I THOUGHT I'D LOST YOU
AUTHORS NOTE:
Hi all Blood Ties fans. I have to start with an apology. See as I live in Australia and we are still in the Dark Ages the last episode that I saw was "Heart of Ice" in season 1 where Henry is kidnapped by evil priest and there we are left for a whole, cruel week. So this is my attempt to fill the void until next week when I can see the next episode, so I apologise if, per chance, it turns out to close to the next episode and it seems to you that I am repeating history, but just for this chapter, as after this there will be FLUFF much FLUFF! I need something to stop me from going crazy, as I'm sure most of you will understand! So here is what I imagine will go down in the next episode…and of course some fluff! This is also my first Blood Ties fanfic, I've written POTC before but not this, but I always appreciate constructive criticism, as I am looking to improve my art so reviews are loved, even flames if you feel it necessary. So thanks. Enjoy. Yours WMR
DISCLAIMER:
I do not own any of these characters, none of them are born from my imagination, and the plot is in part owed to the wonderful writers of Blood Ties. So. I don't own the characters, they do. Their genius is responsible for the plot line, as are teaser adds which show all of five seconds of footage. So them Not me. Though gods know I wish I could own Henry Fitzroy…I could even settle for Kyle Schmid!! : P
CHAPTER 1:
"HENRY!" Vicki cried out from behind the locked bars. The echoes of his agonised groans twisted her heart painfully; tears welled up in her throat. But he was gone and she was stuck behind bars. Never had she felt more helpless
That feeling didn't last for long.
Vicki turned towards Mike, anger replacing fear.
"What have you done?" she screamed at him, letting the rage fill her. If she hadn't been so blinded by fear propelled rage she could have seen that Mike was just as angry as she was, even if it was a completely different reason. Vicki didn't bother to wait for an answer, and Mike didn't see her fist until it landed squarely on his chin. Mike staggered back at the force of it, as well as shock and tripped over himself.
The phrase "Never kick a man while he is down" didn't apply in that moment and Vicki, filled with blinding rage applied the full force of her booted foot to his ribs. She quite frankly couldn't give a flying fk if he was standing, sitting, lying she just wanted to cause him grievous bodily harm.
"He is a killer Vicki!" Mike pleaded from the puddle he lay in,
"It is his nature! He can't help it and he does his best to curb his urges!" she screamed back at him, not noticing that she was kicking him harder and harder, voice quivering with impending tears. Somehow, between the kicks Mike managed to get his hold and before Vicki knew what was happening Mike was up and baring her towards the wall, holding her fists above her head tight.
"He is a monster. Evil." he said passionately.
"No he isn't. He's good" Vicki struggled against his hold
"He is the sort of person you used to hate"
"He's a better man than you," She snarled at him. Mike was taken aback by the venom in her voice, and hesitated long enough for Vicki to push him off. She wasn't fast enough though, and Mike caught her fist as it flew towards his face again. And held it tight. Looking into her eyes intently
"Why do you care so much?" he said seriously, searching her eyes.
"Why do you hate him so much" She asked back. They stared at each other for a moment in silence, quietly judging each other. Finally Vicki gave in and Mike let her hands go in a silent agreement.
"Who was that guy? What is he going to do with Henry?" She tried to sound objective, to keep the emotion out of her voice as she said it.
"A priest" Mike said earnestly "He said he could neutralise Henry, stop him from killing. I thought he was going to help"
"And how did he propose he was going to do that? With a wooden stake?" Vicki spat back angrily
Mike hesitated "He implied that he'd keep Henry alive"
"IMPLIED?!" Vicki wanted to rip his eyes out "Do you know who he is? Do you have any fucking idea what he's going to do to Henry? What the hell was that thing you put on Henry, if that's just the beginning it doesn't sound like it's going to be a fucking walk in the country side."
Mike frowned, confused and feeling more than a little betrayed. Vicki was angry, she was infuriated and nothing would make her happier at that moment than to cause Mike much pain but she needed him so she tried to calm her anger
"You were so blinded by your bias towards Henry you bought the first sob story that was told to you. You wanted him to be a killer." She said with as much control as she could "You. Are an arsehole," she said with conviction "Now help me find a way out of here." Vicki shoved past him and stalked down the sewer. Mike watched her go, heart sinking.
