The Meeting
It was a warm summer morning when Sam and Dean Winchester and Bobby Singer were on their way to Mystic Falls, Virginia. After receiving several calls from other hunters in the area, about so called animal attacks but they all had other cases. So bobby said him and the boys would take the case, thinking it would only be a simple case from what he had heard it seemed like a open and shut and Dean were driving down in the impala bobby following closely behind in his truck.
Bobby calls Sam from the truck,"Right Sam you and Dean go door to door, check out the town and ask around about animal attacks in the area, get their opinions, see if they've seen anything unusual or otherwise, you no the usual load of old balls." "Try and figure out what the hell is going on around here" Bobby said.
"Right no worries Bobby, we'll get back to you soon with an update, what about you? where are you going then? It Doesn't sound like your coming with us?"Sam questioned curiously.
"No I'm not, I'm going to see the sheriff, see what she knows if anything, they usually do no a lot more than they let on as you know boys" He remarked.
"Okay well we'll see you soon then and bobby, no flirting with the poor woman, let us Know if you need any help" Dean joked with a chuckle hanging up.
Bobby just sighed as the phone clicked "Pain in the bloody ass" he announced grumpily to the empty car.
Finally Bobby pulled up to the cop-shop, he hopped out of his truck and walked towards the entrance, noticing how much everyone was watching him, feeling slightly uncomfortable but he carried on all the same. I guess in a town like this they're not used to strangers and people looking to poke around he thought with a slight frown.
As he walked into the entrance he was approached by a police officer "Can I help you?" he asked.
"Yes actually, I'm here to speak to sheriff Forbes about the animal attacks in the area, you know to see if I can help her out" he announced.
The man looked at Bobby confused "What is it you need to talk to her about concerning them?" He questioned a little agitated.
"I have an appointment, but like I said to see if there is anything me and my partners could do to help" he said simply.
"Name" the man replied. "Bobby Singer" he replied.
Best to use real names on this one, he thought better than it coming out later, I have a feeling we will be here a while, I'm worried this might be more complicated than we first thought.
"Right okay i'll just go check in the books" the cop told the older scowling man beside him. The young cop came back a few minutes later, explaining to Bobby that sheriff Forbes would see him now, "Her office is just down the hall and turn right, just knock she's busy, but she is expecting you" he explained.
Bobby just nodded curtly to the young man, before heading off down the hallway, following the younger mans directions and he knocked firmly on the door, waiting outside for an answer from the sheriff.
The sheriff answered the door rather quickly, she was a fairly short woman, but very pretty, she had a nice kind smile on her face as she greeted him, Bobby noticed she had sandy blonde hair and she seemed easy to approach. She extended her hand to Bobby in a respectful manner.
"Nice to meet you I'm Liz Forbes, the sheriff of Mystic falls, welcome" she formally announced. "I heard you wished to speak to me Mr Singer, now what is it that i can I do for you" she asked.
"Bobby please" he said kindly. "Very well Bobby, what can i do for you" she asked.
"I'm here in town with my nephews, we're here to help out with your little problem here in Mystic Falls" he replied.
"Problem" she asked, a little worried now, Bobby had a feeling she probably knew more than she was letting on already.
"I'm not sure I no what you mean?" She said with a slightly panicked edge to her voice.
"we're here to help with your so called animal attacks in the area". "We know they are from vampires sheriff, for lack of a better term, its our trade and we could use your help, but I believe you could use ours as well, because I don't believe its a small problem you have here and I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about don't you Liz" he asked her their eyes on one another unblinking.
Meanwhile with Sam and Dean
Sam and Dean had been walking around Mystic Falls for what felt like hours. Being turned away by people, saying they didn't no anything about any animal attacks, or at least not related or involving to them. They seemed to be getting very agitated and worried or just not at all bothered in what they had to say, but Sam and Dean had feeling the most of them knew more than they were letting on, as usual nothing changes in this line of work. That being said Sam and Dean couldn't push it too much, well not without blowing their cover, or revealing they indeed knew more than they were letting on as well.
Dean was getting irritated because he was getting seriously hungry at this point, they'd passed a bar and grill and Sam said that they should keep going, saying they could eat later, although Sam could see the appeal right now. "Dude I had no idea, this town was so freaking big" Dean said exasperated.
"I have to admit it Dean, even I've started to get hungry and seriously tired now, I feel like we've been walking around forever, but we need to get this done" Sam replied dragging is long legs along with him. "Hopefully Bobby will be finished soon, then we can all get back to the bed and breakfast, chuck our bags in eat and figure this town out, then, god please bunk down for the night" Sam finished.
Dean just looked at him, his mouth agape a little as he looked at his little brother "Sammy seriously, just shut the hell up, stop talking about food and would you pick your big feet up, I'm starving here, I'd murder someone right now for double bacon cheese burger, and an apple pie" Dean said. "Dammit Sammy, now I'm even hungrier this is ridiculous" he grunted.
