so very dapper

[temporal_affairs]

The Joker is awfully domestic, in his way. He makes pretty clothes. Nathan's perfectly happy to be a clothes horse for his sartorially-inclined mate. Some of the clothes are distinctly feminine, and Nathan does not wear those, although the Joker could probably talk him into a kilt, even if that's not a Manx thing but only their neighbors.

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[temporal_affairs]

Snuggle snuggle snuggle.

"D'you want to know anything else about half-vampires? To help you decide?"

[yourheartstrings]

"Sure, okay," she says, snuggling him some more. "And let's go back to bed and cuddle there."

[temporal_affairs]

He picks her up and carries her to bed for further snuggling. "Well, you met the princess, you saw Henry. Half-vampires wind up with very rigid sleep schedules. Usually they crash sometime in the evening, but some of them are nocturnal or sleep mornings or something instead. They grow fast. About ten times as fast as a human till they're six months old and look five, and then it slows down till they stop growing when they're seven and look somewhere between eighteen and twenty. They don't age after that."

[yourheartstrings]

"Huh," she says. "I wonder what's up with the sleep thing."

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan shrugs. "Vampires have no choice but to not-sleep all the time, humans have no choice but to do some sleeping but can do it whenever, that's how those traits happen to combine. Half-vamps are about halfway between humans and vampires in most ways, including speed and strength. They can drink blood or eat food, either one, they mostly like blood or the synthetics of it better though. They don't get sick. They heal about like vampires do, but they're more - biological, with heartbeats and needing to breathe and everything."

[yourheartstrings]

"What do you think about kids?" she wonders. "I mean, do you wanna have one? Do you wanna have one right now?"

[temporal_affairs]

"I have honestly never thought about it before. It was only a few decades back that I knew half-vampires were possible, and when I met you I ruled it out, and when you changed yourself I - didn't think."

[yourheartstrings]

She laughs.

"Yeah, neither did I."

[temporal_affairs]

"Well, this isn't the first accidental half-vampire of all time," snorts Nathan.

[yourheartstrings]

The Joker giggles.

"...Aww, man," she says, "if we have a kid there's no way we can keep having this much sex, is there."

[temporal_affairs]

"They do sleep," he points out. "But this much? No, not really, not unless we follow the Coven around and hand it off to babysitters many times a day."

[yourheartstrings]

"Mm, but kids grow up," she muses. "Pretty quick, too, if they're half-vampires. And then we can go back to fucking all the time, if we want."

[temporal_affairs]

"That is true," agrees Nathan, nuzzling her throat.

[yourheartstrings]

She snuggles up and tips her head back a little.

"And we can fuck all we want now," she murmurs.

[temporal_affairs]

"Might be awkward and/or dangerous after a few days, but now, this time we are currently occupying, oh yes," he purrs.

Yep.

[yourheartstrings]

"I think I'll make myself all tasty again," the Joker decides. "That was fun."

[temporal_affairs]

"Er," says Nathan. "As long as you're still pregnant and haven't decided not to have the baby, do make sure I'm not taking stuff it needs?"

[yourheartstrings]

"Sure," she says, and stacks another hex on her regeneration power.

[temporal_affairs]

"All right then," he says, pressing his teeth to her neck.

[yourheartstrings]

The Joker makes herself all tasty.

[temporal_affairs]

Nathan growls and sets about developing another bellyache.

[yourheartstrings]

Mmmmmmmm.

"I love you," she says, when he is finally done chewing on her and the wound in her neck has near-instantaneously disappeared. "I love you lots."

[temporal_affairs]

"I love you," he says in a half purr, half groan. "And how you taste when you do that."

[yourheartstrings]

"Good," she says cheerfully. "That's the idea."

[luminous_regnant]

A few days later, there is a knock on their door.