Disclaimer: Not mine….Owned by CBS….WB and I think a few others….Love both shows…just want to have some fun.

I probably should have had this as part of the last one but I cut it in the wrong place so this is a short one. I know this isn't going to be what some of you are waiting for. Sorry.

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Logan pulls up in front of the Grand. He looks in back of the Jeep at Wallace. "You sure you don't need see a doctor?"

He tries not to shake his head. "Naw. I don't really want to go home though and listen to my mom ask me about the knot on the back of my head and tell her to wake me every half hour."

Veronica turns and looks at Wallace. "Hey no problem. We have a spare bedroom and I'll set the alarm and wake you every half hour. Just call your mom and tell her you're at our place watching videos or something."

Logan hears Veronica say "Our place" and hopes that's a good sign.

"Let's go upstairs and you can call your mom." Veronica hears herself talk but thinks how odd she sounds. Not like her at all.

Veronica and Logan steady Wallace and he seems to be able to walk on his own. The three of them go upstairs. Wallace calls Alicia and then goes to the spare bedroom to see if he can get some sleep. Veronica sets the alarm on her phone for half an hour so she can wake Wallace and check on him.

Logan and Veronica finally get to sit down. "Damn, I never did get my six pack."

Veronica laughs and Logan thinks she sounds a little odd. He holds his arm up and she clings to him. She starts to cry like her heart is breaking. He runs his hand up and down her back trying to calm her. Her crying slows down and she pulls back from him and gets on her knees next to him. Veronica grabs the front of his shirt and pulls him into a desperate kiss. He can feel her let go with a small shudder and then she gets back into the shelter of his arms. Logan continues to try and calm her as he can feel her trembling.

Fear for him is the only thing that ever makes her react like this. "Don't ever do that again."

"What go to the Sack n Pack?" He jokes. "How was I to know those idiots were going to try and rob the place?"

"No, not that. I felt you tense when they were talking….about me…you were going to make a move and get yourself killed. Don't ever think of doing that again. I love you to much."

Logan makes a noise deep inside. "Nobody touches you, ever…I can't help it. Besides it turned out ok. Mick and the…. other guy…took care of things. I wonder what they were doing with Weevil and how did they know where we were?"

"I called Weevil and left the line open when Liam was shooting his mouth off." Veronica calms down and Logan knows she's thinking about all that they saw." Hopefully that will give her mind another place to go instead of thinking of Fitzpatrick holding them at gunpoint. "What do you think we saw tonight?"

Logan shakes his head. "All I know is that whatever it…they were we'd be dead without them. You know I like Mick and he seems to be a good guy. I sort of told him that we wouldn't say anything to anyone about any of it. He said he would be back in a couple days to explain. Does that work for you?"

"Yea, that's fine. I'm very curious as to what that was about. I mean if I had to guess, I'd think we just met a couple of vampires and one of them is a dead ringer for you. You know the fangs and all but I just don't know. I mean, we've seen him during the day and he seems like a really nice guy. I can't quite vision him biting people and all that. I wonder if Beth is like them or if she even knows what they are, whatever that is. Not even to mention your double."

"Did you see them move?" Logan says with a touch of awe. "One minute they were on one side of the store and the next second they was standing next to Fitzpatrick snapping the gun out of his hand. It was amazing. The other guy takes two bullets and two minutes later he's standing up and not a mark on him. I wonder what else they can do. Did you see Mick pull that knife out of his shoulder? Pretty cool really."

"Yea, I saw that too. It is pretty cool as long as they are on the side of the angels. I have about a million questions. This should be one heck of an explanation. When did Mick say he'd be back?" Veronica asks.

"He said a couple days. By then I should be out of here and we'll have more privacy in the house. Well, except for Dick. We'll have to make sure he's gone when Mick comes back. We sure don't want him to hear this."

"You know I've been thinking about that house. I probably should have said something before but this house kind of creeps me out. I mean for god sakes Logan…. Kendall?"

Logan has the decency to look embarrassed. "Yea, I know that's why I had all the furniture hauled off and they should be done repainting tomorrow. Does that help?"

