Vicki and Maggie headed down the hall to see Marjory. They crept quietly into the room, thinking she was asleep.
"Come in girls," Marjory said softly.
"Mom, how'd you know it was us?" Vicki said as she made it to her bed.
"Honey, you don't have to have vampire skills to sense your children." She smiled. She looked older, more tired. Vicki's heart skipped a beat or two. She needed so badly to fix all of this and quickly. They had left the men to talk some more, Vicki told Henry to get all of the information he could from Kingston. She hadn't yet decided if she was going to bring Kingston along or not. She wanted to see her mother before she left.
"How are you doing?"
"Eh...been better. I just miss the baby so much..." she trailed off. Vicki held her mother's hand, rubbing her fingers over the wrinkles that had reappeared. She was so youthful before, Vicki now felt as if she had taken it for granted.
"Maggie, how is Tori?" Will had informed Marjory as soon as they had come in, knowing she would want to know.
"She's fine, it's me that's falling apart I think," Maggie answered.
"I have faith in my Vicki, she doesn't give up easliy," Marjory's eyes twinkled. Vicki was thrilled everyone has so much confindence in her, she sure hoped she could live up to it.
"Gee..no pressure guys." Vicki rolled her eyes trying to lighten the mood.
"Mom, I just wanted to tell you to hang in there. I'm working on a few things," Vicki leaned over and kissed her mother's cheek. Vicki had become comfortable with her life. Settled in for the last few years. Now, she knew that things could all change in a matter of hours.
"Come on Maggie," Vicki told her mother bye, Maggie hugged her too getting a kiss on the forehead from Vicki's mother.
"You know I love you both," Marjory told them.
"Stop that Mother." Vicki warned, frowning at her.
"What? Telling you I love you..never!" Marjory teased.
"No, making it sound final. You're not getting out of eternity with me that easily.." and with that Vicki and Maggie were off.
After exiting the room, Vicki leaned her forehead against the coolness of the wall, pressing her hands over her head.
"You okay?" Maggie asked rubbing her back in comfort.
"Yeah, I just really need to kick some ass, that's the best medicine right now." Vicki took a deep breath and met up with the men again.
"So, what have we got?" Vicki asked.
"Well, it seems that Kingston is a vampire that was once a lycan," Will said matter-of-factly.
"What?? How..??" Vicki looked at Kingston closely.
Kingston explained that he had never felt right as a lycan. Vicki was thoroughly confused.
"You were born lycan, but you didn't feel wolfish enough or what?" Vicki was in full smart ass mode right now.
"Let me explain it this way. You know how some people are born into one body but never feel right?" Vicki nodded in understanding.
"That's me. I never felt right. When I learned of the changes in the vampires, I was thrilled. That's what I always wanted to be but never could without being turned the old-fashioned way and then, there was the whole territorial issue.."
"There's a girl involved right?" Vicki finally asked. Kingston's face turned beet red.
"Kinda, I guess but I never felt right as a lycan, really. And I really did always want to be a vampire. After I met Haven, I just knew. But she couldn't turn me, not then anyway."
"How does this affect the lycan part of you? Is it gone, supressed..what?" Vicki was trying to understand everything.
"I'm not sure but I know that I haven't changed since being altered, haven't had the urge to hunt, I'm all vampire now," he smiled a huge toothy grin, slipping his fangs as proof.
"Great, just great." Vicki said running her hands through her hair. She felt like she was in a bad episode of The Twilight Zone.
"Where does your brother, Bishop, fit in? What's his beef with all of this?" Vicki asked leaning against the wall. Damn, she was physically and mentally tired. She couldn't stop though, too much at stake.
"He was upset with me. We were very close," Kingston's face became sad.
"We no longer hunted together, that was his favorite thing. Bishop is a very talented scientist." Kingston was obviously proud of his brother, it showed.
"Well, no shit!" Vicki huffed out.
"I'll help you, anyway I can. Our father, he is a geneticist. I'm sure if we told him what was happening, he would help." Kingston offered.
"Depends on how your father was about your changing, was he okay with it?" Vicki was very distrustful as it was, this was not helping.
"He wasn't at first but when he saw how happy Haven and I were, he was okay with it."
A nurse came running down the hall about that time.
"Dr. Jameson, please come quick, it's Mrs. Moncrief." They all took off but it was Vicki who got there first.
Marjory seemed to be gasping for air.
"Mother! Oh my God, Will do something!" Vicki yelled.
Will assessed her quickly and determined that she was in respiratory distress.
"Henry, take Vicki out now," Will ordered.
"Fuck that, I'm not leaving my mother!!" Henry held Vicki back, she struggled against him.
"No, you cannot stay, all of you out, only nurses and necessary staff," Will was going to have to insert a breathing tube into Vicki's mother. He did not want her to see that.
"I'm sorry, really, I'm sorry my brother has done this," Kingston looked as if he would be sick.
"Someone's gonna be sorry, that's for sure.." Vicki said as Henry drug her out of Marjory's door.
As they left, they heard a sound that stopped them in the hall.
Marjory flatlined...