still_grrr | Prompt 078: Fiction (Cordelia & Harmony)

Fiction:
Title: It's Hard To Be A Vampire, When Your Best Friend Is Human
Author: angelus2hot
Rating: PG
Word Count: 477
Prompt: 078
Characters: Cordelia, Harmony
A/N: set during Disharmony

She wasn’t supposed to see her like this. No one was. Especially not anyone from Sunnydale. Okay, Buffy had but she so didn’t count. She meant anyone important. Someone like Harmony.

Since she belonged to the old gang that made her semi important. Only in the sense she could run and blab to everybody she’d seen Cordelia looking like a dumpster reject. And that’s exactly what Harmony would do too.

Damn why hadn’t Harmony at least called to say she was dropping by? Then she could have met her dressed a lot better. Nobody out dressed Queen C, if she was given ample warning.

But no, there Harmony stood looking as if she belonged on the cover of the latest fashion magazine. While Cordelia, Queen of Sunnydale High, looked as if she could pose for ‘Dumpster Diving Weekly’.

Oh well there was nothing she could do about it now. In the typical Queen C manner, Cordelia stood straighter, squared her shoulders, her nose a little higher and put on her ‘This is THE only way to dress’ face. It had worked for her in Sunnydale she had no doubt it would work for her now.

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Harmony stood waiting somewhat impatiently for Cordelia to say something. Anything. If she didn’t know better she would have sworn Cordy was feeling a little self-conscious about getting caught looking like, Harmony grimaced as she glanced at Cordelia’s outfit, THAT. No sooner had the thought occurred to her, Harmony dismissed it. Cordelia Chase was never self-conscious. It was her gift to make everyone else feel that way.

But Harmony knew there was something different about Cordelia. She just couldn’t put her finger on it. Suddenly Harmony squealed when ‘the something’ dawned on her.

"You cut your hair! I think it makes your neck look luscio.” Harmony quickly cleared her throat, praying Cordy hadn’t heard her slip of the tongue. The last thing she wanted to do was lose her best friend because of her blood habit. “Um…it looks great.”

Sighing quietly in relief Harmony closed her eyes as Cordelia hugged her and invited her to stay. Cordy’s neck was mere inches from her mouth. She would only have to move a just a little before her fangs could pierce the tender skin and the taste of warm, sweet blood would be caressing her mouth. It took all of her self-control not to give in to the temptation Cordelia unwittingly caused.

With great reluctance she let Cordelia loose from the embrace.

Leading the way out of the Hyperion, Cordy looked back over her shoulder. “I hope you don’t mind sleeping on the couch.”

Harmony swallowed hard as she followed Cordelia. Sleeping on the couch wouldn’t be an issue. Keeping her fangs to herself however might prove difficult. Harmony wanted to cry. It was hard being a vampire when your best friend was human.-