OK, i just want to start this off with the most massive apology that i have ever extended to anyone i the history of apologies. I AM SO SORRY!! I went to Europe, then when i got back i got caught up with studying for my AP exams -all you high school kids out there know what I'm talking about- and now, well here we are. I know that isn't a great excuse, but its all I've got. I am so sorry for leaving you guys hanging like that, really, never meant for that to happen.

OK, good news: Moonlight's back!! squeee!! hope y'all loved that episode on Friday as much as i did!! OMG, they- sry! lol, almost did that spoiling thing i was talking about! OK, well, it was fuh-mazing, lets just leave it at that, lol.

I've been doing some serious planning for ItN, and i hope you all love the results, seriously, this thing hasn't left my head even though i so rudely left you guys hanging. now, this will probably be the last update until the end of next week, AP's aren't over yet. I just decided that today i didn't care if i failed them, i wanted to write some serious josef/sam! so, keeping that in mind, I'm warning you, you wont hear from me for a while. but after that, expect at least a chapter a week! OK, well, now that i hope i have sufficiently humbled myself to you, here's the fruits of my labor!

oh, and btw, i STILL don't own ml. Seriously, this no josef thing is starting to tick me off! lol, sry, i'm a freak, i get it, i swear, chapter time now!

The song's called "Give" by Dishwalla. hope ya like it!

PS: realized this morning that i forgot something, sry!


"Hey Josef?" Josef turned around to face Sam who was sitting primly on the edge of his monstrous bed. He raised his eyebrows, urging her to speak. She smiled tentatively. "This isn't really that bad. The whole," she air-quoted herself, "'Vampire' thing." Josef shook his head with a small smile. Sitting on the bed next to her he told her with in exasperated voice,

"Sam, it's not a thing." She rolled her eyes. "It's not!" he defened indignantly. Sam cracked a grin.

"I know. I just love making you mad."Josef glared at her. "You look cute. Kinda young, but cute." Josef continued to glare, growling slightly in the back of his throat. Sam reached over and pinched his cheek affectionately.

"Aw..." she simpered, impish grin dancing on her face. "Look at the cute wittle baby!" Josef growled louder, debating with himself the advisability of biting her fingers off. They'd heal. He thought.

"You look 16 again Josef!" Sam joked, laughing at him. That was the last straw. He was 407 years old, he should not have to take this lying down...

Josef tackled her across the bed, tickling mercilessly.

"Sixteen huh?" He growled, grin in place as Sam wriggled around, trying to escape fingers that attacked with surprising accuracy. "Would a sixteen year old be strong enough to do this?" He growled playfully at her again as she pleaded with him for a truce.

"Josef! Lemme go! I'm sorry!" she couldn't breathe she was giggling so hard. "Uncle!" she cried, tears in her eyes. Josef let up with a smile and leaned on his elbow, hovering over her.

"No one ever finds out that I started a tickle war. Got it?" he asked, fingers poised to begin their ruthless tickling again if he didn't get the answers that he wanted. "I've got a reputation to protect." Sam laughed at him and was about to say 'no' when he jerked his hand toward her again.

"Okay, fine! You win, this never happened!" she laughed, dodging away from him. He grinned and pulled her back, lying down next to her.

Sam sighed and rested her head on his arm.

"Tired?" he asked, hearing the answer already as the blood pumping in her body began to slow its pace. She nodded absently, stifling a yawn.

"Make sure Camille grabs my X-Men toothbrush." Josef frowned.

"Huh?" he asked, bewildered. Sam smiled lazily, burrowing against him, almost gone.

"My toothbrush. It has Wolverine on it, she can't miss it..." Josef looked down to begin mocking her for having a superhero toothbrush but smiled gently.

"Oh Samantha. You really are one strange baby vampire." He kissed her forehead and removed his arm that she had decided to use as a pillow. Standing up, he straitened his rumpled pants and sighed. Looking back at the unconscious fledgling curled into a ball on his bed he shook his head, marvelling at her.

"But I wouldn't trade you for the world."


"Camille?" Josef asked, stepping out of his room and shutting the door -Which he had had fixed immediately. There were young and stupid baby vampires running around the house. It would be just his luck if she accidentally staked herself, or put it in her mouth or something...-

Camille looked up and smiled at her employer.