"Anyway, lets get back to it, right so according to this map, there's an old boarding house down there, take a left, then a right and this might be our last stop, by looks of this, what you think Sammy", Dean asked showing Sam the map.
"Why have I got this thing anyway, you're the boy scout" he joked with a wink at his younger brother.
Sam took the map from Dean, a little begrudgingly letting out a little huff, "Yeah we both know that I'm no boy scout either dean, don't we" he said a little sadly, referring to Lucifer and the demon blood to name a few ways.
"But yeah, I think that you're right and for the record, I'm only better at this kind of stuff because I paid attention at school, went to university and listened to dad, when it was something other than guns ,monsters or women" Sam said trying not to scoff at his brothers comment, while also trying not to laugh at his own, but the look on deans face was priceless. So priceless he couldn't help the small laugh that escaped his lips anyway.
The look on Deans face changed before he said "Yeah well, I had women to entertain when we were in school, after all someone had to rescue them from your constant brooding, we couldn't all be point Dexter you know, or those poor girls would of been very bored and lonely, we couldn't have that could we now," he said with a wink and a slight twinkle in his eyes, he seemed rather pleased with himself Sam noticed.
They finally made it to the place they assumed to be the boarding house, after walking for about ten minutes from the last house they were at. This house was very much secluded and so different from the rest of the town minus a few houses. It was an old style boarding house.
The shear size and overall look of the place was astounding, if you liked that sort of thing, it had a long drive way leading up to the property, with lots of trees in and around the place.
A large arch just under the property, with a large step up, it lead you to the large old oak front door, with a brass door knocker, the door almost hidden until you got closer to it. As they were walking up the driveway, Dean stopped to admire the blue 1969 Chevy Camaro. "Hey whoever lives here has good taste in cars at least," he said looking at the blue car, "it's no baby, but nice though, Sam just sighed in his brothers direction.
"For gods sake Dean, yes its a car, now calm down" he commented as he walked right past him, up the steps to the front door of the boarding house. "Can we just get this over with please, you can drool on the car another time or day, preferably not at all though. Only you would be looking at a car at a time like this, while we're on a job and want to get back typical Dean" he said.
Dean just smirked, "Hey you know me little bro, good to take notice of hot property, or at least to look about, but hey you know that you love me Sammy, don't get all grumpy" Dean chuckled, watching Sam roll his eyes, as they walked up to the door he turned to his brother again, "Nothing ever changes with you Dean does it" Sam said, "Now why would i go and do that Sammy, i mean have you seen me" Dean said with a wink, Dean's phone rang before Sam could answer "Bobby" he asked.
Bobby and Liz
Liz looked at Bobby with a look of utter disbelief and shock radiated from her. She was just stunned, how could he know, she thought. There's no way, he couldn't could he. "I .. I I don't know what you're talking about, I don't know what you mean" she stammered starting to panic now, why did my voice come out like that, for gods sake, she thought agitated, I'm the sheriff, I shouldn't be panicking like this, especially in front of a civilian.
Bobby leaned forward slightly and said "Look Liz, I think you know exactly what I m talking about, but I get maybe you think we're both crazy for believing this, or maybe you've seen things, things that can't be explained in any other way. Other than vampire attacks, maybe your even protecting someone close to you, but my nephews and I are here to help you. I promise and we can try and follow any exceptions you have, as long as they ain't killing anyone or anything, maybe we can make some exceptions in some cases." he explained trying to get her to understand and trust him, because he had a feeling that from her reaction she was either being threatened by one, or she was protecting someone.
"Okay I'll listen to what you have to say, i guess that's the least i can do" she said quickly, watching him carefully, we could use the help she inwardly sighed.
"Right good, so me and my nephews Sam and Dean, are here in Mystic Falls to help you, in particular with the amount of so called animal attacks your town has had, it's just to much of a coincidence, that they are actually what they seem, especially in our line of work, which is why this stood out to us so much." "So this is where you come in, why and who is covering these up, I'm guessing you know, being the sheriff and all" he said.
She looked him in the eyes, they were stern but kind she sighed, maybe he and his family could really help, they needed It after all. "There is a council here, there has been for hundreds of years, set up by the founding family's of Mystic Falls, to fight the threat of vampires mainly. However we've recently become aware of the existence of werewolves and hybrids, of which is a being who is half vampire half werewolf, the founding family's mainly consist of the Fell family the Gilbert family, the Forbes family, the Salvatore family and lastly the Lockwood family" she explained.
"We deal with these threats as best as we can although as you can see we re not without fault. No matter hard we try we can't stop them all although maybe with a little help who knows anyway."
