Rachel practically felt the door slam as the sound reverberated through the entire church. Ivy had been messing around in her room for a while, but the vamp seemed perfectly fine when Rachel had last saw her. Clearly something had changed though as Ivy stormed into the kitchen and made no attempt to avoid her.

"You've done some stupid things Rachel, but even you should know better than this." Ivy felt her blood boil as her grip on the foreign objects tightened. The church was her home as well and she couldn't believe Rachel would be so inconsiderate.

"Ivy, calm down." It had been a while since she had truly pissed off Ivy, especially to the point Ivy was yelling at her instead of simply trying to rip her throat out.

"Do you have any idea of the risk your taking? Do you even care that one little mistake could kill you?" She had tolerated a lot from Rachel over the years, but Ivy couldn't believe after all they had shared recently the witch was still keeping secrets.

"Whatever it is Ivy you know I wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't necessary." Staying calm was good, but a bit difficult given Ivy's paranoia was starting to make her question everything she had ever done.

"There is nothing necessary about this." Ivy tossed the offending bottles on to the kitchen island. "Human medications are even more dangerous than the brimstone some ghoul offers you on a street corner and you've got three bottles of it in your medicine cabinet."

"Really Ivy?" Rachel put the bottles upright, focusing on that instead of laughing at her girlfriend. "It's just aspirin and something to help me sleep. Humans have been taking them for decades and they all seem fine." She had picked up the aspirin from a human store and Ford had prescribed her the pills for the occasional night when her worries outweighed exhaustion.

"Really Rachel? Do you know how many humans die each year after taking these sorts of pills? They pop one too many, or in the wrong combination, or even at the wrong time of day and they end up in the morgue." Ivy kept up on the latest cause of death for as many species as the city could accurately track and usually then lie about. Why drug overdose wasn't the leading cause in human fatalities, the ratio of patients that were legally given the medications and corpses in the ground from taking it was certainly concerning.

"I'm not human and I don't take that many. Sometimes it's just nice to wake up without feeling like I got hit by a bus."

"So you would rather trust some human didn't get the dosage wrong instead of my word that refined brimstone isn't going to hurt you?" Rachel wanting to stick to her pain amulets and physical conditioning to recover Ivy could understand. It was infuriating but respectable. Finding drugs sold by some cookie with name tag in a medicine cabinet she had restocked countless times over their years of living together without knowing Rachel was taking them was simply too much.

"Ivy, of course I trust you, it's these just don't have the side effects of brimstone."

"Well then I suppose they'll be putting the medicinal brimstone industry out of business then." Not bothering with the witch any longer Ivy grabbed the bottles before retrieving her carton of orange juice. "No side effects huh? What a wonderful creation."

"Ivy, don't." It was far too late for that though as her roommate took at least six aspirin and three sleeping pills as if they were candy before tossing the empty bottles in the trash.

"Next time at least have the decency to tell me you're on drugs. Do you have any idea what would happen if you mixed those with brimstone?" Given Rachel's trouble with brimstone and wolfsbane at the same time, combining the vampire-favored drug with the pills could have been fatal.

"Ivy, you should probably sit down." Rachel remembered her first experience with the medication after only taking two aspirin and a witch's metabolism worked at a snail's pace compared to that of a vampire.

"Why? Do you have some other information you would like to share? Is there some new guy in your life that you've failed to mention you're sleeping with because he tried to kill you last week and you just had to jump him afterward?" The witch kept secrets like most people kept around loose change, but unfortunately Rachel never got rid of any them until the information nearly got them all killed.

"No, but you are going to get very light-headed in a second and then you are going to fall." Rachel moved closer to her girlfriend, trying not to panic that she could have an overdosing vampire in her kitchen within the next few minutes of her life.

"What happened to them being perfectly safe Rachel?" Ivy felt certain that she had made her point as she turned to leave, right before she felt her legs give out.

"Ivy!" Rachel had gotten behind Ivy just in time to stop her from falling backwards, but with her arms around the vampire's waist to stop her from going forward, her body had to support all the extra weight and that wasn't going to last long. "Ivy, I'm going to take you to the couch but I'm going to need some help. Can you walk?"

