Vicki was frowning, pursing her lips and doing her best to pout. It wasn't working.
"Vicki, it's not going to work," Coreen said standing her ground.
"Aw, come ON Coreen, you know me, I'm not the fru-fru girly type person, besides, what about Gwen or Colleen? They are your mother and sister you know.." Vicki was pleading with her little assistant.
"No, I've talked to them already and it was their idea too, they felt it was only fair, after all we had been through." Coreen then became serious.
"Vicki, please, this would mean so much to me, I know this isn't you, but I really, really want you to be my matron of honor," Coreen was teary-eyed..damn.
Vicki let out a sigh,"Allright, BUT first, MAID of honor, matron sounds old, second, ya gotta find a dress that's not gonna make me look like the Goodyear blimp.." she said rounding her belly with her hands.
Coreen clapped, jumped up and down and then made a swirling motion with her hand. In doing so, she caused Vicki's mug, which here of late held milk, a picture of the twins and a pen to float in the air. She then put them down gently with a switch of her hand.
"Very good, impressive," Vicki clapped, nodded her head and smiled, giving Coreen encouragement.
Coreen had several magical abilities, one of them moving objects. Gwen and the lycan clan had been working with her to make her better and more controlled. Coreen's problem had always been confidence and now, she was gaining that as well.
"Okay, well off to finalize things and OH, can I have off a week for our honeymoon? I mean, I don't want to assume that I can just leave." Coreen asked politely.
"Of course you can, I'll take the week off too, give Gwen the week off giving Henry, the kids and I time to have just a family week."
Vicki needed that. It had only been a month since she had been shot, asked Pierre if she could call him "dad", found Henry's lycan brother and his family, had her mother move only thirty minutes away and been forced back to easy cheesy cases by Henry, the doctor and Pierre. Geez...what a month it was.
Henry strolled into the office.
"Hey beautiful? How are my girls today?" Henry said giving Vicki a quick kiss on the lips and a rub on the belly. He talked to her belly.
"How's London today?" Henry said kissing Vicki's stomach. Vicki rolled her eyes, smiling at Henry being a father..she never tired of seeing him like that.
"Fat and happy," Vicki said, leaning back and rubbing her belly. She still wasn't very big for five months, but she was finally showing enough to wear maternity clothes.
"That's the way I like it. What's going on with Coreen? She's about to bounce off the walls out there." Henry said pointing to the outer office.
Vicki sighed and filled him in.
Henry laughed at her reaction to the whole thing, surprised she had agreed. He could tell her his news now.
"Well, I wasn't supposed to tell you that she was going to ask, I gave her until today because Clark asked me to be his best man."
"Now isn't that dandy!" Vicki exclaimed.
"Yes and Ward and Abbie are going to be in it too."
Vicki shook her head, that girl had become quite the conniver..wonder where she learned that..
"You should go home and rest for the day," Henry insisted. He had taken over most of the hard cases with Vicki stuck doing the paperwork. Henry was currently working on a missing husband, one he suspected had run off with the secretary to America.
"No, I have some PAPER work to do," she spat out, emphasizing the word "paper".
"Okay, but I've got to go follow up a lead, I'm pretty sure this guy is in New York already but I'm going to make sure," He kissed her again and left, telling Coreen to keep an eye on her while he was gone.
"Coreen!" Vicki yelled from her office.
"Yes, my Duchess." Coreen said bowing as she entered.
Vicki narrowed her eyes at her, "Stop that."
"Yes, my Queen," Coreen giggled.
"That's better," Vicki deadpanned, "Look don't we have anything exciting? Just something..one thing.."
"NO and even if we did..YOU would not be on it. I promised not only your husband, but your parents too. You are not getting me into trouble this time," Coreen said, toying with a pen in the air.
Vicki watched her with interest, "Coreen? What are you doing?"
"Oh, sorry, just practicing," Coreen smiled sheepishly, putting the pen back down.
Just as she did, a young girl came stumbling into the office, out of breath.
"Please..you..have...to...help...me.." she stammered out.
Vicki looked at Coreen, grinning wickedly.
"Oh no, I'm calling Henry or Pierre, or even Mike," She pointed at Vicki starting for the door.
"Stop right there! Let's just hear her out, it might be something simple." Vicki moved around her desk to help the girl sit.
She looked to be about nineteen, maybe twenty. She had auburn hair just past her shoulders and emerald green eyes.
"What's wrong?" Vicki asked her, retrieving a bottled water from the small fridge she kept in her office.
She took the water, gulped it and said, "My name is Emma, Emma Greenslade. I think my boyfriend got bit."
"I'm Vicki and this is Coreen, we will be glad to try and help you." Vicki said pointing to herself and Coreen.
Vicki looked at Coreen who was making "no, you can't" and slashing marks over her neck gestures to Vicki. Vicki just smiled, daring Coreen to move.
"Bitten by what Emma?" Vicki asked with interest.
"You won't believe me," she had begun to calm down and realized that maybe she had made a mistake in coming here. Her friend had told her that this woman specialized in the supernatural, she was hoping it was true.
"I think he was bitten by a..." she hesitated.."a vampire.." she said her eyes darting back and forth between the two women.
Vicki put her hand on her belly and laughed, Coreen laughed too.
Emma got up to leave, "See I knew you wouldn't believe me."
"No, no, sit. We're sorry, we do believe you it's just that," Vicki said, hesitating, wondering how much she should tell her, "well, the vampires we know don't bite people anymore."
Vicki hoped that would suffice for now.
"Huh, this one did, last night at that new club," Emma said. "And now, he's all weird acting like he's sick or something so I left him in my dark apartment and ran down here."
In unison, Vicki and Coreen said, "What new club?"
"The new on that opened last week. It's supposed to cater to those of us who like, um.." she looked embarrassed.
"Vampires?" Vicki finished for her.
"Yeah," she said quietly.
"You'd be suprised at how many of us love vampires," Vicki smiled slightly when she said it, being somewhat cryptic.
"Okay well, good then." Emma said a little more confident.
"So, the name?" Vicki prodded.
"Oh, it's called Bitten."
How appropriate...