"What can I do for you Josef?" She asked, hip thrown out for effect as she stood in front of the handsome vampire. He grinned appreciatively.

"Unfortunately, not what either of us are thinking of at the moment." He informed her with a mischievous smile. She flashed him a pout and then grinned. "But I do need your help with something for Sam." Camille smiled, happy to see him giving his attention to what she considered a worthy project. Even humans, especially humans who have been exposed to them for so long, care about the propagation of the vampiric species.

"What do you need help with?" Josef motioned for her to follow him as he made his way down the stairs.

"Well, actually, I have a list for you, and something very important that I want to entrust to you. About everything else you can talk to Sam about, but not this..."


Sam woke up to find Josef sitting at a desk across the room. She smiled and slowly, very carefully, slipped out of bed as quietly as she could. Sam was determined to sneak up on him, and so, precautions were a must. Sam was about to jump on his back as he leaned over the wooden surface to examine something in a file when Josef's body twisted around suddenly, and with a grin the size of the state they lived in he shouted,

"BOO!" Sam shreiked and flew backwards so fast she didn't know what had hit her. Well, scratch that. she knew exactly what had hit her. It was big and wooden, and the knob was sticking into her back.

Josef howled with laughter, clutching the desk for dear life, trying to stay in his seat. Sam, while trying to start her heart back up again, glared at him.

"I'm going to get you for that." she stated quietly, trying to sound menacing. Josef guffawed and stood up, extending a hand to her. She glared at it, and pushed herself off of the door, ignoring his gentleman like gesture completely. He grinned to himself as he opened the door saying,

"I have something to show you Sam, come on." Sam stood her ground and continued to glare. "Oh come on!" he sighed with a self amused huff. "You know the only reason I did that to you was because you thought you could get the best of a 400 year old vampire." Sam glared and brushed past him on her way out the door, earning herself another grin.

"So what's so important that you have to show me?" Sam asked as they walked down the stairs.

"Oh, I just had Camille go to town to grab you a few things." Sam's ears perked up and she turned to face him.

"Yeah?" she asked in an excited voice. Josef rolled his eyes and nodded.

"Please don't tell me you're going to get all girlie about this, it would just ruin the image I have of you." Sam sighed and sped up, grinning to herself.

Camille stood as they entered the study Sam was starting to consider her second home. Sam stopped short as soon as the door was opened and stared, riveted, at Camille's neck. Josef softly cursed under his breath.

"Damn, i knew I'd forgotten something." He dismissed Camille with a nod of his head and turned to Sam, just quick enough to grab her wrist and prevent the baby vamp from following her. Sam's head snapped in his direction and she growled, eyes making the transition to vamp first.

"Oh, easy there cowboy, you've got another meal right here." He held out his wrist to which she eagerly attached herself. Josef closed the door with the hand that wasn't being used and slowly back to the desk, Sam following, lips glued to his arm. He sat down as Sam settled into a comfortably rhythm, her heartbeat slowing to match his, beat for beat. Josef soon found himself lulled by the noise pounding in his ears but shook it off with a grin. She was getting very good at this.

He gently eased Sam's head away from his wrist and grinned as she allowed herself to be cradled to his body as she savored her meal. Josef bent his head down and sealed the twin puncture holes on his wrist and lifted his head to examine his fledgling. Sam's eyes ahd opened and were glazed over, hovering between green and vampire blue. she had a satisfied smile on her face that made her look like she was coming off a major drug trip. She blinked as she felt Josef staring and shook her head, clearing the fog that had taken up residence in her brain.

"What?" she asked with a grin, flashing barley extended teeth, just two little pearly points. Josef grinned even wider and kissed her cheek.

"Nothing. You." Sam smiled. "Are you ever going to force your teeth back?" He asked eventually. Sam shook her head and chomped her teeth at him playfully. Josef shook his head and let her go.

He stood and made his way over to the leather couch and the dozens of bags that were perched on it. Sam followed, eyes bright and alert.

"I checked the tags on your jeans while you were asleep and figured that if you liked to buy your jeans from Old Navy that you'd like to buy everything else there too." he told her, gesturing to the most prolific bag section on the couch. "And I made sure she bought you these, to replace the ones you had to leave in your apartment." He pulled out two boxes and handed them to Sam.

"Holy shit Josef, these are bloody expensive!" Sam exclaimed holding up the iphone and her new ipod. Josef rolled his eyes.