"I can't feel my legs, the room is spinning too fast Rachel." Ivy felt panicked or at least assumed she was panicking as the severe vertigo was making concentration on anything impossible.

"It's not so fun having your brain turned to mush is it Ivy?" Rachel knew it wasn't mature to snap at her girlfriend, especially when the woman wasn't exactly able to respond, but that aspect of their relationship didn't seem like it would ever change. They had gotten better at managing it to where she would suffer her wounded pride by apologizing to Ivy afterward, or Ivy would admit she overreacted some times like when she had Vivian's car towed after she spotted it parked in a reserved spot, which usually met they had to apologize to Jenks after he found them in the kitchen, or living room, without clothes on.

"How can take those things? This is awful Rache." Ivy had tried brimstone that was in no way intended for medical treatment, but it sharpened the senses before leaving her disoriented. Clearly humans though were in a hurry to die.

"One at a time and letting a tolerance build up and I don't have the metabolism of a hummingbird to contend with." After dragging Ivy over towards the couch, Rachel tried to pick up the vampire, as Ivy had done so many times with her, only to lose her balance and end up on the cushions with a doped up vampire on top of her. Normally that had a very appealing sound to it. Ivy's body was lengthy and there were strong muscles that went with her plentiful curves, yet she moved with a grace of a dancer, but that was the good fortune of genetics and decades of training Rachel didn't have and now she couldn't breathe.

"Ivy, wake up and stop drooling on my neck. Not everyone gets to come back from the dead and this wasn't what I had in mind when I said I could die happy beneath you." She had Ivy's chest pressed against her own in much different fashion and the breath in her ear was enticing her to say stupid things instead of sounding like someone with sleep apnea.

"Hmmm?" As the spinning stopped Ivy actually found the feeling rather pleasant. She felt light. Her muscles were slack, senses dulled and her mind had slowed. It was no wonder people took too many of the pills, they were fantastic. With Rachel pressed against her and the still present mix scents, she really could just fall asleep right there.

"Damn it Ivy." As a matter of survival, Rachel made a final push and managed to get the intoxicated vampire off her. "You just had to prove me wrong didn't you? Doesn't matter what it cost as long as you could say 'I told you so'." Rachel tried to calm her annoyance as oxygen was still only just returning to her lungs, but Ivy corrected her any time an opportunity came up since they started sleeping together. Damn smug vampire knew she was too far gone to leave her OCD ass now and relished in holding that over her.

"Mmm." Missing the warmth of her lover, Ivy tugged on Rachel's shirt until the redhead got the idea that she was either going to move closer or Ivy was going to tear her shirt. The latter actually had a lot of appeal to the vampire and Ivy's hands quickly slipped down the witch's sides and found the hem of the shirt.

"Oh no, not going to happen." Rachel pushed off the couch before Ivy could pull her shirt off. Under different circumstances she wouldn't have cared what was going on before as it wasn't like they had fought in recent weeks, but if nothing else she wanted Ivy sober enough to apologize before any clothing removal happened. "You don't get to storm into the kitchen, get stoned and then seduce me like it was no big deal."

"Those pills are really good." Ivy stretched out, enjoying the soft cushions and soft fabric even as her dear heart glared at her. "You should take some."

"I'm going to make sure you remember you said that." Rachel left the vampire only long enough to fill Ivy's Vampiric Charms mug with coffee, but it was clear that in her absence the vamp had passed out. The woman's breathing was steady though and Rachel abandoned thoughts of waking her up. Taking advantage of whatever temporary peace they had, Rachel laid down next her lover and laid her head on her chest. When Ivy woke up she was going to give her hell for being so damn stubborn about trying to constantly protect her, but she also had to plan a reward for her overprotective girlfriend as Ivy was more than security, she was her heart and soul.

Hello again to my fellow forgotten Ravy fans. I found this story mostly complete on my harddrive this morning when looking through and I know I said this story would be done after three chapters, but I hope no one minds if I put this here anyways.