(A Totally Spies-Moonlight crossover)
Chapter 3:
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Disclaimers:
"Totally Spies" is not mine! And? Never will be mine! It belongs to the French (I think?) Animation Company MARATHON!
"Moonlight" and its characters belong its creators, Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson, and Warber Brothers Television.
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The next two weeks were busy ones for Alex de la Vega. When she wasn't watching over Sam, Clover, or her mom, Alex was cautiously stalking WOOPH Headquarters, or planning her next missions with Mandy, Mick, and Josef.
"Are you sure about your target?" Mick asked the young spy.
"Pretty sure, Mr. ." Alex answered "More sure than I'd like to be! My instincts seemed to tell me something wasn't quite right at the office! At WOOHP. And,that was BEFORE I was turned. Just wished I'd listened to them, more, back then! I mean, 'Tim Scam' seemed to hang around WOOHP too much to just want revenge on it! at least, not without totally destroying or discrediting us. And, Jerry never seemed to lock Tim away that deeply! It's giving me nothing but the creeps, now!"
"'Jerry'?" Mandy asked.. and shivered. "I dinna s'pose ye'd have a picture of himself, do ye?"
"Only one." Alex said. "And? that one seems too overexposed to do us any good. Sam has the only descent picture of him that came out! And.. I'm berinning to have my doubts about that one! Also? I'm not bringing Sam or Clover into this! No more than they're in it, already."
"I understand, Alex, all t' well!" Mandy softly said as she caressed Alex's arm. "Ye want t' protect yuir kin. Desperately."
"Well? Care to join me, Mr. ?" Alex asked. "Hopefully? We can find out where Timon has been hiding! At least, flush out the other Carlosi? Giovanni?"
"Will do, Ms. de la Vega!" Mick answered.
"Oh! Amanda? Joseph?" Alex asked. "Will you watch out for Clover and Sam? I was able to get it into their heads that they need to stay away from WOOPH, But? As much as I wanted to.. as much as I should have.. I didn't command them to stay away from me. So far? They've avoided WOOHP like the plague, but, if I know the girls? They'll be searching for me. If they come by while I'm gone? Make them stay here!"
"And, how are we supposed to do that?" Joseph asked.
"Simple!" Alex giggled, remembering her friends. "Introduce yourselves!
Sam needs to know all she can about who she's dealing with, and Clover LOVES a good story! See you, later!"
The next hour went by as quietly as usually at Joseph's establishment.
Then, a couple of lady's walked in. More than a few patrons turned their heads to the duo. Because - as songs and poems had mentioned before - they just "didn't fit".
"So! This is where the 'Night-time crowd' hangs out." Samantha whispered.
"If what we found out is true." Clover replied. "But, like, how would Dominique and Caitlyn know about this place?"
"Everybody seems to be looking at us!" Sam hissed.
"Well, DUH! Girlfriend!" Clover answered. "They probably don't get too many living-customers, here!"
"Ya think?" Sam chirped out a come-back.
"Actually, we do have a mortal-clientele, here!" Joseph spoke up, as he came to Sam and Clover's end of the bar "ms. Simpson, I presume? And, Ms. Benoir?"
Sam and Clover leaped high and backwards, defensively, upon hearing their names spoken!
Slowly, Samantha crept up to the bar. "Pardon me.. sir.. but.. do we know you? Have we met?"
"No." Joseph Answered with a smile. "But, a friend of yours and ours has asked us to be on the look-out for you two until she returns."
"'She'?" Sammie peeped out.
"Alex de la Vega!" Joseph answered
"'Us'?" Clover asked. "Who is 'Us'?"
"'Us'," Joseph began, "as in me and.."
"Hello, lassies!" Mandy chirped. "I see that Alejandrea had ye two VERRA well figured out! Herself said t' be expectin' ye!" Mandy grinned, exposing her fangs.
And, Clover went ballistic!
"MANDY?!" I bet you're the one that TURNED my ALEX into a VAMPIRE!"
Tears were starting to form in her eyes as Clover clawed toward Mandy's throat:
"Even if you didn't do it, yourself, I BET you had it DONE! Confess!"
Mandy's eyes started glowing like embers, and she grabbed Clover with a stomache-claw so tight she pinched into Clover's skin, drawing blood!
"Let go of me.. Benoir.." Mandy hissed, and tossed Clover over the bar to the other side!
"Oh, my god!" Samantha whispered.
