Chapter Twelve
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The character Saleena is borrowed from the movie "Underworld". Disclosure definitely is that I don't own the character/s or the story line.
The following chapter is a major spoiler for the movie and it continues after the end of the movie. Story of the movie will be outlined in the conversation of the characters so one does not need to see the movie to understand. But if you visit the you can see the sexy Kate Beckinsale in action and know the reason why she has been in my mind and why I just had to include her in my web of words.
Just a little background to continue my story, I am assuming that the whole Underworld story happened in Boston when Faith was there. And as obvious from the last chapter Saleena and Faith had become friends.
This chapter is also rated R.
Chapter – 12
"She is a vampire?" Piper asked both Paige and Leo holding the photograph.
Piper was delighted when Paige had called to say that she was coming. She had got so excited that she had basically told Willow to get out, just in case Paige got upset seeing her with the ex Scoobie. Even though Willow didn't like being shoved off, she understood the reason why Piper wanted to please her sister with every means possible.
After entering P3 Paige was very disappointed to find Piper drunk but thankfully drunkenness was a physical attribute and Leo cured it with a whiff of his hand. As soon as Piper seemed fine, Paige decided to be direct and started sharing the mission detail. It killed Piper to see Paige being all about business, with no hug, with no 'I missed you' sentiment spoken, but Piper made up her mind that she would do everything in her means to win back her sister. She wanted her family back.
"Yes, but they are a different tribe of vampires." Leo answered.
"Millions of years ago a village were struck by a plague. Everyone died except one man. He was believed to be the first immortal. Over the years he fathered two sons, one was bitten by a bat and the other by the werewolf, hence the vampires and the werewolves." Mulder looked up as he finished reading.
"Are you telling me that's the origin of all the vampires?" Scully asked confused by what she was hearing and what she had learnt from Buffy.
The man in custody had finally managed to say more than just few words. He basically tried to warn them about a certain vampire named Saleena. Mulder had right away gone into research mode and found a translated text faxed to him from Boston which he was reading for Scully.
"No, this is how this tribe of vampires came into being." Mulder corrected Scully's connection.
"The text doesn't say the reason why but the werewolves and vampires became enemies, hunting each other. But it does say that Saleena is the vampire who fell in love with a werewolf." Mulder finished.
"So the werewolf and vampires are enemies and they fall is love. So, how is that a major apocalypse?" Scully asked her partner.
"Because it's forbidden." Leo provided the most simplistic answer.
"There is a lot of that going around in our reality." Piper squinted her eyes not being able to shallow the reasoning.
"Victor, the vampire who turned Saleena killed his own daughter for falling in love with a werewolf or Lycans as they call them. Since then the vampires and the Lycans hunted each other, even though most of the new vampires including Saleena had no idea about the origin of the feud. Victor treated Saleena like his own daughter and trained her to be death dealers, who were a group trained just to kill Lycans. But, after Saleena came to know about the reason, she disregarded Victor's wish and fell for a Lycan. When Victor tried to kill her love, she killed him." Leo told the sisters.
"Wow she is a bitch." Piper exclaimed.
"Well, it's not really that black and white. Victor actually had killed her whole family and lied to her by telling her that the Lycans had done so. It was more of a revenge for her." Leo defended the vampire.
"So she is just an angel in Vampire's body. What else is new?" The more she heard the story more Piper's inside started to churn. She walked up to the corner and opened the bottle of vodka; she needed more than a smirk in her face to keep her knees clam.
"The text does not have anything else." Mulder said as he looked up at his partner.
"Well where does our dead girl and the guy fit into the picture?" Scully asked unable to find any connection.
"Here is a connection, but I don't know if it's enough." Mulder said as he turned the page into a picture of a Vampire hooked up to hundreds of small tubes that looked like blood was being pumped into his body.
"This tribe has one ruler per century. When the end of the century comes, high council of vampires gathers and drains the blood off the current ruler and wakens the other ruler. While the rest of them are laid to rest. Because these Vampire skin is self healing there is no marks after the blood is drained." Mulder waited for Scully to take in what he had just said.
"That woman found beside our man, was a vampire." Scully widened her eyes in realization. "Or a vampire in rest."
"And I feel our guy is one too. He must have been awoken and he fled with her in his arms. Because the process was not complete he must have collapsed. According to Detectives' report he has always avoided sunlight. Once I put him in the basement he must have started to regain some of his strength as they basement as minimum infiltration of sunlight." Mulder finished his own conclusion.
"But what has this to do with the slayer." Scully asked again.
