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“Kan? Could you get Miss Day from the nurse?”
Kan jerked his head up. “Sure.”
Kan strode down the hallway, thinking. Tanya sleeps too much during the day to be a normal human, it's almost as though she's an owl. He grinned. Or one of us.
Mr. Mandala walked by in the hallway and tapped his lip.
“Oops,” Kan retracted his oversized canine teeth and smiled charmingly at the equally charming teacher.
Mr. Mandala frowned and walked on.
Damn, gotta watch that.
Kan reached the nurse's office.
“Mrs. Meyer? Tanya needs to come back to class,” he said.
The nurse looked up from getting an ice pack for a student. “She's in the far bed,” she told him.
Kan walked over to the bed and gently shook Tanya.
“Tanya? Mr. Long wants you to come back, now,” he told her.
“Mnnh.”
“I will pick you up and carry you,” Kan continued.
Tanya poked her head out from under the blanket. “You probably would, too,” she said, yawning, “All right, all right.” She sat up and stretched, her long, perfectly straight dark brown hair falling away from her face. “Stupid goody two-shoes,” she muttered.
Kan crossed his arms and flipped his shaggy black hair away from his face, his green eyes challenging. Tanya ignored him.
“Thanks, Mrs. Meyer,” Tanya said as she exited.
“Sure, Tanya,” she replied.
As they were walking back to class together, Kan studied Tanya out of the corner of his eyes.
She would fit in well, basically alienated from the rest of them, he thought. He took a deep breath. And her aura isn't purely human, either. Kan thought about the auric trace he'd breathed from her. Faintly vampiric, with some unicorn and dragon, too.
“Kan? Something wrong?” Tanya had gotten ahead of him by a few steps.
“Hmm?” Kan jerked out of his reverie, “No, just thinking.”
Tanya walked back and joined him, “What about?”
“Oh, this and that, everything and nothing,” Kan told her. He studied her reaction to his words.
“That doesn't confuse you?” he asked.
Tanya shook her head, “No, it makes perfect sense, it's just a paradox.”
Kan was surprised. She was wise for a human, if she understood that.
Kan opened and held the door for Tanya when they returned to Mr. Johnson's room for horticulture.
I'll talk to Ver about it, Kan decided.

“No, absolutely not.”
“But, she’s not purely human, Ver,” Kan argued, “I-” Kan stopped.
Mr. Mandala looked at Kan sharply, “You haven’t breathed her aura, have you?”
Kan looked down, suddenly interested in his shoes.
“Kan?”
“Yessir,” Kan replied meekly.
“Kan,” Ver sighed and ran his hand through his black hair, “I know you get hungry, but you know how dangerous that is to humans.”
“But she’s not!” Kan exclaimed, “Or, at least, not purely. She has traces of vampire, as well as unicorn and dragon!”
Ver looked interested. “What was the dominant trace, besides human?”
Kan nodded, “Vampire.”
“Second?”
“Unicorn.”
“So the dragon would be the least dominant. I suppose that would be good, for us anyways.” Ver sat and thought for a minute.
“So…” Kan prompted.
“Don’t do anything.”
“What? Why!” Kan asked.
“Because she’s human. We don’t interfere with their lives, lest they find out about ours,” Ver explained.
“But she’s not human!” Kan argued.
“She was born and raised a human, she has human interests, and human characteristics, you will NOT turn her!” Ver shouted, standing up.
Kan bowed to the older vampire and exited the room.
“If the auric removal affects her at all, you're going to be the one to take care of it, Kanneric,” Ver told him.
Kan simply made a peace sign, not turning around.

“Hey, Tanya, can I sit here?”
Tanya looked up.
“Sure,” she said.
Kan set his lunch tray on the table next to Tanya and sat down. Tanya’s friends giggled.
“You may commence as you were before,” Kan told them, “I was just looking for a place to sit.”
Tanya glanced over at the table where Kan usually sat. His friend Jaya and Jaya’s sister, Letiya, were sitting there, staring at Kan. She shrugged and said nothing.
“So, Jaya asked you to go to prom with him?” Ashley, one of Tanya's friends, asked her eagerly.
Tanya shrugged. “I turned him down,” she said flatly.
Kan twitched slightly.
“Why?” exclaimed another girl, Sarah.
“I've never really liked him,” Tanya explained.
“What about giving every guy a chance?” Ashley asked.
“I said I would give every guy a chance, so long as my original opinion of them was neutral, or good. My opinion of Jaya isn't very high,” Tanya told her.
“May I ask why?” Kan cut in.
“He's an idiot,” Tanya told him. “He asked me by handing me one of those peanut cans with the snakes in it, and had a note taped to one of the snakes.”
“He does enjoy practical jokes,” Sarah said, as if to excuse Jaya.
Tanya glared at her. Sarah remembered that Tanya had little tolerance for practical jokes.
“Oh.”
“He would do that,” Kan said.
“But, are you going to prom?” Ashley asked.
Tanya shrugged. “Maybe.”
“You have to go!” Sarah exclaimed, “It's your first prom!”
Tanya shrugged and was silent.
“Would you perhaps be interested in going with me?” Kan asked quietly.
Tanya jerked her head up, surprised. “Oh, well...umm...”
“I mean, well, you don't have to reply now, you could tell me later.” Kan got up suddenly and went to dump his tray.
“Jeez,” Sarah said.
Ashley whistled.
Tanya sat and watched Kan's retreating back. “Wow,” she said. “Wasn't expecting that.”