"Do you love him?" he asked
"Help me get out of here and you might find I'll forgive you. Eventually" she answered for him
"You didn't answer my question Vicki" He asked joining her, she didn't look at him but instead continued to look intently for an exit. He waited patiently but she wasn't going to answer. He sighed. Her silence was answer enough.
"I think we can get out through that man hole," She announced.
"We used to be partners. We used to tell each other everything," he said sadly as he helped her up the ladder towards the manhole.
"Henry is my partner now." She said honestly, slightly distracted as she tried to shimmy the manhole cover open.
"He won't kill him Vicki. He only wants to save him"
"Yeah. Right before he kills him." She said as she finally shoved the manhole cover aside. Vicki looked down at Mike, "Henry is a good man, a good person," she said earnestly.
"You're blinded" he accused sourly
"By what?!" she demanded
"By your lust" Mike stated in a matter of fact tone. Vicki was silent as she pushed herself through the manhole and turned to stand in front of it, ready to push the manhole cover back. Mike saw what she was going to do.
"Vicki wait!"
"Why?"
"Because you need me! I can help you find Fitzroy." He pleaded. Vicki thought it over and at length extended a hand down to help him up.
"He had better be alive," She scolded as Mike scrambled up out of the sewer.
"If we are going to do this together, we do it my way. Start by telling me everything you know about the priest and that thing you put into Henry. We'll go to my office first" She ordered. Finding comfort in structure, in doing something. It kept the frightening thoughts of Henry at bay, the thought of his smiling face and the sparkle in his eye when he looked at her. If she kept on thinking like that she would go crazy. She had to keep calm; she had to if she ever wanted to see that smile and those eyes again. Shaking her head clear she turned to Mike.
"Come on, we had better get going." She said, storming off towards her car.
Ilovehenryilovehenryilovehenry
"It had eight gold…rays. It looked like a strange sort of compass." He explained as Vicki unlocked the door to her office.
"What was it called?" she asked pushing the door open
"Ah, I think he called it the Illuminas something."
"Oh well that's helpful. I'll call my assistant. She can look it up. Can you do a sketch for me on that board for her" Vicki asked as she rustled through a few papers on the desk looking for something. "Do you know where the Priest lives?"
"He gave an address- but its back at my office."
"That's
fine, we'll go there next, and we need to find out who this guy
is." Finding what she needed and shoving her gun with some silver
bullets just for luck into her holster. Mike finished doing his
sketch.
"I think its Spanish" he said as Vicki dragged him out the room, "he didn't look Spanish." He mused, "Can I have a shower? I stink!"
"No." she locked the door behind her and proceeded to the station.
Ilovehenryilovehenryilovehenry
"Here, found the address" Mike said as he approached, he wanted to repeat himself because it didn't seem like Vicki heard him.
"There is no record of this guy anywhere. Even any when!" Vicki muttered to herself, brow furrowed in a deep frown. "This makes no sense…" she mused for a while. Mike stood still, letting her think. "Unless he's a vampire as well!"
"He can't be, I've seen him in sunlight several times"
"Maybe he's some type of demon, something." She sighed, frustrated at herself. At length she turned to him "So where does this guy live?"
"Uptown. Heres the address" Mike handed her the piece of paper. Vicki grabbed as she stood
"You can have that shower now." She said with a smile. Mike looked at her,
"You can't go alone Vicki. Promise me you'll wait."
"I promise." She said as truly as she could. Mike watched her intently and she smiled. at him "I'll google the guy while you shower" Mike wasn't entirely convinced but he really wanted to take a shower before he went trampling through the city smelling like the sewer.
Vicki waited for him to disappear into the showers before she closed the laptop, grabbed Mike's car keys and slipped out of the office on her own. She didn't have time to wait for him to shower, the sun would be rising soon and Henry didn't have much time left. Running to his car she wasted no time rethinking her decision, she just shoved the key into the ignition and sped away trying to keep her heart beat down. Changing gears she searched around Mikes car for a road map. Finding it, she changed gears down and sped around a corner. Unfolding it she fished out the address from her pocket and glanced at it while speeding down the street. It didn't take long to locate the priest on the map. Glancing at it again as she shifted gear memorised the directions, muttering it to herself. Confident she had it memorised, she shoved it unceremoniously aside she shifted gear, yanked the hand break on and did a fast u-turn and sped down the other direction. Left…Right…Right…Left…Left. It didn't take Vicki long before she was on the priest's street.
