"So these vampires, the only way to kill them is sunlight?" Charli asked as she followed her old friend inside the old warehouse.
"Unless you want to stab it through the side, its heart is surrounded by bones except for the one side." He explained. "I can't believe that some of them survived, because last year Whistler and I had to go on a mission with some vampires. There were hundreds of the Reapers that we had to kill, I thought we took care of all of them."
Charli sat down on top of a table with two chairs and Blade sat down in the chair in front of her. "How did these Reapers come about? Was it genetic or what?" She asked.
"The gene was created, by a vampire who wanted to make all vampires invincible. It wasn't enough for him to live forever…unless of course you or me killed them." Blade answered.
"This ain't no barn don't be sittin' on the table!" A voice yelled from behind and obviously above the pair of half vampires. Charli turned around and saw an older man with gray curly hair and a beard to match with a leg brace. "What chu' doin' here girl? We thought you weren't ever gon' come see us again." He said as he struggled to come down the stairs.
"I almost got killed. Who better to come see?" The young Slayer smiled. Whistler looked at the now seventeen year old Slayer with bleached hair. "How've you two been lately? You've moved…"
"Good, nothing much going on… We moved because some little piece of shit got our old warehouse blown up." Blade growled.
"So kid, how'd you almost die?" Whistler asked then sitting down in the other chair.
"I met my first Reaper…" Charli began.
"Apparently the virus survived." Blade said finishing Charli's sentence.
Whistler looked surprised, "I thought we took care of all of them."
"Me too," Blade replied.
"We will finish the rest of them, but I've got to leave before my parents go insane… I finally found them but not my leash is as long as a toothpick." Charli sighed as she hopped off the table.
"We can't wait around for these things to come to us you know… we have to go find them." Blade said standing up.
"I know, we will. I've just gotta go make up some lies and tomorrow night the three of us will go find these things, and kill them." Charli said very plainly. She made her way back out of the warehouse feeling hungry; she walked down the street taking a detour from Angel Investigations. She walked into the demon bar around the corner, this time not coming to fight. The young Slayer sat down at the bar.
"Hey sweetie, what can I get you?" The bartender asked. He was about 20 with short black hair and big brown eyes, and he was a vampire.
"Glass of blood." Charli shortly replied. She smiled as she watched him pour the blood from the jar and sit it down in front of her.
"2 dollars." He smiled. Charli reached down in her pocket and pulled out two one-dollar bills. She handed it to him and he put it in the cash register. "Not like it's any of my business or anything but why is a pretty girl like you in here drinking pig's blood? You could easily get some human, all you have to do is turn on your charm and shake that…" He began.
"If you say ass I'm going to be across the bar and on top of you." She growled, then taking a drink of her blood.
"Why wouldn't I want that?" He smiled.
"With a stake…" Charli said smiling evilly. She chugged down the rest of her blood and put the glass back down on the bar. "Same time tomorrow night, bye Shawn." Charli said getting up from her seat.
"Can't wait baby!" He yelled after her. Charli got a lot of evil stares as she left the bar, they all knew she was the Slayer but knew not to do anything more than stare.
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"I can't believe we didn't find anything!" Dawn exclaimed as she followed Buffy into Angel Investigations.
"It's okay, sweetie…I'm sure we'll find her." Willow assured her best friend's little sister. Dawn sighed and looked over at Buffy who was sitting by the window on a stool.
"We won't have too…" Spike said, he stood behind Buffy and pointed to a girl with bleached hair walking down the street. Buffy and Spike walked over to the door together, The Slayer opened it and waited for her daughter to enter.
"Why does everyone look pissed? I didn't do anything this time I promise." Charli said as she walking, noticing the tension.
"Where did you go?" Buffy asked calmly.
"Not like you would know or anything but not having blood so often can make you feel like you haven't slept in a week; which actually I haven't so if we could skip the yelling… I am sorry I'll be sure to tell when I'm going to go get something to drink from now on. Okay? Okay… Bad Charli!! Bad Charli!! How dare you not at least tell Conner where you are going! You are grounded for a week!! Okay I'm finished, goodnight." Charli said. She turned and walked halfway up the stairs and then stopped, "Angel, Daddy watch yourselves out there," She said then continuing up the stairs, being followed by Conner.
"Did she just ground herself?" Spike asked his wife.
"I think she did…" Buffy replied with a confused tone in her voice. Everyone in the room heard a door shut… "But I don't think she grounded herself from Conner," Buffy sighed as she started up the stairs.
Angel got up and followed the Slayer, but they soon stopped because Conner was on his way back down the stairs. "Forget something?" Angel asked his son.
"Dad! Can we please not talk about that kind of stuff, you're like 250…" Conner told his father as he walked back into his old room that was downstairs.
"Wow, Charli must have slammed the door in his face…" Dawn said stating the obvious. She looked at her sister, who then looked at Angel who was looking in the direction of Conner's room.
"Maybe she wasn't in the mood…" Gunn said to Angel who turned to look out the window.
"Something happened…" Angel said to everyone.
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A/N: Okay sorry it took so long, hope you enjoy. More on the way soon.