Continuity Note: This story is part 4 of 4.
Disclaimer: Any character that you've seen on the show is owned by Joss, not me.
Colleen The new slayer and Dawn's teammate
Jordan New kid in Sunnydale who receives The Visions
Dawn Buffy's little sister and now on the basketball team
Aaron Dawn's friend who works at the Magic Box
*****
One day left. That's it. One more day and I will no longer be grounded. I have been grounded for four weeks. And for what? For not coming home one night? If this was TV then I could have easily gotten away with it with some lame one-liner. But oh no, I'm not that fortunate. My life doesn't get to be TV. Well, in most ways it doesn't. Actually, it some ways it doesn't. In most ways my life is a comic book, and I play the comic relief.
Did I mention that my name is Aaron O'Malley?
It's Friday night and what am I doing? I'm reading a book. Not only am I reading a book but I have several other books scattered around the book I'm reading. I have dictionaries to help me translate foreign languages, various magick reference books, and of course my notebook. I have filled up about forty pages of notes. And doodles. Got to keep it interesting.
I flipped through my notebook and look at all the information that I have pulled from it. It almost made it seem like I haven't wasted the last three weeks of my life.
Almost.
I have cracked the mystery of the Omicron. Good for me. I wish someone would give me a cookie for my achievements. Now all I have to do is get on the internet to do a little bit more research. I flip through my notebook to the page where I made all the references to the alignment of the stars and the planets. I have put a huge asterisk at the top of the page so I would be able to find it easily. I know that this page is going to crack the whole thing wide open.
I log onto the internet. AIM opens up and the only person online is Dawn. I message her and wait for a response. I don't exactly plan on getting when because she has been idle for the last hour and a half. She probably just went to bed and forgot to set herself as away. Oh well, there's only one more day left anyway.
I find a site that has the information that I need. I make sure that I triple check my work. Of course this means that I get three completely different answers. I run through the information about ten times. Times seven and on have all given me the same answer, but it's not the answer that I'm looking for. I do it another six times just to make sure, and I'm finally willing to accept my answers.
"Great," I say to myself, "The world is going to end in a month." I pause hoping that someone might pop out of nowhere and correct me. Nothing happens. "Ooo.Conan's on."
*****
"December 21st?" Colleen questioned. "Are you sure?"
"I checked it myself," I told her, "And then I checked myself about ten more times."
I have known about vampires and stuff for about four months now. Dawn told me all about it in the summer. When she told me about her sister and slayers and stuff like that, I should have realized who the perfect slayer candidate would be. Colleen Danvers just screams slayer. First of all, she could throw down with any guy there is, super strength or not. She beat me up in Kindergarten once, but I don't think she remembers that. Then there's the fact that she won't lose. She just won't. I've played basketball against her and believe me, the world is a very safe place to live in with her as the guardian.
"So what should we do?" Dawn asked. "Did you find anything out about how to stop it in the Omicron?"
I nodded. "Yeah, I think I have a pretty good idea how we can stop it."
When Dawn first moved to Sunnydale in fourth grade I had a huge crush on her. To let her know about it I punched her on the arm in recess and then ran away. For some reason she never responded to my obvious show of affection. She was in all of my advanced classes in seventh and eighth grade. We were always "school friends" but never anything more that that. We would hang out in school but now outside. That changed over the summer when she became my neighbor. Now we hang out all the time. And she's so incredible in a way that it's hard to explain. Like, she loses everything and she still goes on. I remember hearing rumors that she was into cutting herself last year, but I definitely know that there is no way that could be true. Dawn just has it together.
"And that is?" Colleen asked me. Oh whoops, I guess I kind of zoned out there for a second.
"There's a spell that can be done," I told them. "It's a ritual really. I'm positive that I can do it. It doesn't look very hard at all. And I've been reading up on magick a lot since I've been working here. It helps to make the time go faster. If I can perform the spell on the equinox then Martyr shouldn't be able to open the Hellmouth."
"Could he even open the Hellmouth if he doesn't have the book?" Jordan asked.
"Well," I said. Huh, I hadn't thought of that. "I guess that would work too."
