Vampires
Part II
There he is now, Markus, a vampire with a soul in the real world. It is still unbelievable to him, and Martin too, how it all happened, all because of a computer error. Markus then goes over to Martin grabs him by his neck and lifts him up, as if he were light as a feather.
'I still don't get it; you said it would be harmless. That all the changes made to me would be eradicated once I got back out into the real world. You made it sound completely safe. Can't have been safe, look at me!'
Martin finds it a little difficult to breath properly, and says in a rather croaky voice:
'I'm so very sorry, I never ever intended to let anything bad happen to you. When that malfunction occurred everything was blocked and I couldn't do anything. You got to believe me here, I tried everything, but when I finally got you out it was already too late. Please let me down.'
When Markus let him down, Martin suddenly remembered that Kathy would be home from her vacation soon. Kathy was on vacation in Europe, Markus and Kathy phoned each other every night.
It was about a year ago, Kathy worked in a bookstore at that time. When Markus went in there one time to buy the latest release of Anne Rice's 'Vampire chronicles' he spotted an assistant, and said:
'Excuse me miss, could you show me where you got the Books of 'Anne Rice'?'
She turned around; she was 21 years old, 5'4 tall, shoulder length brunette hair, and the loveliest green eyes you could imagine.
'Well if you would follow me please, I'll show you.' Kathy then replied.
They told Martin later on that it was Love at first sight.
Martin then said to Markus:
'What are we going to tell Kathy when she gets back?'
Markus then replied:
'Well I just tell her the truth, that it is all your fault.'
Martin then said:
'I will certainly go on with my search if I can get it reversed, but for now we should probably do the best out of this situation. Here is the address of a friend of mine who specialises in fake documents of all kinds. Just tell him that Martin sent you and he'll be happy to help.'
Markus thinks that this actually is a good idea, so take the piece of paper from Martin, and says:
'Ok I'll be back soon.' And leaves.
On the way to that address he encounters a lady, late twenties to early thirties, 5'5 tall, long dark hair, blue eyes and totally dressed in black. When she sees Markus she comes up to him and says:
'How can this be? Vampires do not exist, and then here you are.'
Markus is very surprised, and says:
'Who the hell are you, and what you doing calling me a vampire? Vampires don't exist.'
'Oh it is so obvious that you are a vampire. By the way I am Lis, please you got to make me like you, please!' she then says.
Markus then answers to that:
'No way, I won't do it. Now get out of my way or I'll forget that I am well educated and give you a smack you'll never forget.'
You can clearly see the anger rising in her, and she says:
'Mark my words, you will regret this, I will find a way to make you do it.' And she disappears.
Markus then thinks, how strange this was, but doesn't spend anymore time thinking about this lady, and continues on his way to that guy's location. When he arrives, he presses the buzzer, and when the door opens Markus thinks that someone from the 60's just come back to life. He's got long hair, a goatee beard, pink sunglasses, a huge peace-symbol around his neck, wearing late sixties early seventies clothing, and you can clearly smell that he must have just been smoking a joint. He then says:
'Yes what is it?'
Markus then answers:
'Hi there Martin sends me, I need you to do me a favour.'
'Martin sent you, you said, well come on in. Me casa e su casa.' The guy then says.
We go inside and it looks like the house of a person stuck in the late sixties!
'So what you need?' that guy then says
'Well I need some official document saying that I got the most dangerous form of Sun allergy every discovered.' Markus then says.
'Sure no problem I can do this. I'll need to do some research, and it should be finished in about 72 hours. As you are a friend of Martin's how does £200 sound to you?'
Markus then got a bit impatient and said:
'72 hours and £200 you must be joking?' he grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him up, and said: 'how about you get that done within the next hour or so, and I won't have to kill you?'
'Ok, ok now let me down, please I'll do it.'
About 2 hours later, after online research and some nice computer artwork, the document is finished.
Meanwhile at a secret location:
'Well this should do it? A spell to bring the evil in any man to surface, and with a vampire it should be even more powerful!' and this Lady Markus briefly met earlier started to read this spell out loud.
Back at the guys house, Markus suddenly feels very strange, starts to scream and sinks to the ground.
'What is wrong with you? Shall I call an ambulance?' the guy then says
I get back up, grab that guy, and say: 'An Ambulance, no there will be a coroner needed in a minute.' And Markus bites down into that guys neck. When Markus drained that guy, he just lets him drop to the floor, and leaves the building.
'Well hello again, you feeling better now?' a voice appears behind Markus when he is back out on the streets. He turns around, and there is this strange lady again.
'Hey haven't I seen you before? What you want?' markus then said
'Don't you feel better now, after you had a snack? Wouldn't you like to show your appreciation for helping you to feel much better? Please make me like you, please!'
So Markus pulls her towards him, and bites down in her neck. After he has taken a serious amount of her blood, he slashes his wrist a little and gives it to her. She greedily starts drinking from it. After a couple of minutes he has to drag her away from his wrist, to make sure she doesn't drink too much. Then she falls to her knees and goes through similar changes like Markus went through.
He sees that, smiles and thinks: 'Oh yes looks like what I experienced. First you think you start burning from the inside out, and then you start vomiting so your system is completely freed from any bits of food. Her senses sharpen, and not to forget those horrific toothaches as those fangs form. After that her heart slows down, until it stops working. Then she loses consciousness, and a minute later her heart starts working again, but that faint, that you wouldn't be able to detect it.
'Oh I feel great! Come with me, I got a little surprise for you!' she says
'What kind of surprise?' I reply to her.
From a safe distance Martin had watched everything, as he wanted to see if he could get some weed off of his friend. He liked smoking a joint now and then. When Markus and Lis where out of sight, Martin ran over to the house, still couldn't believe what he saw, and when he got to the living room, he was shocked, there on the floor was his friend, DEAD. He remembered that his friend always used to be a bit paranoid, and had security cameras fitted everywhere. He went to the control room, his friend showed him once, and took the tape which was recording at the moment, and went back to his house. When he was back at his house, he put the tape on, and looked at what really happened.
In the meantime Lis and Markus arrived at her place. She takes Markus straight through to the bathroom. What he sees there would make any vampire jump for joy. A bath tub half filled with blood. Lis grabs a beaker, dunks it in and offers it to Markus, he then takes a sip, and then says:
'Uh tasty, human blood? Well what can I say? That really is a nice surprise.' And Markus smiled towards Lis.
Lis then took her clothes off, and got in the tub, and asked Markus to join her. She didn't have to ask him twice. He quickly removed his clothes, and got in as well. We then take turns in dunking our heads under, and at the same time drink a little of it. Lis then leans over to markus, and kisses him passionately. She then says: 'I want to feel you inside me, now!' Markus then turns her around, positions her in front of his penis, and then in one quick move, pushes it in completely. They then have really hard, but also passionate sex. When they finally climax about the same time, Markus and Lis then lay back, enjoy the feel of blood on their skin. A bit later they decided that it was time to get some sleep, so they regrettably got out of the tub, went under a shower, they absolutely hated the idea of showering off that blood, but then it would dry and be all flaky and horrible. After that shower, they started to transfer the remaining blood into bottles, and thought of cleaning the tub at a later time. They put the bottles in the fridge and went to bed.