“You a*****e!” Jaya slammed Kan into the wall at the hangout.
A few other vampires looked up, others ignored them. Fights were known to break out among vampires, but Jaya and Kan were usually calmer than that.
“You just had to ask Tanya, after I did!” Jaya snarled.
Kan held up his hands. “She turned you down, man,” he pointed out.
Jaya growled with frustration and threw Kan across the room.
“Hey, careful!” one of the older vampires told them.
Kan stood up and brushed dust off of his shirt. “I bet you just asked her for because of the draw of human aura,” he said.
“You asked her for the same reason!” Jaya moved to behind Kan and twisted his arm behind his back. “Give me one good reason not to suck your aura.”
“Ver would send you to the afterlife himself,” Kan told him. “And I asked Tanya out of curiosity.”
“Oh? And what exactly were you curious about?” Jaya inquired, his teeth dangerously close to Kan's throat.
“Her,” Kan replied simply, “I want to experience what humans do, even if it's something as simple as a school dance function.”
Almost all of the vampires looked up at that.
“Why the hell do you want to experience humanity?” one asked.
“Curiosity,” Kan told them. He twisted out of Jaya's grasp.
“I'll be at the library,” he said smiling. He shaded out of the house.

Phew, boy was that close, Kan though a minute later as he approached the town's public library. Too close.
Kan caught sight of Tanya and slowed down a little. He was apprehensive as to what Tanya might say, after his asking her to prom.
Tanya caught sight of him. “Hey, Kan!” she called.
Kan feigned surprise. “Oh, hello, Tanya,” he replied.
Tanya ran to meet him. “If your offer still stands, I'd like to accept it,” she said timidly.
“Yeah, it still stands,” Kan told her.
“Ok, umm...See you at school tomorrow?” Tanya asked.
“Yeah, see you.” Tanya turned to enter the library and Kan moved to go straight.
“Wait, Tanya,” Kan called.
Tanya turned around. “Yes?” she inquired.
“Would you mind going to a movie with me tomorrow?” Kan asked.
“Sure,” Tanya smiled, “What time?”
“I'll pick you up at 6:30,” Kan promised.
“Ok, then, it's a date,” Tanya said, turning into the library.
“Yeah,” Kan said wonderingly after she had gone inside, “It is.”

Kan returned to the hangout in a daze. He'd asked out a human, and she'd said yes. What would Ver say?
Ver just glared at him warningly.
“You be careful with her,” he told him.
Kan bowed to Ver. “Oh, I will, sir.”
Ver frowned a little and watched Kan go slowly upstairs to his room.
Kan flopped down on his bed, still dazed. Jaya shaded into his room.
“So?” he asked.
Kan looked up. “I'm picking her up at 6:30 tomorrow and taking her to a movie,” he told him.
Jaya growled with frustration and left the room.

Tanya jumped when she shut her locker and found Kan behind the door.
“Are we still on for tonight?” he asked.
“Yeah,” Tanya replied.
“Ok, then, see you at 6:30.” Kan pushed himself away from the lockers and strode down the hallway.
Ashley and Sarah came up behind Tanya.
“Way to go, Tanya!” Sarah said loudly.
“Hooking the hottest guy in school, who lives with, I might add, the hottest teacher of the school, ” Ashley cut in.
Tanya shuddered. “Truth be told, Mr. Mandala kind of creeps me out,” she admitted.
“Why?” Ashley and Sarah asked simultaneously.
“I don't know. Something about the way he always dresses in black, and his hair is always slicked back,” Tanya told them.
“Maybe that's why he's so attractive,” Sarah said, “Everything about him is black, right down to his eyes.”
“Except his skin, which is snow white.” Ashley and Sarah stared into space with comically dreamy eyes and sighed.
“Guys, don't,” Tanya protested.
“Sorry, Tanya,” Ashley apologized.
“Yeah, sorry,” Sarah seconded.
“That's all right, guys,” Tanya told them.
“So where are you two going?” Ashley asked.
“He's taking me to a movie tonight,” Tanya replied.
“You seem calm about it,” Sarah remarked.
“You should be excited,” Ashley told her. “Especially since it's your first date ever.”
“Gee, I wonder why,” Tanya said sarcastically.
“Gasp!” Ashley exclaimed, equally sarcastic. “You've been saving yourself for Kan! Now I see!”
Tanya pushed Ashley forward. “Guys, I don't want a big deal made out of this, please,” she pleaded. “Not yet, anyways.”
“We won't,” they promised.

“Don’t do it, Kan.”
Kan ignored Jaya.
“I’m serious, don’t do it.”
“You know, Jaya, I think I know why Tanya turned you down,” Kan told his friend.
“Why is that, Kan?”
“You’re annoying.” Kan put on his jacket and tried to move past Jaya, who was blocking the door.
“Why shouldn’t I do it?” Kan asked him.
“What if it goes too far?” Jaya asked. “What if you find you can't resist her aura and take it?”
“I have more self control than that,” Kan said. He tried again to push past Jaya.
“But what if?” Jaya persisted.
Kan sighed. “I already told Ver, I'll deal with it.”
Jaya allowed himself to be pushed aside.

yes, i have more, just not to a point where i can stop easily, i'll post when i have even more