Under Your Spell 13
Disclaimers: If I owned it, I wouldn't have time for fanfiction (Devious grin)
Summary: Henry, Vicki, and Mike are pulled into a battle against an unexpected advisary.
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~Chapter 13~
Vicki woke and went out into the livingroom, not looking at Henry. Mike was watching tv in a pair of Henry's pajamas. "Hey." she greeted. He looked at her, eyes wide.
"You're awake!" he jumped up.
"Yeah." she nodded. He looked at the tv, then the clock. Her eyes followed his. Three. "What's wrong?"
"It's THREE!"
"Yeah. Great. Why are you awake? It's really late."
"No, it's three in the AFTERNOON!" he stood.
"What?" she went to the door and he blocked her from opening it before she could make it all of the way into the hall.
"Are you crazy?! You're gonna get yourself burnt!" he scolded. She nodded, going to the couch and sitting down. He sat next to her, wrapping an arm around her waist and holding her. "It's okay." he rubbed her back, comforting her. She pushed back from him and shook her head.
"Not so close, not right now." she let out in a breath. He nodded. "This is wierd and creepy. I can...feel the sun. It's right outside. I feel it. And I'm awake and...I shouldn't be."
"Maybe you shouldn't nap at night." he suggested teasingly.
"I was tired."
"Alright. It's okay." he smiled. They sat in silence awhile and then there was a knock on the door. Vicki went into the kitchen and Mike opened the door.
"Okay, I figured you guys would be tired of Chinese, so I got...nope, it's Chinese. I was hoping I wouldn't have to smell it again."
"What, you don't love smelling like the stuff?"
"No." Coreen smiled. They came into the kitchen and Coreen froze when she saw Vicki. "You're awake!" she squeeled.
"Yeah, and I used to have good hearing." Vicki grabbed her ears.
"Sorry. It's just...is Henry awake, too?"
"No." Vicki shook her head.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I think. Are there any cases of vampires being awake during the day?" she looked at the gothette, hopeful.
"I've never read about it. We'll have to ask Henry when he gets up." Coreen sighed. Vicki nodded and sat on the counter against the wall, still as a statue. Coreen and Mike both watched her for awhile before she went back into the bedroom. She tapped her foot impatiently, as if demanding Henry wake, then she grabbed his shoulders and shook him.
"Wake up!" she ordered. There was no change and she slid down the side of the bed, watching him and waiting, clutching one of his hands. "You're supposed to be here." she scolded. He remained unmoving, dead to the world. Mike wrapped an arm around her shoulder, pulling her back against his chest.
"Everything's fine. He'll be awake soon enough and he'll know what's going on." he murmured against her copper-brown hair, his free hand rubbing over one of her arms slowly in the way that had always calmed her in her stormiest rages. It worked and she relaxed against him, eyes shutting and nerves calming. Coreen stood in the bedroom doorway, watching the odd-changing vampire and the mortal.
"What time is dark?" her voice broke through the silence and Mike looked at her.
"Five thirty six." he sighed. She nodded and closed the door, leaving them alone. He and Vicki sat in silence a long while and then Henry sat up, gasping. Vicki's eyes flew open and she looked up at him, still limp in Mike's arms.
"What happened?" he looked down at them before grabbing Vicki up like she were a weightless child.
"I woke up during the day." she glared at him. "You weren't there, why did I wake up? Why wouldn't YOU wake up?!" she demanded, shoving at him and hitting his chest.
"I didn't know...Vicki, that's never happened before. Never. If I'd known..."
"What if it happens again? What do I do?"
"How did things go today?" he stroked her cheek, the question directed at Mike.
"She was a little freaked out, but she handled it well. I mean, what would you have done?"
"Me? I would've been scared and probably...did she bite anyone, has she fed? God, Vicki, you're not hurt are you? Mike?"
"Everyone's fine. I wasn't hungry." her voice was muffled in the crook of his neck and he pulled back to look down at her. Her eyes were a pale, watery lavender instead of the black he expected to meet. "Why did I wake up?" her voice was desperate for an answer. He'd expected her to be terrified into letting the vampire in her take over, but here she was, scared into humanity.
"I don't know. I wish I did. I just...don't. I've never heard of it happening. It'll be okay, though." he stroked her hair. "You did very well. Most vampires would've killed out of fear."
"What if it happens again?" she repeated.
"If you feel distressed, you stay in here. If not, stay out of the sun."
"What if I can go into the sun?"
"Do you really want to test that theory?" he frowned. She shook her head.
"Would Dr. Sagara know why I woke up?"
"If anyone would, it would be her." he nodded. She got up, nodding, and he went into the bathroom. Mike hugged her again and smiled gently at her.
"Better?"
"Like you said, he's been through it. It's kind of scary that he doesn't know what's happening."
"Trust me, Vic, he'll figure it out. Trust him."
"Trust two people at once. Scary thought." she smiled, blinking tiredly. She felt something in her start to shut down. She looked at Mike, tried to tell him what was happening, but her life left her before she could manage the words.
"Vicki? Vic?" Mike shook her, but she was just dead weight. "Fuck."