Um, hey everybody… Now before you come at me with your pitchforks and torches and any other form of angry mob perpendilia crap I have a perfectly legitimate excuse as to why I haven't posted ………..actually no…..sorry about that. I'm just gonna go hide in a corner for a few days until you guys calm down and decide its really not worth it to tar and feather me. So, just read this next chapter and calm down….and if it's not too much to ask, leave a review.

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Chapter 25

"I Never Look Forward to Clean-up Crew"

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"Damn it, Oliver, you missed the turn again!" Katherine yelled, pointing frantically at the street her boyfriend was supposed to have turned down.

"Well it would be a lot easier if there wasn't so much traffic, and it doesn't help at all that you're screaming in my face!" Oliver yelled back at her, looking around angrily to see if it was possible to make a U-turn.

"You know, you've only lived in this city all your life," Katherine retorted, "You'd think you might know by now how to find a BL0ODY street!"

"If I—" Oliver began in a valiant attempt to explain himself, but he was quickly cut short by Amanda.

"Will you two just SHUT UP!!!" She screamed, immediately silencing them both. "From the moment we turned out of the parking lot you've been arguing like a friggin' married couple!" She had been sitting in the backseat of the car calmly cleaning the Colt and enduring Katherine and Oliver's argument until finally she couldn't take it anymore. "One of the Winchesters is now a vampire because we couldn't get there fast enough and you're arguing over a stupid wrong turn!?"

Katherine stared at her, surprised and angered by the outburst, but she did not say anything in reply.

"Sorry." Oliver said quietly to Katherine.

She harrumphed, but mumbled something under her breath that sounded like an apology and there was once again silence.

"That's better." Amanda said in a reprimanding tone which Katherine didn't appreciate, but didn't comment on. "And Oliver," Amanda added, "There's a back road off this next street, it'll take you to Madison."

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The rest of the ride went fairly quickly; Oliver was able to eventually get on Madison and they made it to the warehouse without another hitch.

"Thank God the police haven't shown up." Katherine stated as they got out of the car and noticed that the area surrounding that warehouse was empty as usual.

"Think there's any security cameras on this place?" Oliver asked, locking the car doors.

Amanda looked up and scanned the sides of the building and surrounding telephone poles, "Nope, we're lucky, not even a traffic camera."

"Since all the creepy stuff in the warehouse needs so much security." Katherine interjected.

Amanda shrugged, "That's probably why the vampires decided to nest here."

"Actually no." A cold voice called from the roof of the warehouse.

All three hunters looked up to see a thin man, looking to be in about his forties… but with vampires you could never be sure, "We only decided to stay in this dump because it was out of the way and closer to you." The vampire explained, then bent his knees and sprung off the roof landing on his feet about fifty feet in front of them.

They backed off slightly as he slowly advanced on them.

"Hey Amanda," Katherine said nervously, "Remember that gun you wanted so much that Oliver specially made you, like, this morning?...now might be a good time to put it to use."

Amanda smiled nervously, afraid to take her eyes off the vampire. "I…um…kind of left it in the car."

Katherine rolled her eyes and ran her palm down her face with a sigh.

"It's ok." Oliver said calmly, "You didn't think we'd need it."

"Why?" The vampire looked hurt, "Because you thought we were all dead?"

"You could say that," Amanda scoffed, "I mean, we did chop off a bunch of your kind's heads, which, by the way, was pretty awesome."

The vampire's lip twitched, revealing one of his deadly fangs; he was clearly getting annoyed with Amanda.

"Amanda." Katherine warned quietly, "I don't think now's the best time to mock since we don't really have any weapons on hand."

"No, no," The vampire said calmly, "It just lets me know that Kate was right, all you humans are the same; unforgiving….and tasty." And with that he lunged at Amanda, fangs bared.

Amanda barely had the chance to react before there was a loud swooshing sound followed by a dull thud. The vampire stopped dead in his tracks and slumped to the ground; a long, cross handled, wooden stake was protruding out of his chest right where his heart was.

Amanda and Katherine both looked over at Oliver in surprise. He was standing, feet spread apart and one arm outstretched, heaving slightly at the intensity of his action.

"Nice….stake." Amanda said, too impressed (or freaked) for complete sentences.

"Your welcome." Oliver said, brushing off the shock. "Well," he sighed after a time, walking over to the re-deceased vampire, "There's one less vampire in the world, but one more body to get rid of."

"Pity he hadn't been dead longer." Said Katherine as she and Amanda helped Oliver carry the body further into the alley next to the door of the warehouse. (A/n: yeah, I wonder how that looks to the innocent bystander…whatever. That's not a concern here anyway.)

"What?" Oliver asked, struggling under the dead weight.

