[Alucard waits for Gideon to take her next quarter before he takes a more moderate slice for himself. It isn't often he feels this much a glow about something he's made, but this is an exception. Hard to tell if it's the cake and the wine or the company though. Probably both.]

And why you have to have someone to keep your ego in check. Helped by the fact that they're no slouch in the appearance department, I suppose.

[It is hard to be a bisexual disaster without at least slightly acknowledging that you look pretty damn good.

The dhampir isn't going to push back if Gideon wants to circle back to circumstance as a topic. His goal was provide an out if it was needed, more than anything else.]

--It only occurs to me now that the concept of vampirism might offend her on a conceptual level. Dead but still walking around, all the flesh still attached to the skeleton and so on.