Chapter Fourteen
"Hey!" Paige screamed, "Hello!"
"Hey Mr.Keeper of the Satya, come on out." Piper screamed right after but the alley stood still.
"May be he is not here. Leo did say he would be gone after mid night." Paige said giving up.
"Only if we were not attacked by that stupid three headed demon, whatever he is called." Piper said frustrated at missing their target.
"You two are witches?" The boy asked as he came out of the shadows. Once the boy had heard the sisters use the term vanquish he assumed they were witches and found it safe to come out.
"Wow, you sure are young to be keeping draggers not to mention the Satya dragger." Piper exclaimed when she saw the boy.
"Why do you seek the dragger?" He asked ignoring Piper's outburst.
"For the very same reason it is meant for." Paige replied cleverly being vague as Leo had warned them that even though the good and the bad sought the same thing at that moment it didn't mean that they were on the same side.
"You are not the witch who shall have it, so leave." The boy put it simply and turned around to once again disappear in the shadows.
"Not so fast, Mr. Rude." Piper stopped the boy in his tracks.
"You have no place here, leave." The boy commanded the sisters.
"Or what?" Piper challenged.
Paige stared at her sister wondering what she was up to, just then she saw a fireball form right on top of the boy's right hand.
"Piper back off." Paige tried to warn her sister but Piper had already stepped forward glaring at the boy, daring him. The boy who simply didn't care who they were fired the fireball without a second thought. Paige who even though was shocked by what was happening was quick enough to call for the fireball and throw it right back at the boy. Before the two sisters could even react to what had happened, the boy burnt in flame leaving behind a peculiar dragger.
"So much for killing me." Piper said as she calmly walked to where the boy had stood just moments ago and picked up the dragger, "This must be the Satya dragger."
"Piper we just killed a boy." Paige was staring at her hands unable to believe what she had just done to save her sister.
"No, we vanquished a demon. Fireball an upper level demon power, he was a demon. So, we did nothing wrong." Piper said as matter of fact as she felt.
"Leo said we needed him. And why are you being so uncaring?" Paige asked her sister who just hadn't seemed the same since they had re united.
"Look, the problem with us is that we think we need everyone. As a matter of fact we don't. Now, we should stop trying to take care of every little detail, it screws up everything; and just go for the goal." Piper told.
"You were not like this." Paige made her observation aloud.
"I know. I cared about making everyone happy; I have lost two sisters trying to take care of details. Making sure magic is not exposed, making sure the generation of slayers doesn't get evil. Now, I am not about to loose another sister caring about details. Let's just go and find Saleena." Piper said as she tucked the dragger in her pants.
"I don't even know where to look." Paige said.
"May be we could start there." Piper said to her sister pointing to the Neon Light that read 'V-Dome MEMBERS ONLY'.
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"V-Dome", Saleena repeated not believing what she had just heard. "You took her to the V-Dome."
Early in the 20th century when once empty streets at nights were getting more and more crowded with party and club goers, many vampires had started to join them into the clubs. Once the vampires started to get intoxicated and attacking in public, the elder vampires decided to open exclusive clubs just for the vampires called V-Dome in every major cities. At first V-Domes became a heaven for vampires, they loved the music the lights and the very fact that they had a place for themselves where they could be totally out. But very soon the younker vampires (the ones who was just turned and hadn't made a kill yet) started to lure innocent unsuspecting human into the dome and made it a place to officiate themselves by making a kill or some vampires lured them to turn them into a vampire. Sometimes even humans started to hang around V-Domes hoping to get turned. For many older vampires sex had become an easy and meaningless pleasure so for them the major thrill was to suck another vampire's blood and with that exchanging the memory of everything that the other had done, they called it a B-melt and V-Dome had became a popular destination for them to seek a melt partner. The elders didn't approve of b-melt so it was condoned and most of the V-Domes were closed but some remained open like the one in NYC.
Saleena wasn't as scared for her to go to V-Dome for a melt but she was scared that she would pick up some wannabe and she would make a kill. She picked up Jena, the dark haired beauty by her throat with no effort at all and her fangs came out as her forehead wrinkled revealing her vampire-ness as she hissed, "If she made a kill, I will personally burn your skin with sunlight, part by part for years before I let it hit your heart to ash."
She threw the smaller women through the wall and ordered, "Get her… NOW."
Their hands were held together as they both walked in silence. There were no words to be said or thoughts to be exchanged. For the longest moment her mind was just blank as his, but she knew one of them had to speak.
