“Are you kidding?  You can’t trust anything Alice says.  When have you ever heard that you had to chop a chicks head off in order to get rid of her.” Shane said over the phone to Helena, “Hold on for a second, okay Helena?”

“Yeah.”

In the background, Helena could hear a woman’s voice and then Shane responding, “No, Carmen we don’t turn into bats, so don’t try.”  Helena snickered slightly, “Hello, Helena?”

“Who’s Carmen?”

”She’s a girl I met.”

“And bit and fell in love with…”  By the sound of Shane’s voice, Helena just knew what was going in Shane’s life.  Call it a vampire’s intuition.

“So, what?!  You’re in the exact same predicament.”

“That’s true.”  After a silence, Helena finally spoke, “What now?”

“Other than the head chopping and shit, you follow Alice’s advice.  She’s in love with you…”

“It hasn’t been that long…”

”It doesn’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine, Helena.” Helena sighed at Shane’s words, “Turn her.  I’m not saying that you two will be together forever, but at the very least you can explore what forever can be like.”

“How about your forever with Carmen?”

“It feels great so far.  The most alive I’ve ever felt, has been in her arms.”

“I know the feeling.”

“Don’t be so scared.  There’s nothing to fear…”

“Don’t say it…”

”I wasn’t.”

“I’ll let you know what happens.”  Helena hung up the phone.  Slowly, she took her time to getting to the bedroom where she knew Bette would be waiting for her.

The things that ran through her head scared her.  She wondered if there was a cure—to somehow change her back into a human.  Then she wondered why anybody would want that.  Granted, she couldn’t go out in the daylight and the first woman she loved this century happened to be a mortal, but could she really stomach being human again?  No.

As she entered the bedroom, Bette lie naked in between the sheets of the bed.

“Bette…”

“Yes?” She asked, sitting up.

“Are you sure you want this?  Because if you do, there is no way to come back from this.”