"Luna." Eric called to the teenager, as he walked through the foyer and into the living room. He had finished counting to 20, an hour ago and had to give it to her, she was getting incredibly good at hiding from him. But being the only thing in the house with a heart beat and that breathed, she was easy to spot in a room. Hearing her 17 year old heart pounding in the living room behind the couch, Eric stopping in front of it, a smile on his face.

"Do you give up or do you want to keep running?" he asked her.

"Run." her voice came from behind the piece of furniture.

"Okay." Eric nodded, respectful of her choice. "Run then, You have until 5 and I come for you again." he told her and she hopped over the couch, past him and out of the living room, almost hitting a wall. "O..." Luna's scream alerted Eric and he flashed with Vampire speed to where she was in the foyer.

"Luna," he called then paused. "Godric, what are you doing here? I thought you were in New York working." Eric asked flicking on the foyer light. Luna was sitting on the floor, where she fell running into Godric as he came in.

"I was," Godric answered, helping Luna up. "I finished early and decided to come see you. Am I interrupting something, my Child?" he asked Eric.

"We're playing 'Light's out'." Eric told his Maker.

Godric smiled at Luna, "What did we do this time, Luna?"

"I didn't do anything." Luna replied, cocky.

Eric narrowed his eyes at her, "Ginger gave her monster and Pixie sticks. I'm running the energy out of her before I punish her for what she made me do." he informed him.

"And what did he do to you?" Godric asked her.

"I..."

"I asked her, Eric." Godric said to his Child softly.

"Throw me against a wall, smacked me on the butt." Luna told him, crossing her arms, shifting her weight to one hip and eying Eric menacingly. "Broke my hip and everything."

"Eric!" Godric snapped.

"She was off the wall hyper, Godric." Eric defended himself. "You know how she gets. Last time she had all that sugar, she was convinced that if she jumped off the stair landing on the second floor and hit this floor she'd survive because my blood made her invincible. It took both of us 2 hours to convince her otherwise and even then if it wasn't for my speed she would have fell."

Godric nodded agreeing with him, which only infuriated Luna to no end possible. "Ah!" She yelled stomping upstairs.

Having enough of her outbursts, Eric caught her half way upstairs and took her back to their bedroom, Godric following quietly. Eric set her down on her feet, sat on the edge of the bed and pulled her over his lap. Luna squirmed vigorously to get out of his grasp.

"Var stilla. Var tyst." He barked at her in their native tongue, pulling her pjs and underwear down to her knees. (Be still. Be quiet.)

Luna went limp in his lap, giving up the fight. Godric sat in the seat set against the wall across from the edge of the bed, to watch.

"See, she's always so obedient when she's not hyper." Eric said, caressing the back of her thigh, raising goosebumps all across her body.

"Sugar, like alcohol, makes humans do funny things." Godric said, pulling his legs into the chair and against his chest. Making the 17 year old looking, 2,000 year old tattooed Vampire look even younger.

"Stop talking about me like I'm not here." Luna snapped picking her head up.

Eric brought his hand down on her bare butt, not like he had early. But hard enough for Luna to bite her lip to be quiet. "We'll talk about you like you're not here all we want." he told her, bringing his hand down again. Luna bit down on her lip, almost drawing blood, and squeezed her eyes shut to fight back tears as her punishment continued.

When Eric was done, he pulled her up and laid her on her back on the bed. She laid there starring up at the ceiling, wet hiccups jerking her body. Eric stood at the edge of the bed, looking down at her, conflict all over his pale face. Grabbing her ankle, he pulled her easily to him. Letting her legs hang off the bed at the knees, Eric dropped to his knees. Godric got up from the chair and sat beside Luna on the bed. Both of them, bit into her bare thighs, making her arch her back in pain. Godric only took a few mouthfuls, but Eric drank her to delirium. She was totally dazed and out of it, by the time he stopped. Must too weak to support herself, let alone thing unclearly, Eric picked Luna up and carried her into their master bathroom, where he had a hot tub of water waiting for her.

Easing her into the tub, Eric got in with her, to make she didn't decide to go under the water. Supporting her in the water with his body, Eric grabbed a wash cloth, wet and soaped it up and began to bathe Luna. When she was clean, he let her gulp down large mouthfuls of his blood to heal and refresh her from the ordeal, then just sat in the tub with her face buried in his shoulder, half asleep and half awake.

"Eric?" Luna mumbled to him.

"Yes, Luna?" Eric replied looking down at her from the corners of his blue eyes.

"Why do you love me?"

Her question dumbfounded Eric. She had never asked him that question before, out of all the Billions of questions she'd ask him in just one day, Luna had never questioned his love for her. "What do you mean?" he asked.

Luna sighed, bringing her hand up out of the water to draw lazy patterns on his broad chest. "Never mind." she whispered.

"Are you sure?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure." she replied, sounding intently bored. Though it could have been her being tired from being up all night and crashing off all the damn sugar Ginger gave her. So, draining the tub and wrapping Luna up in a big fluffy towel, Eric ushered her into bed. Godric had left by now to his guestroom on the third floor. So, he tucked Luna in securely, then laid behind her and a feeling of deep obligation washed over him.

"Luna, you do know I love you more than anything else in the Universe, right?" he asked her. "I want you to know that I do, in case I haven't properly communicated that to you in the right ways, like I should and hopefully have."

"I know, Eric." She said snuggled against his cool chest. "You do a perfect job of letting me know it as well. I never had a doubt that you didn't." Eric smiled kissing the top of her head.

"Good." he whispered. "That's good."