"Leo, look." She initiated and the white-lighter stopped. He had started to walk with her instead of directly orbing her hoping that the stalling of the time would help him find the right words but even after two blocks of walking he was as lost for words as he had been when they had got out of her place.
"You don't have to feel bad." She said as she tried to find the right way to say, actually say anything but just then Leo looked up, held the gaze for a second or two and looked down. She knew what he was going to say. "Elders are calling you." She said it for him. "Yes." He said a little relieved that he could avoid the hot waters for the next time. Before she said anything he orbed her right where they were walking to.
They both looked at the grim gray building knowing what was inside. "I can't orb you inside, they have a lot of securities, and he is being watched."
"That's ok; I'll find a way to get him out." She said and let go of the white-lighter's hand.
Leo grabbed her arm to say something but he looked up again instead.
"It must really be important, go." She said knowing that elder's had called him again.
"Be careful." He said and orbed.
Dawn stared into the transparent air that replaced the white-lighter and turned around to look at the building reading 'New York City Police Department'.
The sun was bright and the day was beautiful and most of all she was as happy. She looked up at the sun and grinned, hopped and whistled as she merrily walked inside the apartment that she had grown familiar within a short period of time. She looked around and was surprised to find it empty, but she didn't make much of it as she jogged up the stairs and opened the door. She stopped in her tracks and her eyes widened at the scene in front of her.
Tara was sitting on the edge of the bed fully clothed but only waist above. Her pants were on the floor next to her. Her head was thrown back and her eyes closed with her mouth gritted together. Below on her knees was a red haired woman with her head in between her parted legs.
She tried to close her eyes but the image did not go away. She felt as though her lungs were filling with water and she couldn't breathe. Her whole body numbed with pain from her heart. She shook and jerked to make that image go away. She tried to close her eyes once again but the harder she tried the clearer Tara's face gritted in pleasure got. Then she realized what she was doing wrong. This time she opened her eyes and it was gone. She was now staring at the dark ceiling above and right next to it was Tara, who was looking at her in concern.
"Are you all right?" Tara asked who had woken up with her shaking in her sleep. "You must have seen a nightmare."
"Yeah, a nightmare." She repeated confused by what she had just dreamt. She stared at the blond beauty she had met just few hours ago in the Dome and tried to understand why she was in her dream She heard about vampires who shared memories at b-melt but she didn't know if that was just possible with sex, as she had not sucked her blood yet. She placed her hand on her own neck to see if she had been sucked when she was sleeping but there were no puncture wound there.
Tara was more concerned for her companion than confused so she wrapped her in a hug to comfort her. She hugged Tara back for a moment, then she shook her head a little and her face replaced with the one of a vampire. She opened her mouth revealing her fangs, she hissed as her long nails that had just protruded out made a little cut in Tara's neck. Tara suddenly pushed her and pulled the covers hiding her skin from the woman who had now changed into a vampire. She changed back as quickly and said, "I thought you wanted b-melt."
"No, I am not a vampire." Tara answered.
"Oh! So, you are a wannabe." She said and paused for a moment to think. "I could turn you." She said once again.
"No, I don't want to." Tara answered and looked away trying to come up with a good reason why she was in a V-Dome if she wasn't a vampire or if she didn't want to be one.
Just then the door flew open and several dark coated men and women armed with guns rushed in aiming at the two women.
The guy stopped to take a breath but looked both ways to make sure he wasn't followed. Once he saw nobody behind him, he took a moment and knelt on the floor to rest. He was blind and out of breath for a second, when he came to, he was staring at a black pair of shoes. Slowly he looked up to see a dark coated man staring down at him with a gun pointed at him. He got up slowly not taking his eyes off the man. "Priest" He heard a woman's voice calling from his side and within a 100th of a nano second his hand grabbed the stake thrown at him and he landed that inside his attacker's heart. The man's gun was still pointed at him when he fell to the ground. Faith walked towards the shocked guy who was still staring at the body below him. When he felt Faith right next to him, he dared to speak out, "He is not a vampire or a demon."
Faith too was staring at the blood that was running from dead body below them in disbelief.
"Swear Priest when I threw you a stake, I thought he was one of the demons." Faith confessed as her mind flashed back to the night of slaying when, she had accidentally staked a man thinking he was a vampire. Everything had gone downhill after that day.
She knelt down to see what she could find about the man. She searched the body to find army tags on his neck.
"Army." Priest whispered for both of them to hear. "But why was he after me."
"Humans know more than you think." Faith said getting up and taking the magazine out of the gun that the Army guy was pointing at the Priest. The magazine was made of harnessed sunlight in a bullet, just like the ones Lycans had used in Boston to kill vampires.
