Change in Regimen 2/?


Author: Tohonomike tohonomikea...
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They'd headed back to the docks area, circling around Kakistos' pursuers.

"What are we doing?" the vampire asked, responsible for the boy but not in charge of him.

"We're going to have you ambush one or two of these guys to get a car and some money to get out of town in."

"You're kidding, right?"

"Come on, you're Mister Vampire Guy, you just need to thump 'em in the head and basically rob them before dusting them."

"You've done this before?"

"Once, last week, I was on the way home and saw a vamp go after a 7-11 clerk. I smack 'im in the head, the vamp, not the clerk, and paid for my slurpee and some junk food with what he had on him and pocketed the rest; I usually eat properly, but a Twinkie is a Twinkie."

Luckily, Angel had been able to simply slug the vamp waiting next to the car, and they were off, five hundred dollars to the good and it even had a ful tank of gas.

The next night found Angel and Alexander in Baltimore; the down and out vampire had a car in storage there from many years before, black of course with a very large trunk full of books and personal effects gathered over the years. They transferred what they had to Angel's vehicle, including an impressive array of guns and ammo from the other vehicle's false trunk, and started heading toward DC but foregoing the Interstate to first determine if they'd been followed. A couple of times, Angel had sworn he'd seen a VW bug driven by a dark-haired twenty-something gal, but eventually he'd assured himself it was coincidence.

Approaching three in the morning, they pulled into a convenience in a DC suburb to gas up and get to the other side of DC before finding lodging. A skittish girl came around the corner, a duffle over her arm, clearly a runaway; Angel felt the early sages of compassion but managed to fight it off. He had enough to brood about without adding more.

Xander came out of the store with a couple bags; the store had a better than average selection and it was probably best to minimize stops and just get home. The girl's stomach rumbled as she looked around the parking lot of the club next door, and the store itself as if looking for something.

"You okay?" Alexander asked the girl and grabbed a twin-pack from the bag, "You really shouldn't be out here at night, some drunk'll hurt you." He threw her the golden snacks, "Here, ya sound hungry, need a ride away from these guys coming toward us, at least to the corner, my...brother's car's at the pump."

The girl looked at the bikery mid-twenties guys with the Howie Long look approaching, overhearing one tell the other 'five by five' after making an obviously inappropriate remark about her, "Yeah...maybe the corner...or a coupla blocks, huh?" Xander nodded, and pointed at the Angelmobile with his chin.

They started walking, the guys starting to shift toward them a bit. Angel looked up and started to frown from the car and walked to meet the two teens.

"Hey Angel!" he called to his 'brother' loudly, then looked at a billboard across the street with a big church promotion on it, "Faith and I got the snacks, ready to roll?"

The bikers slowed and changed direction back to store as there fun would cost them a little much, especially when Angel nodded and swung his arm back toward the car a little impatiently, "Come on, Alex."

"Everything...five by five...Faith?" Xander smiled as he let the girl know he was aware of what had been avoided.

"Five by five...Lex," she smirked back.