Back at Martin's:
Martin is at home, thinking about what to do now. It seemed to him, that something went seriously wrong with Markus, and he alone wasn't any way able to get him back under control. Which left him with only one option. He powered his invention back up, and got the story Markus went in, and went in there himself. He went straight to the high school library, and there they all were assembled: Giles, Buffy, Willow and Xander.
'You got to come with me, we are in big trouble. There is something terribly wrong with Markus.' He then said.
'First of all, who are you, and what is wrong with Markus?' Buffy then said.
Martin then thinks how he could define the truth the best way, they would call him a lunatic if he told them the truth. Then he had an idea.
'I'm Martin, Markus' best friend. What I am about to tell you, will be hard to believe. Markus and I are from a parallel universe. Markus' just assumed the role of the Markus from this world, when he got here.'
Giles then said: 'Fascinating, I've read about it, that scientists believe that there are many alternate realities. What seems to be the problem?'
Martin the replied: 'Vampires, Demons, and slayers do not exist in our world. When I got Markus back into our world the machine should have filtered out any changes made to markus, but it didn't, he was still a vampire. Fortunately he was somehow a good vampire? Something happened I haven't figured it out yet, but he killed one person, a friend of mine, and made a young woman like him.'
'Obviously you need some help, if nobody in your world really knows how to handle vampires.' Giles then said.
'Yes I do, but I don't wont him dusted, so to speak!' Martin the said.
'Well I still got the spell, we can put his soul back, couldn't we? Shall I get another spell in English as well, for that young woman?' willow then says.
Martin then thought of Kathy, Markus' girlfriend, and he said: 'I don't think we need that one. Markus certainly wont be too happy, when we get his soul back. He'll regret what he done, especially to that young lady. He'll probably be thinking of Kathy, his girlfriend!'
Buffy was not amused at all, when she heard that Markus had a girlfriend. But then she learned her lesson that a relationship with a vampire was not a good idea at all.
'We should be going, but in order to do that we will have to hold hands.' Martin said.
Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Martin then held hands, and Martin pressed his watch. A moment later they were back in Martin's converted Cellar. Willow then turns around, and sees the 'integrator', and then says:
'Well this must be your machine then, for inter-dimensional travel or what you call it?'
Suddenly the door opens, and Scarlet comes in. Martin then says:
'Hello my Darling, what you doing here? I thought you were still at your Aunties place?'
'Well I've come back early, I wanted to surprise you, come over here and give me a hug, sweetie.' Scarlet then said.
Buffy could sense that she was not as harmless as she looked, so gave Willow and Xander a signal to hold Martin back, and she went over to Scarlet, and tries to knock her out. Scarlet then shows her fangs, and Martin screams:
'Oh my God, no that can't be true?'
Buffy then succeeded in knocking her out, and they somehow managed to restrain her properly.
After Martin got himself 'together' again, he said:
'Well I guess we could do with a little more help? We don't really know how many vampires there are already?'
He then changes something on the pc, and there is Angel on the screen.
'Well this is a different reality, where Angel got his soul back. If I go in there on my own, he wont believe me, so Buffy would you accompany me please?' Martin then said.
A few minutes later they are back, and Willow and Xander said Hi to Angel. Suddenly the doorbell went off. Martin switched the little security monitor on, he had besides his 'integrator' and the security camera for the front door revealed that it was Kathy.
'Oh shit, what are we going to do now? She shouldn't have been back for another 2 days.' Martin the said.
'Let me guess, that is Kathy!' Buffy then said, looking at the little black and white screen.
'Well I will have to let her in, and make something up for now.' Martin then said, and went up those stairs. He got to the front door, and opened it. He saw Kathy standing there, she looked a bit upset. Suddenly she punched Martin right in the face.
'That is a nice hello, thank you very much.' Martin said, after that punch.
'I really should kick your ass big time.' Kathy then said, and stormed inside.
'Why what have I done now?' Martin replied.
'You damn know what I am talking about. To refreshen your memory: A markus didn't shut the computer properly, when I went on it, this file was still highlighted, so I opened it up and read it. B what's all that Pigs blood doing in our Fridge? So you damn well know what I am talking about! Where is he? Where is Markus, come on Martin tell me, damn it. Or do you want another punch?' The others downstairs heard all of what was going on up there, and then decided to join them, as Kathy seemed to know the truth already.
Kathy didn't believe her eyes, when suddenly these familiar faces appeared from the cellar.
'What are they doing here Martin?' Kathy asked him.
Martin then said: 'I brought them here, to help get Markus back under control. He's gone bad.'
'Calm down lady we are here to fix things. We can't give you the 'old markus' back, but we can get his sense of right and wrong and his conscience back.' Buffy then said.
'Me calming down, if it wasn't for you and this jerk here none of this would be happening.' Kathy said, she looked at her watch, and said: 'Come with me I want to show you something, she got away from Martin, and Buffy followed her. Kathy went into the lounge and switched the TV on, she put Sky one on, and there was an episode of Buffy on at the moment. It was the last episode of the first season.
'I don't get it? What is going on here? That's clearly me, but I remember this. This is about a year ago, when I got ready to kill the master.' Buffy said.
'Don't you get it? This is a usual TV station airing 're-runs' of a popular TV-series called 'Buffy – The Vampire slayer' Kathy then said.
'Get outta here. You telling me I am from a TV series and don't really exist? You are crazy, I don't have to listen to this, we need to get to Markus.' Buffy said.
'Martin, tell her the truth.' Kathy said.
'She is correct. I know it is hard to believe. Angel what's the date?' Martin then said.
'What does that have to with anything? Of course it is February 2000.' Angel then said.
'Na that can't be, it's October 1998' Xander then said.
'well how can I prove it to you? What is your favorite TV series?' Martin said.
'Definitely Star Trek –next generation-' Xander then said.
That all sounded too fantastic to be true, Buffy would have rather gone out looking for Markus. Martin then dragged everyone back downstairs. He went to a cupboard, and pulled a tape out, and put it in the VCR there, you could clearly see an episode of Star Trek – next generation-. Martin then grabbed hold of Xander, and pressed that button on his watch. Suddenly they disappeared and a moment later they appeared on the TV screen. Wesley then noticed them first, and said: 'Who are you, and where did you come from?' Martin then pressed the button again, and he and Xander were back besides them.
'Well that doesn't prove anything!' Buffy then said.
'Enough about that, it doesn't really matter right now, what is true and what isn't, the main thing we should worry about right now is getting markus back on our side.' Willow then said.
Kathy looked at Willow, and actually smiled for once, and then said: 'She is absolutely right, how can we get markus back to normal?'
'Well we'll have to find him first. It probably wouldn't be such a good idea to just do that spell to put his soul back, as he is together with those other vampires. They might not react that kindly to him afterwards. So Angel and I are going out now to find him, and you people get everything ready for the spell.' Buffy then said.
'No problem, I think I got everything here to get that spell working again. I also remember the original version of the spell so I can give Scarlet a soul as well. I think I'll do that first, and then when you found markus we re-en-soul him.' Willow then said.
Buffy and Angel then left, looking for Markus. They didn't really know where to look, but luck was with them.