Jordan was another person who I had become friends with very fast. I can relate to him really easily I guess. And it's go to have a guy friend to be close with. If everyone sees you just hanging out with a girl all the time it tends to look kind of weird. Jordan's cool because I can joke around with him and he'll actually laugh at my jokes. And he's really easy going to which is cool because for the most part I'm pretty easy going. It's just cool to have someone to hang out and play videogames with.
"But you're sure that that's what the Omicron deals with," Colleen asked me. "This is what Martyr needs to open the Hellmouth."
"Yeah," I told her, "I'm positive. I can point out the specific pages if you want."
"Woah," Jordan said as he stood up suddenly, "vision time."
"Great timing," Colleen said as she stood up off my bedroom floor and cracked her knuckles. "What's going on? Is it Martyr?"
"Yeah," Jordan said. He looked tensed. I think out of all of us that Jordan has the strongest feelings regarding Martyr. "The Bronze. He wants the book."
*****
"I wouldn't say that we're useless," Dawn said as she tossed the tennis ball back at me. "We definitely provide a certain dynamic to the group."
"How so," I said as I threw her the tennis ball again. We were in my room. Colleen and Jordan had gone home because we agreed to meet up again at 7:00 to go to the Bronze. Dawn was here because if I'm not at Dawn's she's usually here. "Colleen is the slayer. Jordan is psychic. What can we do?"
"Well," Dawn thought for a moment, "you picked that lock."
"Nice try," I said. "You at least have all the experience in all this stuff. You're slightly less worthless than I am."
"Wow thanks," Dawn said with a smile. "You know you're not worthless. You completely decrypted the Omicron."
"It took me a month," I told her as we continued to play catch. "Anyone could have done it in a month."
"I don't know about that," Dawn said. "Plus you know the most about magick and stuff like that. You do work at the Magic Box."
"Yeah that's come in handy so many times," I said sarcastically. "Seriously though, Gold Chick has done more for the group than I have."
"Do you ever wonder what's up with her?" Dawn asked. "Like how does she always know where to find us?"
"Yeah and how does she get around town," I said. "She has to stick out, what with the gold skin and all. Maybe she can teleport."
"Maybe," Dawn said. "She does just seem to pop in and out."
I caught the ball and didn't throw it back. I let there be silence for a little bit. "Are you nervous for tonight?" I asked Dawn.
She hesitated. "A little," she admitted. "Not that much though. You should have seen the way that Colleen handled Martyr. It was impressive."
"Yeah but Jordan said that there were going to be other vampires there too," I told her. "I just wish we could have backup. Like I wish we could get a hold of Gold Chick or something."
We threw the ball some more without talking for a while.
"Are you going to tell Xander and Anya about tonight," I asked Dawn. She had been afraid to tell them about the fact that we are now fighting demons. That we are the new "Scooby Gang" as Dawn sometimes said. Needless to say they were not happy with the news. I think now that they somewhat accept, but they don't like it. I don't think Dawn says anything to them about it.
"Probably not," Dawn said, "I don't want them to worry about me."
We threw the ball some more.
"If they ever make a movie about us, I hope they get Ryan Phillippe to play me," I said to Dawn. She laughed.
*****
"What are all these people going to think?" I asked the others while we waited nervously at the Bronze. "I mean, the walking dead are going to enter at any second."
"They'll freak and later tell themselves that nothing happened," Dawn said to me.
"I don't think that's possible," Jordan said.
"Oh believe me it is," Dawn said. "They'll have themselves convinced it was some gang on PCP."
"I wish they would just get here already," Colleen said. "Why can't vampires be a little more Mike?"
"Mike?" I repeated, not understanding. I looked behind me. Mike was standing right there. "Oh Mike."
"Hey," Mike said. "What are you guys up to?"
"Just hanging out," Colleen took over the whole talking to Mike responsibilities. "You?"
"Well," Mike said, "I was in the process of asking you to dance."
Colleen's eyes budged out. On one hand she could dance with her guy. On the other hand she got get him to leave so his chance of dieing would be significantly decreased.
"We were just getting ready to leave actually," Colleen said, rather lamely I might add. "You should get going too. This place is so boring tonight."
"Well that depends," Mike said, "On where you're going." Oh this was a fun little circle we were running around. Mike smiled again. "I think you're just trying to get out of that dance." He walked around the table and took Colleen by the hand. "Well that's not going to happen."
