Lucas' Cabin
"Okay that's enough" Lucas yelled. "Come on, we are supposed to be trying to figure out this case, not screaming at each other."
The others just looked at Lucas and then to themselves in shame.
Lucas was right, what got into to all of them? Maybe the stress and uncertainty just got too much for everyone and this was a way of releasing it all.
"Your right Luke," Haley said as she walked over to him and gave him a hug. "I'm sorry," she whispered. Haley let Lucas go and walked over to Dean. She looked at his beautiful eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I love you…"was all she said before her voice trailed off. Dean leaned down and strengthened his grasp around her waist.
Sam and Brooke were sitting at the dinning room table when Brooke's voice rang out.
"But really Tutor Girl, how was the look on Jimmy's face when he saw you and Dean?" she asked.
Just then the once screaming group was in hysterics. "It wasn't a pretty sight let me tell ya." Dean told her.
"Well, how did you get out of it, I mean what did you tell them?" Sam asked in curiosity.
"We told them that you and Dean had come down to surprise Brooke on her birthday and that we were all just going to spend the weekend up here at the cabin."
"But it's not my birthday…"
"I know that, but my parents don't so that's what we told them."
"Great, so now we not only have to get to the bottom of this shape shifter but now we have to do it within the weekend?" asked Luke.
"It's the best I could come up with at the time." Haley told him.
"Well Brooke and I may have found something interesting." Sam announced. "Look at this." He grabbed the newspaper article off of the table and gave it to Dean. After a few minutes Dean looked up at Sam.
"That is interesting, although it makes the case even stranger." Dean looked at Sam and he nodded in agreement.
"Why Dean, what does it say?" Lana asked.
"Looks like we are dealing with vampires. It says here that Angela's body was virtually unharmed, meaning no sign of a struggle or rape, makes us think her attacker was someone she knew."
Sam jumped in. "It also says that there were two puncture holes in the right side of her neck, otherwise known as bite marks. Dean didn't you say that Angela came to see you because Mark was in trouble?"
"Yeah, said she needed me to bail him out." Dean said.
"Didn't you tell me she said help free him?"
"Bail out, free him, same difference."
"No Dean, it's not the same, what if Mark got involved with a group of vampires? What if Mark became a vampire and killed Angela himself?" Sam asked.
"That would explain there being no sign of struggle when her body was found." Luke added.
"Okay well this changes everything now…vampires and a shape shifter that looks like Detective Hendrickson and still no clue as to why." Dean said frustrated as he started to pace around the room.
"I still don't understand why the shape shifter decided to go for Haley, I mean 3 months they have been together and nothing strange has ever happened. He always seemed like a normal FBI agent to me." Lana said.
"Maybe Victor doesn't know that we are on to him yet, maybe he thinks that his plan has worked since obviously he knows you two came back to Tree Hill." Haley exclaimed.
"He has to be on to us." Brooke said.
"Why do you think that babe?" Sam asked her.
"Because he came back from his business trip early and all he knows is that Haley went MIA. He hasn't so much as heard from her since he came home. You don't think he's a little suspicious of her whereabouts?"
"Maybe I should call him and see if he wants to meet?" Haley asked.
"Absolutely not, what are you frickin crazy?" Dean said. "There is no way in hell that you are going to meet that thing anywhere, no."
"So we are just going to sit hear and wait for him to find us? What good is that going to do?"
"Hales, you don't seem to understand this all that well. He wants us dead okay, dead, no longer breathing…" Dean told her. Haley gave him an evil glare.
"Whatever boy genius," she threw back. Dean just rolled his eyes.
"There has to be something we are missing here. Nothing about this makes sense. We should have known that this would be hard as soon as we knew Tree Hill was no longer safe." Sam said out loud.
"What do you mean safe Sam?" asked Lana as she and sat down on Lucas' lap.
"Well Tree Hill was built on Holy Ground so evil spirits and vampires and such can not cross the county line of Tree Hill, they will turn to dust as soon as they do. Well at least that's what used to happen."
"That makes no sense," Haley said as she walked over to the cabinet and grabbed a bottle of cabernet. "You said that Lana was possessed by an evil spirit and she was in Tree Hill."
"Loop hole on that one baby," Dean said as he went over to help her open the bottle of wine. "There is on night that spirits can pass through…All Hallows Eve."
"Halloween? How cliché…"Brooke laughed a little.
"But still, it was possessing her for months…" Haley poured herself a glass of wine and motioned to Brooke and Lana to see if they wanted any.
"Yes, but that's because it was already inside of her body, it had it's host to protect it. If the spirit that got Lana didn't infect her body the same night it came through Tree Hill, it would have turned to dust. At least that's what we thought."
"You ever think that maybe Victor isn't a shape shifter, maybe he's just possessed?" Luke asked Sam.
Dean and Sam looked at one another. "We could be going about this all wrong." Dean told his little brother. Sam did not look amused and started to roll his eyes. "No really, think about it. Maybe there is a demon that possessed Victor, and he went after Haley because a), it knows that would drive me crazy and make be come back, and b), if I did come back, he would have the power to arrest me for murder and then have custody."
Sam looked at his brother confused. "Then how do you explain the Mark/Angela connection, it doesn't make sense."
"You act like vampires and demons aren't our common enemies. Maybe they have joined forces…wouldn't be the first time."
All this time Haley had been really quiet and Dean took notice. "What's going on Hales?" he asked.
"Something that Sam said about Tree Hill being the safe place." The group looked at her and gave her the look to continue. "Okay, I know that I have no idea what I am talking about and that this is probably nothing, but you know Angel?" Dean's look went from concern to anger in a moment.
"What the hell does he have to do with any of this." He said angrily.
"Fine nevermind…"Haley yelled back.
"No go ahead Haley, what about him." Sam gave Dean a look that told him to let her speak.
"The night we first met, he had kind of saved me from this really creeping guy. Angel mentioned Tree Hill being a safe place so to leave. Creepy guy replied that he was outside the county line and that he could be there as long as he wanted."
The group was silent. "I didn't think anything of it at the time, I was just happy that there was someone there to get the guy away."
"What was his name Haley?" Sam asked as he got up to grab John's journal.
"Angel."
"No not him, the creepy guy, do you remember his name?" He was reading through a page in John's journal.
"Ah, Spike, yeah that was it, Spike."
Dean looked at Sam and Sam looked up from the journal. "Spike and Angel huh,"
Dean walked over to where Haley was and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Also known as Spike and Angelus."
To Be Continued.
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