Okay. Aren't I good to you guys? I was board, waiting for my four hour break between classes to end, so you know what I did? I finished the chapter that I've been working on and I'm posting it now. So, go ahead. Read. Enjoy. Let me know what you think. :)

The lights were all off when Brooke entered. She went around back while Haley climbed up to Mouth's spare bedroom. They assumed that Nathan and whoever else Peyton had waiting for them, would be expecting them to come bursting in through the front door together. When she entered through the back and heard only an eerie silence, Brooke began to think if their plan to split up and take the vampires down one by one was a good idea. At least the two can see through the darkness. She braced herself for any surprise attack. She went through the entire first floor with no luck of finding anyone. "Please don't tell me Mouth is… gone." Brooke couldn't even bring herself to think the word 'dead'. She heard the creek of the floor upstairs and dashed towards the sound, worried about Haley. The two of them can take care of themselves, but if they run into Carrie, no cockiness will save them. She ran up the stairs and ran right into Haley.

"There's no one here." Haley whispered. "I checked. Even the attic is empty."

"Well, downstairs is clean. No humans. No vamps. Not even blood."

"I guess that's a good thing. No blood. Was the basement empty?" Haley asked. Brooke cringed.

"The basement? I don't know. I didn't go down there." Haley raised her brows at Brooke.

"Come on scaredy-cat." Haley said linking her arm with Brooke's. She practically dragged her down the stairs. "You can take on vamps, and go into the sewers but basement's scare you?" Haley asked in disbelief.

"Haley, basements have rats! And-" Brooke suddenly gasped. "Cockroaches!" she squeaked. Haley rolled her eyes as they inched closer to Mouth's basement door.

"Can you put on your game face please?" Haley begged. "Ready?" Brooke nodded and reluctantly let go of Haley's arm. Haley looked at Brooke, and gave her a firm nod before grabbing the knob and swinging the door open. The smell hit them like a ton of bricks. It was the intense scent of fresh blood.

"It's about time." The girls heard the voice but couldn't see from their angle. Haley slowly descended down the stairs with Brooke following behind her. She soon saw Nathan standing in the corner with blood dripping from his hands and Mouth who was tied up and bloody. He was near death, but she knew he wasn't dead. His mouth was taped up.

"You son of a bitch." Haley said. She was about to launch, but Brooke grabbed her arm. Brooke wondered where the surprised ambush was.

"Wow. You're still beautiful. Just the way I remember you."

"You and your brother are pathetic." She bit out. He was suddenly, at the foot of the stairs and was walking up towards them. Brooke then let her teeth out.

"You stay the hell away from her Nate. I should have let Dean chop your head off."

"Stay out of this Brooke. This is between me and Haley."

"Where is everyone?" Haley asked un-phased. Nathan smiled and flashed his teeth.

"Were you expecting more of a party?" he said.

"Well, I didn't think you would have the balls to show up alone."

"Come on Nate. Don't make us have to kill you. Where's Peyton?" Brooke joined in.

"It's just us girls. But you were right about one thing." He paused. "You should have killed me when you had the chance." He pulled out ninja stars suddenly and threw them for the girl's necks. They both dove out of the way. Brooke jumped over the railing, while Haley spun out of the doorway into the kitchen. Nathan ran out of the basement and watched as Haley backed away from him. He slammed the door shut and pushed the fridge in front of it. "Now we can be alone."

Brooke heard the door slam and rushed to the door.

"Haley!" she banged against the door, but it would only budge a little. Something heavy was blocking it. She sighed and ran back to Mouth. She slowly took the tape off his mouth and he screamed. He had gashes all over his body and was slowly bleeding to death. "I'm so sorry. I am so sorry Mouth." Brooke cried as she tried to put pressure on his wounds. He had to heal, but she was so unsure of what to do. Brooke had heard that vampire blood could heal human wounds, but she also heard that human intake of vampire blood would lead to turning and she wouldn't wish that on anyone. She remembered that Peyton had stabbed her when she had turned her, and Haley who she thought was sleeping, was in fact dead. Peyton had snapped her neck. She wondered what affects giving Mouth blood and not killing him would have.

"Brooke. Help me. Please. Save me." He begged. She knew he meant save his life, not end it.

