Chapter 4-Smallville
"No, why are you here?" Spike raged, putting his hands over his ears. "You weren't supposed to be here. Why won't you leave me alone?"
Spike was in a crypt. It had two cement coffins, one of which was broken in half from someone unknown fight that Spike never saw.
He was against a wall, rocking himself, his knees drawn up to his chest. "This isn't the bloody Hellmouth. Why won't you go away? Stop talking to me!" he said loudly, his voice reverberating in the crypt.
"I didn't mean it. I didn't know. It's different now," he pleaded, threading his fingers through his hair.
"It was supposed to stop. It was supposed to stop. It was supposed to stop," he whispered over and over to the emptiness.
* * *
"It's pig's blood," Chloe said, swishing around the red substance in a test tube. They were all convening in the Talon after Chloe called a meeting.
Lana shuddered. "Why would he have pig's blood?"
"Maybe he's a vampire," Pete said, grinning and pretending to bite Lana's neck. "I want to suck your blood."
Lana squealed, then stopped at Chloe's serious look. "What, Chloe?"
"I think Pete may be right," Chloe said, clicking her mouse on her laptop. She reached over to take a drink from her coffee mug.
"You can't be serious," Clark exclaimed, his face showing his disbelief.
"There's this site that I stumbled onto. Some girl has been uploading information."
"What kind of information?" Pete asked, leaning over Chloe's shoulder.
"It's actually information on different demons. It's sort of occult information with a specialty in vampires," Chloe explained, scrolling down the screen.
"This has got to be a joke. Vampires aren't real," Clark repeated.
"If he was a vampire, why was he drinking the blood from a glass? Why didn't he just attack me instead of getting pig's blood?" Lana asked in confusion.
"That's the thing that doesn't make sense. According to this Willow person vampires are heartless killers," Chloe said, scanning the various pages. "They won't think twice before draining someone."
"What else is on the website?" Pete asked, putting his arm behind Chloe to get a better look at the computer screen.
"She has a whole database of information on demons, and vampires. It explains the ways to kill a vampire, and so on," Chloe explained.
"Why would a vampire show up in Smallville?" Lana asked, trying to think.
"Fresh food?" Pete asked, only half kidding.
"If he came to hunt, then why the pig's blood? Why not human blood?" Chloe asked. "It says here that human blood is much more potent and powerful to vampires than animal blood."
"We better get some garlic," Pete told them, standing up.
"Pete, you need to brush up on your history of vampires," Chloe said with a smirk. "They can't go out in daylight or they'll literally fry. The only things that can ward them off are Holy water, and crosses."
"Crosses?" Clark asked.
"Crosses are the holy, vampires are the unholy," Chloe read from the site. "If a vampire touches a cross it burns him or her. A cross can be anything from a necklace with a cross pendant, to two sticks off of the ground."
"Well, we better get some crosses," Pete said seriously.
"We need to find out who this guy is. Why is he here?" Chloe asked. You could almost see the wheels in her head spinning.
"Chloe," Clark warned, towering over her when he stood.
"I know, I know. 'Don't go there by yourself.' Back off, Clark. You're not my father," Chloe told him, not even bothering to look up.
"Chloe." This time it was Pete's turn to give her a warning tone.
"Alright, Pete. Fine. I won't go alone," Chloe told him, looking up at him.
"Well, we have to go help my dad," Clark said, gesturing to Pete. "Remember, don't go alone."
"We won't," Lana told him.
As soon as Clark and Pete were out of earshot Chloe added, "Not alone, anyways."