Taking a deep breathe Vicki tried to calm her racing thoughts, she couldn't do this while she was distracted in her mind which was clouded by fear, a rising fear that made her stomach churn and her heart leap into her throat. She had to banish the memory of a smiling Henry, had to stop thinking about all the terrible possibilities. And yet she couldn't stop those thoughts, and the stirring in her heart. Scolding herself she turned the engine off so that she wouldn't make a noise. Gliding to a stop she quietly opened the car door and sidled out not even bothering to close it. She glanced at the windows, hoping for a sign of movement of light, any sign that the priest was at home and Henry was with him. Suddenly she was swarmed with doubt, what if the priest had taken Henry to Henry's apartment. She wouldn't have time to search this apartment and then make it to Henry's in time. What if they weren't in either place? Suddenly she wished she had waited long enough for Mike so that he could investigate the other apartment. Vicki was frozen with indecision and fear on the sidewalk, mentally she was kicking herself. Henry couldn't afford this self-doubt. She had to make a decision. She had to do it now.
Taking a deep breathe she approached the priests door, sticking to the shadows and moving as quietly and quickly as she could, keeping an eye on the street to make sure no one was coming. Certain that they were alone she dug out of her pockets a lock pick and quickly got to work. The door lock clicked open easily enough, Vicki un holstered her gun and held it at the ready, while nudging the door open. It creaked alarmingly loud, causing Vicki to flinch, but there was no movement within the apartment. Releasing a breathe she didn't even realise she was holding Vicki cautiously entered the dark apartment.
It was empty. It was more than empty; there was no sign of any recent living. No sign of a struggle. Vicki hoped that that was a good rather than a bad thing and fought off the dark voices that whispered death to her. Vicki searched the apartment, it was clear that Henry wasn't being held in the apartment but something told her he was here somewhere. It wasn't until she was in the bedroom that she heard something, it was faint and almost inaudible. Vicki held her breath so she could hear more clearly and waited for it again. She was almost going to give up when it came again, this time louder and very clear.
Henry's agonising scream echoed in her heart.
Certain that he was here Vicki looked with more vigour, trying to find a trap door to a basement or a secret room. The closet ended up giving her some success, the back of the closest was fake and as she gave it a light push it yielded to her. Sighing in relief she pushed her way through the clothes.
She never even heard him coming.
She cursed herself as her vision went black.
Sound was the first sense that returned to Vicki, her own groans woke her up, though someone else's accompanied them. She was vaguely aware that her hands were bound as where her feet. Blinking awake she experienced a moment of pure fear as she thought she was black. Vision followed quickly enough and showed her it was only dark. Her eyes took a moment to blink out the pain spots and adjust to the lighting. What met her eyes when she woke drew her breath away from her in a sharp gasp.
Henry was chained up to a cross, wounds on his chest and shoulders that weren't healing. The gold sun compass stuck to his chest. He was slumped over and looked as though he were asleep. Vicki's gut sank in fear, tears welled up in her eyes as a lump formed in her throat
"Henry?" She asked into the blackness, there was no movement. "Henry?" she whimpered.
He woke then, black eyes staring intently at her, her heart leapt in joy that he was still alive, an emotion that turned to fear as he lunged towards her.
"Henry" She whimpered again, fears and sadness mixed together. He stopped his attack and recoiled from her.
"Vicki" He murmured with almost the same amount of anxiety and fear. "Not her" He whispered.
"What has he done to you?"
"Revealed his true nature that is all" A voice said from behind her. Henry lunged again, but not at her, at the person who stood behind her.
"You're a monster!" she growled at him.
"You are mistaken, the monster stands before you. But you two can get more acquainted." He whispered into her ear, Vicki jarred her head away from him, the sound of his voice and the feel of his breathe against her making her sick. "Look Vampire. I've bought you dinner"
"No." Henry whimpered. Vicki's heart was torn; she was scared of both the priest and ever so slightly of Henry, who had obviously been tortured. There was no telling what he could do.
"Have a nice feed, vampire, I'll talk to you more later." The priest walked out of the room, leaving Vicki alone with Henry who was cowering as far away from her as the chains would permit.
"Henry?"
"Vicki you have to get out of here," He said with urgency.
"Henry no. I can get you out, just give me a second" She started to slip a knife out of her jacket, trying to go as quickly as possible without screwing it up. She only had one chance.
"He's drained me. I need to feed." There was something in his voice that struck fear into her heart. She hated being afraid of him, but it wasn't Henry who was in the room with her anymore, the stain in his voice was animalistic. Vicki didn't trust the man in front of her anymore than she would trust a hungry though usually tamed lion. He was hungry, he needed blood to survive, and the only blood that was available to him came from her.
