Disclaimer: All recognised characters from CSI: NY and Buffy: The vampire Slayer do not belong to me (The writers are not good enough to think of this plot) Laura belongs to the writer Forest Angel who wrote the rest of her stories (check them out too) This is a joint story. Any new characters you have not hear of are probably invented and it may help to know the characters from both TV shows. Enjoy.

Mac Taylor ducked under the crime tape at the end of an alley in a rough area of the city near a nightclub and walked towards the lead detective on duty who was talking to several officers around the scene. "Hey Laura, welcome back, hadn't expected to see you tonight."

"Hi Mac. Short straw, one of us had to be on call. What is it with 3am call outs and dingy back alleys? Have you been saving this for me?" she replied.

"Tried not to. What have you got for me?" he asked.

"Is it Halloween or something? This is weird. If I didn't know better I would be reporting it as a vampire attack. Whoever did it left teeth marks on the neck, vic probably bled out." She answered glancing around the gathered crowd.

"Bite marks eh? I heard something about a similar case a few days ago, B shift had it." He commented.

"Know who was lead detective I'll pull the file?" she asked.

"Fred Wallis I think" he replied.

"I'll check it out scene's all yours" She turned towards the gathered crowd by the crime tape.

Mac began taking photos of the scene as Laura reached the tape. "Detective Stevens, haven't seen you around for a while." Greeted one of the officers.

"Hi Joe, you didn't hear my news? Don and I just got back from Mexico."

She grinned showing him her left hand.

"You two really hit it off then, so I guess its Detective Flack then now?" He asked.

"You got it. How are things at the 22? Mac says this is the second case this week with the same MO." She answered.

"Creepy if you ask me, heard the 35th pulled something the other day."

"Any of these people around when you guys arrived?" she asked wondering who to talk to first.

"Most are just the looky loos, that tall guy in the shadows seems to be quite interested though. The guy that called it in has gone back to the precinct with my partner to make a statement. I'll make sure you get the details." He offered.

"Thanks." Laura cast her eyes around the scene again. Mac was now processing the body. Laura headed towards the guy in the shadows.

Mac bent to take a closer look at the body of the young woman. She had shoulder length dark brown hair, which was splayed around her on the wet concrete revealing the gaping wound in her neck and pale complexion. What puzzled Mac as he shone his flashlight around the victim was the lack of blood which he expected to see for such a wound and from her pale skin she had lost a lot of blood. Taking further photos of the victim he glanced over to Laura as she approached a tall figure in the shadows standing alone by the crime tape. He watched for a moment with a sense of unease.

Laura was aware of Mac's eyes on her as she approached the mystery man. She smiled to herself, she knew he was looking out for her and she knew why, if anything happened a certain person on the team would be out for blood … and would probably get it too.

"Excuse me sir, did you witness the attack?" she asked.

He looked at the body then at her. "no, I didn't. What happened?" he asked politely, his calm manner doing nothing to settle the butterflies in her stomach.

"We don't know yet, is there anything you can tell us which might help?" she pressed, getting the feeling this guy knew more than he was saying.

"The cops were already here when I came by. You got a serial killer on your hands?" he asked.

"What makes you ask that?" Laura looked puzzled.

"Wasn't there another case a few days ago like this one?" he asked.

"Can't answer that, why are you so interested? You a reporter?" she quizzed.

"Nothing like that" he answered "I just have this feeling that this is not the first case of this kind and it won't be your last." He turned to walk away.

"Wait, I think you know more than you're saying" said Laura ducking under the tape to catch up to the man. "Can't you tell us anything?"

He looked at her. "Just be careful."

"Detective Flack!" one of the officers called her, she turned around.

"I'm almost done here give me a minute" she called back and turned back to the mystery man, who had vanished. She looked around for a minute then returned to the scene.

Later back at the morgue Mac walked in to see Sid and get the results of the autopsy.

"Here's the man! Hey Mac." Called Sid as Mac walked in.

"Sid, what can you tell me?" asked Mac.

"Not a lot, other than this is the second case this week with a similar MO. Signs of finger marks around the side of the neck, a large bite mark on the opposite side and … this is the interesting part … she's actually got no blood."

Mac gave Sid a disbelieving smile "Sid are you trying to tell me something drained her blood?"

"or someone, you did say there was no blood at the crime scene." Sid replied raising his eyebrow.

"Someone? … Usually someone is responsible, we just have to find the primary scene to get more evidence." Answered Mac

"What if it is the primary crime scene?" asked Sid with a questioning look.

"Sid are you saying what I think you're saying? … Vampires are myths, but I must say its looking pretty convincing at the moment, but the science will prove otherwise" Mac reasoned and he walked away grinning at Sid's ridiculous suggestion.

Laura entered the lab as Adam pulled a report from the printer. "Hey Laura, welcome back. How was the honeymoon?" he asked.

"Hi, good, weather was pretty hot." She answered.

"You don't seem to have much of a tan."

"Yeah, well ask Don about that, we didn't spend much time outside"

Adam opened his mouth to reply, but realising the implications of her words he suddenly turned red and clamped his mouth shut for a second. "... um so you want the DNA results?" he stuttered.

"That's what you paged me for" she smiled.

"Yeah, well that's where it gets tricky, there wasn't any, well foreign DNA anyway, just your vics."

"Nothing? Isn't that unusual, I mean there's usually saliva left in a bite wound isn't there?"

"Yeah but nothing about these cases is usual." Adam replied.

"You said it. I'll see you later" she answered and walked out with the results sheet looking rather perplexed.

As she passed Danny and Lindsay's office on her way out she saw Lindsay tapping away at her computer, looking rather intensely at the screen. She stopped and went in. "So Mac called you in to help out or are you still here from last night?" asked Laura. Lindsay jumped and looked up.

"Hey!!! You're back!" she squealed and hugged Laura. "How did the honeymoon go, are you going to tell us where you went?"

"Mexico, and don't ask about the tan … or lack of, Adam just learnt the hard way." Laura answered.

"So you didn't leave the hotel much then?"

"I told you not to ask! What are you up to?" asked Laura indicating the computer.

"Oh that, I'm kind of doing research on any vampire like killings which have happened before, see if the same MO gets a hit, along with the myths and legends behind it of course. A lot of weird things have been reported over the years at some place in California. Kind of interesting though."

"So have you found anything we can use or do I get to go home for the rest of the night?" asked Laura.

"Nothing useful, I've put out a couple of feelers on a couple of websites see what turns up, go home, tell Flack I said Hi" Lindsay replied with a wicked smile.

"Ok thanks. … Oh here the non DNA results from Adam. Second vic was clean." Laura handed her the print out and left while Lindsay returned to the computer.

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