightly places his feet on the cold hardwood floor. The cold air almost freezes his naked body, but he knows the both of them have to get to work. Having a job is important to him; it makes him more normal. Josh throws on some clean underwear and some fresh scrubs. Then he goes to Aidan's room and gets a set of clothes for him.

"Aidan…" Josh shakes Aidan's arm in a weak attempt to wake him. Shaking him harder, Josh raises his voices and says again, "Aidan, you have to get up or we'll be late for work."

He slowly opens his eyes and rolls over to face Josh. A large and contented smile spreads across Aidan's face. Taking a deep breath, he throws off the covers and pulls Josh in to kiss him. Josh is surprised by the sudden kiss and is sent off kilter. When Aidan releases him, he stumbles back with the look of shock on his face. Of course, Aidan smirks at this and Josh's face relaxes.

"We have to hurry," Josh notes, "so try to keep it in your pants."

"In case you haven't noticed," Aidan motions down with his eyes, "I'm not wearing any-"

Josh cuts him off just before he finishes that thought by tossing the fresh clothes at him. "I'll be downstairs," Josh waves as he heads downstairs to get Aidan's blood ready. He figures he can drink warm coffee at the hospital - even if it does taste awful - but Aidan can't really get any warm blood at work.

Aidan pulls his clothes on quickly, reveling in the events of the night before. Work is going to be unbearable today. He'll just be yearning to get home and be with Josh again. The familiar smell of his microwaved blood wafts up the stairs and flares in his nostrils; so, he quickly picks up the pile of clothes from last night's frantic happenings so Josh wouldn't have to worry about it later. Then he drops quickly down the stairs into the living room. Josh almost flies past him on his way to the door. He passes the mug of blood off into Aidan's hands and starts to pull on his shoes. Aidan walks slowly to the door, gulping the blood before slipping on his jacket and shoes, grabbing his keys, and opening the door for Josh, who just finished fumbling with his shoelaces.

It's a relatively short ride to work. Traffic is light for a Monday, and even though neither of them says anything on the way, it isn't an awkward silence. Both of them just smile and resign to their own happy thoughts.

They arrive at the hospital with just five minutes before they have to check in at the nurses' station. As they get ready to leave the locker room, Aidan leans in to give Josh a kiss; but, all of a sudden, Josh's face gets all worried and he gives Aidan a look of warning.

Aidan gets why Josh is concerned, but he doesn't really think it makes any sense. "Josh," he begins, serious but chuckling softly, "no one here is going to care if we're together."

Josh looks around; there are other people in the room. So, he lowers his voice and gets that adorably worried timbre in his voice. "You say that," he looks around again, "but I don't want people to know just yet. Don't get me wrong: I love you, I do. It's just… Just please don't do anything too relationshippy, okay?"

Aidan still doesn't see the problem, but if it makes Josh uncomfortable then he won't do anything to "relationshippy" at the hospital. He just pats Josh on the shoulder and walks out of the room.

Josh follows, still jabbering at him. "Aidan, I don't want you to get upset about this, it's just that we were beginning to seem more normal and I don't want to people to be put off by… us. Because… I mean… I don't mean that we aren't normal, it's just that you know…" He trails off just as they reach the nurses' station and Aidan appears completely unaffected by the whole conversation. Josh, on the other hand, is out of breath with that almost maniacally happy look on his face.

"Morning, boys," greets Maria, never actually looking up from her computer screen. Josh has always been a little weirded out by that. She rarely looks up from her computer but always seems to see what's going on. He'll have to look into it later.

"Morning, Maria," Aidan greets casually.

But of course, Josh's awkward tendencies take over and he practically shouts in an Indian accent, "Oh, yes; very good morning indeed, Maria."

Now Maria looks up, giving Josh a questioning look as he awkwardly tries to smile the moment into non-existence. She turns her attention to Aidan, "You should have him see a doctor. So, how was your date last night?"

Josh gives Aidan a not very well hidden look of aggravated concern. Aidan gives him a soft look that says everything is fine and then turns back to Maria. "It was good. I think I'll have to go out with them again."

Josh looks at him adoringly but his expression is quickly broken by Maria's voice questioning him. "And you. How was your date?"

Now Aidan gives Josh a look of almost condescending amusement. "Yes, Josh; how was your date?"

Josh looks frantically between Maria and Aidan, struggling to get a word out. "Well… you know… it was… good… and stuff… and I'll… I'll totally… probably… maybe…" He stops on Aidan for a moment and collects himself. "I think I'll be seeing hi- her again."

"Well. Sounds like you both are having some good luck lately. Now here're your charts for the day." Maria hands Aidan his patient list and Josh his list of things to do. They both have double shifts today, so they won't be getting home until 2 in the morning.