Colleen looked panic. Dawn gave her a little pushed and mouthed the words "just go." Colleen gave in and went with Mike onto the dance floor.
"Well this is great," I said. "This whole establishment is in mortal danger and what is the chosen protector of the world doing? She's dancing."
"Come on Aaron," Dawn said. "We were going to be waiting either way. What difference does it make if we're waiting sitting down or waiting on the dance floor?" Good logic I guess. "So why don't we go dance?"
Wait, did she just say we. Is that we as in "why don't the three of us go out there and have a grand old time as friends or was that we as in "why don't Aaron and Dawn go out there had possibly explore the realm of more than friendship?" Did Dawn think of me that way? Did I think of Dawn that way? Or maybe it was more like "why don't Aaron and Dawn go out there and dance like nothing more than friends because-"
"Isn't that Holly?" Jordan asked.
"Huh?" was the only thing I could say.
"Over there," he said. "Isn't that Holly Nils?"
"Yeah," Dawn answered. "I didn't think she did stuff like this."
I looked over at Holly and for a second it looked like she might have been looking over at us, but then she wasn't because every head in the Bronze had turned their attention to the doors that had just been kicked in.
"Showtime," Dawn said as she opened up the bag that we had brought in. We each grabbed stakes and a cross. I saw Colleen coming towards us and I threw her a stake. The plan was to wait to see what the vampires' move was going to be. We didn't have to wait long. Martyr moved to the stage and go on. The band that was playing quickly got off of the stage. Martyr picked up a girl who was running in front of him. She screamed as he picked her up.
"You," he said to the girl. "Don't scream. Tonight is your lucky night. You get to live. You get to go and find the slayer and tell her that all the people who died here tonight are just the beginning. And there isn't going to be an ending until I get my book. You got that?" The girl didn't react. Martyr shifted into gameface to motivate her. That got a reaction.
"OKOKOK!" The girl screamed. "Just let me go."
"That isn't going to be necessary," Colleen said as she approached the stage and jumped onto it. "I'm right here."
Martyr smiled. "How fortunate. Did you by chance bring my book?"
"We both know that I'm never going to give you that book," Colleen told him.
Martyr frowned. "Wrong answer slayer." And then they started fighting which was quickly followed up by all Hell breaking loose.
Other than Martyr there were about seven other vampires. It was our job to try our best to keep them from hurting anybody while Colleen fought Martyr. It seemed like a good plan on paper. In practice? Not that great. "Jordan behind you!" Dawn shouted as she stuck a cross in the face of a vampire who was about to bite a girl. Jordan didn't even look and gave the vampire a telekinetic shove. I think his goal was to push the vampire over the bar but the only thing that happened was that the vampire lost his balance a little. Jordan did manage to capitalize on the situation and stake the vampire.
So far we were winning. No one was dead and there were vampires being staked. I saw a vampire who looked like he was causing some trouble by the pool tables by where I was standing. I reached over, grabbed a pool stick, broke it in half, and decided to use it as my weapon. The plan was to just sneak up on the vamp and shove the stick through his back. Again good on paper but not in practice. I missed the heart and within seconds the vampire had me on my back. Right before his fangs were about to sink into my neck I saw a gold hang wrap around his neck.
The Gold Chick lifted the vampire off of me and held him so his feat dangled above the floor. I stood up, grabbed my stake, and shoved it through his chest saying "Yeah. You're just lucky that she showed up because I would have made it so much worse." After he was dust I looked into Gold Chick's eyes and mouthed a very grateful "thank you." Gold Chick actually smiled.
With Gold Chick now helping out the fight was a little more even. I still tried to help out but I wasn't much use against a vampire. That is until I saw one grab Dawn by the neck. Gold Chick was trying to eliminate the vampires as quickly as possible and Colleen was still trading blows with Martyr. I looked around me and couldn't find a stake. I did however see a large knife that was lying and the bar. I grabbed the knife, ran for Dawn's vampire, and managed to tackle. Trying not to think about it I pressed the knife on the vamp's throat and pushed my full weight on it till I felt the knife hit the floor.
"That was creepy feeling," I said to Dawn as I stood up.
"Yeah," Dawn said. "Thanks."
