The night before Henry leaves for the convention...
"Are you going to miss us daddy?" The twins asked in unison.
Henry laughed, scooping them into his arms as he sat on the floor with them.
"Of course! Are you going to miss me?" He said pointing to them first, then to himself.
They laughed and crawled all over him, making him fall onto his back. He was tickling them when Vicki walked into the room.
"Hey!! No fair having fun without me!" She said plopping herself beside the three of them on the floor and promptly joining in. They were all breathless after a few minutes. Vicki and Henry both collapsed with Ward on top of Henry and Abbie on top on Vicki.
"So, what are you going to to daddy?" Abbie asked Henry. She was twisting her mother's hair around her finger as she talked to Henry. Vicki was unconsciously doing the same to Abbie. Henry stared at them in amazement at how alike they were, as Vicki was staring at Henry's carbon copy as well. Ward was starting to show more of Henry's features everyday, including his mannerisms. He still has his blonde curly hair, but his face and the way he moved were all Henry.
"Well, I'm going to greet my fans and sign some books for them. Oh, and Uncle Mike is going too." Henry smiled widely.
Vicki's eyes widened.
"Wow, Kate's letting him go huh?"
"I guess she figures how much trouble can one married man with two small children get into while on a trip with me." He said proudly.
Vicki felt a twinge when Henry said one married man, soon that will change my dear Henry..she wanted so badly to say to him.
"Okay my little angels, "with that remark, the twins giggled and showed a little fang, " Hey, stop that..we've talked about that." Vicki reprimanded them. They had newly discovered that they could at will, show their fangs, although unecessary for eating as they didn't need blood for sustaining life. Will and Maggie told Henry that as of yet, only when severely injured did the offspring of human/vampires need blood. The human side took over to feed their bodies. Henry only recently had begun to get his appetite back. He loved food again, cooking often for the family. Gwen did most everything but there were two things that Henry and Vicki liked to do with them..cook and eat as a family as often as they could, and always reading to them before putting them to bed. That was their most precious family time. This is just what they were doing, putting them to bed so they might have one night alone before he was gone.
Henry was gone carrying the twins to bed after they had fallen asleep while being read to, when Vicki's cell phone rang...damn!!
"Hello." she whispered. It was Coreen.
"What? Okay, yes, can we do that tomorrow? Thanks, goodnight.." she said still whispering ,in a sing-song voice.
"Who was that?" Henry said closing and locking the door behind him. He made Vicki fall off the bed she jumped so hard.
"Dammit Henry! You scared the shit out of me!" She had almost been caught talking "wedding" with Coreen..too close.
He laughed, she wasn't sure whether it was the falling off the bed, that he had scared her or both.
"Well?" he asked again not to be ignored.
"Oh, Coreen, she wanted to remind me I had an early client." Nice save.
She was ouching at something on her knee, she had bumped it when falling.
She was wearing nothing but one of Henry's shirts she had thrown on after showering along with a pair of silk panties that Henry had bought her from some expensive store. She didn't do girly things but Henry brought out the sexy beast in her. The shirt hit her mid-calf and he found it sexy when she wore his clothes.
"Did you hurt yourself?" He asked, already peeled down to..well nothing, Vicki looked up and he was nude..nude and happy to see her.
"No I.." she started ,"um, I ..geez how do you undress that fast?" Her eyes were scanning his body, never bored with it.
He moved over and began kissing her knee.."Does this feel better..??'"