Post Fever
“Where have you been? You look like hell.”
“That’s where I’ve been.”
“Here, drink this. In fact, drink the whole carafe.”
“Thanks.”
“Feel better?”
“Yeah.”
“Are you going to tell me what happened?”
“I bit her. I… I fed from her.”
“From who? Beth?”
“Of course Beth! Who do you think? Don’t answer that.”
“Then how could you have fed fresh and still look like crap?”
“Josh asked me to find…”
“JOSH asked you? Why…”
“Shut up and let me finish! Josh asked me to locate a young woman named Leni, a secret witness who had run away. We were attacked and had to walk several miles across the desert in the sun. I was burning up with fever.”
“That explains the ‘look like hell’ part.”
“We found a rundown motel that was temporarily closed. I sat in a bathtub of ice water, scared to death I would attack the girl.”
“But you didn’t? So how does Beth fit into all of this?”
“Leni called her. When she arrived, she… she offered to feed me. She knew I would die if I didn’t have blood.”
“She just went up in my estimation. And?”
“And I told her no.”
“You what?”
“But she insisted, so I fed from her wrist. She had to tell me when to stop, and I managed to stop. She saved my life.”
“So why the long face?”
“That’s not how I wanted our first time to be!”
“Well, at least you planned on a first time.”
I've always wondered just how Mick would tell Josef about his adventure in the desert.
I agree with Josef! I have to wonder if Mick ever would have fed from Beth had he not been close to death. While this may not have been how he would have liked their first time to be, at least it happened. 
Beautiful, MLC!! Such a great missing scene and I love how Mick and Josef are so much themselves, Mick in his eternal angst and Josef snarky as ever!! 