"Don't worry!" Josef chuckled lightly. "It's happened before. Would you like some coffee, Ms. Simpson?"
Clover let her vision clear from the pain of hitting the floor- plus, Mandy's finger nails puncturing her skin- when she noticed the packets of blood behind thew bar:
"Oh, my god!" Clover yelped. "Sammie? I think we found their nest!"
"Perceptive as ever, Clover." Sammie sighed into her coffee.
"Ye've being takin' good care of yiurself, Clover-darlin'!" Mandy grinned as she licked her fingertips clean. "Moreso than I'd give ye credit for! Especially, after th' reports that Dominique and Caitlyn sent into us."
"WHAT?!" Clover leaned over the bar threateningly. "You had your pet-ghouls SPYING on us?"
"They were not spyin' on ye from my command, Benoir!", Mandy growled out, "but, for Alex' request! She's been to worryin' about you ever since the second time she woke up! Err.. the time she woke up. And? Yuir right about Dominique and Caitlyn being my ghouls! Much like I keep tellin' Alex ye need to be her ghouls! Oops."
"Great going, O'Dubhda." Josef chuckled. "You kicked both your feet into your mouth."
"WAITAMINUTE!" Sam suddenly screamed. "What 'Second time'?"
"And what do you mean Sam and I need to be Alex' ghouls?" Clover asked as she came around the counter.
"Hello, Josef!" Beth called out. "A cup of coffee, please! And, let me guess: They are Samantha and Clover? And, they've managed to uncork the O'Dubhda temper?"
"Hello, Beth!" Josef smiled sympathetically to Mandy. "And, to answer your questions? Yes, and yes!"
"what happened?" Beth asked.
"The spies didn't like being spied on!" Josef replied.
Mandy held out her palms, shooting a stare into each girl. "One inquisitor at a time, ladies! Samantha? Yes, I said twice! The first time Alex awoke as a new creature, she had been left with no one t' imprint herself on, no one t' take her under their wing an' train her! An', I am sure, that was the plan of the idiot Carlosi that turned her! So? She had t' imprint on someone. An', that someone was me! Especially, since I'd known Alex the longest of anyone there, at the time. And? If I had to do it, again? I would! Unforunately, for her, that meant she had t' die again at m' bite! Also, it was meanin' she'd not wake up, hungry.. she'd wake up, starvin'! Not how ye'd want a friend t' waken.
"As for your question, Clover? Aye, I said you to need t'be Alex' ghouls! I told her - a few times, already - that she needs t'put the bite on ye! T' keep ye from puttin' yuirselves in danger, so often! An' now, before you get all pale an' faint on me from fright, hear this! Ye dinna become a vampire simply by just being bitten of one! It doesna work that way. Nor, does a bite automatically kill ye! For that t' happen, ye'd need lose more than a pint o' blood! And? To leave someone under a vampire's spell, ye've only need lose about an spoonful, an' gain a vampire's kiss or lick."
"Oh, wow.." Sam stood, spellbound, slowly shaking her head waking up.
"How did you do that, Mandy?"
"Simple!" Mandy smiled. "The stare of a vampire's eyes can numb the brain's defences, momentarily. Therefor, making the words of a vampire t' have more of an effect on th' individual."
"Is that, like, why we've been staying away from WOOPH?" Clover asked. "I.. SEEM to remember Alex' voice! Damn! it's STILL hurting my head to think of that place!"
"Good!" Mandy chirped. "It means Alex's request is still guiding you! Believe me when I tell ye Alex has her reasons for warnin' ye away from that place! But? It will be her place t' tell ye th' wherefor and th' why of it!"
"Mandy?" Sammie asked tentatively. "Who are you? You aren't.. who we thought you were!"
"True enough, young Sam!" The Irish woman started. "I am Amanda Marie Aine O'Dubhda, born in Connaught in August of 1373 Anno Domini."
After three hours of listening to Mandy's and Josef's, and Beth's life-stories, and sharing their own, Samantha and Clover were met by two new arrivals:
"I though I smelled fresh-blood, around here." Alex dead-panned, then smiled. "Hello, Sammie! Hello, Clover! I'm glad I asked Amanda and Josef to wait for one two!"
"Waitaminute, Alex!" Sam spoke. "You were EXPECTING US?!"
Clover started giggling.
"More like expecting trouble!" Mandy and Josef chorused.
Sam spun around to the vampires at the bar. "WHAT DID you say?!"
