Damon smirked at Anna, "What can I say, I tried," he offered up unhelpfully.
She sneered at him with what looked like pure hatred. "Fine, tomorrow night," she snapped.
"Sounds great, babe," he stated with a hard smile. "Buh Bye."
She and her partner turned to leave.
"Okay so grumpy girl is gone, can we come in," Lexi asked with a smile, her arm still wrapped around Stefan.
"Guys, this is Lexi, my very best friend," Stefan said with a huge smile, Lynnie couldn't help but feel pride that it wasn't such an odd occurrence to see as it was in the show. Stefan noted the uncomfortableness in the blondes of the group, "She is the one who taught me control when I turned."
"And this is my man," Lexi stated with a smile, pulling the attractive unknown to her, "His name is Lee and he's shy."
"I'm Bree, and a witch."
"That's right you left to get another witch," Bonnie stated, her haughty tone that Lyn knew well from the show was there, glaring at Damon.
"And that would be me, now which one of you lovely ladies owns the boarding house," she asked, moving forward, not deterred by invisible wards. "I want to have a party and my besties can't enter it without some help."
Lynnie sighed, "I guess I can pack a bag or something."
"Oh and bring the other twin," Lexi stated with glee, "the one who is the mortal bestie."
Slowly the group at the door turned to see what had happened to the girl in question. Lynnie huffed at not being able to immediately see her, "Aunty, she is safe and I would assume her guy is too. They have no reason to hurt us and she is really close to Stefan." She then sighed heavily and searched out her idiot sister.
Ros was in the kitchen cleaning it as Ric watched from the bar. Upon noticing her sister she turned to her, "Did we figure out what we were having tonight?" she asked with a smile on her face. "I have a lot of food stocked that I could whip up quite a bit."
"Well actually," Lynnie started.
"Oh, whatcha making?" Lexi came in with a bouncy lively attitude. She easily moved beside Ric in the chair giving him a huge grin, "Hi I'm Lexi."
"Ric," he answered with a tired smile.
She nodded and turned to Ros who was looking at the cupboard. "You're the mortal best friend right?" Lexi asked without any preamble.
Ros turned around with a smile on her face, "Stefan is my best friend, if that's what you're asking."
Lyn was hit with a realization of something, her head perking up with alarm. Without any pause she hopped up and ran to her room upstairs. She had some jewelry to magic up.
"Uh, Lyn?" Ros asked as her sister ran out without a word. Lyn however, didn't say a word. She just ran upstairs, her feet thudding the steps each way. "Huh, where'd she go?" Ros voiced before turning to Lexi.
She had heard of Lexi before, Stefan had mentioned her once or twice before. It was exciting meeting the vivacious woman in person. All in all the two had plenty to talk about and watching as Stefan tried to make excuses for his partying naked ways was something Ros would remember fondly.
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Eventually the house cleared out some, however to Joyce's chagrin, the vampires remained.
Ros had skipped school and spent the time with Lexi, Lee and Bree along with Stefan; learning about her friend from a different perspective. Lynnie had also stayed behind working upstairs in her room on something. Aunt Joyce and Buffy however continued on with their lives.
Stefan stayed and got to know Lee as the girls got to know one another.
Lee was someone Stefan couldn't see Lexi with at first. But as time went on, he noted that Lee had a biting wit. It was when Lee turned the tables on the playful teasing the girls were distributing to mostly Stefan. When Lee flipped it and turned on Lexi, revealing that she was just as guilty over some nude partying.
Evening came around a bit too fast for them, all too soon, and the door-bell rung. Stefan made sure to open the door, only for him to reach it and Damon appear and open it like he had been there the whole time.
"Oh, look, you made it," he stated noting that everyone from the house was coming forward.
"Cut the crap Damon, I want to get my mom."
"Temper temper," Damon stated his eyes flaring as a smirk covered his face. She just huffed in response while her partner leered at the females in the background, seemingly wanting to get a rise out of them.
"Are we all ready?" Stefan asked not wanting to get the two fighting.
Thankfully Bree had spoken to Lyn and they had come to a pretty good game plan with Buffy. Xander, Giles, Angel and even the newbie Alaric would meet at the tomb and help quickly dispose of the mummified vampires, while Caroline sat out.
