Forgive-Moonlight Fic

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 Title: Forgive
Rating: G
Character: Joseph
Genre: General
Warnings: spoilers for Fated to Pretend

Joseph Kostan-the oldest vampire in L.A-sat in his soon to be finished remodeled office. He should have been in his freezer sleeping as it was almost dawn, but no, he was up.

For the first time since Sarah, he was troubled, worried for Mick, who was, though unsaid by either of them, his best friend-his brother.

When he went over to Mick’s tonight after the call, it wasn’t just because Mick was going to do something suicidal and downright idiotic even for him.  No it was because he cared, for the first time in a long time he cared and he did not want Mick to rescue Beth at cost to his life because he would be alone, really alone.

Joseph could count on one hand the number of true friends he had. Mick was at the top of that list, and really after the night was through the only one.

That’s why when Mick asked, asked him to Turn him back, he hesitated. Because for once Mick was asking him the impossible. Mick hated being a vampire and he was human again, something he had always wanted, and Mick was willing to give that up for the girl he loved-that was something  Joseph could admire. But.

But.

He hesitated, he knew that when he did Turn Mick, that it could erase everything-their friendship, their bond, everything. But he did it. Because of that one look, the look that said for Beth.

Part of him was glad that Mick asked because having him human was unnatural even by his standards, that and he worried about him because Mick did idiotic things all the time because that is who he was, but he was no longer invincible.

Yet another part, the part that is Mick’s brother, his best friend has more than gratitude for the annoying reporter that Mick loves.

It is because of her, because how she changed him over the past months that he knows Mick will be okay.

This time Mick made the choice to be Turned, to give up what he wanted most, to save the person who he loves more than anything else.

That, Joseph knew was the important part, Mick chose his fate this time. It was not thrust upon him unknowingly.

And again he owed his gratitude to Beth Turner, because this time around he thinks, he hopes, Mick accepts who he is and will not hate himself, like he did for the last fifty years. That this time Mick can be happy and alive and live (with Beth if it comes down to it) and that is something he hoped his friend would have in his life.

So Joseph turned him, and he hopes that when Mick wakes up tonight that he remembers why and will forgive him. Because if Mick did not, Joseph did not think he ever would.