"No problem," I told her. We looked around the room. Gold Chick had pretty much gotten rid of all the vampires and was now on stage with Colleen. Martyr was definitely not stupid and realized that he had no chance against the two of them. Before they could catch him, Martyr was out the back door.
"Thanks for the help," Colleen said to Gold Chick. All Gold Chick did was nod and then just turned to leave.
"Hey wait up!" Jordan said trying to catch up to Gold Chick. "I don't get why you don't want to work with us. Why could you possibly not want that?"
Gold Chick looked kind of sad. "You wouldn't want me with you. I would only hurt you." And with that Gold Chick left the Bronze.
The four of us regrouped and walked out of the Bronze with pretty much everyone else. In the craziness of the evening no one really got to pay attention to Colleen or the rest of us for that matter. Colleen was especially thankful that Mike didn't notice what she did. He ran into us on our walk back home and said how worried he had been about Colleen. He asked her if he could walk her home, and Colleen left us with just a "see you guys later."
"I can't believe she's just going to leave us alone," I said. "I mean, what if there are more vampires."
"Are you jealous or something?" Dawn asked me.
"No," I said, being completely honest. "I just don't want Mike getting all Yoko with our group."
"I wonder what she meant by 'I would only hurt you?'" Jordan wondered out loud. "I mean, I wonder what kind of demon she is. Do you think she is a demon?"
Dawn shrugged. "I've never seen a demon like her."
"We could do some research if you want," I told Jordan. "I have to work tomorrow. Do you want to sleep over and go in with me tomorrow morning?"
"Yeah," Jordan said. "I'll call my parents from your place."
"So we did well tonight," Dawn said. "I mean, no one died, so we did our job. And it was us too. Well, us and Gold Chick. But still we did good."
"Yeah," I said to Dawn, "We did good." I knew that I did do well that night, but then and there I decided that I was going to find some way that I could help more. I was going to find some way that I wouldn't have to be rescued by Gold Chick or anyone else if there was a vampire who was pinning me to the ground. I wasn't going to be worthless.
*****
Author's Note: Thank you very much for the people who reviewed my story. I really appreciate it. I'm really interested in seeing what people think now. Hopefully everyone has a little more insight on the characters and any comments would really be appreciated.
Disclaimer: Any character that you've seen on the show is owned by Joss, not me.
Colleen The new slayer and Dawn's teammate
Jordan New kid in Sunnydale who receives The Visions
Dawn Buffy's little sister and now on the basketball team
Aaron Dawn's friend who works at the Magic Box
*****
One day left. That's it. One more day and I will no longer be grounded. I have been grounded for four weeks. And for what? For not coming home one night? If this was TV then I could have easily gotten away with it with some lame one-liner. But oh no, I'm not that fortunate. My life doesn't get to be TV. Well, in most ways it doesn't. Actually, it some ways it doesn't. In most ways my life is a comic book, and I play the comic relief.
Did I mention that my name is Aaron O'Malley?
It's Friday night and what am I doing? I'm reading a book. Not only am I reading a book but I have several other books scattered around the book I'm reading. I have dictionaries to help me translate foreign languages, various magick reference books, and of course my notebook. I have filled up about forty pages of notes. And doodles. Got to keep it interesting.
I flipped through my notebook and look at all the information that I have pulled from it. It almost made it seem like I haven't wasted the last three weeks of my life.
Almost.
I have cracked the mystery of the Omicron. Good for me. I wish someone would give me a cookie for my achievements. Now all I have to do is get on the internet to do a little bit more research. I flip through my notebook to the page where I made all the references to the alignment of the stars and the planets. I have put a huge asterisk at the top of the page so I would be able to find it easily. I know that this page is going to crack the whole thing wide open.
I log onto the internet. AIM opens up and the only person online is Dawn. I message her and wait for a response. I don't exactly plan on getting when because she has been idle for the last hour and a half. She probably just went to bed and forgot to set herself as away. Oh well, there's only one more day left anyway.
I find a site that has the information that I need. I make sure that I triple check my work. Of course this means that I get three completely different answers. I run through the information about ten times. Times seven and on have all given me the same answer, but it's not the answer that I'm looking for. I do it another six times just to make sure, and I'm finally willing to accept my answers.
"Great," I say to myself, "The world is going to end in a month." I pause hoping that someone might pop out of nowhere and correct me. Nothing happens. "Ooo.Conan's on."
