"I thought that might be it. The normal things that bother people kind of don't seem to matter when you're faced with... well, the supernatural." Compared to a vampire, Cole really wasn't that great of a threat, especially since he wasn't the creep Stefan thought he was. "Well, we do have you in common... so I guess that's a starting point right there. We can combine our effort to get you to listen."
He wasn't sure if Ileana had noticed the lack of police involvement yet, and he didn't feel like ruining the evening by telling her that he was pretty sure anarchy was going to start ruling more than once a month. "Yeah," he said carefully. "But at least it's only once a month... and they have that containment theory that hopefully might work for the next full moon. There are still a lot of rational people around."