Waking up...[Michael/open]

[Professor Cho Midnight]

_{Cho pulled the covers up slightly, head snuggling back into the pillow. She stopped a minute, cheek nuzzing the pillow a little. 'This isn't my pillow...' She slowly brought her hands towards her eyes, rubbing the small bits of 'sleepy dust' from the corners of her eyes. Cho's vision began to adjust and she noticed her surroundings, the Hospital Wing. She just about managed to sit up, propping her back against the headboard of the bed. "That's the best nights sleep I've had in ages..." She mumbled to herself. Her mind awoke finally, her memory became clear. The events of two nights before were vivid in her mind, the pain becoming real again. She took a look around the Hospital Wing, hoping to see Michael, her hands were shaking, they touched her neck; feeling the bandages she stopped completely. "M-Michael!" She called out, looking at her Muggle-Watch. 'Monday, 5.49am'}[/i] It read, 'Monday!? I've been out 2 whole days! ...Michael will be here soon...' Cho told herself. 'He's an early riser...'[/sub]

[Michael Galati]

Michael pushed his way into his office, singing a song. His arms full of highly fragile glassware. "Touch me, Just like that. Now lower down... Where the figs lie..."

He glanced over at Cho through the glass windows looking into the Hospital Wing same as he had for the last two mornings when he came up from Hanschen's chambers . He normally made it upstairs by 5:30am, but today... Hanschen had decided he was going to get a bit frisky. Michael rubbed his jaw..."Bugger, I hurt..."

He glanced at Cho again and saw that she was stirring. He glanced at his watch. Almost six... That's about how long Hanschen said the sleeping potion would last. "Morning sunshine!," He said going to her side, "How are we feeling today?"

[Professor Cho Midnight]

<sub>Cho relaxed a little when Michael walked into the Hospital Wing, she rested her hands in her lap, trying not to show they were shaking.

"Morning sunshine!"</sub>[/i]

She smiled a bit, though forced it slightly. "M-Morning." Cho was glad he was there, she felt so much safer.

"How are we feeling today?"[/i]

She turned her head a little to look at Michael, she winced a bit as the bites stung, returning her gaze to straight ahead. "I don't know..." She replied simply.[/sub]

[Michael Galati]

"Well, I imagine you probably wouldn't be quite sure as of yet. As for the bites on your neck, those are going to sting a while," he said motioning towards them, "and I'm afraid there is nothing I can do. I've been reading to see if there is even a folk remedy for vampire bites, but there doesn't seem to be. How much do you remember exactly Cho?"

Even though he didn't really want to know the details anyway, the parallel to his own childhood toostrong, he felt he needed to ask.

[Professor Cho Midnight]

_{Cho bit into her tongue, trying to hold back tears. She wasn't upset about what had happened, more scared... 'What if he does this again, to a student?!' How would they cope if Cho was coping this badly... Though, she had only just remembered what had happened around five minutes ago.
"E-Everything..." She wiped away a tear before it had the chance to slide down her cheek. "Do you know what happened?"}

[Michael Galati]

"Er, yes." Michael had just lied. Not something he did often, but he did it well. "Alucard told me everything. Don't worry about this happening again... Alucard has a detention today... I'll do my best to help him control his urges. He thinks he is coming in to clean up some dishes and such, but I'm going to force him to listen to me.... I know about urges you can't control. I was a Were-..." Michael cut himself off. "Er, I just know about urges... One of my friends, he... I mean..."

[Professor Cho Midnight]

_{"Michael you can tell me." She could see in his eyes there was something she wasn't being told. Cho wouldn't mind if he didn't want to tell her, that was fair enough. She wasn't prepared to tell him about her father... She was ashamed of that part of her past if she was honest. She was just prepared to be there for her friend, 'cause sometimes she'd always wanted someone she could open up to, just maybe Michael was feeling the same right now.}

[Michael Galati]

"Do you remember how I said that I used to feel sick when I looked at the moon? It's because I was, well technically still am, a werewolf. I don't have outbreaks every full moon anymore, it's amazing... Hanschen, he is so brilliant...That's the reason I love him... Well, that and he's quite good in b..." Too much information there Mikey... "He created a potion in our second year... A draft actually, I think... that slowed the effects, so I never completely turned. I took that for many years, but I ran away before he could do anymore work on it, but now he has perfected it... It keeps me from changing at all... He is so great...I can't believe he likes a bumbling fool like me."

[Professor Cho Midnight]

<sub>Painful as it was she turned towards him and looked into his eyes, letting him know she was listening. As a child she'd always considered Werewolves much scarier than Vampires, but this time, she wasn't scared of Michael, not at all. If anything she was slightly facinated. Cho found Alucard the scarier, perhaps that was because Michael was her bestfriend, and she couldn't see him wanting to hurt her, and even if he did change, he couldn't be held responsible. However with Vampires, they - to an extent - could be blamed for their actions.

"That and he's quite good in b..."</sub>[/i]

Cho giggled, she loved the way he would spill all about his and Hanschen's relationship, she figured it must have been because he loved him so much. And if Hanschen had done that for her, she'd be pretty much in love with the guy too.

"You guys are so good together, not to mention cute!" She smiled and hugged Michael, she closed her eyes a moment. Cho felt calmer about the whole situation, though she still was scared about Alucard, despite Michael saying everything was going to be taken care of.[/sub]

[Michael Galati]

"We try our best to be as cute as possible!"

Okay, maybe we don't try so much, but we might as well...

"Look at me blathering away over my silly problems... I'm not the one bed ridden."

He looked her over once again, this time looking to see any changes in color on her skin, an obvious sign of vampire-bite problems.

"You don't seem to have any obvious long-term effects dearest... You should be grateful. Most people will have some sort of complication...."

[Professor Cho Midnight]

_{"We try our best to be as cute as possible!"}[/i]

"Well you do it very well!" She let go of him a little, she didn't usually get hugs, her mother had never been a touchy feely person. Not since Cho's father had 'left' home.

"Look at me blathering away over my silly problems... I'm not the one bed ridden."[/i]

"Bed ridden? I'd hardly call myself bed ridden....Well I hope I'm not gonna be." She started to worry a little, wandering what this bite would actually do to her, as far as she was aware it would just hurt then heal eventually? It wasn't like he'd drunk her dry, well, not quite

[i"]You don't seem to have any obvious long-term effects dearest... You should be grateful. Most people will have some sort of complication...."[/i]

Cho started to worry even more, panick stricken over her face. "C-Complications? What kinda complications..."

' I feel so stupid, I should know this. I'm the faffing Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher..'[/sub]