Cooper's eyes go a little flinty when Kyle asks that question. If he'd been trying to get a rise out of the vampire, he couldn't have picked a better question. "Let's make one thing clear. I paid t'feed off of her. I never paid t'sleep with her." There was a very big difference in Cooper's mind, though arguably, the act of feeding was in some ways even more intimate than that of pure sex.

"As for how it happened..." He shrugs. "...as the kids say, it's complicated. We would talk a lot about this 'n that. I saw something in her that that was both older than she looked and very young at the same time." It was hard, being eternally stuck in the body of a teenager, and trying to find anyone to have a meaningful relationship with him. Nancy had fit both sides of him. "I started t'care for her beyond just someone t'feed off of. Took a while, but we both figured out what we were lookin' for was each other. So that's how it happened."