A/N: This takes place after the fan-fictions entitled Moonlight: The List and BC: Revisited

Chapter 1:

A Case

"Mick, everything is going to be okay. Just you and me, and the night", Coraline crooned, trying to coax a hungry Mick to feed. Mick turned his head and looked up at her. A grimace was on his face.

"I won't! Its not right." He looked away from Coraline at the girl walking down the side walk across the street. Oh, how her blood pulsed and called him, how it absolutely begged him, beckoned him. He was so hungry. His stomach growled audibly. But, he couldn't, he couldn't hurt an innocent girl. Maybe if it was a drug dealer, or a criminal, but not an innocent girl walking home after a party.

"Someone else, I won't do it!" Mick growled. Coraline knelt down beside him. Her black gloved hand brushed his pale cheek. She frowned upon him. Taking his head in her hands she looked into his eyes, and grew closer to kiss him. His heart warmed as their lips touched.

"My love", Coraline pulled away, " don't you love me? Don't you want to please your bride?"

Mick smiled weakly. He did want to please his bride. He loved Coraline, needed her. He wanted to be with her when she indulged him with her intimacies. He was hungry and weak.

"Mick, your shaking with hunger. Baby, please go feed. If you don't you'll die and leave you wife a widow. Baby…".

"Stop".

Coraline stood up in the shadows and smiled. "That's my boy. Go."

Mick leapt and pounded up to the girl. She barely had time to scream before he crushed her airways and dug his teeth into her flesh. He ripped the skin away, bloody and dripping. Mick woke up screaming in his freezer.

He quickly recollected where he was and wiped the sweat off of his forehead. Beth came running into the room the baby monitor in her hand and a bathrobe tied around her torso. Panic was written across her face.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"Just a dream", Mick whispered, "It was just a bad dream". He climbed out of the freezer, Beth helping to guide him out. She looked curiously at him.

"Your sweating. Are you sure your okay?"

"Yeah, I just need a drink. Is the baby okay?"

"Perfectly, she is sleeping. Do you want to talk about it?"

They walked into the kitchen and Mick went to his secret storage of blood and got out his syringe and a bag. He filled the syringe and leaned against the bar. Sighing he looked up to Beth.

"Coraline."

"What?"

He put the syringe down and took a deep breath, "Coraline was taking me out to feed, and I killed a girl. She was just walking home from a party, innocent."

"Is this a dream, or a memory?"

"No, it's a memory. It was the day after our wedding and she had turned me the night before. I was starving and I knew I couldn't leave the hotel room but, Coraline seduced me into going out on the town. It was so horrible. After that night, I never killed an innocent. That's one of the reasons I became a P.I. To get justice for girls like the one I killed."

Beth put her hand on his back and rubbed it. She hugged him shortly and kissed his forehead.

"She's dead Mick, why are you dreaming about her. Has this happened before?"

"I'm always haunted by the decisions of my past, but this dream, it felt like I was their again", Mick said taking the syringe and injecting himself. "I could taste the blood on my lips, and feel her struggling as I drained the life from her."

Mick shook his head and put the supplies away just before wailing echoed from Sarah's bedroom. Beth groaned, "I'll get her."

Beth walked off to calm their crying daughter. Mick walked into his office and plopped himself in front of the computer. He clicked the space bar and his name appeared on-screen. He typed in his password to access his case files. Suddenly his phone began to buzz on the desk. He picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Mr. St. John?" a frantic voice responded, "Listen, I don't have a lot of time. I'm a doctor at Centreville Hospital in Alaska. I've been kidnapped, please help me?"

"Stay calm! Do you know where your location is?" Mick waited, "Sir? Are you there?"

There was no response as Mick looked at the number on his phone and the flashing red "call ended" message. He looked up as Beth entered his office, feeding Sarah.

"Who was that?", Beth whispered.

"I think it was a client. He was frantic. He said he was a doctor in Alaska and that he'd been kidnapped."

Beth looked strangely at Mick.

"Kidnapped? A doctor in Alaska?

"Yeah."

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

"Do you people realize what time it is?" a voice on the other side of the door yelled. Mick couldn't help but smirk.

Josef opened the door and realizing it was Mick, quickly hid himself behind his open bathrobe. Josef blushed.

"Bad time?" Mick asked.

Simone came from around the corner, away from Josef's bedroom.

"No, I was just going to ask you to join us! Mick it's 5:00 in the morning! What do you want?"

"Your help with a case."

"At 5:00 in the morning? What, did you have a break-through in your sleep?"

"No, I got a phone call from a doctor in Alaska. He seemed rather urgent."

Josef looked intrigued and gestured for Mick to come inside.

A/N: What did you think of chapter 1? Please leave a review for this chapter and hopefully the next will be longer and more intricate and informative.