Finey- I agree about the break up and yes they're safely together in the present day, Willow's going to be learning to control magic at least for a while, Tara's getting closer to joining the vampires and from there what she knows about what happened regarding WIllow will be minimal meaning we'll be going back to the present day for a bit and have her tell what happenend to her. W/T goodness in the not too distant future.
Title: Lovers Dearest
Author: Mgraham93
Email:
matty.gr@hotmail.comFeedback: All feedback welcomed, specific input appreciated
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the vampire slayer or Supernatural Joss Whedon owns Buffy, I think Sara gamble owns Supernatural both of them mistreat characters a lot
Summary: set during season 6 episode 19 of Supernatural this is how I feel it should have happened. In this I decided Lenore was Tara who got turned into a vampire sometime during season 6 of Buffy.
Chapter 11- The hunters and hunted.
John Winchester had shaved off his beard and was wearing a business suit he needed to look smart to look the part of an FBI agent, he had found another lead on the creature. A Californian hunter called Jack had said that a group of vampires had some information on what the creature actually was, the pair of them had gone into the nest but Jack had been killed. As there were no other hunters whom he was on good terms with in L.A he had found a flier for Angel investigations, he would be FBI agent Steven Walsh, Dean would be happy with the choice of name he always was a fan of Kansas especially the song Carry on wayward son. He had called and arranged to meet Mr Angel after sunset.
He parked his pickup truck in the car park where he had arranged to meet, he waited until he saw a black convertible pull up and two people got out of the car, one was a man in a black knee length trench coat and a woman wearing a grey shirt and a black jacket. They began to walk towards him. He stepped forward to meet them. “Mr Angel?”
Angel paused for a moment and said “Just Angel.”
John looked at Tara and asked “And who is this?”
“My...” Angel stopped uncertain what to say before Tara quickly answered by saying.
“His Protégée Lenore” she said with a half smile.
“Okay then” he nodded “I’m Agent Walsh. Thanks for coming to meet me."
“No problem. I was wondering why you wanted to meet." Angel said.
John began to explain the situation to the pair, “Well the reason is because there is a gang Eighty third and Vermont it used to be low income housing now all the windows are boarded up, no electricity sewer access. They like it dark.”
Tara looked at him and said “Vampires.”
“Yes,” he looked at them cautiously “do you two have much experience dealing with vampires?”
“You could say that,” Angel said.
“Well not like these they want money,”
Angel looked at him sceptically and asked questioningly “money?”
"Yeah, I know. Whoever heard of a vampire out to make a buck, right?"
Angel let out a half-hearted laugh before Tara said “of course they’re not usually interested in money,” She said giving Angel a quick glance.
"Anyway, me and a rookie were sent in to deal with them after we got reports about what was going on, they were stopping business from running, wanting protection money paying, supplying a drug called Orpheus, when we investigated we found they had connections to a law firm.”
“Wolfram and Hart,” Angel said as they were always involved with most of the vampires and demons within the city.
“Yes when we went in to take out the nest we got overpowered and they got Jack, the kid was so eager all about fighting the good fight and those bastards killed him, I can’t take them on alone so I needed help.” John finished explaining.
“Don’t worry we’ll help you,” Tara said before Angel could say anything, she had noticed along with Cordelia that Angel had become focussed more on earning money instead of helping people, that had been the reason she had gone with him as Cordy and Lorne were looking after Conner, and Fred Wesley and Gunn were already out on cases, and Spike had left a few weeks after they’d arrived after hearing Drusilla had been causing trouble in Las Vegas. She had been happy to help especially when Angel said he believed she had enough control to leave the hotel and go on a case with him.
“We will?” Angel asked sceptically.
“Yes Angel we will,” she said turning to face him.
“But you will at least pay us?” Angel asked. He was beginning to sound more like Anya and less like the broody vampire who she'd expected when she had come to L.A.
“I might be able to.” John said nervously.
“Don’t worry we’re about helping people the money doesn’t matter,” Tara said as they turned and went to Angel’s car, once they were driving, Angel spoke “So? Lenore Did you come up with that name before or just spur of the moment?” Angel asked calmly.
“I had an idea before, I’d noticed a lot of vampires including you have well vampire names so I thought as I’m a vampire now the name just seemed to fit. Especially as back in Sunnydale me and Willow once talked about if we were vampires what we'd be like,”
"Why's that,"
"Xander got split into two people once and afterwards Willow told me about how her vampire self came along in all this tight leather and wanted to bite her," 'we had some fun that night' she smiled to herself at the thought of memories of a happier time.
“I see well I like it, although I don’t think agent Steven Walsh is who he says he, the pickup seems a bit un-official for FBI and he seems to know a lot about vampires, when we stop I’ll have a word with him.”
When they arrived at the building where the vampires were John walked to the back of the pickup and opened up his weapon locker. He picked out a machete which he put in his coat along with a hip flask filled with holy water. He was just picking up his crossbow When Angel grabbed him by the neck and asked “Who exactly are you? Because you’re not FBI,” Angel said loosening his grip on the man’s neck slightly.
