SECOND IN THE SERIES - FIRST WAS THE STORY "WHAT NOW"
There is one or two things in the story that won't make sense without reading my first one "What Now". Like Henry walking during the day time etc. The last two chapters would explain most of it. Enjoy the story
Chapter 1 - The Strain
Vicki was busy working on a new case which was proving more challenging by the day but in the best way possible. Mike had come to her and actually hired her as a consultant with the police force. She would never had admitted this to anyone but working again with the guys was something she really needed to do right now.
It had only been 2 months since Vicki had come back from the Elven lands after defeating Astaroth. Back to Henry and her life which was now normal life with the demon gone. Well as normal as it gets when you engaged to a vampire! She kept expecting something strange, supernatural or freakish to turn up but so far nothing had. Even her marks were fading and could barely be seen anymore.
Mike had been pressuring her to return to the police force again now that her vision had been restored and Vicki was seriously considering it. Being in the squad room, hearing the debriefing and being asked questions and taken seriously. Vicki knew in her heart she could still be one hell of a cop. In fact better than ever before after her experience outside of the force which had made her grow so much as a person.
Besides with the supernatural stuff gone and Coreen who she dearly missed, the Private Eye stuff was boring. Yet another husband to track down, a missing person to find. Same old same old.
Henry! What a road block that could be. Vicki knew she was going to have to talk to him soon about wanting to rejoin the police force. Vicki shuddered imaging his face if she was to start working with Mike again, as his partner.
Henry was blissfully unaware of the conflict raging with his beautiful woman sitting beside him, driving the car. Henry was so over the moon now that Vicki had finally set a date for the wedding. Three months, in just three months Vicki and Henry would be man and wife. Mister and Misses Fitzroy no less.
Vicki groaned and pressed her hands into her eyes, not so much from bad vision but because it was an old habit that was comforting. She just wished she could get as excited. Henry shot down in flames her suggestion of marrying quickly and quietly at town hall. No, it had to be bigger than Ben Hur!
Payback time! Vicki smiled and then grimaced, this was her way of making him suffer for being so difficult about a simple wedding. Looking down at her wrist she realized that in just three short hours from now her mother would be flying in to meet her soon to be son-in-law for the first time.
Vicki was beginning to think Henry had spent too much time with Coreen. He was positively bubbly on the way to the airport, not at all the cool nighttime predator and master seducer she first met over a year ago.
The sun was shinning in on Henry, highlighting his beautiful brown hair with its reddish tints inherited from his father, King Henry the 8th. He had decided he liked the streak of silver the ceremony to kill Astaroth had given him last year. If anything it only made him more devastatingly handsome..
He turned his head to her, his beautiful blue eyes covered with sunglasses.
"Are you really worried about me meeting your mother so much" Henry reached over and kissed her hand, causing tingles.
"No, yes, god I don't know Henry, its just so weird. I mean it would have been so easy just to have a quick civil service then call her after".
"Not very romantic Victoria, said Henry leaning back and closing his eyes. It was agreed that your mother and I would put together the wedding, co-wedding planners, you don't have to do a thing"
"Henry, lets not go there ok, you know that the whole white picket fence 2.5 kids was never on my radar and now I don't seem to have a say in anything do I"
Henry looked over at Vicki's neck and could hear and smell the blood moving faster towards the surface, if they weren't having what appeared to be the beginnings of a fight this would have been an invitation back to his place.
"Well, don't just look at me like I'm a happy snack meal, say something god dam it!"
"I love the way your blood moves when your angry, I wish we were alone" Henry flashed that smile lifting up his sun glasses.
