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"Does it hurt?"
For all the years he'd spent hiding and explaining, being evaluated by medics and officers and men who wanted to know whether he could be weaponized, nobody had ever asked him that at first. (Usually they wanted to know whether crosses worked, or whether he could turn someone else, or how difficult he was to kill.) So the simplicity of your concern caught somewhere dangerously close to his ribs.
"Yes," he said after a long pause. "It hurts." You did not make a face or pity him in any way that he could accuse you of. You just nodded slowly, eyes dropping toward his hands as though that answer had made the whole thing more clear.
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After one bad mission leaves you stranded in the mountains with König, you learn two very important things: first, vampires are real, then, your weird Austrian coworker happens to be one of them. Unfortunately, letting him drink from you only makes things worse.
—Or: You let a starving vampire drink your blood. Really, you should’ve expected him to get attached.