The Shape of Things to Come (Hypernaturals 15)

Vampire Services

Don came back to Morgan. "They way you solve cases. Vampire senses. So clear to me now."

"To be fair to the human me, it is not entirely that. For example: I was not a Vampire when I started working with you. I was not after moving to Austin for several years for years. I was human when I met Adrian in your office, and he was human then too."

"OK. Fair point." Don agreed.

"As an aside, that meeting could have gone very differently, and I would not be Vampire now, and neither would he. If multiverse theory is true then it did somewhere. All the ingredients were there except one. With a single expression of interest from either party, with me being the more likely of the two, we would have been monogamously married with children, and Adrian would have worked from home writing code and being the stay-at-home father while Angel and I ran the agency."

"Sorry? I thought introducing you two would have set that off. I worked with you and had known you for a while at that point. I thought you needed someone like Adrian in your life. Frankly, while this is not an insult, I thought you could use a little free'er spirit in your life. I thought my brother was perfect for you." Don apologized.

"I did. I do. He is. It worked out in the end. To this day Adrian does not understand when a woman is interested in him, and that is with his Vampire sensorium to inform him. If he scents her interest, his operating assumption is that it is interest with someone else. Even if he is the only one in the room. I did not understand this one key aspect of him at that crucial moment, else I would have made a more overt expression of interest."

"He has always been dumb that way." Liz said.

"I worked my way around that by taking things into my own hands." Jessica said. "I am much smarter than Morgan."

"Same." Vera said. "Way back when I figured if I wanted me some nice guy I needed to trip him."

"You both are. About that. To my credit, I was able to figure out and rectify the situation satisfactorily. In the parlance of the Canadian Mounties, I got my man. Along with my women." Morgan agreed with her detractors. "Back to Don's assertion regarding how I, in particular, can solve cases now. It is not dependent solely upon being a Vampire, or a Vampire with an extended range of sensory abilities. When I met Janie and was awkwardly getting involved with my first woman, for example, I was a human homicide detective."

"That was a little awkward. Hard to understand that attraction." Janie said. "It got better. And lately much better."

Morgan gave Janie a caress. "I learned. I was less open to some things then than I am now."

Morgan went back to Don. "In the days of my human self, I was able to solve cases. In Houston as a Cop and for you once I moved here and opened my private business. However: You are correct in that with Adrian, Angel, Denise, and myself as the primaries in Olsen and Sagan? Your law firm has access to a detective agency unrivaled in the human world. Via Adrian and Denise, we can utilize Crew resources as well. We do not abuse that, but if we need extra boots on the ground to cover more aspects of a case at the same time? We have access to Vampires who are trained in things such as keeping the Secret and covering up Vampire world exposure issues. Such women make excellent security agency operatives. Discrete and deeply capable."

"Not to mention Olivia is about the best hacker known to Vampire kind." Denise said.

"A relationship I shall not abuse." Morgan told Denise.

"Darling: You don't abuse any relationships. Not who you are. You're just kind of greedy is all." Denise told her affectionately.

"Are you registering a complaint?" Morgan asked.