At Lis place. Markus woke up, as just had a dream about his girlfriend Kathy, and felt this sudden urge to go look for her, so he quietly got up, and got his clothes together, and left.
Luck was really with Buffy and Angel, while were getting rather pissed off with not knowing where to look for Markus, he suddenly appeared in front of them.
'Buffy, Angel what the fuck are you doing here?' Markus then said, smiling at them.
'Cut the crap markus, we are here to get you, and bring you back to Martin's place.' Buffy then said.
'Well isn't that nice? Try it if you can.' Markus then said, being so sure of himself that they wouldn't be able to.
He then tried to fight them both, but the mixture of Angel and Buffy was slightly too much for Markus, and Buffy finally knocked him out. They hurried him back to Martin's place, as the sun was rising very soon. They just got back to Martin's place, as the sun was already rising. Angel and Markus were already emanating some smoke, when they got inside. They tie Markus down on a chair, downstairs. As markus wakes up, he looks at Martin, and then says:
'Well hello my friend, got my present? Scarlet and you wanted to announce your engagement next weekend, didn't you?'
Martin then comes over to Markus, and starts punching him.
'Martin stop it, please. Martin!' Kathy then starts to shout. But he doesn't, so Xander goes over to him, and drags him away. Willow then goes near to markus and starts talking in ancient German. When she finishes, Markus starts screaming, and shaking, then loses consciousness. When he wakes up again, Kathy goes over to him, and starts slapping him in the face, and then shouts at him:
'Well are you satisfied now? You got what you always wanted, haven't you? You wanted to be a vampire, and now you are one of them!'
Markus then looks at Kathy, and starts to cry, without really ceasing to cry, he tries to speak:
'I'm so sorry darling. If I would have known before hand, what would happen I would never have said yes to what Martin proposed, but there was something wrong with his computer system, and when I got back I was a vamp. I can't change that now, even though I would give about anything to. Martin can't even make it change. But I do still love you very much. I am so sorry, can you ever forgive me?'
Kathy then starts crying herself, and says:
'Vampire or not, I do still love you. We'll get through this together. We will make it work somehow.' And she gives him a kiss.
Suddenly Scarlet starts shouting: 'What the hell am I doing here? I can't remember a thing.'
Markus then looks at her, and says:
'Well I think I can help you there. You see Martin got this invention of his, and through this invention I became a vampire. To cut a long story short, I unfortunately turned you into a vamp as well.'
'Stop that, that isn't funny.' Scarlet then says, and then she notices Buffy and the others. 'What are they doing here? Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Alyson Hannigan, and what was his name?'
'Who are you talking about? I'm Buffy, that's Angel, Willow and Xander!' Buffy then says.
Scarlet then says, still not fully awake: 'Isn't that funny, they actually think they are who they pretend to be!'
Martin then goes over to his girlfriend, unties her, helps her up, and says: 'No, it isn't like that at all. You've seen that Schwarzenegger film 'Last action Hero' haven't you? That is basically what I've invented, just that it works with a VCR and TV linked to a Pc.'
'Let me get this straight? I am a vampire because of your invention made Markus to one and he turned me?' Scarlet said, so she ran over to Markus and started punching him. This time it takes Buffy and Angel together to get her to stop punching Markus. He then gets a bit pissed off, and with his vampire strength demolishes the chair he was still tied to, and stands up, and then says:
'Well that is alright I deserve it, anyone else want to punch me, or why don't you just take a piece of wood and finish me all together.'
Kathy then slaps Markus again, and says: 'Stop that, nobody is getting finished here and now.'
Martin then decides that it is time to get Buffy and Angel back where they belong, he doesn't look properly when he grabs one of the Buffy tapes, and puts it in, and says: 'Well why don't we all go to Sunnydale and party a little, or is anyone up for some sleep?'
They all decide that they aren't really sleepy at all. So they all hold hands, and Martin presses that button on the watch he is still wearing, and they are all back in Sunnydale. Buffy, Angel, Willow, Xander, Kathy, Scarlet, Martin and Markus are on their way to the bronze then, as Xander suddenly says: 'Yikes. I just seen something really disturbing, either I really seen that, or I am going mad!'
'What was it?' Willow then says.
'Well I just seen you and me, but we were vampires, and you were just drinking blood from a young girl.' Xander then replies.
Markus then says: 'Oh oh, Martin you sure you got the right episode?'
'Martin then says: Wait a sec I just check, and he presses that button and disappears, then he appears again, and says: 'You are right I got the wrong episode, and there is another problem. I don't know what it is, but the computer won't allow me to bring all of you back, it is saying that some sort of problem occurred and it will need just a little bit of time to get it fixed.'
'Well this damn machine of yours isn't good for anything is it?' Kathy then says.
'Martin, just go and take Kathy with you. We'll get through don't you worry. After all we got 3 vampires, the slayer and a witch here.' Markus then says.
'I am not a witch, at least not a powerful one.' Willow then says.
'No I wont leave you Markus, not again.' Kathy then says.
Martin doesn't wait till Markus says something, he just grabs hold of Kathy and presses that button on his watch, and they are back in his basement.
Back in Sunnydale, they still are going towards the bronze, when they are stopped by a bunch of vampires. Willow then just thinks: 'Why can't they just burn?' and suddenly they do just that.
'Uh what was that?' Xander says.
'Well I think I did that. I can feel such tremendous power inside myself suddenly.' Willow then said.
Markus still had his mobile in his pocket, and it beeped suddenly. So he took it out, and said: 'I got a message from Martin. He says that he somehow found a way to make Willow a powerful witch. Unfortunately the computer disagreed with his command. Willow you are now the most powerful witch that ever existed.'
'Oh wow that sounds cool.' Xander said.
Buffy then said: 'So what is going on here, why are Willow and Xander twice here? And why are the others vampires?'
Markus then said: 'Well it doesn't really matter if you believe the alternate reality version or the truth with the TV-series. But this is actually Sunnydale. It is a Sunnydale where it shows what would have happened if you Buffy never showed up here!'
'Well that does sound like big trouble!' Scarlet then says.
Suddenly they see a few people surrounded by vampires, and an old VW transporter appears, and stops just in front of those people who were surrounded by those vamps. One of the doors opened, and out came Giles, Oz and another guy Markus hadn't seen before. Markus and the others then decided to go over and give them a hand. When they got rid of those vampires Giles looked at them, and then held a wooden cross in Willow's face, and said: 'Back off vampire!'
'Cut that out, will you. I am not a vampire, neither is Xander.' Willow then said.
'How is that possible, you are vampires. You are the master's favorite. And who are you?' Giles then said looking at Buffy.
'I am Buffy, don't you know me? I am the slayer!' Buffy then said.
'Last thing I heard was the slayer was in California, battling with demons.' Oz then said.
'Well she is here now. Now fill us in on the situation. How can we help?' Angel then said.
'Aren't you Angelus the vampire with a soul? I thought the Master held you inside the Bronze in a cage?' Giles said.
'Ok I get it, the master obviously is not dead, Angel is here twice, and still got his soul, but is held captive. So what you doing about then?' Buffy then said.
'The best we can, without a slayer we can't really do much about it!' that guy nobody knew said then.
