Eric sat in his office in Fangtasia looking over the monthly reports, his most hated thing about owning his own Vampire bar and club, but it had to be done. He looked up as the door opened and Luna walked in, with a smile on her face. Eric set the reports down and sat back in his big black leather chair.

"What did you do?" he asked, as she sat astride in his lap, her hands braced against his shoulders.

"Nothing." She replied, kissing him. Eric moaned, gripping her hips and kissing her back.

"Mmm, you definitely did something." he said against her lips. "What was it?" Luna sat back in his lap, pouting.

"I swear, on the blood pumping in my veins, that I didn't do anything, Eric." But the glitter in her eyes and wall she had up between their bond, told the Viking otherwise. He raised an eyebrow at her and gave her a 'spill' look.

"I have to leave." she told him, bluntly. A habit she picked up from Eric's Child, Pam, no doubt. Much to Eric's shock the two had become incredibly close friends.

"Where are you going?" Eric asked back, just as blunt as his thumbs rubbed her hips.

"Home." She told him. "It's Christmas break for the exchange students and unknown to me until 10minutes ago, my parents sent me a plane ticket back to Stockholm for spend it with them." The pout got deeper. Both she and Eric had been planning to spend their first Christmas together in New York. Going there was one of the many gifts Eric planned on giving her because he knew she had always wanted to go to New York and see all the Christmas lights and to be there when the ball dropped in Time Square on New Year's. But now it seemed like that was all foiled.

"But you told your parents weeks ago that you didn't want to come home for Christmas break." He replied, bringing one hand up to rub her pouted bottom lip. "Didn't you?"

"I told them every time I talked them on the phone, in texts and email. I even told them when we Skyped last week." Luna exclaimed. "But they never listen to me. Haven't since I left, especially since I started staying with you." Luna had left her host family that were housing her as she went to school in the U.S to stay with Eric. Eric had glamored them into thinking that the program had shifted kids to other homes to give them different feels for American life and he and Pam were Luna's new host parents in Shreveport and Luna told her parents that she didn't get along with her first host family so she asked for a transfer to a new family and in case her Parents decided to call Luna's main high school in Stockholm to ask if it was true, Eric had another Swedish Vampire that he trusted to glamor the Host Family coordinator into thinking that Luna was telling the truth. Her parents still had their suspicions. All this so the girl could be with him when she wasn't at her Exchange school instead of being there, her host family house in Jonesboro and having to make endless excuses to them about why she was always going to Shreveport and on the phone at crazy hours of the night, most of them were that she was doing a report on a museum in Shreveport and that the timezones between Sweden and Louisiana were night and day, not a lie if she was actually call to Sweden and if they ever check her cell phone and the area code of the most calls made and received they would have found out otherwise. But they didn't because they trusted the girl, that up until never lied about her whereabouts or her actions.

Eric ran his fingers through his short gelled back blond hair, "Well, if they already bought the ticket and sent it then you have to go home for Christmas." he told her.

"But Eric, we're suppose to spend Christmas together. It's our first and we've been planning it for 2 months." Luna whined.

"I know that, Luna. I know that. But, they're family and they haven't seen you in almost a year. They need to see you more than I do. I'll have you before you leave and after you come back, they'll have you for what? A week." Eric explained to her, a tender expression on his face.

"Two." Luna mumbled, dropping her eyes. "But, I don't want to be away with you. I hate being away from you, especially that far away." Eric frowned, pressing his lips together and pulling her against his chest.

"You won't hate it as much as you use too, Månen." he told her, rubbing her back. (Moon) "You've had enough of my blood now that you won't miss me no matter the distance."

"What's your blood have to do with this?" Luna groaned.

"The reason you missed me so much when we first started dating was because my blood pulled you too me like a magnet to metal. But now that you've had a rather large amount of my blood and I've claimed you as my human, we're part of each other and you hold a part of me with you that will keep you sated long enough for those 2 weeks that you won't be bothered with those feelings. Well, bond wise. I know mentally you'll be going mad without me. An issue I've created in keeping you at my side at all times." He clarified to her. Luna sighed in protest and defeat, making Eric chuckle. "I'll call you every night at 3am and I want you in bed 9pm, understood? You need to rest to start with, with being up all day with school and studying, then up all night with me. You need more than 2 or 3 hours of sleep. My blood can't keep you from dropping in exhaustion forever."

"I know." Luna answered. "And I will."

Eric smiled, lifting her head and kissing her tenderly on the lips. "Det är min snäll liten människa." (That's my good little human.) Luna rolled her eyes at him, making him grin more. "When do you leave?" he asked.

"Two days before Christmas." she answered.

"Okay, so we have 3 days before you go." Eric nodded, a wrinkle in his eyes. "I'll let you open one present, now and one the day you leave. Deal?" he said, holding his hand to her. Grinning, she shook his hand. "Okay, Small, Medium or big?" he asked, setting her on the edge of his desk. Luna chewed on her lip.

"Medium." she decided.

Eric nodded and went into the bottom desk in his desk and pulled out a medium-ish sized box and gave it too her. "And no there isn't anymore of your presents here, so don't go looking for them." he warned her sitting back in his chair as she ripped open the present. Opening the black box, Luna's eyes went wide and sparkled with surprise and delight, taking out a necklace. A Viking protection talisman to be right, it was a circular object was a plus sign in the middle of the circle and on the front and back surfaces were ancient Viking cravings and runes. It was a bit heavy on the thick leather braided chain as Luna laid the symbol in her hand, fascinated by it.

"It's very real and even older, Luna. Please, for the love of Odin, don't lose it. There's only that one and two others in existence and one of the other two is buried somewhere in Norway with Ivar the Boneless and the other one as far as I and many others know is lost. So, you're holding the only one in the world that's in someone's hands. Be careful with it." He filled her in, as she put it around her neck. Launching herself into Eric's arms she hugged him as tight as she possible could.

"Thank you, Eric. I love it." she told him.

"I'm glad." Eric replied hugging her back.