*****
"December 21st?" Colleen questioned. "Are you sure?"
"I checked it myself," I told her, "And then I checked myself about ten more times."
I have known about vampires and stuff for about four months now. Dawn told me all about it in the summer. When she told me about her sister and slayers and stuff like that, I should have realized who the perfect slayer candidate would be. Colleen Danvers just screams slayer. First of all, she could throw down with any guy there is, super strength or not. She beat me up in Kindergarten once, but I don't think she remembers that. Then there's the fact that she won't lose. She just won't. I've played basketball against her and believe me, the world is a very safe place to live in with her as the guardian.
"So what should we do?" Dawn asked. "Did you find anything out about how to stop it in the Omicron?"
I nodded. "Yeah, I think I have a pretty good idea how we can stop it."
When Dawn first moved to Sunnydale in fourth grade I had a huge crush on her. To let her know about it I punched her on the arm in recess and then ran away. For some reason she never responded to my obvious show of affection. She was in all of my advanced classes in seventh and eighth grade. We were always "school friends" but never anything more that that. We would hang out in school but now outside. That changed over the summer when she became my neighbor. Now we hang out all the time. And she's so incredible in a way that it's hard to explain. Like, she loses everything and she still goes on. I remember hearing rumors that she was into cutting herself last year, but I definitely know that there is no way that could be true. Dawn just has it together.
"And that is?" Colleen asked me. Oh whoops, I guess I kind of zoned out there for a second.
"There's a spell that can be done," I told them. "It's a ritual really. I'm positive that I can do it. It doesn't look very hard at all. And I've been reading up on magick a lot since I've been working here. It helps to make the time go faster. If I can perform the spell on the equinox then Martyr shouldn't be able to open the Hellmouth."
"Could he even open the Hellmouth if he doesn't have the book?" Jordan asked.
"Well," I said. Huh, I hadn't thought of that. "I guess that would work too."
Jordan was another person who I had become friends with very fast. I can relate to him really easily I guess. And it's go to have a guy friend to be close with. If everyone sees you just hanging out with a girl all the time it tends to look kind of weird. Jordan's cool because I can joke around with him and he'll actually laugh at my jokes. And he's really easy going to which is cool because for the most part I'm pretty easy going. It's just cool to have someone to hang out and play videogames with.
"But you're sure that that's what the Omicron deals with," Colleen asked me. "This is what Martyr needs to open the Hellmouth."
"Yeah," I told her, "I'm positive. I can point out the specific pages if you want."
"Woah," Jordan said as he stood up suddenly, "vision time."
"Great timing," Colleen said as she stood up off my bedroom floor and cracked her knuckles. "What's going on? Is it Martyr?"
"Yeah," Jordan said. He looked tensed. I think out of all of us that Jordan has the strongest feelings regarding Martyr. "The Bronze. He wants the book."
*****
"I wouldn't say that we're useless," Dawn said as she tossed the tennis ball back at me. "We definitely provide a certain dynamic to the group."
"How so," I said as I threw her the tennis ball again. We were in my room. Colleen and Jordan had gone home because we agreed to meet up again at 7:00 to go to the Bronze. Dawn was here because if I'm not at Dawn's she's usually here. "Colleen is the slayer. Jordan is psychic. What can we do?"
"Well," Dawn thought for a moment, "you picked that lock."
"Nice try," I said. "You at least have all the experience in all this stuff. You're slightly less worthless than I am."
"Wow thanks," Dawn said with a smile. "You know you're not worthless. You completely decrypted the Omicron."
"It took me a month," I told her as we continued to play catch. "Anyone could have done it in a month."
"I don't know about that," Dawn said. "Plus you know the most about magick and stuff like that. You do work at the Magic Box."
"Yeah that's come in handy so many times," I said sarcastically. "Seriously though, Gold Chick has done more for the group than I have."
"Do you ever wonder what's up with her?" Dawn asked. "Like how does she always know where to find us?"
"Yeah and how does she get around town," I said. "She has to stick out, what with the gold skin and all. Maybe she can teleport."
"Maybe," Dawn said. "She does just seem to pop in and out."
I caught the ball and didn't throw it back. I let there be silence for a little bit. "Are you nervous for tonight?" I asked Dawn.
