hey, sry it took so long, i was debating whether or not to put in something else at the end, and i just blushed thinking about writing that, so i think the awsome smut scene is gonna have to wait for a few more days! sry! i'm hiding right now, man, its so much harder to write smut for EVERYONE to see than it is to write it in your head! eek! hope you like it!

She hadn't meant for it to go so far. Neither had he. It had only started out as one simple question. All she wanted was a better answer to her four simple words.

Can vampires do it?

She'd asked the question a while ago. He'd answered a while ago. But she wasn't satisfied with his answer. She rarely was. So she'd asked him again. When she had thought they were alone.

They hadn't been.

"Why would you ask Mick, my lovely little dinner morsel? Its obvious that he wouldn't know." A cocky, self-assured voice floated over to them from the corner. Beth whirled around, stunned to see the dark haired, handsome man with the Cheshire cat grin that she'd met before sitting in front of Mick's bookshelves. He winked at her and sipped something dark red that looked suspiciously like blood.

Beth didn't dare take her eyes off of him as she asked Mick,

"He's been there all along, hasn't he?" Mick smiled at Josef.

"Beth, you remember Josef?" Beth looked more closely at the man –vampire- in the shadows. "He's always had some stalker characteristics." Mick joked.

She smiled, but it was quickly replaced as Josef stood and walked closer to her.

"As if you should be talking, St. John." He smiled down at Beth. It wasn't a smile really. It was that kind of look that a tiger gives you in the zoo. That intelligently predatorily gaze that has the hairs on the back of your neck standing, but has your curiosity peaked at the same time. The look that plainly said, 'I could kill you and eat you, right here, right now, without no one the wiser, but I choose not to.'

"Oh," he whispered, gently brushing her hair with soft aristocratic fingers as he stalked by. "You are a delectable little meal, aren't you? I could just eat you." He continued, his fangs extending. He snapped his teeth together playfully. Mick stiffened as Beth surprisingly didn't flinch. Josef smiled at the mortal, Beth smiled back.

"That's enough Josef." Mick ordered, beginning to get worried. And a little jealous.

"No," Josef purred, fingers gently teasing the soft skin on her neck. "I don't think it's nearly enough." Beth shivered as she looked into his hypnotizing eyes. He smiled down her, pleased with her reaction.

She seemed to sense this and with a sharp shake of her head, she snapped herself out of the spell his proximity had created. She shook her head with a knowing smile.

"Oh no," she said, resisting the urge to shake her finger. "I'm not going to fall for your tricks. I'm not a happy meal on legs you know." Mick sighed in relief as she stepped slightly away from the older vampire.

Josef laughed.

He roared with laughter.

Mick was astounded. He'd known his friend for 55 years and he had never once heard him belt out a belly laugh like this one.

Beth. Looking at the way it lit up his face, found it very attractive.

"I can see what Mick sees in you, Miss Turner. You have quite the head on your shoulders." He complimented, traces of laughter making his eyes sparkle.

Beth smiled up at him.

"Why thank you, Mr. Kostantin."

"Josef," he took her hand in his, brining it to his lips. "Please." He purred, kissing it gently. Beth smiled again and nodded.

Mick felt that this had gone on long enough. Josef was purposely treading on what he knew Mick's animalistic vampire nature considered to be his territory. And now he was getting mad.

"Well,' he said, possessively putting a hand on Beth's shoulder. "Now that we all remember each other…" Beth's eyes left to return to Mick's, he hand slipped form his.

But Josef would have none of that.

Downing the contents of his glass, he sat on Mick's couch and stretched luxuriously, almost like a cat, pure vampire, lithe, sleek muscle. He had Beth's eyes again. Mick glared at him from over the human's shoulder. Upset. Again.

"Didn't you have a question, Miss Turner?"

Beth started to answer, but Mick interrupted her.

"I've already answered her, Josef. I don't think its necessary to elaborate any further." He sent another pointed glare at the older vampire. Josef smiled slightly. Understanding. But not agreeing.

"Oh, but with her reporter's curiosity, surely Miss Turner wasn't satisfied with your presumably monosyllabic answer." Beth smiled at him, captivated again.

"Would you care to elaborate then, Josef?" Beth asked, an excited glint in her eyes. Josef's fangs extended slightly as he smelled Beth's passion for knowledge, and her desire for the two creatures in the room permeate the air around him. It was heady, intoxicating.

He loved it.

So, with another slow smile, he patted the couch next to him.
Beth walked away from the angry and glaring Mick and say next to Josef. He smiled at the younger vampire and told her softly, eyes eating into hers,

"I would be happy to give you a demonstration, Beth." Mick growled from behind the coffee table and Josef smiled wickedly. "Though," he continued. "Perhaps lover boy wouldn't appreciate the encroachment on his territory. You are, after all, Mick's human." Beth smiled, fingers bravely playing with the cuff of Josef's shirtsleeve as Mick's anger became palpable. She looked up, wide eyes dancing with barely restrained excitement, and said,

" I'm willing to be shared."

Josef smiled again, his fingers again playing with the soft strands of her hair.

"Only for the good of the research." She nodded with a smile.

"Of course. Only for the research." Josef's eyes blazed as he leaned in and gently brushed his lips across hers. Mick started forward as Josef pulled back and told him, grin, and hunger, and lust coloring his already seductive voice,

"You could join u s Mick." Mick stopped and blinked, and started to clear the rage out of his brain as he processed his friend's suggestion.

He could-

The thought wasn't even fully formed in his head as he pulled Beth's face gently to face his and kissed her with a passion that clearly demonstrated how long he had held himself back. And Josef watched with a smile.

He was definitely getting some tonight.

button time!