She smiles at him. "You got a new bed?"

He smiles and nods. "Of course."

"I guess." She smiles "Will there be enough furniture for company?"

Logan gives her sly smirk "Well, I haven't bought anything but a bed. Somehow I didn't think beyond that. Didn't know we were going to have company so soon. Maybe I can do that after we make sure that Wallace is ok and we get some sleep. You know…you could go with me and help me pick some stuff out. Maybe I could get an extra key made for you and make some closet space…. what do you think?

She smiles at him "The key is ok. I don't know about the other. Are you asking me to move in with you Logan?"

"Yea, if you want? Veronica I want to wake up next to you every morning. I want you to be with me."

"and Dick" she laughs.

Logan shakes his head. "Yea and Dick. You know it's like having a big dog around."

"I'll help you pick out some furniture for the new place and I'll take a key and I'll bring a toothbrush and some stuff over but for now I need to be able to still go home to my dad's when I need to, but I'll let you know where I am. Can we do that for now?"

Logan lets out a sigh. Better than he'd hoped for. He never knows how far he can get her to commit to anything. He was afraid she'd get spooked and push him away but this sounded pretty good. "Yea, babe this will be fine."

Veronica's alarm goes off and she goes in and wakes Wallace up. Wallace seems to be doing fine. Both his pupils are the same size. She lets him go back to sleep and goes back to Logan on the couch.

"Logan, you know we can't say anything about knowing anything about Liam at the Sack n Pack. We're going to have to make sure Wallace knows that too. I hope he's not supposed to work tomorrow. Maybe I'll wake him and he can call in sick if he's supposed to go in."

"Yea but if he calls in sick right after the place is trashed it might look suspicious. Let's hope he doesn't have to work tomorrow. You better ask him next time you wake him up."

I'll tell you one thing I was watching Liam and he was sweating and shaking and waving that gun around. I was way more scared of him than anything Mick or his friend did."

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Mick parks the Harley next to the Benz and goes up to the apartment. Beth is making herself some coffee. She comes out of the kitchen and comes over to where he's standing at the door and gives him a kiss. She sees the knife cut in his jacket and looks at him questioningly. "I got your message on the machine. I take it things went a little different than you expected. "

"You have no idea." He says.

"I'm going to go upstairs and get cleaned up. Can you pour me a glass of A positive while I'm gone?"

"Of course. You look tired. You sure you don't want to wait until tomorrow to tell me about it."

Mick looks at her a little nervously. "It can't wait."

Mick comes down dressed only in his sweat pants and sits down and sips his drink. He tells Beth all about the night.

Mick looks over at her and takes her hands. "What's the matter?"

She squeezes his hand. "I thought you were just going to talk to Weevil. I didn't think you were going to take a chance on them so soon."

"We didn't really have much choice."

Beth sighs. "I know. I'm just scared. I hope they stay quiet about it. When are we going back down to talk to them?"

"I thought I'd give them about three days to sit and think about it. If they can go three days without telling anyone then they should be trustworthy enough to tell them the rest of it. Logan should be moved into the new house by then. It will give us more privacy. Although he bought the house from a guy running from the feds so the house really needs to be debugged before we do this. I'll have to have Josef talk to Ryder about a road trip."

Beth looks very alarmed at the prospect of the feds hearing them. "I hope Josef knows what a good friend you are."

Mick laughs "Don't worry, when this is over I'll remind him, over and over and over."

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In the morning before Mick goes to bed he calls Logan. "Hey I hear you bought a new house."

Logan is surprised that Mick knows that but doesn't say much about it. "Yea, we're going to pick out furniture today. Hopefully we can get some stuff delivered before we have company."

"Could you do me a favor? Could you not talk about uh…what happened last night until I get there? You bought the house from a guy the feds are chasing. I'd sort of like to have all the bugs removed before we have any serious discussions that should stay quiet."

Logan is very quiet for a minute. "It never occurred to me that the house might be bugged. Man it sure a good thing you called me. I'll talk to Veronica about it before we go over there again. We'll be careful. Don't worry."

