First of all thanks for the lovely reviews, you really made my day, guys. Now, it is officially Sunday where I live so I´m posting the next chapter as promised.

Alright, so this is rated M, cause we´re getting to the splatter part of the movie now (even though my description of that is probably lacking as I´m rather squeamish and usually skip the vampire section of the movie to avoid further trauma. I remember it well enough from accidentally watching it when I was twelve though.

"Hazel?"

For a moment Reid just stared at the girl in front of him like she was a ghost.

Which, technically she had to be. She was dead, he had seen it –and yet here she was right in front of him, pretty as the day he´d met her in the bank, uninjured and smiling at him coyly.

Reid didn´t believe his eyes. Another shock adding to his daze like state.

Was is possible she hadn't really been dead but just pretending? Seth had dragged him away before he had really come close. But all that blood…

For a moment he doubted his own mind. What had happened had shaken him up pretty badly- but this much?

"How?", he gasped: "I saw…"

Hazel stepped closer, smiling at him brilliantly.

"Oh honey, it's alright.", she cooed, petting his cheek with slender fingers: "I´m fine. In fact I´m great."

"Not for long, bitch!"

They both spun around at the sudden yell from the entrance of the bar to see Seth and Richie standing there, Richie's expression cold and grim while Seth looked furious on top of it. They both had their guns in hand and were pointing them at Hazel.

The bar immediately fell silent at the sudden threat, everyone staring at the two men.

Reid felt his body grow cold in horror at the situation. They looked just like when they had stepped into the bank, determined, trigger-happy and absolutely ruthless.

It was the last straw, showing Reid with brilliant clarity just how foolish he had been.

Seth was nothing but terrifying. There wasn't even the trace of hesitance in his eyes as he aimed his gun at a helpless girl.

Without thinking he stepped in front of Hazel, shielding her. He´d let her get hurt once, he´d be damned if he would let the brothers get at her again. It wasn't hard really, adrenaline and what remained of his nausea pretty much blocking out what was left of his survival instinct.

He thought he saw the flicker of hesitation in Seth's eyes when he moved into the line of fire, but he only stepped closer into the room.

"Get away from her, kid." , he demanded darkly, Richie shadowing him silently.

No one in the bar moved, everyone probably scared of what was going to happen but Reid refused to move away. It was one of the hardest things he´d ever done to look into Seth's eyes as he answered, but the darkness in them helped a little:

"No. I'm not going to let you hurt anyone else."

He expected Seth to laugh, to remind him that he had absolutely no power to make due on his promise, but the man just shook his head looking conflicted. It didn't exactly help Reid's conviction.

"You don't understand. She's not who you think."

He extended a hand as if to reach out for him and Reid instinctively took a step back, now fully covering Hazel. He didn't care if he would get shot for it, he would do what he should have done all alone. Act like the agent he was.

"If you´re gonna shoot anyone here you'll have to shoot me first.", he hissed, fists clenched by his sides.

He didn't have much hope that the brothers would spare everyone because of his threat, because they needed him to get their money, but it was his only shot really.

He was just starting to look around for something to use as a weapon when Hazel laughed behind him:

"Why, boys, don't flip. We were having such fun before you ruined everything."

She trailed her nails up Reid's arms to his shoulders from behind as she smirked at the brothers. Reid caught another flicker crossing Seth's face as he gritted his teeth and tightened his hold on the trigger. The young agent glanced back quickly, confused by Hazel´s uncharacteristic behavior, and her odd tone of voice.

He looked at her face again and felt his heart stop at the sight of her.

What had been a pretty youthful face was now distorted into a grotesque, bumpy mask with yellow eyes staring at him hungrily. The hands on his shoulders suddenly bore sharp, large claws digging into his shirt.

He jerked away in shock, stumbling away from her and into the side of the bar.

Hazel followed after him, her smile now hellish as she advanced. She grinned widely at his horrified gasp, exposing rows of razor-sharp teeth: "Now, now, darling, don't tell me you only stand up for pretty girls?"

She closed in, her nails digging into his shoulders again with unnatural strength and before he could so much as scream she lunged for his neck, ready to rip his throat out.

In that moment Reid knew he was going to die.

His instinct told him without a doubt what his rational mind wouldn´t process.

But just when he felt her breath against his neck, hot and reeking of sulfur - a shot rang out and the pressure on his shoulders vanished.

He blinked to see the monster in front of him stagger backwards, a hole gaping in her chest. Instead of falling down though, she shrieked furiously launching herself at Seth who shot her again without hesitance.

Reid pressed himself into the bar as he watched her being thrown back when it hit her square in the head. She tumbled to the ground at last and Reid's stomach turned when he saw that half of her face was gone.

Seth walked up to her quickly, shooting her a third time until she exploded right before their eyes, turning to sticky goo on the floor.