'Well you got a slayer now, and 3 vampires with a soul, so shall we go and kick some ass?' Scarlet then said.
Markus then says: 'Well you coming or shall we do it alone?'
'You're right I am tired of running away, let's go get them.' Oz then says.
Giles then nods, and off we go towards the bronze. Most of the vampires are out to hunt, but there are still quite a few left at the bronze. They arrive at the bronze, and a bunch of vampires see us, and start coming towards us. So we start fighting. Buffy, and Angel are in their element, they don't have any problems what so ever. Scarlet isn't quite sure what to do, she is a vampire, but she never has fought a vampire before. So I go over and give her a hand. Willow and Xander are suddenly confronted with their doubles.
'Was I really such a bore when I was still human?' Evil Willow then said looking at herself.
Evil Xander then charges towards his other self, and punches him. Xander falls to the ground, bleeding from his nose, quite heavily. ' I cannot believe what a wimp I was before I became like this.' Evil Xander said laughing towards his other self. Willow then looks at herself, and says: 'Well I had enough.' She then thinks: ' Burn you evil vampires, burn.' And suddenly all the vampires outside the bronze start to burn, and then turn into dust. They all enter the bronze, and what they find there? At the other end of the bronze, where the band usually was, is kind of a throne, where the mast sits on. Besides him are Drusilla and Spike. Willow tries it again, as she thinks that there are still too many vampires around. Some of them burn and turn to dust, others stay unharmed, especially Dru, Spike and of course the master.
'That is odd? Why didn't it work with all of them?'
'You foolish witch, they are under my protection, and your magic can't touch them.' Replies the master.
'Well we just have to do it the old fashioned way then? Oz, Giles, Xander you go and look for the other Angel he must be around here somewhere. We take it from here. ' Markus then said.
'Willow you stay back, and try keeping our backs free. Let's go and kick some ass.' Buffy then said.
Angel, Buffy, and Scarlet start fighting those vamps, while Markus puts some gloves on he found lying around, and then grabs a bottle of blessed water, Giles had in his bag, which he left behind. He charges towards the master. Markus manages to open that bottle, and when he got near enough he throws the contents towards the master. He then covers his face with his hands, and screams. Then he comes towards Markus and starts punching like a wild animal. Markus keeps tumbling, the master is rather strong. Then Markus hits the spots where the water hit his skin, and it does seems to have an effect on him. The master then gets one punch through and Markus crashes down on the floor. Suddenly Dru is there besides him, and just as she wants to stake him, Angel suddenly holds her back.
'Your no fun anymore, daddy.' Dru then hisses.
The master then comes towards Markus, and grabs him by the throat, and says: 'You think you can stop me? Ha you fool.' Suddenly he lets Markus go, and just before he turns to dust, he turns around, and there is Buffy, who just put a piece of wood in his back.
Suddenly everything goes black for all of them, and then next thing they know is that they are back in Martin's basement. Buffy, Angel, Willow, Xander, Scarlet, and Markus then open their eyes, and say: 'What? Oh we are back!'
'Yes I managed to fix it for a change.' Martin then said.
'Well I think it is time for a rest, don't you?' Kathy then says.
'You are right darling, I am a little tired myself.'
They all go to rest then, and try to get some sleep. Buffy cuddles up to Angel, Scarlet cuddles up to Martin, Kathy cuddles up to Markus. Just Xander and willow don't cuddle up.
A few hours later, it is already dark outside, they wake up. Markus already left. Kathy finds a note from him: 'I'll be back soon, I am paying that Lis a visit.'
'Martin you sure he's gonna be alright? You said she took his soul away once, she could do it again, couldn't she?' Kathy then says.
Willow then says: 'No I don't think so. I can feel that she didn't really took his soul away, it was just buried deep inside him. She performed a spell to let his evil side take over. Remember we all got a good and a bad side, and with most people this good side is usually in control. She somehow found a way to give the bad side the upper hand.'
At Lis' place
Markus arrives at her place. He breaks down the door, and looks around the house. When he gets to the bedroom, there is a message written on the walls with blood:
'Hey there loser. We've gone out to meet your friends, if you won't join me, they'll all die. Cu later.'
So Markus rushes back to Martin's as fast as he can, and when he gets there. There is already some ashes in front of the house. He goes straight down to the basement. He cant believe what he sees there. Kathy is lying on the floor bleeding. Angel got Lis under control. Markus then kneels down besides Kathy.
'Darling are you alright? Speak to me please.' Markus then said.
Kathy couldn't answer, as she is unconscious at the moment, so Markus has this hateful look in his eyes, and goes over, pushes Angel away, and starts punching Lis. Suddenly Kathy wakes up, and shouts out Markus over and over again. Markus lets off of Lis and goes over to Kathy.
'I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gone out. I love you!' markus then said.
'Stop apologizing, come here and bite me. I'm dying, I can feel it, that is the only way we'll be able to stay together.' Kathy then said.
Markus looked around, and they all nodded. So markus sat down properly, but Kathy in his arms, and bites her in the neck, and starts drinking her blood. After a minute or so, Markus then opens his wrist slightly, and gives it to Kathy. She starts drinking, when Markus drags his hand away from her, a few minutes later. Kathy closes her eyes. Ten minutes later Kathy wakes up again, gets up and goes over to Lis. She punches her as hard as she can. When Lis goes to the ground, Kathy demands a piece of wood. When it is handed to her, she rams it into Lis with all the power she go in her, then as Lis turns into dust, you can see that the wooden stake is actually stuck in the floor.
After that they all sit down, and think about what happened during the last couple of days. Markus then says: 'Willow do you know if this 'Never Sex again' rule still applies to 2 vampires?'
'I'm not hundred percent certain, you know the spell's I used to restore your souls is based on what was the original curse from those gypsies. So I would have thought so. But as I said, I cant be 100% certain.' Willow then replied.
'Well can we go home now?' Xander then said.
'Sure I bring you back. No problem.' Martin then said.
They said goodbye to each other, and Martin then got them all back where they belong.
A few weeks later.
Martin already got everything ready to get that machine destroyed, and thinks of doing so within the coming week. Markus and Kathy slowly got to terms with the fact they both were Vampires, and it would be a good idea not to have sex. They already got fake papers and so on, and started looking for jobs. Scarlett was getting along quite alright as well, although martin and her found it quite hard to restrain themselves from having sex.
One evening Kathy and Markus were so horny, and they couldn't resist it anymore, and didn't think of the consequences it might have, and had sex the whole day long.
A few days later Martin was listening to the news on the local radio station, and they were saying something about the latest victim of the mysterious killer, the papers call 'the drainer'. Martin then puts one and one together, and starts working on his machine, he already took it apart, and wanted to destroy it sometime soon. With every new body the police found it seemed like the killings where moving closer to Martin's place.
When Martin finally finished putting his machine back together, the doorbell goes, and outside is a bloke from UPS he hands Martin a parcel. When Martin is back inside, he opens it. Suddenly there is strong smell of blood. He opens it further, and there is some foil, he carefully moves it away, and what he sees makes his face go white, it is a heart, a real human heart. There is a piece of paper pinned to the heart, it reads:
'You are next'
To be concluded
Part II
There he is now, Markus, a vampire with a soul in the real world. It is still unbelievable to him, and Martin too, how it all happened, all because of a computer error. Markus then goes over to Martin grabs him by his neck and lifts him up, as if he were light as a feather.
