Henry cupped Vicki's face in his hands as he tried to figure out what exactly to say to her.

"Vicki, there are some things we need to clear up first, don't you agree?"

"Well, yeah but can't I get some hot lovin' first?" she teased him, licking her full lips slowly. Henry groaned and shuddered as his jeans began to strain with an erection brought on merely by her gesture.

"Seriously, we really need to talk. There is so much that's happened and Christina, what's that all about? Was that real?" Henry wondered aloud. Vicki pulled away and went into his kitchen, trying to find something to drink that was palatble and non-alcoholic. Henry beat her there by seconds.

"Did I upset you by mentioning Christina?" He asked as he tilted her face up to meet his lips.

"Let me see," Vicki tapped her chin,"Uh, I offer a great fuck session and you bring up Christina. Huh..now why the hell would that bother me?" she said with her arms across her chest and narrowed eyes.

"I'm just trying to assess what's happened Vicki. It's alot to take in," he told her.

"You mean sink in." She corrected him.

"Sink in?" Henry was puzzled by her choice of words.

"You just realized that you killed her, your first true love," Vicki threw her hands up, "and now, you're stuck with me..the "not" Christina." Vicki turned to leave but Henry's firm grasp stopped her.

"That is not true, why do you feel that way?" Vicki was not into talking about her feelings and clearly she was having some other issues.

"I don't know Henry, why do you think? I think I should just go and leave you with your new..." Vicki looked for the right word, "whatever." Henry let Vicki walk out of his kitchen utterly confused as to what was going on with her. Hormones? He didn't know but wasn't sure how he was going to handle this. He wasn't sure how he felt either. Maybe Vicki was right. Maybe he was having second thoughts about killing Christina but his main concern was Vicki and how he would convince her of that, he had no idea. One thing was for sure, this would be an interesting time coming up. Vicki was pregnant and Kate Lam was now a vampire, his vampire. He wondered if Mike had let the choice he made for Kate sink in yet. Henry thought Vicki was okay with Kate being his new vampire child but it was more than apparent she was not.

"Sunrise, take me away.." Henry sighed as he headed toward his room.

Vicki took the stairs to work off her anger. How dare he mention her? She was dead, wasn't she? Hell, Vicki was so confused she didn't know which way was up. Henry did love her, she knew that but now she had Kate to worry about. The baby, what about the baby? How was that going to play out? And to top it off, no hot sex with Henry! Damn..this was NOT her night!

"Fuck this," Vicki said as she slammed her car door. She glanced over at the seat and saw she had the storage key in her car.

"Bingo.." she said as she snatched up smiling from ear to ear. She would take care of this herself once and for all.

Vicki drove as quickly as possible to the storage unit and to her great surprise found Mike sitting there as well. He jumped a mile when she tapped on the glass.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Mike asked.

"I should ask you the same question," Vicki replied. Mike got out, slammed the door and leaned into his car.

"Vic, what have I done?" he moaned. Vicki suddenly felt sorry for Mike. He had made a huge, life-altering decision about someone he obviously cared for and he was second guessing it but there was no turning back. Vicki found that choice of words in her head comical, 'turning back' but kept that to herself.

"You did what you thought was best, Mike," Vicki rubbed his arm trying to comfort him. He suddenly began to sob, big deep sobs. Oh shit! Vicki didn't do men crying like that, much less Mike. Unsure of what to do, she finally offered him hug as he continued to cry. After what seemed an eternity, with Vicki rubbing and patting his back like a child and saying over and over that things would work out, it would be okay, Mike finally pulled back and regained his composure.

"I'm sorry, how weak of me," he sniffed. He was over-whelmed by all that had happened. Vicki was extremely uncomfortable with Mike's display of emotions and wanted to smooth over them without discussion.

"Ah..don't worry about it. I think I have an idea that might take your mind off your worries for a bit.." Vicki said cheerfully.

"Oh no..what?"

"Well, we do need to rid the world of Christina once and for all..how about an old-fashioned vampire roast?" Vicki asked as she wiggled her eyebrows and grinned.

Mike blinked and then it sank it that she wanted to burn Christina's body.

"Now? Why? Where's Henry? You two had a fight didn't you? Wait..what about Kate?" Mike's eyes went wide.

"She's quite literally dead for the night and tomorrow. Besides, Henry's a big vampire, he can handle her when she wakes up. Come on..we only have a couple of hours until sunrise and since I can't get busy with Henry, I guess burning that bitch's body will have to do," Vicki sighed. She was very frustrated at this point in time and it was much to do with lack of sex as the events of the last few days.

"Vicki, I need to ask you something."

"Shoot.." she said as she fumbled for matches in her car. She didn't smoke but she kept them in her car in the event she had an occassion to light something up and this was just the occassion.

"How is it with Henry?" he said with a slight tilt of his head and a nervous cough.

"What..you mean sex?" Vicki was ever the delicate flower.

"Yeah that too but.." Mike hesitated.

"Feeding..relationships..what Mike?"

"All of it, is it worth it?" Vicki stopped fumbling around her car long enough to think really hard about that question. Right at this moment, she was so pissed and sexually frustrated and wasn't really sure wanted any man ever again. Was it worth it? Deep down was it all worth it?

"Yeah, Mike it is. It's different, I'll tell ya but it's definitely worth it and the sex..well.." Vicki blushed realizing she was very stirred up while thinking about Henry and his many skills. It struck Vicki that Mike was asking about sex with Kate.

"Hey..I didn't know you two had.." Vicki prodded with a devilish grin.

"Not yet but, I want to be prepared, just in case. That is, if she speaks to me again. Besides, I feel a little responsbile for her now. I guess I could always stake her if she's pissed huh?" Mike tried a little vampire humor but the look on Vicki's face showed that she didn't find it funny in the least.

"Sorry, bad joke. Okay well, let's go.." Mike took Vicki's hand and led her toward the building.

"Sure you wanna do this?" He asked one last time.

"Damn straight I do."

Vicki did indeed burn Christina's body and not once ounce of guilt crept into her mind. She sighed with relief as she watched her begin to burn to ashes. Mike kept it controlled as much as possible by shutting the lid to keep the smoke and flames from billowing out into the storage unit possibly causing more damage. They had called 911 before starting it and then left before they arrived.

"Thanks Vic, for everything," Mike hugged his former partner and lover.

"Right back at ya.." Vicki smiled.

"Promise me something?" he asked her.

"Sure, anything.."

"Patch it up with the bloodsu...with Henry." he corrected himself.

Vicki smiled and decided that's exactly what she needed to do....