I find this to be very atypical. Of course it's almost this weird kind of Stockholm syndrome relationship between the two of them as they're stuck together and are both captives of the same greater evil.
Sunshine saving Constantine is also a bit of an odd thing as far as relationships between humans and vampires go. Usually the human (Almost always a human woman) is in a state of powerlessness and they're under the influence of the vampire. The interaction between them is very different. It's a mutually beneficial relationship which is very bizarre, it seems there is no real person who's in power here. The two of them need each other and although Constantine could potentially kill this woman, he doesn't. It's a weird twist of humanity to a traditional monster.
On an unrelated tangent, I read Carmilla and the relationship between those two and the form the vampire takes are a very different thing than what I'm used to and it was one of my favorite vampire tales. (Vampire cat creatures? Who could imagine that.)
I thought it was interesting that they chose cats as the form in which the vampires imitated. Cats have long since been a source of superstition and (sometimes) fear. Going back to Egyptian times, the cat was associated with the afterlife. In contemporary media, the cat - and black cats especially - are often seen as minions of witches and devils. Their nocturnal nature likely contributes to this association, as does their peculiar nature of staring off into space and then bolting out of the room in sheer panic. Superstitious people believed them to be communing with spirits or, at the least, aware of otherworldly forces. It's surprising then that cats weren't earlier associated with vampires. Perhaps it was their earlier distinction with witches that kept them from being portrayed this way; as though one creature had a monopoly on other creatures once claimed.
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