'I still don't get it; you said it would be harmless. That all the changes made to me would be eradicated once I got back out into the real world. You made it sound completely safe. Can't have been safe, look at me!'
Martin finds it a little difficult to breath properly, and says in a rather croaky voice:
'I'm so very sorry, I never ever intended to let anything bad happen to you. When that malfunction occurred everything was blocked and I couldn't do anything. You got to believe me here, I tried everything, but when I finally got you out it was already too late. Please let me down.'
When Markus let him down, Martin suddenly remembered that Kathy would be home from her vacation soon. Kathy was on vacation in Europe, Markus and Kathy phoned each other every night.
It was about a year ago, Kathy worked in a bookstore at that time. When Markus went in there one time to buy the latest release of Anne Rice's 'Vampire chronicles' he spotted an assistant, and said:
'Excuse me miss, could you show me where you got the Books of 'Anne Rice'?'
She turned around; she was 21 years old, 5'4 tall, shoulder length brunette hair, and the loveliest green eyes you could imagine.
'Well if you would follow me please, I'll show you.' Kathy then replied.
They told Martin later on that it was Love at first sight.
Martin then said to Markus:
'What are we going to tell Kathy when she gets back?'
Markus then replied:
'Well I just tell her the truth, that it is all your fault.'
Martin then said:
'I will certainly go on with my search if I can get it reversed, but for now we should probably do the best out of this situation. Here is the address of a friend of mine who specialises in fake documents of all kinds. Just tell him that Martin sent you and he'll be happy to help.'
Markus thinks that this actually is a good idea, so take the piece of paper from Martin, and says:
'Ok I'll be back soon.' And leaves.
On the way to that address he encounters a lady, late twenties to early thirties, 5'5 tall, long dark hair, blue eyes and totally dressed in black. When she sees Markus she comes up to him and says:
'How can this be? Vampires do not exist, and then here you are.'
Markus is very surprised, and says:
'Who the hell are you, and what you doing calling me a vampire? Vampires don't exist.'
'Oh it is so obvious that you are a vampire. By the way I am Lis, please you got to make me like you, please!' she then says.
Markus then answers to that:
'No way, I won't do it. Now get out of my way or I'll forget that I am well educated and give you a smack you'll never forget.'
You can clearly see the anger rising in her, and she says:
'Mark my words, you will regret this, I will find a way to make you do it.' And she disappears.
Markus then thinks, how strange this was, but doesn't spend anymore time thinking about this lady, and continues on his way to that guy's location. When he arrives, he presses the buzzer, and when the door opens Markus thinks that someone from the 60's just come back to life. He's got long hair, a goatee beard, pink sunglasses, a huge peace-symbol around his neck, wearing late sixties early seventies clothing, and you can clearly smell that he must have just been smoking a joint. He then says:
'Yes what is it?'
Markus then answers:
'Hi there Martin sends me, I need you to do me a favour.'
'Martin sent you, you said, well come on in. Me casa e su casa.' The guy then says.
We go inside and it looks like the house of a person stuck in the late sixties!
'So what you need?' that guy then says
'Well I need some official document saying that I got the most dangerous form of Sun allergy every discovered.' Markus then says.
'Sure no problem I can do this. I'll need to do some research, and it should be finished in about 72 hours. As you are a friend of Martin's how does £200 sound to you?'
Markus then got a bit impatient and said:
'72 hours and £200 you must be joking?' he grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him up, and said: 'how about you get that done within the next hour or so, and I won't have to kill you?'
'Ok, ok now let me down, please I'll do it.'
About 2 hours later, after online research and some nice computer artwork, the document is finished.
Meanwhile at a secret location:
'Well this should do it? A spell to bring the evil in any man to surface, and with a vampire it should be even more powerful!' and this Lady Markus briefly met earlier started to read this spell out loud.
Back at the guys house, Markus suddenly feels very strange, starts to scream and sinks to the ground.
'What is wrong with you? Shall I call an ambulance?' the guy then says
I get back up, grab that guy, and say: 'An Ambulance, no there will be a coroner needed in a minute.' And Markus bites down into that guys neck. When Markus drained that guy, he just lets him drop to the floor, and leaves the building.
'Well hello again, you feeling better now?' a voice appears behind Markus when he is back out on the streets. He turns around, and there is this strange lady again.
'Hey haven't I seen you before? What you want?' markus then said
'Don't you feel better now, after you had a snack? Wouldn't you like to show your appreciation for helping you to feel much better? Please make me like you, please!'
So Markus pulls her towards him, and bites down in her neck. After he has taken a serious amount of her blood, he slashes his wrist a little and gives it to her. She greedily starts drinking from it. After a couple of minutes he has to drag her away from his wrist, to make sure she doesn't drink too much. Then she falls to her knees and goes through similar changes like Markus went through.
He sees that, smiles and thinks: 'Oh yes looks like what I experienced. First you think you start burning from the inside out, and then you start vomiting so your system is completely freed from any bits of food. Her senses sharpen, and not to forget those horrific toothaches as those fangs form. After that her heart slows down, until it stops working. Then she loses consciousness, and a minute later her heart starts working again, but that faint, that you wouldn't be able to detect it.
'Oh I feel great! Come with me, I got a little surprise for you!' she says
'What kind of surprise?' I reply to her.
From a safe distance Martin had watched everything, as he wanted to see if he could get some weed off of his friend. He liked smoking a joint now and then. When Markus and Lis where out of sight, Martin ran over to the house, still couldn't believe what he saw, and when he got to the living room, he was shocked, there on the floor was his friend, DEAD. He remembered that his friend always used to be a bit paranoid, and had security cameras fitted everywhere. He went to the control room, his friend showed him once, and took the tape which was recording at the moment, and went back to his house. When he was back at his house, he put the tape on, and looked at what really happened.
In the meantime Lis and Markus arrived at her place. She takes Markus straight through to the bathroom. What he sees there would make any vampire jump for joy. A bath tub half filled with blood. Lis grabs a beaker, dunks it in and offers it to Markus, he then takes a sip, and then says:
'Uh tasty, human blood? Well what can I say? That really is a nice surprise.' And Markus smiled towards Lis.
Lis then took her clothes off, and got in the tub, and asked Markus to join her. She didn't have to ask him twice. He quickly removed his clothes, and got in as well. We then take turns in dunking our heads under, and at the same time drink a little of it. Lis then leans over to markus, and kisses him passionately. She then says: 'I want to feel you inside me, now!' Markus then turns her around, positions her in front of his penis, and then in one quick move, pushes it in completely. They then have really hard, but also passionate sex. When they finally climax about the same time, Markus and Lis then lay back, enjoy the feel of blood on their skin. A bit later they decided that it was time to get some sleep, so they regrettably got out of the tub, went under a shower, they absolutely hated the idea of showering off that blood, but then it would dry and be all flaky and horrible. After that shower, they started to transfer the remaining blood into bottles, and thought of cleaning the tub at a later time. They put the bottles in the fridge and went to bed.