"Come on. I'm going to get you out of here. We will get you to a hospital. You'll be fine." She began ripping at his clothes that was in a laundry basket and tied all his wounds up, one by one. She only hoped that Haley could get them out of the basement before it was too late.

"Bring it on honey?" Haley said as she quickly reached for her shotgun that was strapped behind her back. By the time she got it however, Nathan smacked it out of her hand. He grabbed her neck.

"And here I thought you were happy to see me." He teased. She grabbed her knife and cut his wrist. He dropped her and hissed in pain. She kicked his legs causing him to trip and fall on his back. She tried to come down on his neck with her large knife, but he surprised her by biting her throat. She grabbed at his hair, which he grew out, trying to pull him off, but he was too strong. She screamed as she struggled against him. Then she found her switch blade that was in her back pocket. She blindly jabbed with it and only felt it pierce into flesh. Nathan released her neck as he screamed. The blade went straight in his eye. Haley wasted no time in trying to crawl away and grab the knife she had dropped. As Nathan clumsily walked around trying to detach himself from the blade, he kicked the knife further away. He then dropped to his knees and tried to crawl over Haley, determined to finish her off. She kicked at the blade in his eye, pushing it deeper, and tumbled backwards to her feet. He sat up once again but she spun around and kicked him in the face. His head turned painfully to the side as she looked around for the closest weapon. As he fought to regain control, she saw the shotgun. She launched across the kitchen for it and grabbed it. Nathan then jumped in efforts to attack Haley, when she pulled the trigger.

Brooke sat cradling Mouth as if he was a child when the door opened. She rushed him up the stairs and looked at Haley who was covered in blood.

"Things got messy."

"I heard gunshots." Brooke asked worried.

"Yeah, well I ran out of knives. Why chop his neck off when I could just blow his head to bits." Haley smiled. Brooke grimaced.

"You need a shower my friend. And Mouth needs a hospital. Stay here and get cleaned up while I run him there." Haley nodded and in a blink, Brooke and Mouth where out the door. Haley showered and quickly cleaned up all the blood and guts. By the time her job was finished, Brooke was back.

"Funny how you show up after the work is done."

"Yeah, I sat in the car and waited." Before Haley could yell Brooke continued. "Mouth's going to be okay. He's a bit traumatized but he'll live." Brooke said with a bright smile. Haley frowned. "What's wrong?"

"You know he was just a distraction right?"

"What do you mean?" Brooke asked confused.

"Peyton left Nathan behind to kill and keep us busy here while they made a run for it." Brooke's smile disappeared.

"Yeah, well it's not going to work. We're going to find her and she's going to die. We can leave now. It's only some minutes after 11. We still have a whole lot more darkness to travel through." Haley nodded in agreement. They packed up the weapons and went outside. As they packed everything up, they noticed a black car speeding around the corner. The car pulled in behind them. Brooke pulled a blanket over the bottles of blood and closed her trunk. Dean and Sam climbed out of the Impala.

"Hey." Dean said as they walked over to them.

"Hi." Haley flashed a brilliant smile. Dean stared at her, wondering who she was for a second before he recognized her. "Well, she cleans up real nice." Dean thought to himself as he held eye contact. She blushed and looked away.

"What are you guys doing here?" Brooke asked hoping they weren't coming to kill them.

"We were down at the station when the cops got some complaints about weird noises coming from this house." Sam said pointing to Mouth's.

"Of course the cops ignored it." Dean said.

"There idiots." Brooke muttered.

"Right?" Dean agreed. "We thought it was worth checking out."

"Well, you guys are a little too late. We took care of it already." Haley said surprising the guys. The girls laughed at the shocked looks.

"I told you we were good." Brooke reminded them. "That vamp I cuffed earlier… we had to kill him. He attacked two more people."

"Yeah, we saw the news. What about the rest of them?" Sam asked.

"Don't you worry your pretty little heads about it. We got it." Brooke teased. Dean smirked.

"Yeah, well since you girls did all the work, how about you let us buy you a drink. It's the least we can do." He offered. Haley and Brooke smiled at each other and then shook their heads.

"We'd love to," Haley began.

"But we got to hit the road." Brooke finished.

"Where are you going?" Sam asked.

"Don't know yet. Those vamps aren't going to stay put and wait for us to find them."

"You two are going on the road to hunt?" Dean asked skeptically.