Bobby couldn't believe what he was hearing, he was just in shock, these normal people were dealing with all of this, the boys would have to do everything in their power to help these people. That being said the hybrid thing was knew, they'd never encountered one and as far as he knew, neither had any other hunter.
Liz preceded to explain to him about the original hybrid and the sacrifice, that had happened a year or so ago and how some poor human a girl was turned into a vamp, that they needed for the sacrifice.
Someone named April Young, she was apparently the towns pastors daughter. He was obviously distraught about her death and having to lie daily about what happened to his little girl didn't help much either. As to not to cause suspicion and what not, he was told to say it was a freak car accident, to which he had reluctantly agreed too. To then have to explain how he some how survived without a scratch.
Then she explained how that sick son of a bitch Klaus said he liked the symmetry of three women for his ridiculous sacrifice, April happened to friends with most of the founding families children, as she was at they're school and was the same age as the youngest Gilbert, he'd done this to a child he knew loads of vampires. Even some willing to die for his cause, but he wanted to mess with the town claiming they had taken his town, so he would take a few things of theirs, he was childish and petty killing kids for the sake of revenge, this guy was a real piece of work from what Bobby could tell.
Liz then went on to explain the other things needed for the ritual one of which was a werewolf, who just so happened to be a friend of one of the Lockwood family. She was caught and made a part of the sacrifice, he had a willing witch to perform the ritual and the thing which bound his curse. Then finally Liz explained about Elena Gilbert and Katerina Petrova or Katherine Pierce as she's now known, one of the other doppelganger's. Who he tried to do the ritual with many years previous, but she had escaped him and turned herself a vampire and has been on the run from him for over 500 years.
So then Elena was the final part to the sacrifice, Liz explained how her biological father John Gilbert had a witch bind his life force with that of his daughters, so he would essentially die in his daughters place. Bobby could understand that kind of sacrifice Sam and Dean may not be his, but he would sure as hell give his life up to save those idjits, he loved them like they were his and he was damn proud of them.
Liz interrupted his thoughts "Bobby?" she said, "I'd like to introduce you to the head of the council Damon Salvatore, if you believe you can help, he's the best one for us to go and see . Damon would definitely want to hear about this, she trusted him to do what it took to protect Caroline, without hurting these people if that s what she asked, he was her friend, probably her best friend if she were honest with herself.
These days he was slightly more protective of his friends and more stable, when he was unsure rather than acting on base instinct and attacking before he asked questions. "Sounds good to me, let me just call Sam and Dean" she nodded at Bobby. "Okay, I should probably call Damon, he'll be at home so we should head there now, we'll take the squad car" Liz said grabbing her phone from her desk, Bobby nodded in reply.
They both left the station and got into Liz's squad car pulling out their phones to call the boys.
Dean was the first to answer his phone, as they both sat in the squad car. Liz thought she d better wait for Bobby to finish talking, then she'd try to call Damon.
"Dean" bobby said putting the phone on speaker for Liz to hear as well, "Where are you now, we need to meet up at a house of someone who the sheriff informs me can help us"
"Bobby that you" dean asked to confirm" Erm well we're at the boarding house in the town, its out of the way bit secluded, last one" he announced bobby could hear the relief in the elder Winchester as he said this. Bobby held back a chuckle at this, Dean was probably starving and Sam wanted to push on if he knew them.
Liz looked at him "That's the Salvatore boarding house" she announced, Bobby nodded "Damon lives there with his younger brother Stefan" she said Deans voice suddenly came through the speaker.
"Bobby I hate to interrupt you guys, but are you going to be long, I m starving and I could murder a burger and a pie, i'm wasting away here" he said confirming Bobby suspicions from earlier, Bobby smirked to himself holding back a laugh as he spoke, "yeah Dean, we're headed there now, that's where this guy lives, just wait for us there" he said.
"Okay can do" Dean said before hanging up, at that moment her phone started to ring.
"It's Damon" she announced to Bobby, before answering keeping her phone off of speaker, she guessed Damon had heard and seen the Winchesters out the front of his house, then he'd probably heard their conversation with bobby.
"Damon" she said fondly, "Sheriff" he replied, "What can I do for you" he asked, in his normal charming tone. As if you don t know she thought remotely amused.
"I'm on my way to the boarding house, Damon we need to talk and I'm bringing a friend, someone who can help and i'd like you to meet him" she said.
"Right" he answered "Is he with these cowboys out the front of my beautiful house, littering my drive," he replied.
"You already know the answer to that Damon, i'll see you soon" she replied smirking into the phone.
"Oh and Liz if this hungry one touches my car, I WILL kill him" he said voice full of joy at the idea but also a sense of seriousness, she could already tell he wasn't happy about this idea of meeting these people. She laughed, "Damon behave please, okay I'll be there soon" she said not sure if he was joking or not, he loved that car, boys and their toys hey, she thought sighing before hanging up and pulling out of the car park, well this will be interesting for sure.