The four practicing witches with the help of the amulet should be able to open the tomb without any trouble.
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Ros was holding hands with Bree and Lyn while Bonnie was between them. Bonnie had stated that once this part was over she would immediately take off. She was adamant about not being involved any further if she didn't have too.
It was more than apparent that her kidnappers had frightened her. And though she hadn't invited Ros, Grams had let her know that Bonnie was receiving a bit more tutoring in hopes of overcoming her fears and becoming strong enough to protect herself and her friends.
Ros understood, Bonnie was going through a lot and if this helped, Ros was more than capable of hanging back and allowing her friend space.
Bonnie was breathing with a hitch but seemed to be putting on a brave front and though she didn't say much she was still here.
The other vampires stood off to the side while Bree explained what was going to happen and let the others look at the grimoire to see if they could understand the fundamentals. With the amulet between them the four took a deep breath.
As the four began their spell Xander, Buffy and Giles prepared a weapon, it would seem as if it were more of a minor threatening gesture to the more violent vampires. Angel had seemed a bit hesitant to get involved with this mission as he wasn't quite sure on if he was even needed.
His reluctance, had caused Lyn to bring her souling and daylight ringing him up to the forefront of her mind. It was something to maybe mention to Ros and Bonnie in hopes of joining witch training?
Angel eventually joined in, he held a sword and stood close to the petite blond.
The witches felt a rush through them, like their veins were expanding with electric pulses of pleasure. It was almost addictive and though she was paying full attention to her chanting and the spell, Ros understood how Willow got hooked.
The spell caused the torches to rise and with rocks grating the tomb opened with little else in the way of fanfair.
"And no tricks?" Damon asked Bree as the newbie witches reveled in the rush of a well done spell.
"No way baby, go get her," Bree answered taking heavy steps to her purse she had left in the corner of the area.
Damon nodded and ran in followed by Anna and Noah. It was agreed they'd have three minutes to run in before the team went in to exterminate all those left.
Noah was the first to come out, dragging a dissected corpse with him. He didn't say or do anything before he used his vampiric speed and zoomed off dragging the corpse with him.
Ros leaned up to the other newbies, feeling relaxed and comfortable. Completely forgetting the hows and whys.
"And that, my sweeties, is a spell done right," Bree stated pulling out a bottle and moving to the contented witches. "Whoo!" she cheered as she gulped her adult beverage, "Anyone wanna taste?" she asked.
Bonnie sighed and pushed away from the others, "I'll see you guys in school." And with that she quickly left, her feet heavy but capable.
Lynnie moved forward, startling Ros some, "I'm gonna go lie down in the car."
"Do you need any help?" Stefan asked as Lexi gulped the liquid before passing it to Lee before he too took a gulp.
"No," Lynnie stated with a sigh, giving her sister a peculiar look. Ros smiled at her sister, a sleepy smile on her face, "I'll be fine." She looked to Stefan and gave him a soft smile, remnants of the content giddy feeling she had still there. She smiled again, took a deep breath and moved down the path her friend had just gone. Her feet decidedly less heavy.
"Want some?" Lexi asked, holding up the amber liquid to Stefan's best mortal friend.
Ros's face turned to the bottle as she pondered, after a moment she nodded and moved to the blond beauty.
However her face morphed into full blown disgust as she gulped the liquid. It seemed to take a lot of will power for her to swallow the liquid before she began to cough and gasp in alarm. Stefan quickly was at her side, worry evident. "Ros?" he asked.
She began making a face of utter disgust, a full body shiver wracking through her. "Ugh," she groaned, her voice hoarse and distressed. "It's rum."
"Duh, rum gets you dumb!" Bree stated with a smirk, taking the bottle and taking another swig.
"I don't do rum," Ros monotone, glaring darkly at the bottle. She pondered why she didn't note the nautical man on the label.
Stefan snorted, but it was Bree who spoke, "What else is this color that teenies drink, now a days?" She had a tone of disbelief and mirth.
"Whiskey?" Ros offered, leaning next to Lexi, further away from the offending liquid.