She hesitated. "A little," she admitted. "Not that much though. You should have seen the way that Colleen handled Martyr. It was impressive."
"Yeah but Jordan said that there were going to be other vampires there too," I told her. "I just wish we could have backup. Like I wish we could get a hold of Gold Chick or something."
We threw the ball some more without talking for a while.
"Are you going to tell Xander and Anya about tonight," I asked Dawn. She had been afraid to tell them about the fact that we are now fighting demons. That we are the new "Scooby Gang" as Dawn sometimes said. Needless to say they were not happy with the news. I think now that they somewhat accept, but they don't like it. I don't think Dawn says anything to them about it.
"Probably not," Dawn said, "I don't want them to worry about me."
We threw the ball some more.
"If they ever make a movie about us, I hope they get Ryan Phillippe to play me," I said to Dawn. She laughed.
*****
"What are all these people going to think?" I asked the others while we waited nervously at the Bronze. "I mean, the walking dead are going to enter at any second."
"They'll freak and later tell themselves that nothing happened," Dawn said to me.
"I don't think that's possible," Jordan said.
"Oh believe me it is," Dawn said. "They'll have themselves convinced it was some gang on PCP."
"I wish they would just get here already," Colleen said. "Why can't vampires be a little more Mike?"
"Mike?" I repeated, not understanding. I looked behind me. Mike was standing right there. "Oh Mike."
"Hey," Mike said. "What are you guys up to?"
"Just hanging out," Colleen took over the whole talking to Mike responsibilities. "You?"
"Well," Mike said, "I was in the process of asking you to dance."
Colleen's eyes budged out. On one hand she could dance with her guy. On the other hand she got get him to leave so his chance of dieing would be significantly decreased.
"We were just getting ready to leave actually," Colleen said, rather lamely I might add. "You should get going too. This place is so boring tonight."
"Well that depends," Mike said, "On where you're going." Oh this was a fun little circle we were running around. Mike smiled again. "I think you're just trying to get out of that dance." He walked around the table and took Colleen by the hand. "Well that's not going to happen."
Colleen looked panic. Dawn gave her a little pushed and mouthed the words "just go." Colleen gave in and went with Mike onto the dance floor.
"Well this is great," I said. "This whole establishment is in mortal danger and what is the chosen protector of the world doing? She's dancing."
"Come on Aaron," Dawn said. "We were going to be waiting either way. What difference does it make if we're waiting sitting down or waiting on the dance floor?" Good logic I guess. "So why don't we go dance?"
Wait, did she just say we. Is that we as in "why don't the three of us go out there and have a grand old time as friends or was that we as in "why don't Aaron and Dawn go out there had possibly explore the realm of more than friendship?" Did Dawn think of me that way? Did I think of Dawn that way? Or maybe it was more like "why don't Aaron and Dawn go out there and dance like nothing more than friends because-"
"Isn't that Holly?" Jordan asked.
"Huh?" was the only thing I could say.
"Over there," he said. "Isn't that Holly Nils?"
"Yeah," Dawn answered. "I didn't think she did stuff like this."
I looked over at Holly and for a second it looked like she might have been looking over at us, but then she wasn't because every head in the Bronze had turned their attention to the doors that had just been kicked in.
"Showtime," Dawn said as she opened up the bag that we had brought in. We each grabbed stakes and a cross. I saw Colleen coming towards us and I threw her a stake. The plan was to wait to see what the vampires' move was going to be. We didn't have to wait long. Martyr moved to the stage and go on. The band that was playing quickly got off of the stage. Martyr picked up a girl who was running in front of him. She screamed as he picked her up.
"You," he said to the girl. "Don't scream. Tonight is your lucky night. You get to live. You get to go and find the slayer and tell her that all the people who died here tonight are just the beginning. And there isn't going to be an ending until I get my book. You got that?" The girl didn't react. Martyr shifted into gameface to motivate her. That got a reaction.
"OKOKOK!" The girl screamed. "Just let me go."
"That isn't going to be necessary," Colleen said as she approached the stage and jumped onto it. "I'm right here."
Martyr smiled. "How fortunate. Did you by chance bring my book?"
"We both know that I'm never going to give you that book," Colleen told him.
