Nancy knows what is happening, as the girl's fingers close around her wrist. Shit, she thinks too late. A small woman, she's easily pressed against the wall. No, she knows what this is. What the girl wants. What Nancy does not want to give her.

"Don't do this," she says, trying to keep her voice even, her heartbeat steady.Maybe Eponine notices the scars on her neck from other fangs before. "I'm- I'm Cooper's girlfriend- you don't want to do this." Calling on Cooper's name, the same way she has on occasion called on Bill's.

"I know magic and I will use it."