As Thomas pointed out the various students Aedan was son enraptured with wonder and stuff that he didn't notice the mouth slowly edging closer to his neck. Granted even if he had noticed it his first thought probably wouldn't have been along the lines of what was actually going on. In this freaky alternate universe where Aedan has the observation skills of something greater than a dying sloth he would have probably assumed it was a sort of come on. A come on that was more than a little creepy but a come on nevertheless and probably would have reacted far more mildly than he actually did in the non-parallel universe where he does indeed posses awareness as keen as a banana. 

The words vampire sure did the trick though. Even a banana might notice someone about to suck all it's fruity goodness out of it and so did Aedan. Flailing wildly like there was a spider crawling up his arm he yelled as he turned and sprinted. [i]That was dumb.[/i] Aedan thought as he stared at the ceiling, his memories slowly piecing together the events of the last few milliseconds. Being near death though heightened his deductive abilities to the point he rivaled even the great Sherlock Holmes' dying sloth. 

The first clue was the agonizing amount of pain spreading over his face. The second clue was a small smear of dried blood on the wall, the pretty wall, that he had been gazing at earlier. The final piece of the puzzle were the looks. The looks and the giggles. "Oh god," He moaned getting to his feet very, very slowly. It took a few moments but finally he rounded on the vampire with a triumphant grin. And just because he had tears of pain in his eyes didn't make it any less triumphant and anybody who says otherwise is totally correct but will never ever be acknowledged by Aedan's extraordinary being. Or beings (plural) if that thinking to himself resulted in more than idle chatter.

"I have bested you creature of the night!" He yelled as he swooned unsteadily. "For you see, how can you drink my blood," pause for affect. Or was it effect? "When it is all over there!" He stepped aside, nearly falling over again, to reveal the to or three specks of red on the wall from his bleeding lip. This was probably where a laugh resounding with confidence would have been put to much use. Unfortunately the laugh was nervous and weak. [i]I think you should re-think your strategy.[/i] He though at himself. [i]I think you should re-think shutting up.[/i] He replied to himself. [i]Wait, are there three of us now?[/i] That thought surprised him. [i]Nah, four. He hit that wall harder than he thinks. We do need to deal with this vampire problem though.[/i] All thoughts agreed on that one.

Aedan was many things, most of them unimpressive, but he was also a student of this academy whose name he couldn't quite remember mainly because in an alternate universe some nerd writing a final post before falling asleep couldn't be arsed to scroll up and check although said nerd was just going to blame it having Aedan run into a wall. Convenience thy name is Yahtzee. Back to the point, Aedan's declining mental state. No wait that wasn't it. Oh yes it was the vampire that could potentially leave him a dried out, bloodless husk. Aedan was accepted for a reason and that reason was simply that he was not a complete and total pushover. Just most of one. So he did what any non-pushover would do. He prepared to attack.

A steely demeanor settled over Aedan from nowhere. "Thomas right?" His voice was still a little shaky but unafraid this time. "I hear vampires aren't overly fond of heat." He reached into his pocket and pulled out his silver lighter, flipping the lid to expose the flint wheel which he pressed his thumb to. "Now I may be wrong but I kinda get the feeling that neither of us would do well to find out." Aedan held out the lighter at arms length ready to spark the wick and launch a jet of flame at the first person to actually speak to him in an embarrassingly long time. "So how about you reveal this as a joke of some sort, I look like a twat, which I am very good at by the way, and then we go back to the way things were. A perfectly happy morning between to strangers with a friendship blossoming between them that will forever be remembered as something that could stand the tests of time?" Aedan licked his lips and tasted his own blood on them. [i]Still an idiot.[/i] He thought. "Let' be chums then eh?" He asked lowering but not closing his lighter.