Dirty Sunshine

Chapter 2

A sandy haired man shifted behind the bushes he was in and pulled out his walkie-talkie, "I've got a possible hostile in sight" he reported, "Agent Riley requesting back up"

A moment later two more soldiers joined him soundlessly in the bushes.

"Possible?" questioned his friend, Forrest.

Riley nodded, "I think she's a vampire, but we need to wait and see if she feeds, then we move in and immobilize her" Finn told the other two men, his eyes fixed intently on the silhouette of the young woman, the half moon creating a pale ethereal glow on her.

"And if she doesn't feed?" asked Forrest impatiently

"Then she might as well be a sitting duck for something to attack her, either way we get something to bring back to Walsh" he replied gruffly, "I'm pulling rank here Forrest, don't question my judgment" he muttered, cocking his taser and waiting, his thoughts lapping at him in the silence.

He didn't want to patrol tonight; his mind was muttled; his relationship with Buffy over and her knowing far to much about the Initiative and not agreeing with any of it. Why did she have to be so difficult? Couldn't she just trust Riley's judgment? He wouldn't be involved in any shady practices; he was a soldier for god sakes!

"Um, Finn, are we going to wait until the hostile actually sucks her victim dry before we take her down?" asked the slightly annoyed voice of Graham.

Riley came out of the haze of his thoughts and saw that the hostile had a man, a late night jogger probably, by the neck. Riley cursed under his breath at his distracting thoughts and stepped put of the bushes, "Alright men, lock and load"

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Drusilla closed her eyes, savoring the metallic taste that flooded her mouth, and the shuddering of the body she held on to tightly as the twin gash marks in the large muscular neck flooded crimson life into her waiting mouth.

She had to get stronger, then she'd go find her William, and he'd fix Miss Edith, and everything would be okay again, right after she got done feeding.

Drusilla closed her eyes as she felt her prey's pulse weaken and her own body strengthen; it was magic, drinking blood. When she had a full stomach the stars sang to her and the sky exploded in color, she was content and her world wasn't a dull grey hue that it'd taken on recently.

Drusilla was just about the let her prey drop to the ground as she felt an electrifying pain ripple through her body. Dru's knees buckled and she fell to the grass, clutching Miss Edith to her. Pain, it was beautiful and familiar…but not like this, not electrifying so she couldn't even move, there was no fun in that. She was used to the burning of a cross being pressed again her skin, the sweet torture she'd get from Angelus; how he played with her so!

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"She's out cold" Forrest said, tapping the unconscious vampiress with the tip of his army boot.

Riley nodded, pulling the lithe form to her feet and slumping her over his shoulder, noticing as a broken porcelain doll that fell out of her grasp.

"Hostile 20 is recovered" he said into his walkie-talkie, "We're in route back to the compound" Riley said and once he received an affirmative on this he clicked off his walkie-talkie and started to walk back toward the Initiative compound.

"Finn" Graham's voice stopped him, "Should we bring the doll or leave it?"

"Bring it" Riley replied, "Walsh will be interested in this, a grown vampire who caries around a child's doll" he told the other two men as he continued the walk back to the compound, hearing the other two soldiers footsteps behind him.

So ends another day; Riley though as he punched in the password and walked through the heavy white doors into the compound, depositing the still unconscious vampire in a containment cell. As he was setting her down she came to and started to struggle, screaming and kicking.

"Let me go!" she screamed, spitting a mouth full of blood in Riley's face and then trying to rush past him out of the cell only to be apprehend by three other soldiers, dragging her back in. In the end it took all four grown men to hold her down so Riley could inject her with a sedative so she'd stay put.

As Riley wiped the spittle and blood from his face he threw the doll down next to the drugged vamp. "Maybe that'll shut her up" he said for an explanation to Forrest and Graham's questioning stares.

Riley bent over the vampires noticing the slightly dazed but peaceful looked on her face, she was beautiful, her ebony hair surrounded her head like a fan, and a few droplets of blood dotted her ruby red lips that were partly open in a smug half grin. "What's your name?" he asked, resisting the urge to wipe the blood from her lips and sit her up from the skewed position she lay in on the floor.

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Drusilla smiled and licked her lips feebly, reaching for Miss Edith and cradling her in her arms again before answering, "Drusilla"

She dimly wondered what they'd injected into to her to make her feel so sleepy, but realized that she really didn't care much, her tummy was full and she just wanted to sleep. The last image in Drusilla's mind before she blacked out was of the boy's face that had captured her, the boy with the golden blonde hair like dirty sunshine.

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