"After everything you've witnessed, you're still underestimating us?" Brooke asked in disbelief.

"Look, we are hunting the things too. We can finish this together." Sam said hopefully.

"Sorry Mr. Beanstalk. We work alone." Haley said with a smile. "But look, we're probably going to see each other again since you two insist on intruding on our case. So, when we save your butts again, then you can buy us a drink." Haley said and hopped into the passenger seat. Brooke watched her friend and laughed.

"I guess I'll see you around." She said to the guys. Sam smiled at her. She turned and walked away. While starting up the car, the girls could see the shadow of the men in their windows. They scrolled down the windows. Sam and Dean leaned in.

"Here's my number. Call me if you need any help." Sam said handing Brooke a piece of paper. She smiled at his indirect approach.

"You girls are really going to hit the road in this?" Dean asked looking at the interior of the buggy. Haley stifled her laugh, knowing that Brooke would call her a traitor.

"HEY! This was a gift, and it's a darn cute own." Brooke defended her car. Dean laughed.

"So, Haley right?" Dean asked. She nodded. "How about you give me your number? If you're supposed to save my butt and all, I think I should be able to call when I get into trouble."

"I guess that's logical." She said as she dialed her number into his phone.

"Okay, I'll call you."

"You do that." Dean and Sam said goodbye for the second time and watched as the girls drove away.

"I'm sorry. Weren't you the one telling me that Brooke is jail bait?" Sam teased his brother. Dean shrugged.

"It wouldn't be the first time we broke the law anyway."

"You happy now?" Brooke said to Haley. Haley stared at Brooke and smiled.

"He's so cute. In a rugged bad boy kind of way."

"What is up with you and bad boys?" Haley shrugged.

"I guess I like to be the tamer." Brooke gagged. Then Haley pouted. "Until they find out about us. Their ways of taming is much more extreme."

"Pshh, as if they could take us. I say we have fun. We're on the road and so are they. It's not like we're going to marry them. I think we deserve a little man candy after the weekend we just had."

"True." Haley agreed. As Brooke raced down the road, trying to beat the sun, Haley flipped on the radio and listened for news. "We're not going to catch up to Peyton before the sun rises. Just get us out of this state and let's crash in a motel for the night." Money was never a problem for the girls. They were rich in their first life. When the stock market crashed, you would think that would be it for their riches but they were in a dark phase. Not only did they drink human blood, and lots of it, but they were world class criminals as well. They stole whatever they could get their claws on. The girls now have enough money saved up in several bank accounts, to last them two lifetimes. However, now that they've given themselves over to good, they acquire money in a more civil fashion.

"Could you imagine what life will be like after that little slut is gone?" Brooke wondered with a brilliant smile. Haley laughed.

"We could actually get back to pretending to be human."

"Maybe we could fall in love and get married. Adopt a few kids." Haley looked at Brooke worried.

"I don't think our husbands and children would appreciate our lack of aging." Brooke sighed and gripped the steering wheel. She always wanted a family of her own, and now because of Peyton, she would never have one.

"Well, maybe we can fine two hot, good vampires, and figure out the children thing later." She said hopeful. Haley nodded in agreement.

"We will have our happily ever after Brooke. I promise you that." Just then after a half hour of nothing but music and commercials, there she was.

"I'd like to give a shout out to my two BFFs Brooke and Haley wherever you are. We're playing a little game of hide and seek, rich girl style and I'm definitely winning. Catch me if you can bitches!" Peyton laughed a laugh the girls haven't heard since they were all human.

"Okay," America's sweetheart Ryan Seacrest said with a chuckle. "That was Peyton, calling with great sportsmanship. Have fun ladies. This is California Girls, Peyton's request only on Z100." Both girls glared at the road with their mouths hanging wide open. They were both speechless with fury.

"The nerve of her!" Brooke finally hissed.

"She's such a cocky little bitch." Haley agreed. Then she sighed and relaxed her face. "At least we know she's in Cali." Brooke thought it over.

"Do you really think so? I mean, why would she tell us?"

"Because she's cocky and has a trap set up for us. Besides, she said she is building an army. There are probably hundreds of vamps waiting for us to cross the California border. I know it's not concrete, but it's our only lead." Haley said. "She's playing games with us. That means she's scared." Brooke stepped harder on the gas pedal.

