Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - ONESHOT - PG

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Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - ONESHOT - PG

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Title: Your Ex-Lover is Dead
Author: Heartagram_lala
Fandom: Moonlight
Characters/Pairing:Josef, Coraline and some unconventional Mick/Beth
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for the end of ep 13
Word Count: 1152
Summary: Josef gets an unexpected visitor, and gets to have some fun tormenting her, returning the favor that she had bestowed upon his best friend for so long.
Notes: Set sometime in the future, after episode 13


As Josef sits at his desk reading over a possible new investment, he gets a whiff of a scent he thought he would never smell again and looks up to see the source of said scent being escorted into his office.

Josef closes the manila folder in his hands and takes in a deep breath, getting the full realm of scents surrounding his visitor, when one scent registers in his mind, and another specific scent doesn’t, his eyes snap open.

“Coraline, I must say this is unexpected,” Josef says calmly folding his hands together on the desk in front of him.

“Believe me I am not here by choice” Coraline says before taking a seat opposite Josef.

“Then why are you here?” Josef asks, his face not betraying the anger boiling beneath the surface.

“I need to see Mick” Coraline starts but Josef cuts her off.

“Not going to happen, anything else?” he says calmly, smiling to himself at the irritation clearly present over Coraline’s face.

“You don’t understand, I need to tell him about the cure, about what to expect when it wears off” Coraline spoke softly, if Josef hadn’t known better he would have thought she was being genuine.

“Well if that is all then your visit here is wasted, Mick does not need to know anything more about the cure, it is irrelevant” Josef replies, a smirk nearly breaking over the mask of calm sitting over his face.

“How could it be irrelevant?” Coraline asks, confused.

“He is no longer human, therefore it is irrelevant” Josef states, finally letting a smile break over his pleased face at Coraline’s reaction to this news.

“When, how? He shouldn’t have reverted back for another few months” Coraline ponders more to herself then her counterpart.

“He didn’t revert back, he was turned back, by choice I might add” Josef says proudly, beginning to thoroughly enjoy the obvious discomfort his news was having on the ex wife of his best friend.

“He chose to be turned back?” coraline asks shocked, clearly not believing it.

“Yes” is all Josef says in reply.

“Why?” Coraline asks her face failing to hide the hurt she was feeling.

“Because he realised that humans are weak, and that as a human he could not do what was necessary at the time to save the woman he loves” Josef replies smirking, the added emphasis on the words “weak” and “loves” not lost on his visitor.

“Who?” Coraline asked, already knowing the answer but not wanting to admit it to herself.

“Oh coraline, you and I both know who, you handpicked her for him after all” Josef spoke, choosing his words to have the most painful impact possible.

“Who turned him?” coraline asks, ignoring the whole topic of Beth Turner, but not being able to conceal the pain Josef’s last confession had caused her.

Had Josef not had to deal with the aftermath of Coraline’s torture on Mick, he may have felt slightly sorry for the broken woman before him, but alas he was the one to put the shattered pieces of Mick back together over the years, so he felt absolutely no remorse as he spitefully replied to her question.

“I did, I am now his sire, so there is absolutely no reason for you to ever see him again”

“Who are you to say if I can see him or not, I love him, and I know he still loves me, I don’t care what you say about Beth, he married me, he chose me” Coraline began but was once more interrupted by Josef.

“And you killed him” he added with a smirk.

“And then I saved him” Coraline added challenging Josef.

“And then he chose to go back to being a vampire, something which you and I both know he despised, to save Beth, now what were you saying about who he loves?” Josef spoke mercilessly.

“I still possess the cure, I can save him again, Beth can’t” Coraline spoke with a smile on her face, that was soon wiped off by Josef’s words.

“If you gave him the cure it wouldn’t be you he would spend his mortal few months with” Josef’s eyes bore straight into Coraline, enjoying the torment he was placing upon her.

“And Beth has already saved him, from himself, something you could never do, he is now quite happy being what he is, so happy in fact that he had agreed to turn Beth” Josef added, gleefully watching Coraline’s expression flutter between rage and pain.

“You lie” Coraline spat out.

“No” was all Josef needed to say, and Coraline knew it was the truth.

“Speaking of the cure, I’m surprised you would have taken it again, I don’t see the point, unless you still thought that Mick only loved Beth because she was mortal” Josef says before leaning back in his chair for the first time since his unwelcome guest had entered his office.

“Punishment” was all Coraline answered.

Josef snickered, “so you are being made human as punishment, Mick is happy being a vampire, Beth will soon be a vampire, and I get to sit back and watch the pieces of this very messy love triangle finally fall into their appropriate places, now that is what I call irony.”

Coraline sat in silence for a moment, and Josef could feel the pain flowing from her body, but he felt no sympathy for her what so ever, he smiled and watched as she opened and closed her mouth with the intention of words, but none came.

After a moment she did speak though, “will you at least tell Mick I came?” she asked, almost pleaded with Josef.

