<em>Oops</em>, Min Yu idly thought as he heard the word ‘vampire’ leave Caleb’s bloody lips. He’d let the secret out. Now that the human knew what was underneath the veil, now that he even knew there was a veil in the first place, he wasn’t allowed to leave the parking lot alive. Those were the rules. Common humans weren’t supposed to know about what really went on a night – the hidden world of vampires, watchers, and hunters. And it was a rule that even Min Yu had enough sense not to break. At least, not a rule he was looking to break just yet. It wasn’t like he hadn’t thought about it before. Wouldn’t it be something to break the news to the world? But that wasn’t Min Yu’s plan for tonight. He had something different cooked up.<br/><br/>His expression hardened as Caleb spoke theoretically of his mother. Min Yu knew he shouldn’t have been bothered by the jab, but he was. He stood up and very slowly plucked off the glasses from his face and folded them, slipping them into his coat’s pocket. Caleb couldn’t see the serious and intent look that took hold of Min Yu’s delicate features, but it entered his voice. All amusement and coyness was dropped. Every syllable of every word covered with a deep frost as he stalked around to Caleb’s other side and jammed his foot under the young man’s body. Min Yu flipped him over again, this time on his bad side – so the weight of his body would set on his wound and pressure it with pain. He wasn’t just careless with his handling of Caleb this time, and was actually looking to cause him hurt. “Don’t talk about my family.”<br/><br/>“Anyways!” Min Yu lifted his foot off Caleb’s body and stomped it right in front of the human’s face. Seconds later it was like a switched had been turned and the young watcher was back to his cheery, if utterly obnoxious self. He clapped his hands and raised his palms to the air. “Twenty minutes? C’mon, can’t you make it more like five? I don’t have all night to stand around and wait for you to bleed out. Have a little consideration, Caleb.”<br/><br/>“Now that you know about the big fat secret of New Arklow and the rest of the world you can’t exactly just walk away. It’s a watcher’s job to keep that a secret, you know?” Min Yu sighed and lowered his hands, shaking his head. So, he wasn’t very good at that part of the job description. Frederick sure was good at that part though. Sure, he moped about occasionally having to kill vampires and humans to keep the city behind the veil, but Min Yu had never seen him fail to do it. “You know, the real watcher, he’d probably just kill you right now. Quick and sweet, put you out of your misery. But, you know, that’s not me.”<br/><br/>Min Yu let out a short laugh. “You like books, apparently. You listen to your family. It'd be a real shame to let a nice guy like you die. What do you think about a career change? You can only work nights, but the benefits are not leaving your poor, dear mama an even fruiter basketcase than she already is.”<br/><br/>“I can make you like me. You’ll be stronger, faster, and you won’t even need these dorky glasses anymore.” Min Yu crouched down again and gently ran his fingers through Caleb’s blond hair, smoothing it away from his forehead. He reached inside his coat for the glasses and slipped them back onto the human’s face, making sure they weren’t crooked as he gave Caleb a kind smile. The vampire he’d thrown off Caleb was still laying still, as was the other surviving hunter, but the other vampire had pulled himself to his feet and was starting to try and stagger off. “I’ll give you a few minutes to think about it, but I only offer once.”<br/><br/>With an airy chuckle Min Yu pulled himself back up to his feet and shouted out after the retreating vampire as he left Caleb’s side to give him some alone time to deliberate his choice. “Where do you think you’re going?”