Katherine waited until they had dumped the body in the alley then replied, "Decomposure. If a vampire had been dead….well, undead, for a number of years, it only makes sense that their body would decompose after they lose whatever force was keeping them 'alive'."

"And that's why Kate turned into a pile of dust when Hannah shot her; she'd been a vampire for over fifty years, while officer Nelman just kind of laid there…headless." Amanda added

Oliver smirked, "It's always fun to make the mess, but I never look forward to clean-up crew."

"Ain't that the truth." said Amanda, opening the door to the warehouse and leading the way inside.

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They wandered around for a bit, flashlights scanning the walls for the fuse box to give the warehouse some light.

"So, do you guys remember where you exactly you encountered the vampires?" Oliver asked as he found the switch and upon pulling it, the warehouse was suddenly filled with light. "This place looks just a little bit confusing when it comes to direction." He eyed a creepy looking pile of old, broken carousel horses warily.

"It's easy." Amanda replied, "Just follow your nose."

Oliver looked at her, slightly confused, but took a breath of the air anyway. What he smelled was nothing pleasant. If he hadn't been trying to smell it he wouldn't have noticed but there was a faint, yet horrible smell that he soon recognized as the distinct smell of rotting flesh and bl0od.

Upon seeing her boyfriend's face, Katherine nodded as if to say, "Yep, that's it, love."

"Disgusting." Oliver said, contempt for the vampires oozing into his voice.

They headed off in the direction of the awful smell and eventually reached the site where Katherine, Amanda, and the rest of the hunter's last encounter with the vampires.

It was a gruesome sight indeed; there were at least a dozen vampires on the floor, each with their respective heads not far from their point of severance, and in addition, quite a few piles of dust indicating that some of the vampires were a bit older than they let on but none of that compared to the amount of bl0od that covered the floor of the warehouse.

Each severed head and body had a pool of bl0od around it that proved the vampires never failed to have a source of bl0od during their stay in Chicago, but what bothered the reluctant janitors the most was the amount of bl0od on the spot where Dean had stood.

Amanda shivered as she gazed upon the numerous pools and drips of crimson that had come from the hunter, "When he's human again, will Dean even be able to survive with the amount of bl0od he's lost?" she asked, not knowing how Sam or Hannah would take that.

Katherine shook her head, "To be honest, I don't know…I'm not even sure he'll become human again."

Amanda looked at her in disbelief, "But…you told them, you said that—"

"I said that it might work." She cut her off, "This supposed 'cure' has never been proven to work… for God's sake; I don't even know if it's been tested."

Amanda glared at her, "It'll work."

There was a pause in which neither girl spoke until Oliver cleared his throat, "I think we should, uh, start cleaning now." He said quietly

Katherine sighed, "Right…let's get to work."

Oliver nodded, satisfied, then reached into his duffel bag and pulled out a large bundle of body bags.

Katherine looked at the bags, "Oliver….what the hell? You said we're getting rid of the bodies not shipping them off to the coroners."

"What are we supposed to do, leave them here for the cops to find?" He asked, exasperated. "Anyway, we're not shipping them anywhere; I've got a friend who handles stuff like this."

Katherine blinked, "Wait, you're telling me that you've got a pal who takes vampire bodies and 'gets rid of them'." She almost felt sorry speaking of once innocent people as if they were vermin.

"Pretty much." Oliver replied, then seeing the look on his girlfriend's face and understanding how she felt, he added, "Don't worry, as much as they don't really deserve it, he cremates them and buries the ashes. All we have to do is get the bodies in the bags for transport and then clean up the rest of this mess."

"What about the vampire out by the door?" Amanda asked.

"We'll get him on the way out. Now come on let's get this place cleaned up and get back to the others as soon as possible."

The three got to work and after an hour or so, had all the vampire bodies in bags lined up across the floor, the ashes in portable containers for Oliver's friend, and had the blood mopped up with the dirty water disposed of down the drainage system.

"Well, I definitely don't think any vampires were nesting here for the past month, do you?" Oliver asked when they had finished.

"Definitely not." Katherine replied.

They all packed up the remaining cleanup tools and headed for the door. Once there, they packed up the last vampire and place a note on it informing its reader of how to get to the other bodies, then they placed the bag just inside the door and Oliver called his friend. After he ended his conversation he hung up his phone and all three hunters headed for the cars.

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Haha so, that concludes chapter 25, don't worry, we'll get back to Sam and Dean angst in the next chapter, so get ready!

Oh and before I go, I just wanna talk briefly about the season three starter….actually no, if I get started on it it'll turn into a rant, let me just say I wasn't very impressed…. Gahhhhh! STUPID DEAL!!!!!!!!

Till next time

—HoD91