"Sammie?" Alex asked the rehead, "Since when have we three not found trouble to get into? And, just how much coffee have you had, today?"
"Ummm... Errr...", Samantha Simpson turned as pink as a radish. "Can I.. get back to you on those questions, Alex?" She then fidgeted. "I.. lost my temper, didn't I?"
Alex slowly nodded her head, yet locked her eyes on Sam:
"Yes. You. Did."
And, Clover fell on the flood, laughing and wiggling.
"Am I going to introduce myself, Alex?" Mick asked.
"Once the girls have recovered their senses." Alex answered.
After getting her best mortal-friends quieted-down.. and almost giving herself a headache in the process (and hearing, yet once again, from Mandy about having to "bite someone"), Alex settled into the nightly activities:
"Clover? Sammie? I'd like you to meet Micheal , U. , World War 2, and Private Detective. And,the Community's Knight in Shining Black Armor."
Clover and Samantha started to get up to introduce themselves.
"I wouldn't do that, girls! Not yet! Because what we have to say next will, probably, put you hard on your butts. Mick and I just got back from spying on WOOHP. And, we got bad news, and terrible news. The bad news is we couldn't find a clue to either Timon or Giovanni! The worst news? WOOPH's built like a safe-house for vampires!"
"WHAT?!" Sam and Clover screeched. "How's that POSSIBLE?! Jerry wouldn't.."
Alex eyes began to glow. "Girls? Quiet. Let Mick talk. He can explain better than I can. Mr. ?"
"Thank you, Ms. de la Vega. As soon as we walked into the building, I noticed how dark it was. The lighting was unusually low. About like it is here! Also, it's about the same temperature as here! About.. sweater-weather for mortals! And? Not many buildings in L.A. keep it that cold. The next thing I noticed was a certain - sound - to the halls. The sound you get when you walk on lead."
"Lead?" Samantha sudenly asked. "Who builds with lead?"
"Those who are sensitive to outside radiation." Josef answered. "Including direct sunlight."
"Which brings me to another thing I noticed about the building!" Mick continued, "All the windows are heavily-tinted!"
"Vampires can take a little sun," Beth said, "but, a usual day for us would be lethal to them!"
"After Mick pointed out the building to me," Alex said, "I started to notice Jerry's office." She then looked straight at Sam and Clover. "You ever notice how Jerry doesn't have a whole lot of photos of himself, but alot of paintings?"
"Now that you mention it..", Sam said, "It does seem strange.."
"Wait a minute!" Clover up! "But, like, didn't we all take a picture with Jerry?"
"But, remember how hazy the pictures seemed from our cameras, Clover?" Sam asked apprehensively.
"Yeah." Clover said. "But, like, Jerry's photos came out fine! Didn't they?"
"Photos can be photoshopped, Clover." Alex said. "Sam? I need the photo Jerry took! Here! I've still got mine. Notice how blurry Jerry is in mine?"
"Oh..my..god...!" Clover whispered hoarsely.
"Beth?" Alex asked. "Can you tell how much photoshopping was done of this picture?"
"Sure thing, Alex!" Beth took the pictures.
"And, Beth?" Mick asked. "Could you do some research on WOOPH? See how long they've been in the U.S.?"
"Already doing it, Mick!" She replied.
"but, like, why would Jerry DO this?" Clover whined.
"I've got an idea about that." Alex said, eyes glowing again. "Remember the last time we were sent to Argetina, guys? To search for Tim Scam? Well? The vampire I decapitated and incinerated, the one that turned me? He and his brother called Beunos Aires,'Home'! And? Scam was working with them, there! And, it wasn't long after that that Jerry sent us, without back-up, on the mission that killed me! finally? 'Tim Scam' is just an alias! That thing's real name is Timon of Scandia."
"'Timon'?" Samantha gasped. "The.. vampire you're hunting? One of them? Does Jerry know?"
Alex took out a skectch from her purse. "I have a bad feeling he does. Amanda? We know Timon is the Black Squire! Arnulfo Carlosi called him 'The Greek' and "La Scandiana". Who was his master, the 'Red Knight'?"
"my worst nightmare..", Mandy said, "Ludovico Gherardini!"
"'Gherardini'?" Samantha gulped.
Alex handed Mandy the drawing. She looked at it, shut her eyes tightly to stem any tears, nodded her head, and wailed!
"Oh! That HURTS! My ears.." Clover tried to cover her ears.
