A/U THIS CHAPTER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED BEFORE HENRY'S FLASHBACK, IT WAS OUT OF ORDER AND I MISSED IT..SORRY!

Jagger took Christin's lifeless body to a storage he had made just for the occassion. Looking down at his dead sire, he thought of when he had been turned and about how wonderful he felt. She had told him he was the only one for her, at first. Then, when she had him fully in her grasp after he was turned, she began to berate him, humilate him and tell him that he was nothing compared to Henry. Jagger thought of that often, how small he felt and how useless. He wanted to hate this Henry Fitzroy but after seeing him tonight and realizing that Henry was more conflicted about killing Christina than he was, he let go of his hatred. After securing Christina, he retired for the day as well. They had drained her together, her blood coursed through their veins and he and Henry would be forever connected in that way. Jagger picked up a photo of Ronnie and him together. He smiled wishing so much he could be with her forever. He decided that before he took Christina's body away, he would ask the Duke of Richmond just exactly what kept he and Vicki together. Jagger's life would change but not in the way he hoped.

Vicki spent the day trying to keep her mind off of the events of the night before and the positive test Coreen had make her take that morning. She worked on a couple of cases, closed some, opened others but they were all easy 'find my cheating spouse, find my missing family member' kind of cases. Nothing exciting to really do so her mind kept drifting to that horrible scene with Henry and Christina. Even though Coreen had offered an explanation, she still had some doubts as to Henry's emotional state. She knew full well herself from first-hand experience how sensual and gratifying a feeding could be. She also had doubts re-emerge about Henry's feelings for Christina and how in her past experience, he had somewhat defended her so the complete assurrance that he had killed Christina was far from real for Vicki. She wasn't aware that Mike was standing in her office until he tapped her.

"Vic? Didn't mean to scare you, just wanted to see how you were doing?" Vicki smiled at him, got up and gave him a warm hug and light kiss on the cheek.

Mike smiled, "What was that for?"

"For last night, for helping me out. Thanks," she moved to sit on her couch in the office motioning for him to sit down by patting the couch.

"I came here to talk to you about Henry," Mike just spit it out, like ripping off a band-aid.

"Oh." Vicki was less than pleased.

"He really is upset."

"Oh this is rich!" Vicki slapped her knee and laughed, "you coming to Henry's defense? Are you sick Mike? Did Christina bite you too?" she felt his forehead in mock concern.

"No! Look, I went to him last night, talked to him. I was pissed, I told him to leave and at first he said he should but.." Vicki stopped him.

"Whoa..he said he should? What the fuck is wrong with him!?" Vicki started to get up but Mike pulled her back down. Her horomones were out of whack, she went up and down like a yo-yo. First, she was angry at Mike for defending Henry and now she was pissed because Henry said he was leaving.

"Wait..he was being a smart-ass, Vicki," Mike rolled his eyes.

"And, what is it you want me to do? He basically accused me of cheating, I'm not a cheater, a bitch maybe, but I'm no cheater. I'm not good with the relationship shit, you know that. Maybe it was a bad idea," Vicki lay her head back and closed her eyes wondering what she'd gotten herself into.

"All I'm saying is," Mike took her hand, she opened her eyes to look at him, "just give the bloodsucker a chance."

Mike purposely called him that to get a response out of her, to make her angry.

"Fuck you Mike," good, it worked.

"No, you didn't and I finally told him that," Mike sighed looking rather guilty.

"What do you mean you 'finally' told him that? Did you make him think that we had..?" she pointed between the two of them.

"I might have but so what? He hurt you Vicki," Mike tried to plead his case.

"I can take care of myself Mike, get out," Vicki got up and turned her back on him. She was secretly touched that he would try to defend her honor but deeply pissed that he felt she couldn't take care of herself.

"Vic.."

She shook her head and pointed, her voice too on the edge of giving away her heart. Not until she heard her door click behind him did she turn around. When she did, Coreen was standing their looking angry.

"What, et tu Brutus?" Vicki assumed that Coreen would at least be on her side but here she stood with her arms crossed and her head tilted in that way that said what the hell are you doing?

"Yeah, me too. You need to talk to Henry, you know you love him, I know, I know," she threw her hands up and shook her head, "it's none of my beeswax but he loves you, you love him, blah, blah..you need to figure this whole thing out and frankly, he's probably the only one that can help you."

Vicki knew Coreen was right, although she'd never tell her that. She knew she needed to talk to Henry, no matter what may come of things.

"Okay, okay. I will, tonight, but I think I'm going to see Rajani first, maybe she's got some answers." Coreen smiled thinking she had won the fight but she had no idea that's what Vicki wanted deep down inside anyway, Mike and Coreen had guilted her into giving in without feeling like she was weak for doing it.

Rajani would have some surprises for Vicki and one of them would be very bad.