The woman looked at the children playing in the park. She watched intently waiting for any sign from one of them. Her impatience was growing with each passing hour. As she finally got up to leave, a young woman with a small child passed her by. She felt a prickle, just a small one but she knew. She knew immediately that this child was special. She decided to stay around then follow her home. She noticed too that another similar looking child was being watched by the young woman. It was a young boy with brown hair and bright eyes. He ran toward the slides and yelled for his mother to watch. She laughed as she took the little girl out of the stroller, heading to the playground with her young daughter. The woman sat and waited patiently. She knew she would definitely be getting these two soon.

Vicki went home after her lunch with Mike. Since the nightmares had started, she hadn't been sleeping soundly. This had made her decide that she might need to go home and try to rest. She didn't want to sleep, just rest a bit. Gwen and the children were gone when she arrived. Her heart leapt with panic at first but then quickly realized that Gwen had taken them to the museum. Vicki locked the door behind her then flipped her phone open. She wanted to call just to make sure they were okay. Mike had reminded her that Gwen was the best nanny they could have. Vicki knew nothing was foolproof. After speaking with Gwen, she breathed a sigh of relief, got a quick snack and headed upstairs to relax and maybe read a book.

Vicki stopped at the new nursery they had been setting up for the baby. She put her hand on her stomach and smiled. She thought back to when she was unsure if she was pregnant, how upset she was, how she was hurt during the giant spider fiasco and now, just a few weeks from his entrance into the world, a new fear. She feared that someone would hurt her children. She shook the thought from her head, looked at the room one more time and headed for her own.

"Oh, little man, what are we going to name you?" she said out loud. He kicked her hard as the last word left her lips. She jumped a bit and laughed. She knew his personality would be much like her and Abbie. That was somewhat frightening, a male version of her. Poor Henry!

She lay down on the bed, picked up a baby name book and began to thumb through it. She and Henry were still haggling over names, they just could not agree on one. They had the middle name, deciding on the first name was a problem.

The next thing Vicki remembered was Henry lightly touching her and calling her name.

"Vicki? Vicki..are you okay? Why are you home? What's wrong?" Henry pulled her hair away from her face as she turned over on her back.

"What time is it?" she said trying to focus on their clock by the bed.

"It's only three in the afternoon." he told her. She'd been asleep for two hours and no nightmares.

"Why are you here? I thought you were at the office with Coreen?" Vicki asked.

"I was but Gwen called me, she said you sounded a little distraught. When you didn't answer your cell, I decided to come home."

Vicki looked around, then lay back on the bed.

"I must have left it downstairs," she said covering her eyes with the back of her arm. Henry could tell something was up and it had nothing to do with his vampire abilities and everything to do with his love for his wife.

"Vicki, what's wrong? And don't try to lie either, " Henry warned her.

"I might as well tell you," she said sitting up on the bed. She sat with her legs crossed Indian style and told him everything. When she told him about talking to Mike, he got extremely quiet at first.

"So you felt the need to go to Mike instead of your husband." He stated. His jaw was set. The muscle in his face was twitching and Vicki could see the hurt in his eyes.

"Henry," she said, "I went to Mike as a friend and an investigator. I thought maybe something else was going on and it was coming through to me in a dream. I didn't want you to freak out, like you're doing now."

Vicki climbed off the bed, not very gracefully and headed to use the bathroom. Henry stayed in his spot still brooding.

"Look," Vicki said as she exited the bathroom, "you were going to be pissed or upset either way. You can help me or not, but I'm not going to risk ignoring this might be something serious. What's it gonna be?"

Vicki took that stance that said, "take it or fuck you."

Henry stood up, started for the door then looked back and said, "Coming?"

Vicki smiled and answered, "Maybe later..."