“I’m a hunter, John Winchester and I know what you two are as well vampires.”
“Then why exactly do you want our help to take out this nest.” Tara asked worried about the man’s safety. Angel let go off John’s neck and let him speak.
“twenty two years ago a creature killed my wife I brought up my two sons Dean and Sam on the road, I’ve been hunting the thing since then helping people around the country I had a lead that the vampires had a connection to my hunt and well your flier said you would take cases of any size.”
“Well I know a thing or two about having people wanting to hurt my kids Angel said looking down for a moment let’s deal with them.” Angel said looking over the wide variety of weapons in the car. The three of them entered the building with Angel kicking in the door and quickly dusting two before chasing after a third. John shot his crossbow turning another vamp to dust before going after the vampire who he recognised as having killed Jack. The vamp gained the upper hand and was stood over him triumphantly, cutting his arm with claw like nails, Fortunately he still had his machete and was quite surprised by the ease of which the vampires head was severed leaving only a cloud of dust behind.
Tara was fighting a vampire as well who had his game face on “you are a disgrace to your kind I will kill you myself,” He yelled as he smashed a flimsy chair over head breaking it apart and knocking her to the floor. thinking quickly she said. “Something you might want to think about that chair leg’s wood and I’m a Wicca, it works wonders, try it next time.” She used a pun which she hoped Buffy and Willow would have been proud of as the chair leg hovered in the air impaling the vampire through the heart.
When she got to her feet she could smell the blood pouring from a wound on John’s arm she took two paces back and began to breathe deeply to calm her inner cravings.“You’re bleeding,” she said finally.
“I wondered when you’d notice, “He stood tensely with a machete in his hand as he wiped dust from the blade and held it ready clearly expecting her to lunge at him for blood.
“I’m not going to drink; I only drink animal blood.”
“Oh well good and why is that exactly?”
“When I was alive I knew the slayer, and well having to drink blood is disgusting enough and I don’t want to kill people to survive, so I drink animal blood instead.”
“I see I doubt Dean would be as accepting of this but Sam probably would and well I’ve heard about slayers before.”
John put a bandage on his arm and then began searching through a pile of jewellery until he found a sheath of paper with a list of names each of them with a different date marked by them and a symbol drawn on the back piece of paper it was a diamond with a horizontal line running through the centre of the shape with four other lines shooting diagonally outwards two from each point horizontal line met the diamond and another two as the line moved past it, “do you recognise this,” he asked as handed the drawing to Tara.
“it looks like it would might be used for some kind of summoning spell, only it’s missing a circle, you cast that spell like that whatever your summoning is free to escape add in the circle and it’s trapped hopefully.”
“I see I think it may be the way to summon the thing that killed my wife, thank you this should help finding it whatever it is.,” When Angel came back they walked back to the truck and he put the sheath of papers into the truck in order to write them up into the journal when he got back to his motel and planned on going to Bobby’s where he had arranged to meet back up with Dean who had been hot on the tail of some kind of cult in Florida.
“It’s been a pleasure working with you two this evening.” he handed them a photo of Sam and Dean and wrote a phone number on the back of the photo, “if either of you two ever need help ring this number or if you don’t get an answer do something weird that gets a report cattle mutilations are generally best, and like I said out of either of my sons Sam is the one who’d listen to reason and would help you, Dean would probably but would take more convincing for him there’s a clear line between human and non human but I can see that if lines exist they are very blurry.” with that he gave them both a handshake walked to the pickup and drove away.
As they stood in the darkness angel realised he had a voicemail on his phone and that they needed to go to help the others with the demons who had been interested in Fred apparently there was a fight and they were needed.
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Daniel Holtz was walking through a graveyard his second in command Justine following close behind. He had heard that groups of vampires were being killed nightly in this neighbourhood, so he had tracked the hunter from a distance for several nights, watching as he hunted his prey. Tonight though he found the man standing over a female vampire slowly pouring water onto exposed skin and judging by the screams it was holy water.
“Tell me what you know about Angelus.” The man said calmly.
“All I know is he has a soul nothing else,” The woman said her breath ragged
“I don’t believe you,” he smiled wickedly as he placed a cross on her neck
The woman screamed again “Please, I don’t know, I just don’t know” she whimpered.
It was then that Holtz intervened, “I do believe the girl is telling the truth, you will learn nothing from her,” the vampire looked at him her face hopeful of freedom, before he continued "a speedy death would be preferable, Justine.” at the command Justine raised her crossbow and shot the vampire in the heart
“I don’t know who you are but you just took my kill,”
“I am Daniel Holtz good sir and I have seen your expertise, I am also hunting Angelus and would like for you to work with me.”
“Okay you want Angelus, you can count me in.”
“Then it would be a pleasure to work with you Mister?” Holtz said extending a hand.
“Gordon Walker,” the man smiled as he shook the outstretched hand.