"I guess we have a lot of ground to cover. Remind me why we can't fly again?"

"Sure we can fly… if you have an explanation for why our carry-on bags are filled with gallons of cow blood."

As Dean drove, all he could think about was Haley. He couldn't remember ever seeing something so beautiful. The way her smile warmed his heart. The way the moon made her eyes sparkle. Sam had a field day, enjoying watching his brother look like a lost puppy over some girl he hadn't even spent real time with.

"Look man, if you like the girl so much, why don't you just call her?" Sam asked. Dean glared at Sam.

"You know you're talking real big for someone who couldn't get a girl's digits. At least I actually asked for Haley's number."

"Yeah, and what good did that do? Now you're sitting on your ass trying to figure out if you should call. What, are you in love or something?" Sam teased. Dean stared at his gun, sitting on the table in their shabby motel room.

"Sam, don't turn this into a chick flick. The girl is hot. End of story. Besides, I saw how you jumped up out of your sleep when your phone went off this morning. If anything, you're in love." Dean laughed reenacted the memory. "Hello! It's Sam… oh, hi Bobby." Dean made an exaggerated frown face and pretended to cry. Sam glared at Dean and snatched Dean's phone from him. He ran to the bathroom before Dean could grab him and punched talk when he found Haley's number. He was unaware that Dean was picking the lock.

"Hello?" Haley answered.

"That's not funny!" Dean said and pummeled his brother for the phone. He put the phone to his ear and heard Haley repeat hello, sounding annoyed. He slammed the phone shut while Sam sat on the floor with his head back cackling. "Oh, I am going to get you." Dean threatened. Sam made a mock scared face and then continued in his obnoxious laughter.

The girls spent the day, trying to find the fastest route to California. California is a big state so they argued about were Peyton would be if she really was waiting for them there. Haley's phone rang, and she saw a number that wasn't familiar to her.

"Hello?" she said somewhat hopeful that a certain green eyed wonder would be calling.

"That's not funny!" she heard yelled into the phone. There was shuffling and laughter.

"Hello." She repeated, greatly irritated that it was just a prank caller. Then the phone went dead. "If only they knew I could tear them limb from limb." She muttered to Brooke. Brooke laughed.

"Just ignore it."

"It's so easy for you to say when they are pranking my phone. But next time I will know not to answer this number." She pressed save and typed in the name ASSHOLE STALKER. As they waited out the sun, the girls became a little antsy. Haley watched as Brooke picked up the piece of paper with Sam's number on it for the seventh time that day, and put it back down on the counter. Haley grunted in annoyance. "Brooke, would you just call the guy already?"

"But I don't have anything to say to him." Haley gave Brooke a challenging look.

"You always have something to say to everybody." Brooke glared at Haley.

"Well, he's a nice guy. He's not the one-night-stand type and I can't have anything more than that with him."

"Who says you can't? He's not going to notice that we're not aging anytime soon. Remember when you dated Chase? He was completely oblivious."

"Yeah, I know. But he wasn't a hunter." Brooke groaned and plopped herself next to Haley. She put her head down on Haley's lap and let Haley stroke her hair. "You know. Our beauty is like a gift and a curse." Haley laughed loudly.

"Yup. We're 105 year old vampires and that's our problem." As Haley stroked Brooke's hair, Brooke began to feel relieved as she always did when Haley did this.

"You have such a healing touch. You would have been a great mother." Brooke said sweetly.

"You to Tigger." Haley said trying to keep back the tears the thought of children usually brought up. Then Brooke shot up.

"You know what? Fate did this to us. In some twisted way, this was our destiny, right?" Haley slowly nodded, wondering where her friend was going with this.

"Right."

"So, I'm not calling him." Brooke tossed the number in the waste basket. "If something is meant to happen between Sam and me, it will. Just like if something is meant to happen between you and Dean, it will." Haley blushed and looked away. "You can't hide from me Haley James. I know what you've been pondering about, just as well as you know what I've been thinking about. So, is it a deal? Whatever happens, happens?" Brooke waited with her hand out. Haley looked quite pensive but then she grabbed Brooke's hand and shook it.

"Whatever happens, happens." Haley agreed.

Author's Note: so there you have it. Don't worry. you all know that the four will be brought together again. Please Review! thanks