Vicki flipped her phone shut and led Mike back to the living room. It was then that she really looked at the house. It looked like something out of a magazine.
Very ordinary, very neat, very homey. Wow. She was impressed that someone had domesticated Mike Celluci. Of course, she herself had been domesticated by Henry so she didn't know why she found this any less surprising.
There were family photos of them, Kate and Mike alone, farther along in her pregnancy, a sonogram photo in a frame and the one of the three of them taken at the hospital.
She looked over to Mike who had sat down on the couch, his head in his hands. She went to sit beside him, comforting him by rubbing her hand on his back.
"Hey, we're gonna find them. I promise.." Vicki tried to soothe him.
He sat back, taking a deep breath he said, "I can't go through this, I just can't. I'm this big tough cop, ya know, and yet, I can't handle this. Where's the logic?" she wasn't sure if he was asking her or thinking out loud but then he continued and what he said shocked her..
"Vicki, I can't lose another child," he turned to look at her, the hurt in his face was just searing her heart, "when I told you Kate and I were going to have a baby, and you were upset, I could tell so don't start, I really feel badly because I truly truly had no idea how you must have felt." He took her hand, "I lost Christian too but I never held him, never let myself feel that attachment."
He got up and walked over to the photo of the three of them, "But when M.J. was born," he smiled "it was Christian all over and I was just hooked, from the first cry, the first time I held him, he was mine." He looked back at Vicki.
"And the guilt I felt and still feel for not missing Christian like you did, this is my punishment isn't it? They are gone because of me? Where is my guardian angel now?" He said collapsing in a heap on the floor sobbing. Vicki caught a slight movement in the corner, looked and nothing was there...
Vicki went to him and held him, as any former lover would, with respect for his feelings, a newfound respect. She hadn't known of these things before today..
Mike was together when Coreen and Clark knocked on the door.
"Hi, come on in." Vicki's eyes never left Clark, he knew she was eye-balling him.
"Vicki, I really, really don't understand why you need us here." Coreen said, somewhat exasperated. "We haven't eaten yet.."
"Oh, I think Clark knows don't you Clark?" Vicki asked him with a little too much sweetness in her voice.
"Why, what..whatever do..do..do you mean Ms. Nelson?" Clark was nervous and it showed, he was stuttering.
"Mmmm." Vicki was circling him, she could feel his power. It was rolling on her skin, ever so slightly.. She was pretty sure she knew what he was. Maggie had been teaching her things when she could so Vicki went for it...
She leaned into him and said, "I know you're not Superman, but I know what you are..."
Clark's eyes were wide with fear, Coreen was getting angry and stepped in between Clark and Vicki.
"Allright!! What is going on?? Stop scaring the straight Vicki!" Coreen stomped her foot and crossed her arms.
"Oh, I'm not scaring you am I Clark? And you are definitely not a "straight" are you Clark.." Vicki asked, crossing her own arms, then saying with certainty...
"Fairies are never scared as long as you don't grab their wings.." and before Vicki could finish her sentence, Clark's wings had popped out, his hair stood straight on end and his skin had become shiny...
Coreen passed smooth out...