Back at Martin's:
Martin is at home, thinking about what to do now. It seemed to him, that something went seriously wrong with Markus, and he alone wasn't any way able to get him back under control. Which left him with only one option. He powered his invention back up, and got the story Markus went in, and went in there himself. He went straight to the high school library, and there they all were assembled: Giles, Buffy, Willow and Xander.
'You got to come with me, we are in big trouble. There is something terribly wrong with Markus.' He then said.
'First of all, who are you, and what is wrong with Markus?' Buffy then said.
Martin then thinks how he could define the truth the best way, they would call him a lunatic if he told them the truth. Then he had an idea.
'I'm Martin, Markus' best friend. What I am about to tell you, will be hard to believe. Markus and I are from a parallel universe. Markus' just assumed the role of the Markus from this world, when he got here.'
Giles then said: 'Fascinating, I've read about it, that scientists believe that there are many alternate realities. What seems to be the problem?'
Martin the replied: 'Vampires, Demons, and slayers do not exist in our world. When I got Markus back into our world the machine should have filtered out any changes made to markus, but it didn't, he was still a vampire. Fortunately he was somehow a good vampire? Something happened I haven't figured it out yet, but he killed one person, a friend of mine, and made a young woman like him.'
'Obviously you need some help, if nobody in your world really knows how to handle vampires.' Giles then said.
'Yes I do, but I don't wont him dusted, so to speak!' Martin the said.
'Well I still got the spell, we can put his soul back, couldn't we? Shall I get another spell in English as well, for that young woman?' willow then says.
Martin then thought of Kathy, Markus' girlfriend, and he said: 'I don't think we need that one. Markus certainly wont be too happy, when we get his soul back. He'll regret what he done, especially to that young lady. He'll probably be thinking of Kathy, his girlfriend!'
Buffy was not amused at all, when she heard that Markus had a girlfriend. But then she learned her lesson that a relationship with a vampire was not a good idea at all.
'We should be going, but in order to do that we will have to hold hands.' Martin said.
Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Martin then held hands, and Martin pressed his watch. A moment later they were back in Martin's converted Cellar. Willow then turns around, and sees the 'integrator', and then says:
'Well this must be your machine then, for inter-dimensional travel or what you call it?'
Suddenly the door opens, and Scarlet comes in. Martin then says:
'Hello my Darling, what you doing here? I thought you were still at your Aunties place?'
'Well I've come back early, I wanted to surprise you, come over here and give me a hug, sweetie.' Scarlet then said.
Buffy could sense that she was not as harmless as she looked, so gave Willow and Xander a signal to hold Martin back, and she went over to Scarlet, and tries to knock her out. Scarlet then shows her fangs, and Martin screams:
'Oh my God, no that can't be true?'
Buffy then succeeded in knocking her out, and they somehow managed to restrain her properly.
After Martin got himself 'together' again, he said:
'Well I guess we could do with a little more help? We don't really know how many vampires there are already?'
He then changes something on the pc, and there is Angel on the screen.
'Well this is a different reality, where Angel got his soul back. If I go in there on my own, he wont believe me, so Buffy would you accompany me please?' Martin then said.
A few minutes later they are back, and Willow and Xander said Hi to Angel. Suddenly the doorbell went off. Martin switched the little security monitor on, he had besides his 'integrator' and the security camera for the front door revealed that it was Kathy.
'Oh shit, what are we going to do now? She shouldn't have been back for another 2 days.' Martin the said.
'Let me guess, that is Kathy!' Buffy then said, looking at the little black and white screen.
'Well I will have to let her in, and make something up for now.' Martin then said, and went up those stairs. He got to the front door, and opened it. He saw Kathy standing there, she looked a bit upset. Suddenly she punched Martin right in the face.
'That is a nice hello, thank you very much.' Martin said, after that punch.
'I really should kick your ass big time.' Kathy then said, and stormed inside.
'Why what have I done now?' Martin replied.
'You damn know what I am talking about. To refreshen your memory: A markus didn't shut the computer properly, when I went on it, this file was still highlighted, so I opened it up and read it. B what's all that Pigs blood doing in our Fridge? So you damn well know what I am talking about! Where is he? Where is Markus, come on Martin tell me, damn it. Or do you want another punch?' The others downstairs heard all of what was going on up there, and then decided to join them, as Kathy seemed to know the truth already.
Kathy didn't believe her eyes, when suddenly these familiar faces appeared from the cellar.
'What are they doing here Martin?' Kathy asked him.
Martin then said: 'I brought them here, to help get Markus back under control. He's gone bad.'
'Calm down lady we are here to fix things. We can't give you the 'old markus' back, but we can get his sense of right and wrong and his conscience back.' Buffy then said.
'Me calming down, if it wasn't for you and this jerk here none of this would be happening.' Kathy said, she looked at her watch, and said: 'Come with me I want to show you something, she got away from Martin, and Buffy followed her. Kathy went into the lounge and switched the TV on, she put Sky one on, and there was an episode of Buffy on at the moment. It was the last episode of the first season.
'I don't get it? What is going on here? That's clearly me, but I remember this. This is about a year ago, when I got ready to kill the master.' Buffy said.
'Don't you get it? This is a usual TV station airing 're-runs' of a popular TV-series called 'Buffy – The Vampire slayer' Kathy then said.
'Get outta here. You telling me I am from a TV series and don't really exist? You are crazy, I don't have to listen to this, we need to get to Markus.' Buffy said.
'Martin, tell her the truth.' Kathy said.
'She is correct. I know it is hard to believe. Angel what's the date?' Martin then said.
'What does that have to with anything? Of course it is February 2000.' Angel then said.
'Na that can't be, it's October 1998' Xander then said.
'well how can I prove it to you? What is your favorite TV series?' Martin said.
'Definitely Star Trek –next generation-' Xander then said.
That all sounded too fantastic to be true, Buffy would have rather gone out looking for Markus. Martin then dragged everyone back downstairs. He went to a cupboard, and pulled a tape out, and put it in the VCR there, you could clearly see an episode of Star Trek – next generation-. Martin then grabbed hold of Xander, and pressed that button on his watch. Suddenly they disappeared and a moment later they appeared on the TV screen. Wesley then noticed them first, and said: 'Who are you, and where did you come from?' Martin then pressed the button again, and he and Xander were back besides them.
'Well that doesn't prove anything!' Buffy then said.
'Enough about that, it doesn't really matter right now, what is true and what isn't, the main thing we should worry about right now is getting markus back on our side.' Willow then said.
Kathy looked at Willow, and actually smiled for once, and then said: 'She is absolutely right, how can we get markus back to normal?'
'Well we'll have to find him first. It probably wouldn't be such a good idea to just do that spell to put his soul back, as he is together with those other vampires. They might not react that kindly to him afterwards. So Angel and I are going out now to find him, and you people get everything ready for the spell.' Buffy then said.
'No problem, I think I got everything here to get that spell working again. I also remember the original version of the spell so I can give Scarlet a soul as well. I think I'll do that first, and then when you found markus we re-en-soul him.' Willow then said.
Buffy and Angel then left, looking for Markus. They didn't really know where to look, but luck was with them.