“If I did, it wouldn’t have the effect you are hoping for, he wouldn’t suddenly be drawn back into his self loathing and unexplainable self destructive fascination with you, he would simply brush it off without a second thought. You have no pull over him anymore Coraline,” Josef spoke as calmly as if he was relaying the weather report.

“Then there is no harm in telling him,” Coraline countered.

“No harm, no, but I won’t give you the satisfaction, you don’t deserve it. Now if that is all I never want to see you in my city again, if I even get a whisper of your name I shall personally hunt your human form down and kill you myself, understood?” Josef said standing up and straightening his jacket.

“Goodbye Josef” was all Coraline said as she finally accepted defeat and left the eccentric office with her head hung low.

Josef ran a hand through his hair before smiling, he really had enjoyed that, and he knew that he would never hear of or see Coraline again. Looking at his watch Josef grinned, it was lunchtime, he felt his fangs extend as he picked up the phone and ordered himself some lunch, Jessica, one of his favourite brunettes.

---end---

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Oh, Josef got some good digs in there, didn't he? He deserved to since he's had to deal with Mick and his self-loathing all this time because of Coraline. She was nothing but trouble! Buh-bye!
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Moonlighter wrote:Oh, Josef got some good digs in there, didn't he? He deserved to since he's had to deal with Mick and his self-loathing all this time because of Coraline. She was nothing but trouble! Buh-bye!
Hehe, one of my fave things to do is give Josef some snarky time with Coraline... we all know Mick won't necessarily stand up for himself, but Josef will... and he will take pleasure in causing Coraline pain too =D win win in my book! lol Plus he deserves it after seeing just how bad Mick was thanks to Coraline!
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Re: You're Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - 1SHOT - PG

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so much fun watching Joseph torture poor coraline. she just dosn't get it.
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Re: Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - ONESHOT - PG

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This is probably one of my favorites of yours -- okay, no big surprise I love Josef, but beyond that it's always so satisfying to see Coraline being told the truth about exactly what her manipulations accomplished (the opposite of what she wanted). And Josef is the lucky vamp who gets to tell her. ;)
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Re: Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - ONESHOT - PG

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Catmoon wrote:This is probably one of my favorites of yours -- okay, no big surprise I love Josef, but beyond that it's always so satisfying to see Coraline being told the truth about exactly what her manipulations accomplished (the opposite of what she wanted). And Josef is the lucky vamp who gets to tell her. ;)
Awww *hugs you*

And i agree, i love Coraline being put back in her box/place/bonfire... and if i don't get the pleasure to do so... then who better then Josef??? (or Shane could just lop her head off =) )
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I love how you let Josef put Coraline in her place, and I could almost feel sorry for her. She was so delusional about Mick's wishes and needs. She had so much power over him, and made him into someone he wasn't supposed to be. And I don't mean the vampire, but the self-loathing grumpy man he became. The way he patronizes Beth sometimes lets me think he got that one from Coraline too. Now he's free to live with Beth the way he wants to, and Coraline is punished for her manipulative ways. It couldn't end any better.
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ah, Josef draws the line in the carpet.... I know that he would be the ultimate one to lay the law down to her...

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Lucy wrote:ah, Josef draws the line in the carpet.... I know that he would be the ultimate one to lay the law down to her...

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I love Josef putting Coraline in her place, done nicely with his wonderful snarky self!!!! :worship: Very nicely done!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :clapping: :clapping: :hyper: :hyper: :woohoo: :devil: :slappy: :evillaugh: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :clapping: :clapping: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :clapping: :clapping: :thud: :thud: :notworthy: :hearts:

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mitzie wrote:I love Josef putting Coraline in her place, done nicely with his wonderful snarky self!!!! :worship: Very nicely done!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :clapping: :clapping: :hyper: :hyper: :woohoo: :devil: :slappy: :evillaugh: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :clapping: :clapping: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :clapping: :clapping: :thud: :thud: :notworthy: :hearts:

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Re: Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - ONESHOT - PG

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Wow.

Josef clearly was in control of lthat encounter. Coraline has made yet another very bad miscalculation.

I almost felt sorry for her for a minute there.

At this point, she has only one avenue open to her. Sincerely reinvent herself into an individual who is a positive influence on the world around her, not valuing her own pleasure exclusively.

But what are the odds...

Nicely done!

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Re: Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Coraline, Josef, M/B - ONESHOT - PG

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jen wrote:Wow.

Josef clearly was in control of lthat encounter. Coraline has made yet another very bad miscalculation.

I almost felt sorry for her for a minute there.

At this point, she has only one avenue open to her. Sincerely reinvent herself into an individual who is a positive influence on the world around her, not valuing her own pleasure exclusively.

But what are the odds...

Nicely done!

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I'll admit i also nearly felt sorry for Coraline.... but then i remembered what she was like and once again felt she deserved it, LOL.

But yes i don't think she's got it in her to become even a little bit selfless!

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