Henry stayed with Vicki as long as the night would allow. As she shifted slightly and moved a few times, he leaned in each time to see if she would awaken. Holding her hand, he kissed it multiple times throughout the night. The nurses came and went and each one smiled and flirted with Henry, who could resist? When he felt the pull of the sun, he stood up, tears in his blue eyes and kissed her lips softly. She stirred slightly and whispered his name but never woke up.
"Yes, Vicki, I'm here," Henry whispered back as his eyes glistened with tears. When he turned, he bumped into Mike.
"But you're still leaving, right?" Mike glared at Henry.
"I will speak to Vicki when she wakes, that's all I can promise at this point. What about the case? Did you find out what was going on?"
"Why? 'Fraid someone will stake you in your sleep?" Mike snorted. Mike's smug look was wiped away with the deadly look on Henry's face as he responded to his question.
"Do you find that funny detective?" Henry growled.
"Lighten up, Fitzroy. Yeah, we've pretty much solved it, strange that it was," Mike shook his head.
"I'd love to hear it but I must go," Henry started away but not before one last look at Vicki.
"Can't wait to chat," Mike saluted Henry and smirked. Momentarily, Henry thought of giving Mike a single finger salute but decided it was childish although it might have made him feel better. Henry was gone in a flash, his pain too much to bear as he left Vicki for the day. Mike waited until he was sure Henry was gone before making his way to Vicki's bed and sitting down on the edge, much the same way Henry had done all through the night. Picking up her hand, he kissed it tenderly.
"Vic, come one, you gotta wake up, you're not gonna believe this case," Mike smiled weakly hoping she would show some sign of waking. After a few hours of Mike's ramblings, the nurses told him he would need to go.
"Sir, she needs to rest," one nurse told him.
"Well, the other man was here all night," Mike sounded childlike.
The nurse smiled, "Yes, but he was quiet, he just sat and watched, he didn't ramble incessantly," the nurse sighed.
"Oh." Mike told them he needed to get to work anyway, left his cell in the event of a change and reluctantly left Vicki too.
"Bye Vic," Mike kissed her lips softly, again, just as Henry had done. But unlike with Henry, Vicki didn't move or utter a word. The nurse took note of this and she truly hoped this woman would wake up, take that young man and have her way with him.
"Ms. Nelson, you'd be a fool not to take that handsome, sexy vampire as your own, God knows I would," she patted Vicki's hand as she left her alone for a bit too.
Once alone, a weak smile crept over Vicki's sleeping face.
Henry once again slept the sleep of the dead, grateful he couldn't dream for he feared he would have nightmares. He struggled with what he had done to Esther as well. It was beastly of him but he felt too that it was truly self-defense. Instead of a gun as Mike would use, Henry had used his fangs. Instead of shooting her, he had bitten her..'like an animal.' Henry muttered out loud. His human side knew it was hard to understand but the beast in him knew it was second nature. Shaking his head, he lay in his bed for a second night wishing death would come quickly and take the pain of decision and what he'd done away from him for another day. Soon enough, his wishes were granted and while he slept, Vicki continued to heal.
While Vicki slept, she dreamt but her dreams weren't nightmares. They were full of erotic moments with Henry. The last time she was with Henry, not only did he attack Esther but he had kissed her, laved his hot tongue on her neck and touched her in ways she hadn't been touched in a very long time. The nurses were concerned as her heart accelerated then slowed, her blood pressure rose then dropped and her breathing quickened then slowed.
"What do you think she's dreaming about? Or..should we call the doctor?" they younger nurse asked the older one.
The older nurse smiled and shook her nead no, "Honey, we could only wish we were dreaming what she must be dreaming."
"How do you know?" the other nurse said.
"Honey, look at her face," she pointed.
The smile on Vicki's face was worth a thousand words...