Part 1 of 2
"Where are we going?" Leonard asks Sheldon as they reach a nondescript office building.
"The vampire high council. They have to know what's going on. If we are to take on this rogue group of vampires we'll need back up." Sheldon tells him.
"Why didn't we just fly here? Why did we have to take my car?" Leonard asks him. It had taken them almost forty five minutes to drive there. Sheldon just looks at him like he is a bug who doesn't understand the english language.
"I can fly Leonard." He snips. "You cannot, go ahead try to fly." Sheldon says looking at him and crossing his arms. "Go ahead, I'll wait." He says and watches as Leonard stands on his tippy toes and flaps his arms like a baby bird. Sheldon looks at him disgusted. "That's why we couldn't fly here." Sheldon says shaking his head and walking to the building.
"How do you fly? Will I be able to do it soon?" Leonard asks Sheldon gliding beside him. Thinking smugly to himself that even if he couldn't fly he could certainly walk with style now.
"I have been walking this earth for over 1000 years. I've only been able to fly for a few short days. Don't know how it's possible. I helped create modern physics and what I can do shouldn't just be improbable. It should be impossible." Sheldon tells him. "It's something to do with my mating with Amy. Our strengths being combined."
"Did you know that would happen? Is that why you abandoned everything to be with her in Paris?" Leonard asks.
"No." Sheldon says with a hard look on his face. "If I thought being near her would have stripped me of all my power. I would have still dropped everything to be with her." He says solemnly. Even after all they have gone through it is still weird for Leonard to hear him talk like that.
"So Why didn't you take her in this important mission?" Leonard asks changing the subject. Still feeling he should be back helping Penny.
"Have you established a psychic connection with Penny that enables you to communicate without words?" Sheldon asks raising his eyebrows at him.
"Well...no…" Leonard admits. "I still don't understand why I couldn't just stay with Amy and Penny. You've already told me what a useless vampire I am."
"That is where you are wrong little buddy. You see here you are a most useful vampire to me."
"How so?" Leonard asks curiously. In is short life as a vampire Sheldon had done nothing but let him know how useless he was.
"You see over the years the council has been on me to create progeny. I have always balked. Not wanting to bring another soul into eternal damnation. " Sheldon says and Leonard is slightly touched. It wasn't like Sheldon to think of others.
"That's noble, I can understand your side of not wanting too." Leonard tells him.
"Also the responsibility of being a maker is astronomical. Its like owning a cat that never dies." Sheldon says shaking his head as they climb some stairs.
"Or you know having a child." Leonard points out.
"I suppose you could think of it that way. A child that is born an adult and feasts upon blood." Sheldon muses.
"That does sound like one hell of a birth announcement to make." Leonard jokes
"Anyway as I was saying. The council in an effort to expand our cause wanted me to make progeny. They wanted everyone on our side to turn a few select people. Raise them in our tradition so there were less bloodthirsty vamps out there. Given my high ranking in the council it has always been a point of contention that I have insofar refused to comply. You are here to show I have finally done so. An olive branch to curry favor to our side." He explains.
"Why do we need to curry favor? Isn't the council already on our side?"Leonard asks curiously.
"Yes, but in order to sway them into action we will need leverage. The council most likely knows about the coup on the queen. Yet so far they have not made contact or offered help. Why? The council are pacifists. They will want to resolve this with diplomacy. However the time for diplomacy has past. Now is the time for action." Sheldon says as they round a corner in the building.
"Will they be angry that you killed two of them already?" Leonard asks as they pause in front on a door that reads Jeanine Davis.
"You truly are the Reinfield to my Dracula." Sheldon says clapping him on the back. "You are also here to explain why action was completely necessary." Sheldon says rapping on the door three times. When the door is opened Leonard sees a beautiful black woman. She is dressed very professionally and welcomes them in warmly.
"Ah, Dr. Cooper I've been expecting you." She says waving her hand in front of two chairs asking them to sit.
"Interesting, I have been expecting to hear from you , yet I have heard nothing." Sheldon says sitting down and crossing his legs.
"I thought you may say something such as that Dr. Cooper. I can tell you that we are monitoring the situation closely."
"So closely that you allowed her to be overthrown?" Sheldon asks incredulously.
"Yes, as a matter of fact. We had intel that there was a mole in her midst. We also had intel that she had developed an infatuation with you. So you were sent on a mission to collect her for us. The queen had been quite recalcitrant to leave her post otherwise." Jeanine tells him.
"It's been nearly a week that the queen has been here. We have been hunted and attacked yet no one has come to our aide." Sheldon tells her
"You know that's not how we do things Doctor Cooper. You helped write our procedures you should know that better than anyone." she tells him the she looks to Leonard curiously. "Who is this might I ask."
