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Lost Things- Chapter 7

Mick watched in silence and pain as the sky turned from orange and pink to blue and black. The stars were shining in the sky, and almost right above his car the moon shined her beautiful light upon him.

It seemed like ages ago Josh had left the car to go do who knows what with his blood. Really it had been awhile ago, almost five hours to be exact, and still Mick was paralyzed in the back of his car. He was unable to do anything which killed him most of all. Beth was out there with her life in the hands of a vampire that was growing hungrier by the minute, and Mick was stuck paralyzed in the back of his car unable to do anything for her.

"Where the hell is he?" Josef's angry voice became apparent in Mick's ears. He was outside possibly a few feet away. "You don't call someone to help find your human girlfriend and then just totally disappear!"

"Josef!" Mick gasped, but his voice was barely above a whisper. There was no telling if Josef had heard it. All Mick could do was hope that vampires had as good of hearing as they thought they did.

"Mick? Are you in you're car?" Josef asked. Mick heard Josef's footsteps approaching the car. Soon he saw his best friend's face appear in the window above him. Josef laughed. "You idiot you went and got yourself staked!"

Mick wished he wasn't paralyzed so he could rip the idiot's head off. "Josef!" whispered Mick angrily.

"Alright, alright." Josef pulled the locked car door open with his vampire strength. Then he pulled the stake out of Mick's chest.

Mick gasped and glared at Josef. "You think you could have gone any quicker?" he complained as he sat up. His chest was throbbing and his body was slowly adjusting to being able to move again, but no matter how much he hurt, he had to hurry. Quickly, he crawled out of the backseat and into the driver's side. Thankfully Josh had left the keys. "Get in Josef!" ordered Mick.

"Uhhh…what now? I had a massage scheduled after this!" Josef protested.

Mick rolled his eyes. "Get in the car, or we might have to worry about more than missing a massage," explained Mick as he turned on the ignition.

"What the hell could be worse than that?"

"GET IN NOW! I'll explain when we get going."

Josef reluctantly jumped into the car, and Mick drove off. "Ok what the hell is going on?" demanded Josef as he glared at Mick from the passenger's seat.

"Josh staked me and got some of my blood. He's going to give it to Beth's kidnapper who's going to reveal our secret to the world," Mick explained quickly.

"You have got to be kidding me…Please tell my you're just playing with me Mick. Because if you are it's not very funny," said Josef in a low voice.

"I really wish I was, but this is serious."

"So where are we going?" he asked. "And please tell me it's to make sure that brainless D.A. meets a rather sticky end."

"We're going to stop him. Hopefully he hasn't given her my blood yet."

"Well that's a start," said Josef.

--

Beth sat huddled in the corner watching Coraline from across the room. The vampire that had kidnapped her when she was younger was now trembling in pain. Beth could not see her face, but she was lying down in the other corner looking horrible. Beth wanted to help, but there was nothing she could do for her. She didn't have enough blood to give to Coraline, and even if she did, Coraline would probably accidently drain her.

"Beth…?" It was Coraline's weak voice.

"Yeah?" answered Beth.

Slowly, Coraline turned over to face Beth. "You know I'm really sorry about what I did to you when you were younger. I just wanted Mick to love me," she choked. Her voice was so weak, and she looked so frail.

Beth looked at her in a confused way. "You're apologizing?"

Coraline took a deep breath It was so hard for her to breath. "Remarkably, yes." She looked at Beth with complete seriousness on her face.

"Well I accept your apology…I guess," said Beth. She wasn't sure if the vampire was being serious or if it was another trick.

"Will you do something for me?" Tears were forming in Coraline's yellow eyes.

"Uhhh…sure…," whispered Beth.

"Will you tell Mick I love him? Tell him that I've always loved him, but I'm not sorry for what I did to him." She gulped. Sweat was pouring down her pale face, and her beautiful brown eyes were yellow and looked almost looked cracked. "Also tell him that I hope he will be happy with you," she said in such a low voice Beth could hardly hear her.

Beth was stunned by her words. Never before had Coraline actually cared about someone else's happiness. Now her dying words were that she wanted Mick to be happy. "I'll tell him," replied Beth.

"You promise?" gasped Coraline.

Beth nodded. "I promise, but hopefully you can tell him yourself." Her voice was quiet and barely above a whisper.

Coraline smiled in a strange way. "I wish I could." Then she turned slowly back over, still trembling.

--

Mick and Josef had been silent almost the whole drive to Josh's apartment until Josef just had to break the silence. "You should have been more careful…you should have never fallen in love with a human," he muttered.

Mick rolled his eyes. "I wonder what Sarah Whitely would have to say about that."

Josef turned to Mick with utter disgust. "Don't you ever talk about her!" he yelled in anger. "Plus that was different."

Mick couldn't believe the way his best friend was acting. It was true Josef could be pretty selfish sometimes, but this was even beyond his standards. "Oh so it's ok for you to fall in love with a human but not me? Because I really don't see how it's different."

"Well for one I didn't threaten the species…," replied Josef. Mick rolled his eyes and was thankful when his phone began to ring.

"You know what Josef just shut up for the rest of the night." He looked at the caller ID and his stomach turned to knots. It was Josh. Taking a deep breath, he answered it.

"What the hell do you want?" he greeted cruelly.

"To help," answered Josh.

"I've think you helped enough. You just weren't helping me," said Mick.

"Well now it's time to change that. Come to my apartment and I'll explain." Then the line went dead.

--

Mick pulled up to Josh's apartment building to find him waiting outside. "Is that him?" asked Josef.

Mick nodded. "Don't do anything stupid," he warned. He pulled up beside Josh and rolled down the window.

"So how exactly are you going to help?" Mick inquired with curiosity and no respect.

A big grin came over Josh's face. "GPS," was his answer.

Mick was confused. If Josh had actually done what it sounded like he did then the D.A. was obviously smarter then Mick thought he was.

"When Beth's kidnapper came to pick up the blood I tagged their car. Hopefully they'll lead us to Beth," Josh explained.

Josh had made a huge mistake at first, but now we had definitely made up for it. Mick just hoped it wasn't too late, and that Josh was telling the truth. After what had happened about six hours ago Mick really wasn't in the mood to trust Josh.

"Why should I trust you?" asked Mick.

"Well either you trust me and we find Beth, or you don't trust me and she dies. Plus your secret gets revealed because you're never going to find this person without me."

Mick didn't want to admit it, but Josh was absolutely right. He had been searching for Beth almost three days now and had no luck. This was the only lead and he needed to follow it. He sighed. "Get in," Mick said. "But if you pull another stunt like you did before you're dead!"

"And it won't be a quick death either," Josef put in.

Josh smiled and hopped in the back seat. "Don't worry, you have my word."

--

Beth's eyes opened slowly to see Coraline's still form. She was still not facing Beth, but she didn't need to be. Already Beth had noticed that she was no longer trembling, and her body was as limp as stone. Something wasn't right. "Coraline?" Beth whispered. The vampire did not move. Beth didn't want to go near her for fear it was a trick, but for some unknown reason Beth didn't think it was. So slowly and carefully she crawled over to the vampire's unmoving body.

"Coraline?" she said again. She placed a hand on her bare arm. It was colder than ice. Beth could barely touch her she was so cold. "Oh my gosh," she murmured in fear. Slowly, she placed her hand on Coraline's shoulder and moved her body so she could see her face. The vampire's eyes were closed, and she had a peaceful look on her face. Beth felt a tear roll down her cold cheek, and her body tense up in fear. Coraline was dead.