The title of the story "Book of Jobe" came from Bacio83 on Moonlight Fans. I'm not that creative.

A collection of one shots between Josef/Beth or about Josef/Beth. Anywhere from the snarky conversations that are just bound to happen, to a relationship between the two, conversations about the two, or the two of them teaming up to saving a Mick in distress.

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This one, episode 5, where they first meet. Jumps back and forth from Josef's, Beth's and no one's point of view.

"Josef, Ryder – Meet Beth Turner."

She was pretty, Josef had to admit. The internet did not do her justice. But, she was a human, and ever since what happened in New York, humans, and especially women were only to be food. There was to be no personal connection, lest he fall in love, go through the Turning process, and create another Sarah. It just wasn't something he could live with. The guilt from the failed Turning had eaten away at the part of his heart that would allow him to care for such a delicate creature... By a vamp's standards at least.

But there was no harm in looking, right?

And by looking, he meant appraising.

She looked tasty.

"Beth Turner. Buzzwire. Such a beautiful woman on the internet."

He was gorgeous, there was no doubt about that. But there seemed to be something... Off about him. It might have been how nice he was nice dressed for such a casual meeting (Armani suits? Seriously?). Or maybe it was the idea that he looked so young... Yet was so powerful.

Or it could be the slightly creepy detail that he was staring at her like she should be, and was going to become, his next meal.

And it was only the fact that she knew Mick would never let anything happen to her that allowed her to stand her ground and take a hold of his hand when it was offered.

"Thank you." There was an awkward silence, as both Josef and Ryder seemed to be sizing her up. "I guess."

Josef looked at Mick with bewilderment in his eyes. Where on Earth did he find her?

"So, are you going to tell me what I'm doing here?"

The man she assumed to be Ryder spoke up softly, "Mick said you had a great voice."

That most definitely threw her off. People said that she looked good, looked great, hot even, but had a great voice? Yeah. That one was new.

"Ryder here," Mick started to push her over towards the computer, "has got a list of all of the incoming calls from the dead escort's website over the last twenty four hours of her life. One of them is probably the killer."

Meeting with strangers has never been one of Beth's main passions. Granted, she loved her work, and she often had to set up meetings of this sort, but that doesn't mean that she liked it, at all. No, her idea of fun was most definitely not being leered at from the moment she arrived by two strange men, and having the one person that she did know tell them she had a great voice.

And it didn't help to unease her fears that while Mick was telling her everything, that Josef was still stalking her with his eyes. It was at that moment that she realized he was a vampire. And while that made everything make a lot more sense, it set her nerves a bit higher, because Josef really was looking at her like she was his next meal.

"So you want me to call the numbers?"

Josef wanted to smile at that. "Quick study." He quipped. Pretty, tasty, somewhat intelligent. Not a bad combination in his book.

"And what, talk to them?"

"If we're lucky, yeah."

Beth laughed uneasily, "What am I supposed to say? I've never spoken to a serial killer before."

But at that, he had to smile. This was just to priceless to pass up. "Well you know, be polite. Please, thank you."

Ryder jumped back in "Do whatever escorts do."

Oh joy. She had hoped that she could go through life without ever having to be an escort. Or act like one, at any rate.

"Okay." Beth took off her jacket, "Whatever you want."

Josef turned his head towards her in disbelief. He really did not expect this of the human, agreeing to it so easily. She was proving to be very surprising.

The first phone call Beth thought she had botched. None of the guys seemed to agree with her, however.

Hoo boy. "Very impressive." Josef said in mild discomfort. Maybe the human was too surprising.

"Hot. Very, very hot."

Getting the hang of what she was supposed to be doing, Beth smirked, this could be fun.