"Bristol, first. I stopped some other vampires from killing him. We became friends. Found him a job where I worked --better to cover for him. Then we got a flat together. Which was already occupied, by Annie." Oh, there's the sting. And his gaze shifts away from Hasibe for a moment as the beginnings of guilt start to creep back on him.

"We..." The difference between his frame of mind from then and now makes something anxious bubble inside him, before he finally (and firmly) decides on, "We were good for each other. He needed to feel like he belonged. I needed someone to focus on, to keep me on the wagon. And Annie was just so ecstatic to have people who could see her. The difference is they were always good people. And I'm not."

"But it was four at the end. George's girlfriend, Nina, there was --he was changing, and she got too close." He finally looks back to Hasi with the faintest of smiles. "They're going to have a baby." The disbelief in his voice is out of my friend with a baby than two werewolves having a baby. There's also a small hint of pride in the other man.