"The full moon is tonight," Aidan says casually as Josh thumps down the stairs into the living room. He is sitting at the table reading the paper and sipping his blood, not even looking up from whatever captivating story he's reading.

"I know," Josh responds almost angrily. He walks into the kitchen and runs a hand softly across Aidan's back as he passes by to make himself a sandwich.

"Ugh," Sally pipes in from her perch on the kitchen counter. 'You two are such an old married couple."

Aidan looks up from his paper with a slightly confused expression on his face. He understands sarcasm and he gets most of the modern phrases, but this one eludes him. Josh catches a glance of Aidan's face and puts down the knife that he's using to make his sandwich. "She means we have totally set and routine actions and that we're totally dry and boring. Of course, if you consider that we've had sex at least 10 times in the past two days I'd say she's wrong."

Ever since that first time Aidan needed Josh to relieve his blood cravings, the two had been having sex frequently. It was still just blow-jobs and heavy groping, but that counted as sex; at least for Josh.

Sally's face squishes up in disgust. "Okay, I soooo don't want to even picture that."

"Speaking of," Aidan chimes in, "How is it that you haven't popped in on us at all? Don't get me wrong: I don't want you to. But it seems like you're never here anymore. What's the deal?"

"I've just been hanging around Bridget and Danny a lot lately." Sally admits her guilt in stalking her living friends and Aidan gives her an obvious look of disapproval. "Anyways… We should probably have some sort of sign so I don't walk in on you, right?"

Josh nods quickly and Aidan supplies a response for both of them. "How about, if the door to our room is closed, you don't come in."

"Oh… Yeah. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Okay, sounds good. Just don't do it in the living room, 'kay?"

"Fine," Josh says disappointedly. "We should probably get to work. It was nice enough of Maria to give us a half day today. We shouldn't lose her favor."

Aidan is pulled along by Josh's voice to the door and the two head off to work.

It has been their ritual for the past few weeks for Aidan to lightly and subtly tease Josh in the locker room each day before they begin working. Josh has yet to fulfill his promise to kiss Aidan publically in the hospital and there's no way Aidan's going to let him forget it.

Today, Aidan is a little less subtle. He drags his hand across Josh's chest and breathes softly into his ear before leaving the room. Josh looks after him for a moment and feels just enough of the wolf in him to know what he is about to do. He's not entirely sure he won't regret this tomorrow.

Josh bursts out of the room and whips Aidan around to face him. Smashing his lips against his partners, Josh feels the air in the room grow still. The noise made by the door brought everyone's attention to the pair, but their eyes lingered on the intimate display.

Maria is standing about five feet away amongst a gaggle of gossiping nurses, and as she begins to realize just what is going on, she begins to clap. The nurses around her do the same and she calls out, "Finally!"

Josh releases his lover and the pair looks around the room at their co-workers. No one is obviously perturbed. In fact, thanks to Maria's first action, the majority of them are smiling and giving congratulatory glances.

"See," Aidan says triumphantly, "I told you no one here would care."

A/N: Sorry, everybody. I know this one is short, but I had a crazy weekend and I figured I would just crank out this chapter. It's really just the beginning of a longer chapter, so if I have time this week I'll get that out. Also, to address MyBeatingKokoro's mpreg comment: I'm thinking about writing that into the storyline later on (quite a ways in the future and with some actual explanation of *how*), so what does everyone think?