"You will be happy to know that I have finally made progeny. This is Leonard my former minion, now progeny." Leonard gives him a dirt look at the word minion.
"Very good, Doctor Cooper it only took you five hundred years to comply." Jeanine says tightly.
"Better late than never. Now back to the subject of your flIppant attitude towards the queen and her safety. I had to kill two of the..."
"Doctor Cooper! You killed vampires? You know that is against our laws! No matter how noble you feel your cause was." Jeanine says angrily.
"My noble cause should be the same as your cause! The care and protection of our Queen. I mean who knows what would have happened if our mating hadn't caused me to gain new found strength. We might all be dead." Sheldon tells her angrily.
"Wait, what did you just say? You mated with the queen?" Jeanine says jumping up and rushing over to a bookshelf. "This can't be.." she murmurs as she stares at the books occasionally stroking the spines of few.
"Come now, you're not going to tell me that was breaking some vampire law? I know mating is not frowned upon in fact it is encourages. Yet another thing I've been pressured into trying throughout the ages. You should be happy." Jeanie does not say anything but grabs a book off the shelf and hands it to Sheldon.
"How familiar are you with the Lucem sanctam et extrema tenebris." she asks him and he rolls his eyes.
"The vampire bible? About as well versed as I am in the human bible. It's all just a bunch of stories and fables. Certainly nothing to guide your life by." Sheldon sniffs pushing the book away, but Jeanine pushes it closer again.
"If you had been versed the lore of our kind then you would have known that Amelia is a santus sanguinem." She says seriously.
"The holy blood?" Leonard asks.
"It's a well known fact she was the virgin queen.I don't need a book to tell me that." Sheldon sniffs.
"It's more than being turned as a virgin. If that's all it took then vampires would be turned at adolescence by the sanguinem is very rare. It is a vampire who even in human form exhibited extraordinary abilities. It is said that the power comes from the vampire remaining pure. That once the pureness is gone then the person is stripped of their power. It is why the queen was kept under lock and key. Amelia was the last of her kind. An asset that we could not afford to lose. Which is why you were sent to watch over her. There was no risk of you with your particular... proclivities to defile the queen."
"Amy wasn't stripped of her powers! She is stronger than she's ever been. Together we can fly, read minds.. I'm not sure there is anything we can't do…"
"It is written… a prophecy if you will. That when the last of the santus sanguinem comes to power. That she will meet her match, the lock to her key, that together they will lead our kind out of the darkness and into the light." she finished and looks around impressively
"That is complete and utter hogwash." Sheldon says disbelieving. "Next you'll be telling me a two people wearing fig leaves begat our entire world."
"Sheldon how can you dismiss it when you are living it?" Leonard asks confused. Before Sheldon can answer Amy and Penny burst through the door.
"Sheldon are you alright?" Amy asks.
"Fine... why? What happened with Kripke?" Sheldon asks getting up.
"He's dead. Penny killed him. Sheldon it's not safe here. Everything we know is a lie." Amy says.
"Queen Amelia." Jeannine says bowing. "What are you speaking of,What is a lie?"
"Don't pretend like you don't know the whole council must be in on it. Emily my assistant is the one overthrowing me. No one is after Sheldon and his blood substitute. It was all just a ruse. A ruse perpetrated by the us out of here or we will kill you too." Amy says baring her fangs.
"Queen Amelia! We are not your enemy! If you will remember Emily was not council approved. Yet in one of your fierce independent streak you insisted you be in control of your own inner circle." she tells Amy.
"I guess I did appoint Emily myself..." Amy admits meekly. "What about what Kripke said about Sheldon?"
"Kripke is merely a meat puppet to both sides. No one would trust him with any sensitive information. We have it on good authority that Sheldon and his blood transfusions are piquing the interest of vampires on both sides." she tells them then she shakes her head," I guess or only option at this point is to put the both of you in hiding. They won't stop until you are found."
"Or we fight!" Sheldon says standing up and slamming his hands on the desk making it crack in half. "I have been a pacifist my entire life. That won't work with these fiends. If we are to reclaim or power it be by force!"
"The council will need to meet on this. You understand that their are many things we need to discuss."
"The time for discussion has past it is time for action!" Sheldon protests.
"Dr. Cooper you know better than anyone that's not how we do things. The council is not one for taking rash action. Go home get some rest and the council will convene and return to you with an answer. If we stand and fight or if we let diplomacy rule"
"By then it could be too late!" Sheldon protests.
"Then it will be too late. You know our ways. Good day Dr. Cooper." Jeanine says shooing them out and shutting the door on them.