"Ms. Fitzroy?" the nurse called. She motioned Vicki back. She was going to the doctor just to make sure everything was still intact.
After their weekend excursion a couple of weeks ago, Vicki had not been sure everything was normal. She made an appointment but couldn't get in for two weeks. No rush, nothing to be worried about, she hoped.
The nurse took some vitals then asked her why she was there.
"Um..I just want to talk to the doctor about something." Vicki said. The nurse glared at her.
"So, you're not gonna tell me right." The nurse had known Vicki long enough to know by now that it was pointless. Vicki smiled and nodded her nead no. The nurse shook her head and left the room calling out for Vicki give her a urine sample anyway.
"Why?' Vicki asked in a voice full of annoyance.
"Standard procedure," the nurse said popping her head back in, smiling sarcastically at Vicki. Vicki rolled her eyes, went to the bathroom and filled the damn cup. It took her forever to relax to do it in the first place and then she nearly spilled it putting the lid back on.
Vicki placed it in the little door in the bathroom that connected to the nurse's station on the other side. She heard the other door open and close before she even left the bathroom. She went back into the exam room to wait. She jumped when Dr. Morton opened the door.
"Hey..what gives? The nurse says you're not talking." Dr. Morton pulled up her stool, sat down, crossed her short legs and waited for Vicki's reply. Vicki tilted her head at the doctor and noticed something new.
"So..what gives with you doc? You're lookin' mighty young.." Vicki raised an eyebrow. The doctor flipped her now long, thick and shiny hair back behind her and said, "Ya think?"
"I figured if all these ladies are gonna keep having kids on me forever, I'd have to stick around to." She got up, walked over to stand closer to Vicki and showed her a ring.
"Well, congratulations! Who is it?" The doctor smiled sheepishly.
"You will be surprised, it's Glenn Walker." Vicki gasped.
"The Librarian? Really? But he's so quite."
"Yep, gotta worry bout them quite ones huh.." both women laughed.
"When were you turned?" Vicki asked.
"About six months ago." It had been a year since Vicki was in since her last check.
"And?" Vicki teased.
"And..what?" the doctor was blushing, as much as she could for a new vampire that is.
"Vicki, I think of all people, I certainly don't have to tell you that the perks are just out of this world."
"Well, that's kinda why I'm here." Vicki finally got down to business, telling her in short form about their weekend, the time travel the whole nine yards.
"Oh..so you think that something else didn't make it either. Well, let's take a look. I'm sure everything is fine," the doctor had already had Vicki disrobe before she came in. Vicki didn't care to have extras in the room, not this time anyway. She wanted to keep her findings to herself for now.
Henry entered the office looking for Vicki.
"Coreen, where is Vicki?" he wasn't aware she wasn't going to be here. Coreen shrugged, Vicki had told her nothing which was good because she would have told Henry if she'd known she was at the doctor. Vicki was never sick. It would have worried Coreen and she would have spilled it out. Henry could tell she was being truthful. Henry tried Vicki's cell, straight to voicemail. He frowned. This wasn't like her to not tell him something
"Did she say anything before she left?" Henry asked looking through their messages, hoping it would tell him something.
"Nope, just that she had to run an errand and would be back in about..."
"Hey..I'm back." Vicki closed the door behind her, kissed Henry and walked into her office. Henry and Coreen looked at each other, both of them shrugged. Henry followed her into the office.
"Where were you?" Henry asked. Vicki had sat down behind her desk. She pulled out a folder, looking through it for a number, so she said.
"I went to get something to eat but then decided I'd come back here and eat with you," she never looked up until she said," you hungry?'
Henry could sense that she was holding back, she wasn't lying because that was the truthy, partially. She did want something to eat, she just left out the part about the visit. He narrowed his eyes at her trying to figure it out.
"Yes, I am. What would you like?" Vicki tapped the desk with her fingers.
"How about mexican food? We haven't had that in awhile." Henry agreed and started to leave. He turned around.
"Are you okay?" Vicki looked at him wondering if he knew she had gone to the doctor.
"Yeah..' she half-laughed, "why?" She averted her eyes back to the folder.
"Because you're looking at that folder upside down," Henry pointed out.
Vicki was looking at it upside down, she felt like an idiot. She had not been looking at it in the first place, she just wanted something to do to avoid discussing where she had been.
"Oh. Well, one of these numbers didn't look right," she was turning the folder and pointing, "so I thought if I turned it.." she was pulling it close to her face, turning it around, anything to not look at Henry.
Henry came closer to her desk, she still didn't look up. Her phone rang.
"Oh..you better get food..work," She grabbed the phone, answering it before Coreen could pick up. Vicki mouthed 'sorry' to Henry, he was still not convinced she wasn't up to something.
"Mike..hey what's up?...Really..when?..okay..um, give me about an hour, Henry is gone to get food, we'll eat then meet you there," Vicki paused, "Is this the first one? Yeah..okay...bye."
Vicki went to Coreen's desk, "That was Mike. Seems like we've got a new freak in town."
"OOO..superfreak or regular freak?" Coreen rubbed her hands together.
"Not sure yet. Found a body down by the pier. She's missing some fingers and her hair looks like it was chopped off."
"Fingers? Eww...that's a superfreak no matter what." Coreen immediately got online looking for anything related to severed limbs and hair, just to get started.
"Hey Vicki, where did you go today?" Coreen asked as Vicki started back toward her office.
"I told you, to run an errand, then back here so Henry and I could eat together." she didn't make eye contact with Coreen either, keeping her head down to look at the address she had written down that Mike gave to her.
"Uh huh..well just so you know, we're not stupid."
Vicki knew that all too well and one way or the other, she was going to have to talk to Henry...
