Great, a bunch of drunk guys, just what he needed.“Not…for…sale.” He managed past the agony threatening to rip his consciousness away.The stag...ering steps got closer, “Oh come on, we see you whoring at the bar all the time! How much?”Under normal circumstances a few drunk guys were less than a problem for Darius. He could handle three sober guys without really straining too much. At six foot five most people didn’t even bother with him. However that night Darius would have been lucky to fight. Now all of these I had attributed to mistake, accident, or panic induced hallucination. But now I was starting to see a pattern here. It was like every time my blood was up, whether I was scared or excited or whatever, my body would somehow change. Just now I had been nervous about seeing the vice principal who was sitting in front of me, couple that with the intense imagery and I had turned into the pebble skinned Gollum, scaring ten years growth out of the poor receptionist in the process.. “Okay. Well then ... I guess we know where we stand.” Penelope nodded slowly and stepped toward Daniel to show him out, frown lines furrowing her face. “You better get back to school.” She reached out and patted his blond hair, the most platonic gesture she could think of.Daniel thought about Eloise and how she’d faced down Frederick for him. He hadn’t seen her since. He didn’t even know if she was okay. He remembered the fear in Eloise’s eyes as he’d run away. The apparition hadn’t risked. And we're just bi enough that we sometimes have sex--she's the only woman I'd ever be comfortable doing that with, but we do it occasionally. It's worked out amazingly well. Shawna and I got lucky. Having a relationship with a bi person can be difficult, especially for this long. It's 15 years for the two of them, 9 for Matt and I. But Matt and Courtney have someone to scratch the hetero itch with, and they do genuinely love each other. And you know how I feel about Shawna. " And it's worked.