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"Because they think vampires pose a real threat to humans?"
"Exactly And speaking of real threats, what are you learning tonight in Schau?"
"Har-har, my little vampire friend You will love and fear me in due time"
"I already do Are you still doing potions?"
"Actually, no We're doing some different stuff this week How's the head honcho?"
The quick change of subject was a little weird
Mallory usually loved an interested audience when it caic apprenticeship Maybe the stuff she was learning noas actually as dull as carpentry, although that was hard to iine
"Ethan Sullivan is still Ethan Sullivan," I finally concluded
She snorted in agree i of - and how's that for a segue? - guess who's now got a big ol' pair of spectacles perched on the end of his perfect little nose?"
"Joss Whedon?" Although it had taken her a little while to get used to the idea of havingfor the supernatural, fiction or otherwise Buffy and Spike were particular objects of affection
"Gad, no Although wouldn't that totally give ically correct his eyesight or so?
Anywho, no Catcher"
I grinned "Catcher got glasses? Mr I'lasses? Maybe this is going to be a good night after all"
"I know, right? To be fair, they actually look pretty good on him I did offer to work a little abracadabra and hook him up with twentytwenty, but he declined"
"Because?"
She deepened her voice into a pretty good iic - expending the will of the universe on my retinas'"
"That does sound like so he'd say"
"Yep So glasses it is And I'll tell you, they are little miracle workers We have definitely turned a corner in the bedrooy level is just off the - "
"Mallory Enough My ears are beginning to bleed"
"Prude" A piercing honk rang through the phone, followed by Mallory's voice "Learn to ot Wisconsin drivers in front of et off the phone I'll talk to you tomorrow"
"Night, Mal Good luck with the drivers and the ic"
"Smooches," she said, and the line went dead
I tucked the phone back into my pocket Thank God for besties
Ten minutes later, I had a chance to test my "Ethan is still Ethan" theory
I didn't even need to glance back to know that he'd stepped behind h Ethan Sullivan, Master of Cadogan House, the vampire who'd added me to its ranks
After two ht together But "together" hadn't lasted; he'd reversed course after he'd decided dating retted that decision, too, and he'd spent the past two , or so he said, to make amends