And of course we get the classic TV trope of a witch and a vampire falling in love!

I joke about it being trope-y, but it does work for me here a lot better than it does in other places even just from the base premise what with the actors both being much much older than what you'd expect to see from this trope. Far too many vampire stories have hot young men falling in love with late-teen-early-20-somethings, but there's not enough love out there for the older vampires and older women. It's just a refreshing change of pace with the trope.

That said, the fact that she's a witch doesn't really come into play with this story at all, and if anything it detracts from it. You can write that she was blinded by love all you want, but a witch not cottoning on when she's told 'don't give me permission to come into your house' just doesn't work. The same goes for Hawthorne asking to be turned into a vampire, except to an even greater extent.

How short the story is as well doesn't do the story any favours, they try to cram the full arc of a vampire (comfort with a detached life -> finding attachment -> realising how soulless undeath is -> worrying you'll harm that attachment -> dusting yourself to protect your attachments) into like mabye15 mins. It just feels very rushed and I'm not a fan.

There's also some pretty poor editing here in places, the effects for the vampire dying are a bit comical, and you can tell they didn't have quite enough footage as it repeats the very end in reverse. Plus there's a moment where you're meant to see one thing in person, and one in the mirror, but they shot and cropped it in a way that you can still see the non-reflected arms waving in front of the mirror.

All in all, eh, it's fine, it has it's moment, but I'm not coming back to it any time soon.