Martyr frowned. "Wrong answer slayer." And then they started fighting which was quickly followed up by all Hell breaking loose.
Other than Martyr there were about seven other vampires. It was our job to try our best to keep them from hurting anybody while Colleen fought Martyr. It seemed like a good plan on paper. In practice? Not that great. "Jordan behind you!" Dawn shouted as she stuck a cross in the face of a vampire who was about to bite a girl. Jordan didn't even look and gave the vampire a telekinetic shove. I think his goal was to push the vampire over the bar but the only thing that happened was that the vampire lost his balance a little. Jordan did manage to capitalize on the situation and stake the vampire.
So far we were winning. No one was dead and there were vampires being staked. I saw a vampire who looked like he was causing some trouble by the pool tables by where I was standing. I reached over, grabbed a pool stick, broke it in half, and decided to use it as my weapon. The plan was to just sneak up on the vamp and shove the stick through his back. Again good on paper but not in practice. I missed the heart and within seconds the vampire had me on my back. Right before his fangs were about to sink into my neck I saw a gold hang wrap around his neck.
The Gold Chick lifted the vampire off of me and held him so his feat dangled above the floor. I stood up, grabbed my stake, and shoved it through his chest saying "Yeah. You're just lucky that she showed up because I would have made it so much worse." After he was dust I looked into Gold Chick's eyes and mouthed a very grateful "thank you." Gold Chick actually smiled.
With Gold Chick now helping out the fight was a little more even. I still tried to help out but I wasn't much use against a vampire. That is until I saw one grab Dawn by the neck. Gold Chick was trying to eliminate the vampires as quickly as possible and Colleen was still trading blows with Martyr. I looked around me and couldn't find a stake. I did however see a large knife that was lying and the bar. I grabbed the knife, ran for Dawn's vampire, and managed to tackle. Trying not to think about it I pressed the knife on the vamp's throat and pushed my full weight on it till I felt the knife hit the floor.
"That was creepy feeling," I said to Dawn as I stood up.
"Yeah," Dawn said. "Thanks."
"No problem," I told her. We looked around the room. Gold Chick had pretty much gotten rid of all the vampires and was now on stage with Colleen. Martyr was definitely not stupid and realized that he had no chance against the two of them. Before they could catch him, Martyr was out the back door.
"Thanks for the help," Colleen said to Gold Chick. All Gold Chick did was nod and then just turned to leave.
"Hey wait up!" Jordan said trying to catch up to Gold Chick. "I don't get why you don't want to work with us. Why could you possibly not want that?"
Gold Chick looked kind of sad. "You wouldn't want me with you. I would only hurt you." And with that Gold Chick left the Bronze.
The four of us regrouped and walked out of the Bronze with pretty much everyone else. In the craziness of the evening no one really got to pay attention to Colleen or the rest of us for that matter. Colleen was especially thankful that Mike didn't notice what she did. He ran into us on our walk back home and said how worried he had been about Colleen. He asked her if he could walk her home, and Colleen left us with just a "see you guys later."
"I can't believe she's just going to leave us alone," I said. "I mean, what if there are more vampires."
"Are you jealous or something?" Dawn asked me.
"No," I said, being completely honest. "I just don't want Mike getting all Yoko with our group."
"I wonder what she meant by 'I would only hurt you?'" Jordan wondered out loud. "I mean, I wonder what kind of demon she is. Do you think she is a demon?"
Dawn shrugged. "I've never seen a demon like her."
"We could do some research if you want," I told Jordan. "I have to work tomorrow. Do you want to sleep over and go in with me tomorrow morning?"
"Yeah," Jordan said. "I'll call my parents from your place."
"So we did well tonight," Dawn said. "I mean, no one died, so we did our job. And it was us too. Well, us and Gold Chick. But still we did good."
"Yeah," I said to Dawn, "We did good." I knew that I did do well that night, but then and there I decided that I was going to find some way that I could help more. I was going to find some way that I wouldn't have to be rescued by Gold Chick or anyone else if there was a vampire who was pinning me to the ground. I wasn't going to be worthless.
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Author's Note: Thank you very much for the people who reviewed my story. I really appreciate it. I'm really interested in seeing what people think now. Hopefully everyone has a little more insight on the characters and any comments would really be appreciated.