Reid couldn't do anything but stare at her remains, his heart racing and his mind still refusing to process what he´d just seen.

There were no monsters; they were the stuff of mysteries and children stories. Something that superstitious people believed in but which a man of his intellect and knowledge could only roll his eyes at.

And yet he couldn't deny that he had just seen a real monster.

No, not a monster. A vampire.

He tore his eyes from the messy puddle on the floor to stare at Seth with wide eyes, not sure if he wanted to further accuse him or beg for a rational explanation. His mouth tried to form the words but they just wouldn't come.

Was this it? Had he finally snapped and lost his mind?

Seth -who had been staring at the remains of his target with something akin to disgust- looked up to meet his gaze and seemed to guess what he was thinking. He sighed heavily, his face crunched up in distress for a moment before he opened his mouth to speak.

Before he could get one word out though, there was the sound of a gun being cocked from behind him, accompanied by Richard´s tense voice: "Seth, watch out."

He pointed towards the bar and Seth and Reid turned around just in time to see the two men at the bar get up and morph into vampires as well. A second later, the couple by the wall did the same, all of them slowly advancing on them.

"Shit.", Seth cursed, cocking his gun again: "It's a trap! Richie, back me up!"

The two men quickly stood side by side, facing the vampires as though it was no big surprise to them that the laws of nature had just been set out. Somewhere buried in his reeling mind, Reid remembered conversations about vampires, Richie's excuses and Seth´s promise.

It seemed he had lied about more than one thing.

Reid didn't have time to process even that though because the vampires advanced quickly, their expressions murderous.

"You might as well give up now.", one of the truckers grinned, showing rows of shark-like teeth: "Now that we found you the mistress will know where you are. You won't get away again. Better come along quietly and hope she´ll grant you a quick death."

"No, thanks.", Seth replied coolly, shooting the speaker several times without blinking.

Reid flinched at the noise and he realized that he had no time for reflection. Whatever these creatures were and what they had planned -they were obviously real enough to kill him.

His mind was screaming at him to move, to do something. But he neither had a weapon nor any idea what to use against vampires, plus he couldn't actually move with the bar in his back, vampires on one side and the Geckos on the other.

Considering how - he had been überfodert with dealing with a hostage scenario, dealing with kidnappers and vampires wouldn't exactly be much more successful.

For now at least, it seemed that Seth and Richie were holding their ground.

He fully expected he trucker shot by Seth to go down like Hazel, but this one was quicker than and he dodged the bullets, charging. Breathless, Reid watched him morph completely into a creature from hell during his brief flight at Seth.

Just in time, Seth threw himself to the floor, rolling off to the side and got back to his feet with fluid agility, immediately shooting again.

This time he hit the man´s arm, greenish blood staining the surrounding area. The monster didn't stop though, advancing further on Seth while the others surrounded them slowly.

With rising dread, Reid realized that this was going to turn into a splatter fest pretty soon from the looks of it. And the odds were against them.

He was ripped from his thoughts when he saw a movement to his right and realized that while the truckers seemed busy with Seth and Richie, the couple from the wall was now advancing on him.

Hastily, he moved sideways so his back was free and he wouldn't be cornered. The two of them grinned, watching as he searched for a way out.

Behind them, he could see Richie battering one of the truckers with a chair, repeatedly hitting his head with it while Seth had apparently been tackled to the ground, the second trucker pinning him there and snapping for his neck with sharp teeth.

Seth warded him off with both hands against his shoulders, yelling for Richie to be done with his attacker and help him out.

"Get a weapon.", he yelled, and it took Reid a moment to realize he was talking to him.

Forcing his limbs to work, he jumped to the side of him and grabbed a chair, using it as a barrier between him and the advancing monsters.

It wasn't much help.

More quickly than he would have thought possible, the woman suddenly jumped at him and while he jabbed the chair at her to ward her off the man closed in, grabbing the chair leg and pulling at it so forcefully that Reid was thrown through the air along with it.

Pain shot through his back as he felt himself crash through the glass door leading to the patio. He landed on the hard ground, glass and gravel digging into his skin painfully.

He didn't have time to ponder just how strong these vamps had to be to throw him that far because almost immediately he was roughly grabbed by his hair. Reid gasped in pain, blindly reaching up to ease the pressure on his scalp as he was pulled up and dragged away from the building and further into the night.

He heard both vampires laughing while they ignored his struggles, easily isolating him from the others. Being all alone at the mercy of those things was even more terrifying even though he probably shouldn't expect much help from his kidnappers anyway.

Reid heard fluttering above him and blinked through tears of pain to see hundreds of bats canvassing the dark sky above the motel. His heart fell. He didn't have to know the whole story to realize that that wasn't good at all.

