"Well?" Nikola asked as he walked into the lab. There, Magnus stood in her lab coat and gloves near the table the burned corpse lay on, looking over the body with a sharp, trained eye.
"Gloves please; if you would Nikola." She requested, taking her eyes off the corpse for a moment.
Once he had the rubber gloves on, Nikola quickly moved to take his place next to Magnus, trying to get the same angle and view as his fellow 5 member of the corpse.
"I thought I'd look at the major pulse points on the body," Magnus explained, pointing to the neck, armpits, wrists, groin, brachial, heart, and ankles of the body. "See if we can find any evidence."
Nikola nodded in understanding, sighing before speaking. "Ahhh, check the areas where our little friend would get the quickest flow of blood." Looking over the burnt corpse, Nikola appraised it for a moment before staring at what was left of the neck with concentration before moving over to carefully skim his finger over the roasted flesh. "One part of the legends are obviously true," he murmured, "we usually go for the neck."
Magnus looked at where Nikola fingered the barely visible bite mark of the burned neck, the area that was in worse condition than the rest of the body. Grabbing a magnifying glass, she held it close to the bite mark, getting a better view of what was left visible of the mark. Both Magnus' and Nikola's eyes widened in surprise at the find. "This bite… it's perfectly straight."
At that point, Druitt walked into the room, looking at his colleagues with interest. "Have you found anything yet?" He asked as he walked in. Magnus motioned for him to closer, and when he was in proximity to see, pointed to the area the magnifying glass showed.
"Look at this bite mark, John. Whoever did this had perfect teeth, there seems to be no signs of fangs to puncture the skin and muscle. It's as though their teeth would be strong enough to bite through steel, yet still look like any other human's teeth; aside from being perfectly, yet unnaturally straight." Magnus thought aloud.
"Even my teeth aren't that perfect when I go vampire mode," Nikola muttered, "maybe when we find this guy I can ask for his secret."
Druitt and Magnus just stared at Tesla in exasperation before Magnus put down the magnifying glass and covered back up the body. Taking off her gloves, she said "This body is too mutilated to find any concrete evidence, so we'll just have to search for more answers on our own."
Looking to the sheet, Druitt spoke a question that had been hanging around in the air as well as in everyone minds. "Why was the neck burned more than the rest of the body?" He asked. Nikola and Magnus looked at him in agreement, questions floating in their own eyes.
"I suppose we'll just have to wait to find out John." She said before she and the two men left the room, leaving the corpse covered on the table.
Later that night.
There was another gurgle before the life slipped away from the man lying on the concrete ground of the alley, the brown haired boy draining blood from the body; another innocent person falling victim to the creature of the night. Once he was done, the boy pulled another lighter from his pocket, and just before he dropped the lit lighter, a warm hand grabbed his cold, black sleeve; stopping him in his tracks.
"Don't." The girl ordered, her brown eyes boring into his red ones.
"You're not in a position to order me around," the boy retorted, still holding the lighter.
"It's my mission." The girl said flatly.
The boy laughed with dark, heavy sarcasm. "Oh, so it's a mission now? I thought this was a come home trip."
The girl just stared at him darkly, to which he returned the glare; but the girl refused to back down. "Find another way to dispose of the body." She said.
"How?" The boy shot back, glaring at the small girl before him. She may be 5 inches shorter than him, but she was still tiny compared to him. "In case you haven't noticed, I don't have acid here to help me like we do back home."
"Then bury it underwater," the girl said easily, not willing to let him win this argument.
The boy sighed in agitation, the lighter now unlit and in his pocket. "Why?" He asked loudly. "Why do you care all of a sudden of how I dispose of the bodies?" He shouted at her, causing the girl to flinch; yet still she refused to back down.
"That van that almost ran us over today was at the crime scene. It had one of the bodies from before in it when it left the station!" She hissed. "They are on to us! You're ignoring the rules you help enforce! What kind of a guard are you if you don't follow the rules you force others to abide by?" She said venomously.
The boys eyes widened in disbelief, not believing she had just insulted his honor. Quickly, in the blink of an eye, he shoved her against the alley wall, their faces almost touching. "How DARE you?" He hissed back, his eyes wide, his white hands clutching the collar or her shirt.
The girls eyes widened once again in fear and pain, unsure what the boy was going to do; perhaps she had gone too far this time… nonetheless, she tried to remain calm and stared up at the boy with wide, calm, caring eyes.
Slowly raising her hand, she stroked the boy's pale cheek gently. "You know I'm right." She whispered.
The boy closed his eyes, leaning into the girl's hand, enjoying the warm of her hand against his cold skin. After a moment, he sighed in defeat. "Fine," he said backing away. "Let's go to the pier."
The girl smiled as the boy backed away, her smile taunting and teasing. "You enjoy pinning me against a wall or something?" She asked sarcastically. The boy just laughed as he picked up the body.
"It's the only way I can make you behave." He joked back. Holding out his hand, he smiled at her and said "Shall we?"
The girl took his hand and nodded. "We shall."
Then they were gone.
A/N: Hoping I can write more this week, so I hope you enjoyed and please, stick around and review!
Thanks to my friend Reneesella for helping me with the major pulse points of the body!