PG 13
Werewolves of London and Paris
As always I don't own Moonlight characters, just love to write about them.
Spoiler: After Sonata, envisions Mick and Beth having two children, Elliott, 19 and hybrid human, plus Colleen (Collie), 16 and hybrid vampire. Also envisions Josef and Simone having a son, Charles "Spike" Kostan, 15, and hybrid vampire.
Takes place between Trading Places and Collie's Just Like a Woman.
Chapter One
"So, tell me again, Mom, why Dad couldn't come with us?" 16 year old Collie St. John's red head peaks out from her sleeping kiosk on the plane which is en route from Los Angeles to Heathrow, their stopover before the final destination of Paris. She is expecting a response from her mother…
Beth St. John's eyes are covered and soft sounds of sleep are coming out of her mouth. She is exhausted after making all the arrangements for this school scouting trip plus having helped Mick with his latest investigation. Some kind of weird bitemarks. Never did find out what they were from but definitely not vampire.
After checking to make sure her mother was still breathing, Collie looks around, noticing only one other first class passenger not sleeping and, in fact, looking quite interested in her. He is an older West Indian man. Collie can tell because of his brown eyes and dark skin and especially because he is wearing one of those old fashioned "Nehru" jackets. She knows this because she has just been doing a history paper on America in the Sixties and saw pictures of that kind of jacket worn a lot during parties where hallucinogens such as LSD were in use. Not just Americans either, a lot of Brits, such as Peter Sellars. So when the mysterious man motioned to her to come over, Collie's natural curiosity warred with her mother's protectiveness against strangers. As always, curiosity and a natural friendliness won out.
In low voices, the two started talking, fast becoming kindred spirits. Dr. Ashniveer was a Hindu, an elderly bachelor professor of Natural Sciences at Oxford; and a lover of all mythology, including it turns out, werewolves and vampires. Collie was fascinated and loved to hear the old tales told in that lovely West Indian yet clipped British voice. He sipped his tea as he told her about encountering a case of a man in the U.S. years ago who had been bitten by a wolf in an isolated part of Vermont. The man had come to Dr. Ashi for help after he started noticing changes within himself, such as the senses becoming more acute. The man was desperate to know if he could be changing into a wolf.
"So were you able to help him? What happened?" Collie looked into his eyes and found herself pulled into yellow irises that were really unusual. Startled, she pulled back. "Ah, I guess I see my mom waking up. Nice meeting you, ah, Dr. Ashiveer."
In a quiet whisper, Collie's voice quivering, says "Mom, wake up. I think there's a werewolf in kiosk 3G and he knows I'm a vampire!"