Bree snorted, "And here I thought teenagers found themselves brazen when they drank vodka flavored straight."
"That's Lynnie's adult beverage of choice," Ros offered, leaning her head on Lexi and giving a sigh, her eyes closing. "Lynnie and I have a great aversion to spiced rum." Ros nodded, "But I found a cocoa one at a party long time ago that I could handle."
"Long time ago?" Bree asked with a snort of disbelief. "What when you were twelve?"
Ros snorted and shook her head in the negative, "Maybe less than a long time ago, more like a year or so?" Ros turned to Stefan her eyes a bit wider with worry in them. He just snorted and shook his head slightly. She pouted and moved to him, her body just tripping into his without any form of grace as she leaned into him with a sigh. "I hate rum," she stated in his chest causing said chest to rumble in amusement.
"Well I-
Bree was cut short when a rage filled scream tore through the air. Lee and Stefan pushed the mortals back while Lexi joined the two in front. Damon flew out, anger was not the proper term to describe his volcanic rage. "She isn't there," he growled out his eyes searching out the twins.
His icy blue eyes quickly finding the shorter of the twins, as he screamed again, "She wasn't there!" he took a step forward seemingly not noticing the vampires in front of him.
"They told you she wouldn't be, Damon," Stefan said sadly. "It was never real," the words were something he had said before. "The love was never, real!"
Those arctic piercing eyes turned to his brother, his face barely containing his rage.
"We all told you she wasn't there." Anna spoke up, pulling forward a weak looking Asian decent woman in ratty layered skirts and a mummified corpse. He turned to her but she wasn't paying attention. She instead looked to the only remaining kidnapped victim. "This is my mother, Pearl," she stated a smile blossoming her face.
"You've see her," Damon accused. "Katherine," he added when it became apparent that Anna didn't understand what he was saying.
Anna nodded, "1983," she offered, "Saw her in Chicago."
Within a blink Damon lunged forward and ripped through the chest of the tattered dressed older woman. He turned back around a smile on his face as he held up a bloody heart. He gave a sigh and smiled brightly at his brother and his brother's group of friends.
Ros gasped in horror but was easily out done with a guttural scream coming from the collapsed Anna. Tears trailed her face as she pleaded for her mommy. Every sound she made seemed to make Damon smile just the wider.
Buffy and Angel came out of the door way seemingly ready for action but frozen, not sure on what was going on. Angel still had his sword though, seemingly ready to swing it. Buffy however was using a plain stake poised for attack.
Anna gave another scream, seemingly done pleading for her mother to wake and charged at Damon, her intent obvious to rip him apart.
Faster than Ros could fathom, Damon grabbed hold of the stake and turned and plunged it into the young lady's chest, a crunch noise along with a splash of blood squirting out.
The room watched in pity and horror as Anna pale and blacken, her eyes shooting around her in a pleading manner as she gasped out her last breath.
Buffy watched in frozen horror. That was not how the creepy monsters ended their time on this planet. Yes she slayed, dusted, ended several vampires and even a few evil demons, but they didn't die like that.
She didn't know Anna, and what she did know she didn't like. She kidnapped her cousins and caused Xander's new weirdness, but did she really deserve to go like that. Her pitiful cries for her mommy tore at Buffy's heart, she quickly looked around and noted the pity in many of the other's eyes as Ros had tears falling down her face.
Buffy wasn't sure if she could slay(?) these type of vampires. These weren't the type that just dusted like good old demon infested bodies. Those type of vampires were just too human, Buffy decided, staring down at the girl who just wanted her mom.
Damon pulled out the stake as Anna collapsed and handed it back to the slayer, a perky smile on his face. "You may want to kill the mummy over there," he motioned to the technically still alive mummy on the floor.
Buffy didn't move, her mind contemplating what really made one evil and what really made her the slayer.
Damon turned around from the group and made his way out of the room entering the forest and going to his car, a whistle on his lips.
Xander came out next, he noted the scene before him and with a sigh took his axe and decapitated the head of the mummy and sighed. Sobs reached his ears and he looked up and noted the horror tear stained Ros who was clutching the back of Stefan.
