Vicki was deep in thought when Coreen's second round of "hey Vicki" caught her attention.

"What?" Vicki snapped.

"Excuse me.." Coreen snapped back, "what's wrong with you? You've been out of it since your meeting earlier."

"Not feeling well," she told her honestly with a slight shrug. She still didn't feel well from this morning but didn't quite know why. Henry wouldn't be up for a few hours, her new client was due in about thirty minutes and her mind was still reeling over Ronnie's revelation about the vampire Jagger.

"Anyways, as I was saying, someone called for Ms. Lowery and said she would need to reschedule and Mike is coming over after work, he asked that you wait," Coreen bit her lip waiting for Vicki's response to both pieces of information.

"Really, did he say why?"

"Nope, just that he wanted to see you. He's been seeing you a lot lately huh?" Coreen was digging yet again.

"Coreen, that's none of your business, remember?" Vicki reminded her.

"Yeah, yeah, just thought I'd give it a shot. I wish I had just ONE man that wanted me like those two want you, lucky," Coreen pouted.

Vicki shook her head and watched Coreen huff into her area and plop down at her desk. She did feel sorry for the young girl. She was pretty, smart and full of life and yet, her love life seemed to always be in the toilet. Coreen was right, Vicki was fortunate to have two men so adoring of her but for Vicki, it felt more like smothering sometimes. Knowing she should be grateful was hard for Vicki because she was so independent, but then again, these months with Henry had been happy and relaxing for her. Vicki nearly fell out of her chair when the phone rang pulling her away from her thoughts.

"Yes?" Vicki said as she peered over at Coreen. Coreen was transferring a call when she could have clearly told her to pick it up from the other room.

"You have a phone call Ms. Nelson," Coreen said in her most snippy professional voice. Vicki narrowed her eyes at her and told her to transfer it.

"Vicki Nelson speaking." Vicki listened to the caller on the other end her eyebrows screwing together in a frown as she wondered who the hell was on the other end. It was a male voice but one she didn't recognize.

"Who is this?" She finally asked with irritation dripping from her voice. A loud click followed her question. Vicki slammed the phone down.

"Coreen!" she. Hearing the anger in her voice, Coreen decided that irritating her further would not help.

"What is it Vicki?" she bounded in.

"Who the hell was that?" Vicki asked as she pointed to the phone.

Coreen shrugged, "I...I don't know, they didn't say, why?"

"He said I needed to meet with them in the park, that they had some information on the Lowery case but I didn't see Ms. Lowery, she cancelled." Vicki reminded her.

"Yeah, but...how did..how did he know you were meeting with her?" Coreen wondered.

Vicki thought a moment then snapped her fingers.

"Ms. Lowery cancelled her appointment, but was it a man or a woman that called and cancelled?" Coreen thought a minute then said, "a man."

"I wonder..." Vicki thought that maybe this Ms. Lowery was now in danger for some reason. What the hell did this unkown woman have to do with a strange man wanting Vicki to come to the park?

"Coreen, what's the case on Ms.Lowery?" Coreen was one step ahead and had retrieved the file already. Ms. Lowery was coming in to see if Vicki could find her missing son.

"Hmm...nothing remarkable about that," Vicki said out loud while she read. Suddenly, she stopped and put her finger in one spot that Coreen had noted.

"Yeah, thought that was weird," Coreen shrugged. Coreen had written...

..."Ms. Lowery states that her son had become a night owl, he looked pale and was being evasive about his whereabouts, he had not hung around his old friends in a long time and had taken up with some new, dark group that she didn't like, he was missing for a over two months now..." Vicki's thoughts went to the new little cult of teenagers and young adults that were into the whole vampire thing, having no idea there were vampires they were trying to become one, so to speak. The problem had led to a few raids and arrests due to overzealous partygoers. She had no clue at this point this all led back to her and someone wanting her dead.

"Evasive? Wow, Coreen, you impress me," Vicki smiled at her beaming assistant.

"So, what do you think?" Coreen asked, back to her little perky self.

"I think that I should go to the park, see what's happening," Vicki told her.

"Wait, you can't go alone," Coreen warned her.

"No, I can go with you though," a familiar male voice said.

Mike Celluci had just walked into Vicki's office.

"Thanks but I'm good," Vicki started to brush past him.

"Now wait, I came here for reason," Mike pointed for her to sit back down.

"Look, this guy said a I need to meet him at eight, I've got to get some things taken care of before then," she told him.

"I need you to listen, Vicki. There have been some deaths and it looks like a..." Mike couldn't bring himself to say it. His face showed what Vicki knew he was searching for but couldn't say.

"A vampire, is that what you want to say?" Vicki smirked.

"Yeah. I'm more than sure he's getting his nutrition," Mike shot back.

Vicki grimaced and smiled, "You're damn straight."

This was going to be a long night...