At Lis place. Markus woke up, as just had a dream about his girlfriend Kathy, and felt this sudden urge to go look for her, so he quietly got up, and got his clothes together, and left.
Luck was really with Buffy and Angel, while were getting rather pissed off with not knowing where to look for Markus, he suddenly appeared in front of them.
'Buffy, Angel what the fuck are you doing here?' Markus then said, smiling at them.
'Cut the crap markus, we are here to get you, and bring you back to Martin's place.' Buffy then said.
'Well isn't that nice? Try it if you can.' Markus then said, being so sure of himself that they wouldn't be able to.
He then tried to fight them both, but the mixture of Angel and Buffy was slightly too much for Markus, and Buffy finally knocked him out. They hurried him back to Martin's place, as the sun was rising very soon. They just got back to Martin's place, as the sun was already rising. Angel and Markus were already emanating some smoke, when they got inside. They tie Markus down on a chair, downstairs. As markus wakes up, he looks at Martin, and then says:
'Well hello my friend, got my present? Scarlet and you wanted to announce your engagement next weekend, didn't you?'
Martin then comes over to Markus, and starts punching him.
'Martin stop it, please. Martin!' Kathy then starts to shout. But he doesn't, so Xander goes over to him, and drags him away. Willow then goes near to markus and starts talking in ancient German. When she finishes, Markus starts screaming, and shaking, then loses consciousness. When he wakes up again, Kathy goes over to him, and starts slapping him in the face, and then shouts at him:
'Well are you satisfied now? You got what you always wanted, haven't you? You wanted to be a vampire, and now you are one of them!'
Markus then looks at Kathy, and starts to cry, without really ceasing to cry, he tries to speak:
'I'm so sorry darling. If I would have known before hand, what would happen I would never have said yes to what Martin proposed, but there was something wrong with his computer system, and when I got back I was a vamp. I can't change that now, even though I would give about anything to. Martin can't even make it change. But I do still love you very much. I am so sorry, can you ever forgive me?'
Kathy then starts crying herself, and says:
'Vampire or not, I do still love you. We'll get through this together. We will make it work somehow.' And she gives him a kiss.
Suddenly Scarlet starts shouting: 'What the hell am I doing here? I can't remember a thing.'
Markus then looks at her, and says:
'Well I think I can help you there. You see Martin got this invention of his, and through this invention I became a vampire. To cut a long story short, I unfortunately turned you into a vamp as well.'
'Stop that, that isn't funny.' Scarlet then says, and then she notices Buffy and the others. 'What are they doing here? Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, Alyson Hannigan, and what was his name?'
'Who are you talking about? I'm Buffy, that's Angel, Willow and Xander!' Buffy then says.
Scarlet then says, still not fully awake: 'Isn't that funny, they actually think they are who they pretend to be!'
Martin then goes over to his girlfriend, unties her, helps her up, and says: 'No, it isn't like that at all. You've seen that Schwarzenegger film 'Last action Hero' haven't you? That is basically what I've invented, just that it works with a VCR and TV linked to a Pc.'
'Let me get this straight? I am a vampire because of your invention made Markus to one and he turned me?' Scarlet said, so she ran over to Markus and started punching him. This time it takes Buffy and Angel together to get her to stop punching Markus. He then gets a bit pissed off, and with his vampire strength demolishes the chair he was still tied to, and stands up, and then says:
'Well that is alright I deserve it, anyone else want to punch me, or why don't you just take a piece of wood and finish me all together.'
Kathy then slaps Markus again, and says: 'Stop that, nobody is getting finished here and now.'
Martin then decides that it is time to get Buffy and Angel back where they belong, he doesn't look properly when he grabs one of the Buffy tapes, and puts it in, and says: 'Well why don't we all go to Sunnydale and party a little, or is anyone up for some sleep?'
They all decide that they aren't really sleepy at all. So they all hold hands, and Martin presses that button on the watch he is still wearing, and they are all back in Sunnydale. Buffy, Angel, Willow, Xander, Kathy, Scarlet, Martin and Markus are on their way to the bronze then, as Xander suddenly says: 'Yikes. I just seen something really disturbing, either I really seen that, or I am going mad!'
'What was it?' Willow then says.
'Well I just seen you and me, but we were vampires, and you were just drinking blood from a young girl.' Xander then replies.
Markus then says: 'Oh oh, Martin you sure you got the right episode?'
'Martin then says: Wait a sec I just check, and he presses that button and disappears, then he appears again, and says: 'You are right I got the wrong episode, and there is another problem. I don't know what it is, but the computer won't allow me to bring all of you back, it is saying that some sort of problem occurred and it will need just a little bit of time to get it fixed.'
'Well this damn machine of yours isn't good for anything is it?' Kathy then says.
'Martin, just go and take Kathy with you. We'll get through don't you worry. After all we got 3 vampires, the slayer and a witch here.' Markus then says.
'I am not a witch, at least not a powerful one.' Willow then says.
'No I wont leave you Markus, not again.' Kathy then says.
Martin doesn't wait till Markus says something, he just grabs hold of Kathy and presses that button on his watch, and they are back in his basement.
Back in Sunnydale, they still are going towards the bronze, when they are stopped by a bunch of vampires. Willow then just thinks: 'Why can't they just burn?' and suddenly they do just that.
'Uh what was that?' Xander says.
'Well I think I did that. I can feel such tremendous power inside myself suddenly.' Willow then said.
Markus still had his mobile in his pocket, and it beeped suddenly. So he took it out, and said: 'I got a message from Martin. He says that he somehow found a way to make Willow a powerful witch. Unfortunately the computer disagreed with his command. Willow you are now the most powerful witch that ever existed.'
'Oh wow that sounds cool.' Xander said.
Buffy then said: 'So what is going on here, why are Willow and Xander twice here? And why are the others vampires?'
Markus then said: 'Well it doesn't really matter if you believe the alternate reality version or the truth with the TV-series. But this is actually Sunnydale. It is a Sunnydale where it shows what would have happened if you Buffy never showed up here!'
'Well that does sound like big trouble!' Scarlet then says.
Suddenly they see a few people surrounded by vampires, and an old VW transporter appears, and stops just in front of those people who were surrounded by those vamps. One of the doors opened, and out came Giles, Oz and another guy Markus hadn't seen before. Markus and the others then decided to go over and give them a hand. When they got rid of those vampires Giles looked at them, and then held a wooden cross in Willow's face, and said: 'Back off vampire!'
'Cut that out, will you. I am not a vampire, neither is Xander.' Willow then said.
'How is that possible, you are vampires. You are the master's favorite. And who are you?' Giles then said looking at Buffy.
'I am Buffy, don't you know me? I am the slayer!' Buffy then said.
'Last thing I heard was the slayer was in California, battling with demons.' Oz then said.
'Well she is here now. Now fill us in on the situation. How can we help?' Angel then said.
'Aren't you Angelus the vampire with a soul? I thought the Master held you inside the Bronze in a cage?' Giles said.
'Ok I get it, the master obviously is not dead, Angel is here twice, and still got his soul, but is held captive. So what you doing about then?' Buffy then said.
'The best we can, without a slayer we can't really do much about it!' that guy nobody knew said then.
