Blood Lust

Chapter Fifteen

After a few more minuets of silence Rosie pulled back slightly and looked up at Ash whose eyes were laced with concern.

"Ash," Rosie whispered softly, her hands fiddling with a piece of cotton that was hanging from his shirt.

"Yes Angel," Ash replied his tone warm and calming in an attempt to sooth Rosie's nerves.

"We need to find Zach and have it out with him. He can't just continue doing this and getting away with it," She replied a little more sternly as her nerves calmed slightly, determination prominent in every word she spoke.

"Oh Angel." Ash smiled as he placed his own larger hand over Rosie's dainty one, stopping her fingers from fiddling with his shirt.

"What? It isn't funny Ash you know!" Rosie exclaimed, bemused as to why he was smirking under the circumstances at hand.

"I know darling, I know" Ash replied "It's just that you are incredibly cute when you are determined." He finished, planting a small peck on the end of her nose to accentuate his point.

"Oh shush you. Enough with the charming, we need to get to work" Rosie grinned, amused at her boyfriends incredibly cute antics.

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Once back at Ash's place, Rosie began to devise her plan, pacing back and forth in his large kitchen, her fingernails tapping the beat in which she walked against her mug full of steaming hot tea.

"We need to catch him when he least expects it." Rosie chewed her lip as she contemplated just how they could do so.

"Zach is never caught off guard Angel," Ash said as he pulled her closer, stopping her from pacing so.

"Hmmmm, then how about we lure him in?" Rosie suggested as she took a sip of her tea, blowing on it beforehand to cool it down enough for her to drink.

"And just how do you suspect we do that then Angel?" Ash asked amused at her very human behaviour in regards to the tea.

"Are you finding something funny here mister?" Rosie pouted, slightly ticked off at Ash's obvious amusement on her behalf.

"No, no. It's just that you seem to have a cup of tea every time you are upset. And I was just thinking how human a notion it is," Ash replied, pulling her closer with the hem of her jumper, patting his knee for her to sit on. To which she obliged quite happily, her slight annoyance melting as she did so.

"Tea makes everything better, or at the very least bearable in bad or shock inducing situations. Rosie said "It's a healer of some sorts I guess" She mused, her nose crinkling up slightly as she thought some more about it.

"A penny for your thoughts," Ash said aloud after a few heartbeats filled with silence as Rosie pondered what Ash had said and also indeed how she has replied.

"Do you miss drinking tea?" Rosie blurted out, her curiosity getting the better of her.

"I have never really thought about it before, Angel, why?" Ash replied, his face happy and his eyes shining as he contemplated Rosie's curiosity on the subject of tea.

"Well because I would miss tea terribly if I couldn't drink it" Rosie replied honestly "Ash?" She questioned after a few seconds pause.

"Yes Angel?" He replied awaiting her next query, eager to know what it was.

"Can you taste it if you drink it?" She asked, looking up at him, her eyes flickering to the mug of tea that was in her hands.

"Yes I can, but not fully. Human food and drink doesn't taste as vibrant too me as it did when I was living. The only thing that I can taste fully is uhm, you know." Ash trailed off not wanting to say the word in case it freaked Rosie out at all. After all she was only just getting used to the idea of him being a vampire and everything that came with it. Especially the whole blood drinking aspect of it.