Buffy wanted out of this reality. She also wanted to play tonsil hockey with Eric Northman even after he oh so casually called her a topless dancer based on her name. Oh gods, what was wrong with her? Angel called her a kid and she wanted to prove she was an adult. This Eric guy called her a topless dancer based on her name and -. No, Buffy! Wasn't one vampire boyfriend enough? Besides, Xander would find her soon and oh, gods Eric was a great dancer. Slow dancing to the most amazing song. 'I want to do bad things to you.' Oooh, did she ever want to do bad things.

Buffy mentally castigated herself for not staking him when she had the chance and she should not have agreed to a dance with him. It might just reinforce the idea that she was a topless dancer. Or wanted to be topless on silk sheets with him. She tilted her head back to look at him and yes, he was taller than Angel. Her head came to the middle of his chest. No heartbeat, cold skin, definitely a vampire. "How old are you?" She asked.

"Does it matter?"

"My last boyfriend was over 240, he took off without telling me he was leaving."

"A youngster lacking in maturity." Eric agreed. "His Maker should have taught him better."

Maker? Equivalent to Sire probably.

"I'm over a thousand years old myself, I was originally a Norseman. What you would call a Viking."

"Valkyries." Buffy remembered they were associated with Vikings.

"Choosers of the slain, they guide worthy warriors to Valhalla to fight beside Odin when Ragnarok comes."

"Ragnarok?"

"The final battle when the world ends and is reborn."

"Oh, that." Can't escape apocalypses either, even if it's just a conversation about them. 'When you came in the air went out.' Of her lungs, seriously she was close to panting here. It was hot in here, wasn't it? They must have the heat on. Or he was turning her on. 'Xander, please hurry up and find me. Or never, ever show up.' Honestly, it was a toss up which one would make her happy. Oh gods, he was dipping her, sooo smoothly. His lips hovered over the pulse point in her neck. 'I'm immune to thrall, right?' She tried to reassure herself. The Master had managed to thrall her once, but it didn't work the second time.

Oh, right, these vampires had a different kind of game face, so their way of thralling might be different too. Was he thralling her? 'I don't know who you think you are.' maybe the song was thralling her, because seriously it was expressing exactly what she was feeling. 'Oh, bad Buffy, bad Buffy, don't let yourself be seduced by another vampire!'

"What made you decide to come to Fangtasia tonight?"

"I didn't, I got stuck outside in the rain and came in here because it's open to wait for some friends who are coming to get me. I'd never even heard of this place before." 'And all those shadows there filled up with doubt.' She didn't sound very convincing, did she? She was certain her voice wobbled a little, well it was mostly the truth. That counted, didn't it?

"I'm hopeful you'll decide to come back and play some more."

'Was this playing? Or did he mean he wanted her to do the topless dancing thing? Maybe if he asked really nicely - 'No, Buffy, Mom will know and she will jump realities and drag you home and lock in your room.' Where she used to make out with Angel through the screen less window. She mentally winched, she didn't want to be reminded of Angel, not while Eric was holding her.

How long had she been here, hours, days? Xander must have forgotten about her and abandoned her to live out her life with these vampires. 'Nice try, Xander would never abandon anyone. He's coming and he's going to be all big brotherly when he sees me dancing with a vampire. Plus, there's that whole he hates vampires thing.' There was every chance he would set the bar on fire.

'I don't know what you've done to me.' Only just turned me on so much I can barely remember my own name. 'Buffy Anne Summers. Oh good, I still have a few functioning braincells. Oh, my gods now he's twirling me!'

'Can I take you home with me? Maybe I can visit you, we can work something out, can't we? So it'll be the universe's most long distance relationship ever. What relationship doesn't have it's challenges? It's not insurmountable.'

"Are you married, engaged, otherwise involved in a serious on again, off again relationship?" Oh gods, her brain to mouth filter was just never going to work right, was it?

"No, never been married, never been engaged and haven't really been involved with anyone seriously in a long time."

'Oh, good, than I have a clear field.' And he hadn't laughed at her. He was smirking though. Oooh, guys could be just soo -! Oooh another dip and this time he licked her pulse point, she was melting into a puddle of goo at his feet. 'I wanna do bad things with you.' Oh boy, she did ever.

Were those his fangs she was feeling? 'Who do you think you are?' Oh, that's right, a vampire. Oh boy, time may have just run out.

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A/N The song seducing Buffy is Bad Things by Jace Everett, it's the theme song for the Tru Blood show, just in case you didn't know that.