What if.....
Natalie Meets LaCroix On Her Table......instead of Nick...

by Knighteyes
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 



We see Natalie's examine room.
We see two men wheeling in yet another body bag for the young, beautiful
coroner on duty.  They both have the same thought:  why is this
beautiful creature here, doing this kind of horrible work?

"So, tell me guys what is it this time?" Natalie Lambert, M.E. asks.
The two young men lift the body bag onto  the cool metal table and begin
to back out of the room.

"Dr. Lambert...the poor guy....he um was at the wrong place at the wrong
time....he went to help some homeless people.. from what a witness saw and 
someone slit his throat ....and it's not pretty....the guy has the weirdest
color...couldn't have been too well to begin with....oh well we've gotta
go...good luck Dr. Lambert!" And with that they made a quick departure out 
of the morgue.

Natalie stood away from the table, while she donned gloves.  When the
gloves were on she moved toward the table, took a deep breath and
mumbled to herself, "Well, let's take a look and see....." and slowly
began to unzip the body bag.

She pulled down the bag to view the corpse's face, she said, "This isn't
so bad....he must have been an albino...he's so white!!!  This throat
wound is minimal...this should not have killed him," she heard herself
saying out loud.  She felt his face for a sign of warmth, and found none.
His skin was soft, white and as cold as marble.  He was handsome, she
thought to herself, but unfortunately for me, he's dead.

She walked over to the phone and called the hospital for verification.
"Hi, Dr. Lambert coroner's office, I think you may have made a mistake
regarding the John Doe you sent me.....this guy looks like he barely cut
himself shaving...are you sure you sent me the right John Doe?" she
waited a moment, suddenly she heard a noise from behind her.  She turned
and found her recently deceased customer sitting upright on the table.
She dropped the phone to the floor and heard herself stammer, "You were
dead...you can't be alive!  I checked myself...you were dead.....what
are you?"

"First things first, woman, my name is not, John Doe, it is Lucien
Lacroix.....I am not a thing, I am a superior being....not a mortal....I
am very different from you and my kind eats your kind for lunch!!!  I am
a vampire, and a very good one too!  Which means in your eyes I'm
evil...." he ice blue eyes sparkled with evil mischeif.

"That's incredible....vampires actually exist?" she asked dumbfoundedly.
"And you kill people to survive?"

"Well, I'm proof that they exist and yes, we  kill in order to
survive....we could and some of us do kill animals for sustenance...I
don't....I have a more delicate palate and feast only on mortals!
Occasionally, I transform some of them into  vampires, but that is a
rarity.  I can have only so many *children* to tend to..." Suddenly, he
was off the table, standing only inches away from her, he said ever so
seductively, "Listen to me, listen to my voice....you will forget
everything that has happened tonight....you will forget that I was
brought here....you've protected me this night and I will not take your
life as a reward....forget, forget, sleep, sleep," his voice as soft as
a caress.  He carried her over to her desk and placed her in a chair,
lowered her head to her desk...He stroked her cheek with his hand and
leaned forward and kissed her gently. In the blink of an eye he was
gone.

After a few minutes Natalie awoke. "Damn it's such a slow night, I can't
keep my eyes open....what time is it?  Only 4 am....time for coffee!"

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On her doorstep that morning a box of Forget-me-nots and white roses
were waiting for her.  She opened the note that came with the flowers,
"Eternally grateful...until we meet again!" with love from,  L".  She
checked the card once more, to see if the flowers had been delivered to
her by mistake.  It was addressed to Natalie Lambert. "Okay, so I have
an admirer whose name begins with an L....okay Larry, Luke,
Lyndon.....and he has great taste in flowers......and I have no clue
whatsoever!" With that she entered her apartment and went to bed.



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