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tall as Leslie, and even in his all black clothes he looked small, but by his arms,
     you would see that they were toned, and so was his chest. Leslie had seen him plenty
     of times with his shirt off, and she could vouch that he was no scrawny little thing.
     From his mother’s side he got the super were metabolism, speed, and wolf sight. From
     his father’s side, he got the vampire disease which tainted his blood and slowed his
     heart, the fangs without the venom sacks, and every so often the need for blood.
    “Lab work should be in by the time we get in tonight,” Patrick said, between mouthfuls
     of egg and bacon.
    “So what do we know?” Leslie asked as she sipped her hot black tea.
    “The rogue we found was not the killer, and he had been drawn to the blood. He wasn’t
     there when Simms and his team checked out the house. I think whoever did it, took
     their time, almost playing with them,” Collin said.
    “That would explain why they blocked the windows,” Patrick said.
    Leslie shivered, thinking of all the blood. “What could make the blood smell the way
     it did?”
    The two men looked at her. “We don’t know.”
    “I have a theory,” Patrick said. “It is blood, but there was some other blood there.”
    “Okay, what kind?” she said, getting back to the subject at hand.
    He shrugged. “All we know about is that there were drugs, but what if it was some
     kind of disease?” Patrick said.
    Her gray eyes got large. “Are you saying that I could have been coated in blood with
     a STD or something? Eww!”
    “Don’t worry; you know we can’t catch human diseases anyway. Now, if it was an Opposite
     disease...” Collin said.
    “Let's not talk about this around the food,” Patrick said. His phone chirped, and
     he answered, listening to it.
    “Drugs,” Leslie whispered.
    Collin nodded, his hair stood out in all directions from sleep. “Most likely.”
    Patrick said a quick okay, and hung up. They looked at him. “Nathan is going to be
     over in thirty minutes.”
    “Crap,” Leslie got to her feet. “I need a shower.”
    “So, what is up with you and my brother?” he asked then shoveled the rest of his food
     in his mouth. He grabbed her plate to devour the rest of her food. She could never
     finish the heap he put before her.
    She paused before going into the hallway. “Nothing.”
    “You two should just get it over with,” Collin said and Patrick nodded.
    “You two should mind your own business.”
    “But you are half our business,” Patrick said, taking the empty plates to the dishwasher.
    “Or at least one-third our business,” Collin said as she disappeared from sight.
    ****
    Finished with her shower and dressed, Leslie found Collin on the Supervisor’s database.
     She slid a chair over next to him. He looked over the stats of recent vampire attacks.
     She expected to see a rise over the year, but it wasn’t the case. Instead, the vampire
     attacks have been reclining.
    “I guess we are doing our job.”
    “Could be, or maybe they are moving somewhere else. I heard the bigger cities are
     being hit like crazy,” he replied.
    Leslie tensed in her seat. She could feel Nathan before the others; she frowned wondering
     why she could.
    Collin eyes slid to her. “I take it Nathan is here?” A knock on the door sounded.
     “Go get it,” he whispered.
    “No,” she whispered back she tried hard to control her heartbeat, as butterflies tickled
     her stomach. She felt nervous and excited all at the same time.
    “I got it,” Patrick said as he came from the hallway out of his room, “wimp.” He gave
     her a small smile.
    Something on the screen caught her eye. “Look,” she said, pointing. “There was a scene
     like the last two in Fresno over six months ago.”
    “Hold on.” Collin brought up the case file. The info on it wasn’t much. He got up,
     cell phone already in hand. “I’m calling the Fresno Branch.”
    She nodded and slid into the computer chair