Fandom Star Trek TOS/AOS/Enterprise
Character(s)/Pairing(s) M'Benga, Malcolm Reed, Hoshi Satou, Montgomery Scott; no pairing
Genre Drabble/Fantasy
Rating PG
Word Count 364
Disclaimer Star Trek c. Paramount, CBS, NBC, Roddenberry.
Drabble Summary The hunters gather around a pot of tea after a long and active night.
Warning(s) None
Notes After seeing commercials for Vampire Diaries here, there, and EVERYWHERE the past several days, this universe started to plague my brain, mostly manifesting into drabbles, so I figured why not? If you are looking for something in the vein of Twilight or Vampire Diaries, you're barking up the wrong tree. I'm more of a folklore type when it comes to vampires and werewolves, and I've been a fan of non-soapy Buffy for a while.

Conversation

The tea stepped, growing to a strong, dark color. The sunrise began to lighten the kitchen, falling upon the three people sitting exhausted at the round table. A fourth monitored the tea steeping, a good, strong Scottish brew sending its fragrance into he kitchen. The group gathered for breakfast on the weekends to discuss progress in their fight. They rotated gathering at their places of residence and today it was Scott's apartment. Finally, Scott walked the tea over, setting it down in front of his associates. They worked together and apart. M'Benga reached out, wrapping his brown fingers around one of the cups gratefully. Scott and M'Benga worked together at one of the local high schools, while their counterparts, Satou and Reed, worked at the local university.

They remained silent, regrouping after a long and active night. Satou set down her empty cup and turned her eyes to her male companions. "I heard a rumor." She used her napkin. "Archer is returning to the Bay area."

"Why?" Scott looked up from his tea, sleepy demeanor shattered. "I thought he had done all he could here."

"It's just something I heard," Satou replied. Her brows knitted.

"Who's Archer?" M'Benga leaned back in his chair. He was solely about hunting werewolves just as Scott was preoccupied with hunting the vampires. Their specialization helped ensure that those werewolves and vampires that were not harming humans would have a greater chance of survival. There was regulation governing the hunt in San Francisco, a city that believed those creatures that did not set out to kill or took precautions not to maim did not deserve to die.

"Archer is a vampire about eleven hundred years old," Reed answered. "He is responsible for vampires up and down the west coast of America."

"Some know him as Jonathan," Satou added, "but no one really knows if that's really his name. Most estimate that he's been active a few decades more than a thousand years. He first made his appearance in America in the seventeen hundreds in New York."

"Sounds hard to catch," M'Benga commented.

"Aye," Scott nodded, "but no one can avoid death, not even an old dog of a vampire."

End