'Well you got a slayer now, and 3 vampires with a soul, so shall we go and kick some ass?' Scarlet then said.
Markus then says: 'Well you coming or shall we do it alone?'
'You're right I am tired of running away, let's go get them.' Oz then says.
Giles then nods, and off we go towards the bronze. Most of the vampires are out to hunt, but there are still quite a few left at the bronze. They arrive at the bronze, and a bunch of vampires see us, and start coming towards us. So we start fighting. Buffy, and Angel are in their element, they don't have any problems what so ever. Scarlet isn't quite sure what to do, she is a vampire, but she never has fought a vampire before. So I go over and give her a hand. Willow and Xander are suddenly confronted with their doubles.
'Was I really such a bore when I was still human?' Evil Willow then said looking at herself.
Evil Xander then charges towards his other self, and punches him. Xander falls to the ground, bleeding from his nose, quite heavily. ' I cannot believe what a wimp I was before I became like this.' Evil Xander said laughing towards his other self. Willow then looks at herself, and says: 'Well I had enough.' She then thinks: ' Burn you evil vampires, burn.' And suddenly all the vampires outside the bronze start to burn, and then turn into dust. They all enter the bronze, and what they find there? At the other end of the bronze, where the band usually was, is kind of a throne, where the mast sits on. Besides him are Drusilla and Spike. Willow tries it again, as she thinks that there are still too many vampires around. Some of them burn and turn to dust, others stay unharmed, especially Dru, Spike and of course the master.
'That is odd? Why didn't it work with all of them?'
'You foolish witch, they are under my protection, and your magic can't touch them.' Replies the master.
'Well we just have to do it the old fashioned way then? Oz, Giles, Xander you go and look for the other Angel he must be around here somewhere. We take it from here. ' Markus then said.
'Willow you stay back, and try keeping our backs free. Let's go and kick some ass.' Buffy then said.
Angel, Buffy, and Scarlet start fighting those vamps, while Markus puts some gloves on he found lying around, and then grabs a bottle of blessed water, Giles had in his bag, which he left behind. He charges towards the master. Markus manages to open that bottle, and when he got near enough he throws the contents towards the master. He then covers his face with his hands, and screams. Then he comes towards Markus and starts punching like a wild animal. Markus keeps tumbling, the master is rather strong. Then Markus hits the spots where the water hit his skin, and it does seems to have an effect on him. The master then gets one punch through and Markus crashes down on the floor. Suddenly Dru is there besides him, and just as she wants to stake him, Angel suddenly holds her back.
'Your no fun anymore, daddy.' Dru then hisses.
The master then comes towards Markus, and grabs him by the throat, and says: 'You think you can stop me? Ha you fool.' Suddenly he lets Markus go, and just before he turns to dust, he turns around, and there is Buffy, who just put a piece of wood in his back.
Suddenly everything goes black for all of them, and then next thing they know is that they are back in Martin's basement. Buffy, Angel, Willow, Xander, Scarlet, and Markus then open their eyes, and say: 'What? Oh we are back!'
'Yes I managed to fix it for a change.' Martin then said.
'Well I think it is time for a rest, don't you?' Kathy then says.
'You are right darling, I am a little tired myself.'
They all go to rest then, and try to get some sleep. Buffy cuddles up to Angel, Scarlet cuddles up to Martin, Kathy cuddles up to Markus. Just Xander and willow don't cuddle up.
A few hours later, it is already dark outside, they wake up. Markus already left. Kathy finds a note from him: 'I'll be back soon, I am paying that Lis a visit.'
'Martin you sure he's gonna be alright? You said she took his soul away once, she could do it again, couldn't she?' Kathy then says.
Willow then says: 'No I don't think so. I can feel that she didn't really took his soul away, it was just buried deep inside him. She performed a spell to let his evil side take over. Remember we all got a good and a bad side, and with most people this good side is usually in control. She somehow found a way to give the bad side the upper hand.'
At Lis' place
Markus arrives at her place. He breaks down the door, and looks around the house. When he gets to the bedroom, there is a message written on the walls with blood:
'Hey there loser. We've gone out to meet your friends, if you won't join me, they'll all die. Cu later.'
So Markus rushes back to Martin's as fast as he can, and when he gets there. There is already some ashes in front of the house. He goes straight down to the basement. He cant believe what he sees there. Kathy is lying on the floor bleeding. Angel got Lis under control. Markus then kneels down besides Kathy.
'Darling are you alright? Speak to me please.' Markus then said.
Kathy couldn't answer, as she is unconscious at the moment, so Markus has this hateful look in his eyes, and goes over, pushes Angel away, and starts punching Lis. Suddenly Kathy wakes up, and shouts out Markus over and over again. Markus lets off of Lis and goes over to Kathy.
'I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gone out. I love you!' markus then said.
'Stop apologizing, come here and bite me. I'm dying, I can feel it, that is the only way we'll be able to stay together.' Kathy then said.
Markus looked around, and they all nodded. So markus sat down properly, but Kathy in his arms, and bites her in the neck, and starts drinking her blood. After a minute or so, Markus then opens his wrist slightly, and gives it to Kathy. She starts drinking, when Markus drags his hand away from her, a few minutes later. Kathy closes her eyes. Ten minutes later Kathy wakes up again, gets up and goes over to Lis. She punches her as hard as she can. When Lis goes to the ground, Kathy demands a piece of wood. When it is handed to her, she rams it into Lis with all the power she go in her, then as Lis turns into dust, you can see that the wooden stake is actually stuck in the floor.
After that they all sit down, and think about what happened during the last couple of days. Markus then says: 'Willow do you know if this 'Never Sex again' rule still applies to 2 vampires?'
'I'm not hundred percent certain, you know the spell's I used to restore your souls is based on what was the original curse from those gypsies. So I would have thought so. But as I said, I cant be 100% certain.' Willow then replied.
'Well can we go home now?' Xander then said.
'Sure I bring you back. No problem.' Martin then said.
They said goodbye to each other, and Martin then got them all back where they belong.
A few weeks later.
Martin already got everything ready to get that machine destroyed, and thinks of doing so within the coming week. Markus and Kathy slowly got to terms with the fact they both were Vampires, and it would be a good idea not to have sex. They already got fake papers and so on, and started looking for jobs. Scarlett was getting along quite alright as well, although martin and her found it quite hard to restrain themselves from having sex.
One evening Kathy and Markus were so horny, and they couldn't resist it anymore, and didn't think of the consequences it might have, and had sex the whole day long.
A few days later Martin was listening to the news on the local radio station, and they were saying something about the latest victim of the mysterious killer, the papers call 'the drainer'. Martin then puts one and one together, and starts working on his machine, he already took it apart, and wanted to destroy it sometime soon. With every new body the police found it seemed like the killings where moving closer to Martin's place.
When Martin finally finished putting his machine back together, the doorbell goes, and outside is a bloke from UPS he hands Martin a parcel. When Martin is back inside, he opens it. Suddenly there is strong smell of blood. He opens it further, and there is some foil, he carefully moves it away, and what he sees makes his face go white, it is a heart, a real human heart. There is a piece of paper pinned to the heart, it reads:
'You are next'
To be concluded