Sally pops in on Josh as he's sweeping up one of the hallways of the hospital and he almost has a heart attack. "Sally!" he whispers with an only slightly controlled expression on his face. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Oh my God, Josh! It is ridiculous! My best friend and my fiancée are total whores!" Her yelling prompts Aidan to poke his head out of one of the rooms nearby. When Josh sees him, he gives him a look that expresses just how freaked out he is and Aidan dutifully drops the supplies he was carrying on a cart and walks over to his roommates.

"Hey," Aidan says pointedly to Sally, "What's up?"

"Oh, nothing much; just hell on earth!" Aidan and Josh both give her a look to keep explaining so that they don't have to look any crazier than they already do. "Danny and Bridget were totally making out!"

"Who's Bridget?" Josh asks.

"My best friend who I've known since the third grade who I now realize is also a brutal whore."

"So…" Aidan asks, "Should we take our break and discuss this in the basement?" Josh nods and they all make the necessary arrangements to maintain their status as relatively normal people at the hospital.

Sally rants all the way to the basement where Josh and Aidan can finally chime in. "Sally," Aidan starts, "I understand you're upset, but you have to realize that they're not trying to hurt you."

"I'm barely in the ground and they're already moving on," Sally yells, clearly upset by their actions. "I just want them to remember me…" she's broken down now. She stopped yelling and instead begins to cry softly.

"Sally," Josh points out, "they're going to forget you… You're not… here."

"Oh, yeah, Josh, that makes me feel better!" she blurts, her anger returning.

Aidan gives him a look that tells him now would be a good time to leave and he nods and turns toward the stairs. When he is out of earshot, and Sally has calmed down some more, Aidan tries to help her through the situation. "Maybe you're looking at this wrong. Instead of seeing it as Danny and Bridget forgetting you, you should see as two people being brought together by the love they shared for you."

Sally scoffs slightly at his extreme sentimentality, "Okay, Mr. Hallmark, how about we dial back the crazy. You just go ahead and admit that they're forgetting me and stop trying to make me feel better and I'll calm down."

"I don't just want you to calm down, Sally. It's just…" Aidan takes a moment to try to figure out what to say. Somewhere deep in his subconscious, linked to the word relationship, Aidan suddenly accessed his feelings about life before and after he and Josh got together. "Sally, this life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes, you just need to cling to the person you can claw your way out of the dark with. Danny and Bridget, they may not be kismet, but we all deserve a shot at a normal life. They do, you do."

"You do."

"Maybe…"

"So… is Josh that person for you?"

"I think he may be." A smile spread across his face and she was clearly getting over her pity party. "So, are you okay now?"

"Yeah… I'll be fine. You should probably get back to work anyways. I'll see you guys at home." Sally mists away and Aidan heads back upstairs.

"Hey," Josh says, startled as he almost jumps from his position leaning on the wall. "So? How's our ghost?"

"She'll be fine," Aidan tells him as he rubs the younger man's back. "Back to work?"

"Yeah… this counts as our lunch break, and since I actually eat, I'm going to the cafeteria. You wanna come with me?"

Aidan breathes in deeply through his nose. "Sure, but only on one condition."

Josh gives Aidan a searching look, indicating his lack of understanding. After a long pause, he finally asks, "What?"

Aidan gets a gentle but scheming smile. "You have to promise me that you'll kiss me in public." Josh's expression drops and he's clearly about to make some sort of excuse or explanation of not being ready, so Aidan qualifies his statement: "It doesn't have to be right now, you just can't put it off forever. By this time next month, I want you to have kissed me at least once in the hospital. What do you say?"

Josh pauses for a moment, quietly weighing having Aidan around at lunch versus the weirdness that would ensue if he and Aidan went public with their relationship. In the end, he wants Aidan there at lunch; he's far too awkward to have made any other good friends to talk to and he couldn't stand eating in silence. Even more than that, though, at a subconscious level, Josh wants to kiss Aidan in public. He wants to lay claim to the vampire who attracts everyone's attention and flirtation. So, he nods his head and says, "Fine. By this time next month, I will have kissed you, in public, in the hospital, for everyone to see. Now, can we go to lunch?"

Aidan smiles and puts his hand on Josh's back in a gesture that wouldn't necessarily betray their secret relationship as they walk together to the cafeteria. It may take the entire month, but now he had a set deadline to gauge his anticipation of a public relationship with Josh.

A/N: I'm planning on continuing to develop their relationship, but in imagining this interaction I can't help but keep moving to more of the plot points of the canon show. So, if I do keep going, it's going to end up including more than just a few references to things that happen on the show. Tell me what you think: End the story here or include canon plot points?