Xander didn't like those dead, he really had a hard time with the vampires of his universe. It was just not right, but these type of vampires seemed more like the demons he was used too. They were like Anya and her ilk. They were able to turn off their emotions and just go about causing destruction and chaos without really any thought to it.
And even with that reference he was still more accepting to the type of vampires that were Mystic Falls kind than he would ever really be with dead boy. Xander looked to see dead boy was standing awkwardly beside Buffy, seemingly unsure on what to do before he put his arm around the staring blankly girl. Xander wasn't all too sure what that look meant, it wasn't something he was used to from the perky slayer.
Giles came out next, "Uh, everyone, everyone alright?" he asked, taking in the crying nearly hysteric Rosalind and the nearly catatonic Buffy.
Buffy gave a weak nod but didn't say or do anything more than lean into her amours arm.
"Well," Xander spoke up, resting his axe on his shoulder, carefully of course, "I'm hungry."
Xander smiled at Giles predictable sigh as the older man took off his glasses and cleaned them. "Yes, yes, of course." The British man said with a sigh, "Buffy do you need a ride?" he asked.
"No," she stated looking up finally from the black shriveled corpse of Anna. She sighed, "Did Damon take care of strangly guy?"
"Who?" Xander asked, a smile fighting to be on his lips.
"The," she paused and gave discrete looks to Ros with pity, "strangle-y" she put her hands in a strangle way, "guy." Xander looked at her with concern, causing the slayer to growl, "the mean one that hurt.." again she looked to Ros with worry.
"Ohh," Xander drew out a long breath, "nope didn't see him."
"He already left," Stefan said with a sigh, Ros holding him from behind and squeezing tight as she seemed to try and burrow her head into his back.
Giles gave a sigh, "Very well. Come along Alexander," he said with a sigh moving to the way out with firm steps that just so happen not to be anywhere near the newly formed corpses. "Lets go get something to eat."
Bree chuckled, "Boy can still eat after all that?" she asked with mirth, seemingly willfully forgetting all about the slayed beings in the room with them.
Stefan gave a sigh, "Ros, can you let go?" he asked.
Ros shook her head no, and Stefan sighed again. Meanwhile Angel was already starting to move the corpses and their pieces to the tomb again. Lee quickly joining and helping the other undead move them.
With a sigh, Ros followed her friend and his friends to his car, Buffy stating she was going to do a quick patrol before heading home herself. Ros nodded to this and weakly followed, her hand tightly holding Stefan's.
Buffy however, couldn't seem to keep her mind off the whirl wind of feelings she was going through. Her mind not on the patrol she begged off, "Buffy, wait," Angel stopped her, his face full of worry, "are you?" he asked.
The slayer sighed. "Yeah, of course!" she stated with perk. "See the perk?" she asked, bouncing on her heels some.
Angel chuckled. "Are you sure?" he asked, moving closer.
"Angel," she whispered, before she moved forward and kissed him. She kissed him as hard as she could, her emotions and feelings pouring into the kiss. Her mind was just so crazy and her heart was pounding in her chest, she needed this. Buffy needed to feel this! To ground herself in her love, his love. Their love.
Nervous, she paused and looked at a beautiful loving man, "Angel," she whispered again, "I love you."
He kissed her back, this time she felt all his emotions in the kiss, all his love. She knew he loved her, but when he pulled back, his brown eyes found hers and stared deeply within her to her very soul. "I love you," he whispered, and in his eyes she could see the truth there.
Looking into his eyes, she thought, maybe with the tomb opened, those she loved and cared about would be safer now. Maybe with the tomb opened things could go back to normal as she tried to digest the differences between her vampires and the ones she found herself around more often now. Maybe, looking up to his beautiful brown soft eyes, it all really didn't matter anyway.
AN- The last chapter, this one was altered and re-altered and this is the version I felt the best about ending on. The other one was more of an open ending that to me felt rushed a bit, and uncomfortable. Now I'm not saying this one isn't rushed, just the other version was bad rushed. Thank you for reading, following and favoriting. Thank you so much. I may post a continuation but I may not, I feel this can stand on its own. I apologize for any mistakes and hope you all enjoyed. 3 Pink