"Henry please" she pleaded as she frantically sawed at the ropes that bound her hands. There was silence for a moment. Vicki was almost through the ropes.
"Forgive me" came an almost silent utterance. Vicki didn't want to forgive him; she didn't want to give him a chance to do something that required forgiveness.
"Henry please. Just wait a moment longer" she was through, and just in time. Vicki caught her breath as Henry lunged hungrily towards her. She reacted with enough time to force her, and the chair her feet were still bound too backwards out of the hungry vampires reach. The force of the fall broke the chair and Vicki was able to push herself further away. A terrifying noise made her look back. Henry had broken one of the chains. Vicki's heart raced. She had never been hunted before. She prayed that the last chain would hold long enough.
Kicking the last remaining shards of chair off her she ran to the door. Where she saw a sight she wasn't expecting, and was surprised at how relieved she was too see. Mike was coming down the hallway.
"MIKE!" She screamed through the door "Mike get me out of here!"
Snap
Vicki turned and prayed that wasn't the sound of the last chain.
The cross stood empty.
Her heart beat frantically as she scanned the numerous shadows.
"Henry. No" she whispered, hoping to appeal to the man she knew was still beneath the hungry monster.
Henry lunged for her
The door opened and Mike threw himself between Vicki and Henry.
Henry sank his teeth ravenously into Mike's neck, not really caring that the meal came from. Mike cried out in pain. Vicki recovered quickly. Picking herself off the floor.
"Henry stop!" she pleaded, rushing to the two entangled men "Henry you're going to kill him!" Henry didn't seem to care. Vicki was frantic; she didn't know how to get him to stop. Sliding up next to him, she pressed her body against his. Reaching up she caressed the hair away from his face and leant down so her mouth was against his ear.
"Henry, please stop," she whispered into his ear as lightly as she could, her heart was racing and Mike didn't have much time. It was hard to be seductive under such pressure. Sliding her other arm around his waist she tried again, this time started with a light kiss that caressed his throat "Henry, stop"
The beast in Henry had been feed enough that he had the strength to return, Vicki's whisper in his ear, and the feel of her body pressed against his, her sweet breathe caressing his neck shocked him enough that he let go of Mike, just in time. Mike fell to the ground. Vicki let a sigh of relief and would have gone to him but Henry had turned and was holding her tight in his arms. Vicki looked up into his eyes and saw only Henry, no trace of the beast at all. It wasn't all she saw there. The intensity of his gaze made her blush a little. He raised a hand and ever so gently pushed the hair out of her face and tucked it behind her ear. Vicki's heart was beating with excitement now, every trace of fear banished. She swallowed nervously.
"You came for me" He said softly, caressing her face with a gentle finger
"Of course." She managed somehow, though she would never know how. She didn't have time to say anything else as Henry bent down ever so slightly causing her to catch her breathe seconds before he stole it right out of her mouth. If he hadn't been holding her she would have melted into the ground. The passion and heat and that single kiss sent electric waves down her body.
They would have continued but the groans of Mike could no longer be ignored. The broke regrettable, Vicki kneeling beside him.
"The key!" he moaned.
"What?" she said confused. Mike lifted up his hand lethargically
"The key will unlock the sun from Henry," Vicki took the offered key and unlocked the contraption from Henry's chest; it fell limp and useless to the floor. Henry looked invigorated in seconds.
"Where is the priest?" He asked Mike. Mike pointed down the hall. Henry smiled his thanks and disappeared.
"You left without me." He accused. Vicki smiled down at him.
"I'm sorry. Thank you for coming after me."
"You should learn to keep your phone on you. If you had your assistant could have told you all about the sun, and the key." He muttered as he tried to get up. "God that hurts!" he grumbled as he got gently up, helped by Vicki. A scream echoed down the corridor and they assumed it was the priest, neither really cared all that much. Henry joined them seconds later and took one of Mike's arms to act as a crutch.
The three of them limped down the corridor and out of the priest's house. Mikes car was gone, probably stolen.
P.S Ahahahahahahahaaaaaaa. Please continue to read as the next update will involve Henry and Vicki getting acquainted on the bed, in the shower…all these lovely places as the explore each other in a whole new way!!...Maybe a little bit of action in between. Thanks for reading folks. PLEASE REVIEW!
