I don't own either show, they belong to the WB, the CW, Joss Whedon & Eric Kripke [2 geniuses of TV!]. All main characters mentioned aside from Amy are from either of the shows.


Chapter 4: Something's not right

All of a sudden, Sam realized that the ritual must have gone wrong. Surely these two weren't what they had been trying to summon. An ultimate vampire that would wreak destruction and havoc on them all surely wouldn't be so short... Plus, certainly a creature such as this wouldn't look so human?

Dean was also confused. He was sure that there was supposed to be only one creature to come out of the summoning. And it was supposed to be a vampire that would ultimately attempt to kill thousands, if not tens of thousands of innocent people, leaving only desecration and destruction in its wake. Well, somehow he doubted that a creature like this would name itself either 'Spike' or 'Angel'. But he wasn't willing to take chances on the matter. If these two had been summoned by the ritual, then it was probably these two that needed to be killed.

Angel and Spike reacted immediately to Dean as he flung a flask of holy water in their direction, and both were instantly out of the way so they wouldn't get burnt. But Dean wasn't done with them yet. Sure, they were quick, but he had to know for sure whether they were the vampires that were supposed to be summoned. Dean ran towards the blinds and wrenched them open, leaving Angel and Spike in the middle of a field of sunlight. They started to sizzle and smoke lightly, and simultaneously roared in pain and dashed towards the closest area of darkness and shadow that they could find.

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"So it is true then. These are the ones we were trying to summon?" Sam asked no one in particular.

"Yeah, seems like." Bobby responded a little dazed from Dean's sudden attack.

Dean had reacted so fast that Amy was astounded that he was totally human. She was still sitting silently where she had been when the tornado started, behind the table.

Angel and Spike themselves were quite in awe themselves. They soon snapped out of it, however, as they found themselves trapped between barriers of sunlight streaming through the open blinds on either side of them.

"So you got us. Congratulations. You gonna explain to us who the hell you are, then? And where we are, for that matter? Coz I am bloody confused here." Spike asked.

"Us? We're hunters. We go for all sorts of things. Demons, spirits, werewolves, witches... vampires. Ya know, all your normal types of evil. Where are you? Well, what should it matter to you!? You're just gonna destroy the place anyway." Dean retorted.

"Hunters then. Wonderful. You clearly don't much about who you're hunting either, destroy your city? Why'd we wanna do that? And how'd you pull off the whole dimensional portal thing, anyway? Pretty neat trick." Angel said.

"Whoa, hold up. We help people, we don't kill them. Well, not any more, anyhow. We've got souls, you know!" Spike added.

"Yeah, sure. And Darth Vader helps people too. You're vampires! Of course you kill people!" Dean commented in his usual fashion.

"Dimensional portal? What are you talking about? As far as I know, there ain't no such thing. There's only one universe, and we're all in it!" Bobby replied to Angel.

"Well, do we have news for you! Sure there's different dimensions, alternate universes, different worlds, whatever you'd like to call them. There's plenty, infinite possibilities! This one, it seems, is quite similar to ours though. Burning sunlight included." Angel explained.

"Uh, not to bring the room down or anything, but are these the guys we have to destroy, or not?!" Amy finally plucked the courage to get up and enter the conversation. It was the strangest one she ever remembered hearing.

"They're vampires, that's for sure. And not of the normal type either –must be the super type that Bobby told us about, but there was supposed to be only one, and these guys somehow don't seem the type for destroying a city, ya know?" Sam answered. "Bobby, could the ritual have gone wrong somehow?"

"Yeah, I suppose I could've done something wrong, but I'm pretty sure I did everything as it was in the book." Bobby replied, puzzled.

"I can't stand these sodding humans. We told you! You opened a portal and summoned us through it. And seriously, we aren't gonna destroy your city, alright?!" Spike announced.

"Yeah, like we're gonna just take your word for it! We've run into plenty of nasty things before and none of them have exactly been very trustworthy." Dean said.

"Okay, so how do you suggest we prove our trustworthiness then? I'd tell you to call up some of my more human friends, but seeming as we've kinda left our dimension, I somehow don't think a phone call would help." Angel explained.

"Maybe we'll just have to lock you up in the panic room for a while till we work this out." Dean menacingly suggested.

"Or not?" Spike said, not liking the sound of being locked inside a room with Angel all day. "Come on, Angel! We can't let some pansy humans stick us in some cell to rot!"

"I don't see any other options. Would you rather face the sunlight?" Angel already knew the answer to his question. Of course he didn't!

"Okay, Okay, we'll cooperate. But you ponces better realize that we still need some kind of supply of blood. Don't worry, cows' will do. Just saying, you can't let us starve, coz otherwise I'll get grumpy and start getting peckish for something sweet..." Spike threatened, looking towards Amy as he concluded. Amy backed away nervously at his longing stare.

"Spike!" Angel warned. "Sorry, he gets that way sometimes. He hasn't had a soul as long as I have. He still sometimes craves something more... fresh." Angel apologised to Amy, who abruptly came to understand that he meant her no harm.

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The door crashed shut and Angel and Spike heard a lock click home. They were now in a small, circular room whose floor was covered in a giant pentacle complete with other symbols surrounding which had been painted in brown. There was a single desk and two chairs at one end of the room and a bed attached to the wall at the other. A huge fan spun slowly on the ceiling, the light through it casting shadows on the walls. The soft swish of its swinging was the only sound to be heard.

"So... What now?" Spike wondered as he went to sit in one of the chairs, taking the other one up with his legs before Angel could sit down.

"Spike, shut up. Just for once. Please?" Angel went and sat on the bed instead, trying to ignore Spike.

"Hmmmm... Nah I don't think I will. Why'd those ponces have to go and stick us in here? What are we supposed to do now?" Spike nagged.

"I don't know! Now be quiet, I'm trying to think here."

"What you thinkin' about?"

"What do you think!? How to get us the hell out of here and back to our own world! If only Wesley was here. I'm sure he'd be able to think up something!" Angel said. I'm sure he'd be more useful than Spike, anyway. He added to himself.

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"Dean, what are you planning on doing with them?" Bobby asked.

"Yeah, you can't just leave them locked up in there forever, man." Sam added.

"Just watch me!" Dean replied. "There's nothing else we can do anyway. If we let them out and it turns out they are evil then we're screwed. If we leave them in there then at least they can't hurt anyone."

"Oh come on, you're not seriously gonna leave them in there?" Amy questioned. "Surely there's some way we can test whether they're telling the truth or not! I mean, I know we can't exactly hook them up to a lie detector, no pulse and all. But they didn't seem too bad, and they didn't attack us."

"Well, do you have a better idea?" Dean queried.

"Yes. In fact I think I do." Amy's plan stunned the others.

"You want to do what?!" Sam answered. "That's crazy!"

"No. No way. I won't let you do that, you can't. It's almost suicidal!" Bobby's response didn't even make Amy flinch.

"I want to do it," Amy replied.

"Wow. You know, I think you would make a good hunter. Risks like that are pretty much our way of life." Dean mentioned, as always, he hid his true emotions behind his humour.

"Thanks. And I don't think they want to hurt me, really. Angel, at least, seemed rather nice. Just let me in to the room with them and leave me there for about a day or so. If I'm still... you know, alive and well after that, they're fine. I trust them. Anyway, no one has any better ideas! We can't just leave them in there forever! Vampires or not, it's not right."

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