A sharp tug at his scalp brought him to his feet, and he yelped in pain as he was forced to look into the face of the man/monster holding him, cringing when yellow eyes stared at him hungrily. The vampire moved in closer, unbothered by Reid´s thrashing against his grip and leaned in to sniff at his neck.

"Don't you look tasty.", he grinned, exposing long fangs in the procees. Reid shrunk back and was rewarded with hard fingers closing around his neck, cutting off his air supply and holding him still effectively.

He was vaguely aware that his feet had left the ground as he desperately tried to breathe, kicking at his attacker.

The man leaned in again, fangs bared and ready to bite down when suddenly the women with him spoke up.

"Were not supposed to kill them yet, remember?", she reminded him, sounding annoyed: "The mistress wants them for herself."

Reid didn't understand what they meant by that but frankly he was too busy hyperventiallting anyways to pay much attention to them.

His eyes flew over to the motel, hoping against all odds that Seth would come to save him but nothing moved and he remained lost. The brief relief of having the man's attention diverted from him didn't last long because his retort was almost immediate.

"Check again."; the male vampire growled without releasing his grip: "This one wasn't at the bar. The mistress never has to find out."

Reid felt himself freeze in terror when a cruel smile spread over the woman´s face and she stepped up to them, looking just as hungry as her companion:

"Well, in that case - you go first."

"Don't mind if I do."

Reid whimpered in horror when sharp nails dug into his hair again, harshly tugging his head to the side so his neck was exposed. He knew that he would lose conscience soon without new oxygen but he had a feeling it wouldn't be soon enough to escape the feeling of fangs ripping into him.

Holding him was a monster he had no chance at warding off and no one was there to help him. He cringed and pressed his eyes shut as he waited for the inevitable pain.

Seth huffed in relief when he used his last strength to push the vampire pinning him up, giving Richard the opportunity to stake him with a chair leg. He watched the monster disintegrate with a shriek and pushed the remains off him before they could stain his clothes.

Then he rolled over, taking a deep breath before pushing himself off the floor and looking around to find Richie sitting close by, reloading his gun.

He still felt the adrenaline rushing through his body, a familiar feeling that enabled him to live the life he did and that had hardly worn off since they had first encountered the vampires´ nest a week earlier.

Right now though it was layered through with something new: Fear.

He looked over to the broken glass door, realizing that both vampires and Reid were gone.

Just then a strangled scream echoed through the night and Seth was on his feet before he knew it, grabbing his gun tighter.

Richie´s hand on his arm pulled him back harshly before he could run towards the door.

"Leave him, Seth. Forget about the money - we need to take cover."

Seth hesitated for a moment, staring between his brother and the door.

He was right.

Going outside would be suicide.

For all he knew Reid was probably dead already. And if he wasn't Seth would have to stake him which he wasn't sure he could. Through the nightly air, he thought he heard the familiar flutter of wings and his insides froze in realization that there were going to be more than four vampires soon.

If they wanted any chance of getting out of here alive they had to block every entrance to this room now and try to hold out till morning with the bullets they had left. It wasn't a good chance but if he went out there now in search for the kid his chances would drop to zero.

Richie was right; the smartest thing he could do was stay and try to save the two of them.

He looked at his brother, just as hyped up as he and ready to kill whatever came to close to them –then, before he could feel guilty for risking both of their lives so stupidly, he turned and stormed through the broken door and into the night.

As expected Richard yelled and cursed loudly, but soon he could hear his steps behind him.

The flapping of wings was more insistent now that they were outside, seemingly much closer and more threatening but Seth ignored it and fixed his eyes on the three figures that were only a couple of feet away now.

One vampire had the kid by his throat, ready to ravage his neck while the other had a hold of his arm. Reid had his eyes pressed shut in fear, gasping for air - but he didn't look like they´d already bitten him.

Seth forced himself to stand still and aim, blowing the male vampire´s head off just before he could bite down. The three bodies toppled to the floor when the vampire fell onto Reid. The young man winced, staring at Seth with glazed eyes for a second before his eyes rolled back in his head and he dropped to the floor, motionless.

Seth cursed, running towards him but the female blocked his way and hissed, baring her fangs at them furiously.

"You´ll pay for that! All of you!", she shrieked.

"Maybe, but you won´t be there to see it!", Seth growled pointing his gun at her. She threw her head back and laughed, a penetrating sound, not even bothering to try and evade him.

The sound of impact on the ground around them told Seth why.

He looked around to see at least a dozen vampires emerge from the dark around them, surrounding them, fangs and claws bared. They eyed them viciously, predators seeking their helpless prey and Seth knew that their chances of getting out of this would have dropped below zero by now if that were humanly possible.

Uh oh, someone´s in trouble.

So…. this could go in many directions, good or bad. obviously romance will have to stand back for the moment but i´ll get to that again. they should meet up with the team at some point i guess...

What do you think should happen next?