Jilted
By: Evilous
Rating: R/ NC-17

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, Moonlight and all Moonlight characters are only being borrowed. There are some original characters in here as well that are 100 mine, but if you would like feel free to borrow them, I don't mind sharing. I make no profit from this, only the joy it brings me to write it.

Chapter 38: Breakfast in bed

As Beth started to wake, she felt the warmth of strong arms around her, his tight chest against her back, his hot breath on her shoulder. Sighing contently at the wonderful feeling, caught between wanting to turn and see him and not wanting to break the moment, her greed got the better of her wanting to see him. Softly turning in his arms he started to wake, bringing their noses to touch.

"Good morning," kissing his lips. "It feels so good to wake up in your arms again, thank you."

"Why are you thanking me?"

"You need your freezer time, I know that. I have no problem with sleeping alone, but I have missed it."

"I didn't want to let you go?" Placing a kiss on her forehead, "Wait here," he gets up and walks to the door turning back to make sure she was staying.

She was readjusting the pillows against the head board sitting up, looking up at him. Mick continued down the stairs before he lost his control and got back into bed. He needed more blood, so he could keep up and not worry about drinking too much from her; she was like a treat the chocolate mint after dinner, not the whole meal. She needed food to, between the blood he was taking and the workout they had given each other; a snack break was much needed.

After stopping at his freezer room for his PJ bottoms Mick headed to the kitchen. Mick opened the fridge and realized that he needed to shop; everything he had was bad or nearly bad. The OJ was good, and he had eggs and bread, so he grabbed a frying pan and made Beth scrambled eggs and toast. Setting her breakfast, OJ, coffee, and his 2nd glass of blood on a tray carrying it up the stairs.

When he returned Beth was gone from his bed, he heard the water faucet turn off in the bathroom, he waited for her to return. Seconds later she walked back into the bedroom her hair brushed and clipped back out of her face, wearing her Henley she had claimed, she crawled back into bed.

"What do you have there?"

"Refreshments."

Beth pats the bed next to her, "Well are you going to come back to bed with me?"

"Always, I want to bring you breakfast in bed everyday."

"Really, I may hold you to it."

Mick sits down next to her, pulling her into him with the tray resting on his lap. She takes her cup of coffee and takes a couple sips, looking up at him. She eats her eggs and toast and after the dishes are empty Mick sets the tray on the floor.

"Thank you for breakfast."

"I meant what I said. Beth move in with me."

"What?"

"I know I can't sleep with you every night, and I hate it, but having you here when I wake up, hearing your heartbeat, your breathing." Taking her hands in his, looking into her eyes like a kid in asking for a piece of candy, "You wont have to keep carrying a bag back and forth…I just thought that…Beth I love you and I don't want to be away from you. I'm sorry if that was too sudden, I just got caught up, forget I asked." The look in his eyes was fading like he just found out there was no Santa Clause.

"So…are you still asking me to move in or have you changed your mind? Because you never gave me a chance to answer," pulling his hands to her chest, "If the offer is still on the table…"

"Of course," the sparkle was back.

Beth bit her lip, grinning wildly, "Yes, I would love to move in with you."

"Well then," pulling her hands to his lips placing a soft kiss on them, "Welcome home my dear."

"It's good to be home."

Mick gets up and takes their dishes down to the kitchen and Beth follows, going to her purse to pull out her date book. Mick watched as she flipped through it, she was counting dates. Finishing rinsing off the dishes he walks up behind her wrapping his arms around her leaning over her shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

"I just renewed my yearly lease 2 months ago."

"We will take care of it."

"I know but my super is really great, he and his wife are sweet, they always made sure things are taken care of and that everyone in the complex is okay."

"You can keep your place. I know how you like your independence, I would never ask you to--"

"Mick! I don't need to keep my place, I just feel bad for leaving out on my lease when they have been so great to me. I am not sacrificing anything moving in with you, I am gaining more."

"What are you gaining?"



"I won't have to lug my clothes from place to place, I won't have to leave extra early to go home and change when we get carried away at night. Oh and I have unlimited access to you, I can take full advantage of you whenever I want."

"Nothing stopped you before?"

Beth pulls from his arms, shoving her date book back in her purse. She stumbles on Sara's journal, she had forgotten about it. Looking at the journal then to Mick she holds it up.

"We need to go see Josef."

"What is that?"

"Sara's journal. Josh gave it to me, I wanted to give it to Josef, and I think it would do him good to read it. He blames himself, but she loved him and wanted it."

"Then lets gets ready, I need to go shopping anyways if I plan on making you anything for breakfast tomorrow."

"We can get some things from my place, and I need to talk to Candice."

"Yes I need to thank her," playfully raising his eyebrows.

"You can talk to Josef but we have girl talk to do, maybe out by the pool."

"Yeah girl talk."

Beth rolls her eyes and places a kiss on his lips, then heads up the stairs to get ready. An hour later they were heading out the door.

"Where is your car?"

"Around the block, I didn't want you to see it, hence the surprise."

"I was surprised. Which reminds me, the blood…your blood?"

"Yeah, I couldn't be around to give you my blood the way I would prefer but Candice said that it would still be better than morgue blood. So I bottled some. I was going to have Candice get it to you but then everything started to pick up so now you have me in your fridge."

"You didn't have to—"

"I wanted to."

"What exactly were you doing when you drew your blood?"

"If you have to ask…"

"Not at all, I just wanted to hear you explain it."

"Now, I think we need to leave here before I take you back up to our bed."



"We will be back to our bed soon enough."

The walk out of the house hand in hand, and to Mick's Benz.

To Be Continued…

Okay well I think that there will be 1 more chapter to Jilted.

Evilous