"Sam, seriously, does it look like I care?" he asked with a carefree smile. Sam sighed and grinned back.

"Thanks Josef." she said and gave him a hug. He cleared his throat and stood still.

"Now, don't get all girlie on me. Remember, you have a presumed reputation to protect."

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Mick sighed and rubbed his hands on his jeans. God, get a hold on yourself St. John. This isn't the first time you've been to her place.

Yeah, but this is the first time you've been here without work to do and knowing for sure that Josh wasn't there too.

Mick sighed again and knocked softly on Beth's door. After a few seconds, she opened it with a grin.

"Hey Mick! Come in, have a seat!" Mick grinned back, unable to help himself. He entered and let Beth take his leather jacket and asked,

"So, what's up?" Beth grinned at him and shrugged.

"What? A girl can't invite her vamp friend over just for a chat?" Mick blushed a little. Beth grinned at him. "Oh Mick, you're so easy to tease." Mick smiled at her as they moved to the living room.

"You want anything to drink?" Beth asked, moving to the kitchen. "I mean, I don't have any blood or anything, but I've got a pretty extensive collection of alcohol." Mick grinned at her.

"Scotch would be great, thanks." He sat and after a minute, Beth came back with drinks.

"So Mick," she started, sitting on the couch next to him. "What's been going on in your, I'm sure, very exciting life?" Mick smiled again and shrugged.

"Work I guess, why do you ask?" Beth shrugged again and smiled.

"We haven't really talked in a while, I wanted to catch up." Something in her smile made Mick a little wary.

"That's not all of it Beth." She started to protest. "Sorry, but I call 'em like I see 'em, and right now, you look like you're fact hunting." Beth blushed and sighed. She put her drink on the coffee table in front of them and turned to face Mick fully.

"OK, I'll admit it, I am fact finding."

"About what?" Mick asked, perplexed. What in the name of God could this tenacious reporter possibly want to know that she didn't already?

"I want to know about Sam. And Josef." she clarified. Mick's eyes widened and he shook his head.

"I don't think that's such a good idea Beth, turning isn't something that I'm at all good at talking about..." Mick trailed off. Beth smiled at him.

"I knew you'd say that. And you know that I'll just go ask Josef if you don't answer me. And with Sam still hungering for fresh blood, I'll be willing to bet that it's not exactly safe there for a mortal, and you wouldn't want me to get hurt, now would you?" Beth stared up at him with sad blue eyes that just begged for him to tell her everything he knew.

Mick was stunned. She had him soundly beaten in less than a minutes. She had backed him into a corner and left him without an escape route.

He had to admit it. She was good.

"Well..." he started, looking up to find her triumphant smile staring at him. She knew she had won. "Turnings are like having a baby." Mick said, blushing a little. "It can either be pretty easy, or it can get messy." Mick stood up and started to pace.

"See, in order for a turning to work, the human needs to be drained to almost the brink of death, then fed the vampire's blood to complete the change. And even then the human isn't out of the woods yet. One of the biggest risks in a turning? Not the human not surviving the transition. But the vampire taking too much or not being able to control himself. That's why it's always recommended for young vamps not to try and turn someone. They have less control and they might not be able to stop themselves from drinking till there isn't anything left to drink." Mick looked over at Beth to see how she was faring. She shook her head, urging him to continue. Mick sighed, and complied.

"Most of the time, the body transitions right after the fledgling -that's what the vampire communtiy calls a baby vampire- wakes up. Thier body has to die first in order for it to be reborn. After that it really is like having a new born. All they really do is eat, and sleep, and..." Mick trailed off, a heated blush spreading across his cheeks like a forest fire.

"And what?" Beth demanded, determined to get the entire story. Mick looked at the ground and muttered something indescernable to her mortal ears. "What was that?" she asked.

"And have sex." Mick muttered, a little louder, Beth was pretty sure his whole body was blushing, she coluld almost feel the heat from here.

"And then what?" she asked, trying to cut him a break. He jumped on the chance to get away from this aspect so fast Beth was surprised he didn't trip over it.

"Well, see, sometimes, not all of those things happen. Or they happen in not the most preferable settings. Like take Sam for example. She was clinically dead. To your kind, she was long gone. To our kind however, well, she wasn't. But because she was already so close to death, even a vampire as old and as in control as Josef didn't want to risk trying to drain her. Her body just wouldn't have been able to handle the stress.

