Finding you…

Chapter 1

"Get out Vic! I've had had enough of this shit, just leave!" Mike yelled. Tears well up in my eyes as I step outside in the snow crying. I think back to that dreadful day when Coreen almost died, Mike lost his job and Henry… I lean against the bricks of mikes apartment and let out a sob. I think over what happened that night, again. "So be it" was the last I heard Henry say before he left for Vancouver and I still wish the outcome would have been different. He didn't understand what I meant when I said I wanted to help mike get back to a normal life. Look where that got me too! Victoria Nelson Karmas bitch. I keep thinking of the "what if's' and "could be's". I know that I will never happen though. Mike getting his job back, Henry coming back to Toronto. At least I still have Coreen! I sigh; I walk down the street and hail a taxi. Once I get back to my office I lie on the couch and rest my head on a cold pillow. This was the fourth time this week I cried myself to sleep. I wake up late in the afternoon and walk over to my desk. A note is sitting on the computer.

Vicki, I canceled all of your appointments you have the day off.

Coreen

I whisper a thank you to the air and sit behind my desk. I think about everything that happened over the last year but the memory that stands out the most is when Henry was captured my Mendoza. I reach into the desk drawer and pull out the Illumination Del sol, the thing that will drain a Vampires power. What should I do with it? I should get rid of it…No I should keep it for protection. Against what? More Vampires…like that will happen! I could give it to Coreen or Mike. No not mike, last time he had it he almost killed Henry! Also I don't think I want to know what Coreen will do with it. I could give it to Henry… if I could find him that is. I dig through my desk until I find a lock picking set and hurry out the door.

I arrive at what was Henry apartment and pick the lock. The door swings open but I find the rooms empty. All the walls are bare of anything that could lead back to him; I bet he even Vamped Greg. I walk around the empty apartment when my eyes catch a neatly folded piece of paper when the French doors to the bed room where. I pick it up and unfold it with shaking hands; I don't know why I am shaking though.

"Vicki,

By the time you read this I will already have left. I am glad that you are happy but if he hurts you in any way I swear that I will…. I am truly sorry for everything that I put you through; and hope that you forgive me.

If you need anything

416-555-2506

Forever waiting

Henry."

My cheeks feel wet and I realize that I am crying. After everything that I put him through; which was a HELL of a lot, he is still waiting. I look at my watch, 3:00 AM he would still be awake because of the time difference. Should I call? I take out my phone and dial the number

416….5..5..5….2….5….0..6

I put the phone to my ear and listen to the dial sound.

Suddenly something clicks and I hear a familiar voice.

"Hello? Who is this?" Henry says. I can't bring myself to answer, my breath catches in the throat and I find it hard to breathe. His voice lowers into a Deeper and more commanding tone.

"Who are you and how did you get this number?"

"I'm sorry." I whisper and tear the phone from my ear. The phone is still close enough to hear Henry yell my name and ask me if I'm alright. I end the call and turn off the phone. I sit back with tear filled eyes and image everything where it used to be. I wipe my eyes and walk out of the building with the one thing I thought I would never feel again…Hope.

I arrive home and crawl into bed. I spend the next few hours staring at the ceiling and thinking about Henry. I open my eyes only so see nothing back blackness. I blindly reach for my glasses on my nightstand and slide them on. I turn on the lights and get dressed. My eye sight is getting worse…Now I'm Victoria Nelson karma's blind bitch! I laugh and slowly walk over to the wooden desk. Still feeling tired I rest my head on the cold surface. I hear heels clacking on the floor, they get closer and I hear a paper bag being placed on the desk.

"Vicki you okay?" Coreen ask and I nod and lift my head up.

"I found this in my desk yesterday" I frown and pull out the Illumination Del Sol and slam it on the desk.

"Oh…" Coreen says and sits down across from me.

"Yeah I don't know that to do with it. I was going to give it to Mike but that was a bad idea. Then I thought of you; but that scared the crap out of me!"

"So you thought of giving it to Henry…"

I lay my head back on the desk and sigh. I hear Coreen stand up and I hear something I thought I would never hear from my Goth assistant.

'I could find him for you if you like; I mean it's not like I haven't stalked anyone before!" I laugh and life my head up.

"You'd do that for me?" I ask in honest curiosity.

"Duh! Vic you showed me no proved to me that Vampire and other things that go bump in the night are real! I would do anything for you! Now that fact that I was possessed by a demon lord is entirely frightening and awesome at the same time, and the fact and I am 'mad' at Henry for just leaving. Has nothing what so ever to do with the fact that I will help you at all."

"What the hell did you just say? I only understood and yes I will help"

"Yes that's the just of it." We both laugh and on awkward moment follows.

"Oh what the hell!" I get up and hug Coreen. I let go when she says.

"Now you're really scaring me, how many hours of sleep did you get?" she asks.

"Enough! Now go home and take the day off; well start looking tomorrow…and thanks" I hear the door shut with a quick thanks and I'm alone.