[Honor]

William half-smiled and unlocked his door, holding it open. He wasn't sure if he was pleased that she still cared so much for him, or if he wished she wouldn't. He thought it all would be much simpler if she just wanted to kill him, but he was beginning to see that would never happen.

"You really shouldn't worry so much." He said, though in a good-natured tone, not like before. "My problems with vampires are not your fault. It's because of what I am. It's my fault." He paused, considering. "Though if you really want to blame someone, blame my mother. Whom I'm even more certain you would not want to meet." His mother, the head of the slayer council, would not like his choice of friends.