Josef was leaning back in his chair when his secretary buzzed him. "Yes?"
"A collect for you sir" the secretary's voice was slightly curious.
"Did they give a name?" Josef asked, bored.
"Jocelyn…Jocelyn Konstan"
Josef nearly fell out of his chair. "PUT HER THROUGH!"
Jocelyn clutched the phone as the there was a click. "Hello?" she whispered.
"Jocelyn" Josef's voice filled the phone.
"Daddy!" Jocelyn sobbed. "Daddy, you have to come get me"
"Joci, where are you?"
"Augsburg, Germany"
"Go to the police tell them…tell them you're lost. Tell them your brother is coming to get you. Tell them he'll be there as soon as he can."
"Daddy, I'm scared."
"I'll be there"
Jocelyn hung up the phone. She wiped her tears as the old man looked at her. "Thank you" she said, in English.
The man nodded, and said in heavily accented English. "Do you need to get some where?"
"To the police station"
"Just around the corner" The man pointed.
Jocelyn was gone, running the way he had pointed.
Josef was banging on Mick door. "OPEN UP!" he yelled.
Mick opened the door. "What is it?"
Beth appeared around the corner.
"We need to go to Augsburg, Germany"
"Why?" Mick asked confused.
Josef clearly didn't want to tell him. "My daughter is trapped."
"Daughter?"
"Mick, I need your help" Josef had never looked so lost. "I need you to trust me."
Mick nodded. "I need to pack."
Beth looked between them. "I'll see you when you get back." She grabbed her purse and rushed past Josef, who closed the door.
Josef paced Mick's room as Mick packed. "Want to fill me in?"
Josef took a few deep breaths. "When I was still human I was forced into a marriage. I married a pretty little girl who was of noble birth. I didn't know her but she was attractive and that was all mattered back then.
"When I turned, right afterwards, I found out she was pregnant. For months, I tried to decide what I was going to do. I wrote a note dictating what I wanted to happen if it was boy and if it was girl. I left it somewhere that I knew my wife find it and think I had written it before my death. She never even thought it was strange that I knew she was pregnant.
"When Jocelyn was born, I swore I would stay close and protect her. She grew up to be a beautiful girl. She was smart, and witty and funny." Josef stopped and took a deep breath. "When my wife died, my father forced Jocelyn into a marriage. She was only sixteen. The man was so cruel. He'd get drunk and beat Jocelyn. I wanted to kill him. When Jocelyn was 19 she got pregnant." Josef stopped, fighting tears.
Mick finished packing. "What happened?"
"Jocelyn made him mad, somehow. I don't how; that girl couldn't do any wrong if she tried, but somehow he found something. He beat her, inducing her labor. Then left her. He refused to call anyone to help her. She gave birth to a still born. She cried, and held the child.
"I could hear her heart starting to fail. She was bleeding to death. I couldn't let it happen. I turned her." He swallowed, pushing away the memories. "When he found her body, everyone assumed she was dead and that she had died from child birth. I don't know what happened to him but when she was put in my family's crypt, I woke her. I took her with me."
"And how did she end up in Germany?" Mick asked.
"I don't know" Josef turned his back to Mick. "I thought she was dead. I haven't heard from her in 150 years."