Not your same ol' love story

Title: Vamps and Vehicles
Pairing: Dakotah James/Sierra James
Rating: T for a bit of blood play (a very, very tiny bit) and a little suggestiveness
Word Count: 1,078
Warnings: None.
Short Summary: As a vampire, Dakotah isn’t used to being afraid.  But when his wife gets behind the wheel – and he’s trapped riding shotgun – all bets are off.  Based on the prompt: #9: Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. (All About Eve)
( Bite me, baby )

Word of the Day Prompt:

Aberrant (adjective, noun)
ab·er·rant [uh-ber-uhnt, ab-er-]

adjective
1. departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
2. deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type; exceptional; abnormal.

noun
3. an aberrant person, thing, group, etc.
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One would think that, considering he was a vampire that he’d be the aberrant one.  But in fact, Dakotah was more ordinary than his wife, the witch.  Or even his child, the dhampir.  Can’t be any more abnormal than a half-vampire, half-human can you? 

Well, you could, he supposed, but thinking things like that never ended well, so he moved on. 

( Bite Me )

From this prompt and featuring my original characters Dakotah, a vampire, Sierra, a witch, and Austen, the half-breed toddler from hell.
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She examined the kitten, turning him over in her hands.  With one last look, Sierra placed Lugosi on the floor.  Spying her three-year-old son watching from the doorway, she motioned him over sternly.

“Austen, what have I told you about the kitten?”

Sheepish, he said, “That if I keep biting him, Papa is going to give him to another kid without fangs.”

“Exactly.  Now behave.”

“Yes, mama.”

“So,” he asked from behind her.  “The verdict?”

“No blood-sucking kittens this week, Kotah.”

“Best news I’ve heard all day.”

“Don’t know which is worse… vampires or their dhampir children,” she grumbled playfully.