Vicki and Henry had time to hit two more clubs but both visits ended with the same results as the first two. Upon exiting the second club, a young man approached them.
"Hey, psstt," he called out from the alley. Vicki, of course, could not see him but Henry could see him clearly. His animalistic and protective instinct took over and he had the young man by the throat dangling in mid air in the blink of an eye. Vicki ran to Henry and put her hand on his upper arm.
"Henry! Put him down!" Henry's eyes were black when they looked at Vicki and when he looked at the terrified young man, he told him he would not remember this, that his night would pass smoothly and he would go on his way after he told them what he wanted with them.
"I..thought you might want to know something, I heard you in there asking questions and," he paused, looked around nervously and leaned in to whisper, "I might know something."
Vicki stepped in front of Henry so as not to frighten the boy any further, "What do you think you know?"
"The other night, I was at this club called Shenanigan's and," the man licked his lips, swallowed hard and Henry could hear his heart pounding with fear, "there was this woman. She was hot, I mean like..wow hot..you know," the man began to smile and made large breast gestures with his hands," tits out to here and her lips, so full, so red and juicy," his eyes took on a far off look and Vicki was more than sure he was getting a woody.
"Okay, we get the picture, what else?"
The man snapped back to reality and sure enough, even in the dark, Vicki could tell he adjusted himself. She shook her head and sighed, men.
"She was hot right? Well, there was this guy she was sitting with and when he left, she put something in his drink, next thing I know, some other big guy is nearly carrying him out but, it was like no one saw them but me," he told them with a frown.
"What do you mean no one saw them? No one in the club saw a large mean and a big tittied woman leaving with an unconscious man? That makes no sense," Vicki said aloud.
"It might, sir, do you have any issues with your sight or hearing?" Henry asked.
"Oh yeah, I'm totally deaf in my left ear. Why?"
"Some spells are sound sensitive. It's a little like being sight impaired, some powers of persuasion don't work on some while working on others just fine," Henry smiled that half cocked smile with a raised eyebrow.
"You think there was a spell? Then why use X?" Vicki asked and ignored his implication.
"To draw attention away from how they were lured, so to speak." Henry offered.
"So, can I go now?" the man was shuffling his feet.
Henry turned to him and said in his otherworldly voice, "You will go and remember nothing. You will only remember that you came here and helped a couple find their way home."
With that, the man turned and left with a smile on his face.
"I need to call Mike, at least we have a description," Vicki flipped her phone open.
"Do we?" Henry asked.
"Well..yeah..don't we?" Vicki was confused too.
Henry feigned using a cell and having a high pitched voice, even going so far as to mock Vicki's mannerisms, "Hi Mike, this is Vicki, yeah..we're looking for a hot, large breasted woman with big, red, juicy lips, can you put an A.P.B. out for that?"
Vicki slid her phone back in her pocket and pursed her lips, "Since you put it that way, let's see what we can find."
"When is the time frame from abduction and finding the bodies?" Henry asked.
"Three days," Vicki said.
"When was the last abduction?"
"Two days ago," Vicki sighed.
"So, doing the math, I don't believe we will have another abduction until tomorrow night, want to call it a night?" Henry offered.
"Sure, why not." Vicki opened his door and flopped into the car.
"I may be too bold in asking but would you like to come and watch a movie?" Henry's lips curved in a delicious smile.
Vicki opened her mouth but before she could speak, Henry spoke again, "No strings, just a movie and conversation, that's all."
While her heart leapt into her throat somewhat, her mind yet again screamed "GO HOME" but she told her mind to fuck off, she was going to relax. Her feet hurt and she was thirsty as hell.
"Alright, what movie?"
"Your choice, but…"
Vicki knew what he was going to say, "You need to feed first."
"Yes, I'm afraid so, is that okay?"
"Whatever," she shrugged knowing full well it bothered the hell out of her. But, the vampire did have to eat, who was she to stop that? A small part of her, well, a large part really, wanted to offer but she held back, yet again.
Henry drove to the park and told her he'd be back in a jiffy and then stuck his head back in the window to say with a wide grin, "I won't play with my food." Vicki showed no reaction until he was long gone and then she smiled, shook her head and bit her lip. She knew she loved him, she knew deep within her soul she couldn't imagine her life without him but with all the things that could go right, she found just as many to go wrong. Vicki hated being alone with her thoughts, they seemed to tell her the hard truth and she couldn't stand so much truth at one time.
True to his word, he was back in a flash and jerked Vicki out of her thought process to which she was very grateful.
"Better?" Vicki asked.
"Much, thank you for asking," Henry responded. Even in the night, Vicki could see the flush of Henry's feed.
"And just so you know, it was but a replenishing, nothing more," he added for good measure.
Vicki put her hands up, "Hey, you don't owe me an explanation." However, even in the night, Henry saw her slight smile.
Tonight might be a good night after all…