"Thanks. I'll call you in a couple days when I have some thing set up to make sure it's clear."

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Two days later Mick calls Logan's cell.

"Hey, this is Mick."

"Hey."

"Look I was wondering if Beth and I could come down and visit you and Veronica tomorrow."

"I'm guessing you already know the new address. Are you bringing anyone else?" Logan really wants to talk to his double.

"Yes another friend you briefly met the other night and an electronics expert. He seems to think it will take about an hour or two to go over the whole house and grounds, if that's ok?"

"No problem. I'd rather someone did it anyway. It kind of creeps me out thinking the feds might be listening in. I told Veronica and she won't even let me kiss her in the house until she's sure it's clean. She thinks she can find the easy ones but I know she'd feel better if someone looked it over that was an expert. No problem, believe me. I'll tell her to wait and let your guy do it."

"We'll be there about 8 tomorrow night if that works for you guys."

"What ever you want. We'll be ready. I really want to talk to your friend and V is so curious. The girl has no shame. She will ask anything that comes to mind." Mick thinks of Beth asking him how sex works with vampires and humans. "Believe me I'm use to it. You forget I'm living with a reporter."

Logan laughs. "Yea, I'm not sure which one would be worse."

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Three days later Josef shows up at Mick's front door. Beth is sitting at her laptop getting some work done and Mick is still asleep. She goes to the door and Josef is standing there with his hands in his pockets, rocking back and forth heel to toe. Beth tries to smoother a smile as she lets him in. She can see that Josef is a bundle of energy. "So, your only about two hours early."

"Can't help it. Is Mick up yet?" Josef asks.

"No, he's sleeping. He was out doing surveillance late this morning. He'll probably sleep for at least another hour. You might as well come on in. Although I don't know what I'm going to do to keep you occupied for a couple hours. Where's Ryder? I thought he was coming along to debug the house?"

"We'll swing by the office and pick him up. He's cranky. He told me to leave him alone so he could check his equipment. He said he would be ready in a couple hours and for me to go away. I've never heard him quite so cranky. Hey, do you think should have worn jeans or is this ok?"

Beth looks Josef over. He's wearing black tailored pants a dark red shirt and black suspenders. "Josef I think you look very nice. That's one of my favorite shirts. You look like you just stepped out of GQ."

"But do you think it presents the right…?" He trails away absently waving a hand in the air.

"Josef, you have to be who you are. He'll like you more if you do that than if you pretend to be something you're not. This is what you normally wear. It's who you are."

He nods and starts to wonder the room.

"Josef how come you're not off making money? It might give you something to do to keep you occupied." Beth asks.

"I dropped 10 million this morning, I'm too distracted. I don't like losing money. It makes me antsy."

Beth smiles and tries to think of something she can do to keep Josef busy until it's time to get going.

Mick suddenly wakes up. At first he can't figure out what has jolted him awake. He's afraid that Beth is in trouble and then he realizes that there is an over extended Josef down stairs and he's got so much energy rolling off him that it will be impossible to sleep while he's around. Josef is going to make every vampire who's near him prickly until he calms down. Mick can't think of anything that would hit him hard enough to do the job, except maybe an elephant tranquilizer. He decides he might as well get up. He is sure that Beth has her hands full down stairs with Josef.

Mick goes in and takes a shower, gets ready and comes down stairs. Beth and Josef turn as he comes down the stair. Beth watches Mick. His hair is wet and tousled. He's wearing black jeans and a dark button down shirt. Beth breathes deeply trying to get the scent of him across the room. Mick zips across the room to her and takes her in his arms and kisses her good morning.

"Jeeze you guys. Get a room." Josef complains.

"We'd have one if someone hadn't shown up two hours early." Mick snaps.

Josef looks at his feet and doesn't say anything.

"Couldn't help it." Josef says softly.

"I know but we really can't leave for a while. Sit, Josef and have a drink."

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This breaks in a weird place but there's only one more to go and it was kind of huge.