"Oh, my god!" Sam gasped. "That sound! Her cry! It's breaking my heart!"
"I thought as much." Alex whispered, then hugged the crying vampire."It'll be ok, Amanda! You have friends, here."
"What happened to our Mistress?!" A voice cried out from the doorway!
"'Mistress'?" Clover turned toward the door at the word. "Caitlynn? Dominique?"
"I'm glad you got my message, girls!" Alex said. "Ludovico Gherardini's in town."
"Ludovico Gherardini?" Dominique exclaimed."Oh.. my God! Since when?"
"We've not sure.." Alex responded. "But? It's been long enough for him to become our boss."
"Here it is, Mick!" Beth called out."The stats on WOOHP. The 'World Organization of Human Protection' has been in the spy business here in California for 10 years! And?
There doesn't seem to be any mention of it, anywhere else, before then."
"'Ten years'?!" Caitlyn yelped. "We've, like, been here for fifteen!"
"DAMMIT!" Dominique cried out. "That bastard FOLLOWED us here!"
"Probably with the help of his DAMNED Greek bloodhound!" Caitlyn swore. "I want to see that demon's head on a STAKE! Or, better yet, on a silver spike!"
Caitlynn and Dominique quickly moved to check on Mandy!
"You CALLED them?" Clover stared at Alex. "Why?"
"Because, Amanda will need close-friends around her, Clover!" Alex stared into Clover's eyes, and then Sam's. "And? I'm going to have my hands full with dealing with you two for the time being! Come on upstairs, guys. My temples are starting to hurt, damn it! Anyway, Josef leases out the rooms upstairs, and keeps a few open for 'emergancy use' when privacy is needed. And? this night's turning into a code-red."
"'Gherardini'?" Samantha kept repeating, as if in a trance. "'Gherardini'? 'Gherardi'? Gherardo? Gerard? Gerry? 'Jerry.. LEWIS?!" She then turned pleading eyes to Alex after the young vampire shut the door to the room. "Ludovico Gherardini.. Louis Gerard.. is 'Jerry Lewis'? OUR 'Jerry Lewis'?"
"I am afraid so.. Sammie." Alex whispered, as cool hands caressed a scared and fevered face. "I started asking questions as soon as my memories of the night I died started to clear-up. Why were we the only ones sent into that blood-orgy? Why didn't Jerry send in back-up? I think we called for some when we found all the blood. And?
After I remembered an Argentine-accent and the name 'Arnulfo', Josef remembered the Carlosi Brothers! And, who sent us to trail 'Tim Scam' to Buenos Aires? Jerry asked for us - specifically - for that mission! I've had a feeling ever since that 'Jerry' -
Gerardini - was sending us down there so the Carlosis would know who to hunt for when Tim brought them up here!"
"But.. what are we supposed to do? Clover and me! What do I do?"
"You'll do nothing, Samantha Simpson," Alex breathed just past her ear, "but listen to me, and calm down."
Alex then set Samantha down, and slowly unbottoned her blouse, exposing the neck and shoulder! She then tongue-tipped and kissed over the skin, searching for a small capillary,
wanting to avoid the massive-bloodloss and death an artery-bite would cause.
Sam giggled softly.
Gently, Alex bit into flesh, licking up the hot trickle of blood.
And Sam whimpered.
Alex chewed and suckled the wound, lapping up the precious liquid!
And, Sammie started to moan. Then tremor and tremble.
Then, Sam started to pant!
'Tastes so young,' Alex thought lustfully, "so innocent!. So.."
"WHAT IN THE HELL? I.. can't take any more of you, Sam!" Alex pushed herself off her friend. "I want you, but I could kill.. oh, my god? Did I send you into orgasm, Sam?"
Samantha was curled up in a fetal-position, cooing and babbling.
"Girlfriend?" Alex stared at the redhead in disbelief. "I expected that from Clover!"
"Can I go there?" Alex heard Clover behind her, low and husky.
Alex turned - and froze in mid-stride!
Clover, being Clover, had already stripped-down to her panties.
'I'm only taking a little.. I'm only taking a little..' Alex kept telling herself. 'I'm only taking a little bit. Not that much... not that much...'
As she gently brokes Clover's and tasted her blood, Alex marveled at how virgin the blonde's blood tasted! As soon as the blood started to trickle, the vampire started to noticed the changes in Clover she had taken of granted - if not just flat overlooked - in Samatha: How Clover's heartbeat and pulse, as well as her breathing, seemed to pick up for about five seconds! then, all three rythms seem to slow, as Clover went into a trance! Alex was grateful that neither girl flat-lined under her, but, just seemed to go into a deep sleep. Then, Clover's pulse jumped up. As did Alex.
