Mick looked up in surprise when he heard his daughter burst into their apartment. He quickly got up from his desk, in his office, and hurried into the living room/kitchen area, where he found Ana pouring herself a glass of blood in the kitchen.

"Is something wrong?" he asked, though he knew that it was a stupid question.

Ana glared at him for a moment and nodded. "Yeah" she replied "Something happened in school today"

"Would you like to tell me about it?" Mick asked, sitting on the couch

Ana paused for a moment before continuing. "You told me yesterday, when we got home, that you called Logan and had him look up information on newly turned, teenage male vampires. Have you gotten the information yet?"

Mick shook his head. "Logan said that he was having a hard time, since it's such a broad topic"

"Well, I might have someone you would want to investigate" Ana replied, staring blankly into her glass

"What are you talking about?" Mick asked "You know someone?"

Ana nodded. "There's another vampire at my school"

"Why didn't you tell me this?"

"I just found out yesterday" Ana replied "I was going to tell you but…well, you know"

"Yeah" Mick said, quickly "Well, what's the story?"

"His name is Eric Olivado" Ana replied "He's in my grade. He's a vampire, obviously. He knows that I am one too. In fact, he followed me and Nikki to the beach yesterday and watched us from the parking lot"

"And he didn't help you?"

Ana shook her head. "That's what makes this weird" she said "So, yesterday, he's watching me die on the beach. And today, out of the blue, he takes me aside and tells me that he wants to be my friend"

"What did you tell him?"

"I told him no" Ana replied "First of all, I'm not going to be friends with someone who would just sit back and watch me die. Second, to put it quite frankly, he kind of creeps me out. He stares at me all the time. Nikki thinks it's sweet, but I just think it's creepy"

"I'll have Logan look up some more specific information on him" Mick said, getting up to get his cell phone from his office.

Ana sat back on the couch as she watched Mick called Logan.

"Yeah, Logan, I need you to search a vampire named Eric Olivado" Mick said, into the phone "Yeah…Thanks"

He hung up the phone and headed back over to Ana. "He'll call us once he's found something"

Ana nodded. "So, now what?"

"I don't know" Mick sighed "You want to go to the movies tonight?"

"Movies?" Ana said, looking at Mick "Since when do you go to the movies?"

"Since Beth invited you and me to go and see a movie with her" Mick replied, with a smile

"What about the case?"

"Ana, when we have a case, we're not stuck at home" Mick said "We can do other things"

"Sweet!" exclaimed Ana "When do we leave?"

&

Eric really didn't want to do what he was about to do. It felt wrong. He felt that he was going to get caught, just because he was a kid. His uncle had, apparently, done it before and assured Eric that he wouldn't get caught.

Sometimes, Eric got tired of his family. Well, adoptive family, but the only family he's ever known. His adoptive mother was almost obsessed with him. His adoptive uncle was practically insane (at least according to Eric). He had yet to meet the rest of his relatives.

So, while no one was looking, Eric silently left his room and headed off to complete his mission.

&

"That was a good movie" Ana said, as she and Mick walked into their apartment "What did you think?"

"It wasn't bad" Mick replied "Not one of my favorites, but it wasn't bad"

"Let me guess" Ana said, with a smile, sitting on the couch "The last time you went to the movies, 'Singin' In The Rain' was actually in theaters?"

Mick let out a chuckle and smiled, sitting next to Ana. "You just get a kick out of that, don't you?"

"Hey, not too many girls my age can say that their father served in World War II and is actually 85 years old" Ana replied "Old enough to be their grandfather or even great-grandfather for that matter!"

"Think about if Josef had any kids" Mick said, walking into the kitchen "His kids could say that their father lived through the American Revolution, Civil War, and countless other major events in American History"

"You have a point" Ana said, with a sigh "Well, I have to go do my homework. I'll be in my room"

"Alright" Mick replied

"Hey, don't get too involved in anything" Ana said, when she got to the foot of the stairs "I have history homework and we are studying World War II. I might need your help"

Mick looked up and saw the smile on his daughter's face. While it is true that she could have actually been studying WWII, Mick knew that she said that to make fun of him a little bit.

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One of the perks of being born a vampire is that you don't have to sleep in a freezer. You can sleep in a bed like any other human. Of course, though Ana loved that privilege, it made Mick, Josef, and many of the other vampires jealous.

Ana closed her bedroom door behind her and sat down on her bed. She zipped open her backpack and took out her Pre-Calculus book. She opened it to the page that her teacher assigned and was about to take out a notebook when she suddenly felt as though she was being watched or, to be more accurate, listened in on.

She slowly got off of her bed and scanned the room for anything suspicious – a habit of a girl whose father is a detective. Her eyes landed on her desk and then, more specifically, on her lamp.

Since she was a vampire, the lamp that Mick had bought Ana only gave off a dim light – not too bright, but also not too dark if she wanted to read or do homework not using her night vision. Ana noticed something funny about the lamp shade. She walked over to her desk and stuck her hand underneath the dark lamp shade. She automatically found what she had suspected was there…


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