"I don't know but the time frame when Saleena killed Victor is the same as when Faith was in Boston, so I am assuming they must have crossed path." Mulder answered.
"So Faith is here." Scully said under her breath.
"Yes." Mulder replied in barely a whisper.
Scully walked in and put her briefcase on the couch. She was exhausted from trying to finish all the reports, as usual Mulder was of no help at all. She closed her eyes and laid back for a minute or two when she realized the silence in the house. She got up and did a quick search and there was no one there. She didn't know if was relieved or disappointed regardless she decided to take a shower. She walked into the bathroom with her towel and started to undress. Once finished and stark naked she pulled the shower curtain to be staring into the most beautiful blue eyes. "Buffy!" That was all she could manage to say when the blond slayer pulled her inside. "Yes." Buffy said as she pulled the older woman into a kiss. "Yes to what?" Scully asked as she managed to pull herself from the blond for a second. "Yes, I'll go to Washington with you." Buffy replied and stopped Scully's verbal reaction with her lips and let her hands roam freely in the sexy Agent's assets. Scully didn't complain as she pushed the younger woman to the wall and showered her with her thanks. Before Scully's hungry mouth could reach the Buffy's heart, the impatient slayer took the FBI Agent's hand and put them on top of her head. She smiled cunningly as she stuck out her tongue and traced it along her neck and then moved lower. Her hands loosened as she traced it lower to her stomach, then to the hips. The slayer then looked up at the red head who was totally engrossed in the sensation. Buffy smiled to herself as she knelt down and eyed her prize as her hands skillfully lifted her leg on her shoulder to make her excess easy. Scully looked down to watch the satisfaction in Buffy's eyes just before she dived in for her heart's desire.
"Is that the door bell?" Buffy asked turning the shower off.
"Sounds like it. I'll go, I am all clean." Scully offered and got out of the shower.
"Tell them to go away and come right back in for round two." Buffy tempted the FBI Agent.
"You are on." Scully replied as she put on the gown and rushed to the door.
Scully was still drying to her hair when she opened the door. "Giles!" Scully greeted smiling.
"Scully" Mulder tugged his partner to bring her back from her thoughts. "You ok?" He asked.
Scully shook her thoughts out of her head as she stood up. "I don't know Mulder, if he is a Vampire and the slayer is on their look out, it's not our fight."
"The last time you walked out saying its not our fight, we were called for funeral." Mulder knew about where Scully's heart was broken but he just did not want to leave another chance of being a part of a supernatural.
Scully looked down unable to decide what to do.
"She must be stopped." Paige decided to tell the rest of the details herself.
"Ok, let's see she is a vampire. We are to kill her. That doesn't sound that difficult." Piper gulped down another shot of vodka awaiting the bad news she had a gut feeling hadn't been said yet.
"Well you have to understand there is more." Paige said in a low tone.
"I knew it." Piper rejoiced her premonition as she poured another shot.
"She is pregnant." Leo said.
Piper's drink that was only a hairline away from her lips froze at the words. She put the glass down without taking the drink and turned away from them facing the wall.
"You have to understand the vampire's body is dead, unable to conceive. Only way they can conceive is through the mating of Lycans and Vampires that's why their unison was forbidden. The baby born with such unison is born without a soul." Leo tried to offer explanation but the more he spoke the more it seemed like a replay of the days that had taken everything from Piper.
"They killed him so basically in a nutshell the good or bad, every force is scared of my baby and they don't want it to be born." Saleena explained to her friend.
The two old friends had spent the day in the mansion owned by Saleena's tribe and done some catching up about their common neighborhood. After the sun had set and Saleena could get out of the mansion and enjoy the moonlight with her friend, it was then that she had started to tell her about the real reason for her leaving Boston.
"A baby cannot be good or evil." Faith said as she touched her friend's stomach.
"That's why I came here. I knew if no one else, you would understand." Saleena said as she put her own hands on top of the slayers.
"I promise you." Faith said as she looked into the dark eyes that desperately sought her help. "I'll protect you and your baby, with my life if I have to."
"Piper the father is dead. But he was not just a Lycan he was a direct descendant of the first immortal. And his descendant is the baby. I can't even emphasize enough how powerful this baby can be, and not having a soul, what the future of the world might be." Leo decided to speak even though he knew he was just scratching Piper's old wounds.
Piper didn't say a word for the longest time then she finally turned around and looked only at Paige. Paige, her only remaining sister and family to whom she did owe it to make up for what had happened to Phoebe.
"Paige do you want to do this?" Piper asked.
"Yes." Paige answered without hesitation.