"I did it, again! Clover, you lovely little pervert! And, here you've gone, crowing about all the fun you've had!" The vampire grinned with the knowledge she had gained of Clover's virginity. How she could use it to torture the poor girl. Blackmail was wonderful!
She also felt a strange twin-twinge of thrill and guilt over the power she felt she now had over them! Plus? Alex wondered, how in the world had she figured out the "sexual-purity" - for lack of a better term - of her friends?! That, she decided, was a question for Mandy to answer, later.
Alex got up from her snack and left Clover and Samantha in their states of orgasm, momentarily, and made her way to the bar downstairs.
"H'lo, Alex-darlin'!" The Irishwoman give the ex-spy a bit of a wicked smile."I take yuir needing a wee bit for Samantha and Clover?"
"You're sounding better, now, Amanda!" Alex smiled.
"Well? It's amazing what some tender loving care and a couple o' jiggers can do for the vampiric soul!" Mandy handed Alex a bag of bananas and oranges, and a bag of bagels.
"I keep these around fer Dominique an' Caitlynn whenever they have t' feed me! The least I c'n do is to be building up their strength, afterwards."
"Thank you, Amanda!" Alex smiled as she took the fruit and bread. "I have a TON of questions for you after this is through!"
"An' I'll be answerin' them as I can! Now, get back to yuir girls!"
An hour later, and fours hours before sun-up, Alex slipped back out of the room:
"OK, you two!" Alex called back into the room. "Get some rest."
"Yes, Mistress!" Clover and Alex smiled.
Mandy just chuckled lightly.
"Amanda O'Dubhda?" Alex grumbled, "I'd kill you, now, if you weren't already dead!"
"Aye." Mandy smiled. "But? The headaches are gone? We heard the voices upstairs. Clover can get a wee bit loud."
"That, she can!" Alex giggled softly. "Did you have problems, when you first bit Caitlyn and Dominique?"
"With orgasms?" Mandy cackled. "Constantly! Still do! But.. that's not what yiur fear is, Alex Dhu, is it?"
"No, it isn't." Alex admitted in a whisper, staring out a window. "Before I bit them,
I was terrified that I'd terrify them! You know? I mean, you've told me of the nightmares the Red Kight left you with, even after 600 years. I killed him, but, Carlosi still leaves me with Nightmares. Sometimes? I can hardly wait for sunrise, and the sleep of the dead. But. I didn't seem to give Sam or Clover nightmares. Don't get me wrong! I'm glad I didn't! THRILLED! But, why didn't I?"
"Because, m' Alex Dhu," Amanda answeredthe neophyte, "You didna turn them! And, even if ye had, by accident, Vampires are forever locked t' their pasts. Includin' - unfortunately f'r us - the moment we get turned. You an' I, we had our lives, our worlds, our security -
ripped away just before we died! 'Tis rather, I'd imagine, like getting raped! And, afterwards? Things happen that make us live it over, and over, again. But? Then, there are those like Caitlynn an' dominique, or Sam an' Clover, now! They willingly offered of themselves, and so their experiences are not so.. nighmarish. Caitlynn an' Dominique have told me it's.. quite th' pleasure!"
Alexand Mandy both looked at the morning sky, just starting to grey on the horizon.
"How are things wi' Samantha an' Clover at home?" Mandy asked.
"Thankfully, their mom's are out of town on business." Alex answered. "They seem to be withdrawing.. from our old life. Not just being spies, but, from everything! I'm worried!"
"Ye three always seemed t' be close!" Mandy grinned. only to let it fade. "i'm guessin' ye were their heart, Alex Dhu. An', now? That heart had been ripped out, and misplaced. But? They found it, again, as they needed to!" Mandy grinned again. "An', I think ? Put it back in place. As they were destined to!"
"But, what kind of heart do they have to work with?" Alex asked as she stared out the window at a brightening horizon.
Mandy caressed Alex' arm and squeezed her hand. "They have th' same carin' heart they knew before! Plus? A wer bit more protective an' possessive one! Come! Time t' sleep. I told Caitlyn an' Dominique t' keep watch over yiur two wee birds!"
"It's a good thing I told Sam and Clover they'd have to play nice with them, then!" Alex giggled.