"If humans are involved it's not good." Priest said staring at the magazine.
"Yep. It's getting better by the minute. Let's go make sure any of these goons haven't got to Saleena." Faith said staring at the night sky.
"Scully." Dana said into the phone as Olivia tried to position it comfortably on her ears. Since Olivia was the one on the side of the phone, she had volunteered to pick it up and put it on Scully's ears, who was still nuzzled comfortably on her chest.
"Yes, Mulder I was sleeping." Scully replied annoyed that her partner never looked at the watch when he dialed his number.
"Oh Faith!" Scully put her hands on her head as she suddenly remembered the reason she was at the club. "I completely for…" Dana had just started to admit her forgetfulness when she changed her mind, deciding it was wiser not to admit it. She took the phone from Olivia's hand and sat on the bed as she spoke, "I didn't see her. I am sorry I meant to call you, but…"
She waited for Mulder to speak as Olivia playfully traced her bare back with her finger. Scully was feeling its path on her skin even while she heard Mulder get excited about the reason he called her. "No, Mulder I am not coming there. Do you even realize what time it is?" Scully replied rudely as she concentrated on the feel on her back. "Who is there to see him?" Scully asked now 100 focused on the phone. "What?" Scully reacted to the name for a moment and answered, "I am coming."
She turned around to put the phone to see Olivia already up and getting dressed.
"I'll call Elliot and tell him to meet us down at the station." Olivia said when she saw that Scully was done with the phone.
"Elliot why?" Scully asked confused.
"Didn't Agent Mulder just say that our guy got a visitor?" Olivia asked equally confused at Scully's question.
It took Scully a moment to come back to reality and realize that she was naked in bed with the detective whose case they were working on.
"Oh! Yes." Scully got out of the bed herself and started to gather her clothing. "But you all don't have to come. Mulder and I can handle this." She said casually as she put on her pants.
"Are you telling me the Feds is taking over my case?" Olivia had stopped and was looking at the FBI Agent for an answer.
"Look, you did call us…" Scully always hated taking over cases from the local departments and this time it was going to be worse as she stared at the sexy detective.
"No, no no. I didn't call the Fed to take over my case, I called to get some case files, and Agent Mulder just showed up bulldozing here. This is still a New York City case, Fed has no jurisdiction." Olivia said possessively unwilling to let go of her case.
"Let's not talk jurisdiction here. I mean the woman found with him was not sexually assaulted so it shouldn't even be an SVU case. And we have found that he might have been from Boston. Crossing state lines makes it Federal." Scully recited the awful jurisdiction facts once again except this time she wished she didn't have to say it. Olivia didn't say a word and just stared at the floor unable to shallow that she had just lost her case.
"Look, I'll let you know what happens." Scully said as she put on her coat.
"Was it Faith Spencer you were looking for at the club?" Olivia asked realizing that Scully was working on a case last night.
"You know Faith?" Dana asked now still on her tracks.
"Yes." Olivia simply said as she buckled her belt and walked right up to Scully who was not intently looking at her.
"How well do you know Faith?"
"More than you think." Olivia answered returning Scully gaze with a little smile as she knew she got her in on the case once again.
"Let's go." Scully said and opened the door knowing that if she pried more about Faith, Olivia wouldn't answer anyway.
Piper stepped on the frozen hand of the vampire as he screamed in pain.
"Now, what did we want to know?" Piper asked as she looked at her sister who was watching Piper torture the vampire they had managed to lure out of the V-Dome.
"Where is Saleena?" Paige asked.
Piper walked towards the other limb and raised her leg to shatter it into pieces too when the vampire begged "I'll tell you. Don't please."
Both the sisters came together and stood side by side waiting for the vampire to reveal.
"In times of attack, the safest place for vampires is the Underworld."
Saleena was staring at the moon which was almost at an eye level.
"It's going to be morning soon." Faith said from behind. "If the army is here, they know about this place. It's not right to kill human for our reasons. We have to get out of here."
Saleena stood in silence for as long as she could. Then she turned around to reveal tears in her eyes to her best friend. Faith walked right up and hugged her friend unable to take her worries away. "Let's go to my place. I don't think they'll even guess in million years that a vampire will be with the slayer." Faith offered the only solution she knew.
"No. You go back." Saleena said breaking away from the hug. "I'll go to Underworld. There are still vampires and Lycans there who support me. I didn't want to have my baby down there but I guess that is where it has to be."
"I am not letting you go. I'll come with you." Faith said in a voice that Saleena couldn't refuse.
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