"So he preformed what we in the communtiy call a live turning. He fed her his blood before her's was out of her body. That meant that she stayed human, or semi-human for a longer period of time. It also meant that when her transition -or when her body died to be reborn- it was probably a lot worse. And moste deffinetly more dangerous."

Mick stopped and looked at Beth. She was sitting on the edge of her seat, absorbing all this information with a look of absolute wonder.

"Mick, this is just, wow!" Mick smiled slightly.

"Wow good or wow bad?" He asked slowly. Beth grinned at him.

"Wow good!" Mick sat back down next to her. "Mick it's amazing! It's just so fascinating!" Mick smiled gently at her.

"I'm glad you think that." Beth schooched closer to him and stared, trying to imagine Mick going through all the things that he had described. And it was all Mick could do not to reach out and touch her. Then she moved to close.

All Beth knew was that one moment she was studying Mick's eyes, and the next, Mick's mouth was on hers. Not that she minded. Au contraire! She most definitely enjoyed it. He was holding her face to his with both hands and her hands slowly entangled themselves into his gorgeous hair. ...have to remember to ask him what shampoo he uses...

Then, just as suddenly as it had started, it stopped. Mick was up and off the couch quicker than she could blink.

"I'm sorry Beth, I, I shouldn't, I'm sorry..." he stuttered and then ran out the door leaving Beth sitting on the couch touching her lips wondering what the hell had just happened.


Sam woke up to a telephone ringing next to her. it was the land line. Ah, shit, just let me sleep... But she answered it. Because a ringing telephone is like AB neg to Josef. Absolutely irresistible.

"'Lo?" Sam grogged.

"Sam?" a very familiar voice asked across the line. Sam sat up and frowned.

"Beth?" she asked, now more confussed than groggy. "What's wrong?" Sam heard Beth sigh and could tell that this was going to be a long story. "Actually, hold on, I'm going to give you my new cell number ans call me back on that."

After a few seconds, Sam's phone began to ring next to her pillow. She grabbed it and ordered,

"Talk Blondie." Beth talked. She told her everything that had happened and inserted at the end,

"Oh, and I have a name! You tell Josef to stop being a bad influence on you!" Sam grinned and settled into a more comfortable position in Josef's bed.

"OK, well, what's the problem?" Sam asked, getting Beth's attention back to where she wanted it. Beth groaned.

"He's being so dumb!!" Beth screeched. Sam smiled.

"He's a man, what do you expect?" she asked realistically. Beth sighed.

"Exactly that." Sam nodded decisively.

"Well, then why are you surprised? You know that the only way something is going to get done with this is if you do it yourself."

Beth sighed again.

"Yes, but not tonight. Right now, I'm tired and I want to go to bed." Sam smiled and yawned.

"You and me both sister."


Sam woke up with Josef standing over her, wrist held out. Sam grinned and grabbed the offering, closing her eyes as soon as her lips made contact with the soft flesh of his arm. She growled deeply, a happy sound Josef was pleased to hear and settled, swallowing mouthful after mouthful of the life giveing, red fluid. Josef looked on with a peacefully benevolent smile and sighed.

After deciding it was time to let go, Sma did so and hopped out of bed on unsteady les. She grabbed onto Josef and wobbled over to the chair next to the fire.

"So, what's on the agenda today?" she asked Josef. He smiled and handed her her laptop he had bought her.

"For you, resting, as always. For me, not." Sam smiled at him as he made his way to the desk a few feet away and turned to her laptop. She had a mission. She had a song stuck in her head and she was going to find it and listen to it.

10 miuetes and two downloads later she had it.

Josef turned to her.

"Hey, I promised to make it ducky for you didn't I?" Sam nodded. Josef stood and was back from his closet in an instant, a box in his arms. He set it down on the floor in front of her and smiled.

"Well, open it." he told her. Sam smiled back, expecting something sweet that Josef would tell her to never ever tell anyone he had bought. She was starting to understand his MO.

Victor was startled out of his patrols of Josef's property by a long, low, angry growl, a crash, a quack, and a shout.

"Josef, I swear I'm gonna stake you!" Victor shook his head with a smile and kept walking.

That I want to remain
A child with you forever
And hear as you lay before me
You tease me and tell me to stay
But what would you give
What would you give?